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oursin @ 12:23pm: Happy birthday, fresne!

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musesfool @ 11:32pm: you could be the luckiest man alive and not even know it
Friday Night Lights

( spoilers )

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White Collar

This episode was full of "Hey it's that guys!" ( spoilers )

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pet peeve of the day:

it's spelled PER SE. It means by, in, or of itself : as such : intrinsically. not PER SAY, which is just WRONG. If you don't know how to spell it, DON'T USE IT. Because spell check is not going to pick that one up.

Whew. I feel better now.

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I barely managed to stay awake on the subway coming home tonight, so I took a long nap, but I am still all sleepy. I am very much looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow.

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the_shoshanna @ 11:08pm: signal boost: online job fair
via wintercreek:

Social networking working for you: copperbadge is running a job fair/"temp agency" in his comments. If you're looking for work (or will be soon), you can drop a screened comment there now. If you're looking to hire or have possible leads for others, you can respond to the comments when they open in 36 hours. [about 31 hours as I type this --t-s]

Anything's worth a shot in this economic climate, right?

As for me, I just knocked off work for the day at 11:05 pm. I must do as much tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, usw. Woot.

(I'm still not sorry I went. But I can see sorry from here.)

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the_shoshanna @ 12:54pm: PSA: six free Mac apps, six days left
MacHeist is giving away copies of ShoveBox (info organizer) WriteRoom (writing environment), Twitterific (Twitter app), TinyGrab (screencap & sharing), and Hordes of Orcs (game), plus MarinerWrite (word processor) if enough people download the package. This is legit, not a scam, though you do need to register with the site. Grab 'em if you want 'em!

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alienor77310 @ 5:02pm: Winter skies
After days of wind and rain, the weather calmed down.

oursin @ 1:16pm: PSA
elisem is having a jewellery sale. Pass it on!

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oursin @ 12:09pm: Deja vu all over again

Some months ago I posted about question in Guardian G2 Private Lives section about OMG MI SISTAH B FAT!!!

A v similar question this week, only this time it's the mother worried about the weight problem of her 20-year-old daughter whose 'life is great in every other area that I know about – she is happy in her studies and extremely popular'.

But reading the backstory and deducing that mother has been having Issues over daughter and weight since the latter was 2, do we not feel that it is time for her to step outside the equation?

Enquiring minds want to know, is daughter herself worried? It does sound as though any action she has taken has been rather under pressure from ma.

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pfodge @ 10:59pm: True blood screen caps
I have started capping Trueblood season 1 and have decided to share the links with my friends list.

I have episodes 1 and 2 done so far, and will be finishing up the rest in the next couple days, I hope. Please feel free to download them using the links provided.

They are RAR files so you will need winrar to download them.

( Samples & Download Links )

musesfool @ 11:05pm: schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated!
I did have things to say about Bones, but I don't remember what most of them were. ( spoilers )

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Supernatural: Changing Channels

( rambling about the episode, with spoilers )

I will probably have more thoughts tomorrow.

( spoilers for next week's preview )

Oh, also, here is Matt Roush's review of the episode. (Spoiler: he really liked it.)

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Damn, I totally didn't realize that the parade tomorrow is going to fuck with my commute (or my walk to the office after the subway, anyway). Maybe I will sneak out of work and try to see some of it. I did in 1996, when I worked down on Wall St. (I mean, I literally worked in a building on Wall St., not that I worked in the financial industry at that time.) and it was kind of awesome, even though they are not my team. Hmm...

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pfodge @ 7:11pm: Trueblood Screencaps
I'm screen capping Trueblood season one. I'm going to upload it to Megaupload when I'm done. Let me know if you are interested in the links. I will post them here if you are.

ravenna_c_tan @ 9:07pm: Pimping for HP Kinkfest. Look under the cut for a very pretty picture. (And many more sexy banners at the comm itself.)

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yonmei @ 12:24am: About to depart Mumbai for Gdansk
And the figurehead has a good question:

So, internets, if you were sailing from Mumbai to Gdansk what would be your route:
Arabian Sea, Suez Canal, Mediterranean, English Channel and then what? Do you go left around the big island between Sweden and Denmark or do you go right around the big island through Denmark? For preferences, I'd like the route to be on the Copenhagen side because seeing the little mermaid statue would be most cool and in keeping with the theme of the virtual journey.

I agree. I think we should navigate by the coolest route. But what does the navigator say?

What we did in Mumbai

oursin @ 8:05pm: Prostitutes, poets and pigs

I found this intriguing: 'Archaeologist of erotica' uncovers lost world of brothels. Even if what they are dealing with probably represented about 1%, if that, of the world of sex-work 1860-1945, even in Paris.

Saving Siegfried for the nation: Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after £550,000 award. 7 boxes doesn't sound enormous (unless they're Very Big Boxes) and £1.25 million sounds a lot.

Andrew Motion commits higher codswallop on the subject:

Motion said the news that the archive seemed likely to stay in Britain should be celebrated. "It's perfectly true that US libraries do an extremely good job of looking after archives, and to say they should be kept here does not imply that they would not be looked after in the US – in fact they are rather brilliant," he said.

