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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
cruisedirector	12:30a	Poem for Tuesday ( The Promise ) I spent a ridiculous amount of time on Monday fighting with MS Word and my printer trying to get labels printed for holiday cards, and the rest of the time fighting with the dryer, which has apparently decided to turn off every 15 minutes for half an hour to cool down, meaning that we need to have it repaired after all. It took all day to finish the wash and nothing is even folded yet. Otherwise, all I accomplished was ordering some Cyber Monday holiday gifts and listening obsessively to the new John Barrowman CD Music Music Music, in which he confirms that he is myself at 14 by performing Barry Manilow's "I Made It Through the Rain" and various other insanely schmoopy songs, not to mention an all-male version of "I Know Him So Well" from Chess. Oh, and I got to see the Moon-Venus-Jupiter conjunction! (Here in honor of Boston Legal is a pic from the Boston Herald.) ( Mount Vernon Toward Winter ) We had our last Monday night with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes and Boston Legal, since next week I'll have to miss Heroes for the latter's two-hour finale and then Boston Legal will be gone. *cries* The other two, I must admit, are largely mediocre. I mean, this week we got Sarah Connor pretty much without Sarah Connor, and were instead subjected to ( spoilers. ) Then there's Heroes, an episode once more redeemed for me by Seth Green and Hiro as the comic relief, although ( spoilers. ) At least the evening ended with Boston Legal, one of whose subjects was the lack of television for adults over 50, and I'm not ashamed to be a fogey and prefer the show with just those demographics, ( spoilers. ) One more reminder: if you want to exchange holiday cards, please let me know! Current Mood: mellow Current Music: From a Distance, John Barrowman (Comment on this)
Monday, December 1st, 2008
daily_snitch [ padme_kenobi ]	11:57p	The Daily Snitch: Monday, December 1, 2008 Actors and Movies: Tom Felton talks Malfoy Manor, Draco and his father Lucius Malfoy, and more in new interview Bonnie Wright, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson & David Thewlis attend award shows Dan Radcliffe's "Equus" jeans raise $800 (updated) Scans from German HBP calendar include Luna and Harry in party attire Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters nominated at Satellite Awards Dan Radcliffe appearance on The Story of the Costume Drama Video: Dan Radcliffe talks Half-Blood Prince move & Deathly Hallows epilogue Alan Rickman on life after Harry Potter Communities: Prompt claiming is now open at drapery_snarco twoseekers is hosting an informal Harry/Cedric holiday fic exchange lupin_snape has the December Theme search General Interest: Arthur Levine comments on "Beedle the Bard" acari describes how to protect your journal/community from hackers Whimsic Alley to host "Tales of Beedle the Bard" midnight gala Harry Potter still most popular books among college-aged students News: USA Today previews "Tales of Beedle the Bard" Rumor Alert: More on possible LEGO Harry Potter video game Hollywood auction includes signed Harry Potter books Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fanfic, fanart, communities and resources featuring Minerva McGonagall Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
daily_snitch [ titti ]	8:12p	Special Edition: Oliver Wood Art: ( Gen ) ( G to PG-13 ) ( R and NC-17 ) Fics: ( Gen ) ( G and PG ) ( PG-13 ) ( R and NC-17 ) Resources: - The Enormous Master List of All Percy/Oliver Fic - weasleys_wood - Percy/Oliver - draco_oliver - roughquidditch - Flint/Oliver If you have more art or fic that you will like to see posted, please leave a comment here. Previous editions can be found at Live Journal, InsaneJournal and JournalFen (Comment on this)
copperbadge	12:49p	I have cleaned my desk! I found two credit cards, $17.45, and many coupons. I have scanned all there was to scan, and I really should do a Photo Update soon but I have to clean out my "Current Photos" folder first. Getting to be time to make my photo yearbook, too (and print out last year's). I like the photo books; they're a slim, pleasant way of documenting the year. Walgreens does them up nicely and for about the same cost as anywhere else. I now have neat piles of "Stuff that needs to go into a poster frame", "Stuff I need to deal with tomorrow", and "Bookmarks". I put old cards and letters into books, which is a habit Mum got into so that now, when I go home, occasionally I'll take down a book from the shelf and find a letter from Gran in it. It's rather nice, though after Gran died Mum didn't go near the books for a few weeks. Makes sense. I have done laundry and taped my rent check to the doorknob so that I can't leave without remembering to put it in the Rent Check Box downstairs. I was going to