Anyone who tries to square infinity will be shot.
I have spent my Christmas watching movies and working on my holiday_on_ice fic, which is... not an epic, but it is long enough that I'd have to cut it down to get it published in The New Yorker. I'd also have to make it not fanfic and take out the porn, but I had not intended for the metaphor to extend that far.
I never read Yuletide fics until after the authors are revealed, other than the fic written for me. It's one of my hangups. I'll rec when all that happens, like I do every year. I wrote exactly one story; if you are not one of the three or four people who beta read it or endured my whining about it, and you guess which one it was, there might be a reward ficlet in it for you. Or possibly just virtual festooning.
Today's first movie, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is slow and worthy and has weighty allusions to Dante, but it is also darkly funny and oddly moving. It's the rare serious foreign film that balances out its own importance with levity and characterization, where you slowly figure out who and what it is about. It was rough going for a number of reasons, but I'm glad I got through it the way I'm glad when I finish a difficult novel.
The second movie was A History of Violence. It's all violence! Angst! Violence! like a Ryan arc on The O.C. only with less cage fighting. And I like Viggo Mortensen. Basically, I watched it with my 12-year-old-boy switch set to "on" and was rewarded.
I also watched the gala from the NHK Trophy today. Those boys left a lot of gay on that ice. (Tessa Virtue also left a lot of hot. Just to note.) Stevie Carriere is still shaking his strategically ripped jeans to "Sexy Back." Daisuke Takahashi has an art fag haircut to rival Christian from ProjRun's. And Jeremy Abbott, bless him, little Jeremy who was so confident he wouldn't place that he skated in his short program costume. Skating to "Faith" by George Michael. With very precise pelvic action.
Now I want Daisuke/Christian. They could both do it in my pocket. Stop it, brain!
And now, I bring you today's installment of I Read Semi-Obscure Skaters' Websites So You Don't Have To.
Jeremy "I am telling you, that pelvic action was very precise" Abbott wrote a long gushy journal entry on the pre-season Japanese team "competition" where he served as last-minute replacement for Miss Lysacek. Useful excerpts:
It was a whirlwind trip. I was told on the Thursday before we left that Evan had dropped out and I was going. We left on the next Wednesday before sunrise and didn't arrive in Japan until Thursday afternoon. Fortunately I was traveling with Ryan Bradley and Rachael Flatt, so when we weren't sleeping we kept each other fully entertained. (It didn't hurt that we got to fly business class either!)
and then...
We closed out our trip by having dinner as a team. It was only fitting that we went to a Japanese restaurant. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I was most excited about this because I adore sushi! At this point, we had all bonded and had almost become a mini family. I am sure we annoyed the staff because we were having so much fun, laughing and carrying on loudly, like true Americans!
However, we did give the staff a good laugh at the end of the evening. Everyone had piled into the bathroom because someone had discovered that there was a button on the toilets that made a flushing sound. It did not actually flush the toilet, it just made the sound. I think this really summed up my experience in Japan. Excitable skating fans, great friends, amazing food and scenery, and a toilet that made a flushing noise. I love Japan!
Make of this what you will.
Stephen "Let's just 'tano everything" Carriere's newly redesigned website includes newly redesigned Favorites with newly redesigned, hell, there is no sub in this text:
Favorite TV show: America's Next Top Model
Favorite celebrity: Ellen Degeneres
In conclusion, the future of US men's figure skating sounds pretty safe.
I never read Yuletide fics until after the authors are revealed, other than the fic written for me. It's one of my hangups. I'll rec when all that happens, like I do every year. I wrote exactly one story; if you are not one of the three or four people who beta read it or endured my whining about it, and you guess which one it was, there might be a reward ficlet in it for you. Or possibly just virtual festooning.
Today's first movie, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is slow and worthy and has weighty allusions to Dante, but it is also darkly funny and oddly moving. It's the rare serious foreign film that balances out its own importance with levity and characterization, where you slowly figure out who and what it is about. It was rough going for a number of reasons, but I'm glad I got through it the way I'm glad when I finish a difficult novel.
The second movie was A History of Violence. It's all violence! Angst! Violence! like a Ryan arc on The O.C. only with less cage fighting. And I like Viggo Mortensen. Basically, I watched it with my 12-year-old-boy switch set to "on" and was rewarded.
I also watched the gala from the NHK Trophy today. Those boys left a lot of gay on that ice. (Tessa Virtue also left a lot of hot. Just to note.) Stevie Carriere is still shaking his strategically ripped jeans to "Sexy Back." Daisuke Takahashi has an art fag haircut to rival Christian from ProjRun's. And Jeremy Abbott, bless him, little Jeremy who was so confident he wouldn't place that he skated in his short program costume. Skating to "Faith" by George Michael. With very precise pelvic action.
Now I want Daisuke/Christian. They could both do it in my pocket. Stop it, brain!
And now, I bring you today's installment of I Read Semi-Obscure Skaters' Websites So You Don't Have To.
Jeremy "I am telling you, that pelvic action was very precise" Abbott wrote a long gushy journal entry on the pre-season Japanese team "competition" where he served as last-minute replacement for Miss Lysacek. Useful excerpts:
It was a whirlwind trip. I was told on the Thursday before we left that Evan had dropped out and I was going. We left on the next Wednesday before sunrise and didn't arrive in Japan until Thursday afternoon. Fortunately I was traveling with Ryan Bradley and Rachael Flatt, so when we weren't sleeping we kept each other fully entertained. (It didn't hurt that we got to fly business class either!)
and then...
We closed out our trip by having dinner as a team. It was only fitting that we went to a Japanese restaurant. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I was most excited about this because I adore sushi! At this point, we had all bonded and had almost become a mini family. I am sure we annoyed the staff because we were having so much fun, laughing and carrying on loudly, like true Americans!
However, we did give the staff a good laugh at the end of the evening. Everyone had piled into the bathroom because someone had discovered that there was a button on the toilets that made a flushing sound. It did not actually flush the toilet, it just made the sound. I think this really summed up my experience in Japan. Excitable skating fans, great friends, amazing food and scenery, and a toilet that made a flushing noise. I love Japan!
Make of this what you will.
Stephen "Let's just 'tano everything" Carriere's newly redesigned website includes newly redesigned Favorites with newly redesigned, hell, there is no sub in this text:
Favorite TV show: America's Next Top Model
Favorite celebrity: Ellen Degeneres
In conclusion, the future of US men's figure skating sounds pretty safe.