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[Sep. 1st, 2007|04:02 am] |
A passing thought on the chaos of the last couple of weeks: when Candide said "but let us cultivate our garden" (mais il faut cultiver notre jardin), he didn't mean that we should start growing murderous triffids, killer tomatoes and giant mutated man-eating Venus Flytraps.
Just saying.
ETA: have finally turned back on the anonymous commenting that was turned off during the Age of the Spamming Ad-bot, a creature so base that I couldn't even begin to describe how low-brow it was without the aid of a $100 thesaurus and an army of really snooty chimps. |
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[Aug. 28th, 2007|07:23 pm] |
My thoughts on the anonymeme:
I've been to lol_meme about four times now, and all I can say is that I'm cooking blueberries into a sauce and pouring them over shortcake for dessert (topped with whipped cream, natch) and y'all are all invited over -- even the memers -- just so long as you don't park your short buses on my neighbors' yards. Also, don't block in my short bus because I may have to run out for more booze. |
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[Aug. 28th, 2007|06:22 pm] |
Happy Birthday, Kijikun. At 27, you're practically a milf, right?
Mmmm...milfs. Yummy. |
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[Aug. 27th, 2007|11:10 am] |
The Monochrome Quiz
Wankprophet took the free MonofuckingchromeQuiz.com personality test!
"Screwed. We're all just...totally...fucking...screwed. It's really not that complicated, you beknighted fools."
For all you people on my flist posting the "color meme" -- this is how the world really is. |
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[Aug. 25th, 2007|10:55 pm] |
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Happy Birthday to Ana, the bestest and sexiest petter I know. |
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[Aug. 23rd, 2007|03:28 pm] |
Happy birthday, Young Murdered Fairy.
We're still searching for the real killers, don't you worry. |
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[Aug. 15th, 2007|10:53 pm] |
In the interest of preserving my your sanity, I won't subject you to the question meme that's popping up everywhere. Instead, I will give you my review of the move "Crash," now that I've finally seen it on one of the movie channels:
Bizarre.
To put it in context, I happened to be flipping through the Digital Cable Channel Guide one evening and saw a listing for "Crash," with Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock. Having just gotten around to watching "Brokeback Mountain" recently (bleh), I figured, what the hell, and flipped to it.
So there I was, watching it, and it seemed a little different from what I was expecting. A little darker, a little stranger than the various reviews had led me to believe. Physical therapy sessions punctuated by creepy voyeurs. Graphic car wrecks. Mostly white people, which I found unusual, given what I understood the main plot to be. Then came some loving camera-pans over grisly scars and mutilated bodies, and some surreal discussions of how turned on some people were by some pretty perverse stuff. It all seemed so different from what I had expected, and not a little disturbing. And then there was this guy making out with this paraplegic or something who had been badly hurt in a car crash and he exposed her barely-healed injuries and...oh my fucking god, what the hell is wrong with you, man? THAT IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE PLACE TO PUT YOUR TONGUE, I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH IT TURNS YOU ON! and it suddenly occured to me that I hadn't seen Sandra Bullock the entire movie and Don Cheadle looked suspiciously like James Spader and it probably wasn't just the lighting, and my suspicions, latent until that point, suddenly became full-blown paranoia that perhaps I wasn't watching the same movie the Academy Awards people had watched. Just to be certain, however, I watched about 15 more minutes until it became quite clear that the central message of the movie was, no matter what my cable company was telling me, less about racism than about really weird fetish!sex that even your dog, who'll hump most anything, wouldn't approve of.
So I finally checked IMDB and it appears likely that I was watching this movie instead and now I feel hurt and betrayed by my cable company yet strangely intrigued by Holly Hunter. |
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[Aug. 14th, 2007|12:05 am] |
I've been writing my memoirs, but have run into a thorny literary question: if the word "clusterfuck" takes up a larger percentage of my total wordcount that all the other words combined, does the literary merit begin to suffer?
ETA: If one hears the phrase "snails and tofu" and immediately thinks, "Eww, why ruin perfectly good snails like that?", does that make one a Young Republican? |
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[May. 18th, 2007|11:35 pm] |
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Okay. How the hell are you people? |
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[Jan. 13th, 2007|12:11 am] |
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Okay, I'm back. The fewer questions and more nude self-portraits you send me, the safer we'll all be. I can only say that my list of things I considered sacred and unmockable has shrunk to three, and it's possible that all of them are parts of my body. |
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| Hokey Pokey |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|11:42 pm] |
And now, in honour of Halloween, a favorite bit of Internet humor from god-knows-where:
"With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment,
it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which
almost went unnoticed last week.
Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at
the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him
into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble
started."
from here |
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[Oct. 17th, 2006|07:07 pm] |
It's time to choose the new Seven Wonders of the World. I haven't yet decided what my picks would be, though I am wondering who exactly appointed these people to start the selection process. Maybe the same people who decided Pluto wasn't a planet and, voila! it ceased to be one.
x-posted |
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[Oct. 2nd, 2006|12:57 pm] |
People replying to (and kinda disagreeing with) their sockpuppets about allegations regarding other people with other sockpuppets.
Mmmm, delicious. |
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[Sep. 26th, 2006|10:43 pm] |
Oh, and happy birthday, puipui.
I should do a proper update here when I have time, but, for now, y'all will just have to celebrate the pui one's natal anniversary. Please, keep it clean. |
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| Stuff and nonestuff |
[Sep. 14th, 2006|10:43 pm] |
Feel free to skip...this is just a screencap of my modly interaction with ginmar in case she deletes or screens. P.S. This is not really intended to be a discussion post on ginmar's merits as a person, just a reference and analysis post on the interaction itself.
( For future reference...me being polite ) |
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[Sep. 5th, 2006|10:22 pm] |
P.S.
Y'all have fun. I put in my 5 minutes of involvement in Sep's birthday, and now he has to age another year before I cater to him again. |
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[Sep. 5th, 2006|04:15 pm] |
Happy Birthday, Sep!
Also, fuck you very much for banning me. Canada as a whole will suffer for your actions. Be warned. Be very, very warned.
P.S. I've poured out all my PBR out of revenge. Of course, I did that 15 years ago when I realized that cheap whores are a better investment than cheap beer. But it was pre-emptive vengeance. As is everything I do in this life. |
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[Aug. 9th, 2006|12:05 am] |
Oh god. I was all prepared to toss off a short monologue of how, at first, I was bored by the idea of rehashing the CC plagiarism wank but, upon glancing over it, was surprised to discover that some of it was actually new and interesting to me. I intended to follow up on that by observing that the one thing that doesn't ring true for me is the whole "Dark Hunters" connection because, frankly, "dark hunter" is just one of those terms that probably hundreds of thousands of 14 year olds have found cool. Like "demon knight" or "chaos lord" or "shadow guard" or "killer klown." The "cool" adjective/profession combo is practically a rite of passage for young would-be fantasists. It's like the inevitable creation of a blatant Tolkenian/Dungeons & Dragons rip-off -- young'uns do it as they struggle to find a mature voice. If CC only stole the name and some "creature of the night" aspects, I'd just shrug.
So I was going to write on these topics and more, on fascinating things to beguile and bemuse. But first I wanted a clear idea of the nature of the stories that CC supposedly stole the "Dark Hunters" trope from. So I went to the author's website and read what she had posted.
To be more precise, I read about 30 seconds worth of her prose. I was muttering "why the fuck would anyone plagiarize this?" at it by that point. It's just so...derivative and banal and lacking in any subtlety and, god, stop abusing the damned carriage return. It's like she tried to write paragraphs but got bored senseless after one sentence and started a new one. Over and over and over, and, honey, don't you think it's about time to lay off the goddamned exposition of your protagonists' feelings and start revealing things in a way that doesn't sound like you're in a hurry to get the story over with despite giving every sign of not having anything to say? And..."Dark-Hunter Christmas"? Yeah, that worked out real well for the Star Wars gang, didn't it? |
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| Quote of the month |
[Aug. 7th, 2006|02:48 pm] |
One wonders if CC would have gotten so much support had she dared to steal from a male writer. As it is, no one's taking this seriously, because it's just a catfight among women, and their writing, their thoughts, their dreams, are so worthless as to be free to all takers.
~Ginmar, natch
Poor Joss and Roger and others -- emasculated by Ginmar with nary a provocation. Posthumously emasculated in Roger's case. Makes you wonder what exactly ginmar did when she saw those mass graves. |
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