A Twist of Things to Come

You may recall some time ago my son hosted a zombie party in order to make his video book report on The Zombie Survival Guide. Well, this is what came of it.

It's amazing how much the kids got into it!

Just in from the Memory Files -- Peggy Sue wore Jellies, had a light-brown to dark blond pony tail most of the time, and hugged me a lot. Still no idea just how I met her, or what we were doing. Just flashes -- I think we went to the lake, so probably a church outing of some sort.

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The hubby is back in NOLA, and I miss him. Paid bills today without having to fight that feeling of crushing despair with which I had become so familiar. Called and had our home phone and cable cut off. We don't use the cable and the home phone is sort of redundant, anyway. I'll have to tell the schools to call my cell in case of an emergency, but I'm going to be there this week anyway. Keeping Internet. NEED Internet for the website, which is beginning to rock my socks. Today we have some new stuff from the illustrious jedi_diplomat as well as some silly stuff from me.

Speaking of GeekaChicas, I hope to get on with making some content that's actually from ME this week. The technical/maintenance side of things has had be busy, but I'm anxious to be getting on with it. ;) I have something special to do for the poll closing, so that should be fun. (Spencer Reid is ahead, with Alec Hardison second followed by a rapidly gaining 10th Doctor. Go vote if you haven't yet!)

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I think my blood pressure may be going a bit lower than is entirely optimal. Woke up two nights in a row with an arm or hand asleep from having it resting over my head. Not under me or anything. Oh, well, I see the doc again tomorrow.

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Via agirlnamedluna:



(She says the same goes for Belgium, where she lives.) I try not to get too political here, but it was too funny not to share.

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Speaking of politics, the hubby compared me to Ann Coulter. I nearly slapped him. *G* He has very good slap-intercepting reflexes, which is probably necessary for someone mated to me. I believe he did it to get my goat. O_O It certainly made us both laugh. ;)

Thanks to oberonia, I just learned that it is National Cleavage Day!!!!

Since I don't have any [pictures of my own] cleavage, I thought I'd share this amusing video, which celebrates cleavage in its own special way:


I think I'm spamming you guys because I don't want to pack. ;( Or basically do anything I should be doing.

The WBC folks really are real. I had to look around a bit to find something appropriate to post to prove it, but I think I finally did:



I picked this one because it's funny instead of just being sad and/or rage-inducing. They did plan to protest Heath Ledger's funeral, too, though I don't know if they actually did it.

I hope they don't do as they planned, but to my friends in other countries, this isn't a joke or a parody, or satire. These folks really do this.

I've no idea how long this will be up, so take a look NOW:



This is where I spewed:

"I'm making up all of the stuff with the dead people."

This is where I started bouncing up and down and clapping:

"Anybody but Tom Bombadil."

I am now going to write a song called, "I Want To Be Neil Gaiman," sung to the tune of "I Want To Be Sedated."

From emila_wan (check out her LJ for quotes and the links to the articles), here is some good news for Liam Neeson fans-- Taken is still in the top five at the box office, and has had very little slippage. The writer is reportedly working on a sequel. *crosses fingers* Let the sequel have Liam Neeson! Oh, please. Because watching that particular towering sequoia of sex blast his way through human traffickers in Paris was one of the highlights of my entertainment year, so far. (I saw it from a DVD that was not Region 1, and was surprised that it got by with a PG-13 rating, woo-boy.)

So, I went out in search of other Taken related news, and found this:

My "Why We Love Reid" video just passed 7,000 hits on YouTube, and has two video responses. (Which means, I think, that the girl is posting her video as video responses to popular videos in the same theme. Which means, this clunky thing I barely cobbled together while learning Movie Maker has become fairly popular.)

Now, I know it's not super popular or anything, but it gets steady traffic, with bumps every Thursday as people surf the web for Criminal Minds related vids.

*strokes nonexistent goatee*

I think that means that fast-and-dirty fandom-related videos might help generate traffic to my website.

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I'm getting really close to launching the thing. Tell you guys all about it once I get over the Zombie thing this weekend. Kid's parents are calling about the details, and Big Boy keeps passing them off to me. I get that he's a bit shy sometimes, but this zombie thing is not my baby. I hope this doesn't become one of those things, you know, where mom takes over and does all the work. He will need help keeping the kiddies in line, I'm sure, but this is HIS project.

Oy. It'll be fine. Just have to get through to this time tomorrow, and I'm golden.

The guy who does dance remixes of celebrity rants has done the Bale rant. I'm torn between absolute horror and a mad giggle fit. It's probably NSFW, since it consists mostly of rude words. I sincerely hope Mr. Bale has gotten over taking himself so seriously.



Now,via evildrem the Torchwood trailer:



I doubt Gwen will stay blown up, but at least Jack and Ianto get lippy, so it's not all bad.

Also from evildrem The cast of Leverage gets some good news in the geekiest way possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc844cG1p6Y

And a video that made me all verklempt:


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

Well, now. I am about $1000.00 poorer but I have a temporary crown and an appointment to get the permanent one. Not having dental coverage sucks, but a plan with dental coverage runs almost that much a month, on top of what we are paying for health coverage already.

But now you see why I gave recovering the other one a try before committing to a dentist. He was cool, though. He said, "I'm self-employed, too. I know." Then he didn't charge me for the eval or the X-rays, just his fixed costs, which was nice. He didn't have to do that.

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Big Boy is staying on top of his work like a real champ this term. I'm proud of him and, truly, I can see that he is proud of himself.

The boys' buses arrived at almost the same time today, so they came in together and we all went to play with our dog, Bitey (we favor metonymical pet names, for some reason), in the back yard. The weather today was lovely, just a tad crisp.

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I went through my feedback from Boyhouse, and I have sketched out a plan to rectify some of its deficiencies in the opening chapters. Still, I know where I'm going with it and have made steady progress on the story, tooth-swallowing/horking up notwithstanding.

Also, I had some great feedback from extremely talented and insightful writers who have since made names for themselves, like Sarah Prineas, Leah Bobet and Elizabeth Bear! I even had one from Ellen Harris-Braun. Memory of this had been lost to the pressures of Wee Boy's Early Intervention and Related Crises, but I had saved the files.

That made me very happy.

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I don't watch soap operas, never have. Technically, I still don't, but... I happened upon the story of Luke and Noah on As the World Turns, via YouTube. Luke was this soap's first character to come out as gay, and sometime in the last year or two they decided to give him a love interest. A closeted love interest who was banging Luke's best friend so his father would approve of him. Or something. The motivations on soaps always baffle me, and of course people who have been shot or had kidney transplants never have scars. You know how it goes. So, for some time the writers have had to figure out ways to keep them apart, because, I suspect, they like keeping the religious right and the gay groups equally stirred up. I don't know. Noah's father tried to kill Luke, and Luke was paralyzed (only for a little while - pretty people never get permanent disabilities, didn't you know?) and then Noah married an Iraqi girl so she wouldn't be deported. Luke cheated in a student election and Noah wouldn't lie for him, so he was kicked out of college and started drinking. Then his grandmother's new husband started hitting on him... You get the idea. It's utterly ridiculous.

But... There are cute young men macking, and I'm very shallow.



So, now that they are an official Gay Couple doing Gay Things, I suspect they will have much less screen time. Then again, you never know.

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It's time for Ibuprofen. The feeling is coming back in my mouth, and that feeling is "OUCH."