| "Hello blog, nice to see you |
[May. 23rd, 2005|06:07 pm] |
It's been a long time.
You're just as lovely as you used to be."
Lovelier, in fact, since I just spruced you up with the cover of issue #2 of the comic mini-series Mnemovore, which I find oddly compelling, despite the fact it hasn't started to make much sense yet. |
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[Jan. 20th, 2005|07:12 pm] |
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| |  annoyed | ] |
I think I could have lived my life quite happily without knowledge of the hamster guilloutine... I'm quite sure of it actually. But anyway, Laura Bush looks really pretty, doesn't she?
I mean that's what we're supposed to be focusing on, right? I mean forget that our joke of a president is throwing himself nine - count 'em, nine - balls this week instead of, I dunno, doing his job... the real news is that his wife had a makeover.
How long has it been since the 'news' covered actual, significant events? It did used to do that, didn't it? Didn't it?! |
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| MLK Day |
[Jan. 17th, 2005|06:45 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | important oratory | ] |
As today is what it is & the internet really is good for lots more than finding porn (like finging a way to actually experience the past), this is the full audio of:
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream"speech
& Robert F. Kennedy announcing Dr. King's assassination at a campaign stop in Indianapolis, IN, which was the only major city in America with a significant black population which did not break out in riots that night. |
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| movies, movies, movies |
[Dec. 23rd, 2004|01:56 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | None... thank goodness... if I hear another carol I'll burst | ] |
*long-suffering sigh* Man am I glad that semester is over... It was probably my toughest semester yet at university... grades arrived... A-'s & a B+, which I can totally roll with... I earned those babies...
Ever since school let out, I've been doing hardly anything but stuff to get ready for Christmas & watching movies... & sometimes both at the same time...
I went to the theater for the first time in forever to see the Lemony Snicket movie... Could be worse, but I was still a little bummed... Jim Carrey is an excellent Olaf, just cartoonish enough & the child actors were pretty good, but the adaptation felt rushed... which I guess makes sense, as they were trying to cram in three episodes & tie things up neatly in case there is no sequel... also, the things I love most about the books (the sheer weirdness of Lemony Snicket's narration, the legion literary allusions, Sunny's language & all its puns, etc.) just don't come out as much or as well on screen...
Also rented Collateral & the Bourne sequel... very good, both...
Dipped into my own DVD collection to watch the Manchurian Candidate (no, not the recent Denzel Washington fiasco... *boo! hiss!* I've refused to see it on principle...)the old one... with Sinatra... The cool Cold War one... yeah, Communists make everything more fun... Man, do I dig that movie... it's one of those that hits every note... There's funny & scary & a little romance & a lot of creepy & oh, that ending! Its a beautiful, beautiful thing... Sinatra actually has great acting chops & they're all on display there...
Finally, I also watched The Last Man On Earth which is still rocking my socks days later... Vincent Price is cool & in this film, he fights against zombies... but not mindless, flesh-eating zombies... no SENTIENT blood-sucking zombies... It has one of those killer endings, too... I heart zombies! |
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[Dec. 17th, 2004|05:01 pm] |
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| |  scared | ] |
I had the worst nightmare last night... all I remember from it was that these two teenage boys had lashed someone (who looked eerily like Robin Williams as he appeared in Good Will Hunting) to a chair in this 50's diner-looking kitchen & were burning him with the stove & torturing him with all these other fancy kitchen utensils... eugh... I've been remembering it & being creeped out off & on all day... |
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| well... my thigh would fit in this dress... |
[Dec. 13th, 2004|11:02 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  amused | ] |
Helped a friend go shopping for a fancy dress today... all of us on the expedition are short & round, so we mocked the selection of tiny & ugly dresses mercilessly... was super-fun... the one she decided on was expensive, but looked amazing on her, so it was worth it...
Also received the graded copy of my big scary paper... thisclose to perfect! Yea me! I worked hard on that paper; this makes my month... also makes me worry slightly less about my final in that class.
Speaking of finals... I just found a legitimate reason to write about Lost in the final paper for my Soc class... how's that for a fan-girl? |
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| I don't think it should ever be referred to as a 'chachi'... |
[Dec. 11th, 2004|04:11 am] |
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| |  jubilant | ] |
It is super-late... or early... I can't remember the last time I was awake & relatively coherent at this hour, but I don't want to go to bed yet, 'cause I am in the best mood...
You know those smart, literate, quick-witted people that TV characters always meet when they go away to school? After two years, I have finally met those people... the people I work with are fabulous... every one of them has the ability to make me laugh... often hysterically & helplessly & sometimes for days after whatever funny thing they've said... & the best thing about it is: "they like me; they really like me!"
We had a combination Christmas/pre-finals/goodbye to one of our elder statesmen party tonight... costume mandatory... after a couple of Guiness the three of us who feel their Irish heritage most strongly performed a few ballads for the rest of us, including 'Danny Boy'...
Some of us (the clique-within-a-clique... ooh, sinister...) discussed a slightly unsettling secret about one of the favorite profs & the messy divorce he's apparently going through...
