Necro Comic Con

Rediscovering Blog

2010-09-07T23:53:00.003-04:00

I've decided that I might not entirely abandon this weblog after all. I'm mostly on Facebook these days, but I'm beginning to feel that I should expand my ability to waste time on the internet and rediscover some old territory. I would be surprised, however, if there's actually someone I know who even reads this anymore.

All about Paisley design.

My husband told me that early computer cards were commonly used to store the paisley pattern design, but Wikipedia doesn't seem to mention this. I told him he should edit Wikipedia and fix that, but I'm glad he's not one of those people who takes Wikipedia waaay too seriously.

Star Tracks

2009-02-20T11:55:00.007-05:00

. . . from The Simpsons . . .
Comic Book Guy: Ah, the full Leonard Nimoy cycle: "I Am Not Spock", then "I Am Spock", and finally, "I Am Also Scotty".

According to Isaac Asimov:
"For years and years, I have done my best to be a stupid husband . . . But it hadn't occurred to me that Mr. Spock was sexy . . . that girls palpitate over the way one eyebrow goes up a fraction; that they squeal with passion when a little smile quirks his lip. And all because he's smart!

If I had only known!"

(Link to full essay here)

Galifianakis

2008-12-18T16:22:00.003-05:00

"When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E. Cheese. I went to my stylist tonight before the show and she was like, 'Zach, what kind of look are you going for?' and I said, 'Just give me the Amber Alert.' " - Zach Galifianakis

Another Program

2008-12-14T18:22:00.001-05:00

The war between lines and dots; it went on for minutes.

Two Videos

2008-12-12T23:40:00.001-05:00

How to break up a cat fight!

Kittens playing on a slide (I'm pretty sure some of this is looped).

Linkfest 2008 (2 Links)

2008-11-20T23:00:00.004-05:00

For your viewing pleasure, the following:

A duck who follows a dog around.

Drawings by Kate Micucci, who almost slightly reminds me of Shelley Duvall.

Not Paying Attention

2008-11-08T11:08:00.001-05:00

...Has its consequences.

Look Ma; I wrote a program!

2008-10-31T13:15:00.003-04:00

It's so useful!

My Vote Does Not Count Because...

2008-10-30T20:08:00.006-04:00

...My desire to vote is inversely proportional to the lack of people who tell me to vote, then immediately tell me who to vote for, and proceed to act like I am causing amongst the worst disasters imaginable by not voting (at what I will add is my very first legal opportunity to do so).

(Amongst other reasons.)

I'm Still Not Dead Yet

2008-10-21T18:35:00.003-04:00

Now have some Doctor Who parodies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qwVz9QQ6Xc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZUpb8Pz9c

Here comes Rowan Atkinson...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xkZhAtjT8U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDmQaZm_a3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHhuDOB5Bo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRmpm0MEMY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bRa8M1-hqw

Just accept it

2008-08-21T22:45:00.001-04:00

Me: *observes tall, drink mixing can laying on a towel on the counter at work* What's this all about?
Yammy: If you put it on top of the others, it gets the others wet.
Me: But that's how life is.
Yammy: It doesn't always have to be that way.

Did I just post?

2008-08-10T01:59:00.004-04:00

Correction: I would like to apologize for posting filler.

Please forgive me.

It will never happen again.

If it does, I give you the authority to shoot me.

>) @ just being silly

Don't shoot me; really.

Please.

At Dairy Queen

2008-07-19T23:57:00.004-04:00

Me: *looking at back of the Coffee News* Here's a list of places it's available. ... Hey, we don't have it at Borders anymore! At least, I don't think we do.
Brothery: You don't know? Isn't it your job to know? You should go to work today and tell them that you were reading the list of places to get the Coffee News on your day off, and that you realized you didn't know if it was at Borders... and that you were so ashamed, you want to give back some of your pay.

These Dreams, Part 2

2008-07-19T13:04:00.002-04:00

Tonight I had a dream (nightmare?) about some Satanic ritual. There was a poster depicting it. The poster was completely red, and it involved some demonic-looking guy with a VERY TINY demonic-looking guy on top of his head, reaching down and pulling out the bigger guy's eye. Then using it for something. (...)

Then at some point later Diva and I were in Big Lots!, and they had pocketbooks shaped like other things... they also had wallets shaped like glasses cases... and then there was one wallet with glasses on the outside which we THOUGHT was a fake glasses case, but when you opened it it had glasses inside... so it was a real glasses case designed to look like a fake one.