do some Christmas shopping online today, but stupid Windows 2008 saved my shopping list as a ".docx" file and docx is apparently not backwards compatible, since I can't open it in OpenOffice or import it into GoogleDocs. I don't know what I've bought for whom! CHAOS! I also hung up a curtain over my kitchen door window so now, if I want, I can cook naked. :D It's a typical work-with-what-ya-got curtain: two nails, a bit of picture-hanging wire, and half a shower curtain with holes cut in it (the other half is hanging in front of my bathroom window, blocking the draft). The place is sealed up pretty tightly, which is nice. I spoke to Mum about staying here for a couple of years and she thinks it's a good idea; the housing market may be ripe for the picking but I need to build some credit and frankly I like it here, plus I got the parental stamp of approval for it in terms of location and setup. Hilariously, when she arrived, she oohed and ahhed over my hardwood floors and then immediately started measuring EVERYTHING -- counters, windows, floor space -- for various improvements. I think she's really come round to the idea of me living in Chicago, which is nice. We could both wish that she lived a little closer, but you can't have everything and anyway she's the one who decided to move to Texas. :D (Comment on this)
copperbadge	9:24a	And jack_and_ellis has been updated! You can find Chapter Thirty-Seven: Revelations by following the link. Ellis meets a doctor, Jack meets a chef, and the Wiradjuri tribal elders meet a very different Clare Fields... (Comment on this)
janecarnall	11:31a	The Gambler - Part 3 This is the third part of the third story (first part, second part) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), and The Players (seven parts) The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. I also updated the cast list here. ( And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression ) (Comment on this)
copperbadge	12:47a	I just woke up and wrote the bit of Jack & Ellis I've been wanting to write since, oh, about page twenty. Why yes, I am weird. I wordcounted the whole story too. At the moment it clocks in around 150k. Unfortunately, only about 25k of that is from November, which means I Did Not Win NaNo. Fortunately no cash prizes were involved, and I'm two for three so I'm doing okay. I'm estimating it'll finish around 200k, and then I'm going to slash and burn it down to manageable readable size. I reckon I'll end up with three versions -- this original, the hugely edited version where a bunch of stuff I love but don't need will be cut, and a YA version because folks tell me that's where all the interest is for publishers right now. After all, there's very little sex in Jack & Ellis; all I need to do is tone down the subversive subtext and I could probably get away with it. Back to bed for me! *stealth sleepy sam* (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
copperbadge	8:26p	And I am safely home! The flight was decent, nobody in the middle seat and arrived a few minutes early. I was seated behind a family with two small kids, which normally is annoying but they were very well-behaved -- more fascinated with flying than terrified of it. Though at one point the little girl got loose and made a break for the bathrooms and I automatically put out my hand to stop her -- the standard parental palm-against-the-head maneuver that makes them laugh. I was very glad that her mum was grateful she didn't have to chase her, rather than horrified that some stranger had restrained her child. I've had a shower to wash off the travel grit, and my flat seems intact -- the roaches didn't throw an orgy and nothing caught on fire, though all the bread is DEEPLY MOLDY. Another few days and it might have claimed the baker's rack in the name of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Otherwise, all is well. I'm going to make dinner, catch the Notre Dame game, and fall asleep. *conk* Zzzzz. (Comment on this)
daily_snitch [ furiosity ]	5:59p	The Daily Snitch: Saturday, November 29, 2008 Happy birthday, Bill Weasley! Actors and Movies:Videos: Dan Radcliffe & Richard Griffiths on Charlie Rose show Emma Watson to be celebrity elf for Today Show Holiday Toy & Gift Drive Video: Dan Radcliffe talks auctioning Equus merchandise Digital Potter films to hit South Korea Video: Emma Watson lights Somerset House Ice Rink Christmas tree First Half-Blood Prince R.A.B. note promo; new Harry & Slughorn photos Report: Sirius Black's Motorcycle, Dumbledore's Deluminator Prop to be used in "Deathly Hallows" Filming Archive: Walking the Plank, the Snape/Harry archive, has been updated. Fandom: HPEF is offering a Black Friday and CyberMonday discount on Azkatraz registrations this weekend only [regarding possible transaction issues]. News: Harry Potter on Empire magazine's Greatest Characters list Harry Potter on ice [Belgium] Russian Tales of Beedle the Bard auction Scholastic announces Tales of Beedle the Bard tea party winners Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fanworks and resources featuring Oliver Wood Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! (Comment on this)
