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April 14th, 2009
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 Tired of all of those surveys made up by high school kids?! 'Have you ever kissed someone? Missed someone? Told someone you loved them? Drank alcohol?' 49 questions for the people who are a little older... ( What bill do you hate paying the most? ) |
January 17th, 2009
October 1st, 2008
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 From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) liz_marcs: In an upcoming interview with Katie Couric to be aired this week, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) FListers, please take the meme to your ElJay to spread the fun.This is probably one of the most famous Supreme Court cases, if only because you can see its effects every evening on TNT or USA: In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court mandated that no one who watches prime-time police procedurals would be unaware of their rights (to remain silent, to have an attorney present... etc.) when accused of a crime. Edit: Having just watched the interview, I noticed that Couric asks if there are any Supreme Court decisions that Palin can name that she disagrees with other than Roe v. Wade. The one off the top of my head is probably one that she and I differ considerably on: Bush v. Gore, but one that most people would agree upon is Plessy v. Ferguson. |
September 30th, 2008
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Does anyone reading this have DirecTV in the Atlanta area? Bonus points if you're a fan of sci-fi/genre television. On a somewhat related note, I have the following books up for grabs to anyone local: - Rick Moody's Garden State (not the basis for the movie)
- Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson
- Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater
- Play Poker Like the Pros by Hellmuth
- James McManus's Positively Fifth Street
- James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Comic Wars: Marvel's Battle for Survival by Dan Raviv
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Bragging Rights: A Season Inside the SEC by Richard Ernsberger, Jr.
- The Automatic Millionaire and The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner by David Bach
- Oliver Sacks's A Leg To Stand On
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture
- The scripts to When Harry Met Sally and Good Will Hunting
If you're not local, and you want one of these books, I'll probably need like 5 dollars or so to ship it out. |
September 24th, 2008
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 Tonight, I decided to forego watching the latest episode of Bones while eating my dinner, as I've discovered that the combination of that show and meals is one of questionable wisdom. So I cooked myself up some Thai pasta, and sat down to eat and watch the Torchwood second series episode, " Meat." |
June 11th, 2008
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ABC's "Cupid" targets Paulson: Sarah Paulson has been tapped as the female lead in ABC's one-hour pilot "Cupid," an updated version of Rob Thomas' 1990s comedy for ABC. New Cupid? I'm hesitant, but hopeful. I'm not sure the update can match the original without Jeremy Piven or Paula Marshall, but Sarah Paulson is definitely a plus. ETA: Sarah Paulson, good, but Dammit, dammit, sonovabitch! |
May 9th, 2008
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- Going to El Caminito del Rey
- Getting a cat (yes, I'm still allergic to them)
- Shaving my head
- Getting a tattoo (although not of the cover of the Tao of Pooh)
- Buying an HDTV and a PS3 or Xbox360
- Taking three weeks off to walk around Europe/Australia/Asia/Alaska
- Summiting Everest
- Growing my hair out
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January 23rd, 2008
September 30th, 2007
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 Reading a pan-fandom community, I came across this wrap-up of the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Quite a wonderful journey, watching Xander make an ass of himself while everyone else saves the world. My response: I don't know whether to classify this as hyperbole or missing-the-point. |
August 13th, 2007
August 4th, 2007
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 Over on the Suicide Girls Newswire, some person named "TheCoolerKing" has a list of projects that The Coolest Man in the World should be contributing to. An excerpt: Making and selling handcrafted, custom belt-buckles. Yep... Maybe this one isn't immediately obvious. Basically, I'd like to be at a party sometime, when a random lady looks me up and down before saying, "Nice belt buckle."
At which point, I'd get to say, "Why thank you... BRUCE CAMPBELL MADE IT." I don't know what would happen at that point. But I can tell you it would be awesome. |
June 29th, 2007
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 Well, Michael Bay brought Peter Cullen back to play Optimus Prime--here's hoping that this will still involve the disembodied voice of Mr. Feeny. |
May 19th, 2007
May 13th, 2007
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 I know that Emergency Broadcasts are important, and I've even tolerated your stupid interrupt-the-program-when-you-test-the-s ystem-during-primetime-programming test procedure. But tonight, I watched you completely interrupt the penultimate episode of this season of Supernatural some five minutes from the ending, thereby completely obscuring the action from when ( spoiler ) to when ( spoiler ), rendering my watching of said program incomplete and unenjoyable, for the broadcast of an emergency notice of a child abduction which contained no discernable details other than it was in the state of Georgia. In short, you suck donkey balls. |
April 29th, 2007
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ABC Family is currently showing a version of one of the greatest 80s movies Better Off Dead in which they cut from Lane's failed first attempt of the K12 after seeing Monique ski it, to his trying to repair his ski right before the paperboy accosts him. WTF? |
April 7th, 2007
2007.0407.1916::The things you can get accomplished when you're bedridden |
 I threw my back out on Thursday morning, so I've pretty much stayed at home since Friday morning, relegated to bed. Unfortunately, my WiFi is acting wonky, so I only had time to do the following: - Watch this week's Lost.