WHY WOULD I HAVE TO DREAM SOMETHING SO UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED

Working Class Hero

2008-07-18T02:07:00.003-04:00

I'm writing a novel. All I'll say is it's about the Undead. If I ever try to get published, this is not the first thing I'm submitting. If I am to be a writer I am finishing this, polishing it, and saving it for a rainy day because it is fucking GOLD.

I'm also finally learning how to play my button accordion properly and studying accordion repair.

Because writers AND accordion repairists (<--- not a word) are notorious for getting rich quick.

I'm So Scatterbrained

2008-07-16T22:57:00.003-04:00

Me: C:\New Folder\New Text Document? What the Hell did I create this for? *clicks*
Text Document: "TMI Friday's/TMI Miami

Unnecessary Mysteries - Dairy Queen's 'Foots Long' Hotdog
(also ask for a fork; get a fork and knife! fork is wrapped; knife is not)"
Me: ...Wtf?

New lava lamp:

:D

2008-07-14T21:45:00.001-04:00

Back to the Sandbox

2008-07-14T19:06:00.003-04:00

"One can no more find love with cool composure and a set purpose than one can find poetic inspiration with those ingredients. To love, one must begin by understanding what a woman is, what protection and respect she is owed. To the man who is imbued with the holiness of reciprocal commitments, the equality of the sexes before God, and the injustices of the social order and of vulgar opinion on this matter, love can reveal itself in all its grandeur and beauty; but to him who is permeated with the common misconceptions on the inferiority of women, on the difference between her duties and ours with respect to fidelity, to him who seeks emotion rather than an ideal, love will not reveal itself. And for this reason, love, this feeling that God created for everyone, is known only to a few."

(another George Sand quote from Horace)

Free Will

2008-07-14T00:15:00.007-04:00

My father does not believe women possess this; I suspect because neither his mother nor my mother ever taught him the meaning of respect. He claims to respect women, but he shows that he does not with his actions. When he sees a woman who appears strong, that is attractive to him... because he wants to control someone, and of course it's no fun without a challenge!

Anytime I do something he does not like, not once does he ask: "Why did you choose to do that?"

Always: "Who made you do that? Who have you been talking to? Who's been controlling your behavior?"

If free will is scientifically impossible, that's an entirely different argument.

If free will is scientifically possible, THEN I POSSESS IT.

AND I DO WHAT I WANT.

Damn it.

The Weakest Links

2008-07-12T00:55:00.005-04:00

from Spaced:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=45FBaEdZfgA
You can't shoot straight, you big-titted bitch!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZqgAu4Ttng
omg he has espn

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysg_FoWOue8
Do you speak English?

-- -- -- --

accordion videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=phArtt5Et78
I want a bandoneon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4gjecwPc_lU
Accordions at weddings are awesome.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ccY5IcwWyV8
Dueling ban...doneons?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D7-c0bl4ZqM
Yammy, you never told me your brother adapts songs from Chrono Trigger for accordion!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vrCMK26QIJg
Beautiful song.

Rediscovering Feminism

2008-07-10T21:44:00.003-04:00

"The best, the most devoted, the most loyal of men is always ready," she said, "to suspect the woman who has given herself to him. He will insult her, if not by his actions, at least by his thoughts. In our society, man has assumed over us a right that is strictly material; so all of our fidelity, and often all of our love, is summarized for him by one fact. For us, who only command moral power, we place more weight on moral proofs than on appearances. Even when we're jealous, we're capable of denying the evidence of our eyes; and when you utter a vow, we abide by your word as though it were infallible. But is our word any less sacred? Why have you made your honor and ours so different? You would tremble with anger if a man told you that you were lying. And yet you live on distrust, and you surround us with precautions that prove you suspect us. For a man, who should be reassured forever by years of chastity and sincerity, just one unusual circumstance, one mysterious word, a gesture, a door open or shut, can destroy all his trust in an instant."

from the novel Horace by George Sand

What's brilliant about George Sand's feminism is she often wrote books from the point of view of men; in the case of Indiana, a man who actually had significant resentment towards women. So it's like of you were a chauvinist, you'd pick up this book that sounded cool that was by a guy named George. You'd start reading and... hey, he's insulting women! I'm a chauvinist; that's totally awesome.

And by the end of the book...

OMG OH NO I'M A FEMINIST HOW DID THAT HAPPEN WTF

Grrr

2008-07-09T15:01:00.004-04:00

I had a dream last night that angered me. Zatham, you will probably like the part about angels.

