Here are a couple of Korean cable channel trailers for Sherlock (the first is my favorite, the second is just too cheesy). However, this is a cable channel, I think this a bromance gimmick and not an indicator that Koreans are slash-obsessed.





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In honor of my eldest son's surrealist short story "The Floor is Lava" being up fro publication in his school's literary mag, I give you this:

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_162_if-everything-was-designed-by-5-year-olds_p2

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I watched Jekyll this week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. (Well, until the something-jumps-out-at-you coda, and the painfully snigger-worthy American accents, but it's still better than 90% of American television.)



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I also posted some Some Awesome Videos by Geek Femmes over at GC.

I missed pimping it by a few days, but there is also Nightsky's 25 years after Challenger which is more than worth a look.

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Still trying to work myself up to making something myself. I want a personality transplant.

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Also, if you haven't friended angrybeige, I sincerely suggest that you do. Her Sherlock comics are totally cracked.

Srsly, the SHERLOCK fandom is booming. There are more fanvids every day. Here's a short but fun one to Adam Lambert's STRUT:



I could eat Cuthbert Bandersnatch* with a spoon.

Oh, here's a funny one:




*I know his real name, but I like messing it up. Low-hanging fruit, you know, because I'm shameless.

First off, I absolutely LOVE this song. I've just bought up a bunch of Metisse, largely because of this song, and most of it is phenomenal.



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My whinge is over, passing as all such things do. Thanks, you guys. I pulled out of it partly because of you and my at-home fan club, and partly because I set out to do stuff for other people. Because I can always do that, eh? I'm good at the whole 'people' thing, oddly enough. I'm best at getting my hands dirty and doing stuff, really. Especially stuff that doesn't require small talk.

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Oh! And GC has a new contributor, Peta Anderson of Insert Literary Blog Name Here. I'm so excited to have her, even though she'll only be able to contribute occasionally. I totally grok that her paying gigs need to come first, and I'm really just pleased to have her on board.

I feel so blessed by GeekaChicas, even right now when we're in the end-of-school, beginning-of-summer doldrums. All the women who contribute and support GC are amazing, talented and awesome, and more keep coming!

It's inspiring, mostly because I want to show the world how awesome these people are. I think that makes me a better webmistress, this feeling of awe I get when I think of the ladies willing to post work to GC.

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An old business contact of Ron's called him up and offered me a possible job, in a roundabout sort of way. They've been operating a virtual school in Georgia (and Alabama?), and they want to expand into the Louisiana market. They knew I'd been home schooling and that I had an appropriate degree to be a school administrator (news to me).

So there's just the tiniest chance that I may be able to do paperwork for a virtual school, get paid for it and get William's education set up for next year in one swell foop. I'm not holding my breath, but it was nice to have someone just talking about employing me at a time when I was feeling pretty useless. So.

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Oh, and one of the folks doing the New Orleans Writing Circle sent me a message through Meetup (asking about the GC site, which I mention in Meetup profile) and we started chatting. So, now I don't feel so intimidated by the idea of showing up at some stranger's house on Sunday. It helps knowing there will be at least one other geek there, ya know?

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Life is full of uncertainty, but it's still good.

Couple things:

If anyone who reads this space speaks/reads Chinese, please let me know. We're trying to design a business card for a Tulane official, and it needs to be a bilingual card. We want to make sure it doesn't have any gaffes like Racist Park.

This video made me blubber like a loon:




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Now, onto my self-discovery and personal growth. *sigh*

I've been through some big changes recently, and it has caused me to re-examine some priorities, and take responsibility for my circumstances and challenges instead of letting myself be limited by them. It seems that in the process I let one of my values slip a bit. Let me explain the origin of it, and how my recent mistakes have helped me evolve, or at least be more self-aware.

A couple summers ago, my niece came to stay with us, and brought a friend. I was actually excited to have a couple of tween girls in the house. I made pink lemonade and braided their hair, took them to the pool. I even let them go to the deep end without me hovering on the condition that if any boys, they were to introduce themselves by name and age (my 13 year old niece was already a D cup). I even drew pictures, for them to keep, of their heartthrobs at the time, Orlando Bloom and Avril Levigne.

One night we had chili for dinner, and when my niece's friend was getting seconds, the lid to the crock pot slipped to the floor and smashed. We went into crisis mode and cleaned up the glass asap. The girl (a friend had nicknamed her Agatha) was horrified and soon began to sob uncontrollably. I realized I had another glass lid that fit the crock pot (one I had saved from when a glass pot of that size had been broken). I put it on the crock pot and said, "See, no harm done." She couldn't stop crying, so I held her for a minute, and said, "[Agatha] honey, it's just a thing. People are more important than things. Always." Then I picked up the lid that fit the crock and offered to smash it, just to prove the point.

And when she saw that I really meant it, that I didn't care about the lid, just about her being so unhappy, well, then she stopped crying.

People are more important than things. It's something I remind myself of a lot, with two energetic and accident-prone boys in the house. So, Value mastered, eh?

Not exactly. This week I was reminded that it should apply to people I don't know, too. Maybe even to people I don't like, though I'm not there yet. So that girl who teased me unmercifully all through middle school? I still snigger a little inside when I remember running into her when I was 20 and she was 19 and pregnant with her second or third child, married to an unemployed man twice her age, and , upon seeing me shouted with unflattering surprise, "You're beautiful!" A lot of time has passed, and I'd like to think I'd be happy to learn that she was now happy and successful, but the vindication of that moment lingers with me still. Also, I didn't even mention my great job or anything. No, really. I wasn't that spiteful, even then.

But this week, I chose a nice juicy joke over the feelings of a person, because of injured pride. It was ugly, and not part of the person I want to be. Internet people are easy to dismiss as less than real, and the temptation to crack wise is immense, because the consequences, even for things much worse than what I did, are essentially nil. Still, that's not who I want to be, and I will attempt to be more mindful as I go along.

If I could go back in time and superimpose the teen mother on the dole over the queen bitch of 7th grade, maybe the slings and arrows would have been easier to bear. I don't know. But I will try to be kinder in the future, even if I have to imagine that the anonymous pedant making snide comments at GeekaChicas is actually a 50 year old engineer living in his dead parents house, who will one day die and be eaten by his cats before anyone misses him.

I'm hoping that eventually I won't have to write elaborate back stories for every troll we encounter just so I don't go all rage machine on them. For now, I shall settle for finding the least annoying way to modify my behavior.

One day, I shall evolve.

By way of deadcat_vagrant :




I'm falling over with unsurprise. Don't get me wrong -- I'm no conservative-basher, myself. I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, but holy cow, torture is torture. While I admit to being a fan of Jack "I'm gonna need a hacksaw" Bauer in real life, there have to be principles.Besides, torture doesn't really work - people will say anything if you hurt them enough, but it doesn't mean what they say is true.

There just... there has to be a line we don't cross.

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In other news, I'm really proud of myself for fixing some issues with the website all on my own, today. I'm not ready to lose the training wheels yet, but I'm learning.

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Last night I watched Deception and it really was as bad as everyone said. It's like a suspense/thriller for people who were dropped on their heads as babies -- Hitchcock for the short bus crowd. The actors were all great, and I'm not even sure the scrip was the problem. It was either the director or the studio did focus groups populated by people so stoned they had to have badges in order to remember their names.

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. ;)

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.

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:

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."