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(See what I did there?) Anyway, Facebook has a new application, where you de-friend 10 of your facebook friends and get a free Whopper. Considering how srz bzns friending can be, and to throw it all away for a sandwich, I predict WANK. |
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| Thursday, January 8th, 2009 |
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(See what I did there?) Anyway, Facebook has a new application, where you de-friend 10 of your facebook friends and get a free Whopper. Considering how srz bzns friending can be, and to throw it all away for a sandwich, I predict WANK. |
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| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 |
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Is LJ being exceptionally robust, or is it just me? Vandalism by pissed-off ex-employees? It's probably just me. But I can't get to LJstatus to find out for sure, so I thought I'd post here. Sorry to bother everyone (okay, I'm not. Not really.) Edited to add: Okay, not just me, then. On the one hand, Phew. On the other hand...I bet this has the potential to become epic. Even when it turns out to be just a hiccup. Edited again to add: Now when LJ comes up it shows the following message: LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem. Thank you for your patience. |
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And GreatestJournal is dead. http://www.greatestjournal.com A week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error. |
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| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 |
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Doubtless you saw this in Metafandom, but I thought I'd post it here too. Portfollies.com poll "Portfollies will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication." |
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Transformers comic book fandom wank.. Early this morning, it was about pedophilia. My doppelgänger from the IDW fan forum Skwege learned that he had been accused of having sex with children by the IDW forum fantards on Transfans.net. Sprunkner is a real internet tough guy. Unfortunately, he made it quite easy to find his dox. Skwege was not happy to find he'd been slandered as a pedo. So he calls (yes, as in calls Sprunkner's landline) to tell him to take it down. No yelling, just something along the lines of "call me whatever you want but accusing me of child fucking is not cool." What does Spencer (Sprunkner's IRL name) do? He freaks out and hangs up! That's right-he's a coward. So Skwege leaves him a voicemail: "Hi Spencer : You like to make libelous accusations about people having sex with kids? That is really grown up of you. Oh wow, you live in Washington State as well? What a coincidence! Bellingham is only an hour from here. It's not funny! I know little punks like you think they can run around all anonymous on the internet and think nothing can bite them in their ass. However let me tell you little man, you are going to retract your statement, and then apologize. Talking shit about someone is one thing, but making a disgusting and FOUL comment like that is libelous. I have the time, money, resources, and most importantly the fucking patience to see this through so don't toy with me little man." Then Sprunkner has his wife (yes, someone actually agreed to marry him) respond. He doesn't have the balls to answer Skwege himself-he makes his wife call him back and tell him not to call. Unfortunately, Spencer posted her phone number and email as his contact information. Some PMs get exchanged on the IDW forum and Sprunkner accuses Skwege of threatening him (although I doubt the police consider being asked to take down a post or telling someone you're suing them for slander are violations of any particular laws). He makes an announcement on Transfans.net, crying that Skwege is harassing his family and that he called the po-po on him. Sprunkner did call the police and they in turn contact Skwege. The result? The police are highly pissed off-at Sprunkner. Because this is much ado about comic books. All this name calling and wank is over whether or not the comic book series All Hail Megatron is in continuity. The police were not too happy about being called to mediate a dispute over Starscream's alt mode. They lecture Sprunkner and felt Skwege was somewhat justified. Skwege apologizes for dragging the wife into the mess because being accused of fucking children is serious business that involves the IRL banhammer. The wank continues on Tranfan.net where Sprunkner whines some more (I guess his wife made him sleep on the couch) and Skwege threatens to post a scan of the police report. These fine examples of male adulthood continue to fight about giant robots. I believe Sprunkner's wife summed it up succinctly in an email to Skwege: "This is a fight over made up robots-let it go." Unfortunately, everyone ignores her. Edit: I accept this is total fail. Need more recipes and fail macros, please. |
