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Friday, November 27th, 2009


drewshi

6:01a
Today's Haiku

So it's Black Friday
With so many bargains but
What of Thanksgiving?

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irregular_comic
10:45a
Irregular Webcomic! #2497

Today's theme: Steve and Terry

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entil2001

1:30a
Daily Myths

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infinitydog

12:01a
Analog Tweets for 2009-11-26

  • To all my tweeps out in Tweepville, have a Happy Thanksgiving! 07:26:58

Mirrored from davidmack.pro/blog.


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Thursday, November 26th, 2009


daytonward

11:55p
TwitterLitter.

Annoying friends and strangers alike, 140 bytes at a time.

  • 09:59 Happy Thanksgiving, for those tweeps who celebrate the occasion, of course. For everybody else, Happy Thursday! #
  • 12:26 @shimmer418 Re: Alcohol - Always have enough for extra peeps :) #
  • 12:32 @shimmer418 Re: Alcohol - I have my stash for the zombie apocalypse. You're covered. #
  • 13:47 @shimmer418 Re: Zombie Penguins - I'm listenin'...... ;) #
  • 16:38 @shimmer418 Re: Zombie Penguins - I think you're on to something. MARCH OF THE PENGUIN DEAD! #
  • 17:00 @shimmer418 Re: When Undead Penguins Attack - Sounds like we should start writin'...... #
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009


daybydaycartoon
4:55a
11/27/2009

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Trials.


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Thursday, November 26th, 2009


bob_j

11:02p
Thankful for You!: Lots to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, like family, health, work, and writing…but .. http://tinyurl.com/ycuk8z3

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paladincub21

10:10p
Updating the Minutiae

Twitted throughout the day:

  • 22:50 @takenredguy I guessed that; only took umpteen years. #
  • 22:50 thought about going out for a drink, but then realized he has enough liquor here to kill a moose...hey!, does anyone have a moose? #
  • 23:47 a couple of good boys and a pat and he'll refuse to leave until you are asleep. Dogs are much easier than men. #
  • 08:14 sadly can't really shop until monday; oh well dell.com/gap.com/bestbuy.com sales. #
  • 08:16 @LarryFlick I hadn't seen you in a while (8 years.) Looking hot! #
  • 09:11 sings "because of you i find it hard to trust, not only me, but everyone around me...because of you, i am afraid...." #
  • 09:15 is watching Shakira circa 2007 and realizing how @ModernFamily is pointing a jibe of this exotic latino love. That cauterwaling! #
  • 09:48 does not take for granted that he found someone who also likes Regina Specktor, Missy Elliot, Musical theater, Postal Service and Alanis. #
  • 10:22 @takenredguy price. comes down to price. I'd like netbook under 300, preferably under 200. #
  • 10:33 should probably start thinking about lun
    ch.... #
  • 14:38 was napping and kept dreaming of being in a wheelchair, and in a big house where nudist straight couples kept walking in and ignoring me. #
  • 19:00 @takenredguy that might be an option; i might just run ubuntu. #
  • 19:01 has enjoyed the silence of today; these are the only words i said today: bruce, clark, you and your toys, again?, thank you, and good boy. #
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tv_shows_on_dvd
12:10p
Site News: Shout! Factory Buy-2-Get-1 Sale

By Gord Lacey - Now we don't post many sales or deals on the site anymore, leaving that for our 'TV-DVDs on Sale' page, but Shout! asked us every so nicely if we could post about their sale.

The sale,... (more)

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tv_shows_on_dvd
11:52a
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Episode Titles/Date for Vol XVII

By Gord Lacey - Satellite News has just posted the titles for Volume XVII over at their site. The titles are:

101 - The Crawling Eye
415 - The Beatniks (with short: General Hospital Part 2)
910 -... (more)

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popfiend

9:15p
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to [info]destabee!

I hope today and every day in the coming year adds something wonderful to your adventures in living artfully while ALWAYS giving you something to be thankful for.

Be happy.

Be well.

Peace and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!



current mood: calm
current music: Giants - Broncos

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kradical

9:08p
another review of Farscape #1

Louis Johnson at Fandomania really liked the first issue of the Farscape ongoing series.

Money quote:
This issue manages to balance solid story elements, big revelations, and all the things we’ve come to love about Farscape.



current mood: pleased
current music: the Giants-Broncos game on Channel 11

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kimsheard

7:17p
Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone is having a happy Thanksgiving! Mine has been good, but busy, as I've been caring for (and loving) a number of other people's pets today.


current mood: stuffed

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gsa_lj

[ bifilms ]
6:59p
[UK]: bisexual actor Alan Cumming receives award for service

receives OBE from the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace as his proud husband, mother and brother look on )





current mood: pleased
current music: "Flower of Scotland" by The Corries

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angevin2

6:12p
fic recs

Quite a few; I've had a bunch of fics in the recs pipeline for a while. These are posted in the order in which I read them.