I was part of a team of "good guys" who fought evil somehow. There were regular people on the team, and angels; I was not an angel. A lot of the angels were my now dead aunts and uncles, but oddly my mom who died only last year was not in the dream at all. The angels had "angel powers", and if they died, they didn't really die; they just lost the "angel powers" and reverted back into a normal person, but their appearance changed. Once they reverted back into a regular person, they would really die if they died (...), or they could try and find a miniature angel statue with "angel powers" within, to suck new "angel powers" from. (...)

What pissed me off was that my second boyfriend was the leader of our team. Sometimes we weren't sure if he was a good guy or not because he was enigmatic and mysterious and no one could get close to him. The only people who had tried were me, and one of the angel women, and he had somehow exiled both of us so we were trying to fight for the team from the outside. She wasn't one of my aunts though.

GrrGRJGRRGRG!!!

House: The Live Version

2008-07-08T00:19:00.004-04:00

My dad is taking Vicodin now (yes, it's prescription). Will he next proclaim Socrates to have been an undiagnosed schizophrenic? Actually knowing my dad, he will say it's Einstein instead.

I got a lava lamp today. Picture coming soon.

Simon Pegg

2008-07-07T02:13:00.005-04:00

He is so sexy it is physically painful.

Correction: my previous ATHF quote was erroneous.

Master Shake: Oh my God, Frylock, WHAT?! Why's everything gotta be a federal case with you? ... Yeah, you heard what I said! I said it!

Note shirt with skull.

Adventures of Today

2008-07-05T23:26:00.003-04:00

Nameless Little Boy: *runs up to Yammy and Me with a sparkler*
Yammy: No! No! Get that thing away from me! *moves*
Nameless Little Boy: *puts sparkler closer to Me* See? She's not scared. *continues following Yammy*
Me: When you run, they chase you.
Yammy: They're like dogs; I know.

--

Me: *expresses my attraction to bald men*
Yammy: *makes vomiting noise* ... Wait a minute. [Nameless Man We Both Know Who Everyone But Me Finds Attractive] is bald!
Me: [Nameless Man We Both Know Who Everyone But Me Finds Attractive] shaves his head. That's different from being naturally bald.

Crying

2008-07-04T23:45:00.004-04:00

I think it's taken me until the month I'll be turning 20 to actually realize that there's nothing wrong with crying.

I always heard people say it, but somehow it never sunk in.

Maybe it's because my dad always tried to make me feel worse for crying as a child... whenever I would cry, I would start thinking about how I was crying... and feel like it was a way of giving up... and just keep on feeling worse and worse from the point I started crying. It was always a downward spiral.

But at some point that changed, because now I actually feel better after crying. I don't even remember exactly when the change took place; I just know that it had to have been sometime relatively recently.

Did I say the word "crying" enough times in this post? Crying. Crying.

Crying.

:D

I just discovered...

2008-07-04T10:27:00.001-04:00

...A truth that may shock you.

Listerine burns less when you've just come out of the bath/shower.

It's true! It's a fact.

Songs I've Transposed for Accordion

2008-07-01T22:34:00.004-04:00

So far:
Greensleeves
Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung by Weird Al
When I'm Sixty-Four by the Beatles
Time Is On My Side by the Rolling Stones

Forgotten/in progress:
I Love Rocky Road by Weird Al
The Check's in the Mail by Weird Al
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Smoke on the Water
Franz Liszt's La Campanella
The Easy Winners by Scott Joplin
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
Chopin's Funeral March, Opus 35

Edit: Any requests?

TARDIS USB Hub

2008-06-27T17:36:00.001-04:00

This makes me wish I didn't get a computer with 8,000 USB connections on it.

Not My Soul Mate

2008-06-25T13:19:00.006-04:00

Diatonic, bisonoric accordion (or melodeon):

This is my newer, less smelly, less button sticky, more shiny, more colorful, and less fun accordion. It is not my soul mate. I only use it for its body.

Look Ma; No Straps!

2008-06-24T17:32:00.005-04:00

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8NWwE9IZ07w

This gentleman is playing an accordion with... a stand? Like wtf?

Someone posted this link on an accordion newsgroup. (Someone also replied saying the guy in the video looks like a cross between Bill Gates and a hyena.)