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The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told. The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone. Source Can you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode... |
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Note: This rant and the linked article refer to the upcoming Astro Boy CGI movie. If you are at all familiar with the source material, you will probably be offended by this article. Also, I hope none of you out there are big on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, as Imagi promises that since "it is not as well known as Astro Boy, the project, about five super-powered teens fighting monsters, is open to interpretation. 'We’re kind of making up our own version based on the original 1970s cartoon.' " http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.a At the risk of pushing this into i_wank territory, WHAT THE FUCK. I mean, seriously. WHAT THE FUCK are you people thinking? You did not just seriously say that you want to make Astro 'less feminine' because he has large eyes and, oh no, EYELASHES? He's a FREAKING 6-year-old-analogue ROBOT. What, are you worried about robo-pedophiles or something? It's not like he has tiny little robot-boy nipples to put pasties over, or a tiny little robot e-peen to cover up. You did not just seriously argue with the goddamn Tezuka estate about the size of his ASS. You did not just seriously say that you didn't MEAN to make a legendary Japanese iconic character look "American" but that it just kinda happened. Just plain fucking NO. A huge bag of no. (edit to fix URL) |
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| Monday, January 5th, 2009 |
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This one is for my mom - she just finished reading Phantom of the Opera (book, obviously) and wants to know where the fandom is - or at least where the fanfiction is: if anyone could rec me some good bookverse fic* I would be very, very much obliged. Good mimickry of Gaston Leroux's style (in the puffin classics translation) is a gigantic bonus. Also one from/for myself - now that I've exhausted Yuletide's offerings and am already in the middle of the Dragonchoice duology (it's good!) - is there any other good Dragonriders of Pern fic on the net? I'll read most anything, although I really like metay fic. * (gen or het, ideally; I think she would freak if I linked her slash. Also, non-porny, since I would freak at sending links to porn to my mom) |
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Dear Fansubbers, I appreciate all the hard work that you put into subbing anime and other international titles not available in the English language. But for the love of god! Please use common sense when you decide to get creative and place text on random spots of the fucking screen. While I don't have a problem with a line of text appearing occasionally on top to translate signs or to briefly explain certain phrases unique to that language, I don't however want a whole freaken paragraph that covers up half of the characters' faces, while at the same time translating their dialogue at the bottom of the screen. If you must write a full explanation for a particular idiom, or a particular event in the story, please DO so at the beginning of the episode before the actual opening credits start. Do you have ANY idea how it annoying it is to see a paragraph of text over a character's face JUST to be able explain a reference that you noticed early on? It's not only distracting, but if I'm reading a paragraph of text on the screen, I'm not seeing the action that's taking place, nor reading the dialogue that's being said. I can notice events for myself without you having to point them out to me, and if I missed a reference to something, it's very unlikely that I'll give a damn. I just want to watch the damned show. Another thing bothers me: please, please, PLEASE! Keep the subtitles at the bottom of the screen? I don't think it's asking too much to not want my eyes to have to follow a trail of text appearing on different sides of the screen at random times. That's also really annoying and really distracting. I'd like to be able to focus as much on the action as possible rather than the actual text thank you. Sincerely, A Lover of Foreign Entertainment |
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 |
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Written up here by ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stewardess. (May shortly be wanky, but not provocative enough for ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} clairvoyantwank just yet, I thought.)
