I should be glad that it has been six months since my last batch of cluster headaches. I should be glad. I’m not.

I’m really really not.

Because they’re back.

Stolen from Cindy at Quotidian Light. She stole from someone else. We are a community of thieves!

So, my top ten literary crushes?

1. Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L Sayers)–In real life, superrich, superskinny, and superblond don’t do much for me. But Gaudy Night is one of the perfect books in the English language, and Harriet Vane may be a Mary Sue but I don’t care.

2. Mr. Darcy (Jane Austen)–I think he would show up on more lists than anyone else. There’s just something about Mr. Darcy.

3. Superman–I can’t help it, no matter how lame it is.

4. The Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney (Baroness Orczy)–One of my earliest crushes, and one of the most defensible.

5. Sidney Carton (Charles Dickens)–I see a French Revolution theme growing here.

6. The Bastard (Lois McMaster Bujold)–I think this will be the only god on the list, and I tell ya, it’s a little embarrassing.

7. Jack Bauer (24)–The least defensible one on the list is this sociopath with a heart of… well… something very black and hard. We shall call it coal.

8. Sherlock Holmes (Laurie R King)–I have no interest in Doyle’s original Sherlock, but King’s Sherlock is pretty damned dreamy, and pretty damned Lord Peter, too.

9. James T Kirk–Damn, do I ever have a thing for heroes.

10. Aslan (CS Lewis)–Dammit, dammit, dammit. I said only one god, but I lied.

Check out the online book fair happening now. Raffles! Interviews! Raffles! Forums! Raffles!

Greg Perry of g r a p e z was the one who inspired me to tackle the daily review on WEE. He went on hiatus for a while, but is back swinging. Please check it out.

How can you resist the Bookshelves of Doom? This is my favorite of the book-related blogs out there, and that’s saying something.

It’s the inaugural edition of The Shit Creek Review. That’s not a publication credit you can get just anywhere, monkeys!

My coworker’s kid got approached at her workplace by a scam artist.

For once in my life, I actually had information that was helpful. You see, this scamming dude works for Primerica, a subsidiary of Citigroup. What they do is tell you that they want to interview you for a job. But instead of an interview, it’s a sales pitch to get you involved in MLM. Oh, and they want you to pay money for the privilege.

How do I know? I was contacted by these people six years ago when I put my resume up on Monster. Oh, but I’d make a “six-figure income,” they said. Oh, but you can “be your own boss.” All by recruiting others into the fold. Baa.