From my local newspaper:

Herbicide: Life on the street

OSU plant and insect detectives sift through leaves, turf, bark and bugs to solve a host of natural (and unnatural) mysteries

The Columbus Dispatch

October 14, 2008

A gardener finds black spots on the leaves of a backyard maple tree. A hotel is panicked by tiny beetles falling from ceiling tiles. A homeowner is horrified by huge cockroaches crawling on a screen door. Turns out, the black spots aren't harmful, the hotel has mold that attracts beetles, and those cockroaches are really harmless water bugs attracted to a porch light. Solving mysteries like these are all in a day's work for scientists at the C. Wayne Ellett Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic at Ohio State University.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/10/14/sci_PlantPest.ART_ART_10-14-08_B4_CKBHVS5.html?sid=101

Wow. I first saw this episode of television a decade ago.

Seriously, no matter how many times I see it, it still gets better every time. When I was a theatre major, I used to analyze this episode of television for tactics, intention, urgency, all the buzzwords of acting.

I know that this board has, of late, become little more than a dropping off point for fanfiction. I don't want to demean that, I applaud the writers. But seriously, has there ever been a finer hour of television ever produced on network? Srsly?

TITLE: Vigilant
AUTHOR: Laura Smith
PAIRING: Tim Bayliss, Frank Pembleton
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Freedom of the mind
DISCLAIMER: Homicide: Life on the Streets and all the characters therein belong to people who are not me. I make no profit from this, I just like playing with them.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Thanks to inlovewithnight for the beta. I've only seen through S4, so please don't spoil me.

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TITLE: All These Odds
AUTHOR: Laura Smith
PAIRING: Kay Howard
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds/Remember how I kept you waiting when it was finally my turn to play the god?
DISCLAIMER: Homicide: Life on the Streets and all the characters therein belong to people who are not me. I make no profit from this, I just like playing with them.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Thanks to inlovewithnight for the beta. This is a very delayed fic request dating back to August, 2006. Thanks also to likeadeuce for figuring out names for me and saving me from the spoiler-filled world of wikipedia. Also, I've only seen through S3, so please don't spoil me.

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