- Read The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle.
- Read The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt.
- Watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force Vol. 1: Disc 2.
- Watch Negima: Magic 601
- Watch An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder Disc 2.
- Watch Touching the Void.
- Finish Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.
I wish I could have known I would throw my back out--then I'd have planned to have more stuff on the TiVo to kill time. |
March 21st, 2007
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 You really need to quit cooking yourself spaghetti before sitting down to watch Bones. No, really. Quit it. |
March 9th, 2007
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 batnandu: btw, for the record, any story--movie, book, tv show, song--that's 100% historically accurate isn't a story, it's history
batnandu: which is why i like batman |
February 27th, 2007
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A few notable stories from Angry Asian Man A marketing firm, SnapDragon, has released Ten Things Every Brand Should Know About Asian-American Youth. Of particular note: The 15 minutes of seemingly benign American Idol fame for William Hung had a surprisingly negative effect on Asian-American students. There's a feeling that Hung perpetuated the worst stereotypes about Asian people and gave non-Asians permission to indulge in two years of racial stereotyping and mocking. To which I say, NO DUH. I didn't watch the Oscars, but the announcer indicated that Best Adapted Screenplay winner The Departed was based on a Japanese movie. Bzzt! Infernal Affairs (with Andy Lau from House of Flying Daggers) is a Chinese movie. Yes, I know we all look alike, you uninformed, ignorant round-eye. The New York Daily News reports on a Chinese students' participation in the recent NYU College Republicans' 'Find The Illegal Immigrant' stunt. The piece recounts some of the troubling history of Chinese immmigration in America: ( As early as 1850... ) Beau Sia, an Asian poet, posted an open letter to all the rosie o'donnells in response to her defense and half-hearted apology of her own 'ching-chong' remarks on The View. O'Donnell, after viewing the piece, has apparently taken his message to heart and sincerely apologized, all the racist, sexist, and ignorant shitcocks on YouTube, notwithstanding. |
February 8th, 2007
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 So last night, I ended up hitting a local bar for their Guitar Hero competition. Having played very little actual Guitar Hero II, I didn't sign up to compete, my primary reason for being there was to meet up with El Guapo, his brother skander, and his other brother who to the best of my knowledge has no sort of blog. I get there somewhat earlier than the rest of the gang and mill about the bar while I wait for the Guapos. At one point one of the competitors walks up to me and asks, "Did you play at the competition at the Independent a long time ago?" When I reply in the affirmative, he responds: "Dude, you're the reason that I play Guitar Hero!" I'm not sure what to think of that. Listening to the morning radio, I learned that the general contractor assigned to do roadwork on I-20 near Atlanta may be fined for exceeding the early-morning time alloted to blocking a lane on the interstate and causing a disproportionate amount of gridlock. Coupled with the recent news that Turner Broadcasting will likely pay some two million dollars for the media and police disruption of Boston as a result of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force viral marketing campaign, it occurs to me that if we're going to make people pay for screwing up traffic, then the purveyors of the Big Dig probably owe the city a pretty penny. And finally, from countessmary: Bold the series that you've seen for 3 or more episodes. Underline the series that you know for sure (or that you've seen them complete). If you want, add three more series (keep it in alphabetic order). I added Beauty and the Geek, Cupid, and Psych. ( big list of television series ) |
November 17th, 2006
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lazystars, a.k.a. the Pink Gator, has been working as under contract for a Big, Evil, Megacorporation (you know, the kind that arrests their own customers). Lately, she's been having some major trouble connecting to their VPN, and I always end up offering, "Do you need me to stab someone in the face?" (because, as stalkyoulater maintains, in the face is always worse). Today we had the following conversation: lazystars: I may stab today
thepeopleseason: stab stab stab
thepeopleseason: there was an old issue of Applause (the Thursday Entertainment insert of the Alligator)
thepeopleseason: where Patrick Hughes wrote some of his poetry.
thepeopleseason: and one of his poems went like this: Eye on a stick!
Eye on a stick!
I'm gonna stab!
I'm gonna jab!
Stab! Jab!
Eye on a slab!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! lazystars: that sounds more like a cheer
thepeopleseason: I would pay money to hear cheerleaders cheer that.
lazystars: save patrick hughes, save the world |
November 9th, 2006
October 31st, 2006
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 After Pinky informed me this morning that the British consider Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as their top fictional scientists (beating such keen scientific minds as Spock and Dr. Emmett Brown), we had the following conversation: Me: You know, Bunsen Honeydew is just made to look Asian--he's got glasses, a round head, he's kinda yellow--
Pinky: --He's GREEN!
