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| Monday, August 22nd, 2011 | | 5:57 pm |
Writer's Block: Scary movie
The original 1974 Black Christmas. There are many scary movies out there, but this is the only one where I actually got frightened by nothing more than seeing a shadow where no shadow should have been. | | Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 | | 7:53 pm |
Writer's Block: Born again
Probably a cat. I don't think I could resist the appeal of being graceful and agile, able to leap and climb like a crazy sonofagun. Plus they get petted and people say "nice kitty, let me rub your tummy!" and things like that. | | Thursday, March 31st, 2011 | | 7:40 pm |
Just added an old friend to my flist...
... and so, even though it's a bit late, I'll follow his meme and post my favorite 1980's music video (note, it was hard choosing between this and Spandau Ballet's Gold: | | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 | | 8:24 pm |
Writer's Block: Do you want to know a secret?
So, so hard to pick just one out of their entire ouevre but I think unless I think of a better one, I'd have to say "Tomorrow Never Knows," the last track on Revolver. I love the psychedelic sound looping, Ringo's sophisticated but steady drum pattern anchoring it, and the mystical, surreal lyrics. I'll be the first one to admit I don't know what the lyrics actually mean (I know they come in some way from the Tibetan Book of the Dead) but I always imagine that it's saying to me "Life is being recreated every day, in every moment; this is only the beginning of things." | | Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 | | 8:54 pm |
The Suck Fairy comes in when you come back to a book that you liked when you read it before, and on re-reading—well, it sucks. You can say that you have changed, you can hit your forehead dramatically and ask yourself how you could possibly have missed the suckiness the first time—or you can say that the Suck Fairy has been through while the book was sitting on the shelf and inserted the suck. The longer the book has been on the shelf unread, the more time she's had to get into it. The advantage of this is exactly the same as the advantage of thinking of one's once-beloved ex as having been eaten by a zombie, who is now shambling around using the name and body of the former person. It lets one keep one's original love clear of the later betrayals. "The Suck Fairy", by Jo Walton Current Mood:  thoughtful | | Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 | | 8:45 pm |
DragonCon!
Frantically packing for DragonCon! If you're going, look for me there! Current Mood:  rushed | | Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 | | 11:13 am |
| | Saturday, July 24th, 2010 | | 12:35 pm |
Writer's Block: If I had a hammer
I don't feel I was expected to pursue a particular type of career, but I was told so often at school "you're not working up to your potential!" "You're brilliant; you could do great things if you only applied yourself!" and when I was being badly bullied "When you get older you'll be so much better off than them it will make up for what they're doing now" that I felt I had to do spectacular things with my life. I can't help feeling disappointed in myself that I didn't make it happen that way. Current Mood:  blah | | Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 | | 8:38 pm |
| | Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 | | 5:24 pm |
Writer's Block: Mega Bite
Assuming someone else was doing the cooking? Japanese, definitely. And not fancy-Japanese, all sushi and sashimi and other stuff the average Japanese only eats on special occasions, but good old classic home-cooking dishes, especially gyudon ("beef bowl"; sukiyaki beef on a bowl of rice) and other donburi (topped rice bowls). What would I call it? Hmmmm... I think I would call it "Kotatsu". Many Japanese homes even today don't use central heating; instead to keep warm in the winters they bundle up and use localized heating devices, including a low table with blankets hanging down from the sides and a heater on the underside of the table. This table is called a kotatsu. I'd like my restaurant to give people the same feeling as a kotatsu does: giving warmth in the cold of winter. | | Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | | 8:24 pm |
Writer's Block: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I can't remember if it was travel on a holiday weekend, but it was going to see my then-girlfriend at her college, a long bus trip which involved traveling several hours and switching buses several times. Most times it went without a hitch, but on one occasion, the wait for the bus that was to take us on the last leg seemed just far too long. It got so that each time another bus rolled up in front of the transfer center, we (the six people waiting for that bus) would ask the dispatcher "is this our bus?" Each time, she would scowl in annoyance and say "No, your bus hasn't arrived yet!" Until a bus rolled in, and she peered at her chart, and said matter-of-factly, "Oh, no, that's not your bus. That bus which just left? That was the one going to W-------." Upon learning this, the six of us who had already paid to take that bus and had been waiting for it for hours discussed things, and determined two things: a) even though no jury in the world would convict us, the bulletproof glass she was behind would stymie any attempt to leap upon her and rend her with claws; b) our only realistic option for getting to W------- before the next morning was by cab. Someone found a number for a local cab company, and thankfully we got a very understanding, accommodating cabbie (read: illegally took all six of us in one trip so that no one would have to wait yet longer) who also happened to be an amateur actor and kept us entertained along the way talking about how it was trying to get parts in the local scene. We tipped him very heavily at the end of the ride. Current Mood:  amused | | Friday, April 9th, 2010 | | 2:24 am |
| | Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | | 12:19 am |
| | Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | | 8:41 pm |
| | Sunday, April 4th, 2010 | | 11:20 pm |
Fun at Anime Boston! Con Report later!
