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The Abduction of Figaro

  • Nov. 24th, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Bjork
Though I probably shouldn't admit it, my first opera was the Abduction of Figaro (on PBS)


This is the first scene, with Figaro on his death bed. In scene 2, he's abducted by pirates :-D

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Quiz Done Paranoid Conspracist

  • Nov. 17th, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Clue-shocking!
In honor of my masochist husband renting the Oliver Stone cut of JFK, I give you Quiz done Paranoid Conspiracist!

Geeking out Academically

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Kontroll
So, I just signed up for a 3 day workshop titled Science Fiction in the Media ...

live long and prosper... )

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Sherlock freakin' Holmes

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 9:19 AM
areyousorrynow

 I love Sherlock Holmes; have since I was a kid. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was my entry into both adult fiction and the idea that “yes, you too can read the classics!” So, kinda defining stuff there.

And now Guy Ritchie is taking my childhood favorite and smashing it with a big, heavy rock

cut for ranting... )

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Fun, if average site

  • Oct. 29th, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Clue-dontworry
Thought I'd share a site that's brought me a very finite and average amount of joy.  My Life is Average.  Just amusing little stories that people send in and you can read.  It's like being in line at the bank, but everyone around you is vaguely amusing...  and really, good days are build on vaguely amusing.


 
Today I got a call from my daughters school saying she got in a fight. When I picked her up I asked her why she got in a fight. It was because a boy told her girls could not be ninjas.  My Life is Average.

Today, I met a girl named Unique. She has an identical twin sister. No one else thought it was funny. MLIA.

Today, I renamed my iPod "This ship" just for the pleasure of seeing the phrase "This ship is syncing" MLIA
 
 

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Greatest Title Ever

  • Oct. 26th, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Clue-socialists
The title for my new communications paper?  Yelling at God: The Morality of Outrage.  Oh yeah, pretty pleased with myself.   Now I just have to write it  ;-)

Strange Maps

  • Oct. 18th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Clue-shocking!

This morning I happened across this amazing site, Strange Maps

Things you didn't know you needed to know... )

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My life according to Forever Knight

  • Oct. 12th, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Bjork
snagged from [info]noelia_gUsing only episode names from one TV show, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat an episode title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "My life according to ..."

My life according to Forever Knight )

The squirrels know something...

  • Oct. 8th, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Pennypfft

I noticed the squirrels today, they're gorging themselves.  I mean, yeah, it's Fall and the little guys are normally fat balls of fuzz by now, but this year they look downright obese.  You see, normally here in Boise it doesn't start getting really cold until the last week of October.  This year our first freeze was on the 1st.  This doesn't bode well.  In fact, it bodes very badly indeed. 

I hate the cold.  I hate snow and I can feel it coming.  Ominous.

In other news, we'll be throwing our annual Halloween party soon.  I'm still working on the theme.  One year I really want to have a sit-down Clue themed dinner party, but we'll be having the party on Halloween night and we get a ton of tricker-treaters, so that won't work.  As for my costume, last year I was a Bad Tooth Fairy (I had pliers around my neck, fake tooth-themed prison tattoos and black tattered wings.)  This year, I don't know.  Nothing's really occurring to me.  Hmm...

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Fic: Yellow Jonquil

  • Oct. 4th, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Kontroll
Yellow Jonquil
By Cousin Mary
Fandom: Forever Knight
Disclaimer: I don't own FK or anything else with Canadian vampires
Someone send's Tracy flowers... )

Quiz Done Princess

  • Sep. 14th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Buffy

I get a lot of surveys and while answering them truthfully is rather dull, using a persona is fabulous fun.  Hence, my 'Quiz Done' tag  ;-)

Quiz Done Princess )

Star trek, with bonus fic rec!

  • Sep. 10th, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Bjork

Space, the final frontier... so I never intended to become a Trekkie (I'm not doing the Trekker distinction, it's stupid) anyway, I never intended anything of the sort.  But I was a certain age when Star Trek: the Next Generation started airing and it just happened.  TNG led me to DS9 which fed me right into Voyager.  Now, in my defense I stopped watching DS9 once it became the Worf show and bailed on Voyager soon after 7 of 9 showed up.  I consider the fact that I managed to avoid Enterprise with Scott Bakula a badge of honor.

