*Crystalline* And It Burns So Good.
This is cute: an off-duty cop escorted a mother duck and her fluffy ducklings across 3 lanes of busy highway traffic, using his patrol car as a blockade. (Skip to about 55 seconds in.)
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I was getting ready to leave work at five today, which included a trip to the staff restroom. So I open the door and what do I see, contrasting hellishly against the starkly florescent white of the walls and tiling?
What do I SEEEEEE?
The biggest goddamn spider I've ever seen in person. A wolf spider in a place I once considered safe.
I stood there a moment, my mouth agape, and then I silently backed out of the bathroom. I went to tell our secretary, whose office is a few steps away.
"Um, Linda? There's this huuuge--hahaha--yeah, large spider in the bathroom."
"Oh," she says, laughing lightly. "I know."
"...you know."
"Well, I didn't want to kill it, so I left it."
"Right. Well, it's too big to kill with one foot and an aligned-feet landing is crap with a moving target."
"It would be messy, but let's let it live."
"I vote not."
In the end, we had our young adult librarian take a piece of paper and plastic cup and perform the unnecessary life-preserving maneuver of carrying it outside.
The season is upon us. Fucking A.
When I came home, there was a spider on our living room ceiling. Two hours later, some type of super-attenaed crawly bug on the bathroom floor. Just now: a twitterfucking booty-legged spider on the bathroom ceiling. GOD. It was like the one I popcorn-boxed three, four weeks ago. >:O arrrrrrrGAH!
(I've been commanding my brother to kill it for the past 45 minutes. "It's wearing booties! Kill it now!")
***
Stephen Chow has a new movie out, called CJ7! I'm thinking it must only be in Chinese theaters now because I can't find it released anywhere here. Anyone hear anything?
I love Stephen Chow. And there's this sickeningly cute space alien dog:
And of course I saw The Forbidden Kingdom on its opening night. For some reason, I had been convinced that Shia LeBeouf was in it. C'mon, doesn't that kinda look like him?
Anyway, no. That's Michael Angarano and he looked irritatingly familiar throughout the entire movie. So I looked him up about an hour ago and: he played Will Stronghold in Sky High! Ha! No wonder. I've only watched that movie like twenty times.
He wasn't immediately recognizable because...ahm...he's a bit fatter now. A little more amorphous. However, this worked out very well for his role as the awkward beat-up white city boy sucked into another dimension. *smiles encouragingly* LOL.
Overall, the movie wasn't as clever as I hoped. The plot was somewhat recycled and there wasn't nearly enough fighting--but what fighting and special effects there was...hooboy. Crystal likey.
Jet Li versus Jackie Chan? Hells yah, beyotches. (The tiger claw/praying mantis sound effects? *angel choir: aaaawwwweee--aawwwe--aaawweee!*) I loved the white-haired witchy woman; I wish she had gotten to kick more ass. And Sparrow? C'mon. They could have beefed her part up a little. I knew we were in for major FAIL the moment she pulled out that carved dart. It was way too pretty to inflict the kind of damage needed to take out an eyeliner-wearing war god.
Jet Li was great as the Monkey King. Very Monkey King-ish. I was intrigued by the hair thing; I wish they had gone into that more.
Finally, a big "hey, hello there" to Lupo. Rowr. What a performance, Morgan Benoit. You vicious punk.
No really. He played the "gang" leader or whatever and totally crunch-whipped Michael's character. I was a little ataken aback by how nuts he was--plus, he totally did not need that gun. His body...*cough* his body was...continues to be...a lethal weapon.
*whispers* I mean, look at it.
I originally searched for his name, but heh heh heh. What's in a name, right?
Born in Vermont, skilled in martial arts, and he speaks fluent Mandarin. Wo ai ni, baby. Gei wo ni de ai, right now.
Brace yourselves:
Mmm-mmm-mmm. Breakfast lunch dinner, wheeeeeee.
Lupo. ♥
***
I'm going to the Renaissance Faire tomorrow! I'm excited to see if/how the new handlers have changed it--a new location, at least, I think. And that would be good. The Fairgrounds weren't horrible but it was one large flat spread beneath the sun. Ah, Iowa Western, you was gud taims.
Sunday's my littlest brother's confirmation, so we'll be wrapped up in that. Next Sunday, his eighth grade graduation. Minnesota relatives coming down to visit! My being kicked out of my bed! :P LOL. It's for my grandma; I don't mind.
Ah, and my coworker actually bought me the World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade. He's been wanting me to play Horde on Whisperwind so I can join his (and my other coworker Heidi's) guild, but I'm all like ennnnh with the taurens, undeads, orcs, etcetera. I'm all Alliance, baby.
But a Blood Elf? XD I can do Blood Elf. Plus, now there's Jewelcrafting and Flying Mounts.
Hence his birthday present of WOW expansion. But I've spent the last five hours clearing things off of the laptop so the installment will fit. LOL, man, it's the only computer I can put it on right now.