"But I think there is something quite primitive about the connection between the writer and the country they write in.

*Thinks of all the expat writers who managed without this deep, earthy, rather Mybugian connection to Their Native Soil*
(Who, in fact, needed to get some distance on Their Native Soil in order to write about it...)

And while I like the Larkin quote he gives: 'Philip Larkin talked about the meaningful and the magical when it came to archives', because, yes, that (even if rather too much of my hands-on experience with archives at the moment seems to be cryptic statistical grids and primeval computer printouts on that green-lined tractor-fed paper), I can't quite forgive such flagrant woowooery.

How cool is it that a handwritten copy of Sassoon's famous Soldier's Declaration survives among these papers?

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And more on the adowwably kewt micro-piggies. Enquiring minds would like to know: and do they make good eating when one gets bored with them after they reach a size that no longer fits into a teacup?

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yonmei @ 6:23pm: Opening Lines That Just Mouseclick to 'Report Spam' Button
"With the impending release of the new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats on November 6, 2009, questions about the paranormal will surely be cropping up in popular culture again."

*click!*

the_shoshanna @ 12:44pm: I'm not sorry I did it
but, looking at the deadline of the current job, I'm realizing that I had absolutely no business taking off to Mass. for five days.

I'm pretty sure I will be very sorry next week. Yikes.

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copracat @ 3:37am: bounding main, ahoy
So, internets, if you were sailing from Mumbai to Gdansk what would be your route:
Arabian Sea, Suez Canal, Mediterranean, English Channel and then what? Do you go left around the big island between Sweden and Denmark or do you go right around the big island through Denmark? For preferences, I'd like the route to be on the Copenhagen side because seeing the little mermaid statue would be most cool and in keeping with the theme of the virtual journey.

The Sixth Small Fandom Fest has opened for prompt submissions.

Why I love Fred Pohl's blog, reason #56.
He starts them like this and it makes me laugh: Quite a few years ago —well, about seventy of them, to be exact —I was the teen-age editor of two professional science-fiction magazines

I'm sure I had more to say but it's all slipped from my mind. I think it was getting twitter spam from @barrettfoa's account while watching NCIS: Los Angeles. Creepy, spam dudes! Very creepy. I might have to stop following celeb tweets again, but I think I'm hooked on @llcoolj's affirmation tweets, oh dear. I think I've worked out why I'm calm and uncreeped by @dhewlett. It's because he's got the geek dad uncool that was so charming about wil wheaton until wheaton started exhibiting as a misogynist arsehole which no amount of winning geek-daddery can spackle over.

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musesfool @ 11:42am: you are not that pure, sir
Answers to the mini-dvd commentary meme. The offer is still open, if you're interested after this scintillating discussion. *snerk* I had fun, anyway.

( Back from the Great Beyond for little_missmimi )

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( We Killed Yamamoto for elliemurasaki )

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Last night, I dreamt that two fangirls had moved into my bedroom in my parents house, while I was trying to live in it, and they were moving my stuff around and taking over my space and I was an unhappy camper, and my parents were like, "but we were just trying to help!"

I don't even know what to do with that. I just know that I woke up disgruntled and er, have remained so. My gruntle has been dissed. Or something.

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I'm not a Yankees fan, but I thought they were kind of adorable last night. And I really don't like the Phillies, though I think they are a really good team, so I can't be too upset with the outcome.

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New show tonight! YAY! I am looking forward to this one a lot. Plus, new Bones, too!

Ah, tv, never leave me!

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the_shoshanna @ 7:08am: see icon!
Eeee, my OTW travel mug arrived while I was traveling! And even though I am no longer traveling, I am drinking coffee out of it, because it is a) shiny; b) new; c) OTW; and d) bigger than my usual morning coffee mug. All of which make me happy (and functional) this morning.

I had a fabulous five days away. How wonderful to spend all that time in Mass. with friends (and newly met folks), and none of it in hospitals.

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selenak @ 8:51am: Yuletide!
Yuletide sign-ups have begun! I took the plunge and joined this year. Found out there were some more fandoms I could offer without having to refresh my memory by research because I had watched/read the source material only recently. (And even written meta about them!)

On the other hand, I discovered that there are several German fandoms on the offering this year - Karl May's Winnetou novels, Michael Ende's Momo and Perry Rhodan (aka our longest running pulp Sci Fi series), and I felt a bit bad for not signing up for any of them, considering that Karl May was literally the first writer I ever read (Dad & my grandfather were fans and told me tales, so the first year in school, once I could read, I grabbed Winnetou I) and I still have a nostalgic fondness for those books, I do love Michael Ende and PR is a case of childhood & teenage nostalgia again. But the thing is, a) I'd have to reread because it's been so many years, and I just don't have the time, real life strikes again, and b) it would feel weird to me to write in English for these fandoms. Because I do hear the narrative voice and the characters in German in my head, you know? It's not so much that I first encountered them in German - I saw all Star Trek shows dubbed before I saw them in the English original, for example, and these characters do have their English-language voices in my head - it's probably that I can't imagine how they would sound in English at all. Especially Karl May's earnest Wilhelminian prose. Wie der Westman zu sagen pflegt. But if someone else were to try, that would be awesome.

