bending_sickle: (Facepalm)
...like the loss of everything she's ever loved.*

Rabies injection site is still pinkish (whee!), raised and tender. Itches too. :(

Remember Gloria from my last post, the one who killed my internship's metaphorical puppy? Metaphorical puppy gets beaten. )

Mom's response? Sanity! )

In memory of Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 9 November 2008), South African singer, civil rights activist and "Mama Afrika", here are some of her songs. Read more... )


Links of the Day:
News: Politics: Read more... )
Random Fandom: Read more... )


* Threshold, Caitlin R. Kiernan ([livejournal.com profile] greygirlbeast)
bending_sickle: (Angry Bitch)
...like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.*

My day has fucking sucked because omfg!. Sickle is angry and upset and quite verbal about it. )


Interview meme via [livejournal.com profile] lienne:

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.


My interview Q&A )


Historical Figure Meme via [livejournal.com profile] fallen_iceangel:

I'm Nicola Tesla! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.


* Dan Castellaneta
bending_sickle: (Default)
Prince Caspian Trailer.



*high-pitched and unending squee*

In other news, I got out of bed at 1 pm (unfortunatly, not unusual - my body seems to think its somewhere in the Atlantic, time-zone wise), cleaned the apartment (mopping the floor without a mop was interesting), got groceries (foooooooood) and re-watched Voyage of the Damned (where David Tennant is gorgeous - and lanky - in a rumpled tux and, yes, the inevitable Chucks). Gods that happy couple in VotD makes me so frelling happy. That's what I want, right there.

Watching Shaun of the Dead last night, I realized that Shaun's mum, Barbara, was Penelope Wilton. Yes, that's right, Dr Who's Harriet Jones, Prime Minister. The fandoms, they bleed together!

ETA: Whilst comment-chatting with [livejournal.com profile] pythfic, she responded to my doubts as to Noah Bennet's omniscience with, "Also, c'mon. He's Noah fucking Bennet. He has ways of finding this out." To which I innocently replied that it "ought to be on a pin or flag or somethin'." So she says the magic word: icon.

It's her fault. Really, it is.




Links of the Day:
Comic: Turn Your Hampster into a Fighting Machine
FandomWank Wiki: a whole wikipedia on wank
[livejournal.com profile] solarbird watches Sweeny Todd and gets the urge for Shepherd's Pie (as one does). Original recipie.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, whilst still unfinished, has a cover by Dave McKean. \o/
Milo Ventimiglia: Wacky Picture Thread
[livejournal.com profile] cleolinda's Cloverfield in Fifteen Minutes is up, also on [livejournal.com profile] m15m. I still do not feel the need to watch this. (The fact that the two movies with "Zomg! Spiffy camera effects and movement!" - The Blairwitch Project and Children of Men - that I've ever watched were done so forcefully from the first row may have something to do with this.) Also, her Heath Ledger linkspam, including a quote from the NewYorkTimes which reflects my own sentiments: Read more... )
ETA: Ten Things I Loved About Heath Ledger and Book: Lol Cat 101

* Sycorax leader, The Christmas Invasion: Dr Who
bending_sickle: (OMG)
Direct quote from [livejournal.com profile] cleolinda's post:

Oh my God. I had a really bad day, and my blood sugar was really low, and I was having to clean up the kitchen again after the second gigantic baking mess of the day, and my stepfather came home and turned on the news and they were talking about someone who had died and I went into the den and there was a big picture of Heath Ledger and the words "TMZ says pills were found besides Ledger's body." I said "Oh my God" about six times, and then I went back into the kitchen and tried to finish cleaning up, and I started crying, and I don't even know why.

Heath Ledger found dead in NYC at age 28.


Oh. My. God.


* [livejournal.com profile] allthelivesofme
bending_sickle: (Birds)
This is the Serious Post I mentioned I was writing. How serious of a post is this? It’s of a personal nature regarding the death of a close family member.

Clickety if you want, comment if you like.
I just felt it was high time I wrote this down.

Posts written at the time. )

[3:50 pm] Saturday; January 12, 2008: Den Haag

Where I wrote this. )

The bulk of it all. )

ETA )


* The Body, BtVS 5x16
** Total tally of cigarettes whilst writing this: 16
*** I’m now afraid to go to the bathroom, least I never, ever, get the tights back on. Instruments of torture and meditation/patience exercises, I tell you!
**** Ironically, inevitably, they did break – or rather, burst – when I hunkered down a bit to check out a tiny statue of Ganesh. Damn you, the Eternally Compassionate!
bending_sickle: (Default)
One of my great aunt´s died this morning. It was a sudden thing, though she´s been quite weak and had a cold. I can´t remember when was the last time I saw her, must´ve been more than a year ago. I do remember the actual day, though. She´d been loosing her memory for quite a number of years by then, so she didn´t know who I was anymore.

I remember that, as a child, she was my favorite aunt. Granted, the *only* aunt I had access to regularly when I spent summers in Spain. She´d take me on walks.

I know that ever since she began not recognizing me, I´d said goodbye. But still.

So I don´t know what happens now. I guess I stay here. My uncles, still on vacations, don´t know whether they´ll go to the funeral (though they´re relatively close to the area).


Am somewhat curious what the funeral would be like, and being at one. Never been to one, and this is only the second person I personally who´s died, though neither were, y´know, particularly close at that point in time.

Hope my close family members live a long life, or I a short one. Loosing them´s one experience I´d rather not have.

I´ve just spent a good while trying to explain here how I think it´d be harder to loose a sibling than a mother (which is a very big thing) but can´t really. I mean, you get used to the idea of parents having to go, but siblings have always been there. Loose a sibling and you´re just so much more alone.


Good god is this emo.

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