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"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
-- Oscar Wilde
What's On My TV:
The Amazing Race
Bleach
Dexter
Metalocalypse
The Mighty Boosh
Naruto Shippuden
The Venture Bros.
Waiting For:
Burn Notice
USA, 1/2010
Dancing With the Stars
ABC, ?
Doctor Who
SciFi, ?
Frisky Dingo
Cartoon Network, ?
Project Runway
Lifetime, 1/14
Robot Chicken
Cartoon Network, ?
Supernatural
The CW, 1/21, 9 p.m.
Randomness:
100 cheapest, best places to eat in NYC
8 Coupons
All My Faves
Amazon.com Associates links
Babelfish Translation
Book-A-Minute SF/F
BookMooch
Cake Wrecks
Carol Lay comics
The Complete Pondering List
Dreamwidth f'list
Fed Ex Locations
Flickr Favorites 1
Flickr Favorites 2
Forgotten NY
Free Rice
GasBuddy.com
German words of love & romance
Girls in Suits
Goodreads
HopStop subway directions
Internet Movie Database
Invisible Records (Underground, Inc.)
Isolation Tank music & merch
LibraryThing
Lileks' Institute of Official Cheer
Living on a Shoestring
Lucky Cats - Maneki Neko
Mapquest driving directions
Metropolis Mail-Order
MTA NYC transit
New York Press
Overheard in New York
Random Name Generator
Rate My Kitten
Saiyuki Reload in Zero Sum
Television Without Pity
Textism: Word HTML Cleaner
Tomato Nation
ThinkExist Quotations
Witchblade Episode Guide
Wayback Machine
World Time Zones
Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode Guide
LJ-related
paid account status
friends of friends
interests match
member birthdays
popular amongst my friends
recent comments
what server am I?
Writing Fandoms:
Slash
Andromeda
Angel
Buffy tVS, the movie
(Pike and Benny)
Death Note
Doctor Who
due South
Fight Club
GetBackers
Hard Core Logo
Once a Thief
Saiyuki
Smallville
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Twitch City
Two Guys and a Girl
Weiß Kreuz
The X-Files
X-Men (comics)
One Shot Fandoms
Gen
Andromeda
X-Files
Recommendations
Quotes of the Moment:
"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."
-- Paul Harvey
“I think [doubt is] perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that’s a huge mistake. Conviction is what you do to be comfortable, to write The End on thinking. Doubt keeps you in the present, it keeps you conscious and reacting to and acting on what is going on now. It’s work, and people like to avoid work.”
-- John Patrick Shanley, playwright of Doubt, a Parable
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Like in Last Night, there was a lot of laying on top of other
women, and, and, and... not other women, not like I'm a woman, but -- that made no sense. On other women, you know, and you have to -- it's a bit tricky 'cause you're trying to respect what's, you know, them, and the scene, and the stuff, and you know. If I get excited, I apologise, if I don't get excited, I apologise."
-- Callum Keith Rennie, on doing sex scenes
"You may have noticed that Turlough spent a great deal of time kept captive in various states of bondage. It was always a disappointment to me that there seemed to be no getting around this problem."
-- Mark Strickson
Introduction,
The Companions of Doctor Who: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma
by Tony Attwood, Copyright 1986
"So hit us at Talismaniac.com, where you can log on and you can rock on, because my nipples are dry and he needs food."
-- part of Gabriel's advertising pitch, with baby doll, for his business website
Witchblade: "Static"
Chiari I malformation
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
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2:08 am - The What Rebellion?
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| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
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1:05 am - Mystery Date
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Has Tokyopop made any announcements I should know about? Silver Diamond was on Tokyopop's one-every-three-months system, but volume 4 came out in April while volume 5 is nowhere in sight. Trinity Blood was also on Tokyopop's one-every-three-months system, but volume 11 came out in August while Amazon lists volume 12's release date as April of next year.
current mood:  confused
current music: "Insane (KCRW)" by Damien Rice
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| Monday, November 30th, 2009
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10:18 pm - White Rabbit
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It was so cold and wet today that I was glad when I could get home. My umbrella was whipping inside-out and back at one point. Dead leaves pelting people, a child shrieking (I'm not kidding).... It was quite a scene. I had to delete a shot that went off from my camera accidentally as my umbrella whipped around and I nearly flew with it. Shot: flash flare on part of my umbrella, sideways shot of part of a window....
