Imaginary Gardens

Today's news:

1) Impressive 45-minute presentation is impresive.
2) As-yet-unread chapter is huuuuge.
3) Hogfather movie is totally all that.
4) Mr Teatime, of Hogfather is one freaky bastard.
5) Teatime laughs like a very reserved Mozart. Yes, that laugh.
6) Can I please recognize actors whilst I'm watching and not, say, facepalm because Marc Warren (Mr Teatime) was both on a Life on Mars episode and Doctor Who's "Love and Monsters" and I never realized?
7) I didn't care much for Teatime as eye-candy until I saw the coat of sex. The coat of sex in action. The coat of sex is too sexy to have a good screencap but damn if it don't slay. (That's Medium Dave on the left, played by Mr Guiness, who looks too familiar for my own good.)

And finally:

I got the room, baby! Oh yeah, oh yeah, shake it! I got the room!

Meaning, I got a text message saying I got it. So tomorrow's dinner party will truly be a dinner party! I still don't know the cost of said room, but squee! Room! With people I like! In a house and not a dorm! With furniture! Smack in the middle of Leiden! Two steps and a skip from Elisa and Laura's!

Ahem. We are pleased.

ETA: We are also very, very pleased at a certain little post over on metaquotes. *high-pitched squee* *glomps lienne*

Discussion of the Day: Why can't I turn off the Science Viewpoint?!?
lienne posts about an elephant painting. It's not Ruby, but rather a group of six or so elephants in Chaing Mai. The drawing wasn't at all what I was expecting from previous elephant and chimp drawings. In fact, the more I watched the video, the more suspicious I because. ( Why lookit, I have an opinion. Please don't eat me. )

Drama of the Day: Wank on chasingtides's metaquotes
It got me quite riled up because I don't think the wanker - and yes, I mean that in all senses - is knowledgable about either religion or science. I mean, broad much? Not every religion is about not-going-to-hell. Although shaysdays is awesome as ever. Also, there is a huge fucking flaw in this allocation of fault. If you don't know enough about it, don't mock it! Case in point. Oh, and we have burnt scientists at the stake for not being hip to our jive - only nowadays we don't because such behavour is frowned upon, now we just shun them academically. And oh my gods, scientists are not so "Ooooh, logic, it must be so", "Oh, well, since you put it that way, you're quite right". They can hang on to theorems like pitbulls. Oh sweet merciless pits, guess who I'm shaking my pompoms for?

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Links of the Day:
likestarlight made Friday Night Project icons, including one to conmemorate when David Tennant was introduced to Doctor Who porn.
versaphile's Praxis, New Chapter, Doctor Who
merrie987's 48 Sam Tyler Icons
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
doctorwho discusses favorite quotes
drho discusses the five people David Tennant would invite to dinner, and who they would invite - I'd definately have David over, and as someone mentions, Eddie Izzard. I'm leaning towards John Barrowman as well.
angeliksmall on john_simm posts scans of SFX February 2007's Philip Glenister and John Simm Life on Mars interview
nobleplatypus on metaquotes: Kittens! For hands!
chasingtides on metaquotes proposes the weasel as deity and lo, there is much wank. Also, a fictional band is born.
marcwarren
Teatime Screencaps


* versaphile, Praxis Chapter 6

You're entitled to a night or two in bed*

It's 2:20 pm and I've been studying for approximately half an hour. Shit. I seriously tried to wake up round 10, or even 10:30, but doing so was like crawling out a grave. A very comfortable grave. That sucked back. Ugh. It felt like waking up a zombie (and I've contemplated that enough to write about it - scroll to Epilogue - so this isn't really a crack metaphor).

I'm currently learning irregular-in-the-past-tense verbs, although "irregular" usually just means "exactly like in German, biatch". (Does this make me feel better equipped for the exam? Hell no.)

I'm incredibly amused that raden means both to guess and to advise.

ETA: From yesterday's exercises: Ik mis mijn familie.***
ETA2: It's 3:20 pm. I have a summarized list of irregular verbs. I'm sorely tempted to throw my notes into the fireplace give up lie on the floor moping take a small break, make lunch and watch Lost. *sigh*

***
Yesterday whilst**** watching Lost, I really wanted to ruffle Ben's^ hair. And put him back into those striped PJ's. Oh, Ben, why do I like you? I mean, yeah, Manipulative Evil Bastard^^, but apart from that? The giant hamster joke? Not enough, really. And besides, he's eeevil manupilative, for no reason, whereas Sylar's manipulation have a very obvious, very sexy purpose. Self, stop liking Ben! He creaps us out!

Also, Locke (whom we no longer find cool, just disturbingly "Hear the higher calling" crazy). When he said, all puppy-eyed, "You said I was special," I thought, "Hmm, sounds so familiar..." Half an hour later I get up bug-eyed from my bed and realize he was channelling Sylar-cakes. And that's where the brain broke down, because the last thing we want it to find points of comparism between Sylar and Locke. Just no.


Links of the Day:
customers_suck brings us The Faubluous Duck Story, by abracadeborah
metaquotes brings us Cutlery and Utensils: A Brief Taxonomic Study of the Evolution of Eusociality in the Kitchen, by agenttrojie


* "Wake Up Dead"**, Veruca Salt
** Which is also, curiously, a song by Megadeth, a song by Arlo Gunthrie, a movie and a common phrase.
*** "I miss my family," which is true.
**** Is there a difference between while and whilst, or can they be used interchangeably?
^ Not, as my last few rereads of this would suggest, ursulav's Ben. Aw, now I can't take crazy Ben seriously! He shares a name with a cat! And jokes about hamsters! (Seriously, I'll never find that joke and it's delivery not funny.)
^^ He was also in the short glimpse I watched of Saw (probably the first one). Boy does Creepy Evil Manipulative Bastard damn well.

