First one piece of paper, then another went flying into the air as Yukawa scribbled equations furiously, ceaselessly. At long last he looked up, hand pressed against his face as the answer finally made itself known:

"Salmon."

Utsumi rolled her head and sighed. "I can't take you anywhere to eat," she grumbled.

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"Mother," Angela said dubiously, "I'm pretty sure Elisa told me that on Halloween night, the children wore scary costumes and the adults gave them candy, not the other way around."

"Whatever," Demona mumbled, rummaging through the bags. "Ahhh...Milky Way. Excellent."

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It was a wild convergence of last night's season finale of "Heroes", an off-handed reference to "Les Miz", and a burst of creative insanity:

SYLAR: One brain more
Another brain, another power for me
This never-ending taste for anatomy
These men who seem to know my crime
I’ll pop their heads and then I’ll dine
One brain more

PETER AND CLAIRE: We die and live today
How can we love, when we’re related?

SYLAR: One brain more…

PETER: Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away
CLAIRE: Tomorrow you’ll be blown away
TOGETHER: And yet with you, my life’s restarted


Unfortunately it was late and I got tired, but you get the gist.

Sadly.

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I'm going to be kind and hide this behind a cut for those who haven't read the book and don't want to be spoiled.

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There was a discussion on rollick's LJ about a prospective third Star Wars trilogy, and in the course of conversation someone suggested a musical. And of course that got the creative juices flowing in my brain, resulting in this:

If you're blue
And you don't know which side to go to
Why don't you go where darkness sits
Puttin' on the Sith

Come let's mix
Where all the Dark Lords
Rule their armies
With lightsabers in their mitts
Puttin on the Sith

Have you seen the Count Dooku
Wiping out Planet Naboo
Hanging Gungan out to dry
Making Jar-Jar scream and die

Big ships and arcane powers
Clone troops and acid showers
Committing every crime
For their man Palpatine

So if you're blue
And you don't know which side to go to
Why don't you go where darkness sits
Puttin on the Sith

Thanks to cassielander for the lyric assist

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Grissom looked up from his work to find Catherine standing in the doorway. "I've got some good news and bad news," she said.

Grissom raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"

"The good news," she reported, "is that we got a positive DNA match on Senator Binks' murderer."

"And the bad?"

"The match narrows it down to about three million possible suspects."


JSM

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"Oh, Smeagol hates the Grissom, he does. The Grissom makes us show him our hands, turns the hands up and down. The Grissom makes us open our mouth and puts the nasssty ssswab inside and wipes it all around, for the 'deee-ennnn-aaiiiy'. Nasssty Grissom hurts poor sweet Smeagol, gollum. He wraps the Deagol in the big black bag and takes him away, Smeagol's friend, and then he takes The Precious, our Precious, for 'eff-i-dense'.

"NASTY LITTLE GRISSOM! WE HATES IT FOREVER!"

JSM

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Stokes and Sidle strode into the Gate Room and approached the ramp. Grissom was kneeling over the body's lower torso; it lay just in front of the Stargate, and the two colleagues sighed as they recognized the position of the body. "Aw, not another half-and-half," Stokes groaned.

Grissom looked up from his inspection. "You'll go get the rest of the body," he said to them. "The murderer tried to wipe the coordinates from the log, but Warrick was able to retrieve them from the computer memory. Oh, and Nick?"

"Yeah?"

"Try not to puke on the victim this time."


JSM

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"...only 20?"


JSM

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Normally I don't call attention to my posts in other journals, but in this case I kind of outdid myself and I'm questionably proud enough of it to share.

I was out at metaquotes, and someone posted a comment about a girl wanting to find a story about Harry Potter cutting himself, Snape finds out, hilarity ensues. Okay, I was kind of "bleah" about the whole concept, but the commentary about the post was funny...and then someone said that Snape/Harry stories (another concept that makes me exceedingly bleah) are sometimes called "snarry" stories.

That's all it took.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaquotes/1484050.html?thread=6321426#t6321426

JSM

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