if only for the sake of elegance, i try to remain morally pure.
I deleted my last entry. It contained embarrassing grfx, sry.
But, so, here’s me. I’ll break it down:
PERSONAL LIFE: I’m doing very all right, despite having to pick up two new students. My local Giant Eagle has been consistently (amazingly!!) stocking all four of the Betty Crocker gluten-free bake mixes. I made a goddamn cake today, motherfucker! Then I ate it! Not all of it, but close! Also my cousin Nancy moved in with me near the end of October. So far we’ve been doing great together, especially considering that both of us are assholes. The only problems to date are: 1.) She refuses to put her hairbrush away no matter what, and 2.) She is disgustingly beautiful. She can’t help flaunting one of those weaknesses, of course, and I expect the other problem to clear up once I replace 45% of the volume of her shampoo with Nair.
DIGITAL LIFE: I’m in the process of making two new sites. And by “in the process” I mean “staring blankly at my monitor while whining about not having any ideas.” One of these sites is ‘personal,’ by which I mean ‘a place to put my Fuck You, Jane Austen! articles and fantarded desktops,’ and the other is totally fandom-related. I would like to have them up “soon,” which has the traditional meaning of “before I die.” Also I’m writing a new article for Cynn Corvus. Also I want to make the domain a new layout. Also, I need a real blog again. I think that LiveJournal is so out-of-date that it’s now semi-unusable, not to mention the fact that I have nothing in common with 95% of my flist these days, something for which I feel unaccountable guilt. Then again, both TextPattern and WordPress have gotten cardiothoracic surgery-complicated in the last couple of years, and I’m not eager to start wrestling with them again. And Blogger is a very limited platform, and is also owned by Google. I like Google and find some of its services very useful, but it seems to be turning into one of those military-industrial corporations in a Margaret Atwood novel. So, fuck it. Maybe I don’t need a blog after all.
OTHER STUFF:
1.) Margaret Atwood just published The Year of the Flood, which completes the story started in Oryx & Crake. Which is good, because now I don’t have to try to trip her if I ever see her walking down the street in my crappy little town? Why would she be doing that?. I totally borrowed my LJ username from Oryx & Crake, teeheehee.
2.) I wish Amazon posted short, c&p-ready links, like everybody else. Don’t they know how lazy I am?
3.) I’m totally waiting on busaikko’s Snupin Santa fic with baited breath.
4.) CHRISTMAS!!!!
5.) My Thanksgiving was not horrible!
6.) EEEEEEEEEEYIYIYIYIYIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAAAY~!!!!
7.) I don’t even know what this means. Literally. I have no idea. I read Invisible Man like fourteen times, so I know what a psychological landscape is, but I don’t see how that relates to Austen. Unless by “psychological” she means “delusional”? I think she’s saying that Austen’s narratives describe her characters' internal movement instead of the kind of visual action we’re used to in modern novels, but honestly, I would attribute that particular characteristic to Austen’s inability to write novels. Whatever this thing is, though, I want to buy it, because it’s something Susanna Clarke wrote. On the other hand, once I buy it, I will be the owner of a book of essays about Austen novels. I will become the sort of person who owns a book of essays about Austen novels. I don’t really like that. To be honest with you, I’d rather suddenly discover I’m a furry.
Lastly, did you see this? Kind of old, but I find it rather eye-gougingopening.
15.) Dr. Carlisle Cullen - I Googled this bitch, and he’s kind of hot, even if he does appear to be wearing a Hogwarts uniform in some of his photos. As long as he doesn’t move or talk, this contributes to a resemblance to a below-stairs Malfoy. I would disagree with the implicit assumption that Twilight is “literature,” however. It’s not even really a book. It’s the print-form of a pair of dirty underwear.
14.) Jay Gatsby - Yes, because that would be very mentally healthy. I’ve always wanted to spectate at the filming of a live-action reality-show version of Hamlet, too!
13.) Mr. Darcy - Hell fucking no.
12.) Ned Nickerson - Apparently these chicks have a thing for dudes so far in the closet they can’t even switch on a light.
11.) Atticus Finch - Whenever I watch To Kill a Mockingbird, the first thing I think is, “Atticus Finch is just soooooo bangworthy!” No, really. I do.
10.) Heathcliff - Gay men is one thing; psychopaths are something different. Heathcliff was a really dull guy, once you got over his homicidal cruelty. People who are always predictable are never sexy.
9.) James Bond - One of the most boring characters ever published. A spy? Really?
8.) Holden Caulfield - I think maybe they didn’t actually read this one.
7.) The Phantom - I will cosign the Gerard Butler version of the Phantom. He appeared to be tone-deaf, and was actually much hotter than all of the other characters in the movie. It was great. Things sort of went from: “The phantom of the opera is there! Inside my mind!” to “HEY TAKE ME! I LIKE MUSIC.”
6.) Aragorn - Yes! Although personally I wouldn’t throw Arwen over a cliff. I would extend to her an invitation.
5.) Gilbert Blythe - When I was a kid, I really loved this PBS special. The ending broke my heart, though. I have never forgiven Anne for handing over her writing career in favor of being the mother to a pile of kids she had with a dude who was more or less her brother. If I were Anne, I would’ve married the hot old rich guy. Did you see the size of his library?
4.) Noah Calhoun - No comment.
3.) Logan - Oh my god, no comment.
2.) Macbeth - Again, I must’ve read some other Macbeth, whose protagonist was not nearly so sexually attractive. I will say that Macbeth would probably look really hot, though. If you’re into that.
1.) Rhett Butler - OH MY GOD? Rhett Butler was an assclown. Literally! The part was intended for Groucho Marx. These poor women!
My list, of course, would look like:
15.) Severus Snape
14.) John Childermass
13.) - 1.) John Uskglass
At least I’m consistent.
