Musings of a Terrifying Space Monkey

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2009-12-24T05:10:05Z

01:07 Good god, there's an Avatar equivalent of the Potter Puppet Pals? I love the Internet. I love fandoms. #

01:18 Seriously, "Avatar: The Last Puppet Bender"? Heheheheh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_N-BJsfVug #

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2009-12-20T05:10:02Z

15:35 PCs: where you lean in to investigate why your printer is crapping out, only to realize that one of your speakers is producing no sound. #

15:44 DVD's: where you can by a complete series boxset for under $60, when each of the four seasons used to cost well over $100 #

16:08 Speaker turned out to be a settings issue. So, fixed, huzzah! Printer? Still a mystery. #

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2009-12-14T05:10:04Z

01:45 I always want to write something to make a X-mas cards out of, but never remember to think about it early. This is something I should do. #

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2009-12-13T05:10:06Z

20:45 My spellcheck is having an identity crisis. It keeps wanting to add question marks for some reason? #

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2009-12-12T05:10:05Z

10:16 Thank you muchly, early-morning construction work right outside my window. Who knows, my alarm might not have woken me! Best not risk it. #

11:52 Why is it always the least important tasks that are easiest to bring yourself to work on? #

11:59 This week I: made myself new logo; backed up archive; folded laundry while catching up on Dollhouse; spent hours reformatting an old story. #

12:00 This week I: did NOT do nearly enough on the big assignment with a deadline. #

The Left Hand

2009-12-10T21:13:27Z

It so totally wasn't too early! :-D

Adorkable! With double the Topher!

High five, self of an hour ago!

(Also, where the hell did Ballard disappear to?)

Sinterklaas: Pretty Cool for Such an Old Geezer!

2009-12-07T15:51:17Z

Some highlights from being spoiled terribly:

The Horse and His Boy, (undeservedly) one of the least known Narnia novels--I finished it less than 24 hours after unwrapping it. :-D

Metallica - S&M, which both my parents individually asked me for a copy of. Don't they understand this is music to rebel against your parents with? :-p

Avatar: The Last Airbender--Book 2, Earth on DVD! My love for this show cannot be contained in words. It's like discovering that Joss Whedon secretly hung out in animation for three seasons, in that you love the characters in the same way you love his, only nothing at all like it, because the show got to run until the creators good and well decided that the story was completed. I restrained myself and only watched three eps last night. (Well, three eps and the entire bonus disc--which contained blatant teasing of non-canonical shippers. Good show, Avatar creators.)

Also, so many sweets! Mmmmmmmmmm.

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2009-11-24T05:10:02Z

13:02 Always thought "Kill 'em all and let God sort them out" was made up. That it is historical does not fill me with love for the human race. #

SAY WHAAAAAAAA!?

2009-11-10T16:38:33Z

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME CASTLE IS THE MOST AWESOME SHOW ON TV RIGHT NOW?

The proof is in the tightpants, people!

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2009-11-03T05:10:01Z

22:59 It occurs to me that if I keep rewatching episodes of the same show, I will never catch up on the various shows I am behind on. Dilemma! #

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2009-11-01T05:10:02Z

13:16 Halloween in Belgium! Hm... *ponders* Belgioween! Yes, in costume. #

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2009-10-28T05:10:03Z

16:37 Stores around here are just really not getting into the Halloween spirit, apparently. #

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2009-10-25T04:10:04Z

16:00 Is this the most terrible fanfic to find? An intriguing premise, but written so badly that it's hard to keep going... #

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2009-10-19T04:10:03Z

18:04 Looking through old stories I wrote, and I do so love pompous titles. "Fluttering Above the Abyss on Gossamer Wings." Heh. #

18:06 Also feel a new comic coming on. New story ideas are like the cold I'm recovering from--they leave you very little energy for anything else. #

How Not to Sell DVD's

2009-10-05T18:21:12Z

1) Have someone* discover a show a few years old and fall totally in love with it.

