(no subject)
Aug. 14th, 2011 03:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Facepalm: http://www.aol.com/2011/08/10/cops-pa-woman-let-niece-6_n_923155.html
* It was cool enough that Hector and the black cats all ended up in bed with me. It's already feeling like September here, and I have to resist the urge to set out Halloween decorations.
* I keep thinking about the scene in the Wire D'Angelo takes his lady to a fancy restaurant. I wonder if my dad felt that way the first time he went to one. Was he as awkward and out of place? I remember how for months before we went to France, he drilled us over and over on french table manners and what to expect in formal dining situations, the ins and outs of service, dessert carts, and the like. Was he protecting us from embarrassment he himself had felt as a young man? It's something I never really thought about, but it seems to fit. It was important tat we be able to hold our heads up in any company.
* Where am I in B5? We just met Number 1.
* I do wish the Seattle PBS station that runs old Who were better at sequential episode showings. Last week was a pair of Hartnells. This week starts smack in the middle of a Trauten with no transition or explanation how they got there or who the people captured by the cybermen are or why that woman is holding a companion and some random Americans hostage. Sigh.
To my amusement, the Americans all sound like John Wayne, as if anyone besides John Wayne ever talked like that in real life.
* Speaking of bad accents, this compares some movie accents with real speakers of the southern dialects they were aiming for: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/08/these_suck_yall_11_terrible_soua.html
The 8th one is particularly interesting with it's sampler of wildly different NOLA accents.
* "The Best Time I Was a 200 Pound Beauty* Queen:" http://thehairpin.com/2011/08/the-best-time-i-was-a-200-pound-beauty-queen
* "Being called "bigots" offends bigots!:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/08/being-called-bigots-offends-bigots.html
* neo_prodigy discusses hip hop and "Why I'm Down With The LXD:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/985065.html
* Seanan_maguire found. This appalling thing happened to Wil Wheaton at comic con: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2011/07/if-you-cut-me-i-will-bleed.html
Don't be a dick, folks.
* Ninjakitten and I have sorted out accommodations, and I'm good for Orycon Thurs-Sun. We are going to have to switch rooms, which sucks, but not as much as trying to travel and enjoy a con on the same day.
* O.o: http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/235080.html
* I reached the bit of Midnighter where he takes off his mask. I'm sorry he did, really. I liked not knowing. I liked imagining all sorts of different people over that stubbled chin. At the same time I get why they did it from a character development perspective, and the plot iit's in service of is interesting. I also suppose no one can be Midnighter twenty four seven, even Midnighter himself.
* It was cool enough that Hector and the black cats all ended up in bed with me. It's already feeling like September here, and I have to resist the urge to set out Halloween decorations.
* I keep thinking about the scene in the Wire D'Angelo takes his lady to a fancy restaurant. I wonder if my dad felt that way the first time he went to one. Was he as awkward and out of place? I remember how for months before we went to France, he drilled us over and over on french table manners and what to expect in formal dining situations, the ins and outs of service, dessert carts, and the like. Was he protecting us from embarrassment he himself had felt as a young man? It's something I never really thought about, but it seems to fit. It was important tat we be able to hold our heads up in any company.
* Where am I in B5? We just met Number 1.
* I do wish the Seattle PBS station that runs old Who were better at sequential episode showings. Last week was a pair of Hartnells. This week starts smack in the middle of a Trauten with no transition or explanation how they got there or who the people captured by the cybermen are or why that woman is holding a companion and some random Americans hostage. Sigh.
To my amusement, the Americans all sound like John Wayne, as if anyone besides John Wayne ever talked like that in real life.
* Speaking of bad accents, this compares some movie accents with real speakers of the southern dialects they were aiming for: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/08/these_suck_yall_11_terrible_soua.html
The 8th one is particularly interesting with it's sampler of wildly different NOLA accents.
* "The Best Time I Was a 200 Pound Beauty* Queen:" http://thehairpin.com/2011/08/the-best-time-i-was-a-200-pound-beauty-queen
* "Being called "bigots" offends bigots!:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/08/being-called-bigots-offends-bigots.html
* neo_prodigy discusses hip hop and "Why I'm Down With The LXD:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/985065.html
* Seanan_maguire found. This appalling thing happened to Wil Wheaton at comic con: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2011/07/if-you-cut-me-i-will-bleed.html
Don't be a dick, folks.
* Ninjakitten and I have sorted out accommodations, and I'm good for Orycon Thurs-Sun. We are going to have to switch rooms, which sucks, but not as much as trying to travel and enjoy a con on the same day.
* O.o: http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/235080.html
* I reached the bit of Midnighter where he takes off his mask. I'm sorry he did, really. I liked not knowing. I liked imagining all sorts of different people over that stubbled chin. At the same time I get why they did it from a character development perspective, and the plot iit's in service of is interesting. I also suppose no one can be Midnighter twenty four seven, even Midnighter himself.