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September 26th, 2012
January 31st, 2010
 | 11:54 am - dark fest
This looks interesting. I think I'll claim a prompt in dark_fest - it's a 500 word min. multi-fandom fest without a lot of restrictions, and you have until April to complete something.
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January 22nd, 2010
 | 09:51 pm - and in 15 minutes...
Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I saw the preview copy first episode, lots of 300 3-D-ish blood, but now I hear tell that in future episodes we've got full frontal male nudity, m/m and m/f sex, orgies, plus some handy foreplay in the form of slaves manipulating their masters for prep. Plus Lucy Lawless naked (so I hear) - that made Dave's ears perk right up.
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 | 08:54 pm - SPN episode
I think they're getting too broad, or even ham fisted with the humor. I feel like both of the actors are encouraged to be almost cartoonish with their gestures and facial expression (Jared in particular exaggerates too much for me, lately). The subtlety is gone between them (relatively speaking). I miss it.
It's not that I totally disliked the episode. It's that I'm pretty unmoved by it and by the brothers. Being unmoved by them BOTHERS me, compared to other seasons where they moved me effortlessly. The only thing I really really liked was how lost they both looked with the doctor split them into different therapy groups.
Also: the thing at the end where Sam blames himself for the huge anger he carries around - yeah, okay, see it for what it is, but also, recognize it doesn't generally come out of thin air like bad SPORES LANDING ON A SATAN-SPAWNED SOUL.
Oh shit, is Sam's soul Satan-spawned? Tune in next week.
And Dean, poor Dean, thinks it's all up to him to save the entire world. I think that's ridiculous. And I also think the show will go EXACTLY THERE.
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January 15th, 2010
 | 08:04 am - Jared the Barbarian
I've heard rumors that Jared is in the running to play CONAN. And I saw an article last night and I'm suddenly thinking of how Jared's hair hasn't been cut ONCE this season and I'm going OMG, Jared is Conan and the universe surely HATES me because I might have a whole movie of shirtless SWEATY Jared in a loincloth and I won't be able to watch it without CRINGING or turning the sound down. And to top it off I suspect ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fortytricks is making fun of me because of it.
Wah!
You think he'll have sex in it?
Just asking. I thought not.
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January 9th, 2010
 | 05:19 pm - the meme
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
Since I was tagged by true_brit :
1. I married an Arab in my teens, and a Jew in my thirties. Still married to the second one:)
2. When my fingers get wrinkly and prune up in the shower or pool, I can't stand rubbing them together. It's like fingernails down a chalkboard - it makes me shudder. My blasted child knows this and comes after me rubbing her wrinkly-ass fingers together after she showers and touching me with them. Gah!
3. I can barely kill a bug without angsting about it, but I can write and enjoy some pretty rough stuff.
4. I'm very loud. More so when drinking. But it's a happy loud. I shout happily. (Okay, when I'm not drinking and I'm loud, uh, you'd notice it's not always happy. Then you'd tell me to shut the hell up.)
5. I have no lobes. (These last two are brought to you by my husband and my friend. Thanks, guys. And my lobes are attached, not fucking non-existent.)
6. Once I climbed outside the balcony of the 2nd to the top floor of the Hyatt and hung there like a bug. It wasn't my idea, but I did it. It was the first guy I married. We thought it was funny. I was young, okay?
7. Do NOT TOUCH MY SCREEN. I don't DO FINGERPRINTS ON MY LAPTOP.
Not tagging (I know I'm supposed to!) I hope some of you do it anyway:)
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December 17th, 2009
| 08:25 am - Cum
There are authors out there whose words aren't all that polished, but they know how to tell a story, they're passionate and unafraid of putting out stories that panders to their own personal kinks. Sign me up, I'm there - but I have to say that come spelled like cum really really throws me off. Because, yaknow, Penthouse forum letters.
And thanks to Starsky and Hutch fandom wherein I defended the use of the word lave - I am no longer even remotely a fan of lave. It sounds like something I should do to a newel. If I should ever want to do something with a newel.
