| With our powers combined.... |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|12:28 am] |
It's no secret to my friends, family members and even random strangers that I have slash goggles on like 24/7. Everything I see can be slashed, up to and including randomly real people.
On a (semi) related note, I have deep, fangirly love for Abraham Lincoln.
I'll admit, that Lincoln gets a lot of press as one of the best presidents like ever totally whoa, or at least that's what we've been taught since tiny elementary school children somehow combine President's Day with Black History Month and come out with Lincoln = awesomeness. I do not disagree with this.
What other people do not have, I'm sure, is the complete fangirlieness of my love for Lincoln. If we ignore the incredible hottness of his intelligence and speechifying, he is a man who is teeming with angst in the richest of forms. A lawyer from a poor background works honestly and diligently even while his life is filled with failure. His wife is crazy. His job is hard. His babies die. He has power, but it's embroiled in war where half of the country wants to kill you, and the other half really isn't so fond of you getting their boys killed. He's too tall, too skinny, with big ears and nose, and gets these depressing moods all the time. Rife with fandomly attributes!
If I were so inclined I could write a Mary-Sue historical RP fanfic where a sympathetic young housemaid in the White House comes across Mr. Lincoln and soothes his deeply wrinkled brow, allowing him to continue on with the horrors of civil war for just one more day.
...if I thought any teenager who was interested in Mary-Sue fanfic would also be interested in Lincoln, I might write such an atrocity. Much more interesting than soothing Johnny Depp's sea-salt roughened face and hair filled with lice, fleas, and probably, syphilis.
Part of this fanfic, as I explained to a friend yesterday, would involve convincing Mr. Lincoln to grow a beard. We know that a chick did convince him to grow a beard right before he took office:
"It's cannon!" I proclaimed. "And by cannon, I mean history!"
(She was 11 but so what.)
Too weird? Oh honey. Just you wait.
So I am clearly not the only one who loves Mr. 5-Dollar-Bill maybe a little bit too much. I just finished reading "Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell, and nearly half the book is dedicated to our first assassinated pres, Mr. Lincoln. But Ms. Vowell also introduced me to another ahngst-ridden character of the same period, Edwin Booth.
Brother to famous Lincoln killer John Wilkes Booth.
If you get a chance, you should probably read this book. It's got all sorts of interesting bits of info and it's written in a way that's not too dry (except for a large part of the bit about McKinley, whom Vowell clearly does not fancy in the way she fancies his successor, Teddy Roosevelt) but we see clearly the fangirly love for Edwin, and I get it. Despite the name.
Edwin spent much of his formative years caring for his drunken actor father, and eventually became one of the more famous actors of his time, even tho he wasn't as hawt as his li'l brother was. But his history reads very much like Lincoln's: started a theater, went bankrupt. Married = she died. Married again = she died again. One daughter, a girl named Edwina (that one's his own fault, I'm sure). Saved Lincoln's son when he fell in front of a train. Embarrassed and horrified by the family black sheep.
I want to watch some of the movies about him, but I'm afraid it will only be utilized for the RP historical slash that now lives in my head:
Abraham Lincoln/Edwin Booth.
The dark, intense, brooding President finds solace in the arms of the confident, charismatic young actor. The hothead younger brother discovers his much-admired sibling with a man whose political stance he despises, and the country is tossed into despair and chaos. Years later, the now-older actor reaches down to pluck a man out of the jaws of death, only to discover it was the only child of his long-lost love... |
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| Aaaaaaaaaaassssssss |
[Jul. 26th, 2008|08:51 pm] |
Sometimes, when work is crazy like it was today, I don't get a chance to go to the bathroom.
And so I have to come home and poop.
A lot.
Also, for any of you that want to know, I have two perfectly round bug bites on my back where my tailbone ends and my ass begins.
I have tiny ass vampires. In my bed. Right now. |
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| I have a new favorite person!!! |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|07:30 pm] |
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Michael Charlton, whoever you are, I love you.
See, a bit of explanation is required at this point.
...isn't there always?
