This week has been insane! I’ve barely slept; I’m so excited to just sleep. But on the other hand, while I’m not really doing anything for Halloween this year I am going to see Lynda Barry talk at the IFOA tomorrow. It’s super exciting! She’s probably the most inspiring speaker ever. If you ever get a chance to see Lynda Barry talk about writing or drawing or anything like that? Do it. You won’t regret it.

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See, flist? Look at this. One million links, one million fic recs. The things I do for you.


( Fic Recs: Hawaii Five-0, Inception, Merlin, BBC Sherlock )

I went out for brunch. I came home with a PS3 for $300. (40GB, but I am content.)
Currently the games I have are Little Big Planet and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I’m looking at Eternal Sonata, which seems like something I’d like. LBP is harder than I expected, but adorable because it’s narrated by Stephen Fry. I tried Elder Scrolls mistakenly at 1am and after fighting a zombie decided it was time to watch happier things and maybe go to bed.

I will say, the day after I buy a used $40 GB PS3, Gizmodo starts covering how 80GB new PS3s in Japan are price-dropping because the slim might come out soon. Damn you!

( Once in awhile I tell you about my hick relatives. But this time, it's hick relatives fighting the good fight in the Township of Tiny. )

I don’t know about you, but when people decide to destroy a global treasure and arrest senior citizens in the process, I get a little antsy. I sure hope one of the citizens of Tiny is secretly Superman. Someone’s got to take this business in hand.


Also I watched the Korean Antique Bakery movie, and no one died of Cancer in it. It’s good!

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In my ongoing battle against the terrible Servage Hosting, I can’t renew a domain I already own, or transfer it, without buying more of their crappy hosting because they closed my account without asking me or letting me know. The messages from their support staff are increasingly incoherent and misdirecting. All I want is to change the name servers or to get possession of my own domain again.

Please, if anyone ever asks you about hosting mention that Servage has downtime, bad service, faulty e-mail servers, and a million other problems. I regret ever, ever having anything to do with them. They’ve given me nothing but grief.




( Fic Recs: Star Trek TOR, Merlin )


Merlin Big Bang! I am ruined. I still have so much to read, and some of it isn’t even MBB!

Anyways, there’s this show CTV has been pimping all over the place here called The Listener and every time I saw an ad for it I thought, “God that looks dumb; who wants to watch a telepathic paramedic with big stupid eyes?”. What the ads don’t tell you is that it’s basically a crime drama set in Toronto but with telepathy, and that Colm Feore is in 7 of 13 episodes and, on top of that, Gordon Pinsent is in several episodes as well. Colm Feore! As an awesome professor at U of T!

It makes me wish I were still in school. Anyways, the show is pretty good and I think CBS is showing it in the states, or was, anyway, so you might want to give it a shot. Telepathy! Crime! Drama!



...I do have to say what’s up with 13-episode seasons? LAME. Give me at least 20, preferably 25. When I was a kid a season was 40~ episodes. What happened?

Krys: I think Jamie, Eliot and I will one day end up in one of those three-person alternative lifestyle relationships. Probably. [She's dating neither of them-- they're her best guy-friends.]
MK: Why do they call that an alternative lifestyle, anyway? I'm interested and it seems pretty normal. Threesomes. Sounds good to me.
Krys: Well, yeah, but they still call it an Alternative Lifestyle.
MK: But it shouldn't be. I mean, how cool would it be to come home to two cute guys together on a couch, waiting for you?
Krys: .....feeding each other grapes?
MK: ......Yes. Yes. They would be feeding each other grapes.
Krys: And then one of them could say, [creepy falsetto] "You're home! Do you want some grapes?"
MK: Sure. In exactly that voice.
Krys: Yeeeeeeeees.
MK: And it would be smart, because rent would be super-cheap split three ways, and you could buy one giant, massive bed!
Krys: Yeeeeeeeeeeees.
MK: And then all three of you could snuggle on the couch. It would be awesome.
Krys: I'm sold.
MK: And because there are three of you it's almost guaranteed that at least -one- of you will remember and remind the others about all the birthdays and whatnot.
Krys: Finally, that won't have to always be me!

Me? I was sold from the start. That's not an alternative lifestyle, that's an ideal life style.

AKA 'Another Completely Over-the-Top and Super Conservative Screw Up by Macleans Magazine'.

( I'll spare you the anguish I hold. )

So aside from all that, the really creepy thing is that the guy who wrote it had someone use computer-graphics to "age" photos of his daughter every 10 years along. That poor girl-- she looks like a plastic-surgery queen who has been mummified. I would be very upset to have been used in such trite garbage as this. And then I would tell Dad he needed to stop writing, because frankly he was an idiot and sucked at it. Sorry, mister, but really-- you pander to the shit-hole.

OMG R0batz want aborshuns?! WTFLOL1111one!1
ROBOT: C:\format
ROBOT: ...also, HUMAN:\format