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December 6:
VictorianDressedMarty stared. “Whoa.”
“Where the hell did it come from?” VampMarty asked.
“Damned if I know,” VultureMarty replied. “You think TeenDoc had anything to do with it?”
“No, I think he’s still trying to convince Vic to let him have another shot at the lights.”
“Would TeenDoc even make a giant candy cane?” MartyFox asked, sniffing it cautiously.
“Hey, who else is going to?” VultureMarty pointed out.
“Oh, hey Martys!” HatterDoc said cheerfully, coming up behind them. “See you’ve found my latest project!”
“Right. We have two nutcases here.”

Luckily, around here, being called a "nutcase" is almost a term of endearment.
-MF: What IS with the giant candy cane?-
-HD: To spread Christmas spirit!-
-M: Can it spread Christmas spirit someplace other than the main hall? It's a bit of a pain to walk around.-
-HD: Well, where am I supposed to put it? It'll get tacky if I put it outside.-
-J: It's real can -- what am I saying, of course it's real candy. That's you.-
-HD: *gringrin*-
-VD: I say we haul it into the kitchen, it'll be easier to handle there.-
-VD2: Right. OckDoc, care to help us?-
-OD: I and the boys are at your service.-


Have spent most of the day lounging around. Been watching a lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 lately. Damn, that was a good show. I miss it.
-DW: To be fair, you only started watching it after it was canceled, and Sci-Fi was showing the last of the reruns.-
I can still miss it! I can definitely miss that I came too late to catch it while it was still on the air.
-DW: Fair enough.-
I also finally did some proper stuff with deadgirlsliekme! Moose was kind enough to poke around with one of the tie-twisting icons and make it look a bit sharper and better, so that dilemma's fixed. He now has a full icon set!
-RPD: Think you've got everything covered?-
I should. We'll see once I get him into play. Speaking of which, I posted his application in his LJ. Haven't sent it in yet, sorta wanted someone to look at it first. You guys think it's okay?
-M: *readen* *pause* *read first bit again* *snort* FITZWILLIAM?-
-TTV: *flushes* It's not my fault!-
-TD: *eyes me* Yeah, we know. Jeez, Victoria.-
I couldn't help it! It was funny! Besides, it's in keeping with the theme.
-D: The -- theme?-
My RP characters all have funny middle names. Dr. Emmett LATHROP Brown, Victor FITZWILLIAM Van Dort, Alice PLEASANCE Liddell. . . .
-RPD: Yes, but ours is semi-canon thanks to the Animated Series and that's the ACTUAL Alice's name! We can't help it!-
So? Still needs a theme.
-TTV: Where did you even FIND Fitzwilliam, anyway?-
I believe it's the first name of Moose's Mr. Darcy.
-TTV: *headdesk*-
-J: This does beg the question of what Lucy Leech's middle name is.-
Haven't decided yet. But it will be on the side of strange.
Anyway, finally, let's do a book meme:

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Count how many you have read.
3) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read a grand total of: 19! Think that's the highest total so far! :D Also, to the two of you on my friend's list who haven't read A Christmas Carol: OMGWTFBBQ?

And now, off to do more randomness!