| Acorns, trees, or possibly very obvious jokes |
[19 Dec 2009|07:41pm] |
Yesterday, Z made the exact same joke that I made in this post in 2003. "I don't know much about Art... except about the time he went off to Egypt and bought a bunch of papyruses," he said.
Also, he spontaneously made ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) carandol's pun where I say "We need [something we happen to need]" and the response is "No, we knead bread."
Then there's a thing I read on the back of a matchbox when I was a kid. (Can you imagine being desperate enough for things to read that you'd read the back of a matchbox? Or if you did that it would have anything worth remembering?) The joke was two people on a pier. One says "Isn't it windy? The second says "No, I think it's Thursday." The first replies "So am I, let's have a cup of tea." I told Z this joke when he was a child of an age to appreciate it, and he took to it, and so occasionally when it's windy (though not usually windy enough that you can't hear what the other person's saying) and one of us remarks on it the other will respond with "No I think it's Thursday" and so on. The thing is that both his girlfriend and rysmiel have picked this up -- it's odd to think of this little bit of a matchbox joke lasting so well and gaining a wider audience after so long. You never know what people will remember, and take up. I imagine someone paid to write matchbox jokes and having six to do before knocking-off time scribbling that one down and being mildly pleased when it passed muster and was printed and never imagining that more than thirty years later it would be appreciated by a new generation. I mean it's not Shakespeare or Douglas Adams, it was only a matchbox.
|
|
| Fred/George/Harry : "The Nature of Pranksters" by lucianwolf |
[19 Dec 2009|06:54pm] |
Title: The Nature of Pranksters
Gaining Access: Open
Author: lucianwolf
Length/Word Count: 4383
Alternate Links to Fic/Art: Here at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ownficfest
Pairing: Fred/George/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Harry has an unexpected insight into the nature of pranksters.
Author's Website: Her fic list.
Why everyone should read this: Well, I'll start off by saying that this isn't for everyone. It's got incest, dub-con, and some serious sadism/masochism. But if you can handle that, then this is a must-read. It is absolutely brilliant. It explores the dichotomies & parallels that can exist inside people: good man/dark fantasies; hero/villain; merry-maker/sadist. The twins are characterized beautifully -- they're two (very) different sides of one (disturbing, gorgeous and fascinating) coin, and their relationship is twisted, dark, compelling, and incredibly intimate. Harry is amazing in his own right, also -- vulnerable and aching and bold, treading all over places he doesn't necessarily belong. It's also scorchingly hot, if it's your thing (and if it isn't, it just might convert you.)
( Excerpt )
** Dear Mods, I need a Fred/George/Harry tag, if you would. Thank you!
|
|
| Local area audio specialist? |
[19 Dec 2009|07:31pm] |
My dad recently came into posession of some old 78s of my grandfather singing. He'd like to have them transferred to a digital medium for posterity (and to make it easier for grandma to listen to).
He's tried doing it himself, without too much success. Does anyone know of any sort of resource that would be able to get the audio off of the old records, and clean it up so it's comprehensible?
Thanks, guys!
(cross-posted to b0st0n)
|
|
| old coins are interesting |
[19 Dec 2009|06:22pm] |
|
Because I'm having a very wobbly day and won't be going out to be sociable (sorry, Mythic Palace folks! hope you have a good one!), I am gratifying myself with some fun involving cleaning up old coins. A friend gave me a whole sackful of them recently, saying he just scooped a big handful at random from his soaked-but-not-scrubbed coin stash, and I can tell already that these are going to be a lot of fun. Most of them are Roman, but there may be an odd one or two in there. I've taken photographs of the first batch of eight, and will put links to them here as I go. I'm going to go put them in the ultrasonic cleaner now and see what that does.
|
|
| HAPPY H/D HOLIDAYS, CELANDINEB! |
[19 Dec 2009|05:57pm] |
Author: Anonymous
Recipient: celandineb
Title: Slick n’ Easy
Pairings: Harry/Draco, Draco/Astoria, Astoria/other, and Ron/Hermione, with fleeting mentions of past Harry/Ginny
Summary: When Astoria Malfoy is investigated for opening an underground lubricant business targeted at Muggles (to painful effect), an irate Draco comes to Harry, though Harry doesn't quite know why. What Harry does know is that he’s noticing very odd things about Malfoy. (Who knew Malfoy had such long eyelashes?)