2) Have that person look up the DVD's and discover them to be affordable enough that the person in his excitement is eager to buy them immediately even though he really shouldn't be buying more DVD's.

3) Have the person look a little further and discover that this set (the British one) may look like the (admittedly pricier) American one, but has for some reason had all the extras taken out even though that Region 1 set with the extras came out years earlier.

4) Have the person be conflicted and annoyed enough that he doesn't buy anything.

Grrr.

On the plus side, was that a Farscape: The Complete Series I spied on Amazon.com? Hmmm...

* Me.

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2009-09-24T04:10:01Z

20:20 Yay, lost most of a day trying to stop aggressive spyware from eating my computer! Because I really needed that right now! #

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2009-09-23T04:10:04Z

11:06 A cold? What the it's-probably-freezing-there-now-yeah, health? #

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2009-09-12T04:10:03Z

21:18 Woohooo. On holiday, but there's wi-fi! Hello Belgians. I am in ur country, eatin ur fries. #

21:19 Just had a three-person MSN conversation with people in the same room. We either rock or fail. Don't know which, but we do it hard. #

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2009-09-05T04:10:02Z

18:54 Can someone stop me from wanting to participate in NaNoWriMo, plz k tnx? #

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2009-09-02T04:10:02Z

11:48 I love how EVERY Marvel/Disney story starts with, "No, really, it's not a joke." #disneymarvel #

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2009-09-01T04:10:02Z

18:29 I'm away from the Internet for ONE freaking afternoon and frakking Disney buys fricking Marvel? Whut? #

21:47 Mixed feelings on the Marvel/Disney thing, but the mass hysteria in the comment sections is providing hours of entertainment. #

I Can See Myself in These Characters

2009-08-30T18:43:10Z

For over 40 years, the X-Men and its mutant race have served as a metaphor for things as wide and varied as racism, puberty, homosexuality, the civil rights movement and the struggle for legitimacy by fringe subcultures.

Never before, however, has the franchise presented a metaphor that so aptly summarizes my life as these two panels...

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2009-08-29T04:10:01Z

01:07 Got more work done today than in rest of week combined. Sadly, more of a comment on rest of week than on today. #

Comparative Mythology

2009-08-28T10:33:51Z

I'm reading this book on mythology (okay, so it's Mythology for Dummies, don't laugh, it's a good refresher even if these dummies apparently need things repeated a lot) and a couple of things jumped out at me.

1) Heracles and his heroic ilk were the superhero comics of their day. (All right, not only of their day.) Seriously, they had their origin stories where they got or found out about their superpowers, they lived among the normal people and performed heroic feats, they sometimes died but never permanently if they were popular, they had ongoing series where the new writers weren't always terribly concerned about past continuity... (I would have loved to sit in on a continuity debate among Heracles fans in ancient Greece.) ~~Hell~~Hades, when one of the superheroes needed a Golden Fleece, they even formed a Justice League-style all-star team!

2) Half of these myths are bad fanfics. Have you ever seen any of the thousands of fanfics where Harry Potter characters (with or without rational reason) decide to move to America, because really, asking those poor fic writers to write about a country they don't know (except, well, from the books they're writing fics about) is really too much to ask? Or fanfics of any fandom which create entire backstories and new sagas for minor characters? That's exactly what Virgil did in his Aeneid. He took a minor character from the Iliad--someone who was a nice enough guy but didn't have much depth yet--and made him travel to his own land. I bet Virgil went on many a rant about the ridiculousness of Paris/Helen. It's too bad none of his Achilles/Odysseus slashfics were preserved, but I suppose they were a bit too graphic for the general audience.

3) It is somewhat disturbing to see in how many creation myths man took form from the ejaculated semen of a masturbating god. Humanity should see a shrink about its self-image.

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2009-08-18T06:39:05Z

14:00 Headaches should be outlawed. Just saying. #