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Tommy Westphall's Mind: A Multiverse Explored
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| Analyze my chars and ships |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
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I haves to do this meme:
List 10 (or whatever) of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.
I'm adding in 10 ships as well as 10 characters.
Please, psychoanalyze me based me on my fandom faves.
(In no particular order)
Northern Exposure - character: Chris Stevens, ship: Joel and Maggie
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - character: Spike, ship: Spuffy
Veronica Mars - character: Veronica, ship: Logan and Veronica
Star Trek: Voyager - character: Janeway, ship: Torres and Paris
General Hospital - character: Jason, ship: Jason and Sam (kinda turning into Spinelli and Maxie lately though - used to be Dylan and Georgie)
Alias - character: Jack Bristow, ship: Marshall and Carrie
Supernatural - character: both boys as I'm totally bi-Win and can't choose between them, ship: the brother relationship between the boys - no I don't ship them romantically but they have serious brother chemistry and no romantic relationship on the show can compare to that!
Smallville - character: Ollie, ship: Clark and Lex (hee!)
Big Love - character: Margene, ship: all four of them together
How I Met Your Mother - character: Barney, ship: Barney and Robin |
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| a request. |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|07:42 pm] |
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Can we, as a society, please stop attributing the "kick ass and chew bubblegum" line to Duke Nukem? |
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| Short con post. |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|08:05 pm] |
Fairly short, fairly scattered, fairly tired.
Moved into the hotel on Wednesday and spent the evening at the Guest Reception, saying hi to people as they came in, etc. There was also some sleeping involved, but I just couldn't sleep very well, so I was already tired when I got up
Thursday morning, for my Finance on duty shift. I actually rather liked this morning shift, though it's not my usual time of day. I was able to be much more relaxed throughout the rest of the day, and it certainly made it for a relaxing evening party run. I had a panel in the evening though all I can remember about it was that it went well. Spent time with friends, including wandering the parties both with my friend Jeff and with my husband. Went to bed and then woke up on
Friday, a little later than I really wanted to. There were more panels, and there was badging and uhm. Yeah, blur.
Saturday is a blur for other reasons, vis a vis the fact that I woke up at 9 a.m. after 4 hours sleep with a migraine, took pain killers, skipped my morning panel on copyright, then woke up at noon. Drove out to take care of the cats and bird, then got back to the hotel and ate lunch. Took a nap at 3, woke up at 7. Watched Masquerade on TV while I changed and got ready to start my finance shift. I am tolerably good at getting into a corset by myself. Stayed up late, had an amazingly good time badging and partying. Went to bed and then suddenly it was
Sunday, which was spent bopping about the con getting a last minute look at things and then being on finance and hanging out in Ops and hearing stories. And now it is
Monday, and I'm home after The Big Count, and pondering going out for a bit to say i to friends at their house, and then home again.
Things I did not get around to doing during con, sadly:
Cinema Rex (lots of movies I wanted to see, none at good times fo me)
Dance (never got to go dancing)
Wow food (totally missed it)
Flash mobs (missed all of them)
Romulan Consulate dancer (the one time I managed to get into the room... the dancer had just walked off stage)
Totally cool things I did get to see:
Cajones seeing the Connie statue for the first time.
The Connie statue in general. Holy shit.
Gir cake at Deadly Delights
Divafit in Ops
Cone of Shame!
Favorite logic fail of all time:
From someone trying to get past me without a badge at my badging station "But I just want to get by to get some food!"
Favorite planning fail of all time:
Guy without badge trying to intimidate two badgers.. who happened to be me and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ethel. Bad planning on his part. |
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| Questions about Jackson’s sexuality are silly in hindsight |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|04:18 pm] |
(Originally posted at The Gay-Atheist, just so you know.)
I remember a conversation I had with my grandfather, a wonderful man who unfortunately was not free of many of the prejudices typical of his generation. I was thirteen, and the first child molestation charges against Michael Jackson had surfaced from Los Angeles. Pap and I talked often about all kinds of things — politics, TV, music, what was happening in the world. Somehow the subject of Jackson came up and Pap shook his head and said, “If he’s not gay, then neither is anyone that ever was born.” Pap had no special expertise with which to judge the sexuality of someone he’d never met or even paid much attention to outside of seeing him in the news, but he was far from the only one to think Michael Jackson was something other than a heterosexual. Since his death on June 25, speculation about Jackson’s sexual orientation has been mostly quiet and indirect, but still very present in the inescapable media coverage leading up to tomorrow’s memorial service. A few blogs I’ve read recently, including this one by bert5, have figured the hell with delicacy and are just coming out and saying it. “It seems obvious to me,” bert5 writes, “that Michael Jackson was a closeted gay man.” Is really that obvious? Jackson always seemed embarrassed by the subject of sex (outside of his music, anyway — more on that in a minute), so I guess “closeted” isn’t out of the question. What disturbs me a little is that so many people, gay and straight writers alike, seem to be interpreting his flamboyance, effeminate voice and androgynous appearance as obvious evidence that he was homosexual. ( Read the rest . . . ) |
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| Monday Morning Video Suspended This Week |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|03:01 pm] |
I didn't do a Monday Morning Video this week, as I'm re-evaluating how I want to go about doing this, whether to keep doing it here, giving it its own LiveJournal, or doing it on another weblog platform.