I sometimes read an online magazine called www.Slate.com. And I know it's boring and probably one-sided and whatever, but I only read it for the movie reviews and Dear Prudence anyways (people are so fucked up and it's funny!) so I was trolling along and they had this contest: which movie of the past five years would you remake now, with whom, and why?
And someone named Michael Charlton wrote in with this:
I would remake Troy with the Muppets, in the belief that Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy would add more gravitas to the story as Achilles and Helen than the living actors did. I would use a nearly identical script but include Statler and Waldorf (the two grumpy old guys in the balcony) so that they could read from the Iliad and note where the script favors plot points lifted from Steve Reeves and Michael Bay movies instead of Homer. Unlike the original, Muppet Troy would also allow for kid-friendly merchandising, such as Baby's First Trojan Horse.
I love you, Michael Charlton. |
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| Holy F*cking Sh*t |
[May. 13th, 2008|01:07 am] |
Ok, so I tend to use curse words peppered in with normal dialogue like my life is a movie rated R and directed by Quentin Tarantino (on a day when Hollywood has run out of fake blood, ketchup, and all red food coloring) and this fact and the results directly occuring from it have been pointed out to me on more than one occasion. Despite this, there are times in my life when I am simply required to use words like
Ps, we hate magazine pictures. |
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| Americans are Disgusting and Stupid, Part 3. |
[Apr. 6th, 2008|12:14 am] |
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Look, look my friends what Carl's Jr has given us:
Take your least-favorite children's cereal, mix it with ice cream, and serve it with fries.
....it tastes pretty much like you'd expect.
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....What, you think I'd see something like this and not try it?
And in other news, America has truly bought into that "Hugh Laurie Speaks American" idea, haven't they?
Check out 0:30:
Is it wrong of me to want to see a Keanu Reeves movie (that isn't the first Matrix) just to see Hugh Laurie as a hard-assed LAPD police captain?
I think the answer is yes. But it is a delicious wrong. |
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| Oh wow. |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|07:42 pm] |
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Sweet monkey Spit!
Look at what I found, haphazardly scrolling around the web:
How is this not a cool thing???
It is a panda.
And a hat.
A panda hat. |
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| Demon! |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|11:59 pm] |
I have a demon! Stole this from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lit_gal : go here to get a random demon
This demon's name is: Tsarevich Seraglio
Sexually, your demon is: female
Your demon reproduces by: spawning hundreds, most of whom then eat each other
Your demon's moral orientation is: too old to care about morality
Your demon's body is: the shape of a water balloon.
But I can *really* tell your demon is not human when I see the: huge bug legs hidden under the cloak.
Your demon's primary color is: light brown.
Their skin texture is: diseased.
Your demon's language sounds like: a dying whale.
Anyone who wants to attack your demon better go for: the hair.
Your demon's favorite human word is: wah.
A water balloon with bug legs? I dunno.... |
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| And I should be studying.... |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|10:02 pm] |
Actual conversation at work today:
Me: Until they, you know, create anti-matter and go into space.
Co-worker: Yeah! Like, have you ever read "Angels and Demons"?
Me: Huh?
Co-worker: "Angels and Demons".
Me: Oh yeah, by the same guy who did the Da Vinci Code?
Co-worker: Dan Brown, yeah. About anti-matter!
Me: Huh?
Co-worker: You know. What the entire book was about?
Me: Oh. I guess I really only remember the box of penises.
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Co-worker: What.
Me: You know, when he's in the Vatican and he's talking about the Great Castration where all the statues' penises were hacked off and he thought, 'oh wouldn't it be nifty if there was an enormous box of marble penises hidden in the catacombs --
Co-worker: Oh. Yeah, I think I remember that.
And then I got the God-You're-Strange-Eyeball for at least another half an hour, until I brought up the subject of Embarassing Childhood Crushes.
Hers: Basil of Bakerstreet.
