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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | |
| 11:29 am | Drive-By Thanks to a misreading in the Time Out NY Gifts issue, I am now convinced that Wash buys his dinos from Toysaurus.com. And I bet the Vs' LOLHumans* site is called I Can Haz Cheezhamster. *What? "Cute pets that think they're in charge." |
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 | |
| 10:41 pm | V Fic: Permission Slip (PG-13) I got a fic lizard! I was tempted to use it as my first post to Archive of Our Own, but apart from not wanting to hassle right now with yet *another* posting format, man, I hate to have to put 14 tags on a 500-word story, and, pretty much, give away the punchline. Mind you, for those who have been reading attentively, I spoiler'd myself... ( Read more... ) |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | |
| 11:35 pm | SciFi Spoiler Festival--Tome Aine Poisoning? I devoted a good deal of the weekend to reading Stephen King's "Under the Dome." I just gave up about two-thirds of the way through Episode 2 of "V". Thus, I have stood, like Ruth, amid the Alien Corn. Spoilers within... ( Read more... ) I am now almost half-way through reviewing Chapter 26 (of 28) of the latest iteration of The Lawyer's Desk Book. Chapter 26 is the longest chapter. It's 168 printed pages long. On page 2, the compositor omitted a 17-line footnote. They'll probably just make it Footnote 4A, but theoretically, that means that 634 footnotes are mis-numbered. Well, I guess finding that sort of repays the time spent checking over the galleys, eh? Speaking of massive tomes, I have a copy of Gourmet Today, the hugeous cookbook that is now a bit Cheshire-y (cookbook w/out magazine = grin without a cat?) which reminds me that the tiny cakes of spiced tofu, produced by pressing the curd under a heavy weight, are called Doufu Gan. |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 | |
| 8:52 am | Jolly Bad Show, DW! A couple of weeks ago, I didn't get around to buying more minutes for my prepaid cellphone until a whole month had elapsed since my last purchase, so they confiscated about 15 hours of unused cellphone time. (Not that I cared, since pretty much all I ever us it for is phone dates with other Verizon users.) So, when I got a notice that my Dreamwidth account was close to expiration, I resolved to renew before it ran out. Hmmm, it sure has gotten expensive, I said to myself. OK, I'll get a Paid Account instead of a Premium Paid Account, I never use those extra features anyway. After several leisurely tours around the site, I couldn't figure out how to get a Paid Account instead of a Premium Paid Account, so I said friggit and renewed the Premium Paid Account for six months, then clicked on a couple of the Customer Service and WTF? buttons. To give credit where it's due, I got two very prompt and courteous replies. However, both prompt and courteous replies said that it's impossible to renew an account at a lower level, although they would be happy to refund my money so I could let my account expire and start over again with a plebeian Paid Account. I chose not to do this, because of the screw-up potential in refunds compounded with the screw-up potential of trying to revive a dead account. The explanation was that "the math didn't work" because if they allowed a reduction in level, everybody would buy a premium account and then immediately shift to a free account but keep all the features. Whazzuh? Anyway, I haven't found any advantage to having a DW and mirroring to LJ over and above just using LJ. So after the six months are up, it'll be like Captain Jack getting pregnant--I'm not doing THAT again. Good work, DW! Thank you for punishing me for wanting to help out by purchasing a Premium account instead of a regular paid account or using a free account! |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | |
| 11:37 pm | Drive-By V: The Oz of Lizard! |
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | |
| 9:02 pm | Edge of Snarkness The impending Who Asked For It? remake, with Mel Gibson (thus further ensuring that I will never see the stupid movie), and the DVD release of the *proper* Edge of Darkness, induced me to Netflix it. It is surely the apogee of televised paranoia (although I'm glad they didn't use the planned ending). Not only did it remind me of B7 in the sheer hare-brainedness of the good guys' plan, but...look! That's Travis 2! And look! that's Gan! And, when I looked it up on Wikipedia, it particularly warmed my heart to see them described as "Blakes7 cast members" in the "also starring, you know, THAT guy" section. |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | |
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | |
| 9:28 pm | TV Snark: Now, With Actual V Thank you, hulu, for enabling me when I should have been working! So, behind the spoiler cut, a few obserVations: ( Read more... ) |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 | |