Now that I've defined my level of Trekkie, please note that I didn't mention the original series in there.  That's because I never really watched it.  Sure, I caught an episode here and there but there was never a set time I sat down for some good ol' fashioned Shatner viewage.  Mostly what I knew about TOS came from sci-fi osmosis.  The knowledge was just there, like knowing the Knightrider car was Kitt and Hutts are a species not a name or rank.

Then the goddamn reboot came out, and I watched it. And the fanfic started dropping, and I read it.  And now I'm hooked and my geek level went up another notch and I swear a retainer spontaneously appeared in my mouth!  That said, this fic, Switch, took me up another notch because it's Kirk/McCoy in the academy and oh my god it's so good I want to buy a ferret and name it Bones.  Or two ferrets and name them Kirk and Bones.  And I hate ferrets, but it's what I've been told geeks do and there's no denying it now so why even bother?! 

So yeah, read the fic, you won't be disappointed.  It's freakishly, impressively good.  

Live long and prosper...

New Gotham Slayer Chapter

  • Aug. 23rd, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Izzy
 Just posted the latest chapter of Gotham Slayer.  Finally the big reveal, Bruce Wayne is Batman!  Oops, sorry for the spoiler  ;-)  

The chapter kind of gave me fits.  Maybe it was pacing, it's a very moody piece so it had to be just right.  I think I got it pretty close to perfect, but it was a near thing.  I was tinkering with word choice right up to posting.  It's shorter than my usual chapters, but I couldn't see adding another scene to the end of such an important bit.  I like the balance I got between Bruce/Batman.  There's something very appealing about how it turned out.

In personal news, I start back at school on Tuesday.  It's been like 10 years since I've had a normal, daytime college class so I'm weirded out by possible age gaps.  Though I don't look 32, I definitely don't look 18.  I chose mass media/communications as a major this time around.  Last time I was poli-sci (which I can't imagine now) and then philosophy (no future), at least I can delude myself and picture writing for a magazine while I work my way through classes.  We'll see.

Movie Review - Julie&Julia

  • Aug. 9th, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Pennypfft
I went and saw Julie&Julia yesterday and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.  


 

No real spoilers, just thoughts... )

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Clue - the term paper

  • Aug. 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Clue-shocking!

Awhile back I wrote a Clue themed term paper for my English 102 class.  This is that paper  (and yes, those are footnotes  ;-)
 

In the library with the candlestick... )

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New Gotham Slayer chapter

  • Jul. 27th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Marla - Why?
I posted a new chapter to Gotham Slayer and it's a bit of a mixed bag.  There's a conversation between Danny and Buffy I'm pretty proud of, but the end of the chapter is mostly prep work to get things set up for later.

Unfortunately, it's the way of reviewers to comment on the very last bits of a chapter and ignore earlier portions.  :-/  It's not that I don't appreciate people taking the time to comment, I do.  But I'd like feedback on my OC and I don't think I'll see much.  *le sigh*

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Kontroll

  • Jul. 26th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Kontroll
I thought I'd take a minute and recommend one of my favorite movies, Kontroll.   Now I was lucky enough that my local art house had a showing, but if you weren't, or you missed it, it is available through Netflix . 
Hungarian, shot entirely in the Budapest subway system, I mean come on, if that doesn't add up to must-see what does?  It's the story of an undercover ticket taker, or possibly a fallen angel.  Distilled awesome.

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Miss Piggy is my Hero

  • Jul. 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Izzy
So, I saw something about favorite childhood toys the other day and started to think about what was my favorite growing up? It took awhile. I was really more of a play outside with a rubber ball kind of a kid and if I said a kick ball was my favorite it just sounds sad...
Read more... )

Jul. 20th, 2009

  • 11:27 AM
Izzy
I posted my latest Gotham Slayer chapter and I'm pretty pleased with it.  After Bruce finds out about vampires Buffy is worried he's traumatized and doesn't want to take advantage of him while he's in that in that state... even though he slept in her bed and so very much wants to be taken advantage of, the capter is titled St. Buffy    ;-)

Thought I'd add a couple fic recommendations to this post.  Just a few gems from the
Twisting the Hellmouth site that I think have been woefully under-read considering how amazingly good they are.  (Plus one  that doesn't need any help from me.)

recommendations under cut )

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