flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Never too old for this Hotch and Rossi C)
List 5 shows and then answer the questions below the cut. No peeking!

The shows:

1. Eureka
2. Criminal Minds
3. NCIS
4. Csi: NY
5. Hawaii Five-O

Questions below! )
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Wrapped up in books)
I've been talking about several fics that I NEED to link, and instead of the half-assed links post from a week ago, I instead reworked that into a more comprehensive and coherent list here. Enjoy!



* Of locker rooms and lunch dates by [livejournal.com profile] zeldaophelia (CSI: NY; PG-13; 4,933 words)
Flack/Angell. One version of how they finally hooked up.

A series of fics about how Don and Jess got together. All kinds of adorable. I'm still enough behind that I need to see more of the episodes with the two of them (and ignore the season finale of great woe, lalalala) but I love the characterization of Jess here as someone who can put up with Flack's snark and dish it right back. Cute.


* my life's come off its tracks by [livejournal.com profile] mimblexwimble (Supernatural pre-series AU; PG-13; ~29,000 words)
Dean tells her, things are going fine, yeah he got into a fight and no, he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s getting better and better at this sign language thing. He looks at her brightly. Big smile. Opens his swollen eye as wide as it can go.

Ouch, shit.


Gorgeously written and paced. I would love to see later pre-canon or even canon written in this 'verse. Perfect nailing of voices with the kids and the adults (Bobby! Pastor Jim!) even when it kind of break your heart. Hilarious and sad all at once.


* Empty Spaces by [livejournal.com profile] darkmagic_luvr (CSI NY/Criminal Minds semi-AU; PG-13/R; 13,200 words)
There's a serial killer in the suburbs of New York and the BAU has been requested to provide a profile. The NYPD and the BAU decide to collaborate, sending an FBI agent and a senior detective undercover, posing as a married couple, fitting the same criteria of the pervious victims. Don Flack and Emily Prentiss haven't seen each other in years, but now, seeing as they have to pretend to be married, they'll be seeing a lot of each other.

I know you are shocked (or not at all) that I am behind this story ;o) I'm sorry, but can we just talk about how hot the idea of Don and Emily would be? I love the idea that they met and had a relationship (even though I'm not sure I bought Prentiss logic in the story about why they broke up but whatever, I guess we needed it for plot reasons) and Garcia in this is perfect and spot on. Honestly I enjoyed it as much for the mental images (*grin*) as the story, which was an interesting casefile.


*(Not Your) Superman Tonight by [livejournal.com profile] torakowalski (Multi-bandom AU; NC-17; 37,000 words)
Brian scratches his neck. "This is the NSA," he says, "The National Security Administration. They're feds."

Bob raises his eyebrows, all no, really?

Brian winces. "They employ telepaths. Like Asher and-" me. He can't say it. He folds his arms. "It's not as weird as it sounds."


Even if you're not a bandom fan, this story is all kinds of fascinating. It takes the premise of the movie Thoughtcrimes (mmm, Joe Flannigan as an FBI agent) and blurs it nicely with actual bandom (hey, turns out it's hard to manage a band and be telepathic at the same time, who knew?) and it's funny and sharp and violent and I wish it were a movie because it'd be awesome.


* Small Town by [livejournal.com profile] ashinae and [livejournal.com profile] linden_jay. (Sports Night AU; NC-17; 41,750 words)
Welcome to Port Bowmore, Nova Scotia. Population 700.

Dan and Casey, roommates since college, co-manage the town's sporting goods store. Dan (who is not-so-secretly in love with Casey) spends most of his time hunting the local longshoremen. Casey (who is very secretly in love with Dan) is sleeping with Sally Sasser, the town's ambulance chasing lawyer. When Bobby Bernstein comes to town to recruit Dan for a GM position at SportChek in Halifax, Casey has to confront his feelings for Dan, or lose him to the 'big city'.


Hot and hilarious and witty enough that it sounds straight out of a Sorkin script. Despite the shift in universe, this is still totally Danny and Casey and the rest; the boys still suck at communicating about anything, and Dana still rules all. Genius.
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Baking never looks this composed)
The weather was horrendous earlier today, enough so that I only had one out of the four scheduled games for Chicks (with Lacrosse Sticks) so I got to spent time tidying my room and finally watching the DVD of season 1 CSI: NY. Aww, Eddie Cahill, you do puppy eyes so well. However, I wish you'd get a haircut. The episode where that happens will be so exciting.

