Anakalian Whims

JUST ADDED: CLICK HERE FOR THE TOP 10 JOSS WHEDON VILLAINS!

For those new to Geekiness, here’s the first thing you need to know. Joss Whedon is a god among pop-culture writers. From redefining how television dramas are written with an over-arching story to creating a cult phenomenon unlike any others to experimenting with the internet as a distribution method, he’s a leader in his field. With the stupidly huge success of The Avengers he’s well and truly made a mark on cinema and television as a writer and a director. If there’s one thing he does best it’s creating memorable, complex and downright awesome characters.

So today we’re going to whittle that army of great characters he’s created down the ten best. To make the list they had to fit two simple criteria.

1. They have to be a Joss Whedon original – so don’t expect Iron Man to…

In the collection of Maria and Stan Seidner, Austin, TX

Book Signing Update – Humble, TX

Have books; will travel!

It has taken me years, YEARS, to be able to discuss any kind of road trip without automatically quoting the lines from Willie Nelson’s song – “On the Road Again” – but, I’m exercising restraint. You should be proud of me.

Half Price Books, Humble, Texas, Book Signing

You know what I love about book signings? Everything.

I love them when people are lined up to get a book. I love them when they aren’t.

I just love being in a place that draws in readers, even if they aren’t “my” readers.

People who read as a hobby = awesome.

The book signing went well.

The staff of the bookstore were nice and helpful and courteous, and Andi Kay Klemm set up the whole thing, and she was fabulous!

The bookstore is a great store. I would have hung out…

I’m happy to have photographer, Kaci Woodrome, as a guest on Southern Creatives this week.

Kaci is the owner of Sweet Southern Style Photography

Kaci’s philosophy is “Delightful photography, simple philosophy: Life is sweet!”

My name is Kaci and I’m the woman behind the lens of Sweet Southern Style Photography. I’m thoroughly obliged to be a guest of Melinda’s on the blog {like how I snuck in that really southern word?} and plan to delve into my southern roots to explore how my family inspires my creativity.

My family’s history in the south extends farther back than I’m really even aware, but what I can tell you is that both my maternal and paternal grandmothers are still alive and well at 92 and 95 respectively. That, in and of itself, lends itself to creativity in my book because of the gajillion stories I’ve heard from them that nearly span a…

Before we moved to the UK, we would come over on vacation/holiday, rent/hire a car, and wander with no fixed plan from one wonderful-thing-you-could-never-see-in-the-US to another.  And the UK never let us down.

You don’t even need a guidebook for this kind of travel, because wherever you go over here you’re almost guaranteed to pass a sign reading “Footpath to the Stone Circle” or “18th-Century Tidemill” or “Roman ruin”.  My biggest double take was at a sign in Cheshire reading “Secret Nuclear Bunker”, seeing as how putting up “This way to the Secret Nuclear Bunker” signposts is just a tad counterproductive.  (It turned out that the decommissioned Cold War bunker at Hack Green had just been opened to the public.  I’ll do a post on it later; if you can’t wait, follow the link to their website, listed under Featured Links.)

So on our recent getaway to south Wales, we…

National Geographic recently published an article entitled “Doomsday” on the Norwegian’s effort to save the worlds crops from agricultural Armageddon.  They have created a bank that can help ensure a variety of genetic material is safe from disaster, famine and disease.  The bank is located on a remote chain of islands nestled in the Arctic.  The cold tempuratures and armed guards protect the seeds from attack of decay, foriegn nations or evil entities.

The 750,000 variety of seeds collected thus far come from more than 123 nations and work like a safety deposit box for the contributors.  The seeds are collected by depositers and seeled in jars then shipped to the vault in Norway.  There preservation is reviewed, many seeds are placed in jars or vacuum seeled bags and then placed into the cold storage facility.  The bank has a capacity of 2.25 billion seeds.   If a farmeras crop is devastated…