So, I'm hearing a lot about people being upset about the introduction of Evangeline Lilly's character, Tauriel, in the new Hobbit film. They don't like that the holy, untouchable source material is being fiddled with. Some think it's insulting to suggest that little girls need to see a woman on screen to enjoy the story, and so the character ( Read more... )

The last few days have kind of been a blur. Thursday, I felt dizzy and lightheaded and basically did not leave my couch. Friday was supposed to be a 1/2 day at work on account of me feeling like something that might be scraped off a shoe, but then my boss had to go to the hospital. By 6:30 I was feeling so poorly that I did not make it to dance ( Read more... )

Work: I estimate that the next update will be sometime around the end of next week. January was custom orders galore, lots of repair orders (for local people; I've been getting a lot of referrals through Terra Firma & Pikesville Jewelers for tricky repairs on vintage jewelry. Some true head-scratchers in the bunch, but I think of it like a ( Read more... )

I have lots of stuff to play with in the next few days. I have more metal clay (I want to try a new technique with sheet clay, which I've never worked with). I have a rack of wings curing and a few more to make today (I want to make a few testers in brass and copper). I have LOTS of stones: ruby, rose quartz, garnet, mystic topaz. I have fun, ( Read more... )

BUSY weekend. Any online energies were spent answering customer emails or following #mooreandme. Therefore... catch-up.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now ( Read more... )

-- Saw Daybreakers last night after a trip to Towson's rotating sushi bar. It was-- entertaining. Good worldbuilding. Iffy and questionable pseudoscience. Also, very very gory! Overall, it was unpretentious and easy to watch, 'cept one scene that had very marked Holocaust imagery. I'd wait for it on DVD, but overall, it's not a bad movie. J ( Read more... )

J made me watch The King of Kong today. At first, I was highly, highly skeptical. It's about Steve Weibe's quest for the Donkey Kong high score. And y'all know how interesting that might be to me? Right. Sorry, were you dozing off alreadyLuckily, at the heart of the documentary is the very compelling drama of the rivalry between Steve and ( Read more... )

I am hiking cursed. ( Really. )

Being that I live in the US and only have had BBC America during my time in NM (thanks to DirecTV), I'd been totally unaware of a British miniseries called Lost in Austen. The premise: Modern chick obsessed with Pride and Prejudice finds Elizabeth Bennett in her bathroom one evening. Lizzie, having found a portal that connects Longbourn with ( Read more... )

What a festering turd of a movie.

( Cut for fuming and lots of spoilers. )