Casting news!

Calling lizstarsky and roku_kyu! They've cast Jasper from the Twilight movie as Sokka. O_o I haven't seen the movie, but I do like his looks. Though I have to admit I was hoping that there would be a multiracial cast, in keeping with the animated characters...

):< .gniyonna tsom si sihT ?yhW

Eloquence escapes me this morning, but in all honesty, I don't remember a time when I've been prouder to be an American. I almost can't fathom how much the very fact of Obama's election is going to change our country--and regardless of how his term goes, this is one thing that is going to have a positive effect no matter what ( Read more... )

1) Mom & I walking to the train station to vote this morning ( Read more... )

I have made many, many cookies. I made cookies from approximately 8:30 to 12:00 this morning. Go, me! We are now up to our ears in them. My mother tried one of the pumpkin ones and assured me that, despite the inclusion of pumpkin and the fact that I used tub margarine with Omega 3s (etc.) instead of stick butter, they turned out nicely. Yay! ( Read more... )

Halloween is the holiday that ushers in the holiday season, which contains several of my favorite days of the year. These are what I call the Fuzzy Sweater Holidays, and are, obviously, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve. :D Something about being inside by the fire when it's snowing or has snowed or is just cold/wet outside, surrounded ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

I missed your birthday in Japan, alas. :( :( :( So by the time you see this, it'll already be post-birthday. But regardless, I hope you had fun. ♥

So, last night I watched the show "Crusoe" on TV. I actually thought it looked lame from the clips and stuff I'd seen, but I decided to watch it anyway because I thought if it totally tanks it might prevent studios from making historical/semi-literary shows in the future. :P ( Read more... )

Say what you want about George W. Bush. He's certainly not my favorite person by a long, long shot. But I just think it's bad sportsmanship to make a skewed biopic about him when he's still in office ( Read more... )

So, I'm currently on a create-your-own cereal site trying to create muesli for my mom. :P She really liked the muesli they had at our hotel in England, and her efforts to find something comparable here have failed, even at Trader Joe's. So I thought it might be cute to see if I can make her some as part of her Christmas present. I'd try to make ( Read more... )