I’m totally not a joiner, but alas, I fear I find myself on two new bandwagons:

1. The DaVinci Code (shut up)
2. The Dresden Dolls

The first, well, I can appreciate the Magdalen infiltrating popular culture as much as the next goddess-worshipper. Sure, the writing is pretty dreadful (Leland likes to tell the story of his breaking point — it was the beginning of Chapter 4, wherein Bezu Fache’s hair is compared to “the prow of a battleship”), but that’s not the point. Thrillers are all plot, and for all plot, it does its job nicely. And hey, the Divine Feminine!

That said, we did pick up on a number of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK “homages” in the movie version. Ahem.

Despite Warren Ellis’ frequent namechecking, my proper Dresden Dolls introduction comes from Sonya Taaffe, who raves about them on her LiveJournal.

Speaking of fetching poets, I’ve been tooling around LiveJournal looking for the Wiscon reports to trickle in, which I figure they should soon.