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...I'm asking on behalf of someone who's doing a..unique trivia contest, so there's a slight time-sensitive element. I'm trying to find more info on the old "Fandom Unite!" LJ controversy that used "Hoist The Colors" as its theme song -- i.e., exactly what was fandom uniting about? I'm vaguely remembering details -- which of the "scrapping communities" stunts LJ pulled did it pertain to? Thanks in advance. I'm kind of sleep-deprived and can't function too well. |
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| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 |
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Okay, I think this is the place to post this, but if it's not, let me know and I'll delete it. It seems to pertain to "fandom" as a general rule. Anyway, the news about Terry Pratchett being knighted has inspired me to pick up the books I've had sitting around waiting to read. I've finished "Mort" and I'm most of the way through "Wyrd Sisters" and while I can say that I love Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the character I'm really in love with is Death himself. (God that sounds weird!) Being that I'm pretty much broke right now (car payments, credit card payments, car repairs and now I'm going back to school... I has no money to spare on things like novels!) I have to reserve them at the library through their transfer system, and the transfer system is not very good at giving decent book descriptions beyond author, title, year published and format (hardcover vs softbound). So what I'd like to know is this: which books focus most on Death and his household? Because I seriously love his laid-back everything-in-due-time attitude, and I'd love to read more of his escapades. I'm sure I'll enjoy any Pratchett book I pick up, but I'm really eager to read the books about Death. (Why do I get this weird feeling that I sound like an emo-gothic-wannabe when I say that?) |
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Not anymore, you don't.Journalspace is no more. For all the bitching we do about LJ and (occasionally) JF, at least their backups actually back things up. |
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The wank over the new Doctor Who has already begun. Some like the new Doc, Others Don't One Rants About Him Being a Crappy Choice Another post says everyone needs to grow up Another says DO.NOT.WANT And the posts just keep on coming! Still, I really wanted Paterson Joseph. :o ETA 1: More screaming and capslock at Who_Anon! ETA 2: More ugly wank at ONTD, with bonus Martha Jones wank ETA 3: Macros at ihasatardis, including one of Matt and Billie! ETA 4: Also Captain Jack has spoken! Bishy wank and age included! ETA 5: Round 900 And Counting! ETA 6: The missed Crafty Tardis wank post! ETA 7: The Eleventh Doctor has enraged the internetz so much that even readers of The Sun are having a field day; Page 2 and Counting! |
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 Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role. ( Text of article ) ETA! MORE IMAGES? Is this the right guy now? ( Fixed the cut, sorry ) Yeah, that's him... The Viggo thing kind of went out the window just now. ETA 3: Hasn't Tyra taught us anything at all? ANGLES. It's all about the angles. ETA 4: And now a video interview. |
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| Friday, January 2nd, 2009 |
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Remember that post about Crunchyroll going legit? One of the first things they're picking up is Naruto Shippuden, which will run on Crunchyroll with subtitles an hour after the show runs in Japan for the paid members there. Joost.com, Hulu.com, and Naruto.com will run the episodes for free a week later. This will start with the next episode, running on January 8. In addition, subtitled episodes will be uploaded to all above websites at 8/week until the entire catalog is available. In related news, Dattebayo has dropped Naruto Shippuden from its subtitling rounds. I'd like to start a betting pool on when the wank will begin. |
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11th Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainmen Countdown to wanksplosion somewhere in the fandom tomorrow.... |
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| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 |
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I'm just C&P'ing a mousie's post from wank_report. I can't pass up entitlement wank. Crunchyroll is going legit. The site owner, Shinji, has been wheeling and dealing to have anime air subbed only days after it airs in Japan. OK, users are pleased, the Naruto fans look on in anticipation, everything seems hunky-dory. Then, Shinji introduces Anime memberships for the site. Did not read all of the benefits but the gist seems to be higher quality videos and quicker access to the anime from Japan. That happened in the past few weeks. Now queue the new year! Oops, did he just say that he was removing all fan uploaded content and getting permission from the publishers? Queue the butthurt, angst, and I will kill for my anime!!!!Z!!!!!!ZOMG~!!!! Along with people eagerly trading links for other sites to feed their addiction. The dramas, anime, and music sections now look like ghost towns, with the exception of stuff Shinji has wheeled and dealed for. People are predicting the death of the site, but for now, it's fun seeing the entitlement angst going on over there. |