EDIT: Here's another video of the same guy with what looks like the same accordion. This is actually the type (chromatic button accordion) that I want to get if I get a new one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xDlPs1XZTI&NR=1

Accordian

2008-06-23T19:30:00.007-04:00

Me: "Accordion" is misspelled a lot. When I went to [Music Store I Went To], it was misspelled on the tag for books about accordion.
Brothery: A-C-C-O-R-D-I-N-G - Accordion.

--
NEW QUOTE:
--

Me: If I want to study the accordion, I might have to move to a place where people actually care about accordions...
Brothery: Does such a place exist?

The Power of Math

2008-06-21T03:35:00.003-04:00

Frylock: I can't just... bring you back to life.
Master Shake: Come on; you can do it. You know? You're like . . . a math guy.
Frylock: I don't think that math is going to bring you back from the dead.

--

Master Shake: I would say don't talk to me again, but I'm not talking to you. So . . . there's no point in saying it . . . because you're not even here!

--

(Frylock reads Master Shake's suicide note)
Master Shake: Friends, relations, whatever the hell Meatwad is, I've lived a full life. It's actually been pretty bitchin'! But no, regrettably, my life has been taken. Please bury me with all my stuff, because you know it's mine. Dear Meatwad, turn on that dumb game, because I'm gonna wail on you from the grave, Baby! Missing you already, M.S.

--

Frylock: Well, could Billy Witch Doctor dot com maybe raise something else from the dead? Bigger than a chicken?
Billy: Mega Ultra Chicken? No, shhhh, he is legend!
Frylock: Well, no, I mean, I was thinkin' more like a human . . . milk shake . . . or something like that.
Billy: Ohhhh...Billy Witch Doctor dot com feel more comfortable with chicken.
Frylock: Just chickens huh? Ok, and you're local?
Billy: One convenient locations . . . in Africa.

My Soul Mate

2008-06-20T02:06:00.003-04:00

This, dear readers, is my reason for getting out of bed every morning.

Two sets of reeds. 41 slim, glossy keys of wonder. 120 booming bass buttons of fury.

When I got this accordion as a child, I was happy. The next morning, I woke up... and it took me a while to remember that I had my own accordion. As soon as I remembered, I was happy.

Disappointment

2008-06-19T16:06:00.004-04:00

It makes good drinks bad and bad drinks funny;
It's the Game of Disappointment.

All you need to play is a beverage in an opaque cup with a lid . . . and your imagination. Here's how to play:

Pick up the cup. Whatever beverage is in the cup, imagine that it's something else. Concentrate. Focus. Then drink. Try and be disappointed! Play by yourself, or with friends. Whoever is most disappointed wins.

Note: This game works best if the beverage is one you do not like. You also must know what the beverage in the cup is to play; knowing what it is is what makes it so challenging to imagine that it's something else. It is also acceptable to know - and then forget - the type of beverage in the cup, but it is difficult to make yourself forget something, instantaneously and on purpose. Plus, it takes away from the challenge. Bottom line?

NOT KNOWING WHAT THE DRINK IS IS AGAINST THE RULES UNLESS YOU GENUINELY FORGET.

WARNING: Not responsible for burns/toothaches due to imagined temperature difference. Imagine with caution.

Classic Smallville Badness

2008-06-18T23:11:00.002-04:00

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TXoBe-_QDEQ

OMG I THINK A SMALLVILLE WRITER IS TRYING TO DRIVE ME TO SUICIDE LOL

Lex Luthor: Considering your extraordinary abilities, it's hard to believe Miss Lane escaped from you, unless perhaps you wanted her to. After all the years we've been together, you turn on me now.
Kara: You're like my brother, Lex. You know I'll always be loyal to you.

. . .

Lex Luthor: You disappoint me, Kara. With everything my family's done for you, you question my judgment.
Kara: It's only because I care about you.
Lex Luthor: Since the day my father found your ship submerged in the Reeves dam, he loved you like you were his own daughter. He died guarding your secret from the world.
Kara: I know, and I owe my life to both of you, but this country--
Lex Luthor: What do you know about protecting this country?! You are an alien. I am the President of the United States of America. By striking the enemy first I am ensuring our survival. We will prevail. And through it all I expect you to st--
Kara: *is looking down slowly*
Lex Luthor: LOOK AT ME! I expect you to stand by my side.
Kara: Of course, Mr. President.

New Computer

2008-06-18T09:14:00.005-04:00

Technically I got this computer about a month ago, but that's still basically new. I bought a power supply, case and motherboard (with memory), then transferred in my old floppy drive, CD drive, hard drive and sound card (the motherboard has onboard video). I also put in a fan from my old computer but you can't see that in the photo.