Anyway. The list of requested and offered fandoms so far is here, and if even half of this gets written, it should be fantastic reading for the holidays. As for my own requests, this is as good a place as any to write the obligatory letter to the gracious soul who'll fulfill one of them.

Dear Yuletide Writer,

first of all, thank you! I hope you'll find one of the prompts to your liking. If you want to go in another direction with the characters, by all means, as long as nobody gets bashed and those I indicated show up in a prominent fashion. As for the shipping level, I leave that to your discretion - gen, het or slash is all fine by me. (Mind you, if, say, you pick the B5 prompt and come up with an X-Rated Bester/G'Kar/Londo threesome instead of a gen encounter I would be... surprised, but if that's what tickles your fancy and you can pull it off in character, go you!)

Generally speaking, I'm an ensemble fan; listing some characters but not others doesn't mean I dislike the rest in the respective fandom, it's just an indication of focus preference. I also appreciate when something of the world buliding makes it into the fanfic - for example, Rome was really good at getting the different belief systems and cultural backgrounds across, and A place of greater safety really manages to be about the French Revolution as well as about individual participants. (Considering that as a writer I'm far better at dialogue and character exploration than at a decent plot or atmospheric descriptions, I'm all the more in awe of people who excell at the later two.) Which doesn't mean that if you choose to write a sonnet instead of a 2000 words long adventure, I wouldn't be thrilled as well.

Again, thanks so much for signing up!

thete1 @ 12:24am: THANK YOU!
OMG, Mystery Fangirl is all paid back and I'm so weebly that I just can't deal. Yes, weebly.

So, in thanks for all that you -- and you, and you, and also *you*! -- have done, I'm offering snippets. I'm actually working on four different stories right now and so won't be able to do them immediately, but I promise to try.

Rules: DC or Malazan Book of the Fallen. I might be able to manage a Buffyish thing here or a Marvelish thing there, but odds are waaaaay low on that. You can pick one of my icons, or give me a three- or four-word prompt, or two or three character names, or whatever you'd like. Note: I'm about to add a Roy icon to the mix, so keep that in mind. :D

No, you don't have to have contributed to ask for a snippet, but if you *did* contribute, I really hope you *will* ask, even if it turns out I can't manage it.

*hugs you ALL*

From Mystery Fangirl:

"I only hope that you all feel like incredibly, wonderfully, extraordinarily kind and virtuous people because that's what you are. None of you had a reason to help me but you did. I will always be grateful."

musesfool @ 11:33pm: it's two and two
I was busy chatting with angelgazing about yuletide, so I maybe wasn't paying as close attention to Criminal Minds as I should have been, but that was okay because ( spoilers )

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In case you missed it, I have a poll up to gauge interest in a possible Dark Angel end of the year fic exchange. I'd need at least ten people willing to play to run the thing, and right now that does not look like it's happening, but I'll leave the poll open until tomorrow afternoon, so if you are interested in such a thing, you should let me know.

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Mini-dvd commentary meme seen everywhere:


Pick a paragraph / passage / scene from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection [Note: Please include the title/fandom]. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Just so you know, the older something is, the less I remember, and I would prefer not to talk about the XMM or SV stuff.

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musesfool @ 3:36pm: bow down before the one you serve
filling out my yuletide signup is HARD!

I thought I had it all figured out, and while two of my requests are rock solid GIMME GIMME (Middleman! The Queen's Thief!), I am kind of like, I could ask for this, but I also want that, and what about this and oh, I forgot about that! So I have just spent all this time filling it out and now I am like, is that really what I want to request? I mean, Big Bang Theory! Warlock! but also, Flora Segunda! Smekday! Lucifer! The Sound and the Fury! L'Engleverse! White Collar! Ten Inch Hero! Omg, Up! I could ask for Carl/Ellie! Sports Night is eligible! I could ask for a Dan/Jeremy/Natalie threesome or a Dan/Dana/Natalie threesome that otherwise no one would ever write!

And even with the caveat that I am only going to offer to write things I would be excited about writing, the list is... long. Longer than planned.

Maybe I will do what I did last year - submit, mull, and then resubmit closer to the deadline. Even though it takes forever to sign up.

My life, so hard!

*goes back to filling out the form*

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pfodge @ 11:32am: Clusterf#ck Challenge pt. 3 Banners
Here are the banners that I made. I thought I posted all the icons and the banners. I think it was revealed around the same time that mom had her surgery, and posting probably slipped my mind.


( The Banners )

pfodge @ 11:06am: Clusterf#ck Icons pt. 2


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Upload icons to your own computer/server NO HOTLINKING!!!
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( Part 2 Episodes 308-314 )

pfodge @ 10:53am: Clusterf#ck Icons pt. 1
I just realized that I never posted the icons I made for the clusterf#ck challenge over at qaf_challenges into my own journal. I worked on season 3 all episodes. I also did some banners.




Comments and Credit always appreciated. Please do not alter in any way
Upload icons to your own computer/server NO HOTLINKING!!!
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