But I have some new Bergdorf Goodman photos. They had two new windows, and I did some new stuff with some of the others. My Flickr photostream.
Here's a new window at Bergdorf Goodman that will just appear here. The lower part of the window contains such small set pieces that getting the whole window from a distance makes the stuff inside the rabbit hole indecipherable. I shot it in pieces instead. Atop the rabbit hole... ( photo )
Down the rabbit hole... ( photo )
The bottom part reminds me of the commercial with the crazy director: "Why squirrel hate me?"
These other mannequins at St. John look kind of like zombies in this shot. ( photo )
current mood:  cold
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1:30 am - Fae
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| Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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10:58 pm - The Secret Life of...
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I'm probably a little late with this, but....
Brock's over-the-top macho hid it from me, but now that he's been absent a while I fully see it: The Venture Bros. is fanfic. Yeah, yeah, it's always been obvious from how the show deals with Jonny Quest, the Scooby gang, Batman, the Fantastic Four, G.I. Joe, and others, but I mean that it's written a lot like our fanfic, like the stories fic writers make about the private, mundane lives of heroes and villains, the trauma and hang-ups, the ways of dealing, the ways your other life impact the mundane sections, the sex lives, and in some cases the private dickishness. The villains aren't so much totally evil as... human, sometimes embarrassingly so. The Venture family actually isn't just blood relations but seems to include Brock, H.E.L.P.eR., Dr Orpheus and his daughter, the Monarch's gang, and Pete White and Billy. Hatred's not there yet, and that's a part of his many problems.
The show even cast a celebrity as The Sovereign. C'mon.
current mood:  surprised
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10:16 pm - Lack of Support
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Tonight I called Apple Support about another iPod Nano problem but thankfully figured out a solution on my own. I couldn't stand another eight minutes of their loud, scratchy, crappy hold music selection.
After the recent Restore to factory conditions to fix my last Nano problem, my playlists were no longer loading to the Nano. Before, they did it automatically. I synced and synced again, no dice. While waiting on hold I went through all the tabs while Tiny was linked up and saw that there's now an option of selecting your playlists. Default is now no playlists loaded. But it turns out that you can't just check that you want them all. You have to check and then press Sync to actually apply them. Thus, I had to connect and reconnect and...
My hatred for Apple just continues to grow.
current mood:  aggravated
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12:14 am - Through Other People's Eyes
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| Friday, November 27th, 2009
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9:50 pm - My, My
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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009
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3:25 am - \o/
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Tonight I realized that it was not only did some albums' artwork show up as black in the Nano viewscreen even though the artwork was correct inside the MP3s but some songs had the wrong artwork seen on the Nano, even though, again, it was correct within the MP3 file. So I Restored my Nano to factory conditions and reloaded my library. Afterward I checked a few I knew to have problems and saw the correct stuff instead.
current mood:  accomplished
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3:18 am - Welcome
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Hey, guys, I have one invitation for a new account at Archive of Our Own. First come, first served! Claimed.
current mood:  geeky
current music: "Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein? ([:SITD:]-Remix)" by Eisbrecher
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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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10:23 pm - Detail
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These Bergdorf Goodman Christmas window photos were also taken Monday. Here are some close-ups to show detail:
"Chapter 12: Potions Imbibed and Perspectives Re-Arranged": Truly the ultimate dollhouse, with dolls and rooms and spiral staircases in many sizes. Those are spikes along the back edge of the mannequin's leg. ( photos )
"Chapter 22: Illogical Lexicons and Convivial Characters": How many details from Alice in Wonderland can you notice in this window? I didn't get a chance to see all the things typed on the paper in the typewriter, but I did notice "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" and the bit about believing six impossible things before breakfast. The texture on the dog and giant pen comes from lines of handwriting and on the rose branches from type-print. ( photos )
"Chapter 24: Improbable Lodging and Feline Mischief": I think Bergdorf used that metallic border on one of last year's Christmas windows, The Seasons: Winter. I like the Victorian stationary effect they superimposed on the window over it. That's some treehouse too. ( photo )
current mood:  sore
current music: "If You Don't Stop It..." by Rotersand
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5:23 pm - Inbox Clearing, Holiday Shopping Edition
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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11:06 pm - Turns to Black
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_other_sandy helped me with my original iTunes difficulty, but I've run into an odd problem. Some of the songs show the right artwork from the automatic album artwork match in iTunes and Get Info's artwork section, but on the Nano viewscreen itself the "cover" is just all black. There are at least three albums like this.
