Smartania

Some nostalgia.

2009-11-19T06:04:53Z

So, hey. I used to frequent Smartania back in the EZBoard days, I rarely posted but I spent many a late night reading and chuckling and all that.

Right, anyway, I was randomly looking through my bookmarks and found the old Church of X message boards, shed a solemn tear as I skimmed a bunch of threads, and eventually landed here. It's great to see the community still together-ish! I've only read the first page of posts but there's a distinct lack of Michael (I forget his handle) and Piggylover (Sara?) and Nerbie. And... Sushai! But maybe they're lurking.

Let me get right to the point here, I noticed a post where someone was asking about the old suckfic massacres, and there are a few of them hanging around on the old EZBoard site. The suckfic topic is here. If your username/password has been long since forgotten, and of course if the authors don't mind, just let me know and I can either post them here or email them to whoever.

That's all for now. Hope you guys are well, and late-congrats to everyone on the various baby happenings.

Mer

'Nightlight,' a 'Twilight' Parody

2009-11-11T00:22:50Z

This is a true "Win" in my book.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20308569_20317217_6,00.html

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T15:57:07Z

Happy Halloween, Smartanians!

Definitely one of the most awesome days of the year.

I think some of our newest members might be a little young for trick-or-treating, but we'll chalk this up to a training year and send them out in droves in 2010. :)

Long time, no see

2009-10-25T12:40:45Z

Even if no-one remembers me, I'm happy to see that Smartania is still around! (I'm that weird Danish girl with the guinea pigs).

Happy Halloween, Smartanians!

The good ol' days

2009-08-19T06:37:10Z

I know this has been around for quite a while, but this is the first time I've ever gotten around to posting here. I used to pop up on the forums every now and then as psychogurl, but I doubt anyone really remembers me. I was never really that terribly active and never really contributed anything to the site.

I miss all the things that used to be at Smartania.com, and my friends are a little annoyed with me always referencing things that I cannot find. Is there any way to see the old stuff that used to be there, like the suckfic massacres? I was recently talking with my friends and I made a reference to the Lucius/Draco fanfic that was hacked on your site, and I really wanted to show them how bizarre it was--but I also wanted them to be at least a little amused by it.

I can find the fanfic, but I cannot find the massacre of it no matter how hard I try.

Is there any way to find these things?

Warning: Please refrain from flushing your puppy down the toilet

2009-06-16T03:11:03Z

I'm posting this video for no other reason than I have been slain by cute (and as a public service advisory reminding people not to flush puppies down the loo, no matter how muddy their paws get). :)

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/06/15/uk.siraj.flushed.puppy.itn

Total Eclipse of the Heart: The Literal Video

2009-06-10T22:15:02Z

I laughed so fucking hard at this, that I must now share it with you all:

Good News Everybody!

2009-06-10T00:21:28Z

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/06/its-official-futurama-returns.html?cnn=yes

Comedy Central has ordered 26 new Futurama episodes. If you haven't seen the four movies that were released straight to DVD you should. For they were awesome.

Dark Tower Movie News

2009-06-08T23:37:22Z

Has anyone else heard the recent rumor that Christian Bale is in talks to play Roland Deschain? I've also heard that development for The Gunslinger begins as soon as Lost ends.

Anyway what are you all's thoughts on Christian playing everyone's favorite gunslinger? I think he is a little too young and I don't think he has quite the right look. That being said that while I think there is someone out there who could better play Roland he isn't the worst pick to play Roland, just not the best. The guy who played the Tin Man in that horrible Sci Fi miniseries Tin Man has the right look to play Roland if you dyed his hair. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568180/

Also any thoughts on who should play the other characters?

I always figured Gina Torres for Susannah because she can kick ass and take names even in a wheel chair. And Ryan Reynolds could maybe play Eddie. James Cromwell would be the perfect Father Callahan. Amanda Seyfried looks a lot like how I imagine Susan Delgado looking. Lately I've been mentally casting the dark tower movie on my ride to work. :) Anyway, thoughts anyone?

Happy birthday, Sarah and Red!

2009-06-06T14:11:25Z

I'm sending out an S.O.S.!!!