Me: Well, he's *kind of* yellow... and the lack of eyes are clearly meant to imply some squinty-ness. Pinky continues to disagree, however, so I'll leave it to you, fair readers--do you think Dr. Honeydew (graduate of Carnegie-Melonhead University) is Asian? Researching further into this, I also learned that in the unlikely event of a water landing, Beaker can be used as a flotation device. In other news, some guy had such an obsession with Better Off Dead's '67 Camaro, that he hunted it down and restored it. I wonder if he can build a space shuttle out of household items... |
October 24th, 2006
2006.1024.1409::Top three moments in television over the past few days |
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October 20th, 2006
September 19th, 2006
September 18th, 2006
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The Pink Gator went to a party this weekend, where she got many a question as to my whereabouts 1. Last night, she had the following to say to me: Can you come with me sometime to one of these things? My friends all think you're Snuffleupagus. 1 Incidentally, I was watching the Florida-Tennessee game with batnandu, his wife, and our friend Rob. |
August 3rd, 2006
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 Here it is! Bangang Pagro-Esh. The left eye of Nog. The jewel worshipped by the wizards of Mu and the black priests of Atlantis, finally passed down to Gung the Magnificent who was chosen by the gods to conquer the world with it! And now, it's my- Ew!
It's not a jewel! It's a dirty old piece of crap! Everyone needs to go to SciFi.com and watch the weird horror-comedy pilot The Amazing Screw-On Head based on the one-shot comic book by Mike Mignola ( Hellboy). Following that, you should take the online survey and let them know if you'd continue watching the show. ETA: If you're having doubts, apparently the executive producer is Bryan Fuller, who also worked on Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls. |
July 6th, 2006
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 Dear Comcast: Fuck you. Fuck you and your crappy, our-tech-fell-asleep-while-waiting-for-u s-so-we-fired-him customer service. Fuck you in your stupid, cable-company-acquiring, exclusive-right-to-serve-video-in-my-con do-complex asshole. Fuck your let's-wait-to-give-appropriate-info-to-e veryone-until-it's-too-late-to-get-satel lite-without-an-interruption-of-service, donkey-ball-sucking ass. Go fuck a goat. -That Yellow Bastard |
June 27th, 2006
May 29th, 2006
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For some idiotic reason, I have the magic words " Inuk-Chuk" stuck in my head. |
May 25th, 2006
May 11th, 2006
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batnandu: what are you and pinky doing tomorrow night?
batnandu: whoa
batnandu: i can call you guys pinky and the brain
thepeopleseason: Same thing we do every night.
batnandu: um, no details, please
thepeopleseason: Try to take over the world. |
April 27th, 2006
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November 23rd, 2005
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 I should not have played Guitar Hero until 10:00 PM last night. Things to do: - Pack
- Make Everwood DVDs for Mom and Dad.
- Find issues of Fables and Y: The Last Man for Jerry
- Watch as much TiVo as possible to clear space, as I've been spending too much time playing Soul Calibur III and Guitar Hero to catch up on television.
- Dishes/Laundry
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November 16th, 2005
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Now keep in mind that now that I have TiVo, anything I watch, I pretty much watch religiously... ( Cult Television Meme )And it should come as little surprise to anyone that I watch a helluva lot of TV. |
October 5th, 2005
October 4th, 2005
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 Going through one of the various boxes full of papers I have strewn about the house, I found the following hastily-written haiku, which I seem to recall is from an episode of That 70s Show: My heart aches with pain.
When I see you, I vomit.
Die away from me. |
October 3rd, 2005
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I managed to catch Serenity three times this weekend--Friday night I met up with leeannslytherin and crazchica. Saturday, I avoided the Florida/Alabama game with another viewing and then met up on Sunday with countessmary (who I wasn't able to sit with Friday night) for a third. In general, the Mandarin in the movie is much better than the Mandarin in the series. Since some of the longer phrases are either spoken offscreen or look a bit like they've been ADR'd, I suspect that they had a dialogue/dialect coach come in to a recording studio and run them through the phrases multiple times and picked the best one. ( Some Mandarin Translations--Possible Spoilers )Like I said earlier, Serenity is good, and much of the success of the movie (and any possible future Firefly-related projects) is dependent on both the first and second weeks of ticket sales. So here's an offer for those of you that read this who have little idea of what I've just talked about. Of the qualifying persons who: live in the Atlanta area and have seen neither Serenity nor Firefly, the first one who comments on this entry will receive: one ticket to a showing of this movie for this coming weekend. I'm thinking the 4:40 showing at Regal Hollywood 24, but I'm flexible. In other news, I watched Mirrormask this Saturday night, and it was good, too. A bit slow at parts, but visually striking. |
October 1st, 2005
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As previously stated, I had plans to see Serenity tonight, and it was good. If anyone in the Atlanta area is interested in joining to see Mirrormask, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's new film, I'm planning to see it Saturday night at 9:30 at the MAC. Leave a comment if you want to meet up. And I'm planning to see Serenity again on Sunday. Speak up if you want in. |
September 27th, 2005
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If you're interested in joining in sometime Friday night to see Serenity, comment on this message. In other news, I need to outlay a little under 2k for a new A/C heat pump. Fucking yay. |
September 21st, 2005
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Lauren Graham combines an appealingly goofy wit and crack comic timing in an extremely gorgeous physical form. And if she didn't share a network with so many annoying teenagers, she would have been able to parlay all that into a successful film career. We don't know exactly whom we should blame for Graham's not having become an internationally famous superstar by now, but we suspect that it's all Rory's fault. Stupid Rory.