Mine: Cornelius from Planet of the Apes. |
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| It's a twista! It's a twista! |
[Jan. 11th, 2008|12:08 am] |
Ok, so has anyone seen that rather ridiculous movie "The Day After Tomorrow"? Right, when giant natural disasters caused by global warming and the inability to listen when Dennis Quaid gabbles crackpot scientific 'theories'?
Um, and part of the natural disasters are tornados that destroy Los Angeles?
Ok, so maybe we're a bit far north, but seriously? When was the last time Washington state had a tornado?
The radio told us to get to the basement, and if we didn't have one, sit in the closet and cover ourselves with pillows and blankets. I've heard that during tornados, uncooked eggs can be driven through solid trees unbroken. So what I want to know is, from all you midwest apartment-dwelling people out there who apparently (according to movieland) have to deal with this on a regular basis:
Do the pillows protect you from eggs? Cause I've got a fresh dozen in my fridge.
Well, that's the news from P-town. I'll be awaiting your answers. In my closet. Hiding from eggs. If Japan starts getting hit with hailstones the size of grapefruit, I'll be moving to Mexico. |
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| WHY OH GOD WHY |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|11:33 pm] |
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO MY POOR BRAIN, JODY??? |
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| Woot! |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|12:14 am] |
While studying for (yet another) anatomy exam, I took a time out to take the longest Harry Potter sorting quiz EVER! And to my delighted shock:
The sorting hat says that I belong in Slytherin!  Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest." Slytherin students are typically cunning and hungry for power. Important members include Draco Malfoy (Harry's nemesis), Professor Severus Snape (head of Slytherin), and Lord Voldemort. Take the most scientific Harry Potter
Quiz ever created. Get Sorted Now!
Right, so the final results were that I scored higher than 74% in Slytherin, 69% Ravenclaw, 65% Gryffindor, and 47% Hufflepuff. Although I do have to say that I think that the author of the quiz was focusing too much on the "hardworking" bit and not enough on the "lazy fatties" bit. The Dorms are made of chocolate, for god's sake! And right next to the kitchens, for when we've eaten the bedposts in the middle of the night.
Incidentally, I like the idea of the opening being a still-life portrait. How the fuck are we supposed to get in, if there's no one to give the password to? Shit, that must confuse the hell out of the first-years.
Maybe we lick the painting.
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Is that idea gross, or inconcievably cool? |
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| Awwwww! |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|08:21 pm] |
So the absolute CUTEST gay couple came into work today. Just the cutest. Wanted to make me coo. Ok, so one of them had man tits -- not bitch tits, where he's so overweight he needs a bra, but man tits, when he's overdeveloped his pecs so that they stand out like boobs in a really good bra -- but he was still cute, and his lover was all worried about how to take care of the kitties and everything.
Seriously, I love it when couples get their first pet together. And while it's really a horrible idea, to try to cement a relationship with a living creature, it happens to straight folks with children all the fucking time. And with animals, too. But really.
Cute! |
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| Wha huh? |
[Aug. 18th, 2007|10:55 pm] |
I listen to the country stations occasionally
(pause for gasping)
much to the chagrin of my family, I'm sure.
ANYWAYS...
So along comes this song, and I listen to the lyrics, like I do, and I find that it's "Online" by Bradaisley. Now, for all of you who don't know the song (like I didn't), the lyrics are ( here )
Now, I'm wondering, inside my little brain, why exactly is this man singing this song? Is he mocking the internet geeks? Is he making a social statement about the basic dishonesty inherent in a system where there are no consequences for doing this?
...Or is he merely giving one big shout-out to all his geeky, country music-listening counterparts?
Anybody? |
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| Story Time! |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|04:04 pm] |
Do you love Batman? Do you love hearing about Batman? Do you love people who love Batman?
I am now this author's personal manager! Yay me! What is the pay, do you ask? I get to read them first!
Title: Kidnapping Can Be Fun!
Author: burly_curly
Rating: PG for some violence & mild nudity.
Summary: It's all in a normal day for wife to billionaire Bruce Wayne. Kidnapping, foot massages, .... Monopoly?
( What you need to know )
( To the story! ) |
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