BotD:  Ruined by Reading  by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

QotD: 
"...  in the case of a book, why not be abandoned, and abandon?

This is a far cry from my idealism at age twenty, when I longed to read everything, simply because it was written, like adventurers who climb Mount Everest because it is there.  Other sensationalists must sample everything edible or try every feasible sexual posture, however slimy or arduous, respectively.  Thus do they assure themselves they have truly lived.  No experience has passed them by, as if exhaustiveness were the measure of a good life.

Gradually I lost, or shed, the Mount Everest syndrome.  Bookshelves still tease and tantalize, but like a woman with a divining rod, I know now where the water will be, I do not have to scrape earth and dig holes seeking, only there where the rod begins to tremble."

"It was an old comfort, being bound. Why else would he have ever put up with the ropes, chains, prisoner of war games, when he'd first come to them? Not saving up for the chance of this, that he'd never expected would happen. Just for the thing itself, the feeling of being trapped, held, chained. Like somebody wanted to make sure *he* didn't leave."

Company in Hell

I really want to try and hit a major convention this year... any suggestions?  ComicCon is a bit out of my range, but Dragon*Con seems doable?  Anyone been?

Any suggestions?

THIS is why I want to kill the FOX executive that cancelled Firefly... because THIS could have been Zoe's number in the musical episode in Season Three!

*sighs*

Sade is THE SHIT

So, I watched tonight's episode of Dollhouse.

*takes a deep breath*


JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

"The world breathes a sigh of relief that the Large Hadron Collider will never create a black hole... after it is destroyed by zombies."

-engadget.com

The Metallicar.

"

The Car

The family car, a 67 Chevy Impala, is the coolest thing on the show by a factor of four million. It survives despite being possessed by a ghost, stolen several times, crashed twice, and also beaten up by Dean in a fit of rage, after which the car claimed that she'd just driven into a wall, and that Dean just gets angry sometimes." -Cracked.com

That's why the freaking Apocalypse is happening, y'all. Dean went to hell and back and somehow FORGOT about his love for his BABY! He even offered her to SAMMY for chrissakes!


*grumps, waiting for January*

THIS




IS THE MOST FANTASTIC ICON I'VE EVER SEEN.  I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM, OR WHO MADE IT, BUT IT IS PURE GRADE-A FULL-FAT ORGANIC AWESOMESAUCE!

So, I was running errands today w/ my gf  and happened to stop in at the Hong Kong Market over off of 183.  Wandering through the aisles I stumbled upon what may possibly be the most horrific (and possibly tasty) things I've ever seen. 

MACAPUNO
(also referred to as GELATINOUS MUTANT COCONUT)

It's like The Blob had sex with a spaghetti squash, and this is their sweet albino offspring!  At least, that's how it appeared on the side of the can.  I didn't buy it, because I couldn't take it seriously long enough to bring it up to the cashier, but after doing a bit more research I'm actually intrigued enough to maybe buy some.  If nothing else, it would make a great creepy Halloween treat :>

I don't have a Kindle, but I'm thinking about getting one.  Not for e-books or whatever they're calling them now, but for saving and carrying all of the awesome fanfic I read on LJ and various other places.  Anyone out there have experience downloading fanfic to their Kindle, or other similar device?

WHICH ISN'T ACTUALLY HAPPENING, in case you missed my previous post.  This was just a fun casting exercise :)

Westley:  James McAvoy 

Buttercup:  Sophia Myles

Prince Humperdinck:  Michael Rosenbaum

Vizzini:  Armin Shimerman

Inigo Montoya:  Gael Garcia Bernal

Fezzick:  Abraham Benrubi

Count Rugen:  Alan Tudyk (or Tony Head, to make him that much older than Inigo)

Miracle Max & Valerie:  Yeahhhh, can't really beat the originals:  Billy Crystal and Carol Kane

The Priest:  Hugh Laurie OR Stephen Fry

The Crazy BOOO Lady:  Robin Wright in heavy makeup, just for kicks

Yellin:  maybe Joss Whedon, maybe Tony Head... haven't decided yet :>


For the frame story, it would be cool to have Fred Savage as a dad, rereading the Story to his kid.

Or rather, from one of the Fancy Bastard queries:

If you were to remake The Princess Bride (acknowledging the fact that this should never, EVER be done) and were casting with actors currently in circulation, who would you cast?