-- Fametracker.com's Fame Audit on Lauren Graham If you've been wondering where I've been, you need to find better things to do... I'll report on my five-day D.C. trip shortly. |
September 10th, 2005
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We channel is currently showing Big, edited for content and time. They've excised the pork rinds part. What's the frikkin' point?? |
September 8th, 2005
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The weekend of September 30, my plans are: - See Serenity in the theaters.
- See Mirrormask in the theaters.
- See Serenity in the theaters.
If anyone would like to come with, you're welcome to, but anything beyond that will need to be pre-scheduled. |
September 6th, 2005
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- A Mirrormask Journal and pen with blacklight-visible ink.
- In The Groove game and T-shirt from RedOctane.
- Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, and Ron Glass' autographs which join the ones of Nathan Fillion and Jewel Staite on my Firefly DVD set cover.
- A picture with Morena Baccarin.
- My picture taken by a guy who looks a lot like David Boreanaz because he thinks I look a lot like John Cho.
- Accosted by various people who thought I actually was John Cho (while I did dress up as Harold in the Land of Burgers, most people thought I was John Cho when I was out of costume).
- Questioned directly by Morena Baccarin on how the various castmembers did pronouncing their Mandarin Chinese dialogue.
- A Strong Bad Sings CD and Strong Bad E-mail DVD #4.
- A signed headshot of Strong Bad, complete with "They'll be all upons" abs drawn into place by one of the Bros. Chaps.
- Groped by various people.
- The opportunity to hang out a great deal with Mercedes McNab.
- The following story:
When ellenore and tankfreak, playing Buffy and Spike respectively, prepared to re-enact the final kiss from "Once More, With Feeling," I heard the guys in front of me jabbering quickly--"Turn on the camera!" "Why?" "Dude, they're TWO CHICKS, MAN!" - Con Crud. Yay.
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August 12th, 2005
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Last night, I finished watching the final disc of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. I really want a Tachikoma. |
June 14th, 2005
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I'm on hold to my crappy cable system, and they're playing The Muppet Show theme song. Weird. ETA: Now they're playing the Speed Racer theme song. And when the odds are against him, and there's dangerous work to do... |
June 9th, 2005
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I know you think he's pretty. A lot of people do--I remember going to see Mission: Impossible II, and hearing a girl suddenly gasp, "NOT THE FACE!" when Dougray Scott cut the boy's cheek in the final climactic fight. I know you had fantasies about marrying him. Who doesn't have the odd reverie about running off with Lauren Graham and spending a good year or two in a torrid affair, making long, slow, sweet, hot love warmed by a fire in a ski-in/ski-out cabin on Whistler Mountain or Lake Tahoe for a whirlwind romance with that dreamy celebrity? Let be honest here, though. You seem like a bright girl. While you have this "America's Sweetheart" image, you've also taken some more unconventional roles, so you probably have a pretty good perspective on your life and career. So, please, for the love of Pete, stop your association with that loony, loony, brainwashed nutjob before he fucks up your head, too. ETA: I am not alone: FreeKatie.net |
May 19th, 2005
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Aside from receiving Ai Yori Aoshi Disc 2 and Love Hina Disc 1 from Netflix yesterday, I hit Oxford Comics after work last night, and along with the Dark Horse Book of the Dead and Volume 9 of the Ai Yori Aoshi manga, I managed to pick up Chromaphile, the until-recently-out-of-print art book from Ragnar. I love this guy's stuff--a sort of retro-modern design pinup. Unfortunately, his main site's down for a redesign, but you can see some of it in an interview he did with CrownDozen.com. It even compels me to buy and iPod, despite my car already having a built-in MP3 player. Chromaphile is a bit thin for its cover price, but Amazon's got it for about fourteen dollars. Part of me wants to buy another copy to de-spine so I can frame specific pages, but the book-lover in me argues against it. Edit: I just found this link off of the Make Magazine Blog. If you scroll all the way to the bottom (past the photos), you'll see there are links to "Full length pictures of the robe and tunic." Check out the photos, and tell me what's wrong with them. |
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