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You are viewing the most recent 40 entries November 7th, 20098bit_tanuki, posting in starwars @ : The Soup, Ewoks, and The Today Show Current Mood:  amusedpendant_audio, posting in starwars @ : Star Wars: Blue Harvest Episode XXIV! PENDANT PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS:
Episode XXIV - "Revenge of the Sith" The rebel storm assaults the second Death Star, while the Emperor delights in schemes and a Starkiller is lost! "Star Wars: Blue Harvest" is a serialized, full-cast audio adventure with one new episode every month. Available for free download in .mp3 format, or as a Podcast! Also available -- a commentary track with the director and writer!
iTunes link: Podcast feed: Download: November 6th, 2009pinkdormouse @ : Vegetable Monster friend_of_tofu and alextiefling's Halloween Cocktail Party. I took Holiday Fun Cthulhu with me, and he liked it so much that he decided to stay for a while longer.In between drinking cocktails and chatting with the excellent guests (Memo To Self: do not make extravagant gestures while holding a wine glass and wearing a cloak), we made vegetable monsters. Mine won a prize! ( He looks a bit like The Moog ) terrificwriter @ : Ow!  ( Health Hazard Cut ) altariel @ : Boo Hewerdine Next week's concert at the same venue (the Mumford Theatre) will be given by one of the world's leading theramin players - or theramists, apparently. I'm glad there's a word for that. Now to hit my wordcount target and clean the bathroom. Probably won't do that all at once but it might be interesting to try. Tags: boo hewerdine terrificwriter @ : A Familiar Face http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=448 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=448 But don't you think they bear a passing resemblence to someone we know? You bet your aspidistras I've just ordered them - I'd never be able to show my face at the pretend boyfriends coventions otherwise. November 5th, 2009lonescorpion @ :
This strikes a particular chord with me, because when I began university, using the word "gay" as a generic pejorative was actually fairly common, and it was usually understood that it was not being used in a homophobic way. However, when I discovered Rocksoc, I was fairly quickly informed that I would either have to step outside, or fall out of the habit I had picked up of using they word "gay" in anything but a respectful manner. It was firm, but fair - I had grown accustomed to its meaning having changed from its homophobic uses, but I was now in a social circle where this was no longer the case. So, I personally am glad to see that South Park is attempting to use its influence to induce a change in etymology in a positive way. However, I do recognize that this won't work in all aspects of our culture, where the word "faggot" is still used as a homophobic slander, and I wonder if South Park won't be seen as being somewhat irresponsible towards that part of our society. I also find it extremely amusing that trying to change the term to meaning something you would say to the face of a Harley biker is an act of pure recklessness in itself - I wonder if perhaps it is the intention of the South Park writers to enlist the Hell's Angels to physically enforce attempts to drive the word out of useage. A sample of the script to illustrate my point will be posted as soon as someone on the Intertubes gets round to writing up the transcript to the episode. Your thoughts? tiggymalvern @ : Heavenly Bodies Current Mood:  relaxedCurrent Music: 40 Days, 40 Fights - Badly Drawn Boy altariel @ : German translation help? Tags: the never-ending sacrifice alcina2 @ :
Giving kids the name of a Vala (Valie, whatever)...rather presumptious, no? Not acording to the parents of those I am teaching. Clearly poor 11-year-old Yavanna's parents don't think so... *sigh* ironlord @ : Drink! Feck! Arse! Zombies! Normal service is now resumed as I urge you all, via the link that aiden_macleod has helpfully provided, to grab the new Gama Bomb album. Earache are giving it away free - though it may just be today - as a 320 kb/s MP3 download. I am listening to it now. In much the same way as Citizen Brain was, it's like 1983 all over again - only with 21st century production. And we all know what my views are on those people who say thrash can only ever be "true" if it sounds like it was recorded in a bin - Ride The Lightning certainly wasn't, and that was made in 1984.GO HERE, YON HEATHENS! http://mail.earache.com/gamabomb/ DEVASTATING THRASH ATTACK!  