Any suggestions? I'm tempted to try a Restore to Factory Conditions and see if that helps, but that can be a scary step to someone with my history of finding odd ways to ruin tech. Should I find an image source and put new album artwork in manually to see if that makes a difference.
ETA: Some songs show the wrong album artwork in the Nano but the correct artwork in iTunes. The hell?
current mood: confused
current music: Random Is Resistance by Rotersand
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12:15 am - Winter Wonderland
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Bergdorf Goodman's Christmas windows are up, and so are my photos of them. Right here. This year their windows are loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland.
I hope to do an after dark shoot sometime in the next month and see what I can get. Plus, one of the smaller windows still isn't finished and I'm curious to see how it turns out.
current mood: cold
current music: "Let It Rock" by Kevin Rudolf ft. Li'l Wayne
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009
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1:00 am - Struggle
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I've been having trouble with sharp headaches and focus problems unfortunately, which makes it hard to work on "Glass Houses," which annoys me. Hilariously, I had fewer allergy problems in Boston than I do at home. Waking up has been rough too, so I've been getting up from noon to 2 pm. It all makes me feel so guilty.
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Does anyone know if there's a way for a PC user to manually connect album covers to mp3s in iTunes? There are a few albums iTunes' cover collection stubbornly refuses to match. Lots of people have asked for fixes on this (-609) error thing--I checked--but since Apple products are perfect Support never fixes the problem. At best someone will tell you it's your fault for being on dial-up, but I was on wifi a week ago and only managed to get two more albums connected that way.
current mood: sore
current music: "Spark (Burikuso remix)" by Assemblage 23
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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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9:17 pm - The Amazing Race
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8:41 pm - Animated
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Talking with lady_ganesh, I've realized that the new TV I've enjoyed the most in the past six months has all been animated: The Venture Bros., Naruto Shippuden, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'd love to have someone to talk Avatar with aside from aside from occasionally syvia because I really enjoyed it--though I still haven't seen the start and middle of Water Book episode #2, Nick Toons--but seem to be behind the curve of fandom on it. I'm getting the impression that most folks have either seen it already and gotten through it or have no interest in trying it.
There are just so many characters I enjoyed in the series, believable character evolution, not much filler since it was obviously designed as a plotted arc with a set end (which has the downside of there not being any more coming), a broader moral palette than even a lot of adult American properties have, and a character who simply would have been the buttmonkey in many series getting many chances to shine. Seeing later episodes before the earliest ones--thanks, Nick Toons--ruined some surprises me for me but also let me see how Zuko had been set up from the beginning to have the potential to get where he ended up. My favorite episode is the imaginative, meta, and hilarious theater episode.
Otherwise, TV has been really disappointing for me lately.
current mood: sore
current music: Compass by Assemblage 23
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1:41 am - Don't Look at Me Like That
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Of all episodes to replay, adult swim replays #166? How many times do we have to review Orihime's epic failure, stupidity, and uselessness?
Bleach #167: ( spoilers )
current mood:  sleepy
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| Friday, November 20th, 2009
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12:45 am - Abandon All Hope
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Supernatural: "Abandon All Hope": I'm so annoyed they ended it there, like that, when the next episode is January 21. ( spoilers )
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FlashForward: I'm hating almost everyone on this show. None of them can deal with anything--their pasts, their present, their futures, their emotions--and need to endlessly whine about all of it. I was getting angry enough that I occasionally yelled, "Oh, shut up!" at the TV. Do you guys really think you have it all that tough? Really? And having their integrity or whatever challenged makes all of them growl and whine and react violently. These people are too delicate for this world.
( spoilers )
I have to stop watching this series.
current mood:  annoyed
current music: "When Angels Fly Away" by Cold
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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11:58 pm - Black and Neutral
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apathetic
amused
tired
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