My dear dear sister Tiny has been in hospital and removed the screws in her leg from when she broke it two years ago. Although we've agreed it's a relief that Magneto can no longer use her leg to do evil deeds, I thought I'd make a little cheer-up entry specifically for Tiny ( Read more... )

Wow, that... that's starting to smart quite a bit. And I never realized just how quickly you can grow bored of the taste of your own blood ( Read more... )

Okay, so imagine if Batman and Captain Kirk were boyfriends, planning to take over the world.

Yes, I've just watched it. We're talking the horrible TV pilot Alexander the Great from 1968, starring William Shatner and Adam West ( Read more... )

I know El Día de los Muertos isn't until next Sunday, but I've been reading Aztec history and it only served as a reminder of how much I love Latin American folk art, in particular calaveras:


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Yes! After a number of Westerns of very varying quality I finally found one where DeForest Kelley plays an awesomesexy baddie. And rides a horse :D


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It's hard feeding a George Raft addiction when the good movies are so darn hard to get hold of. And beggars can't be choosers.

I just don't know what Hollywood was thinking at times. Take Manpower from 1941 - if you had George Raft, Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich on board, would you make your movie a melodrama about electricians ( Read more... )

You're probably sick of my blurry screencap spams, so I thought for once I could offer a real honest-to-God TOS pic spam. With, you know, proper photos.

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I don't know why, but I just feel absolutely great today. From the moment I woke up I was all OHH YEAH LIFE IS SWEET.

I'm sitting here in my pajama bottoms (got caught in the rain earlier), drawing and listening to some Louis Prima (now and then getting up and dancing a bit, because the swing's got me), and later tonight I'm going to probably ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness.


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Had to split the festival entry in two so it wouldn't get EPIC LONG, so here's the actual music part of the music festival (and less "Tiny and Tilly do Fredrikstad"):

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