Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat.*

[bending_sickle]

Things That Make Sickle Happy:

1) Mom and I made chocolate cake today and have consumer half of it in three sittings. Tea and cake for dinner, bitches! With limoncello for dessert :D

2) Our neighbuorhood has a local black cat who may or may not belong to someone. At any rate, he's** the boss of these streets, as evidence by the Great Postureing and Spitting Stare-Down he had with another cat one night. Anyway, he likes rolling in the shade at the entrance to our apartment building, or sitting by the gate in a sun-induced stupor.

After a few, "Here, sniff this hand!" encounters, we've moved onto the "Yes, you may pet me, human," stage. I've taken to thinking of him as Bob, because the first few times I saw him I was listening to a Sookie Stackhouse novel where a minor character, Bob, gets turned into a back cat.

Today he was curled up by the gate, dozing in the sun. I walk up and wait while Mom fished for the keys, all, "Oh hey, look who's back!" Well, the darling Bob cracks an eye open, stands and meowls at me. I knew what that meant: "Pet me! Pet me!" Honestly, petting Bob totally makes my day sometimes.

3) I've discovered how to work Windows Media Player so it doesn't freeze up the second I even think of asking it to do something. The trick is to wait ages between each action, kind of like with Echo Bazaar. So I think I'll slowly be able to work on that Supernatural fanvid I've had sitting on my computer for pretty much a year now. Also, I started writing down ideas for a Sarah Connor Chronicles fanvid. I have too many fanvid ideas! Shut up, visual brain strung out on music! Shut up!

4) Watching and snarking at Jurassic Park 3 (Italian dubbed) with Mom.

Linguistic Factoid of the Day:

The English expression, The clothes make the man, is in direct contradiction to the Spanish expression, Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda***

Similarly, one can counter, It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all with Yes' lyrics, Owner of a lonely heart is much better than an owner of a broken heart.

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 14 – The Villain Who Scared You the Most

The Weeping Angels. They're the only villains to have scared me, but holy gah, did they ever give me the jumping jitters the first time I saw them.

Coming Up
Day 15 – Favorite Who-Related Tumblr
Day 16 – Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic
Day 17 – A Piece of Who-Related FanArt
Day 18 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 19 – The Scene That Made Your Cry the Most
Day 20 – The Character Who Is Most Like You
Day 21 – Your Doctor Who OTP
Day 22 – A Who-Related Fan-Site
Day 23 – A Who-Related YouTube Video
Day 24 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 25 – Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 – Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 – An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 – An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 – Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy

Uh... The funny bits? Those make me happy. And the bits where Sam and Dean are Samndean. Oh, and any shot of Dean's back. That makes me hapy in my pants.

Coming Up:
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favorite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favorite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favorite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favorite recap
Day 21 - Your favorite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favorite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favorite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favorite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favorite season finale
Day 29 - Your favorite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related?

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 14 - Favorite storyline within the overall storyarc?

Let's see... I liked Castiel's storyline of rebellion and Sam's storyline of coping with the demon blood in Season 4, and I liked the whole, "The FBI is after us," storyline from Season 3.

Coming Up:
Day 15 - What's your favorite smiling moment?
Day 16 - What's your favorite Supernatural weapon?
Day 17 - Bravest minor character?
Day 18 - What demon would you like to see again, bad or good?
Day 19 - Favorite brotherly moment?
Day 20 - Favorite gag reel snippet?
Day 21 - What kind of plot do you prefer: Old school or the Apocalypse Arc?
Day 22 - A moment you felt pissed and wanted to hit Sam and Dean for their decicions?
Day 23 - Your favourite Monster of the week?
Day 24 - Character from another show you'd most like to see guest on SPN
Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene?
Day 26 - Show you'd most like Dean or Sam to guest star on?
Day 27 - Favourite writer/director?
Day 28 - what other supernatural creatures you would like to see Dean and Sam to deal with?
Day 29 - Would you rather prefer the idea of separate not so many hunters or large branched net of them existing just from the beginning of times developed in the show later?
Day 30 - What else might be added (developed or gifted) to the brothers skills of hunters if we speak about them as hereditary hunters from one of the most famous family of hunters in America?
Day 31 - Your ideal SPN ending?
Day 32 - Favorite death/body explotion (bad guy/zombie/demon)?
Day 33 - Favorite Dean eating moment?
Day 34 - Favorite hug?
Day 35 - Favorite Castiel scene? Favorite Bobby scene?
Day 36 - Favorite con?
Day 37 - Favorite Jared movie/other show?
Day 38 - Favorite Jensen movie/other show?
Day 39 - If you were a director who you would like to direct (Jared or Jensen) and what kind of movie?
Day 40 - What kind of movie/tv show would you like to see Jared and Jensen star in after SPN ends?

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
amonitrate's Meta walking off the chessboard: Sam and Lucifer and the role of the Scapegoat
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Vaunt (Hunted)
amor_remanet's Fic Did He Who made the Lamb make Thee? (Castiel/Lucifer)
icarus_chained's Good Omens Crossover Fic Teashop Rendez-Vous (Crowley/Aziraphale)
joel_le's Icons and Textures

Doctor Who:
diggerdydum's Post and Discussion: Which of these is most likely to ruin a story for you?
saywheeeee's Fanbook A Series 5 Alphabet Book
doctorwho's Lego Doctor Who Art
Charlie McDonnell's song Big Bang 2

True Blood:
trueblood_lj's flocked Clips from Sunday's Episode (HBO Sourca A, HBO Source B)

Human Target:
wptjeh's Matt Miller Interview

Sherlock:
pforte's Fic Talk About the Blind Leading the Visually Challenged

Other Fandom:
mediocrchick's Harry Potter Entertainment Weekley
Buffy Quotes by Subject

Multifandom:
charmax's Fanvid Vividcon 2010 Recs

Random:
mata090680's Textures
greygirlbeast's The New Weird in Music, Part 3


* Chinese Proverb
** I'm assuming it's a male. Anyone pipes in going on about patriarchy, feminism and inherent sexism can keep on piping thataway.
*** Although dressed in silk, the monkey is still a monkey.

Comments

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Limoncello! When I was watching PBS today a cooking show involved limoncello tiramisu. I of course didn't write down the recipe, but I'm now obsessed with creating it.

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

Yay for chocolate cake and kitties!

VLC media player is a pretty good free program for watching stuff, I'm not sure what it's like for making vids tho.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I've got VLC, but unless there's another, more complete version, it's only a media player and not an editor. Anywho, I think I can cope with Windows if I goo very slowly with it and give it time to adjust. It just spazzes out before complying, the poor thing.

And yes, kitties and chocolate cake (separate) = win

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Was it David Rocco's Limoncello Tiramisu (http://www.davidrocco.com/recipes/desserts/lemon_tiramisu.asp)? He's on the Food Network, but it was the most popular hit for that (utterly bizarre) concept of limoncello tiramisu. I don't know whether to trust the recipe too much, because the main ingredient of tiramisu - Mascarpone cheese - is missing and apparently replaced by whipped cream (blasphemy!). I'd try experimenting with a traditional tiramisu recipie and substituting the expresso and coffee liquor with limoncello (maybe following David Rocco's limoncello mixture).

This, of course, calls for many experiments of tiramisu-making and tasting which you are honour-bound to perform. Make desserts (for science)!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oooo, you inspired me to find it! It's actually: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Limoncello-Tiramisu-em-Tiramisu-al-Limoncello-em-241708

I notice that she makes sure to use Mascarpone :)