This show depresses me a little (in the way that all the CSI: WHEREVER's do) because it could be smarter than it is, but sometimes it gives you all this neat information and fascinating characters and just doesn't tie up enough ends in a moment, or have people be all intense towards each other for no reason. For example, the episode I'm watching right now has a dead guy who was a gypsy cab driver. Danny and Aiden (who, ok, I like more as I watch her, makes me sad that Lindsey shows up) are having this whole spat about it, and I'm hoping that we'll actually get some kind of closure from it. Not holding my breath though. (Ok, Danny explained in this rushed end of episode way that felt like the writers went "oh, shit, we never explained that!")

Tangentially, I have noticed that Hulu has all of the show Life. Did anyone watch it? Is it any good? I am greatly intrigued, mostly because I enjoy Damien Lewis and crime shows.

I have now moved on to watching Sherlock Holmes again as background noise and amusement as I put together some banana bread. Yummmmmm. Though the rain is bad, ick.

Which is a nice segue to my poem of the day (er, for the month. poem of the day of the month? never mind), which is not a new one by any means, but mentions rain, which reminded me of it once again.


somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by ee cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond )

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I made Alton Brown's banana bread and after taking FOREVER to bake (partially because I overfilled it, not quite sure what I added too much of... maybe my bananas were huge?) it is out and DELICIOUS. MMMMMM.

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Had to edit to add on to this, because I'd already forgotten. I've been doing so much cooking and rambling about it that I keep thinking I should make a blog just for cooking, but I've been stumped on what to call it. Thoughts? There's always Flyakate Cooks (Flyacooks? Flyakooks? Oh dear...) All the good ones I've thought of (Starfish & Coffee, Stone Soup, The Night Kitchen) are all taken. Though "The Accidental Foodie" has promise...

Yikes, raining hard again. Clearly means it's bedtime :o)
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Flowers in your hair San Fran)
I am about several beers down and so I apologize for any missteps and misspellings because tht would be awkard.

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Sadly, this all of the post that I made last night before I wandered off (I was waiting to use the bathroom and then it was free and then I forgot to come back here. Sad.) though I hadn't drunk tons, but enough for me. Younger Sister and Roommate had multiple people over and there was much throwing of ping pong balls into Solo cups.

This afternoon I went on a lovely walk (greatly enjoying the sunshine in SF today despite/because of the wind) and wandered around the "heart" of Noe Valley, aka 24th street. Lots of funky stores and nice to get two miles of exercise in an easy way.

In totally random exciting news, after some judicious Googling, I found an entertaining cooking class (good food and meeting people! what multi-tasking!), so on the 20th of March I will learn how to make handmade pasta, which is kind of hilarious and awesome. In a similar vein, I emailed Second Oldest Sister to see if she needed/wanted help/company/child-wrangling during my spring break, which means that there might be more delicious food-making (she runs a B&B) or at least food-eating, in my future :o)

Last night I made pizza (granted, with Pillsbury dough inna can) with mushrooms, so that will most likely be dinner.




Catching up on The Mentalist, my totally non-spoilery comment: I LOVE CHO TO PIECES. Even though we had never seen his girlfriend before and everyone acted like they knew her; that's always odd.

I am now current in Criminal Minds as well; David Rossi rocks my socks and also spoilers for 5.16 Mosley Lane ) In addition, Reid is looker handsomer by the day, seriously.

Now we are watching a recent episode of CSI: New York and oh, Flack, I missed you. Danny, you too. Lindsey, not so much. XD
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Complete by another's smiles Don CSI: NY)
Catching up to current tv (although I'm leaving Leverage for tomorrow, because Younger Sister and I record it at home) with Mom before we leave early in the morning to get back to San Francisco. Sheesh, I need to pack like woah. Also, I have been inundated with NCIS during this extended break and it's kind of cute. Tim/Tony forever, or Tony/Ziva UST, yespleasethankyou.

So here are the overly long (at least in the case of the second) thoughts during the 9-11pm block of CBS.




Criminal Minds: spoilers for The Uncanny Valley )

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CSI: New York: spoilers for Criminal Justice )
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Never too old for this Hotch and Rossi C)
My not so coherent thoughts about the 100th episode of Criminal Minds.

Spoilers for '100' like woah. )

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In cleaning this up, I really over use elipses (though I kept many of those) and the words "ok" and "the best thing ever" (many of which I fixed).