...and more time to drive to the office.*

Mom's somewhere over the Atlantic right about now.

I'm off to make a huge 300 post.

Links of the Day:
Spiders on Drugs - gotta love that crack spider.
peaces_icons and lady_jafaria do awesome Disney icons.
On metaquotes, a humerous typo brings us two links: poolvixen links to an art piece called "TV-MA (Explicit Sax & Graphic Violins)" and rosefox8 links to the female string quarted "Bond" and their song "Explosive" (which I adore).
mengus writes (and is quoted on metaquotes) an open letter to those of us who moan about being fat.
commordified writes 14 Reasons to Be Polite on the Internet


* Anon.

I have no news, other than I love metaquotes and cleolinda for the lovely threads regarding PotC:AWE** and how posters don't count as spoilers. By which I mean, of course Jack's going to be in the film. I wonder what the Spanish version of May 25 is.

The metaquotes's post on cleolinda's original post, with icons, and her previous post.

ETA: There's a fabulous*** comm for Secret Window, secretwindowsg, which has a lovely post reviewing, with screencaps, the beginning of the film. Readworthy. (There are, of course, spoilers.) PS: Can anyone else see the Barbie doll?) She also successfully pimps a vid page.

( Some snippets on PotC from meta' and cleo'. )


* Barbossa, PotC:DMC
**At World's End
*** i.e. promising, but not assuredly fabulous in content

...there´s someone with the same quirks as you. Honest. You´re just as wierd as anyone else. If you took all the little pieces that make you unique, bizarre or in some way different, and walked around the world, you´d find someone else with a replica.

I can´t make a poetical metaphor.

What I´m saying is that there will always be someone out there to say, "What? Me too!" and that is one of the most comforting thoughts I can conjure up.

Case in point:

missfahrenheit: "I have to sleep with the covers up and over my neck as protection from vampires."

*raises hand* "Me too!"
Well, when I was little at least. Now it´s over my ears.


On another note, have saved some caps from Firefly, so I´ve got work for the "holidays". Of course, I´ll need internet access for all those times I know I´ll scream, "Talk to me, program! Help! Do as I say!" Yes, you *can* curse, plead and ask for help at the same time.

Cheese can´t.

Yesterday I was walking through the friggin´ streets with no name of Barcelona and thinking about the inordinte number of cheese quotes I had*. One quote talked about cheese not actually begging to be eaten, as it doesn´t speak. So I thought:

Cheese does not beg. Cheese does not plead. Cheese screams out in the night to be consumed by you. It demands to be eaten, like a general shouting orders to his soldiers, with the words, "Put me in your mouth!**" (A very liberal army, then.)

Yes, I´m wierd.

Also, a cat haiku, inspired by babyslime´s icon haiku***,
Cat struts in with pride.
Look! A beheaded mouse for you.
Now feed me, human.

Ps: It´s official. I love the internet. It has given me the Firefly Easter Egg. I´m now going to watch Adam Baldwin sing “The Hero of Canton”. So happy.

* Such as the graffiti I saw at the green line end of the Berri uqam station:

"Josh and Eva Hinley love cheese. Joe hates cheese."
Joe is strange. The people that wrote the graffiti? Geniuses.

** Apparently, there´s a song called, "Put me in ya mouth". Ergo the line.
**Cat Haiku 13: "Cats meow out of angst. / Thumbs! If only we had thumbs! / We could break so much!"

Have decided to be completely random about topic title. Because I can.

It might be what some would call fahng-tzong fung-kwong duh jeh* but I´ve just spent the entire day bored out of my mind. Not even discovering, via metaquotes, that somewhere there´s Jayne/River/Kaylee fics made my day.


(And let me add that I love metaquotes, not only because it´s like the news, only funny and about stuff I´m actually interested in, but because it literally makes me LOL**. And that is a very rare and precious gift.)


There´s this meme going on about which fictional characters you´d love to punch. patsyrant voices what K and I´ve been thinking all these years:

( Louis from INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE )


I realize I haven´t really talked about life on the other side of the pond. Letsee... We´re practically drowning thanks to a week of rain, the ceilings dripping in the kitchen, people stop and drink coffee all the time (which stopped being a good thing after a while), baskets in the supermarket are really trolleys (*curses years as a student lugging around heavy basket*), people smoke a hell of a lot more (and it´s not illigal to do so in public closed places till January) and all the streets are old.

I haven´t been out much, have I?


Oh, one last thing. I´ve been writing a fanfic based on The Planet of the Apes, Burton-version, since it came out (2001). It´s nowhere near finished, and I´ve cringed at many a chapter and said, "Total rewrite, this one". *But* I´ve finally finished a Chapter. And now all I have to do is fill in a bunch of gaps, totall fix a "But he can´t do that now...or possibly ever...but he has to" situation, and rewrite everything I wrote in first-year.

At least NaNoWriMo´s have a deadline. This thing just never *dies*.
(Plus, there´s the whole, "Not mine" aura on everything in my fic. Sigh.)


* "a knot of self-indulgent lunacy" Kudos to this site. Yes, I´ll be doing this often.

** An example of both:
bbcnewsworld says "A live, adult giant squid is captured on film in the depths of the Pacific ocean for the first time."
groovemerchant responds with: "Our dark Lord awakens!"