We talked about a broad variety of topics... many of them borderline tasteless & I don't think I ever really stopped laughing all night... it went very late... There were massive quantities of liquor consumed, but everybody was okay to drive by the time we left... at the last party, everyone offered me a drink approximately once every 2.9 seconds, but this time around nobody was worried about me keeping up... I did take our lovely hostess up on a hard lemonade, which is nice because it's fizzy & doesn't taste or smell like beer... I passed on the guiness, because sadly it does taste like beer-squared...
I'm proud of Mom & Dad for not calling to check on me like I'm still in high school, even though they were probably starting to worry, since I practically never stay out late when I ever go anywhere...
I guess I should go to bed now, since I do have finals to worry about now... |
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| catches thieves just like flies... |
[Dec. 1st, 2004|04:37 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | silly | ] |
Ken Jennings went down! It's a little sick how gleeful I am over his defeat...
Finally saw the Spiderman sequel; I missed it in the theatres... I dug it... James Franco is so good at being broody... but, bless her heart, I don't think Mary-Jane Watson is prepared for the realities of being Spiderman's main squeeze... well, "realities" such as they are in a fictional comic book universe...
I love superherocomics... & sci-fi in general, for the things that they're able to say about us... things about what it means to be human, even if the characters you're dealing with technically aren't... |
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[Nov. 29th, 2004|11:02 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  dorky | ] |
I think Rob McKenna must've stopped in town for the day-- it just keeps raining & it's the gross cold kind of rain that really wants to be snow when it grows up...
I'm becoming a mom... no, not like that... & not necessarily my mother, but somebody's stern maternal figure. Saw a bunch of jr. high kids out in the aforementioned rain in t-shirts & had a strong urge to knock their heads together & tell them to put on sweaters...
Silly quiz-thing of the moment:
| B | Brilliant | | L | Little | | U | Unforgettable | | E | Edgy | | S | Strange | | L | Little | | A | Amazing | | U | Unusual | | G | Goofy | | H | Hot | | I | Industrious | | N | Naive | | G | Glorious |
Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com |
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| Scream, scream, and run away! |
[Nov. 28th, 2004|02:25 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | relieved | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Gas Giants ~ Circus of Stars | ] |
:) I love my movie poster background... I dig The Horrors of Spider Island, it's one of those movies that's so bad that it's inversely entertaining...
T-E-R-M-P-A-P-E-R-D-O-N-E spells relief... it's all over but the crying now, I hand it in Tuesday... I hadn't quite realized how stressed I've been about it until I finished & I'm so relieved I don't know what to do with myself... which is actually kinda bad, since I still have about three weeks until finals & need to stay on the ball...
Turkey Day was nice... lots of good food, & the relative who usually drives everyone bats wasn't bad this year... Of course, now that Thanksgiving is over, it's time to start dealing with Christmas... eek! I'm still a child in the family exchange... guess I'll have to get married off before that changes...
The Master Plan on Friday was that Sis & Gramma & us cousins would go see a movie, but when we arrived at the theatre, fifteen minutes before the show, they were shockingly sold out... Missed you Mandy! We could have done the 'I-told-ya-so!' dance...
Finally got the most recent 'Series of Unfortunate Events' book... kinda bummed, I didn't dig it as much as I did some of the earlier installments... Is it possible that at 20 I am finally outgrowing kid's lit? Nah! I'm wicked excited to see the movie; Jim Carrey should be great (or should that be 'terrible'?) as Count Olaf... |
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| this is what happens when i post something just because i think i should... |
[Nov. 18th, 2004|09:11 pm] |
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| |  indifferent | ] |
I want the head of whoever gave Clay Aiken a book deal on a pike...
I've been listening to a lot of the local high school's radio station in my car when the other stations are fuzzy... it turns out to be pretty good... I think I have a musical soul-mate in whoever programs the hour between 3 & 4... it was a perfect driving-home-on-a-rainy-day set yesterday...
It's sooo warm today... it's going to be the last nice day for awhile I think :(
If I were that kind of girl (y'all know the kind of girl I mean) I could kiss my prof for giving us an extra week on our big, scary term papers...
Ok, silly quiz of the moment:
| UCAUTION | | IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY IT IS ADVISABLE TO KEEP BLUESLAUGHING AWAY FROM FIRE AND FLAMES. |
From Go-Quiz.com |
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| Oh, how quaint... |
[Nov. 12th, 2004|05:14 pm] |
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| |  stressed | ] |
Was pretty pleased that Ashcroft was resigning, but his successor thinks the Geneva Convention is "quaint", so maybe I was celebrating too early...
by the way... I am Batman!
You are Batman. OOOH... You're dark, brooding, and
mysterious. No time for a sense of humor or
serious love interest... You're constantly at
war with yourself -- you have to choose between
doing things your way and doing what's right.