I know it looks like a mess in there. The power supply seemed to come with about 100 power connectors that I would never use.

The case isn't terribly impressive; just a regular black case, so I see no reason to post a photo of that. The inside isn't terribly impressive either, but I'm proud that I put it all together myself (except technically the guy at Intrex installed the memory, but that's one of the easy parts).

Woohoo! Original Diablo works with Windows Vista!

2008-06-17T12:35:00.005-04:00

Is it just me, or is this bridge unnecessary?

It really looks to me like my Rogue could pretty much step over this little stream of water. Or at least hop.

Then again, maybe the bridge is for small, crippled children, like Wirt.

Also, why do the bats have to make such innocent whimpering noises? I go along killing skeletons and gross monsters and then it's like all of a sudden, there are cute little puppy monsters.

Why the Original Doctor Who was Cancelled

2008-06-14T12:17:00.003-04:00

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jNLrgNmmPlM

Think that clip doesn't make sense?
It makes even less sense if you watch the entire episode.

The Master: I command here. I command you. You've no power over me; I can do anything I wish to you and you can do nothing; nothing, to me.
Confusing Cheetah Woman: Do you bleed? I can always do something to you . . . if you bleed.

The Problem with Roleplaying Games

2008-06-10T21:31:00.007-04:00

...That are fun to play more than once is the following.

Me with Level 99 Lightning/Cold Hybrid Sorceress: Oh, this game is totally awesome! I finally defeated the Master Grand Master Super Giant Butterfly Lion Champion! I should build a new character and play again!
Me with Level 1 Dual-Weapon Cleric: Wow; I can't believe I just stood here fighting a Butterfly Maggot for over 2 minutes.

--

I introduced Yammy to Baldur's Gate II: Dark Alliance.

Me: *levels up* I'm going to save my skill point.
Yammy: OK.

. . . Later . . .

Yammy: *leaves the room to check on her laundry*
Me: *secretly applies a point to Animate Dead*
Yammy comes back.
Yammy and I are going along killing monsters.
Me: *runs in circles*
Yammy: *chases my Skeleton* What the Hell? Where's he going? Is the Skeleton unkillable?
Me: *maniacal laughter*

Miscellanea

2008-06-07T01:37:00.003-04:00

Did you know there's a Beanie Skeleton?

http://buysellbeanies.com/?mainURL=%2Fstore%2Fitem%2Fmt4o%2FTy_Beanie_Babies_Beanie_Babies_for_2001%2FCreepers_skeleton_9_2001.html%3Fitem_id%3Dmt4o

I find the concept of stuffed skeletal toys amusing because skeletons are inherently unstuffed in nature.

--

from Aqua Teen Hunger Force:

"It is the BROODWICH; forged in darkness from wheat harvested in Hell's half-acre; baked by Beelzebub; slathered with mayonnaise beaten from the evil eggs of dark chicken forces into sauce by the hands of a one-eyed madman; cheese boiled from the rancid teat of a maimed cow; layered with 666 separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood!"

Shake: I tasted mustard.

"Yeah... Dijon mustard."

"didn't work well with printer"

2008-06-05T14:53:00.003-04:00

http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/p15_Ink-Toner-Finder_104213_a300_HP_51410_27354_Business_Supplies_true_10051_Photosmart+C5280_PMM#desclink

Under the reviews...

"did not meet our expectations. photos came out terrible."

...Yet he/she gave it 3 out of 5 stars.

And also:

"Yes, I would recommend this to a friend"

Hellgate London Extravaganza

2008-05-30T23:56:00.002-04:00

This is a compilation of Hellgate London pictures from my old Weblog, and some new ones (at the end).

This is your right... you're gonna die!

Poor unicycle.

Mmm... Porks red meat.

It's a SCAM

Nothing like a refreshing Mr. Sak soda.

-- THE NEW ONES --

When I first looked at these boots, I thought they had baby heads on top of them.

I had to turn the contrast way up and sharpen it a lot to make "Carnivorous Plants" barely visible.

Stained glass from um... whatever the last station I was at was. The one before Monument Station.

Hellgate London's answer to Lands' End

I sleep with the Grim Reaper

2008-05-25T02:16:00.005-04:00

...And take photos. ^.~

Grim is so bald and sexy.

THE FLASH HURTS MY EYES

Take that, Internet Stalkers. Yeah; I know you're watching.

Zatham, don't make me over. I'm proud of my blemishes.