To Take Is Not To Give, by [info]lareinenoire. Part 2 of more. Shakespeare, Henry VI/Richard III, 1930s AU, PG-13, focuses on the York and Warwick families, with all the accompanying dodginess. I recced Part 1 a few weeks ago; Part 2 gives us some of Anne's perspective, with emphasis on her relationship to her father and her sister. [info]lareinenoire's fic is wonderful at filling in the gaps between bits of the plays, such as constructing a whole life for Anne Neville and her family. I love cranky, misanthropic Anne here, but I think where this fic is especially striking in its characterization of Warwick as both totally creepy and amoral and yet still a reasonably committed father, a capacity in which we don't see him at all in the plays.
Cecily York was as good as her word. Some ten months later, Anne received a letter from Newnham College, Cambridge, offering her a place for the upcoming academic year. A letter now pinched between her father's fingers, tapping on the burnished wood surface of his desk.

"And what, exactly, do you propose to gain by this?" He settled back in his chair, leather squeaking beneath his weight. It was rare enough that he was in London these days, and she had managed to catch him several hours before he was due to depart for Paris for what seemed like the hundredth time. Of course, it was a mistake to assume that just because he was on the verge of leaving, he could be caught off guard. "They don't confer degrees on women, you know."

"I'm aware of it, Father. I merely wish to enrich my mind. Is that a problem?"

Her father's nose wrinkled. "You are a young lady with a great fortune, Annie. This college business is little more than a waste of time and funds."

"But it will make me happy." Anne leant forward so she was looking at him through her lashes as Bel did. "Daddy, please?"

"Oh, Annie," he chuckled, "a valiant effort, but you'll need a great deal more practice. And it's not the sort of thing one learns at a women's college."

"How do you know that?" she demanded, cheeks flushing. "I want to go. And you shan't stop me." Snatching the letter from him, she stormed out of the room, his laughter echoing in her wake.


Interdepartmental Politics, by [info]gileonnen. Shakespeare, Richard II and Henry IV, present-day academic AU, gen (focuses on Richard and Hal), PG-13. A while back [info]lindensphinx made a post requesting fic in academic!AUs, and this one was one result. And I totally love it. I am, as I am sure I have said, a sucker for fic about Richard and Hal, and the characterization in this one is terrific -- Gil has a real knack for conveying their complementary subtle and unsubtle creepiness. Also, Hal's description of his specialties cracks me up.
"I heard you had a research assistantship opening up next semester, while you're on sabbatical," says the boy. His hands are in his pockets, his shoulders thrown back; it's an attempt at defiance in the face of his own supplication. It's rather charming, actually.

"And you have particular expertise with the deciphering and preservation of late medieval texts, do you? Or a distinguished research career in kingship and gender?"

"Kingship is an interest of mine," Harry allows, with undue caution. He seems to be waiting for Richard to spring upon him and tear him to shreds, perhaps with the aid of some sort of retractable claw mechanism.


The Peaceable Kingdom, by [info]orange_crushed. Twilight, Edward/Bella, PG-13. Contains incredible dodginess, dead animals, ickiness, sociopathy, and whatnot. SHUT UP I DON'T READ TWILIGHT FIC NORMALLY. This one was mentioned in one of [info]kadath's chapter-by-chapter sporking posts as a particularly good deconstructive fic, and indeed it pretty much takes Bella's more sociopathic aspects at face value and runs with that. I'd totally read a novel about that.
He sneaks around the back of the gym every day, to stare at her in the gap between volleyball and calculus; Jessica notices and elbows her in the side, giggling.

"Your boyfriend's here."

"I know," Bella says. She does know; she felt him in the pit of her stomach when his eyes hit her skin. The ache is simmering in his eyeballs, his jaw. He's drowning in the seconds he's not touching her. He does this every day and for him, it's only getting worse. Bella spikes and misses; it hits Charlene in the back of the head and sails clear up into the bleachers.

Things couldn't be more perfect.


Faculty Planning, by [info]gileonnen. Shakespeare Richard II, present-day academic AU, Richard/Bolingbroke, R/NC-17. This is a followup to "Interdepartmental Politics" above, and contains all kinds of utterly terrific dodginess of which the questionable uses of ties and copiers (which are btw Totally Symbolic in this AU, it's awesome) are merely the tip of the iceberg. Also, take what I said above about Richard being creepy and magnify it several times, because he is epically, calculatedly creepy in this fic, and it is awesome. Also, hot.
"Well," Richard mutters to Edward, as they pack up their folders and resettle their jackets. "I suppose we didn't need that postcolonial history hire, after all."

"You're just certain that you've tweaked his nose," Edward answers. There's something in his tone that makes Richard hesitate to respond--something hard and bitter. "The department can go to Hell for all you care, so long as you get your parting shot on the way down." When he tries to turn away, though, Richard catches at his elbow.

"Do you really think it's my fault that the motion passed?" Richard asks softly. Edward meets his eyes, and when he doesn't say no at once, Richard has his answer. "Then I'll talk to him. Give me half an hour."

"To do what, exactly?"

"To tweak a bit more than his nose." He turns and makes his way down the hall at speed, and before Edward can take his meaning, he has turned a corner. It is nearly as good as vanishing.



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