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| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
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Small wank brought to you by wank_report and baristas. Guy, supposedly, leaves guitar at Starbucks. Guy comes back and has an exchange with wrything_worms.( starbucks is not your storage unit dumbass ) wrything_worms decides to keep the guitar (HEY, FREE GUITAR, GAIZ!) after Guy doesn't come back for it and post the supposedly totally true tale here. Mixed reaction occurs with a lot of "you suck" and the dreaded C word gets thrown into play. Some people agree because the customer was trying to take advantage.wrything_worms then flounces and passive-agressively recants keeping the guitar in a second post to prove to all those nasty people calling wrything_worms an asshole just how much of a non-asshole wrything_worms is.( how to be legendary ) Naturally, more drama unfolds, but a lot of people agree that the cunt comment was uncalled for. Someone asks an important question: Wait, how did he get the guitar there if he was riding a bike? my reference to british people was merely referring to the fact that a great many of them use the word 'cunt' like any other word, therefore taking away from it's power Or how personal journal trolling is the classy thing to do. When he comes to get it, fuck with his head! Edit: What exactly can you get from starbucks that's $1.55 anyways? |
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With 2008 coming to a close today and Hello! 2009, MSN has published their annual "Regrettable Trends of 2008" to wrap up the year. Among their list of regrettable trends this year include: - Celebrity Pornstaches - Sing-Along Movies (aka Musicals) - Name Hybrids - Boobs of Youtube - Twilight... You get the picture. xD |
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To lighten up the mood, just in time for New Years. Terry Pratchett Knighted. |
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| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 |
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Grad Student Studies Fandom with FAN MEDIA AND CREATIVITY survey. Yeehaw! The grad student in question is more gamer than fen, but I think the survey is pretty aware of the fandom experience anyway. The questions towards the end are thought-provoking in... unusual (okay, kinda weird) ways, but there's a nice little space to ramble on about them. The fact that the survey-creator is a friend of mine should in no way detract from my totally rational opinion that contributing lots of (anonymousey) data to a research study that's actually trying to understand fandom culture can only be a Good Thing. Right? Right. So, you know, spread the link far and wide for the next few weeks while she collects the responses. :) I'm posting this here instead of fandom-lounge in part because I'm curious: what are YOUR thoughts on academic-type surveys of fandom behavior? a) Hell yeah! I fight crime with data! b) BORING and/or elitist. I'd rather read fic. c) Usually they suck c1) This one sucks c2) This one actually doesn't suck d) I'm skeptical of fandom surveys for reasons I may or may not explain in the comments. e) I want a "I fight crime with data" t-shirt.* f) I have an actual answer to this question that cannot be contained by multiple choice. *Me too. Someone get on this. ***ahem***. |
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When shezoo reposts hir Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children fanfic, "Flower Face", to ffvii_yaoi (locked, comm is open membership), the response is seemingly underwhelming - that is until eternalwings posts to fanficrants about the story. The first few comments are pretty tame and agreeable, until some of the author's friends and the author hirself show up. It's called AU, twit. Apparently, the story title comes from Welsh mythology, something renos_rude AND screamersgirl explain in the comments using the exact same text (with a tiny error likely because the entire lump wouldn't fit in AIM).And then the author appears, complete with capslock, insults and exclamation point abuse. AND YOUR RUINING THE PRETEND! Not to mention the entire thread devolving into something to do with coconut. All's well that wanks well, right? Except that a quick check back to see when "Flower Face" was originally posted reveals that shezoo is sepherotica is ssgallery is annataria (that Annataria), because ze changes usernames as often as ze changes URLS. And while some of those journals have been deleted, Annataria's is still there, listing many of the 'random' defenders (including the one so taken by the story) on FFR as friends. ...whoops?