Also:
Cereal Mascot Therapy Session

...The dead who live off of living live flesh live life living lively... live... life... ness...

2008-05-22T20:22:00.007-04:00

"Night... of the Living Dead!

The dead... will live on living flesh!

The dead whose haunted souls hunt the living!

The living whose bodies are the only food for these... ungodly creatures.

Night... of the Living Dead!"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5gUKvmOEGCU

These dreams go on when I close my eyes OR Night of the Living Jelly Babies

2008-05-20T23:36:00.005-04:00

1) I was pushing my mom in a wheelchair, through a hospital mall (!). I kept suggesting stores to go in and she disagreed with everything I said because she was in a bad mood. She insisted she wanted to go look in a baby store (like Baby Gap). What the H*ck? Then I said, "Mom, you should be nice. Why are you so mad?" and she said, "It's not my fault I'm mad! My knees hurt!"

2) There were bugs in my house and I kept going to sleep in the dream... so I wasn't sure if new bugs were coming out or if I was just going to sleep and dreaming I killed the bugs, only to wake up and find them still there in real life. One type of bugs was... REAL LIVE JELLY BABIES! They were Jelly Babies, but live and crawling around. Also more translucent.

--

Also, in the real world...

Me: *shows Brothery my latest knitting project*
Brothery: I don't like knitting, because it involves sharp things.
Me: *looks at knitting needles* They're not sharp.
Brothery: Stick them in your eye and see if they're not sharp.

Battle to the death!

2008-05-17T00:21:00.001-04:00

Reborn Optimist: >) @ The Doctor [regarding my new AIM avatar]
Me: >) I think I'm in love with him
Reborn Optimist: Isn't the shoeshine guy jealous? >)
Me: OMG PROBABLY :(
Me: >) @ if they had a battle to the death
Reborn Optimist: Doctor Who would probably get the best shots, but shoeshine guy would know all of The Doctor's moves before he even makes them
Me: OMG YES >)

You F*cking PC Game

2008-05-15T22:08:00.002-04:00

Zatham: I want the same kinda style
Zatham: they had in "Fallout" 1 and 2
Me: ???
Zatham: what decade is that?
Me: I have no idea. ...
Me: What do you mean "Fallout"?
Zatham: Ugh you f*cking
Zatham: PC game.
Me: >)
Me: DON'T CALL ME A PC GAME

Made Just For You...

2008-05-14T20:25:00.003-04:00

A local pizza restaurant which will remain unnamed to protect the innocent, has a very funny pizza box:

The man at the front looks like he is either trying to pick an egg up off of the pizza with chopsticks, OR trying to push it into the pizza... which would take hours and probably drive someone insane... and he looks insane. He's looking right at me. And the guy behind him (on the left) looks scared.

Feline Hill

2008-05-13T11:01:00.004-04:00

So I had this weird dream...

I was playing this videogame that in the first level, was IDENTICAL to a part of Silent Hill 3. Somehow I didn't think I was playing a Silent Hill game at first. (...) Anyway I entered this one room where there were pictures in frames all over.. most of them were just cats.. some of them were pictures of people with cats. Then I saw one that said "Feline Hill" and I realized, "OH! THIS IS THE NEW SILENT HILL GAME!" (...)

Room 303 was a room I made note to myself, "Next time I play this game, DO NOT go in this room if I can avoid it." In retrospect, I have no clue what kind of building this was. At first it was like a hospital, but then near the end it was a restaurant. 303 was a room I went in and my character (she looked a lot like Heather from SH3, I think) became sick to her stomach and threw up for no apparent reason and afterwards went to sleep. (...) I wasn't sure if it was a necessary room but I didn't seem to do or find anything valuable there.

I actually played most of the game in my dream. On the last upstairs level things started turning red and I entered a restaurant-looking area... where I saw people eating normally, but Pyramid Head was at the corner of one of the booths, looking at some pictures of people hanging up on the wall, and he seemed to be humping the wall. He was wearing a maid outfit, but otherwise male in appearance. He spoke but it was unintelligible; at the same time, booming and authoritative. (...) Then he disappeared. I woke up at this point but somehow I knew, it was just before the boss fight.

OMG ZATHAM

2008-05-12T17:12:00.003-04:00

Tom Baker's Doctor Who Season 18 scarf has orange and purple!!

Orange and purple!!

http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/pattern3.php

Mother's Day

2008-05-11T03:46:00.002-04:00

...Because disrespecting her every other day of the year just wouldn't be fun without it.

