a grab bag of post (with links!)
happy (late >.< ) birthday wolfling, ficcer and fangirl. :D and fellow panelist at the first wincon. this might actually call for apple pie, which is freakin' worth it.
dancing boys: *two-step*
so yesterday i saw warrior, which i already mentioned, and saturday i took the bus to nyc to see crotalus_atrox and incidentally get to ride the vintage subway that the mta hauled out of mothballs as promo for the new season of boardwalk empire. it was all decked out like a 1920s subway, with 1920s style ads and the old rattan seats and ceiling fans and naked lightbulbs and what i thought might be a vintage subway map, but i didn't get a chance to look at it too closely. we stood on the platform and waited and waited for the one vintage train, while all these other modern trains went past us, and felt kind of like tourists. it was sandra's first time on a subway. hee. also, it was really, really cool. the cars had signs on them saying "i was born in 1924." they ran until 1969 or so. wow.
we also walked around a lot, and wandered thru times square, and i did not babble about spn altho i'd just seen the season premiere, and i started to babble about haven but realized i couldn't explain it to someone else if i couldn't even explain it to myself - also we got distracted - and we walked and talked and giggled and went into the hello kitty store and boggled at the rhinestone-encrusted hello kitty clutch (well, i did) and homestuck worked its way into the conversation and we did not get rained on but did eat chocolate and a cheese plate and drink little complimentary shot glasses of sangria at a place called, appropriately enough, chocolate + wine. (or wine + chocolate.) and it was fun and i had a good time and i love that nyc is a reasonably easy day trip. also sandra is completely, completely adorable.
one of the stores across the street from my office has a wooden plaque in the window that says "money can't buy happiness, but it can buy marshmallows, which are almost the same thing". and yes, yes they are.
it's apparently banned books week here in the us. read a banned book today! (i'm currently reading the killer angels which i doubt was ever banned, and the witch of blackbird pond which i don't think was either.)
sean maher comes out. aww, sean. ^_^ he says some really nice things about his firefly family. and he's apparently in the playboy club, which i didn't know, but which sadly isn't enough to make me watch it. unless someone makes a vid or something composed solely of his scenes.... but anyway. he was miserable while he was closeted and now he's out and he's happy and he's on tv again and he's still adorable and y'know, it's all good.
soviet fabrics from the 20s and 30s - kind of art deco and very, very industrial-economy-influenced. they look kind of like propaganda fabrics, but i don't mean that in a negative way. i mean, from a purely aesthetic point of view, i really like the style of 1920s/1930s communist propaganda posters. even, like, ww2 propaganda - allied and axis - there's something about the stylized graphics that i really like.
dancing boys: *two-step*
so yesterday i saw warrior, which i already mentioned, and saturday i took the bus to nyc to see crotalus_atrox and incidentally get to ride the vintage subway that the mta hauled out of mothballs as promo for the new season of boardwalk empire. it was all decked out like a 1920s subway, with 1920s style ads and the old rattan seats and ceiling fans and naked lightbulbs and what i thought might be a vintage subway map, but i didn't get a chance to look at it too closely. we stood on the platform and waited and waited for the one vintage train, while all these other modern trains went past us, and felt kind of like tourists. it was sandra's first time on a subway. hee. also, it was really, really cool. the cars had signs on them saying "i was born in 1924." they ran until 1969 or so. wow.
we also walked around a lot, and wandered thru times square, and i did not babble about spn altho i'd just seen the season premiere, and i started to babble about haven but realized i couldn't explain it to someone else if i couldn't even explain it to myself - also we got distracted - and we walked and talked and giggled and went into the hello kitty store and boggled at the rhinestone-encrusted hello kitty clutch (well, i did) and homestuck worked its way into the conversation and we did not get rained on but did eat chocolate and a cheese plate and drink little complimentary shot glasses of sangria at a place called, appropriately enough, chocolate + wine. (or wine + chocolate.) and it was fun and i had a good time and i love that nyc is a reasonably easy day trip. also sandra is completely, completely adorable.
one of the stores across the street from my office has a wooden plaque in the window that says "money can't buy happiness, but it can buy marshmallows, which are almost the same thing". and yes, yes they are.
it's apparently banned books week here in the us. read a banned book today! (i'm currently reading the killer angels which i doubt was ever banned, and the witch of blackbird pond which i don't think was either.)
sean maher comes out. aww, sean. ^_^ he says some really nice things about his firefly family. and he's apparently in the playboy club, which i didn't know, but which sadly isn't enough to make me watch it. unless someone makes a vid or something composed solely of his scenes.... but anyway. he was miserable while he was closeted and now he's out and he's happy and he's on tv again and he's still adorable and y'know, it's all good.
soviet fabrics from the 20s and 30s - kind of art deco and very, very industrial-economy-influenced. they look kind of like propaganda fabrics, but i don't mean that in a negative way. i mean, from a purely aesthetic point of view, i really like the style of 1920s/1930s communist propaganda posters. even, like, ww2 propaganda - allied and axis - there's something about the stylized graphics that i really like.