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I ran followspot for the Carolina Hurricanes this evening! ~10 minutes of work and 4 hours of pay, and...

We won!

I'd like to post a bit more often, but I don't really have anything to say right now, so I'll finish here by posting a quote:

"It's just art; it doesn't DO anything." - sulfababy (elementary school music teacher, and my beautiful fiance)

I had forgotten how easy it is to get lost in a Harry Potter novel. Since the next book in the series is due out in a couple of weeks, I decided it was a good time to finally read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It seemed a fairly daunting challenge this morning, when I first cracked the 800+ page book open, but when I placed the book ( Read more... )

I miss playing Rome:Total War. I lent it, without regret, to my good friend naqerj at pascha for an indefinite period of time. I hope he's getting some entertainment out of it.

Well. I suppose SOME good must come of my friendship with sulfababy. So here it is. A post. I live. The elections have come and gone and I didn't post a single time. Not even a comment. Shame on me. I had such trash to say too. I'm rather sick at the moment, but I've got so many great things going for me, I just can't seem to work up the anger to gripe ( Read more... )

Romania wins Gold in Women's Team Gymnastics! And the Lord did grin and the Oaras did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orang-utans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and...

Last night, while listening to an old "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" show, I learned about a new unit of measurement.

1 MilliHellen (mh) == Amount of Beauty Needed to Launch One Ship.

Hey, I thought it was funny.

"Do you know what it's like to scream obscenities so hard that you actually force pearls of blood to blossom from the pores on your face? To be so buffeted be a swirling storm of blinding fury that, body quaking with rage, you vow to scoop the eyes of strangers from their skulls with a serrated grapefruit spoon? To so thoroughly exhaust you ( Read more... )

I saw Troy (the new one in theaters) today. I have mixed feelings about the way the film was made. First off: I very much liked the film's aesthetics. The men looked manly, the women were sexy, and the battles were great fun. I liked the fatalist spin given to Achilles in this film, a sort of "I kill people. I didn't choose this path, its just ( Read more... )