a lot of random and a meme
Oct. 2nd, 2004 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oiranSlept for about 14 hours. Since I slept for about three the night prior, this all balances out, I suppose. I got up and went out the back door onto the porch so that the dog could take care of his "business" and, of course, had no dog.
Just because it was the right thing to do doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
Thank you again to everyone who has commented at some point during this dog saga.
~~~
tee-vee: Missed the rerun of ANTM because I thought our cable was out. After a long, trouble-shooting call with the cable people, it turns out that the problem was that the VCR was on. The VCR is so old (at least 15 years) that the LEDs aren't really bright when it's powered up. When I turned it off, I magically had cable again, albeit two hours after I wanted to watch anything being broadcast.
I'm pleased to see at least the LJ audience for Veronica Mars growing. I was disappointed to see Wonderfalls get cancelled and, now that I have watched the DVDs about eleventeen dozen times, I deeply regret the loss of Firefly. VM is certainly a more conventional show than either one of those, and obviously doesn't have the production costs of FF, so hopefully we'll get to keep this one. I think my enthusiasm is funny because if the pilot hadn't shown originally on a Wednesday in the post-SV hour, I wouldn’t have bothered to watch it at all. There's nothing else happening on Tuesdays that would compel me to turn on the TV. Unless that's when Dead Like Me airs. I still have to look that up…
~~~
reading an actual book: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is, so far, very entertaining. It's not at all like the HP books, which was a concern I'd had since it's about English magic. It's written in a charmingly archaic style, i.e., as if penned by someone who'd read and enjoyed Austen and Thackeray, though probably wasn't much fond of James. I'd say more 19th century than 18th in its affectations, but why quibble? While the authorial insertions are not excessive, and are entirely in keeping with the style, they're very jarring to an eye that's become used to fanfiction's strict POV requirements and myriad Sue-fears.
It's a really damn big book. I wish they'd gone completely old school with the thing and slipcased two volumes. Even though I no longer need one hand free at all times to smoke, I do like to hold books with one hand, and this is a two-fisted read.
You know, I'm perfectly aware of what people are talking about when they refer to one-handed reading, but my mental image is always one that requires an ashtray, not extra batteries.
~~~
laptop: So, I'm doing research. Anyone have a Toshiba laptop? How about a Sony VAIO? I'm less interested in HP or IBM, but not opposed. While I have various reasons for not liking Compaq, Gateway, and even Dell, I remain open to hearing about the great, great love anyone might have for those brands or for anything else that I'm not even considering yet because I'm ignorant of its virtues.
For example, as much good use as I have gotten out of this Fujitsu, which was an amazing bargain when purchased, I would not recommend the brand. 1) They have no U.S. repair facility. Their computer division apparently has no U.S. presence at all, at this point in time. 2) The CD-RW/DVD player is a well-documented piece of shit but neither Fujitsu nor the OEM will do anything about it and continue to point the finger at one another. 3) No driver updates since approximately six months following the introduction of this model. 4) Heavy, heavy, heavy. 5) Battery life of 45 minutes at most. 6) Dead card slot. 7) At least one of the four USB ports is dying.
While it did cost $500 or more less than any comparable model of any other brand at the time, the lack of any possible support and a completely useless CD burner makes this retrospectively much less of a bargain.
So, yeah: anything like that you might feel compelled to tell me, I'd like to hear.
~~~
Yami no Matsuei: After putting it aside for weeks, I have discovered I've got a week to finish my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
onehundredone story. Luckily, I will be able to do so. I plan to demand that a few of my SV regulars read this one, but if you're a YnM person and would like to do a read for me, I'd appreciate a couple betas who are involved in the fandom. Because of the nature of the community, it will be porn, of course.
~~~
new friends: So, there are some new people reading who may not know the nature of my shame, having met me via Mr. Glove in his more true-to-life version here on LJ. I am not ashamed that I write porn. I am not ashamed that I write mostly m/m porn. I am kind of ashamed, though, that I write porn using characters that already exist in various media, in a shameless attempt to garner an audience and improve my writing. Or that's how it started out. I still think it's a very good way to draw a ready audience, but it's also fun--and it has certainly helped me with my other writing. If you're looking for porn about your favorite cartoon characters, say, I can totally hook you up.
It's been awhile since I've posted any stories, but that will change soon. Just keep that in mind when clicking on cut-tags...
~~~
that action figure meme: Last seen at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brighidestone's LJ.