copperbadge	9:12a	Good morning Saturday world! A note to all -- I've just caught at least four spammers with actual LJs commenting in my journal. The comments are often only partially relevant; the journals themselves are filled with the kind of half-coherent babble that spam emails usually contain. If you get a comment that seems nonsensical or only half-relevant, especially if the user has no icon, plz ignore; now that they've tipped their hand I'm deleting and banning as I go. I don't think this has anything to do with the friendbots or the hack, but I have no way of knowing. Just one more hazard of the digital age, I suppose. Hey, when you guys see this post, does the icon show a guy in a uniform with the word "classy" on it, or does it show my "The Internet Isn't Going To Surf Itself" slogan? Because in the semagic preview, I get the classy sleeping uniformed guy. Technology is exciting but sometimes I want to beat the internet with a large stick. Except it'd probably enjoy it. (Comment on this)
Friday, November 28th, 2008
copperbadge	8:34p	I was going to say "Let me tell you about how much I ate yesterday" but it came out "Lwr mw twkk" and then I had to go facepalm. But we did have turkey and stuffing and all the delicious Norman Rockwell fixings, and then had leftover sammiches today. And had the mental equivalent of a nap all day. This must be what it is like to be a cat. Also I pillaged my hosts' music library. New mixtape soon...ish. I fly home tomorrow night, hopefully on a flight as pleasant and empty as my flight out here was. One of these days I will be a True American and go to the mall on Black Friday, but this year I was just fine not going. Besides, the El doesn't go to malls. Which should be some kind of Chicago slogan. "You can't get to a mall from here." I've been seeing a lot of NaNo finishing banners on my flist today -- congrats to those who are getting their count in and beating the block. :) (Comment on this)
daily_snitch [ saraannette ]	6:41p	The Daily Snitch: Friday, November 28, 2008 Happy birthday, Alfonso Cuarón! Actors and Movies: Daniel Radcliffe talks Deathly Hallows, Equus in new interview Phelps twins attend Walsall Christmas tree lighting ceremony Emma Watson to appear on Blue Peter next Wednesday, Dec. 3 Emma Watson attends premiere of In a Dark Dark House Communities: flamingnargle, the Harry/Ginny/Luna community, has opened a new tag-based master list. hapendfro is gauging interest in a possible community dedicated to new HP writers. News: The Harry Potter Alliance has released its annual Thanksgiving message, encouraging your help with STAND FAST, an organization to help those in need in Darfur and Burma. Nifty: bookofjude has created a downloadable offline copy of the entire Nocturne Alley game. Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fanworks and resources featuring Oliver Wood. Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
copperbadge	2:33p	I have just discovered that there are few things in life more satisfying than polishing tarnished silverware properly. It's just beautiful watching all that blue and gold disappear. Yeah, there's a reason I invented Nicholas. Other than the cooking, we're mostly lounging; I've spent the past forty hours in my pyjamas-with-cats-on, watched a metric fuckton of Top Chef, and been pwned by the magnetic poetry kit, which is Not Cooperating with my sonneteering efforts this year. A++, would Thanksgiving again. (Comment on this)
copperbadge	8:29a	Good morning, Cafe, and happy Thanksgiving! Or if you do not live in the United States, happy Thursday! We will think of you as we commit ritual gluttony. And as with every year I am Still Thankful. Particularly that I could resurrect that post. Once the slaughtered bird has been consumed with savoury bread and roasted root vegetables, we will begin the long and dolorous preparation for Sammastide. Or, as I like to call it, a Christmas to Dismember. Get your scythes out, everyone! (Comment on this)
daily_snitch [ bewarethesmirk ]	2:50a	The Daily Snitch: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Actors and Movies: Emma Watson to be celebrity elf for Today Show Holiday Toy & Gift Drive Dan Radcliffe & Richard Griffiths on Charlie Rose show Hot Art: Anonymous created Dreaming Belladonna (Harry/Draco, R) Hot Rec: Anonymous wrote The Scientific Exchange of Ignorance (Snape/Draco, Harry/Draco, NC-17) Conspiracy of Silence (Harry/Draco, Blaise/Draco, Hard R) News: Scholastic announces Tales of Beedle the Bard tea party winners Russian Tales of Beedle the Bard auction Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fan work and resources featuring Oliver Wood Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