Comments and advice are welcome. |
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| Poking LJ with a stick |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
Not dead yet.
Narrowing grad school options. I meet this evening with a couple of representatives from Naropa University, a Buddhist-inspired college in Boulder, Colo. They have programs in both psychology and religious studies, though they may end up being my go-to source for electives as part of a master's program elsewhere in both disciplines.
(The religious studies program I'm still favoring is the MA program at Bangor Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the very liberal United Church of Christ but has ties with Unitarian Universalism as well. Their MA program allows up to two electives transferred in from another accredited graduate school, which would include Naropa. And likewise, if I got my master's in counseling psychology from a program that is CACREP accredited but only offers 48 hours, I'd need an additional 12 for licensing, should I want to practice right away and wait on pursuing the doctoral degree in psychology -- and could take those courses in Naropa's psychology program.)
Podcasts still on hold as I sort these things out. Gannett's announcing more layoffs this week, too -- good luck to anyone out there who's still in the news business. I'm trying to get the hell off the ship as fast as I can. |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|05:09 pm] |
Is there anyone on here who could help me out?
I need four pieces of pixel-art, of the faces of four different Metal Gear characters. They should be on a transparent background and not be any bigger than about 25x25.
They should be of Raiden, The Boss, Fortune and Sunny.
Any style is fine as long as they all match.
Please help me. ♥ |
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| For TCH |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|10:06 am] |
It's that time of the year again. But what is there to say about my friend, atpotch, that I haven't already in previous birthday entries? Toby is one of the brilliantest people I know. He's funny, wise, and deeply kind. He also knows more about football, cricket, and Bob Dylan than anyone else I've ever met. In his honor, today I will be eating one of every kind of Drake's Cake and a bagel with lox. I might also just write a fan letter to Lena Olin, review an entire season of Joss Whedon's next show, join a choir, and drink a bottle or two of wine.
Toby, I hope you're having a wonderful day with George. And keep an eye out for the mail, in the next week or so. Love, Rob.
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| Fanfiction Meme |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|12:04 am] |
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Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Fay chose silver glitter instead of gold") or big (e.g. "and then Rose was arrested instead of Jack") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.
My muse is still AWOL at the moment, so I'm hoping this might help a bit. My fanfiction can be found here. Everything except for the story I wrote for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) percy_ficathon (which is still in the anonymous phase at the moment) and a few of my oldest stories that I'm currently rewriting can be found there. |
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| Late to the party, but... |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|10:41 pm] |
Am I the only one who finds Mad Men a bit snide? (I don't consider any of the below to be real spoilers, but I do explain very small non plot related "humorous gags" from the first 3 episodes, in case you would consider those spoilers.)
I'm starting episode 4, and I know that there was sexism and anti Semitism and people didn't know about certain health risks and such...
But the hahaha about the girl playing in the plastic dry cleaning bag? (Girl gets called out by her mom for doing it because the mom fears she might have wrinkled the clothes)
The neighbor in the party who hits someone else's kid and then gets called out by the father, only for us to realize that he was really just asking his kid to apologize to the man before the father hits him worse?
The shrimp cocktail being served to the Jewish lady gag being played twice? I mean, I get once. That was kinda funny and I'm guessing rather apt. But twice just felt...snide.
And on top of the snide thing, it just feels like it's more a sociological diatribe about how much more evolved we are and how much BETTER we are than people were in the 60s. Sure, we know more things about things than we did then. We're more politically correct. But Swingtown didn't feel the need to do that. Someone tell me that they get the hell over themselves very soon in the series and stop motivating storytelling moments by the need to make a cynical "funny." |
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| meme |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|08:32 pm] |
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From penknife.
This one's interesting:
Pick one of my stories (here for index page or here for recent tags) and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Faith ordered eggs instead of pancakes") or big (e.g. "and then Scott decided not to get on the shrimp boat") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story. |
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| Try try again |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|03:07 pm] |
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Pretty much spent the entire week playing Sims, watching Buffy, and coloring. Discovered that the computer chair hurts less than the sofa as far as getting in and out for the lower back/ass pain I've been having. Also discovered menthol patches help. Got the pain levels on that down low enough that I finally felt okay to shower, so asked Shayla to come over and shave my head the other day, which she did, and then I got all clean. It's nice.
I have to admit, I'm still in a pretty big self-pity funk right now. I'll try and keep most of that filtered and/or cut and make myself focus on some positive or at least neutral stuff here in the public posts. Not because I don't think I have every right to express my sadness and frustration, but because it does get old and if I sink too far deep in, I have trouble getting out, and I do need to remember the parts of my life that aren't bad, and there are plenty of those as well.
With the low back/butt pain subsiding some, I'm also going to try and do more than just sit on my ass all day, but I'm still going to be moving slow, doing light things, and taking lots of long breaks because a) the pain isn't gone and it flares back up easily and I don't want that, and b) there's all kinds of other pains and symptoms going on and I just can't manage all that much. So I want and need to get moving a little, but still can't do much. Is my point.
What I'm basically saying is, the hibernation is over but I'm still not back at what even counts as full force for me these days.
Angie's taking me to the co-op today and I figure that'll be a big enough adventure for my body for today, although I did manage to do a few stretches and finally water my poor thirsty plants already. Caught up on posts but not comments/email. You know - the usual. |
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