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as a(n American) child I absolutely missed that Jack Skellington (the Pumpkin King) is in fact actually the crowned monarch of Halloween Town! He's only a figurehead, of course, as this is mod'ren times; legally the power belongs to the Mayor, as an official elected by the people. (Given, though, Jack's charisma and the Mayor's indecisive nature ( Read more... ) -
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ahahahah guess who has two thumbs and was definitely trying to fry their tofu in vanilla syrup, and every time the sesame oil smelled instead of vanilla, thought "wow, my sense of smell must be worse than I thought, now back to frying tofu in sesame oil that is definitely not vanilla syrup, just weird sesame oil that for some reason I had ( Read more... ) -
no I don't know how our bloodline has survived everything it has either
I found a bottle of sesame oil in the fridge, thought to myself "oh, I must have put it there by mistake when putting away groceries last time," and after letting it sit in the cupboard for a few days, I went to use it to fry my tofu in. But when I heated it up in a pan it bubbled and boiled and foamed, and when I decided that was not on and tried ( Read more... ) -
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got talked to by a man on the lightrail to the airport last week (this happens) and he asked what I did for a living, & when I said “customer service” he immediately advised me to always call the customer by their given name at least three times early in the interaction, so they will be positively disposed towards me. he very much insisted that I ( Read more... ) -
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eyyyyyyyyy I'm definitely not going to actually write the Clemenza fic set in a restored 18th century manor that does tours/reenactments under a modern AU Roman empire because the research would be FUCKIN KILLER but that's actually really too bad because it would be great, tbh -
am here still!
not gone forever, promise-- give me a little while to reconfigure what's public & what's private on here, and I'll be back soon. -
as promised, I liveblogged my experience of watching the animated Hobbit.
:what the frig.
Eyal this movie is already terrible and we're 1'40'' in. GANDALF IS TERRIFYING AND UNETHICAL.
EYAL HELP THE DWARVES ARE SPEAKING IN CHORUS THIS IS TERRIBLE.
holy crap look at this animation when was this made
1977 ooookkk
now Bilbo's dreaming about being King Under the Mountain and having dwarves and Gandalf wait on him
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As soon as I get my computer back
(Or, as it's looking more and more like, to my unhappiness, a new computer) you know what the first thing I am going to do is?
Well, make sure I have everything back. (Oh god distracting myself from that stress so hard) And find the CD-ROM of WordPerfect, and install that, and re-download Norton, and VCL media player, and iTunes, and see if I ( Read more... ) -
My grandmother's computer does not have a word processor.
sdgjksdfajklasdfjkl;asdfjkl; I NEED A WORD PROCESSOR, OKAY. I've been trying to just write stuff in my journal but but but word processor I would settle for Word it doesn't even have to be WordPerfect I just I need a word processor all I have is, like, Notepad and Wordpad and those are not adequate, okay, I can't listen to any of my music I can't ( Read more... ) -
Have left my laptop in the hands of the repairmen at Vertex computers over in Frandor.
Trying very hard to keep calm. The guy was nice and that was encouraging, so hopefully everything will be okay.
*breathes slowly*
Goodbye.