What action figure would you be and what would be your accessories and what would you do when the lever in your back was pulled?
Well, as much as I'd like to be a limited-edition piece from some Hong Kong artist, and subsequently featured in the pages of Juxtapoz as, like, rilly cool to have, not to mention expensive… I'm too vain to be a blobby, stylized cult toy. I'd want pert boobies and a flatter stomach than I really have, so Action!jed would very likely be a MacFarlane doodad, one of the few they produce that's remarkable for having rooted hair - in dog-ear ponytails, if we're basing it on the current model.
Action!jed would be wearing jeans with a too-long belt, blood-red cowboy boots, and a darling-yet-crude t-shirt advertising her friends' band, The Gloryholes. Two pairs of glasses: blue cat-eye and tortoiseshell nerd. She'd come with a toe ring, leather wrist band, and earrings for all five holes, but since the earrings are so tiny, they'd get lost pretty much as soon as the package was opened.
Accuracy would demand an excess of articulation points so that the jed figure might assume contorted, quasi-yogic postures while perched upon office chairs.
Accessories:
As for the lever in her back, it causes her to gesticulate wildly and blat out a laugh like the bray of a donkey, which startles all the other action figures such that they topple from their shelves.
And I think I've already included enough accessories, but since I do collect dolls and figures myself, I can tell you that Action!jed would totally dress up in Takara Jenny's (like a Barbie, but Japanese) kimono and circa-1962 Barbie's spike heels, and would keep the sun off of her pale plastic face with a paper drink umbrella. And if she drinks enough juice glasses full of wine, she'll menace both the Mulder and Scully figures.
~~~
I spent a couple hours at Kicky's house, helping her pick out paint for her new salon's bathroom and then drawing for her two-year-old daughter. I drew the cars of everyone in the neighborhood that both she (the two-year-old) and I know, as well as the dogs that might occasionally ride in those cars, which was kind of bittersweet. Their dog, an overaffectionate pitbull who loooooves me, licked all over my face, which I am taking as a show of sympathy (and also a show of him being willing to be my dog instead of theirs, because I think he totally would). I forgot how much I love the smell of crayons. Crayola should come out with a cologne, or at least a room spray.
Just because it was the right thing to do doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
Thank you again to everyone who has commented at some point during this dog saga.
~~~
tee-vee: Missed the rerun of ANTM because I thought our cable was out. After a long, trouble-shooting call with the cable people, it turns out that the problem was that the VCR was on. The VCR is so old (at least 15 years) that the LEDs aren't really bright when it's powered up. When I turned it off, I magically had cable again, albeit two hours after I wanted to watch anything being broadcast.
I'm pleased to see at least the LJ audience for Veronica Mars growing. I was disappointed to see Wonderfalls get cancelled and, now that I have watched the DVDs about eleventeen dozen times, I deeply regret the loss of Firefly. VM is certainly a more conventional show than either one of those, and obviously doesn't have the production costs of FF, so hopefully we'll get to keep this one. I think my enthusiasm is funny because if the pilot hadn't shown originally on a Wednesday in the post-SV hour, I wouldn’t have bothered to watch it at all. There's nothing else happening on Tuesdays that would compel me to turn on the TV. Unless that's when Dead Like Me airs. I still have to look that up…
~~~
reading an actual book: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is, so far, very entertaining. It's not at all like the HP books, which was a concern I'd had since it's about English magic. It's written in a charmingly archaic style, i.e., as if penned by someone who'd read and enjoyed Austen and Thackeray, though probably wasn't much fond of James. I'd say more 19th century than 18th in its affectations, but why quibble? While the authorial insertions are not excessive, and are entirely in keeping with the style, they're very jarring to an eye that's become used to fanfiction's strict POV requirements and myriad Sue-fears.
It's a really damn big book. I wish they'd gone completely old school with the thing and slipcased two volumes. Even though I no longer need one hand free at all times to smoke, I do like to hold books with one hand, and this is a two-fisted read.
You know, I'm perfectly aware of what people are talking about when they refer to one-handed reading, but my mental image is always one that requires an ashtray, not extra batteries.
~~~
laptop: So, I'm doing research. Anyone have a Toshiba laptop? How about a Sony VAIO? I'm less interested in HP or IBM, but not opposed. While I have various reasons for not liking Compaq, Gateway, and even Dell, I remain open to hearing about the great, great love anyone might have for those brands or for anything else that I'm not even considering yet because I'm ignorant of its virtues.