venivincere	9:15p	Strangely Accurate Meme + Rounding the Dark Side First, the strangely accurate meme: Second, Tomorrow is American Thanksgiving. If you celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful day. If you don't celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful day. I've got tomorrow and Friday off work, a fest fic to finish and get betaed, and some housecleaning and laundry to do, not to mention running the Advent Wreath-making this year on Sunday morning at church, watching my friend BA give her talk at her Advent Tea on Saturday afternoon, plus looking at all the animals and kids in the Christmas program at church on Sat. PM. So I will be maintaining radio silence and won't check anything, not LJ/IJ, not Twitter, not email until Sunday evening. If it's an emergency, text me or call me. *hugs flist* See you on the other side. Current Mood: busy Current Music: blessed silence (Comment on this)
copperbadge	11:59a	Good morning! I had ginger pumpkin cranberry toast for breakfast, and you didn't. Nyah. It's just starting to snow here, and we've been watching food network and mocking some of the more pathetic examples of the new gen cooking shows. Soon, there will be Cooking. OH YES. Hope you're keeping warm and safe out in Internet land. :) Currently the TV is tuned to the Dark Angel marathon and man, this show is WAY MORE INTENSE than I remember it. DARKEST ANGEL. Still pretty amused that the goofball from NCIS is Eyes Only, though. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
daily_snitch [ ziasudra ]	11:45p	The Daily Snitch: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Actors and Movies: Crew scouting out locations for DH shooting Challenge: immeritus announces its Second Annual Holiday Exchange. Communities: adventdrabbles will be up and running for 2008 with rules and fandom list soon to be posted. sbhg_awards is a new award community for Sirius/Hermione fan works. Discussion: severed_lies writes The Punishment of Severus Snape. General Interest: penknife posts that if you have a closed Hotmail account, a hacker could use it to gain access to your LJ account. News: Harry Potter on Empire magazine's Greatest Characters list Harry Potter on ice Enter Amazone France's contest to win a signed copy of Beedle the Bard! Podcast: PotterCast 174: Ballious Repello Search: daily_snitch is looking for fan works and resources featuring Oliver Wood. Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! (Comment on this)
leni_jess	5:25p	Whee! I haz internetz! The concert season starts tomorrow night. Tonight and tomorrow lunchtime we hunt up our favoured restaurants. We've been coming to this country town for the annual concert series in the Huntingdon Winery, now organised by Musica Viva Australia, for about, er, fifteen years. At least. But, aha! I now have other sources of entertainment here besides music, wine, food, and the fanfic saved to my notebook. At long last our motel has wifi access, and it runs like a beaut, too. Next: do a bit more editing on the fest fic I sent off for beta reading last night (or at least think about it). So if anyone wants to get in touch with me, you're in luck – provided I'm awake. The vines in the icon, however, are in the Yarra Valley in Victoria. Current Mood: beer o'clock is good Current Music: lotsa fifties rock (Comment on this)
Monday, November 24th, 2008
daily_snitch [ padme_kenobi ]	11:57p	The Daily Snitch: Monday, November 24, 2008 Actors and Movies: Catch Emma Watson's recent magazine appearances Tom Felton talks music, The Disappeared & Half-Blood Prince Dan Radcliffe talks literature & Harry Potter Dan Radcliffe talks Deathly Hallows & child stars Emma Watson on ice skates Richard Griffiths to attend Macy's Herald Square Tree Lighting French Half-Blood Prince release date Dan Radcliffe to auction "Equus" jeans Quote of the Week - Richard Griffiths Videos: Dan Radcliffe talks Deathly Hallows, cricket, Rupert Grint & more Emma Watson to go to Cambridge & shoot Deathly Hallows? Dan Radcliffe's first pair of "Equus" jeans raise $950 Half-Blood Prince exclusive footage airing on Harry Potter ABC Family weekend Communities: snupin_santa has Snupin Santa last minute info snupin_santa has One more note about Snupin Santa Signups are now open at metamorfic_moon snarry_holidays has Weekly wrap-up: Week 3 General Interest: J.K. Rowling talks critics, fans & shippers News: First "Beedle the Bard" sketch online; new covers released Possible price reduction on Collector's Tales of Beedle the Bard & signed copies Nifty: Win signed copies of "Beedle the Bard" Participate: Nominate J.K. Rowling for next Children's Laureate Polls: springtime_gen has a poll gauging interest in Springtime Gen 2009 Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fanfiction, fanart, communities and resources featuring Oliver Wood Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! (Comment on this)
