To be announced

Seven things I'm not quite willing to promise to leave out, even though I possibly should:

1. Elves, because even though I bitch and moan about them a lot, I love them so much arrrrgh.

2. paying attention to sartorial details whenever I can get away with it in that particular POV. clothe make the man, you know. it's worth talking about.

3. Monarchies and Empires. because dude, maybe restoring the rightful king is an enamel grinding plot device, but being King? is cool. even if you're just a peculiar sort of celebrity because you're the head of a constitutional monarchy...

4. Love triangles. jeepers, people, boy meets girl is done to death, and Love triangles have their fair share of rips and tears, but the sheer combinations of conflict and attraction alone are enough to set up PAGES of character building goodness.

5. describing trees and bugs and bugs and trees and water. otherwise, how would anyone know I wrote it?

6. Dances, parties, feasts, and meetings.

7. the social structure of magic using peoples.

17. Just how the hell have you been doing?

Basically all right. I haven't really been doing anything exciting to fill my time, though. We must go to a place and drink it and eat it! I damn near fainted when I got the baby shower invite for Craig and Jen and then I wasn't near a computer right after that and thought it was supposed to be the 17th, not the 7th - and checked on the 12th to make sure. D'oh! I'm downtown form 9-3 monday to thursday for convenience, if you happen to be ranging around the area at that time....

18. What is your picture doing on www.craphound.com? that is some serious hard-ass blog-sphere boing-boing street credibility there.

You mean this one?

Peter, Chelsea, Leah That picture is from TorCon - the convention that hosted Worldcon in 2003. That picture was taken on the saturday night - I'm dressed for the Hugos, but ended up ditching the ceremony to drink beer with Peter Watts (the guy on theleft), matociquala, dlandon, and jim0052. After the Hugos were over we went back to the Fairmont Royal York and ran into cristalia - that's the hot babe on the right. We crashed the so very posh Ace Party, ran into Cory there, and he took our picture as part of his Worldcon report.

1. sex or books?

Dangit! Can't we start off with something easy? um. hmm. er. Books, but by this much.

2. Do you think the question reveals anything about the person who asked?

( It might... )

3. Why do you think Livejournal and Blogger (and other web-based public journals) have become so popular?

( Because it's a good idea. )

4. Do you believe in fairy tale true love?

( I don't. )

5. Pick a favorite musician or group and tell us why you like them. (I guess that's not a question.)

( I like Sloan. Because they're GOOD. )

6. Lemons or limes?

Limes. I think. hmm. in its own way this is as bad as Sex or books. But Limes.

7. If you had to go back and change one thing in your life, what would it be? Would you want to?

( I wouldn't have quit acting when I turned 13. )

8. Peanut butter: crunchy or creamy?

Creamy. If I need peanuts I can add 'em.

9. What was the first book you read?

( I'm not sure which one it was. )

10. What colour is your favouite?

Right now I'm very fond of green and blue.

11. If you had one super power what would it be?

Teleportation. Easiest question I've had so far!

12. Which doctor (of doctor who fame) would you be a companion of? (so sue me I am a geek)

Christopher Eccleson.

13. Warren Ellis or Neil Gaiman?

Neil. I've never read Warren Ellis.

14. Favourite Movie?

I don't think I have one.

15. Movie that is being released soon that you are most looking forward to?

Unleashed, I think. Luc Besson! ohyeah! JET LI! OHYEAH!!!!

16. If you could have a game of Monopoly with any person from history, who would you choose?

Queen Hatshepsut. I'd derail her with feminist questions and assure her that you were indeed supposed to drop ten bucks in the pool for the free parking square.

you know this meme. I got it from timprov and it is screwed uuuup.

yada. take the lyrics to a favorite song, go to google language tools and translate from english to german. from german to french, and the from french to english.

Paste the results in your journal and see if anyone can guess it.