(TM)

I broke my computer

2008-05-07T20:49:00.005-04:00

...But now I am back, after a lengthy absence of SEVEN WHOLE DAYS.

I bring you goods!

The best villain quote ever.

(After vehemently denying being tired)
Sontaran: Now I will kill you all!

Sontaran: But first, I have more important things to take care of.

Scary

2008-04-29T23:44:00.003-04:00

Turns out my mom's favorite Doctor Who (Tom Baker, the fourth one) looks a little bit like my first boyfriend!

(Ignore everything but the hair and nose in above pic)

(This could actually be him)

Could you use it in a sentence?

2008-04-28T22:59:00.002-04:00

Me: I should've curled my bangs pre-picture ugh >(
Reborn Optimist: >)
Reborn Optimist: But they look so 60s right now
Reborn Optimist: Like Feist
Me: They're fun!
Reborn Optimist: They have a certain torpor when they're not curled.
Reborn Optimist: In a good way

Dawn of the Plants

2008-04-27T22:17:00.006-04:00

There is finally some stuff growing indoors! I loosened the soil, watered it a WHOLE lot, and planted new seeds:

Additionally, check out this totally happening Ipomopsis party:

Yes, there's a cocoon on the big one.

Also, congratulations Me for learning two new words today:
sluice - noun
1) an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
2) the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
3) any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle.

torpor - noun
1) sluggish inactivity or inertia.
2) lethargic indifference; apathy.
3) a state of suspended physical powers and activities.

Also also also, witness Rise of the Bangs: working title, "A Little Something For My Internet Stalkers". The lovely Diva herself cut them for me.

You can't go back now, Zatham. Once you see them, they can see you.

Walking (Dead) on Sunshine

2008-04-21T01:12:00.010-04:00

OK; I have to make an emotional, icky feelings post.

I've spent the last few years of my life, mostly being depressed. But I think I'm starting to feel a little better now, and at peace. I don't believe there's such a thing as too much love, but I do believe in misdirected love. And there's reached a point where I'm out of bad things to go back to... all that's left is to start working on something. Continuing to mope is just too much work.

Now that my life has some sense of direction, watch me get run over by a car. It would make a nice Night of the Living Dead tribute ending.

Speaking of which . . .

At Diva's house, watching Night of the Living Dead:

Zombie attacks the windshield! Onoes!!!1
Barbara puts her hands up on the inside of the windshield, moving them around rapidly.
Diva: What the Hell is she doing? "I can't see you; I can't see you; if I can't see you you're not there!"

Post of the Living Plants

2008-04-19T00:53:00.004-04:00

OK, cool, everything seems to be alright. Hey, wait a minute.. on the other side..

Why is that spiky thing trying to grow in my Cornflakes? Let me tell you something about growing in somebody's Cornflakes: it's a weird way to eat Cornflakes.

Edit: I had a nightmare later that that spiky plant was a baby Venus Fly Trap.

A Joke

2008-04-17T22:53:00.002-04:00

"You ever hear the joke about God and the necrophile?"
"No."
"Why'd the necrophile go to Heaven?"
"I don't know," she said. "Why?"
"He heard God was dead."

Words of Wisdom

2008-04-16T21:25:00.002-04:00

...from the original Doctor Who series:

Susan has just been offered a ride home
"No thanks... I like to walk alone in the dark. It's mysterious."

"You're afraid!"
"Afraid? Go away."

"Without meat, we go hungry. Without fire, we die."

"There were leaders before there was fire, and fire will kill us all in the end."

They are trapped in a cave and feel air coming from somewhere
"It's only a small opening."
"Don't count on it."
"You obviously are."
"Well of course I am!"

Caveguy: He killed the old woman. This is the knife he used.
Doctor Who: This knife has no blood on it.
Caveguy: ... It is a bad knife! It does not show the things that it does!

"I must hear more things to remember. The leader would have things to remember."

"I remember how the meat and fire joined together!"

The ice...

2008-04-16T02:03:00.002-04:00

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mLhFIwkbtJI

...Is gonna break.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2gZa6VEiFAY

Christopher Walken: Tomorrow.. on the way to work.. you're gonna buy a cup of coffee..
Guy: Yeah?
Christopher Walken: Then.. you're gonna hail a cab..
Guy: Uh-huh? Does the cab crash?
Christopher Walken: No.. you're gonna leave the coffee in the cab!!

Sharp is Death, Who Comes Like an Earring.

