sending out the ripple through space-time

Just so you all know

2007-06-16T21:44:49Z

You're not making me jealous with this double xp weekend thing. Nosiree. The Sulverwing Sentinels are having Warson Gulch's anniversary weekend with bonus honor, just when I need 80 marks for some snazzy new blue stuff. ;-)

just to update

2006-04-27T15:48:38Z

I'm cleansing myself and not coming to LJ, so if there's something you think I need to know, it's best to write me an email about it.

Thanks to semagic for letting me post without actually looking at LJ. Whee!

PSA

2006-02-10T01:39:25Z

Okay everyone. The Winter Olymics start tomorrow. Everyone who cares, please come over here and jump into this thimble.

buttwait! there's more!

2006-02-09T22:09:52Z

You are a Drama Queen!

Congratulations, you should win the Oscar for performance of the year!
You're the type of girl who everyone knows - and loves or hates
You always speak your mind, going for a some shock value if necessary
Dramatic, yes - but it also almost always gets you what you want

Are You a Drama Queen?

the most important meme EVER!

2006-02-09T21:05:16Z

Your Reputation Is: Maneater

You're the kind of girl all the chicks hate...
And guys are both scared of you yet strangely drawn in.

What's Your Reputation?

a little rant with the morning coffee

2006-02-08T17:44:10Z

I'm in a ranting fucking mood this morning. All of Western Civilization is due for some of my wrath right now. And given how unreasonable most of the rest of the world is, I think I could throw some snide comments their way as well.

I am not at peace. I do not approve. I don't like your institutions of the status quo, I don't like your corrupt and ineffective systems of government, I don't like your rules of behavior, and I don't particularly like *you* right now.

And I'm getting less and less concerned about the opinions of those who would judge me for being me. I'm not as willing to put on a happy face and pretend I'm okay with it all.

So keep fighting your idiotic wars, keep thinking that your way of having sex is the ONLY way everyone else should always have sex, keep destroying, keep going to your narrow minded church, and please, keep killing yourself with that hamburger, cause you know what? That part's kinda funny.

sagcat @ 2006-02-03T12:17:00

2006-02-03T20:18:29Z

From the altfriday5:

1. Rain: hate it? Love it? Indifferent?
I react differently to the rain at different times. Sometimes I love it, and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I appreciate the natural state of the rain season, and other times I just can't wait till it's over, you know?

2. Relate an interesting story from your life involving rain (e.g. a big storm, a romantic walk in the rain, etc.).
this answer has been sensored for issues of National Security.

3. How much does it usually rain where you live? Is that too much for you? Not enough? Just right?
It rains alot where i live, and ideally, it would rain fairly close to the norm throughout the year. Too much or too little rain can both be harmful to the natural order of things. My occasional discomfort with the rain is of far lessor consequence than what Nature decides she wants, needs, or maybe even feel a girl-like whim toward. It's her right to extract as much or as little as she says. Then there's the whole problem with man's arrogant interference with Her Natural order of things.

4. Is it raining right now where you are? If yes, what kind of rain is it?
It's rained today and it will again. I'm not sure what we're going to get.

5. Tell us your favourite song lyric with "rain" in it (or any lyric that comes to mind, if you can't pick a "favourite").
That sysipisian arachnid from out nursury rymes
The Itsy bitsy spider
crawled up the water spout.
Down came the rain
and washed the spider out

Out came the Sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy bitsy spider
crawled up the spout again

just so I don't lose the recipe

2006-02-01T02:45:19Z

Mint (peppermint is good for flavor)
Catnip (Yes, your cats will get into this if you don't keep it out of reach)
Yarrow
Chamomile
Hops
Skullcap (do not give skullcap to children)

Drink about half an our before you want to be asleep.

huh

2006-02-01T00:29:36Z

stolen blatently from jenhowell.

You scored as Draco Malfoy. If you went to Hogwarts Draco Malfoy would be doing you...not the other way around. He's mean, rich, and dark. But those aren't the only parts parts of him you love. He had you on your back the second he threw you down and had his way with you. And you loved every minute of it. The two of you have fucked just about on every surface of Hogwarts...including that rediculus Harry Potter's bed.
Go head girl go head get down.