So. And yourself?
But, so, here’s me. I’ll break it down:
PERSONAL LIFE: I’m doing very all right, despite having to pick up two new students. My local Giant Eagle has been consistently (amazingly!!) stocking all four of the Betty Crocker gluten-free bake mixes. I made a goddamn cake today, motherfucker! Then I ate it! Not all of it, but close! Also my cousin Nancy moved in with me near the end of October. So far we’ve been doing great together, especially considering that both of us are assholes. The only problems to date are: 1.) She refuses to put her hairbrush away no matter what, and 2.) She is disgustingly beautiful. She can’t help flaunting one of those weaknesses, of course, and I expect the other problem to clear up once I replace 45% of the volume of her shampoo with Nair.
DIGITAL LIFE: I’m in the process of making two new sites. And by “in the process” I mean “staring blankly at my monitor while whining about not having any ideas.” One of these sites is ‘personal,’ by which I mean ‘a place to put my Fuck You, Jane Austen! articles and fantarded desktops,’ and the other is totally fandom-related. I would like to have them up “soon,” which has the traditional meaning of “before I die.” Also I’m writing a new article for Cynn Corvus. Also I want to make the domain a new layout. Also, I need a real blog again. I think that LiveJournal is so out-of-date that it’s now semi-unusable, not to mention the fact that I have nothing in common with 95% of my flist these days, something for which I feel unaccountable guilt. Then again, both TextPattern and WordPress have gotten cardiothoracic surgery-complicated in the last couple of years, and I’m not eager to start wrestling with them again. And Blogger is a very limited platform, and is also owned by Google. I like Google and find some of its services very useful, but it seems to be turning into one of those military-industrial corporations in a Margaret Atwood novel. So, fuck it. Maybe I don’t need a blog after all.
OTHER STUFF:
1.) Margaret Atwood just published The Year of the Flood, which completes the story started in Oryx & Crake. Which is good, because now I don’t have to try to trip her if I ever see her walking down the street in my crappy little town? Why would she be doing that?. I totally borrowed my LJ username from Oryx & Crake, teeheehee.
2.) I wish Amazon posted short, c&p-ready links, like everybody else. Don’t they know how lazy I am?
3.) I’m totally waiting on busaikko’s Snupin Santa fic with baited breath.
4.) CHRISTMAS!!!!
5.) My Thanksgiving was not horrible!
6.) EEEEEEEEEEYIYIYIYIYIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAAAY~!!!!
7.) I don’t even know what this means. Literally. I have no idea. I read Invisible Man like fourteen times, so I know what a psychological landscape is, but I don’t see how that relates to Austen. Unless by “psychological” she means “delusional”? I think she’s saying that Austen’s narratives describe her characters' internal movement instead of the kind of visual action we’re used to in modern novels, but honestly, I would attribute that particular characteristic to Austen’s inability to write novels. Whatever this thing is, though, I want to buy it, because it’s something Susanna Clarke wrote. On the other hand, once I buy it, I will be the owner of a book of essays about Austen novels. I will become the sort of person who owns a book of essays about Austen novels. I don’t really like that. To be honest with you, I’d rather suddenly discover I’m a furry.
Lastly, did you see this? Kind of old, but I find it rather eye-gougingopening.
15.) Dr. Carlisle Cullen - I Googled this bitch, and he’s kind of hot, even if he does appear to be wearing a Hogwarts uniform in some of his photos. As long as he doesn’t move or talk, this contributes to a resemblance to a below-stairs Malfoy. I would disagree with the implicit assumption that Twilight is “literature,” however. It’s not even really a book. It’s the print-form of a pair of dirty underwear.
14.) Jay Gatsby - Yes, because that would be very mentally healthy. I’ve always wanted to spectate at the filming of a live-action reality-show version of Hamlet, too!
13.) Mr. Darcy - Hell fucking no.
12.) Ned Nickerson - Apparently these chicks have a thing for dudes so far in the closet they can’t even switch on a light.
11.) Atticus Finch - Whenever I watch To Kill a Mockingbird, the first thing I think is, “Atticus Finch is just soooooo bangworthy!” No, really. I do.
10.) Heathcliff - Gay men is one thing; psychopaths are something different. Heathcliff was a really dull guy, once you got over his homicidal cruelty. People who are always predictable are never sexy.
9.) James Bond - One of the most boring characters ever published. A spy? Really?
8.) Holden Caulfield - I think maybe they didn’t actually read this one.
7.) The Phantom - I will cosign the Gerard Butler version of the Phantom. He appeared to be tone-deaf, and was actually much hotter than all of the other characters in the movie. It was great. Things sort of went from: “The phantom of the opera is there! Inside my mind!” to “HEY TAKE ME! I LIKE MUSIC.”
6.) Aragorn - Yes! Although personally I wouldn’t throw Arwen over a cliff. I would extend to her an invitation.
5.) Gilbert Blythe - When I was a kid, I really loved this PBS special. The ending broke my heart, though. I have never forgiven Anne for handing over her writing career in favor of being the mother to a pile of kids she had with a dude who was more or less her brother. If I were Anne, I would’ve married the hot old rich guy. Did you see the size of his library?
4.) Noah Calhoun - No comment.
3.) Logan - Oh my god, no comment.
2.) Macbeth - Again, I must’ve read some other Macbeth, whose protagonist was not nearly so sexually attractive. I will say that Macbeth would probably look really hot, though. If you’re into that.
1.) Rhett Butler - OH MY GOD? Rhett Butler was an assclown. Literally! The part was intended for Groucho Marx. These poor women!
My list, of course, would look like:
15.) Severus Snape
14.) John Childermass
13.) - 1.) John Uskglass
At least I’m consistent.
So. And yourself?