Gosh, I love that show. And don't even get me started about the adorableness of Danny and Lindsay on CSI: NY, because something about his kind of hilarious sense of humor and the nice New York solidity to his accent and it makes me happy. Though he does have terrible taste in sweaters...
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Don has expressive eyebrows)
Okay, so the episode of CSI: NY that I'm watching is not so subtly mirroring their plot off of PostSecret. It's kind of bizarre.

Then there was one with Scott Wolf (the younger, more unstable brother on Party of Five) and surprise!Julia Ormand (which was strange, especially as more recently I've seen her in a continual rerun of Legends of the Fall, and how cool would it be to have not only Brad Pitt but Aiden Quinn? wow) AND Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis' daughter.

Oooh, now there is an episode where the killer had an avatar in Second Life! This is crazy!

Is this how CSI: NY is trying to stay current, with this not so subtle co-opt of technology all the "crazy kids" are using? Because mostly it just amuses me.

Mostly, Don Flack and Danny Messer are kind of adorkable. Especially Don's expressive eyebrows. So it's about darn time for me to make a tag for them, don't you think?
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Danny and Don are BFF)
Watching So You Think You Can Dance, which is lots of fun. I've slowly found myself being sucked into watching CSI: New York, which has a lot less goofiness than Miami (sorry, the over dramatics of Horatio Caine have gotten old and their plot lines are so strange) and the same good cast (if not better) than Las Vegas. I've already talked about how adorable Eddie Cahill (Detective Don Flack) is and how much I enjoy Gary Sinise.

After watching last week's episode though, I find myself hit with a plot bunny of Gary Sinise and the cool ME being BFF and roommates because of spoiler for It Happened to Me )

I'm very excited because this week they are having a CSI TRIFECTA! of episodes, so that characters from all three are solving a crime together. Which means that Danny and Martin from Without a Trace (which had a crossover with CSI: Las Vegas that was a little bit pointless and too focused on Jack, sheesh) can totally hang out with Don and Mac and Danny (Messer) and have great New York hijinks. Yes please!

Also, I was rereading/re-editing some of my stories and I really want to muck around in the Elementary!verse sandbox again. Or fix the story bits that I wrote about it being too darn hot in many fandoms, because they're not quite perfect yet.

And! I need to sign up for Yuletide (and actually do it!), which is an obscure fandom fanfic exchange. Last year I defaulted (boo, long story) but I've done it for two years before that (as a pinch-hitter the first, and a writer AND pinch-hitter the second) and it's tons of fun to see what you can write--Bradbury fanfic!--or what you can get.

To conclude, apparently my brain has gone right past Thanksgiving and towards Christmas. Anyone have a present that they're dying for?
flyakate: Grouchy Kermit with text (Stu and Larry are my fake boyfriends)
I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed the Black Irish inherent hotness of black hair and bright blue eyes. I periodically record episodes of CSI: NY and I've discovered (re-discovered?) not only am I still a huge fan of Gary Sinise, but Eddie Cahill--he plays a detective on the show and is awesomely sarcastic and New Yorkishly accented--has these stunning blue eyes that take me back to countless Saturday nights watching The Practice with Dylan McDermott and being mesmerized by just how PRETTY he was.

So that was a happy place realization... which then meant that I wandered off onto the internet and read lots of fabulous stories in a universe where the New York CSI department instead investigates supernatural crime and it's creepy and hot. So go explore [livejournal.com profile] stellaluna_'s BSI'verse. This made me wonder how that would work for our boys and girls in Criminal Minds... which meant that I lost a few hours in [livejournal.com profile] amichevole's WiP story where Prentiss is a vampire and Morgan is a werewolf. Oh! Which reminds me of the awesome [livejournal.com profile] mcshep_match story where John Sheppard just happens to be a were-mountain lion. Hey, it happens? At least it does in Where the Brave Dare Not Go by [livejournal.com profile] telesilla XD

This icon strikes me as highly appropriate, even though Adam Storke is not Eddie Cahill (though might also have the same coloring, so it still kind of works, and I was such a Larry fangirl from The Stand, oh goodness).

And I've been working on posting this since yesterday (when I lost half the night to CSI: NY fanfic, man, I don't have time to watch a new show, knock it off, brain) so I should post it now.

Don't even get me started on accents, sheesh, Simon Baker has this awesome Australian accent and is so cheery and blond and smiley, it totally makes every episode of The Mentalist (though he does act "American", which makes me want there to be an episode where he has to trick someone by pretending to be Australian... please?)

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