I didn't mean the Magician series, when we were discussing the "Help! Help! I'm being attacked by the author's id!" story-series upthread.

(Actually, I've never read the Magician series, because, it just doesn't sound bad enough to make it past my oh-come-on-o-meter. I'll read silly nonsense if it's bad silly nonsense.)

The series we were , um, guarding ourselves against was called "Life from the Ashes," IIRC. Where is Encyclopedia Snacky when I need her?!

"Life from the Ashes," IIRC.

Yup, that was it. I don't think I've encountered the Magician series.

You know, all I did was skip and skim, and I still saw a reference to the cat-overlord Sentinel story. Do you people care nothing for my traumatic experiences? Will no one think of the Emily?

That Sentinel story has scarred all of us, even if we haven't read it. It's like metastasizing evil meme.

I think I just came across some calling Mac/Beaver (from Veronica Mars) MacGyver.

Please hold me.

I think it's fair to throw spelling primers at people like that. Like, Filliam H. Muffman actually uses letters in the people's names, but there is no G in Mac/Beaver.

Now I have Filliam H. Muffman stuck in my head.

Imagine how Filliam feels about that, Nutty.

(And I have to say, it wasn't that the name-squish was all that funny; it was watching Colbert crack himself up that made me scream laughter. I've only seen him do it once before, and then, it was because he was watching Jon Stewart crack up.)

He lost it early on, when he was trading solemn anchor speeches with the other newsman. I was very happy.

From a fic I just skimmed:

He withdrew his fingers from her pulsing box and licked them languidly. He rubbed them, still-damp, around her lips and inserted them into her mouth.

It took me awhile to figure out what "her pulsing box" was. It sounds like something with an actual electric current.