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Remember the massive wankstorm that happened when LJ had problems with breastfeeding in default icons? Get ready for round two. This time, it's Facebook's turn in the barrel. (I'm borrowing a friend's computer. Much more links when I get home.) ETA: Okay, I lose for rushing to print too quickly -- back when I was leafing through it at a friend's house, this looked much bigger and wankier than it does now. Well, it still looks big and wanky, but a good deal less entertaining. Anyway, in a too-little-too-late bid to lessen my fail a little... The Facebook petition. From here, there are about 1500 discussion threads, but the highlights include... Breastfeeding hurts. Not the first thing I'd think of if I was reading a magazine and found two pages stuck together, but then, I'm not in marketing. Another petition, this time directed at Obama. Incudes abortion wank. ("Obama couldn't possibly give a shit about breastfeeding rights, he's pro-child murder!") Aw, damn, there's no funny in that. Meet Harlan. He doesn't see the big deal, and thinks breastfeeding should be done privately. Obviously, lots of people disagree with him: "You don't own my breasts," "mind your own business," "breastfeeding is not sexual," and... what do you mean, I have to be logged in to go past the first page? Okay, I give up. Bring on your tomatoes and admonitions to lurk moar. |
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Does anyone remember this wank from awhile back? http://www.journalfen.net/community/fand I know Taral Wayne from the above article, personally, and while it took awhile for him to get around to seeing the article, he did finally see it. He felt it was well-written, as factual as could be, and had few problems with it. He did feel people might like to hear more directly from him, so provided me with a brief article. I'll include it below. ( Taral's response ) use
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In the annual "The Lives They Lived" issue of the NY Times Magazine, Rob Walker contributes a lovely appreciation of Joan Winston. Arguably not precisely deathwatch-related, even if it is an obituary of sorts, because alongside Walker offers some interesting observations about media fandom, the role that the internet has played in fandom in recent years, and changes in perception of media fandom since Winston organized the first Trek convention. An excellent short read—check it out. Non-fandom-related and also worth reading: Well, pretty much the entire issue, but I call particular attention to the essays about Mildred Loving (really touching), Levi Stubbs and Dee Dee Warwick, Bobby Fischer, John List (disturbing and fascinating), Steve Fossett, and Eula Mae Doré (which, along with the Loving essay, almost made me start crying over brunch at the local coffeeshop). |
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If this is inappropriate, let me know ASAP and I'll delete. Just wondering if there's anyone out there on JF who, like me, is a fan of ITV's Primeval. If so, how much are you looking forward to the third season airing in January, and what sorts of things do you expect/think will/might happen? |
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Amazing fanvid for a fictional live action Thundercats movie. http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/22/vot |
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| Saturday, December 27th, 2008 |
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This might get confusing. Bear with me. A guy named Boner posts a gripping story on the DDR Freak forum about a mysterious girl he met at a concert. Things were perfect, until it turned out she had terminal cancer and would soon die. Or did she? His story unfolded in the typical fake internet death manner: sudden trips to the hospital, calls from third parties, shady pasts, crazy exes. Boner used fake names and locations to hide his own identity, fearing for himself. You see, "Stacy" was a wanted felon in her home state and had been convicted for forgery, bad checks to the tune of $60,000, and theft. There's also something about an ex-boyfriend who had his lawn destroyed. Some people are sympathetic, some are skeptical. Boner's details don't all seem to mesh, and there is discussion about whether he is lying or whether his attempt to change names and location is the cause for inconsistency. And why would the girl use her own name instead of going by an alias? Much of this discussion happens on Reddit, once they pick up the story: see here, here, and here, for example (there's sort of NSFW ACSII art of a naked girl in the full comments). To add to this, people on the DDR forum find old posts from Boner stating that he had just met a great girl at a concert. Was he planning this for months, or was he really being conned? The internet detectives, never to be outdone, find a Utah woman who matches Boner's description. Apparently this is the girl, because Boner updates his story with different names and places. She's no longer Stacy from a Motorhead concert, but Kari from a Girl Talk concert, and she's from Utah, not Nebraska, and her crazy ex is Jacen, not Jason. Her SLCPD Most Wanted info is discovered, as well as an argument between Kari's ex who had his lawn destroyed—or whose friend's lawn was destroyed...or something—and one of her friends. So in the end, it seems that Boner almost got boned by a pro, and not in the good way. |
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I've recently gotten into a new fandom, which seems to be super-small. There are two episodes/scenes I'm trying to locate from the show. Are there any Rome fans on here who can tell me what episode Octavia imitates Atia having an orgasm in or knows where I can find the scene in English? I found it in German, but my German skills suck. The other is the episode/scene where Livia and Atia argue over who gets to march first in some procession. Preferably, I want to know the episode name/number for both. I've seen both scenes and I want to know the circumstances behind each, because the dvds are out of my price range just now. Thanks in advance! |
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| Friday, December 26th, 2008 |
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For anyone who remembers Twin Peaks, here's a funny Christmas vid. I could watch Leland Palmer dance for hours. |
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Friends JournalFen for marumae.
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