Current Music: Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave in Space oof_suits_you, posting in rocksoc @ : Fireworks on Thursday! We'll be meeting up at 7:00 outside the LLoyds Bank on Sidney Street, located at the intersection of Petty Curry and Sidney Street (click for StreetView!), and will leave for the fireworks at 7:10. They're set to start at 7:30. After the fireworks, we'll be heading over to the ARU Alternative Music Society's Subculture event (click for Facebook Event!), which starts at 9, and takes place at the ARU Academy. They'll be playing Punk, Classic-Indie, Metal, Ska, Rock, Electro, Drum 'n' Bass and Industrial (although probably not all at the same time). Doors are from 9 till late, and entry costs: £4 Guests £3 Students £2 Members (AMS have agreed to offer Rocksoc members with identification this rate) Guests are advised that smoke machines, strobe lights and lasers will be used. November 4th, 2009terrificwriter @ : Black Hole Suns Here's a curious fact about black holes: everyone knows that these things are so dense that nothing can escape them, not even light (the fastest thing in the universe)... and yet black holes won't last forever... because somehow they evaporate. But how can this be? Evaporation means that they would be shedding material, and we have already established that nothing can escape them. That's true... and also it isn't. I can't explain it because I don't have a PhD in quantum physics - and that's really what you need to understand this stuff - but througfh some strange process, a black hole sheds approximately one atom every few thousand years or so. After trillions and trillions and trillions of years, a black hole will shrink to a point where its gravity will no longer be strong enough for it to be called a black hole, and it will start to shine like a star, giving out all the energy that it has captured over its long life time. Seriously weird. lonescorpion @ :
What does it FUCKING cost you to allow people to marry within their own gender if they want to? What does it FUCKING do to your miserable little worthless close-minded paranoid self-righteous lives? What impact can it POSSIBLY FUCKING have on you to let people you clearly want nothing to do with be happy? Fuck you, people of Maine who voted yes! Fuck you and the timber you rode on! Tags: politics altariel @ : Milford My picture gallery is here: the first lot include the view from my bedroom window, and views from around the grounds of the centre, heading down to the lake. I spent the mornings reading at that window and pottering around those grounds. (The afternoons were critiquing sessions.) The last few pictures are from our Friday outing, and taken in the Llanberis Pass. This is my favourite. We started the day at Caernarfon Castle and ended it at Beddgelert, and for some reason I completely failed to take any photographs at either place! I was enjoying the moment too much. But I did manage a snap of a dragon. Grateful thanks to all Milfordites for such a restful, enjoyable, companionable, and hugely inspiring week. Sorry I gave you all colds. The bus journey? Was perfectly comfortable, but, man, it took a long time. Tags: milford rainofthenight @ : Things I Picked Up in Different Places Pt. 1: Ireland July '09  As they rode through the empty landscape, she was silent and thoughtful. With a sharp eye she looked around and took in everything there was to see. She spied for roadkill, getting out of the car to remove the dead flattened rabbits with soft hands and a tender eye, scraping ran over and dried birds from the tarmac and carefully putting them in the back of the car, securing their stiff wings and remnants of fur as if they were living, beautiful and asleep. And in a way, they were. Her cat accompanied her. With his missing eye and ear he looked a bit brought back from the dead as well. It would not have been a bad guess to assume that he had just entered his fourth life, with five left to go still.
The silent hills and stones left a lot of their inhabitants behind on the one road that had found itself a meandering way through the sharp lands. Drivers chased their cars over the road in a hurry to beat the empty hours that led from one village to the next. Later, she came. Her wide hat protected her eyes from the sun, her skirt and coat brushing against the leaves and bushes as she passed, fluttering in the winds that came from across the Atlantic.
At home she drove into the driveway, parking the car close to the house and bringing her dead animals one by one in to spread them out on the table in the living room. A lamp hung over it for work at late and early hours of the night and morning. Late in the evening, she would dissect her animals, performing loving autopsies until she had found their souls, torn loose from the macadam and often only barely held together. She’d knead them whole again and stored them, one by one, in jars. They stood on a shelf, labelled and alphabetised on animal. She had named them all though the names were not of her invention. They were theirs, from before, kept to them by her grace. Their bodies, she’d clean up and return to glory, though of another realm than that of the living, without betraying how they fell victim to the road. They could be found here and there in the country, souls travelling at night bringing her the messages she asked for. She smiled at them, and they glowed a bit, her silent companions.
