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My brother bought the second Transformer movie. Now I know where that annoying Green Day song is from. |
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[Aug. 11th, 2009|11:37 pm] |
New computer with 2.5 megahertz, 500 GB hard drive, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia GEforce 8400 video card with dedicated 512 MB RAM, 2 DVD players, multiple card-reader drives, 7 fans: just over $500.
Hearing your brother say, "If she doesn't have one soon, my life will not be worth living and I'll never be able to go home again" : Priceless |
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| I bet Peter David is laughing his ass off right now. |
[May. 18th, 2009|02:18 pm] |
And Lee Goldberg is yukking it up along with him.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
If someone asks you to take their work down, you take it down. Period. It's not yours, and yes, Virginia, LJ will eventually get around to banning your little fileshare community. And the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth will be glorious, I'm sure.
When -- not if -- that happens, I hope like hell DW and IJ tell you you're not welcome in their backyards. |
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[Mar. 29th, 2009|12:34 pm] |
This post on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) fanficrants is making my head hurt. Just a little.
See, for my money, Revolutionary Girl Utena the series can be read as metaphor or straight-up -- in other words, yes, Virginia, Anthy is alive a witch and magic is afoot at Ohtori. Anthy wouldn't stop being a witch because she left Ohtori. Revolutionary Girl Utena the movie is much, much easier to read as a metaphor.
I think I've stumbled across movie-as-metaphor fic. I've never read series-as-metaphor fic. Probably because the series makes the it's-magic interpretation more obvious. And more fun. |
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[Mar. 15th, 2009|11:58 pm] |
Poll #450 Decisions, decisions
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllWhich one should I read?
The first book is nonfiction, about growing up in an FLDS home, getting married at fourteen to your nineteen-year-old cousin, and eventually getting the hell out of Dodge.
The second is by John Updike. |
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| I'm late, but -- |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
Happy birthday, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) ashenmote! |
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[Mar. 2nd, 2009|06:30 pm] |
The first ballet is performed in London in 1717.
Leaping has always been part of the rites to encourage crops to grow high. Mars, for whom March is named, was a Roman god of the crops as well as the war god. He had young warrior-priests called Salii, or "leapers", who spent the month of March in leaping processions all over Italy.
"Mad as a March hare" is an old saying. Hares are unusually shy and wild in March, which is their rutting season. |
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[Mar. 1st, 2009|05:50 pm] |
Whan that month in which the world bigan,
That highte March,whan God first maked man.
-- Chaucer
March was the beginning of the legal year in Great Britain and the Colonies until 1752. Thus, for example, from February 24, 1750, to March 4, 1751 was 8 days, not a year and 8 days.
In the ancient Roman calendar, this day was the feast of the Matraonalia, when patrician women held feasts for their slaves.
Frederic Chopin born 1810.
"Hats off, gentlemen -- a genius!" -- Robert Schumann
George Washington's way of curing colds was to eat a toasted onion before going to bed.
A dry March and a dry May portend a wholesome summer, if there be a showering April in between.
St. David, the patron saint of Wales, died in 601. On St. David's Day, Welsh people wear leeks in their hats. According to legend, St. David instructed Welsh soldiers to weak leeks in their hats in a battle against the Saxons, so they could distinguish their own troops from the enemy's.
On the first of any month, British schoolchildren believe that before speaking to anyone else you must say "white rabbits" for luck. Some say "hares and rabbits" or just "rabbits." |
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[Feb. 14th, 2009|11:51 am] |
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
The Roman Festival of the Lupercalia, held in the middle of February, was a romantic occassion and probably the origin of St. Valentine's day. Boys would draw girls names out of a box and be paired off accordingly for the coming year. In some Roman eras, "licentious games" were also part of the festivities. In the Middle Ages, the church tried to make St. Valentine's Day religious by having people draw saints' names out of the box,and emulate the saint in the coming year, but by the 16th century girls' names were in the boxes again.
No one knows what the original St. Valentine (of whom there were at least two) had to do with love and romance.
Before 1653, Valentine greetings had to be delivered by hand. The first mailboxes in Europe were erected in Paris in 1653, but they did not last long because messengers afraid of losing their jobs put mice in them.
According to a very old belief, birds begin mating on St. Valentine's Day. |
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[Feb. 13th, 2009|01:49 pm] |
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I CAN HAS INTARNETS NAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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[Feb. 12th, 2009|12:21 pm] |
Rain in February is as good as manure. |
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[Feb. 11th, 2009|09:50 am] |
English wig makers petition King George III in 1765, imploring relief as changing fashions (men were wearing their own hair) and French competition were ruining them. |
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[Feb. 10th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
February 9: Day of St. Apollonia, patron of toothache sufferers.
Feb. 10: Mid-winter is the time for pruning. Old-time farmers pruned larger trees in winter to get extra firewood. |
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[Feb. 8th, 2009|03:43 pm] |
Narvik Sun Pageant Day -- the return of the sun is celebrated in Narvik, Norway.
One of the strongest earthquakes in England, 1750. An irresponsible prediction of an earthquake on April 5 threw London into a panic. Quacks sold earthquake pills and earthquake gowns -- to be worn by ladies staying outdoors all night. On the eve of April 5 the roads out of London were jammed with carriages and fleeing people. |
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[Feb. 7th, 2009|09:17 am] |
Charles Dickens born, 1812.
Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Henry of Mecklenburg in 1901. The city of Amsterdam presents the royal couple with a gilded coach. |
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[Feb. 6th, 2009|12:04 pm] |
Day of St. Dorothea, patroness of gardeners. |
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[Feb. 4th, 2009|03:33 pm] |
A year of snow, a year of plenty.
If that's true, 2009 should be pretty plentiful. |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2009|10:45 am] |
There is a bean-throwing ceremony in Japan to mark the end of winter. |
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