What's your superhero personality?
brought to you by Quizilla
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| like i needed another reason... |
[Nov. 6th, 2004|11:57 am] |
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Jimmy Kimmel is a punk... apart from being part of the trifecta of the most useless men on tv (rounded out by Carson Daly & Adam Carolla) he's also picking on John Edwards... leave him alone, Kimmel! His career is over & his wife is dying, like he needs a sketch on your lame-ass talk show? |
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| Who is that sitting in whatsi'sname's seat? |
[Nov. 5th, 2004|06:28 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | refreshed | ] |
So the class I work with was taking a quiz this morning & I was taking inventory of who was still working & saw this kid that I could not place for the life of me... I finally realized that I do know the kid, it's not that big a class after all... but until today he's always looked like Grizzly Adams (dressed up for a date): shaggy (but combed) hair, big thick (but trimmed) beard, so I totally didn't recognize him clean-shaven, with Clooney hair... Have been laughing at self all afternoon...
Time for dorky quiz of the moment:
You Are Sawyer. You're a realist, not an idealist.
Sarcasm, wit, and leers run rampant whenever
you are around. Whether it's making a racist
remark or shooting a polar bear, you're sure to
leave a lasting impression on those around you.
Add a cigarette and some beard stubble, and the
formula for redneck charm is complete.
Which Lost Character Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
I am digging this show so hard... & I am oddly okay with being Sawyer... Yeah, he's hateful on (frequent) occasion, but try to tell me he's not interesting... besides you know you wanna pick on the model like he does...
Am feeling pretty good about last exam... here's hoping it's justified... |
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[Oct. 31st, 2004|01:32 pm] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | nothing for a change | ] |
I have gotten so much work done this weekend... Go me! Of course there are still a zillion other things to do, but right now I'm focusing on the 'got-lots-done' thing... so there!
Something is wrong... it's Halloween & I have yet to see 'Night of the Living Dead'! Halloween without zombies? Travesty!
Anyway, am using my study break to play with my journal & take silly quizzes... 
Sigh. That is probably one of the things you do
most, lifeless one. You are usually dull and
unanimated, and feel as if every day is a
waste. You probably find no meaning in
anything, and do not care about many things.
You are most likely bored almost all the time,
and people often find it hard to entertain you.
Whatever it is that is in your system, get it
out! There is no reason to feel that way. You
should not be dead so quickly and while living.
Enjoy yourself now, and look for things that
could probably be meaningful and perhaps fun.
You did take this quiz, so that means
something, haha. Anyway, hopefully you have a
Happy Halloween, Dreary One.
What Halloween Figure Are You? (MANY RESULTS WITH SIX ALL NEW ONES!!)
brought to you by Quizilla
I don't think I'm that dreary, most of the time... must be because I picked all the answers that were to do with solitude...
Well... James K. Polk, here I come... |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2004|03:50 pm] |
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| | awake | ] |
| [ | music |
| | internet radio... playing Halloween-themed music | ] |
Gonna have to build an ark if it doesn't quit raining...
I recieved the following block of text in a piece of spam titled "nifty free meds here... childhood"
I'm a little concerned about what sort of connection this:
cupidity raymond covenant airport vincent causate tree mckesson hoydenish swigging slender turnkey. vast. discriminant bender flash gadget opt.
cosh decker orient statue collusion epitaxial dyspeptic bedspring. patton religion amorphous creepy. amoeba maniacal indiscriminate shivery jonquil dope muskellunge seven.
could have to anyone's childhood.
Spam=tres amusante, procrastination=moi... moi also=very rusty french... |
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| randomosity |
[Oct. 20th, 2004|05:34 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | silly | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Halloweeny music on internet radio | ] |
New favorite quote: "You know what most people are? Bastards! Bastard-covered bastards with bastard filling!" I heart Scrubs.
I am officially bummed... a band I love is playing nearby, on a date I can't make, at a venue I hate.
However, my comics are about to cheer me up... Just the phrase Strip Risk is making me giggle.
A while I'm tossing around links, a little blurb about why cats purr...
At Target today, a couple of Amish women were being checked out in front of me & I almost died trying not to laugh when the cashier asked that all important question: "Would you like to apply for a TargetVisa today?" |
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[Oct. 17th, 2004|11:42 pm] |
The Tale of Kieu is the bane of my existence at the moment... Since I dunno who wrote it & since there's no way to personify it I can't send it to the ninth circle of hell... bummer, but this was pretty fun:
General asshats
Circle I Limbo Libertarians, Greens
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind PETA Members, Militant Vegans
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow The Pope, Network executives, Democrats, Republicans
Circle IV Rolling Weights Qusay Hussein, Uday Hussein, Saddam Hussein
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled River Styx Hipsters
Circle VI Buried for Eternity River Phlegyas Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle VII Burning Sands NAMBLA Members
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement Osama bin Laden, George Bush
Circle IX Frozen in Ice Design your own hell |
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| like, y'know, stuff... |
[Oct. 13th, 2004|02:10 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Beck ~ Odelay | ] |
We got an extension on the paper from HELL! Yea! Don't have to write it tonight! Double Yea!
Anyone who's been watching the show Lost should probably prepare for its speedy disappearance, because any show I like this much is likely doomed to premature cancellation. |
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