For example, as much good use as I have gotten out of this Fujitsu, which was an amazing bargain when purchased, I would not recommend the brand. 1) They have no U.S. repair facility. Their computer division apparently has no U.S. presence at all, at this point in time. 2) The CD-RW/DVD player is a well-documented piece of shit but neither Fujitsu nor the OEM will do anything about it and continue to point the finger at one another. 3) No driver updates since approximately six months following the introduction of this model. 4) Heavy, heavy, heavy. 5) Battery life of 45 minutes at most. 6) Dead card slot. 7) At least one of the four USB ports is dying.
While it did cost $500 or more less than any comparable model of any other brand at the time, the lack of any possible support and a completely useless CD burner makes this retrospectively much less of a bargain.
So, yeah: anything like that you might feel compelled to tell me, I'd like to hear.
~~~
Yami no Matsuei: After putting it aside for weeks, I have discovered I've got a week to finish my
onehundredone story. Luckily, I will be able to do so. I plan to demand that a few of my SV regulars read this one, but if you're a YnM person and would like to do a read for me, I'd appreciate a couple betas who are involved in the fandom. Because of the nature of the community, it will be porn, of course. ~~~
new friends: So, there are some new people reading who may not know the nature of my shame, having met me via Mr. Glove in his more true-to-life version here on LJ. I am not ashamed that I write porn. I am not ashamed that I write mostly m/m porn. I am kind of ashamed, though, that I write porn using characters that already exist in various media, in a shameless attempt to garner an audience and improve my writing. Or that's how it started out. I still think it's a very good way to draw a ready audience, but it's also fun--and it has certainly helped me with my other writing. If you're looking for porn about your favorite cartoon characters, say, I can totally hook you up.
It's been awhile since I've posted any stories, but that will change soon. Just keep that in mind when clicking on cut-tags...
~~~
that action figure meme: Last seen at
brighidestone's LJ. What action figure would you be and what would be your accessories and what would you do when the lever in your back was pulled?
Well, as much as I'd like to be a limited-edition piece from some Hong Kong artist, and subsequently featured in the pages of Juxtapoz as, like, rilly cool to have, not to mention expensive… I'm too vain to be a blobby, stylized cult toy. I'd want pert boobies and a flatter stomach than I really have, so Action!jed would very likely be a MacFarlane doodad, one of the few they produce that's remarkable for having rooted hair - in dog-ear ponytails, if we're basing it on the current model.
Action!jed would be wearing jeans with a too-long belt, blood-red cowboy boots, and a darling-yet-crude t-shirt advertising her friends' band, The Gloryholes. Two pairs of glasses: blue cat-eye and tortoiseshell nerd. She'd come with a toe ring, leather wrist band, and earrings for all five holes, but since the earrings are so tiny, they'd get lost pretty much as soon as the package was opened.
Accuracy would demand an excess of articulation points so that the jed figure might assume contorted, quasi-yogic postures while perched upon office chairs.
Accessories:
- Laptop with exciting, color-changing mood screen!
- Coach bag - collect 'em all!
- Clex mug cup o'coffee!
- Juice glass full of red wine!
- Cornflakes to eat straight from the box!
- Phone-book-thick gay porn manga!
- A shoulder bird (which would have to stand in for several birds and would thus resemble no actual species)
As for the lever in her back, it causes her to gesticulate wildly and blat out a laugh like the bray of a donkey, which startles all the other action figures such that they topple from their shelves.
And I think I've already included enough accessories, but since I do collect dolls and figures myself, I can tell you that Action!jed would totally dress up in Takara Jenny's (like a Barbie, but Japanese) kimono and circa-1962 Barbie's spike heels, and would keep the sun off of her pale plastic face with a paper drink umbrella. And if she drinks enough juice glasses full of wine, she'll menace both the Mulder and Scully figures.
~~~
I spent a couple hours at Kicky's house, helping her pick out paint for her new salon's bathroom and then drawing for her two-year-old daughter. I drew the cars of everyone in the neighborhood that both she (the two-year-old) and I know, as well as the dogs that might occasionally ride in those cars, which was kind of bittersweet. Their dog, an overaffectionate pitbull who loooooves me, licked all over my face, which I am taking as a show of sympathy (and also a show of him being willing to be my dog instead of theirs, because I think he totally would). I forgot how much I love the smell of crayons. Crayola should come out with a cologne, or at least a room spray.
