Flight of the Conchords tour dates announced! I am so there. Who among you Northeasterners are with me?
SPOILERS FOR THE TORCHWOOD FINALE BELOW!
WTF. Torchwood made me cry. WHAT INSANITY IS THIS?
The episode was 90% crap. The citywide destruction was entirely gratuitous, Connor Grey’s acting was as abysmally bad as his character was flat, Captain John’s story held up like a wet paper bag with a hole in it the size of the Alien Sheep, and the whole “Jack was sent back in time and just had to live through the intervening years” stretched my suspension of disbelief when it was only a century and change. Expecting Jack to hang out in a grave for nearly 2000 years without emerging absolutely crazypants, with hair long enough to encircle the globe1, atrophied muscles, and completely disintegrated clothing represents a new pinnacle of lazy writing for the Torchwood crew, and that’s saying a LOT.
Continuously dying and resuscitating for 2000 years, writers. There is no way Jack is not crazy. You are all sadists. Unless of course John only jumped forward a few hours, rescued Jack, then jumped forward to three days before Steamwood discovered him in 1901 and left him buried in a roomy coffin with a Victrola, a razor, and a ham sandwich, then lied to Presentwood because he’s too pretty to remember silly details like when and where his little Starship Trooper2 is buried.
So why the heck was I crying?
Okay, George Lucas take note: That’s how you use the line “You’re breaking my heart.” Toooooooooosh, ilu! Don’t leave me, Tosh! And Owen… frankly, I never cared for him much. But suggestion for Season 3: Owen = Doctor Manhattan.
1 Out of curiosity… Hair grows at approximately 3/4″ per month, or 9″ per year, so between his burial in 27 AD and his discovery by Punkwood in 1901, his hair should have grown 16,866 inches, or 1,405.5 feet. That’s more that a quarter of a mile! And his fingernails… I don’t even want to think about fingernails, though if you want to do the math yourself, they grow at approximately .1mm per day. (Hint: 68.4 meters, or 224.4 feet)
2 John and Jack’s “song” is Close Encounter Three by Sarah Brightman. And I’ve seen a Smallville Brainiac/Clark fanvid to it. EPIC LOLZ.
Edit: From Sam’s LJ:
DementedSiren: I now have the oddest notion of Jack and the Tardis entertaining each other through all of those years. You know, mental crossword [uzzles, I Spy, writing a screenplay together…
Sam: TARDIS Sudoku!
Oh, Glarkware! What did I ever do to you? Besides love you and buy many of your t-shirts for myself and my friends?
Sincerely,
Priscilla Spencer
*dies and is dead* I just put the Small Favor audiobook on (the book came out yesterday! And it’s FANTASTIC!), but I had to pause it after two sentences to giggle like a moron. James is reading the snowball fight with such grave seriousness. And I can’t help comparing it to the reading Jim gave at PhauxCon, which was done with a near-lunatic glee. I love my fandom.
And speaking of my fandom, check out the crossover fandom fanart image I did for FictionAlley’s April Fools’ Day Tradition. I love my wizards named Harry. :D
Now that I’m most of the way though Watchmen, I went back and to look at the costume photos posted earlier this month.
HOLYCOWYES.
Well, except for Ozymandias. And Sally looks more like a grown-up version of the daughter in The Incredibles than her comics counterpart, but eh. I didn’t like her costume in the comics, either. And anyway, the Comedian’s HOLYCOWYESsitude more than compensates. Rorschach looks spot-on, and I can’t wait to see the shifting mask effect in action.
Now I’m just hoping they can do justice to the layers of narrative complexity in a movie.
Edit: Hey, John Cassaday helped design the costumes? Props to him! As if I needed more reasons to be reduced to a brainless, fawning fangirl in his presence when I see him again at NY Comic Con…
No idea why the images are showing up so desaturated, but…
Got the wefts pinned in! I’ll do a bit more styling, separating the ringlets a bit to make them look more like cute spirals than solid cylinders and dragging them out a bit so they’re a little longer. And I think I’ll use smaller safety pins, so they don’t start to peek out if the hair shifts the wrong way.
Pics: Side View, Larger Version of Above, and Me Being a Total Ham!
HAHAHA, WIN!
Whereas I spent months searching for the perfect elements for my Nightcrawler and Maeve costumes, I found the perfect Delirium coat and dress in TEN MINUTES of shopping. Triumph, she is mine! Peek-choors: 01, 02, and 03.
I’ve only put in one of four hair wefts so far, so the extensions will look pretty sparse here. It will look much more wild and full when I’m finished, and the extensions will start higher up on the head, so they look more integrated with the wig and less tacked-on.
Anyway, I love that hideous dress! Turns out the thrift store shopkeeper got it in yesterday, so good timing me! And apart from the shoulders, where it gets a big large, it fits me like a glove. It couldn’t fit the bodice and waist and stuff better if I had it tailored. And the top part doesn’t bother me. When has Delirium ever worn clothes that fit her?
WHAT THE HELL.
Ko. Rebecca. Marcelina. All visiting New York in the past few months without telling me.
Nice to know you all value our friendship.
Happy Zombie Jesus Day, my lovelies!
Wishing you brightly colored plastic eggs full of brains and Simon Pegg standing outside Jesus’ tomb, a cricket bat at the ready.
Holy crap.
Filipinos warned on crucifixions.
“Health officials in the Philippines have issued a warning to people taking part in Easter crucifixion rituals. They have urged them to get tetanus vaccinations before they flagellate themselves and are nailed to crosses, and to practise good hygiene.
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The health department has strongly advised penitents to check the condition of the whips they plan to use to lash their backs, the Manila Times newspaper reports. They want people to have what they call “well-maintained” whips. In the hot and dusty atmosphere, officials warn, using unhygienic whips to make deep cuts in the body could lead to tetanus and other infections.
And they advise that the nails used to fix people to crosses must be properly disinfected first. Often people soak the nails in alcohol throughout the year.
And here I was thinking of celebrating Easter by rereading Lamb.