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December 13th, 2009
 | 12:15 pm - youtoob and Christmas
I received a few more virtual gifts since last time. You guys are so considerate. Thank you a whole lot:)
My beautiful mother asked for a garbage can with wheels and a new skillet for Christmas. I have fulfilled her wishes. I have also purchased this movie for her. Can't wait to watch it with her - she's going to laugh so hard.
A month or so ago, we watched MEGALODON on Syfy. The movie was almost as ridiculous as the name change of the station that broadcast it. Seriously, it was a truly awful movie, but it had its moments, like the fellow half-submerged in water taking out the shark with an ELECTRIC SAW.
Also, youtube recommends I watch this, demonstrating a deep understanding of my very soul. Hey, does that leech look like it has sucker cups?
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December 6th, 2009
| 08:21 pm - thank you
Hadn't been around much and haven't talked to ANYBODY on LJ. Some things going on at home making it a little more challenging than normal to have the energy to post. Then I get these snowflakes from the beautiful ninhursag & rejeneration and suddenly I remember some of the nicer reasons to hang around here.
 you both very much!
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October 2nd, 2009
September 25th, 2009
August 30th, 2009
| 11:45 pm - church of Jared-butt
never mind the damned music, it's Jared Pada's ASS SITE (spoilers for gag reel S4)
These are the things I think of as I sit on my own ass while doing REAL LIVE MOM THINGS like driving my soccer-mom van and hitting Girl Scout meetings. I dream of a well-built ass while I stand hamster guard at 12:30 am - as if it were my own life, as if I loved it more than fan fiction porn.
In reality, the hamster IS cute. He's a black bear hamster.
Cats think he's real cute as well. He's up on the dresser in the girls' room surrounded with cat obstacle-like things that keep crashing to the ground. The cage is good and he'll be safe unless they manage to knock it off. I'll try and secure it in the morning. In the meantime, I'm thinking ass. It gets me through.
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August 16th, 2009
 | 06:49 pm - Paula Wilshe Award
You crazy S&H fandom, you put me in the finals of the Paula Wilshe Award:) I am so so surprised. I had no idea I'd ever be in that final list, so it's a huge surprise and a really nice one. I'm touched and really glad. Still hard to believe. (Keri, did you make a typo;)
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July 26th, 2009
| 10:50 pm - drinking games and stuff
So, Cass and Cheryl and I played a drinking game last night. We picked Supernatural's "Mystery Spot" and chose 4 different drinking prompts: Dean dies, somebody says "pig in a poke," Asia, and Sam's forehead speaks Arabic (meaning when he wrinkles his forehead just so, it has some curves and shapes that remind us of written Arabic). Whoever spots the prompt calls it out and we suck it down.
There is a section of this episode where you cannot take the bottle from your lips between drinks. I actually fell behind. Whew.
On a related note, I should honestly stop reading SPN interviews. Feels like more of the same and quite honestly puts me off. That's probably more than enough said - I don't really engage anymore in online fandom debate (exhausting and mostly like talking religion - I'd rather write or maybe stick chewed gum in my hair or drown in toilet water). But still, frustrating enough to me with my leanings and personal viewpoint of the characters that I sort of wish I didn't like the show anymore.
Also, zombie info most wonderful, referred to me by Cass: Five Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen
Also, went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine today. In typical fashion for me, I now want to read some hopefully good Wolverine/Gambit fiction. I know NOTHING about the X-Men, comics or movies. Just this one movie.
Annnd have a picture from the lake where I picked my 8 year old up from this morning (she went camping with the Brownies):
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July 21st, 2009
| 12:30 am - I know it's not nice
But. Psycho Charlotte across the street is once AGAIN sobbing her heart out over her slight little foreign boyfriend. It's 12:30 at night, I have to go to work in the morning, and I just have to wonder why one can't weep and gnash INFUCKINGSIDE? This isn't the first time. I can't decide whether to run over across the street and hand her Valium (if I had one) or maybe slap her silly.
