My television watching of late led to this, bolstered by insomnia and the fact I hadn't used the psych degree in a while.  Just thought I'd share. :)

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(making this and the "Knockdown" blog public, not that I think anybody else but the f-list will get my humor.)

Previously on "Castle":

Mr. Natalie Maines was not ready to make nice and sadly did not say "DAMN IT" a la Jack Bauer as I was so ridiculously hoping he would.  The Syrian Consulate Guy reminds me of somebody and I can't for the life of me remember who it is, and it's pissing me off.  Castle and Beckett ripped off one of my favorite episodes of "NCIS" and got themsevles "Boxed In."
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And thus ends our Blog of Doom, with cameos from Kris, Mars and apparently our bathmat.  Hope you enjoyed it.

So K wanted to go to bed, but I couldn't let the airing of "Knockdown" go unwatched. And since my snark knows no off switch regardless of whether anyone's conscious to enjoy it, in the vein of the "Tin Man" blog of doom, I shall saddle you with my inane, half-formed ramblings.

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Attention Nerdherders (yes, I'm mixing icons and fandoms and DON'T CARE):

help_haiti  is doing a fandom auction to help raise money for Haiti disaster relief.  I've decided to pimp myself out.

Want me to write something in Alice, Tin Man, Castle or In Plain Sight?  (Or maybe Mentalist if you're Mel...)? Then get bidding.

Let's do this, people. It's too important not to. (and thanks to new_wonderland for pointing it out to me.) crossposted to the writing LJ

Just wanted to chuck this up here before I go and yell at David and Avery and possibly the Pats, because I keep meaning to do it and keep forgetting.

This is Sophie. She is the niece of one of K's coworkers. She was born with a rare intestinal disease that left her with five spleens and a non-functioning liver. She's survived a few surgeries already, but desperately needs a liver transplant. Her dad's a cop and Mom's a real estate agent, so their funds are quickly running out. They also have a two-year-old at home, Savana. They've established the Sophie Grace Fund for assistance in procuring the necessary medical care to help Sophie make it. As of this posting, it's not looking very good.

As we enter the holdiay season, if any of you are so inclined, please consider making a donation to Sophie and her family. It is tax-deductible, but more importantly, I think it'd do a lot more good than buying an iPod or something. Every little bit helps. (You can also make a tax-deductible donation to my other favorite group o' peeps, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.)

I'll get off the soapbox now. :)

Sorry for the delay, peeps. Here's the blow-by-blow of Part One. It's my least favorite part of the series, so this is probably lacking in the Effie!Snark, but I hope it amuses all you suckers currently at work. :)

As a note of interest, I think Bud Selig was just slightly drunk last night at his “I suspended the World Series and all I got were these stupid negative articles” press conference. (Seriously, watch ESPN/ESPN News at some point today and tell me that man wasn’t sloshin’ ‘em back.)

At any rate, I bring you to Part One of the Effie Has No Life And Is Blogging About A Miniseries We’ve All Seen A Hundred Times! Yay!

I still find it ironic that I watched this the first time (almost a year ago, can you believe it?) completely on mute, because we’d taped it on the TiVO in the bedroom and K lasted about 5 minutes before saying, “This is stupid. I’m going to sleep.”

And away we go!

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I'm totally stealing this idea from erinm_4600 , for she is made of genius and it taxes my pretty little head too much to come up with these things on my own.

I know I'm late, but the bandwagon got lost on the way to the 'Burg. I'm terrible at giving directions.

penny_hill came up with the idea to proclaim this week is Tin Man Author Appreciation Week. So I'm going to shout out to all you fabulous authors out there and say THANK YOU for all your hard work and engaging storytelling. I've laughed with you, I've cried with you, I've nearly dropped the computer in shock a few times, I've stayed up until all hours of the day and night greedily reading every little thing I can get my hands on. I've been honored enough to call a lot of you friends (and have picked up a few stalkers on the way, alamo_girl80 ), but first and foremost, I will always be your fan.

So I decided to hand out the first annual Effie Would Make You A Certificate If the Cats Didn't Chase the Damn Paper Awards. 

In no particular order (and begging eternal forgiveness for forgetting a crapload of people, because I don't remember what I did ten minutes ago):

She Who Makes Me Crack Up A Lot, and Often: erinm_4600 

She Who Makes Me Wish I Could Be That Damn Cool and Look That Damn Good Doing It: moony_blues 

She Who Can Do Just About Anything (including, but not limited to, making me do the ugly cry with Atonement; keeeeeeling Jeb; showing me the light and the love associated with next-gen fic and casting): queenof1000days 

She Whose Bad Guys Scare the CRAP Out of Me. For Serious: alamo_girl80 
--Special Party Hat for being the freaking funniest beta EVAR, for not killing me for my overuse of the word 'brunette' and for making me generally squee like there is no tomorrow.

She Who Is the Master of Description and Characterization and Makes Me Flail Right Off the Couch:  chichuri 

She Who is the Master of the Flangst: bee_1103 

She Who Is the Master of the Big Fics of Doom: countesscole 

She Who I Will Dutifully Follow Down the Old Road: lattelady6 

And, just because I can, here is the Wholly Incomplete But Still Flail Worthy OMG YOU MUST READ NAO List (mostly from the Pit, but also some LJ love):

(again with the no particular order)

Unstable Atmospherethecricket 
Coronation by Alexandra 3
Tells by chibi_kaz 
Terms of Endearment and Beautiful Disaster by Moony
Lilies to Tread by koslorollo 
Paper Flowers and Relativity by Bee
Atonement by Becks
Stimulant and The Great Divide by Mel
Blood Price and The More Things Change by Chichuri
The Good Witch by countesscole
Chemical Reactions and Say It With Flowers by Lattelady
And No Birds Sing by kseda 
 
GROUP HUG!

The Really Big Fic of Doom won three awards over at

tmfictionawards .

Holy crap.

No, really. Holy CRAP. I;ve never won anything, nor do I influence others winning anything. Seriously. I'm banned from about ten sports complexes because I'm bad luck personified.

I'm very proud of my f-list, too, because alamo_girl80 , moony_blues , allronix1 , chichuri and golden_goddess also won.  Way to go kids!  ::passes out the congrats brownies K-Unit made today::

Other than that, nothing much going on here, just watching a lot of Identification Discovery because I am a grade-A DORK, and K-Unit had the big TV for the SVU marathon that's going on despite the fact she has all of them on DVD...