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Draco Malfoy

80%

Cedric Diggory

70%

Fred and George Weasley

60%

Harry Potter

50%

Ron Weasley

45%

Victor Krum

30%

No one, your a prude

20%

Percy Weasley

15%

WHO ARE YOU SCREWING AT HOGWARTS??
created with QuizFarm.com

The funniest thing is that it got Percy Weasley exactly right. Not even if you were the only boy in the bar, Percy.

link spam

2006-01-31T22:07:19Z

Today's This Modern World is worth the time to click through the ad. (Salon)

the icon contest is over

2006-01-31T19:39:53Z

This icon is the winner.

and it belongs to someone neamed little_octagon who says it's courtesy of a mr_z

question for the peanut gallery

2006-01-30T22:37:47Z

What firefox theme do you use? Bonus points for why.

eh?

2006-01-29T02:02:15Z

was that just an earthquake?

eta:
La said it lasted five or six seconds upstairs, but I only felt it for a second or two downstairs. It was odd, I coulda sworn someone pushed me.

altfriday5

2006-01-28T00:34:49Z

From the altfriday5:

1. 'What size do you want to be?'
That changes frequently. Please give me the reagents to become whatever size my whim desires.

2. 'And how do you know that you're mad?'
Because we're all mad here.

3. 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'
Stop asking stupid riddles and pass the freaking tea.

4. 'Can YOU keep from crying by considering things?'
No.

5. 'Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear, and you should NOT go on licking your paw like that--as if Dinah hadn't washed you this morning! You see, Kitty, it MUST have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course--but then I was part of his dream, too! WAS it the Red King, Kitty? You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know -- Oh, Kitty, DO help to settle it! I'm sure your paw can wait!' But the provoking kitten only began on the other paw, and pretended it hadn't heard the question.

Which do YOU think it was?
licks paw, rubs on face, looks up... "Mrrwak?"

follow-up

2006-01-25T16:36:51Z

In case any of you were interested in the discussion topic posed by the Dan Savage column I linked to two weeks ago, he's followed that column up with several letters and commentary, much of which I think is extremely telling.
the original column
the follow-up section

of particular interest to me:
"DAN HERE: I find it interesting that so much mail poured in with advice for WILLIE, all of it predicated on the assumption that he was doing something terribly, terribly wrong. I got so much mail from people who wanted to tell WILLIE that the fault was his, that he obviously needed to be more loving.

Oddly enough, no one wrote in to blame FS for her problem. Her husband won't put out, and—guess what?—most people who wrote in seemed to think that was her husband's fault, not hers. FS' husband must be gay or already cheating on her. Hmm. I find it odd that no long letters arrived laying out what FS was doing wrong.

Is it always the man's fault, I wonder? If something is going wrong in a couple's sex life, the man must be to blame?"

can he really just post that?!

2006-01-25T00:00:12Z

The following link goes to a wheden-verse eye candy store. It appears to serve no other function then to make me short of breath.
gallery
for instance:

Yay for Jerome!

2006-01-22T23:31:47Z

Jerome Bettis just qualified for his first Super Bowl in his remarkable 13 year career. Jerome lived a few doors down from me my first two years at Notre Dame in Alumni Hall, and is genuinely as nice and decent a guy as everyone says he is. The Steelers made little secret of the fact that they were playing this postseason to get Jerome into the Super Bowl, and they played their asses off over the last three weeks to do it.

I'm thrilled for him, and I hope to hell the Steelers get him his ring before he retires.

restless

2006-01-21T23:41:11Z

gods DAMN I want to get out of the house.

television

2006-01-20T22:19:46Z

I'm going to follow jenhowell's lead and discuss my favorite television shows. I'll hold myself to six, though I'm sure I'm forgetting something really damned obvious.

And why T.V.? Well, I respect television for having the ability to develop characters and tell a tale over an epic period of time. A year of television is like a 20 hour movie. And a well done year of television never feels like it's too long (though all shows could probably cull their poorest two or three entries in any given season.) Given restraints of time and budget that most television shows have, it's wondrous what can be created.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also Angel and the comic series Fray all by Joss Whedon. The Buffyverse brings together fantastical superhero genre with modern feminism, the sharpest writing on the block, humor, and a collection of the best-developed characters ever to grace the screen. And don't even get me started on the hotness of the eye-candy. Let's also stop and stare for a moment at the mythology which rivals that of the star trek universe, but didn't give us 26 seasons of mostly cheese.

