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yuletide recs, starting with the one written for me:

[The Perfect Con], Ocean's 11, Danny, Rusty, Basher
Rusty had hopes that they were beyond lightning changes in the back seat of the car while handcuffed, but apparently.

Oh, Secret Santa OF MY HEART! This was *exactly* what I wanted. With Basher, even, which I wasn't counting on at all. Perfect tone, funny and sharp and the "I'd never been to Belize"-ness of it all. GENIUS. *mwah*

And then others, by fandom, A-G only for this evening, considering I already fell asleep once and really should be getting to bed for real:

Arrested Development
Three Unwise Men and A Maeby
Actually, Tobias had been researching his book, but he was asked to leave because some of the patrons of the soup kitchen misunderstood his questions about being absent from the bosom of their families and thought that he was hitting on them.

Bottle Rocket
Like Rome or Pompeii
"Like prisoners," Bob explains. "Like in the movies. We thought you might have a hard time adjusting to life on the outside."

The Chronicles of Narnia
Growing Up
The gym spoke eloquently of the insides of rubber-soled tennis shoes, while the air in the dorms was heavy with sweat and face powder.

Memory of Heaven
The strange, heavy words -- trains, ration-books, air-raids -- that would explain him stop at the back of his teeth, making him stutter, all frustrated helplessness and animal dumb, until finally he turns from her in defeat.

classical mythology
This new thing, which consumes
It is always the same, and she is not impressed.

Unexpected
"Do you keep it thus so the others will stay away?" Dionysus responded.

Donnie Darko
The most beautiful word in the English language
She takes too long in the shower, heavy with deja vu.

Four Weddings and A Funeral
Turning Forty
"Not the centre of the universe?" Gareth opened his arms wide. "No, I always am. It's a heavy duty, but it is mine to bear."

Garden State
A violet in the youth
"I don't think a ton is a liquid measurement," he says, and bites off his thumbnail.

Just nod if you can hear me
The director looks exasperated and you realize that "slower" and "louder" weren't actually what he wanted at all. "For Christ's sake, kid, you're supposed to be playing a fucking retard!"

five dollars and forty nine cents

Work = annoying as ze D is slowly starting to add on the responsibilities that go with the promotion she wants to give me, without actually being able to give me the promotion. This is not working. I want more money if I'm to do more stuff. Uh-huh.

Post-work = comic book store where I was greeted with a hearty "Katherine #2!" and then an update on the latest Grant Morrison announcement. Which I had indeed missed: the All-Star: Superman project. It's getting spun a lot as the answer to the Ultimates, which I suppose it is in that "hey, continuity geeks make me cry into my cereal, please please let's try something else" sense, but there are clearly differences. Anyway, interview with the crazy man himself here. He manages to talk Jesus and namecheck Charlie Kauffman, so it's good times all around. It sounds like fun. ComicBookMan did, however, delight in crushing my "Morrison! Superman! Someone bring out the PCP now!" fervor by saying "With art by..." and watching my face fall as I prepared to hear, yes, you got it, "Frank Quitely." I just can't get behind it. But, whatever, my insane love for insane Morrison has outweighed the pain of squishy faces and stunted bodies many times before and will continue to do so, I'm sure.

Also at the store, I finally got in my hot, greedy little hands the 15th Anniversary hardcover of Arkham Asylum. So so pretty. And I never buy hardcovers, 'cause a) spendy, b) don't like 'em that much, but I've been dreaming of this ever since I saw the solicitation. Mmmmm... With annotated script! eeeeep!

Picked up Identity Crisis #7 which I managed to stay spoiler-free for. Can't wait to read it, in part so I can go back and check out all the media and lj commentary I bookmarked/skipped over the last few weeks. Looked at, but didn't buy, the latest Powers trade, which includes the full script for the most random and amusing issue of that collection. I almost bought it for that, but finally reminded myself that I have the damn issues and I cannot be that girl. And then, you know, a stack of other things I've dropped on the to-read and won't get to forever (seriously, the number of Gotham Central issues I have sitting there is chilling. the RUCKA would be so disappointed).

And now, more yuletide recs, fandoms H-N

Hitchhiker's Guide
That Tongue Thing
If Ford Prefect were truthful, a state of affairs which, to maintain his professional reputation as a Guide reporter, he tended to avoid at all costs, he might confess that he had originally begun sleeping with Arthur Dent mainly because it seemed to be the best way to (a) shut him up and (b) calm him down.

Last Man Standing
Therefore, he lied. "You're really quite likeable," he said cheerfully.

Igby Goes Down
Tragedy Among the Scholars of War
It's all pretty fucking disgusting in reality, and Oliver would hate to be one of those people fooled into thinking his life is actually some great American tragedy -- he would hate to be Igby -- but it kind of makes sense in the end, too.

Lost in Translation
Late
John was on her about quitting again. "They'll kill you," he'd said. It was what he always said.

M*A*S*H
Perfectly Normal
"I pride myself on my steady hands," Hawkeye answered on autopilot. "It's the result of a rigorous daily regime of alcohol and ennui."

Northern Exposure
Paradise...Not Quite Troubleproof
"Yeah. Of course. I can run pretty fast. So can a moose, but I know the town better."