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July 18th, 2009
| 01:41 am - fan mail: I feel the love
This is from a fan who really appreciated my S&H story, IN THE DYING LIGHT (from silverc, whoever that might be):
Sadistic trash! Didn't read all of this. What kind of a person[?] would want to write or read this !! Why don't you go live by your self on a deserted barren island somewhere far, far away?
now really, is that called for? A deserted barren island sounds good right now. Even the type is shrill!
*edited for you sadists who wanted a story link: In the Dying Light
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/bitospud/courier/white/accomplished.gif) accomplished
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July 13th, 2009
July 12th, 2009
June 30th, 2009
| 10:40 pm - Harper's Island, Friday the 13th and how I love villians
I've barely been keeping up with it and found quite a lot of it boring. But I tell you something - these last two episodes have nearly maybe probably convinced me to buy the dvds when they come out.
And bonus! Badass Callum Keith Rennie, no less. Bless him.
Why do I always like the villain? Shouldn't this disturb me?
I liked Jason in the new F13 because of his poses, the way he moved, the way he broke through the floor, the way he slung lovely Clay around in the barn, the perspective the camera gave us when he was standing on the roof. For God's sake.
Edit: one of the reasons I like the last two episodes of HI (besides the fact that it's really moving along now) is that I finally care a little about what happens to some of characters, which is always key. I was actually impressed by one in particular and all because of one brief moment:
( spoilery - don't read if you haven't watched the latest episode... )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/bitospud/courier/white/thoughtful.gif) contemplative
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June 21st, 2009
 | 12:29 pm - Holy Hannah
So. My laptop died last week, right. At first the computer guys said they should be able to get the old info for me, but no dice - it seems something physical was wrong with the hard drive and it frozenated two of their computers when they tried to get the info off. So, total loss. I'd backed up almost everything I wanted to save (somehow I forgot my wallpapers and backgrounds, sob) two months ago, and luckily was able to save the stuff I'd been writing on because I email it to myself all the time (what? is that weird?).
The hubby let me use his laptop for the 5 days it took me to get the laptop back with a new hard drive in it. And do you know what I did? I managed to get him a virus that LAID WASTE TO HIS LAPTOP. AVG can't get rid of it (it freezes up). There's some tech guys out there somewhere who can evidently get rid of it but doing it is time consuming at best and useless at worst. I found a page that tells you what to do - it involves lots of steps and I can't even understand the instructions. Dave took it to the computer shop and they said most likely they'll have to wipe out his hard drive.
Me. I did this. Gah.
The threats AVG listed all were imbedded in the Systems 32 folders and were called SKYNET. I tried to ferret them out with my limited capabilities but no go. So watch out. It'll eat your computer alive.
Anyway, Dave said he doesn't have anything on there he really wants to save. My youngest daughter had a story on there she wanted to save, but luckily I saw it on there while I was using it and sent it to myself via email a day or two ago, thinking she's want me to post it on her webpage for her. ("Weird Hamsters in Love" is the title - look for it in your bookstores one day.)
I'm Black Death. I feel really bad for Dave. Not to mention the years I'll get of, "Remember that time you wiped out my laptop?" So if you see me coming, hiding your tech? Not a bad idea.
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June 1st, 2009
| 04:49 pm - SPN favorite vidder
It's a tough call. There are several vidders in this fandom I'm pretty rabid about, but for me the vidder who consistently knocks it out of the ballpark is proofpudding.
If you know me, you know I tend towards hard rock music, which makes her even more of an interesting choice for me to list as a favorite vidder -but even if I don't at first love her musical choices, they almost always grow on me to the point I'm totally converted when I see what the vid is communicating. She just sells it to me, each and every time.