Well, I was going to post the con report after catching up on my flist, Facebook, e-mail and RSS feeds, but clearly that won't happen tonight. So yeah, tomorrow. Just one thing to observe: believe it or not, the Titanic cartoon with the rapping dog is not the worst one out there. Current Mood:  tired and happy | | Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | | 6:05 pm |
Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) mature1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.(I have cheated just slightly, posting the text of the next five sentences and not merely four, to make the results more interesting.) "Arbitrarily high, in fact. Oh ... my." He looked at her. "Madame Vorsoisson, I believe you have hit upon a possible solution. I will certainly pass the idea along as soon as I may." Her heart lifted in response to his obvious pleasure -- well, all right, actually it was sort of a razor-edged glee; anyway, he smiled at her smile at his smile. That's from A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Current Mood:  sick | | Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | | 7:48 pm |
An untitled chatfic
Well, the bulletin board that we used to use for posting chatfics have now been taken down, so I'm posting this on my own journal. This is a little piece showing Heather a.k.a. Artemis after she returns from her first visit to the headquarters of the Society. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  creative | | Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 | | 1:36 pm |
Writer's Block: I'm with the band
Depends. Are we talking "if my talent could be up to actually holding my own with the real members of the band" or "if you could be a member of the musical group regardless of your talent level"? If it was the former, well, who could really resist being one of the Beatles? I'd love to be the fifth voice singing my lungs out on "The Weight". If I had to try to fit my existing level of musical ability to the group, however, I think I'd be part of Gentle Giant. There are a lot of live tracks that testify to the fact that they couldn't always stay in the right key, either. Current Mood:  artistic | | Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | | 2:12 pm |
From today's "Not Everybody Gets The Clue":
Prosecutors in Cook County are attempting to subpoena the grades of Northwestern University students participating in the Innocence Project."Local prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves. ... Lawyers in the Cook County state's attorney's office say that in their quest for justice in the old case, they need every pertinent piece of information about the students' three-year investigation into Anthony McKinney, who was convicted of fatally shooting a security guard in 1978. Mr. McKinney's conviction is being reviewed by a judge. Among the issues the prosecutors need to understand better, a spokeswoman said, is whether students believed they would receive better grades if witnesses they interviewed provided evidence to exonerate Mr. McKinney." I'd say there are a great many other issues which the prosecutors need to understand better than they currently do. Current Mood:  cynical | | Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | | 8:27 pm |
Enjoying the inexplicable warm weather
New England weather's a bit nuts; we get blizzards on the first day of April and this year we got a weekend in the low 70s at the end of October. So obviously getting out and enjoying the good weather was a priority. Friday night Tommey and Ann and I went out to Bella Luna/Milky Way with the intent of seeing Zili Musik (billed as "Boston's own all female African roots supergroup" on the website.) Tommey and Ann had heard them play before; I had not. Well, it will be a while yet before I get to hear them, because it turned out that without reservations we weren't getting to eat for at least an hour after we got there and probably more like an hour and a half. Reshuffled plans took us to Wonder Spice Cafe, a Thai/Cambodian place, where I got an enormously yummy bowl of seafood Phnom Penh noodle soup. We were so stuffed we couldn't eat another bite; of course, ice cream is more "lick" than "bite" so we went to JP Licks for ice cream before heading home. Saturday involved a lot of strategic lazing around in pajamas, and then going out in the afternoon and evening. The afternoon, Tommey came and picked me up and I made him a small loan so that he could get the on-a-great-sale-ending-today multi-function printer that Ann really wanted but couldn't get to fit in the budget. It was really great getting Ann's e-mail later telling me how much I rocked. =) Then Mom and I went over to Castle Grayskull for a not-party Fallon hosted (it was a "non-party" just to keep the pressure of expectations off.) Originally we thought we were going to watch Kolchak: the Night Stalker, either the original movie or something from the TV show, but we decided it would be better to put on something that could be ignored in favor of conversation if people preferred. Thankfully, I had brought Attack of the Supermonsters as well as the Kolchak discs, and people seemed to enjoy its $1.98-budget stylings. (Fal borrowed the Kolchak discs and was planning to spend much of Sunday with Tom, introducing him to the manly 70's man, the force of nature, that is Carl Kolchak.) Sunday I didn't think I'd have any special plans, and in fact in the morning all I did was play on an emulator and watch some Something Weird movies I'd borrowed through Netflix (movies which were actually bad enough to leave me with very little good to say about them.) But in the early afternoon Ann called and wanted to know if I could go to the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival with her, so I got a ride and met up with her at Forest Hills, and we took the Orange Line in and spent a little over two hours looking at all the vegetarian and vegan products that were available. I came away with a vegetarian Thai cookbook, a vegetarian "Tuscan burger" mix, and a pack of low-sodium vegetable stock cubes. Afterwards, Ann and I went out to Chilli Duck on Boylston Street and had some non-vegetarian Thai food (pad thai with crispy crispy chicken for me and a duck dish for her.) Overall, just an excellent weekend. Current Mood: happy |
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