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"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
-- Oscar Wilde
What's On My TV:
Bleach
Burn Notice
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
Doctor Who
Metalocalypse
Naruto
Ninja Warrior
Project Runway
Pucca
Stargate Atlantis
Unbeatable Banzuke
The Venture Bros.
Waiting For:
Dancing With the Stars
ABC, ?
Dexter
Showtime, ?
Frisky Dingo
Cartoon Network, ?
Heroes
NBC, 9/22, ?
Robot Chicken
Cartoon Network, 8/31, 11:30 p.m.
Supernatural
The CW, ?
Torchwood
BBC America, ?
Randomness:
100 cheapest, best places to eat in NYC
8 Coupons
Babelfish Translation
Book-A-Minute SF/F
Carol Lay comics
The Complete Pondering List
Fed Ex Locations
Forgotten NY
GasBuddy.com
German words of love & romance
HopStop subway directions
Internet Movie Database
Invisible Records (Underground, Inc.)
Isolation Tank music & merch
Lileks' Institute of Official Cheer
Living on a Shoestring
Lucky Cats - Maneki Neko
Mapquest driving directions
Metropolis Mail-Order
MTA NYC transit
New York Press
Overheard in New York
Random Name Generator
Rate My Kitten
Saiyuki Reload in Zero Sum
Television Without Pity
Tomato Nation
ThinkExist Quotations
Witchblade Episode Guide
World Time Zones
Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode Guide
LJ-related
paid account status
friends of friends
interests match
member birthdays
popular amongst my friends
recent comments
what server am I?
Writing Fandoms:
Slash
Andromeda
Angel
Buffy tVS, the movie
(Pike and Benny)
Death Note
Doctor Who
due South
Fight Club
GetBackers
Hard Core Logo
Once a Thief
Saiyuki
Smallville
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Twitch City
Two Guys and a Girl
Weiß Kreuz
The X-Files
X-Men (comics)
One Shot Fandoms
Gen
Andromeda
X-Files
Recommendations
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Quotes of the Moment:
"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."
-- Paul Harvey
“I think [doubt is] perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that’s a huge mistake. Conviction is what you do to be comfortable, to write The End on thinking. Doubt keeps you in the present, it keeps you conscious and reacting to and acting on what is going on now. It’s work, and people like to avoid work.”
-- John Patrick Shanley, playwright of Doubt, a Parable
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Like in Last Night, there was a lot of laying on top of other
women, and, and, and... not other women, not like I'm a woman, but -- that made no sense. On other women, you know, and you have to -- it's a bit tricky 'cause you're trying to respect what's, you know, them, and the scene, and the stuff, and you know. If I get excited, I apologise, if I don't get excited, I apologise."
-- Callum Keith Rennie, on doing sex scenes
"You may have noticed that Turlough spent a great deal of time kept captive in various states of bondage. It was always a disappointment to me that there seemed to be no getting around this problem."
-- Mark Strickson
Introduction,
The Companions of Doctor Who: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma
by Tony Attwood, Copyright 1986
"So hit us at Talismaniac.com, where you can log on and you can rock on, because my nipples are dry and he needs food."
-- part of Gabriel's advertising pitch, with baby doll, for his business website
Witchblade: "Static"
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
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10:20 pm
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10:13 pm - Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains by Ryan Mecum
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I loved my momma.
I eat her with my mouth closed,
how she would want it.
Everything I thought
tasted a bit like chicken
really tastes like man.
Biting into heads
is much harder than it looks.
His skull is feisty.
The microwave falls
and then I drop it again.
No more dog problem.
Brains, brains, brains, brains, brains!
Brains, brains, brains, brains, brains, brains, brains!
Artificial hip?
The design of Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains by Ryan Mecum is somewhat gimmicky, although it has its moments, but a lot of the haiku are very clever. This is the journal of a man who kept writing haiku even after he became a zombie, so the work takes on a zombie's viewpoint and concerns. It's even touching at times.
current mood:  hungry
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9:07 pm - Behind the Horribleness
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: An Oral History, a longer version of the article in the magazine, may be from Entertainment Weekly, but it's made up of quotes from everyone involved in making it about the origins of the project, how they filmed it, and some things that will be on the DVD edition. I don't like how Dr. Horrible ended, but I still found that article interesting.
I was surprised to see that there was a photo in the magazine article and on the site that spoils Bad Horse, though.
current mood:  hot
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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
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12:58 pm
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"It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
-- Morris L. West, The Shoes of the Fisherman
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| Monday, July 21st, 2008
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9:16 pm - It's Bad
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Dr. Horrible/Doctor Who macro (It's funnier if you've seen "Turn Left.")