| 3:25 pm | Interview Meme Redux Interview questions from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bigdamnxenafan. If you want to be interviewed, ask below, I'll give you the questions here, answer 'em in your LJ.1. If you could dance any part in any ballet what would it be? Ummm, probably not a story ballet, because the leads tend to be--like opera sopranos--a) simpy and b) dead. So, Balanchine! Maybe the lead in Rubies? Or, because my jumping is less-worse than my turning, Ballo Della Regina? 2. When you were 12 to 15 years old what did you most want to do with your life, and how far away are you from that vision now? Hahaha! I wanted to be a college history professor! So, not even close. But I did sort of think about being a novelist, so being a hack journo is close-ish. 3. If you could delete a single scene from Blake's 7 canon, what would you ax and why? Avon killing Anna in "Rumours of Death," because that's when his destiny became irretrievable. 4. Name three people living or dead (fictional or real) that you would like to have tea with and why. George Bernard Shaw--I'd be interested to hear what he'd have to say about the mess we're in now! Sylvia Pankhurst--ditto If authors can be permitted to confront their characters (is that, like, Anti-Matter or something?) maybe Andrew Undershaft from "Major Barbara" would contribute a counterpoint. 5. What is the most memorable meal you ever cooked/prepared? I suppose it's not strictly memorable in culinary terms, but I remember fixing vegetarian and non-vegetarian curries for a group of English B7 fans who were over here for Eclecticon 2001, and I also had houseguests so when the table space and chairs ran out, I remember putting part of the buffet on the air mattress in the living room I was sleeping on, and sitting down to eat--it was sort of like dinner in a Bouncy Castle. I do recommend curry if you have to cook for a lot of people, because you can pretty much throw anything in, and it's easy to accommodate vegetarians. |
| 8:54 am | Drive-By: Just in Time for NaNo Eleven prowriters talk to the Wall Street Journal about their writing methods... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 Once again I am doing page proofs...I was able to negotiate an extra day so the approximately 800 pages in the first set can be received in Texas on Tuesday, not Monday. I have to FedEx the pages with changes, so if the deadline was Monday then I would have been given from Wednesday afternoon to Saturday morning for the first set. As usual, the copy editor's main contribution has been to fail to detect the errors, but to take unofficial citations that followed house style and turn them into official citations that don't... Anyway, it's an 1,800 page book so finishing the first 800 pages is more than a drop in the ocean but not quite The Whole Story. |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | |
| 9:05 pm | Drive-By Children of Earth: Edge of Harkness? |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | |
| 10:44 pm | That Stupid Story: 15 at Last! I have made it to a vast 15,000 words! Hmmm, I think I've actually sketched in *more* than three-quarters of what passes for plot. Thank heavens I haven't actually promised to finish it by any particular date and it isn't anybody's exchange ficathon story. Every few days, I think of a new scene, which is all very well, but to an extent it's a disincentive to finish. Because the longer I go on with it, the more interesting new scenes! Also, although some very sad things happen, I think I'm enjoying crawling into the story and just spelunking. Even more than usual, the story wants to be a series of blackout sketches, most of them with a neat button at the end. Sometimes I worry about this, but I figure that the main cause of needing excessive Product in one's hair is trying to get one's hair to do something it doesn't want to do, and more or less the same is true for stories. There are some interesting writing memes going around, I was going to try to synthesize them, but mostly...ummm, if you have any writing or meta questions, ask away. I fail at archiving, so I can't just link, but there's lots of fics at b7fic and b7friday and fireflyslash and in my lj if you want to look for something specific. |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | |
| 11:43 am | EyeBuyDirect sale This week is the annual half-off sale at EyeBuyDirect.com. If you have your eyeglasses prescription, including the Pupillary Distance (PD) which, I think, is the distance between the centers of the pupils of your eyes (sorta like measuring the studs in your walls center-to-center!), you can get two pairs of glasses VERY CHEAP. I bought a pair of computer glasses there. The finishing of the frame is a little rough, but I don't mind because I only wear them indoors, and they cost something like $50 instead of $300, so I'm willing to put up with the things not being archival quality. I think I first read about them via kassrachel, so thank you! (or whoever!) |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | |
| 7:44 pm | Om Nom Nom De Plume: Gnocchi di Zucca, or, Don't Just Sit There, Roast Something I'm far behind on my CSA vegetables, and in fact I'm sort of looking forward to having only two more deliveries and then maybe I can a) get the fridge under 110% of capacity and b) actually deliberately buy vegetables because they're the kind I want instead of being assigned them. However, I kind of enjoy the challenge. (Cut for length) ( Read more... ) *Cf King Lear--"he childed as I fathered". **Can't make real risotto because I never buy super-expensive risotto rice because, although I like risotto, I don't like it three times as much as other things that are one-third the trouble. Although sydni_64 said she makes risotto with steel-cut oats, which sounds ace. |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 | |
| 12:22 pm | TV Snark: Shall We Gather by the River? Although I truly can't defend it as a misunderstood masterpiece, I enjoy watching Dollhouse and I think it continues to improve after a Could Do Better beginning (and, OF COURSE, the original pilot is much better than the aired pilot, to no one's surprise). I think it's an entertaining suspense show that has a pleasurably high WTF? level so it's fun to sit there and figure things out. It certainly provides a *damn* poor set of instructions for dealing with Life. Sometimes I think about the clergyman who sent a non-fan letter to CS Lewis, saying that not only was the "advice" contained in The Screwtape Letters bad, "some of it was positively diabolical." Cut for length and SPOILERS! SPOILERS! ( Read more... ) In Other News, That Damn Story is up to about 14,000 words and Avon has just had a hot tub built Absolutely Not for Simon's Birthday, which is sort of slowing down the production of battle scenes. |
| Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | |
| 8:11 pm | Drive By I only stuck it out for 15 minutes of "White Collar" on hulu (I might as well watch hulu before they start charging for it!) but I can't pass up the opportunity to describe it as "Where Wealth accumulates and Tim DeKay." |
| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | |
| 12:04 pm | Original Plumbing Mag TIme Out New York's Gay & Lesbian section this week features Amos Mac's new magazine, Original Plumbing. It's a quarterly magazine about FTM culture. (There's a launch party in NYC tomorrow, with details in Time Out NY and at originalplumbing.com, for interested persons in the NYC area.) Mac, who is a photographer, started photographing other transmen and found so much interest that he decided to start a magazine. He said that one early responder was a transman in Germany who wanted to write about how different the transition experience is there because surgery is free. Mac says that a lot of transmen are glad to pose topless, because showing the scars from top surgery is a way to own their transition. He says that he would also like to run pictures of transmen who *have* had bottom surgery, but he says in the US, the majority of transmen have "original plumbing": "It's because the [bottom] surgeries that are offered are really expensive--and also becuase you could lose all sensation. So even if it was free, I don't know if I woudl do it." Mac says that in San Francisco, transmen are more visible in San Francisco, "and there are all kinds of things that are geared to transmen, like even some gay male sex clubs. The transmale community is just a big part of the city"--much more so than in NYC. |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | |
| 8:07 pm | DEFYING GRAVITAS Dirty Sexy Money Fic by Executrix Written for the queerlygen ficathon. Title: Defying Gravitas Creator: executrix Universe: fanfic (Dirty Sexy Money) Type of work: fiction Contains: Sexual minority character (transgender); reference to past romantic and sexual relationship Summary and notes: AU--Carmelita *doesn't* go to Patrick's inauguration; she decides to move on. After the shooting, it was all I could do not to rush to Patrick’s side. I certainly felt like a goose walked over my grave—if I’d been there, that could have been me that got shot! And this wasn’t even the first time for Patrick. Wasn’t it Winston Churchill who said that the most exhilarating thing in life is to get shot at without result? Well, sort of a result. Good thing he’s a Senator, otherwise he’d probably set off the metal detector when he flies, with all that shrapnel. That family just has never been lucky for him. Don’t think that he just walked away too. Patrick called me a million times, and sent me all kinds of stuff that I gave to the firehouse for the homeless kids’ Christmas presents, but I stayed put. Because once they found out that he loved someone like me (and even if they didn’t mind that, we got started while Ellen was still alive) they’d ride him out of town on a rail. And the best thing for people like me is for there to be senators who can love someone like me, you know? Not that they paid me—but that’s all