When I have my own computer it will have a quajillion gigabytes and I will frolic amongst it like the springiest, most swayiest of sunshiney meadows.
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I was getting ready to leave work at five today, which included a trip to the staff restroom. So I open the door and what do I see, contrasting hellishly against the starkly florescent white of the walls and tiling?
What do I SEEEEEE?
The biggest goddamn spider I've ever seen in person. A wolf spider in a place I once considered safe.
I stood there a moment, my mouth agape, and then I silently backed out of the bathroom. I went to tell our secretary, whose office is a few steps away.
"Um, Linda? There's this huuuge--hahaha--yeah, large spider in the bathroom."
"Oh," she says, laughing lightly. "I know."
"...you know."
"Well, I didn't want to kill it, so I left it."
"Right. Well, it's too big to kill with one foot and an aligned-feet landing is crap with a moving target."
"It would be messy, but let's let it live."
"I vote not."
In the end, we had our young adult librarian take a piece of paper and plastic cup and perform the unnecessary life-preserving maneuver of carrying it outside.
The season is upon us. Fucking A.
When I came home, there was a spider on our living room ceiling. Two hours later, some type of super-attenaed crawly bug on the bathroom floor. Just now: a twitterfucking booty-legged spider on the bathroom ceiling. GOD. It was like the one I popcorn-boxed three, four weeks ago. >:O arrrrrrrGAH!
(I've been commanding my brother to kill it for the past 45 minutes. "It's wearing booties! Kill it now!")
***
Stephen Chow has a new movie out, called CJ7! I'm thinking it must only be in Chinese theaters now because I can't find it released anywhere here. Anyone hear anything?
I love Stephen Chow. And there's this sickeningly cute space alien dog:
And of course I saw The Forbidden Kingdom on its opening night. For some reason, I had been convinced that Shia LeBeouf was in it. C'mon, doesn't that kinda look like him?
Anyway, no. That's Michael Angarano and he looked irritatingly familiar throughout the entire movie. So I looked him up about an hour ago and: he played Will Stronghold in Sky High! Ha! No wonder. I've only watched that movie like twenty times.
He wasn't immediately recognizable because...ahm...he's a bit fatter now. A little more amorphous. However, this worked out very well for his role as the awkward beat-up white city boy sucked into another dimension. *smiles encouragingly* LOL.
Overall, the movie wasn't as clever as I hoped. The plot was somewhat recycled and there wasn't nearly enough fighting--but what fighting and special effects there was...hooboy. Crystal likey.
Jet Li versus Jackie Chan? Hells yah, beyotches. (The tiger claw/praying mantis sound effects? *angel choir: aaaawwwweee--aawwwe--aaawweee!*) I loved the white-haired witchy woman; I wish she had gotten to kick more ass. And Sparrow? C'mon. They could have beefed her part up a little. I knew we were in for major FAIL the moment she pulled out that carved dart. It was way too pretty to inflict the kind of damage needed to take out an eyeliner-wearing war god.
Jet Li was great as the Monkey King. Very Monkey King-ish. I was intrigued by the hair thing; I wish they had gone into that more.
Finally, a big "hey, hello there" to Lupo. Rowr. What a performance, Morgan Benoit. You vicious punk.
No really. He played the "gang" leader or whatever and totally crunch-whipped Michael's character. I was a little ataken aback by how nuts he was--plus, he totally did not need that gun. His body...*cough* his body was...continues to be...a lethal weapon.
*whispers* I mean, look at it.
I originally searched for his name, but heh heh heh. What's in a name, right?
Born in Vermont, skilled in martial arts, and he speaks fluent Mandarin. Wo ai ni, baby. Gei wo ni de ai, right now.
Brace yourselves:
Mmm-mmm-mmm. Breakfast lunch dinner, wheeeeeee.
Lupo. ♥
***
I'm going to the Renaissance Faire tomorrow! I'm excited to see if/how the new handlers have changed it--a new location, at least, I think. And that would be good. The Fairgrounds weren't horrible but it was one large flat spread beneath the sun. Ah, Iowa Western, you was gud taims.
Sunday's my littlest brother's confirmation, so we'll be wrapped up in that. Next Sunday, his eighth grade graduation. Minnesota relatives coming down to visit! My being kicked out of my bed! :P LOL. It's for my grandma; I don't mind.
Ah, and my coworker actually bought me the World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade. He's been wanting me to play Horde on Whisperwind so I can join his (and my other coworker Heidi's) guild, but I'm all like ennnnh with the taurens, undeads, orcs, etcetera. I'm all Alliance, baby.
But a Blood Elf? XD I can do Blood Elf. Plus, now there's Jewelcrafting and Flying Mounts.
Hence his birthday present of WOW expansion. But I've spent the last five hours clearing things off of the laptop so the installment will fit. LOL, man, it's the only computer I can put it on right now.
When I have my own computer it will have a quajillion gigabytes and I will frolic amongst it like the springiest, most swayiest of sunshiney meadows.