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warning(s): Infidelity but not between canon pairing and not very explicit, dark and inappropriate humour, arsehole!Zacharias. Oh, and dirty sex.
Epilogue compliant? EWE
Word Count: ~12,600
Author's Notes: Thank you so, so much to the mods for their everlasting patience. Thank you, first of all, to L, who is always incredibly helpful and willing to listen to me rant. Your support means everything. ♥ Thanks to my betas: L, M1, M2, and M3. You are amazing, and I love you all to bits. Any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own.
celandineb, I stalked your journal and found you don’t mind a bit of crack—in this case it’s more a cracky premise than crack!fic, but I hope you find it amusing. J I tried for my personal favourite genre plot-that-contains-porn. I hope I’ve succeeded! I hope you like this. ♥
( Slick n’ Easy )
|
|
| Health Care |
[19 Dec 2009|05:57pm] |
So now the big hurdle to overcome with the health care bill is a debate between the Stupak Coathanger Amendment and the Nelson Coathanger Amendment?
I think I've said this before, but can I have Candidate Obama back? He seemed to understand something about leadership that utterly slipped President Obama's mind.
|
|
| About the Livejournal Happy Holiday coupons: |
[19 Dec 2009|05:40pm] |
Thank you to the folks that offered them to me, but I declined them, because I don't intend to "upgrade" to a paid account.
See, I got in to LJ early enough that I've got one of those accounts that doesn't get ads even when it's a free account. Brad promised that LJ would always be ad-free, and SUP or SixApart or whoever decided that it was gonna have ads, but so as not to make Brad break his promise, they decided that accounts that existed BEFORE they bought the thing could get a special status as "ad-free, even when unpaid."
I'm afraid that, if I DID get a paid account, when it lapsed back to unpaid, it'd lose that "non-ad" status. I'm not willing to risk that.
So I'm never going to a paid account, because I fear that it'll leave me with something worse than what I have now, after the paid account expires.
|
|
| FYI |
[19 Dec 2009|02:10pm] |
|
I'm still pondering the icon issue, so feel free to go on adding suggestions to that post. (The problem is not with the pictures I've been given already, but rather with my subconscious, which just doesn't want to play ball. I don't know what it's looking for -- that it hasn't been given already -- or whether it's just being cranky. Quite possibly the latter.)
|
|
| 961 / Meme |
[19 Dec 2009|03:10pm] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
 cosy |
] |
It's a good day for curling up in a cosy chair and scribbling some ficlets. So! Give me a character or pairing from a fandom I know, and I will write you something about them: something factual about them according to my own personal canon; five things about them; a kiss; an AU you would like to see them in; or to some other prompt of yours.
|
|
| Why |
[19 Dec 2009|09:01pm] |
|
Is Washington DC getting Kitchener's weather?
|
|
|
[19 Dec 2009|03:38pm] |
Snow snow snow, snow snow snow. And by the way, snow.
It's really snowing out there! And it's wonderful snow, so light and powdery that you could practically blow it off the sidewalk (if there weren't so darned much of it! -- We did hit 'historic' snow fall for this region. Yay!)
There was easily a foot of snow on the ground when I got up this morning and it's still coming down. Here's a pic of my backyard at around noon:
( snowy backyard-noon )
You can't really see from this picture, but there are at least a dozen little birds hiding in the butterfly bush that is on the right side of this picture. I've got families of cardinals, jays, doves, oriels, wrens and various types of sparrows that live in and around my yard. (Plus the occasional woodpeckers and hawks and crows and other bigger birds that live in the trees and field by my house.)
I shoveled a path over to my birdfeeder so I could feed the birds. They've been taking turns at the feeder for the past couple of hours. Poor things must be so cold!
I'm going to spend the rest of the day listening to music and reading (Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett). Tomorrow I will clean the house a bit and work on my dolls and also possibly do some sketching or painting. Then next week... no work!! Yay! I took the whole week off.
|
|
| navigation |
| [ |
viewing |
| |
most recent entries |
] |
| [ |
go |
| |
earlier |
] |
|
|
|
|
busy
22 (22.4%)
calm