I'm going back to figure out how to back up some of my LJ posts, and I just realized that I haven't done anything in here for ALL OF 2013.  Um.  I still want to keep this...we'll see what happens.

Flipping through the book that lists all the movies that played at Fantastic Fest, I am reminded what a small percentage I actually saw.  Here is my list of 15, in alphabetical order.  If the summary is in quotes, I'm taking it from the FF book.  Please forgive the short descriptions, I'm still getting over a head cold.

Bring Me The Head Of Machine ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting on here much lately, and I'm not ready to leave just yet, but I'm trying out something new.  I've done a few test posts at 
http://kajicarter.tumblr.com/

I might wind up over there more often.  We'll see.

A citizen is a citizen. There should be no "second-class" citizens. It's 2012 folks! I should not be worried that my daughters might have their right to vote taken away from them! I know, that's over-reacting. But it is within my lifetime that I got the right to choose what I was going to do with my body; my grandmother was an adult before women ( Read more... )

Since I haven't posted anything here recently and I've had a few requests for the recipe I mad last night, I thought I'd stick it here too ( Read more... )

This started due to an exchange I had with my sister, who noted that she had found mention that the government, to reduce the apparent inflation rate, had removed food from the statistics they include when announcing it. It didn't surprise me much, because it struck me as the sort of government manipulation of figures that they all do. I don't ( Read more... )

So I was listening to a podcast the other day. Something was mentioned, sending me off to Safari immediately to check it out. Type in the address and...holy shit. Jessica Harper has written a cookbook!


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Thank you for everything you've done for the world. I wish you were here to enjoy it with us.

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And a side thank you (and belated happy birthday) to Paul Williams, for the soundtrack to The Muppet Movie. (And Phantom of the Paradise!)

There's a guy who is taking art off the internet and making big bucks off it. Spread the word! This person has details: http://dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com/310212.html

Hi, Sandy. It's been a long time since we last talked -- over a decade! -- but I wanted to drop you a note to let you know I was thinking about you. You are there in my earliest memories of the internet, pre-world wide web. (Geez, are we that old?) I think you were one of the folks who laughed your ass off over how I discovered slash fiction, ( Read more... )