2009-05-21T02:38:20Z

People. I am freaking out, because I cannot find 3 of my JPop mixes from a couple years ago, and it is imperative that I have, if nothing else, Everybody Shake it Buddy!

I do not have a clue where they could be. I know I didn't get rid of them when I was going through old damaged CDs (no way would they be damaged anyway). This is so frustrating!

If anyone has that song I would love you forever if you could send it to me or upload it. I'm determined to find these CDs, but I really need that one specifically asap for my CD mix challenge. LMAO.

*takes a deep breath*

A-thank-you.

Dragon time!

2009-05-18T03:24:26Z

Because I know a few of you here have them, help a sista' out and help hatch my dragons! Post yours too! We can have a mini-orgy of clicky goodness. :D

HackFics

2009-05-04T23:22:57Z

I could be really stupid, but where are all the hackfics T____T
oh, how i miss them so.

Books y/y?

2009-04-27T02:21:51Z

Alright guys, I'm having issues! I know there are all kinds of awesome books out there that need reading, and I've had wonderous luck reading books y'all have suggested. (And hey, we haven't done one of these in a while!) I'm in a sci-fi/fantasy mood, so anything along those lines would be awesome. I've been wanting to try some William Gibson but not sure where to start.

Big series I've read so that it's out of the way:
Kushiel's (in fact I just began re-reading these in the last few weeks)
The Dark Tower
Wheel of Time (yeah I know, I was young!)
Lots of OSC and Sara Douglass

Anthony has tried to get me reading that big Terry Brooks series (Shannara) but I found it pretty effing boring and Wheel of Time 2.0. He's also tried to get me on the Mistborn series (Brandon Sanderson) but it's not really catching me. I know there are other awesome series out there (or stand alones) and now that I'm actually in the midst of a BIG library system I want to hit it hard!

Thanks!

ERIKA and CAROLYN!

2009-04-08T19:47:11Z

I have Hot Dog and Gaiman! Hooray! Thank you both so much! (I'm debating whether or not to take Hot Dog out of his box...I took Jack out and broke his backdrop the other day...oops...shhhh...)

So awesome. <3 Thank you for enabling my geekiness. LMAO!!

Ewika, Jeffy...

2009-04-07T00:18:28Z

I transferred my warrior over to Uther! I'm lonely!

CAROLYN!

2009-04-06T18:49:20Z

OMG, JACK IS HERE AND I FUCKING LOVE HIM. It seriously made my day to come home to work to find that. I missed the hot mailman, but OH WELL. You are made of awesome. Thank you so much!

YOUR VAGINA IS HAUNTED.

2009-03-31T19:38:29Z

http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980

From now on, every conversation I have will end with, "You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!"

EDIT: I should probably add that a certain degree of NSFW-ness lurks beneath that link.

look at me, i've got girl boobs!

2009-03-27T23:08:08Z

Might be the only time I watch Family Guy. LOL

DVDs: BSG

2009-03-21T18:07:51Z

I'm too brain dead for any kind of meaningful post, but I thought I'd toss out a heads up to anyone needing some Battlestar Galactica on DVD - Amazon has them just stupidly cheap through April 6. 4.0 is 31-33$ and the others in the 21-24$ range. So, there you go!

Gobstopper--The Movie

2009-03-21T06:02:39Z

What if Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory were a horror movie? That question has been answered. Enjoy!

Happy Green Beer Day!

2009-03-17T13:41:18Z

Happy St. Paddy's Day! Remember, if you drink more than 2 pints of green beer, your pee will be green. This has been your daily public service announcement.

Hello Smartanians!

2009-03-16T16:50:17Z

I miss you all. I am going to read and post more. Anyone want to share what they are up to right now? I'm curious.

And please check out this cracked story on "The True Life Story of a Ken Doll" that is pretty funny yet sad in and existential brooding sort of way.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-true-life-story-of-a-ken-doll/

Engineer's Guide to Cats

2009-03-14T23:28:56Z

Anyone who has cats must watch this! I killed myself laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4&NR=1

bunny!

2009-03-07T23:48:27Z

Bunny cam!