right, I don’t need much, couture wears forever and, like Cordy said (I liked bitchy Season One Cordy the best), around here in Hickburg where the major export is moo juice they can’t tell Prada from Payless—but I did the hair and makeup for a show at the U. It was one of those Shakespeare things that nobody reads, not because they found it at a garage sale or anything, but they just don’t. And it’s about a girl who is so crazy in love with a young nobleman, who doesn’t exactly win the Noble Prize when he’s around girls, if you get my drift, that she’ll do ANYTHING. And it turns out that she’s so smart that she can cure a pain in the ass that the King has had for, like, years. They should have given me the lead. There are always family pictures within a one-inch radius of any Darling anywhere, so I’ve seen pictures of Trip, back in the day. He wasn’t as handsome as my Patrick—well, who is?—but you can see that he was quite the number. And he used to have better ties. When he told me I had to give up Patrick, for Patrick’s own good, I told myself that there is nothing like a Dame, but I am no Dame Aux Camelias, you know? But finally it sank in. And then I heard that Patrick took up with some Congressman’s wife. An OG—an Original Girl. Women mourn, men replace. So maybe I didn’t heroically sacrifice myself. Maybe I took care of myself and got out in time to be able to have something of my own. Do something of my own. And that meant I had to look the part. Well, I didn’t want to be like that poor girl in Antarctica who had to do her own mastectomy over the phone, but I couldn’t go to anybody in town, so I drove a few towns over to Mr. Jason’s shop. “I want something with gravitas,” I said. “I don’t want to look like mutton dressed as lamb. Let’s curry that mutton! Let’s make it…couscous…before I really have to.” “Breakup hair,” he said. “Hillary hair,” I said. “Breakup hair,” he said implacably, and finally I had to given in and nod. “Let’s do something that shows off those gorgeous peepers,” he said. The image we were channeling was Ines de la Fressange—you know, Yves St. Laurent’s muse?—except she’s a brunette, of course. And as we had to agree, Darker usually Equals Younger, so he gave me some chunky low-lights. Buttery, and of course caramel. On the way out, still trying to get used to nothing swinging against my neck (well, I’m a professional at getting used to things not swinging, aren’t I?) I saw a man and a woman in overalls handing out leaflets. I started talking to them, and before you know it, I was standing there handing out leaflets too. I probably looked a little more…glamorous…than them, and I did notice that I was having leaflets taken a lot faster than they were. And when all the leaflets were gone we adjourned to the one Starbucks in this one-Starbucks town and talked some more. Even though I’ve been living in a dairy area for a while now (and doesn’t that sound dirty when you say it fast?) I just didn’t think about these things. Anyway, the next day, we had some more leaflets printed up, and I started giving them out in the salon. And I had a sign-up clipboard for a petition, and one lunchtime we made an appointment to take it over to the Town Hall. The Mayor got photographed peering down at it through his half-glasses, although he didn’t really do anything. His assistant said it was a federal thing anyway, we should talk to our Congressman. Good thing he didn’t suggest talking to our Senator. A couple of kids—one with a mic, one with a camcorder—wanted to interview me for their high school Website. I was thrilled—my very first sound bite! “It’s just bad for everyone,” I said. “Why do we need hormones to make cows give more milk? I get farmwives in the salon all the time. Well, not all the time in the sense that they can afford to come in before their split ends are just horrible, and they have to skip the shampoo and conditioner, so I have to cut them dry. But the prices the dairies pay? My farmers are squeezed tighter than an udder at four a.m. It’s bad for the cows. It’s bad for the people. Hormones—believe me, hormones are not M&Ms. They can be wonderful, but you have to know what you’re doing.” They asked me how I got involved in this, because I didn’t exactly look like a country girl, you know (I was wearing thrifted Margiela). “I guess politics is just in my blood,” I said. |
| 7:19 pm | Drive-By I've been watching Dark Angel. I'm still in S1, so it has not yet manifested that Alec is Dean. But I didn't realize until today that Logan is DiNozzo! |
| Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | |
| 6:33 pm | B7 fic Repost: Predestination This is an old 'un of mine, and highly relevant to the current b7rewatch discussion. (AKA, you know, the Mission to Destiny fix-it fic that DOESN'T have Lord Peter Wimsey in it.) WARNING, only for the spoiler thread--contains spoilers for all four seasons, which admittedly is an accomplishment for a S1 fix-it. Lead us not into temptation: We can find it all by ourselves ( Read more... ) |