2. Firefly. Oh what should have been. Joss' most intensely personal creation featured a future space pirate in tight pants for whom everyone falls in one way or another. This show defies pigeon-holing. It's close to impossible to describe. And it only lasted 14 episodes, two of which were pilots. It was great because it cared so much about the nine characters aboard the boat. Joss took a large chunk of his most talented staff from Buffy and Angel and used the same formula of quality writing, wry humor, mystery, gorgeous actors, and loving character development to make what may be the best television ever produced. And let's give special mention to the spaceship, which is just cool.

3. Farscape. Another show cut off in it's prime, but at least we got four seasons. This is essentially a fish out of water story in which our hero, John Crichton is the only human on a ship of fugitives from an evil, totalitarian government. Over the course of the four years, John proves his value to the crew and makes friends while the writers spin sci-fi tales well worth the time to watch. Special mention to the puppetry of Henson's Creature shop which is among the finest ever employed in any medium. (With a nod to Hensen's Dinosaurs, the ABC show that was on from 1991-1994 and could easily make this list.)

4. Freaks & Geeks. Judd Apatow created this short-lived drama set in a high school in the early 80's. If you've not seen it, it's available on DVD and should be watched. You can't watch the show and not fall in love with Linda Cardellini's Lindsey Weir. Yes, that's a dare. And Bill Haverchuck is unforgettable.

5. Futurama. In much the same way The Big Lebowski was better than Fargo but far less popular, Futurama was better than the Simpsons. Some of the best voice acting ever assembled delivered jokes so good that I constantly find myself recalling them and giggling my ass off. And has any show ever sent up Richard Nixon more consistently? (Perhaps you'd have to be a faithful reader of the Radioactive Man comics to know how deep Matt Greoning's loathing of Nixon flows.) I understand why the show wasn't as widely accepted, and I recognize that I am one of the few people to whom it really appeals, but damn this show was funny.

6. Lost. I've only seen season one, but it was flat out fun. I could write an article on every character, and there's 14 of them. Gilligan's Island meets the X-Files. Brilliant. Favorite episode of season one was "Numbers" which featured Hurley's back story and was scary enough to keep me awake.

Special mentions: Star Trek's many incarnations. I loved that universe and loved what it said about what humanity could become if only we'd fucking try. The Tick, both animated and live action. Carnivale (I've only seen season one, but wow.) And like I said, probably a gazillion others that I'm not recalling.

Analysis: wow, I'm a genre geek.

weird request

2006-01-20T19:42:30Z

Okay, someone out there has to have this, right? I want a copy of Heart's "Magic Man," cause I just watched The Virgin Suicides, and I cant get that song out of my head. It needs to be exorcised by listening, and it needs to get stuck into my itunes library for future occurances when this happens with this song.

So someone please email that to me?

meme frenzy!

2006-01-19T21:10:24Z

sagcat is energetic.

You've got the energy level of a small yip-yap dog. And, much like those dogs, I hope you get run over by an ice cream truck. Yeah, that's right. I said it.

brought to you by interim32. wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)

No, April, I don't think it's based on your moods. Cause, wow. Let's just stare in wonder at the airball of this wild guess.

meme

2006-01-17T22:10:06Z

A problem that persists with LJ-friends: we all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then, if you like, post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

This meme kinda scares me, and I'm not even going to friends protect it. I'm too curious.

simple request

2006-01-07T18:25:28Z

Note to the fates:
I would like all future comas to take place between December 20 and January 20. I have no fucking use for this month on the calendar.

I just went back and did some blog-cleaning. Deleted somewhere between 10-15 entries for which I had no longer had any use. Think I might take the virtual machete to more of it later.

Funny thing is, this is exactly the type of entry that would be wriggling on the chopping block if it weren't, you know, my current entry.

Harry Potter

2006-01-06T02:00:44Z

what's the name of the band that plays the yule ball? I want to change the tags on the mp3's to reflect the fictional band instead of the guy who wrote the songs for the movie. Sorry anonymous music writer. =-/

astrology

2006-01-06T00:15:40Z

From today's symboline:
"Sagittarius, don’t waste time on prospects or projects that don’t hold lasting interest."

That's like telling a sag to breathe.