First one that came to mind was Fezzick, right?  Should be the hardest to cast, but I thought of someone immediately!  The huge guy from "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", who's name turns out to be Abraham Benrubi.  I love that guy!

Second immediate casting thought is that Miracle Max & his wife Valerie should HAVE THE SAME ACTORS.  Seriously, how awesome would that be?  They're both available, right?

Any suggestions for the rest of the main cast?

Wesley

Buttercup

Inigo

Vizzini

The 6-fingered Count

Prince HUMperdink

So I'm several days into a 6 day hiatus from work.  Work is hell at the moment, what with upper management telling us to buy more stuff and pay more for it (I know) and then bitching that our backstock is full of shit and we're not working hard enough.  NOT FUCKING WORKING HARD ENOUGH?!!

*heaves a heavy sigh*

But I'm on vacation, so I don't have to think about that bullshit :D  Instead I've been catching up with some house work, tossing out old crap that I no longer want, driving around and trying restaurants cuz I WANT TO, GORRAMIT!  Although, upon further reflection, I doubt I will be returning to Texadelphia.  I can get better cheesesteak at the WaffleHouse down south, honestly.  Also been spending time laying around the house lazily, which I NEVER get to do enough of, and hanging out with the Comfortador during his brief wakey periods.  We went and saw StarTrek at the Village, which was made of awesome AGAIN! 

I'm planning a possible trip to Pride at the park Saturday afternoon, with maybe a little home shopping squeezed in somewhere.
Got to repot the tarragon and thyme I picked up, buy a new mat for the front door (not sure I want it to say welcome this time), maybe give the cats their semi-annual bath.  I've already done the major shit-ton of household chores, so there's no laundry hanging over my head  \o/

I've been listening to podcasts lately, mostly HijiNKS Ensue and SModcast.  Smodcast is put on by Kevin Smith and (usually)Scott Moser, and it's usually entertaining to say the least.  They did almost kill me by being too fucking funny to listen to while driving, but if y'all take precautions you should be safe.  If you're not reading HijiNKS Ensue (the comic) I highly recommend it for random geekery fun.  The podcast just continually cracks me up, despite all of the lack-of-pc-ness that its soaking in.  Hell, maybe because of it!

Meeeeeeemes!  Hooray MEMES (and BEER)!

Ten Books I Love Meme

1. Pick 10 of your favorite books.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)

1)  The Neverending Story   by Michael Ende

::Carl Conrad Coreander
          Old Books:: (pretend that its backwards, k?)
This inscription could be seen on the glass door of a small shop, but naturally this was only the way it looked if you were inside the dimly lit shop, looking out at the street through the plate-glass door.
Outside, it was a gray, cold, rainy November morning.  The rain ran down the glass and over the ornate letters.  Through the glass there was nothing to be seen but the rain-splotched wall across the street.
Suddenly the door was opened so violently that a little cluster of brass bells tinkled wildly, taking quite some time to calm down.

2)  Red Dwarf * Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers  by GrantNaylor

'DESCRIBE, USING DIAGRAMS WHERE APPROPRIATE, THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO YOUR DEATH.'

3)  Dune  by Frank Herbert
In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.

4)  Abarat  by Clive Barker
The storm came up out of the southwest like a fiend, stalking its prey on legs of lightning.
The wind it brought with it was as foul as the devil's own breath and it stirred up the peaceful waters of the sea.  By the time the little red boat that the three women had chosen for their perilous voyage had emerged from the shelter of the islands, and was out in the open waters, the waves were as steep as cliffs, twenty-five, thirty feet tall.

5)  Sunshine  by Robin McKinley
It was a dumb thing to do but it wasn't that dumb.  There hadn't been any trouble out at the lake in years.  And it was so exquisitely far from the rest of my life.

6)  Grass  by Sheri S. Tepper
Grass!
Millions of square miles of it; numberless wind-whipped tsunamis of grass, a thousand sun-lulled caribbeans of grass, a hundred rippling oceans, every ripple a gleam of scarlet or amber, emerald or turquoise, multicolored as rainbows, the colors shivering over the prairies in stripes and blotches, the grasses- some high, some low, some feathered, some straight- making their own geography as they grow.

7)  The Academy * Tales of the Marketplace  by Laura Antoniou
The murmur of voices had that peculiar polyglot cadence of a mixture of languages.  English dominated, as it always did, a combination of sheer numbers and the decibel level of its native speakers.  But Japanese was a close second, and the lilting tones of French wove in and out like snatches of melodic static.  The excitement level was high, matched by the energy of people in motion, going from one to another, hands and arms outstretched.