By the way, it was somewhat amusing listening to the first, heavily buffered eight seconds my computer allowed of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Act I. It sounded like "Ha. [silence] Ha. [silence] Ha. [silence] Ha."
current mood:  sore
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8:17 pm - This Rough Magic by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, & Dave Freer
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This Rough Magic by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, & Dave Freer, like its prequel The Shadow of the Lion, is a sharply written, involving page-turner about smart people in dire peril. For this book the action is mostly in Corfu, as are many of the characters we met in The Shadow of the Lion. Dark forces have converged there to try to take advantage of the magical power within the island and to cut Venice's sea lanes off, and our protagonists try to survive siege and betrayals.
I appreciate that the solution to so many problems is a smart, bossy woman. *g*
It's nice to see some of the characters coming into their own, but I liked The Shadow of the Lion somewhat better. There, several people loved and trusted a person who had betrayed them in the past and would do it again in the future, making the reader wonder when they'd find out and what they'd do then and adding more tension. There's nothing like that here. There's something with Maria where I was afraid the story would go to a certain place, and it did a little. I also miss Venice.
I found some typos too, a missing word and some missing punctuation. Sad.
current mood:  tired
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6:34 pm - part 242: "You can't handle the sense I make."
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Previous installments are available in my Memories here. Please make sure the Memory page is set to sort by Description to get the entries in the correct order.
( 'Glass Houses' WIP part 242 )
current mood: hot
current music: "Not the Sun" by Brand New
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2:31 am - "Yes, I'm trying to make you a bad guy. We're both bad guys. We're professional bad guys!"
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1:44 am - New York by Night
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I love driving at night, and tonight I had an opportunity to go through Manhattan. The heat has been beastly, but tonight a breeze came in with the possibility of rain later so I had my windows and moon roof open. I feel more a part of things with the windows open.
It was crazy going through midtown and seeing blocks of buildings I knew ripped out and some new things in some places. This has really accelerated in the last few years.
The west side of 42nd Street is so bright at night, to the point that even when I closed my eyes I could see after images of neon lights in geometric shapes, and smelled like burnt pretzel and hot engines. Smoke from hotdog carts and roasted nuts carts made an interesting effect amid all the lighting. The New 42nd Street is prettiest and coolest by night; in the light of day, especially early morning, the facades look cheap and chintzy.
I was through at 10 pm but traffic was still pretty bad, and it's the kind of Manhattan traffic that intimidates people who don't usually drive there, the tight and crazy kind of traffic, with cabs stopping abruptly in front of you and people at the sides swerving into your lanes trying to get away from the cabs stopped in front of them. I'm very familiar with it.
It amuses me how the lights turn green in a progression going upward on northbound streets. If you roll toward the next intersection at the right speed you barely have to brake.
The city is always showing me different faces at different times of the day, and I'm interested in all of them.
current mood:  thoughtful
current music: "John the Revelator" by Depeche Mode
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1:20 am - Unleash the Hounds: The Dark Knight
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| Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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3:05 am - PSA
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Häagen-Dazs Caramelized Pear & Toasted Pecan ice cream is excellent.
current mood:  sleepy
current music: "Exit Music (For a Film)" by Radiohead
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2:50 am - Phallic Objects
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2:19 am
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Most of my f'list has been talking about Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog but I can't get the page to work for me. Or figure out how to get anything from it.
ETA 7/20: I watched it at a friend's house.
current mood:  apathetic
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2:18 am - The Perils of Ego
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12:58 am - You Could Bank on It
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| Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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11:45 pm - After the Flipping Out
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I've been enjoying Flipping Out, for the interpersonal drama of working for the obsessive-compulsive, paranoid man at the heart of it, Jeff, the creative aspects of redesigning and renovating houses for sale, and the way his OCD helps his work.
This week had the fallout of the storyline that's been going along for weeks. ( spoilers )
current mood: sleepy
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| Sunday, July 13th, 2008
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2:27 am - Staff of Life
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| Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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7:23 pm
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My cable is back! We had to wake up at 8 a.m. to call Time Warner to get someone in today, but it worked out. It turned out that the whole building was out but the second floor people, at least, never thought to call for service this time or the last time it went out (when it would have made me miss the Smallville and Supernatural finales, though I got to see Supernatural at Grandma's).
current mood: hungry
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| Friday, July 11th, 2008
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9:32 pm - Another One Gone
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| Thursday, July 10th, 2008
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5:25 pm - A Lapse in Service
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My cable went out today, and Time Warner won't send someone to fix it until Monday morning. Thus, I'll be missing tonight's Burn Notice season premiere, unble to tape tomorrow night's Doctor Who for Dad, and missing Saturday and Sunday night's adult swim lineup.
Thanks, Time Warner.
current mood:  enraged
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amused