To start off, the colors are gorgeous (I've actually made several backgrounds for my desktop from her vids, and oh I WISH I knew how she does it) - so clear and contrasty, often very warm-colored. I love that the sense of motion flows like something instinctive. The cuts always make sense to me. Quite a bit of her work focuses on character, exposing facets therein which I love. IF WE KEEP LIVING THIS FAST has a really amazing sensuality about it thanks to the clips chosen, how she uses them (close-ups, the speed played) and especially the soundbits included from the episodes themselves.
I really have too many favorites to name, but I'll try and pick a few:
helluva beat and the first one I hit on of hers - We Will Rock You
Born Under a Bad Sign (yeah. Sam.)
heartbreaker - Stay Awake
SamnDean - With You
this really doesn't cover all my favorites. It'll have to do, because honestly most of her vids become favorites.
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May 23rd, 2009
 | 12:30 am - buzzzzz
I have poison ivy. ON MY FACE. Around my nostrils. Heading towards soft tissue (shriek)!
They gave me 12 days of Prednisone and my brain is leaking out of my ears.
Earlier I posted a thing where you can ask to see anything on my desktop. Cass asked if I'm being an exhibitionist. The answer is YES.
I know I'm not around much, but if you have anything you feel like asking, if you have an urge or want to see something, ask. I'll PROBABLY do it.
If not, maybe I'm saved because I am roid raging and cannot TRUST MYSELF.
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May 16th, 2009
| 08:51 am - hubby says...
Dave doesn't watch SPN unless I'm watching it and he has nothing better to do. I was watching it last night with my little girl (she gets an edited version: "Oh, here comes a bad part. Close your eyes.") and Dave was in the room with us, reading. He sees Dean call Sam, and he looks up when Sam's retrieving the altered message. "Man, that's awful. Angels are cruel," he says and shakes his head.
That was one of the worst scenes of the series for me, so yeah. Worst in a good way - it was beautifully done.
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May 15th, 2009
April 26th, 2009
| 11:14 pm - Tawt I Saw a Rabbit
I saved a rabbit today:) I think. I'm pretty sure. I hope like hell.
This wild, pretty bunny lay at the side of the road in the grass and wiggled when I and Thumper went by on our walk. He/she couldn't move, but his eyes were bright (and scared). There was nothing I could do with the dog in tow, so I headed home. I got a box, lined it with a hand towel, put on gloves and went to get me a wabbit. Poor baby was still there, so I picked him up (or her, I don't know) and put him in the box, which he didn't care for much. There may have been a small bone poking through his leg, and there was a small amount of blood on both legs but they weren't crushed.
I was in the van with bunny in hand, rubbing his little shoulders because he didn't seem to stir so much when I rubbed (probably thought I was getting ready to take a mouthful of wabbit shoulder, poor baby). This wasn't a well-thought out plan - years ago I knew UT's vet school took in hurt wildlife, but it'd been years since I'd dropped in. Couldn't quite remember how to get there, so I get to a stop sign and call Cass, cradling the cell phone on my shoulder (yeah, imagine me bowed up double), one hand on wascally wabbit and the other on the steering wheel. Anyway, Cass googles, gives me the address and off we go. Such a cutie pie, with his big dark eyes and brownish fur. They took him in, said they had a rehabber who takes the bunnies in after they get better and releases them into the wild again in groups. I checked the box that asked them to let me know how he/she is, so here's hoping.
Send him/her your good karma:)
I found a picture online that looks a lot like him/her:
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April 24th, 2009
April 13th, 2009
March 20th, 2009
March 19th, 2009
March 18th, 2009
| 09:59 pm - I haz yur burd I tutch and kizzit
Some images deserve to be seen over and over again.
I swear it, I've read the fic that goes with this one. I HAVE. Really.
EDIT: I have FOUND the bird-containing story because I'm as anal as Sam is tall and had to go look for it: That Padalecki Kid by apostrophee based on The Mudge Boy -
“Put that damn bird outside,” dad says gruffly across the table.
See? Birds and Jared. Inevitable.
Edited to add for Dorian, though I figure you've already seen it - Dorkly Wonderful:
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