copperbadge	3:43p	You guys, there is a lot of crocheting going on in this world, and all of it is for sale on etsy.com. (Comment on this)
copperbadge	12:52p	Hey, does anyone know if a book exists anthologising the letters between Groucho Marx and TS Eliot? Somehow I feel this is something I need to read. I don't usually go in for letter anthologies, but it sounds like it would be right up there with the twenty-year correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Lord Alfred Douglas, which is much funnier and more even-handed than that review implies. This morning is intense; I'm prepping the desk and "Sam's Guide To Temping For Him" as well as fielding calls from people who want to get everything done today so that they can leave tomorrow or Wednesday for wherever they're going. I myself am taking a hiatus from Chicago starting tomorrow, staying with friends over the Thanksgiving holiday. Which is just as well because my family had Thanksgiving this past weekend -- well, when I say "my family" I mean Mum, Emmy, Lucky, and his entire family. Apparently it was a firestorm of dysfunctional from beginning to end, which is not all that shocking given Lucky's siblings and particularly their children. I was literally hovering the mouse over the post-bar to post this when the month's rent-and-facilities invoice was delivered and I dropped everything to get it done, because if it doesn't get done today then we'll be paying our rent late. As it is, we may anyway, because I kept adding up and adding up and adding up and it kept being wrong, significantly wrong, and it took me almost forty minutes to decide that perhaps MY MATH WAS RIGHT and the building office was, in fact, incorrect. Which turned out to be the case. This says something about my relationship to mathematics, but it's nothing you all haven't heard before (short version: Math is useful but not to me. Plz to use it to build bridges and rockets and stuff, and stop making me learn it.) Anyway, yes, their math was wrong, mine was right, and so I have filled out all the paperwork I can and am entrusting BossBoss to actually put it in the interoffice mail tomorrow. I live in fear that the temp filling in for me tomorrow will be Incompetemp; I want whoever it is to have as little power to screw things up as possible. And now I have to post this while I still can, because my lunch sub is coming at one and I've just spent twenty minutes helping someone from another branch who has OBVIOUSLY SHOWN UP ON THE WRONG DAY for a meeting and is living in denial that his meeting was a week ago. Oh my god. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
copperbadge	8:21p	Hey, so. Life On Mars In America. I'd forgot it was coming out, and I'm not sure if it's tanking or what, I don't really watch live TV anymore. But I am watching episode one on the computer. I'm only about ten minutes in and the majority of it is...so visually similar to the original LoM that it's eerie, but I just hit the moment where Sam turns around and ( spoiler! ) Wow. I have no idea if the rest of the show is going to suck or not, but that was a pretty goddamn awesome moment right there. (Comment on this)
copperbadge	5:00p	I just saw the trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special (I was linked ages ago, I know it's old meme, but I can't watch videos at work). I have to say that, while informative it is not, it is very effective at inducing vertigo. Could they spin the camera around him a few more times, maybe? Just in case we hadn't got the 360 already? Also, smarmy Doctorgänger is smarmy. And yet, my instinctive reaction is to make the toddlerfists of glee and shout THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME. Fanbrain. Go fig. (Comment on this)
copperbadge	4:44p	Review: Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino I've been meaning to write a review of Cosmicomics for about a week and a half, and if I put it off any more I'm going to have late fees on it, but I'm really not sure how to talk about it. As with much of my high school lit classes, when I read Italo Calvino's work I'm often haunted by the feeling that I am missing something. Something important, some vital theme that's just out of my reach. Which makes it hard to review his books, actually. I don't know that I am missing anything, I think maybe I'm overthinking it, but I dunno. It's not unpleasant, and no reflection on the book, but it makes it hard to be coherent about it. Cosmicomics, like Invisible Cities, is very episodic in nature. Calvino takes several of the laws and theorems of physics and the creation of the universe and retells them as if one person had lived through them all, linking the impersonal science to the personal experience. It's kind of like what would happen if Stephen Hawking and Rudyard Kipling had a love child. ( The narrator, Qfwfq... ) ( Quotes! ) (Comment on this)

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