She was the witch of the road. Current Mood:  workingCurrent Music: Jesus On Extasy redqueenmeg @ : Updates My OB called back and prescribed more Tamiflu for me (normally an adult takes one pill a day for ten days, I guess, but they want me on it twice a day now), and also an antibiotic that will help with the green stuff and the cough and will also kill Haemophilus influenzae if that is what I have. I have very little brain right now, and the J key fell off my laptop keyboard, so that is fun. I am also to report to the emergency room at the hospital in the next couple of days if I am not improving or if I get worse. On the good side with all the drugs I am taking I doubt I am contagious anymore. I'm only a danger to myself. Woke up at 5:00 AM today coughing my head off. Took more Robitussin. Didn't help. Never got back to sleep. Zombie. Current Mood:  sickterrificwriter @ : New Boyfriend? http://www.natalieportman.com/gallery2/m I will still have to destroy him, though: November 3rd, 2009eelpi @ : San Francisco 2009 ( Another year, another last drop of summer ) Current Mood:  lazyCurrent Music: Tripping Billies - Dave Matthews Band terrificwriter @ : How to train your dragon trailer http://www.aintitcool.com/node/4294 feanelwa @ :
-Letting agent and their foolish "we can't use a phone" fixit-people: still no washing machine, still a drip above the front door. -Virgin Media: still no contract, still NO BROADBAND. They don't answer the phone, so I am sending them a letter; if they don't answer the letter I'm very tempted to get on a train to Swansea and shout at them in person. I can work up a good shout when I have NO INTERNET. [Backstory to the Extra Virgin Media fail: we ordered their failsome service on the 27th, they sent us an email saying "we'll send you a contract and then we'll send you a start pack". No contract, but they did send us a start pack, which claims it cannot see the internet, and they have set up a direct debit from my bank account. Usual story about phoning the morons up on my mobile and them not answering and wasting all my money, etc. So now I am sending them a letter through the post saying this is what happened, we have no internet and your customer service sucks, sort it out by next Friday or I cancel the direct debit and become evil.] Work is...scary. redqueenmeg @ : This woman is SO COOL I want to join her fan club. Current Mood:  chipperlonescorpion @ :
I'm going to love doing this as a job someday. redqueenmeg @ : Len update I am personally wondering ( TMI... ) Current Mood: sickterrificwriter @ : Jim Carrey's Official Web Site http://jimcarrey.com/ anarianothren, posting in team_darklord @ : Update 67!
Current Location: my living room floor, you know, as usual Current Mood: drunk Current Music: この誰もいない部屋で by Gackt November 2nd, 2009terrificwriter @ : No Star Shines Here libellum @ : expert advice Couple of good articles on the sacking of David Nutt, which I find abhorrent for all the obvious reasons, plus those articulated by JQP in his two "Expertease" articles written at the start of this year. [Democracy] relies on one very important variable, which British society has utterly failed to deliver: accurate information. Ah, everyone's favourite rant about democracy and the media! Excellent: I always enjoy having someone else do this one for me. It even includes references to Plato, if not to the process of Athenian democracy itself. That's not to say politicians should blindly and slavishly heed scientific advice without any other considerations. Of course not. The whole nature of politics is about balancing various constituencies of interest. But politicians should be able to explain the reason for their decisions when they choose to ignore independent expert advice and press ahead with proposals that potentially put the UK population at greater risk. O RLY? ansketil_rose, posting in unlimitedepower @ :
Title: Wave Prompt: Want Disclaimer: I own Star Wars! Yep – anyone believe me? Yeah, okay, I was lying! It belongs to George Lucas, though he probably wouldn’t want to own up to this piece of semi-literary thought-masturbation. Era: Rise of the Empire Rating: PG-13 Warnings: Slash (nobody has their clothes off, don't worry). Word Count: 200 Characters: Palpatine, Anakin Skywalker Pairings: The above. Author’s Note: Just a little breath of light smut, nothing fancy. A bit of an odd answer to the prompt, but there you go. Written for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} sw_saga_drabblelink to my journal Current Location: New Zealand, Takapuna Current Mood:  exhaustedterrificwriter @ : Seven Days Wait a minute, this is the one I was looking for. Happy birthday, Sting: November 1st, 2009lonescorpion @ :
Gonzo journalism. Try it - it works! You're not lying, you're using fiction to frame the truth, and it's amazing how you can make even the most inane subject matter seem worth a scholarship. In celebration, have one of my signature movie reviews: ( Hollow Man 2 - Claudio Fah, 2006 ) Tags: cinema, gonzo journalism, massage |
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