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So, yesterday I acquired many new friends. Hello new friends! Thanks for visiting. I feel I should warn you I don't normally achieve the peak of wit that the Prufrock parody did, but I try to entertain.

Things you should probably know:

- We call this journal "Sam's Cafe", because I can often be peripheral to the actual discussions going on in it. Don't mind me, I'll be here behind the counter inventorying the tea. But if you hear "welcome to the cafe", that's what's going on.

- If you encounter "R", and that may happen because tonight's my weekly "I have to go to a bar to make R happy" night, he is my closest friend in Chicago. R is a blues musician who I lived with for about ten months and who I now live down the street from. If you'd like...forewarning, I guess, you can check the "conversations with r" tag on the journal, that will tell you more than you ever wanted to know. We are not actually dating, no matter what anyone else here tells you.

- The wildebeest thing can't be explained. No, really, I don't remember the origins of the joke. Just roll with it, you'll pick it up in time.

I think that's probably all you need to know, but if you have questions we're a friendly group and I don't bite, so feel free to ask. "Relevance to topic" is something that happens to other blogs.

In other news, I have done my first fanfic masterlist update since I went insane and actually made a masterlist. Hurrah!

Between June 30th and the present, I have written and posted three Doctor Who fics, one Doctor Who/White Collar crossover, four White Collar fics, one White Collar/Sherlock crossover, and three Sherlock fics. There's a symmetry to all this that I find both pleasing and highly unsettling.

( Fanfics what I have written since the masterlist went live )

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Hey kids, my Mum's coming in to town this weekend and abducting me to Evanston, where we will be Seeing Many Sights and Adventuring On The El. I'm going to be away from the computer a lot and it'll be the netbook when I am on, which means -- well, one, it means I'll only be posting on DW and LJ from Saturday through Tuesday, but two, I will have limited resources and abilities over the weekend.

So! If you have stuff for Radio Free Monday, please pleaaaase get it in to me by Saturday morning. If you've linked me over the past week, I have all that in my files, so no need to link me again. Just putting out a call for new stuff now. If you link me in comments here I might not respond but I do read all comments, so I'll have it in files for Monday.

Meanwhile, I've turned on the TV to watch something other than Wheel of Fortune for the first time since May, and I'm pretty sure it's not just lack of exposure. I'm pretty sure prime time television advertising has gotten dumber.

If you disagree with me, I refer you to, well, your television, but in particular to the Burger King flute solo advertisement. That is some stupid content.

On the other hand, I had no idea I needed so many cars and sandwiches!