You know what I've watched recently that was unexpectedly complex, layered and just downright good?

• Black Snake Moan
  
  
• Eddie Izzard (and Minnie Driver)'s new show, The Riches
  
  
• and blow me over with a feather, Jeff Goldblum in Raines. (REALLY liked it. Likeable, fascinating performance from JG, snappy dialogue and very visually playful and ( Read more... )

Okay, here finally are the responses to my request for your requests for pictures from my life. Click any picture to see a larger version.

luna_k asked for a picture of "the view out of your bedroom window, the inside of your shower, or, the first tree you run into.":

I did two out of three:

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Today's my birthday. ::blushes shyly::

The following things happened today, on my birthday, according to Wikipedia:

• 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
• 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. ( Read more... )

Linky:
The LAPD is confiscating what may be rare, collectible coins from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries that are showing up among the homeless.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coins13oct13,0,2577745.story?coll=la- ( Read more... )

My laptop's on the DL right now -- I'm trying everything to clear off what's bothering it, but it's so bogged down that running anything is five times the time investment it ought to be ( Read more... )

To my friends:

Though I am still in Simi at my folks' house as I write this, I am hereby informing you that I am coming home after breakfast tomorrow (Monday), with my cats. If I have not achieved this by Monday night at midnight, PST, please send a SWAT team. Save me from my mother's constant inferences that my cats are happier and healthier out ( Read more... )

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I just got turned down for health coverage AGAIN, basically because I NEED IT ( Read more... )

Regarding my last post, to which I got some lovely thoughtful replies (thank you, gavin, rainkatt, and queenofattolia)...I had so much to say in return to those comments that I felt I needed a whole post for it ( Read more... )

I didn't realize this thing that I ordered would show up so soon, so I ended up coming home to a Valentine's Day present I'd bought for myself.

And what did I buy?

Bubble Monkey.

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