8)  Life, the Universe and Everything  by Douglas Adams
The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.
It wasn't just that the cave was cold, it wasn't just that it was damp and smelly.  It was that the cave was in the middle of Islington and there wasn't a bus due for two million years.

9)  Rose Madder  by Stephen King
She sits in the corner, trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty just a few minutes ago and now seems to have none.  From what sounds like a great distance she can hear a thin whoop-whoop sound, and she knows this is air going down her throat and then sliding back out again in a series of feverish little gasps, but that doesn't change the feeling that she's drowning here in the corner of her living room, looking at the shredded remains of the paperback novel she was reading when her husband came home.

10)  By The Sword  Mercedes Lackey
"Blessed-  look out!"
Everyone turned and stared; at Kero, and at the boy about to lose the towering platter of bread.  The racket of pots and voices stopped, and Kerowyn's voice rang out in the silence like a trumpet call, but no one answered this  call to arms.  They all seemed confused or frozen with indecision.  The scullion staggered two more steps forward;  the edible sculpture, two clumsy, obese bread-deer (a stag and a reclining doe), begand sliding from the oversized serving dish he was attempting to carry alone.

Anyone have one of these get-in-free creation codes for Dreamwidth?  Think I'm going to set up an account for my fics and STUFF :)

Got BOTH of my BPAL packages within a week's period! CRAZINESS!

1st one to arrive was my swap w/ lyra_wing , which was FULL OF AWESOME:
( cUT FOR cool swappitude descriptions )( cUT for the essence of cool swapitude )

ZORYA
Spices of the Orient mingle with crystalline musk, midnight flowers and cereus, jasmine, primrose and vesper iris.</div>

THEN, the order I placed with part of my tax refund, the order I had almost forgotten about, showed up in my mailbox YESTERDAY:

( BPAL RULES! )

That's a 6-imp pack, 3 bottles (yes, I was briefly flush with excitement... and money), and EIGHT bonus imps!  I actually need to invest in some new kind of storage method, because my Hatbox O' Imps is almost overflowing!  That, or I need to do some more swap/giveaway stuff.

... not really. But Happy Thankee Day everyone! I'm spending the day w/ Daniyyel today- Cook, Eat, Repeat. It's such a crime that she was snatched out of civilian life a month before she finished her culinary externship, because she is a damn fine chef!

ThankeeDay Menu:

Appetizer - Roasted Butternut Squash Cream Soup with Onions

Main Course - Roast Leg of Lamb, stuffed with Sauteed Bell Peppers, Onions, and Sheep's Milk Feta Cheese; served with Pan-Seared Polenta and Roasted Tomatoes

Dessert - DoublePecan Pie, served with Häagen-Dazs Hawaiian Lehua Honey & Sweet Cream Ice Cream


Pictures to follow :>

I feel... hopeful. Not just about the election results (W00T!), but about life in general. Weird, especially since I just took myself off of my mood meds last week :P

I feel like I should do things now, things I've never really believed I could do, and have avoided even starting.

I have sumi-e kits gathering dust alongside my colored pencils in my closet. I have an official transcript buried under old Chronicles just waiting to be sent out to my gf's long-distance school for evaluation. I have filthy cats that need baths!

Maybe this is a sign, y'all. Not just that we can do things, but that, BECAUSE we can do anything we should all do SOMETHING. Something to make us better, or happier, or just more of what we could be.

*kicks Obama for being all inspirationy*

What if Obama doesn't win?
What if they steal the election AGAIN?
What if he wins, and then they shoot him the next day, and McCain pulls some dusty 45-year old law out of his butt and takes over?
What if Bush has them BOTH killed and declares monarchy and martial law and brings about the biblical apocalypse?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

*pants*

OK. I'm calm now.

On a related note, you can now find ANIMATED versions of David Rees's Get Your War On comic!

http://www.236.com/video/

Just scroll down, it's on the right (ironically enough) :>

*wanders off to find a paper bag to breathe into*

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My Results:


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Nyx

A child of the darkness you are! Nyx is the Greek Goddess of the Night and inhabits those souls who desire darkness. Not necessarily an evil or good person, you simply desire to surround yourself in all things mystical that inhabit the night time landscape. A fascination with the stars and celestial bodies also tends to accompany those whom Nyx has taken up residence in. Embrace the darkness baby because it’s already embraced you!