( Wow. I think this one is guessable. )

( I'm Nitrogen! There, now you don't have to read the quiz. )

Yesterday, after many many disasters in trying to get ready and get the Hair under control, I ended up having a lovely, lovely dinner at La Tavola. We ate downstairs in the lounge, because we is smokers. he had a tomato and buffalo milk mozzarella bruschetta - lovely bread! and I could have asked for more mozzarella but that's because I am a fiend for cheese. Once we were done that, we got MORE bread - four different kinds! and a balsamic reduction, regular butter, a goat cheese mousse (which was so wonderful. I want to figure out how to make that so I can snack on it while I read.) and a butter mixed with herbs and spices. it was actually sweet, and i have no idea what was in it. I ate a chicken medallion stuffed with porcini mushrooms, some cool purple thing, and eggplant. quite hearty, and a subtle blend of flavour I appreciated (though the chicken was boneless, skinless, and a breast so I think that the exposed edge came out too dry for my taste. I would have done it with the skin on, or barring that wrapped in something protective to block that loss of moisture.)

I really wanted to have dessert, but we didn't have time. Laura took good care of us - she made me a smashing martini and then she gave us tasters of two very different and lovely italian wines (I really like italian wines) that would have gotten us roundly booed at cocktail night. but we had to get rolling if we were going to make the game tonight.

in the glare of the morning after, we should have gone for dessert.

Anyway, La Tavola. 210 513 8th ave s.w. Calgary, AB (403) 237-5787

what is your favorite LJ community?

Mine is audiography. it is teh best0rz.

incredibly amusing link: The IRC Bible. it's BRILLIANT! Check this out:

* Jehova has joined #tohuwabohu
Let there be light.
...
Well, let's call the light day, and the darkness night.
Yes...
well, enough for today
* Jehova has left #tohuwabohu

The Great LiveJournal Blackout of 2005 During the blackout I sneered at their taking a six and a half hour break after claiming that they'd work on the problem _all_ weekend. What did you do? Brought to you by geek-foo

In other news, LJ is offering two weeks paid time to their paid users for their pain and suffering. Cash in, dudes!

You're Mariane Dashwood from Sense &
Sensibility! You are the romantic
youngster, also found in Jane Austen's work as
Catherine of Northanger Abbey and
possibly Georgiana Darcy of Pride and
Prejudice. You wander through life like Red
Riding Hood in the forest, picking wildflowers
and humming a happy song... and you can't see
the wolf right in front of you! Ruled by heart
and not by head, you are best advised to to
learn a little caution, before you are forced
into a better acquaintance with the ways of the
world.


Which Jane Austen Character Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

Rantmaster nihilistic_kid has a very good post about how 20th century movies have infected popular fiction writing, here.

Also, though many of you have seen it, here's the mem heads up on Jan 27th:

January 27th is the birthday of Lewis Carroll, author of ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Alice fell down a rabbit hole into a place where everything had changed and none of the rules could be counted on to apply anymore. I say, let's do the same: January 27th, 2005 should be the First Annual LiveJournal Rabbit Hole Day. When you post on that Thursday, instead of the normal daily life and work and news and politics, write about the strange new world you have found yourself in for the day, with its strange new life and work and news and politics. Are your pets talking back at you now? Has your child suddenly grown to full adulthood? Does everyone at work think you're someone else now? Did Bush step down from the White House to become a pro-circuit tap-dancer? Did Zoroastrian missionaries show up on your doorstep with literature in 3-D? Have you been placed under house arrest by bizarre insectoid women wielding clubs made of lunchmeat?

Let's have a day where nobody's life makes sense anymore, where any random LJ you click on will bring you some strange new tale. Let's all fall down the Rabbit Hole for 24 hours and see what's there. It will be beautiful.

That's a meme I will get behind with all the enthusiasm of santahatting.

1. post a bit of the lyrics to the first 20 songs that come up in your random playlist. Cross them off as people guess them correctly.

Okay, this is my playlist, so the selection is of course crazy. I will also load you a link if you want to request any of these songs in the comments, as well.

( Let the insanity begin! )