2008-04-12T18:29:00.005-04:00

I got some unique earrings today:

From left to right and then down: Skulls with pretty hair, my skulls in shining armor (actually they might be wearing crowns), skulls with roses around their heads, and Sir Grim Reaper himself.

Also, watch Christopher Walken make chicken with pears! There's a cat at the end.

The Ultimate Truth

2008-04-09T23:34:00.006-04:00

. . . Everything in the universe eventually becomes funny.

Why?

Everything is either funny, or not funny.

Once something is extremely not funny, however, it proceeds to become funny because of not being funny. Whether something is funny or not funny, it still ends up somehow being funny in the end.

--

Me: Hi..
Zatham: Hello fellow necromancer.
Me: OMG YOU ARE A NECROMANCER?!?!?!?!
Me: OMG I'M ONLY LEVEL 3 PLEASE HELP ME STUDY!!!
Zatham: o.o I didn't say I was a high level.
Zatham: Only 2.
Me: ................................................................... Well i'll help YOU study then.
Me: What KIND of Necromancer are you? Please share.
Zatham: >)
Zatham: actually
Zatham: when I sued to play ...
Zatham: when I used to play Diablo 2
Zatham: I really WAS a necromancer!

Toddler Ipomopsis

2008-04-09T17:35:00.001-04:00

I sure hope it's an ipomopsis, because that's what I planted.

Whatever it is, I grew it from scratch.

More Hellgate London

2008-04-08T15:15:00.004-04:00

Shippie's
home of the KELLYKELLYKELLY

Flag & Ship - like Flagship Studios?

Piccadilly Books . . . --->

. . . The only bookstore with a bathtub right by the front door.

Look! An ad for Dark Horse Comics!

Beanspotting 2? Seanspotting 2?

Christopher Walken Hosted SNL

2008-04-06T21:59:00.003-04:00

From Indoor Gardening Tips from a Man Who's Very Scared of Plants...

Christopher Walken: These are my cactuses... I put googly-eyes on them... A lot of people are putting googly-eyes on their cactuses nowadays... I think it's because cactuses are dangerous.
. . .
Christopher Walken: These are my ferns... I put googly-eyes on them also... Most people don't put googly-eyes on their ferns... I do... I got the idea off my cactuses because I like to feel comfortable around all my plants. Ferns don't have pricklers like cactuses, but what if they all ganged up; tried to choke you in your sleep? If enough of these ferns lodged themselves down your throat, you'd choke. Probably not gonna happen but, what if it did? What do you think your last thought would be? Mine would be, "I always knew it was gonna be the ferns."

Statuemania

2008-04-05T21:26:00.000-04:00

These statues were just plain odd.

That statue has a large penis.

I thought this sign said "Except butts" but it probably just says "Except buses".

This Ian sounds like a cool guy.

Necronomic-Con 2008 & Keyboard

2008-04-04T17:43:00.002-04:00

Me: >) @ Necronomicon sounding like a Necromancer Comic Book Convention title
Me: San Diego Necronomic-Con 2008!
Me: Get your skeleton signed! Live!
Me: Dead, that is.
Me: >) @ me
Zatham: >))))))
Zatham: tHAT WAS VERY lEE OF YOU.,
Zatham: ...
Me: ARMORAORAO I KNOW!!!
Me: I was just thinking that.

In other news, my new keyboard lights up.

Baby Ipomopsis

2008-04-03T13:34:00.001-04:00

Only two of these things are sprouting up so far. Maybe I shouldn't have dumped the whole package of seeds into one flowerpot? They seemed so small... :\

Spooky Little Girl

2008-04-02T22:06:00.001-04:00

In the cool of the evening
When everything is gettin' kind of groovy
I call you up and ask you
If you'd like to go with me and see a movie

First you say no, you’ve got some plans for the night
And then you stop, and say, all right
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.

You always keep me guessin',
I never seem to know what you are thinkin'
And if some fellow looks at you,
It's for sure your little eye will be a-winkin'

I get confused, 'cause I don’t know where I stand
And then you smile, and hold my hand
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.

Spooky! Spooky! Yeah - yeah

If you decide
Someday to stop this little game that you are playin'
I'm gonna tell you all
That my heart's been a-dyin' to be sayin'

Just like a ghost, you’ve been a-hauntin' my dreams
So I'll propose... on Halloween
Baby, love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.

--Originally by The Zombies; remade by Atlanta Rhythm Section in 1979. My mom liked this song.