Also, London Nuclear Plant Loses 30 kg Plutonium. I’m surprised they haven’t phoned Adam Young’s parents about the disappearance.
Bonus: Priscilla’s Government Coolness in the Face of Technology Award goes to Senators Cornyn and Leahy.
Excuse me whilst I weep openly. Link ganked from Will. Gah, this is painful.
Hi. I’m in New York.
I actually wanted to leave this entry at that, because I would find it tremendously funny, but some of my readers (read: my parents) might be confused and/or concerned. Therefore, I shall explain myself, even though it detracts somewhat from the sense of glee I get from being deliberately mysterious and coy. It’s Rebecca’s last weekend here before she goes back to Vermont (“The only state with secession rights! So conceivably, we could break away from the United States and form our own country, with Howard Dean as our king.” -R) and it would be difficult for us to get together, and all my homework this weekend is portable, so I decided to be adventurous and take the Chinatown bus (2 hours each way, $20 round trip!) to The Abnormally Large, Firm, Edible Fruit of a Deciduous Eurasian Tree.
Wow. Being around Rebecca has freed my inner dork. Well, freed more than usual, that is. Having Ko as a roommate keeps my inner dork fairly outer already. But when you sit in a diner drinking toasty hot chocolate and reminiscing about the dawn of fandom until they kick you out because they’re closing, it’s a whole different dynamic. The camaraderie of the early days of WOFS, the Mary Sue-induced shame… my god, she now has such dirt on my “my age was still in the single digits” fandom days; I can never insult Woodrow Wilson again.
Of course, you know I’ll be back to mocking him mercilessly tomorrow.
Anyway, I’m off to cavort merrily about with Rebecca and try to get our laptop link to work. I’ll leave you with A Parent’s Guide to 1337, ganked from Ashley, and a preview of the artwork for the upcoming Serenity comic. And Becky posted a bunch of HHGTG trailer screencaps, because she’s just that cool. Tra la!
Guess who got to participate in a videoconference with copyright god Lawrence Lessig this afternoon as a part of her Copyright class? Booyeah. He even mentioned how much he enjoyed the videoconferencing experience in his blog!
Yeah, we’re cool.
In other news, Kell passed on this amusing link on family history.
Spencer — English: occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er.
Therefore, the name Priscilla Nelson Spencer hereby means SPINSTER “WE WANTED A BOY” LARDER! Woohoo!
Lost. <3 Drew Goddard! For the first time, I found myself not passionately disliking Kate. I utterly adored the banter between Sayid and Sawyer (GOOD LORD I LOVE YOU, SAYID. “It ran off with your tarp?” and that little grin and “Yes.” OMG *is ded*) and Hurley’s ramblings to Charlie. And I adored Locke’s story. “Well, that would just be silly.” *snorks* And last but infinitely not least: OTP!
Question: Does Clarie know what Ethan did to Charlie?
P.S. This random LJer’s review had me in mad gigglefits.
Dear Priscilla,
Checking btefnet.net every two minutes for a torrent of tonight’s Lost will not make it come online any faster.
Love,
Your Brain
THE TRAILER OF GLORY is now up on Amazon.com. Of course, if you want to download a copy of your very own, go here or here, or email me (priscellie at theninemuses dot net) and I’ll send you the file. Or if your mailbox isn’t high-capacity like gmail, I can AIM/Y!M it to you. GLEEEEE!!!
The more I think about it, the more excited I am. I just watched it again this morning (via Amazon, even though it seems my copy is higher-res?), and I am officially in love with: Trillian and Arthur’s headtilt; the way Ford holds his towel when he, Arthur, and Zaphod are waiting to be “attacked” again.
Ashley and Schlien, did you get the file?
Back from rehearsal, with a delightfully shiny trailer in my inbox. As of 5 minutes ago, it still wasn’t available on the web, so if anyone wants me to send it to them, leave your email address in the comment field and it’ll be all yours in moments!
Overall, I’m very pleased. Humma Kavula looks fabulous, the Vogon ships DO hang in the air in exactly the way bricks don’t (though I do wish they were their canon yellow), Mos Def doesn’t look like his performance will be too painfully bad, Zaphod’s second head isn’t too disappointing (his third arm is fabulous; I just wish it was in more of the movie!), and I think I’m going to really like Arthur.
Downside, movie!Zaphod’s voice is going to take getting used to. Though his appearance is great, his mannerisms are definitely not jiving with my mental image.
And now I’m going to stop wasting time and get back to working on a reasonably hefty animation project.
OH MY GOD SO BRILLIANT!!! EVERYONE MUST GO HERE NOW!!
HHGTG stills, courtesy of the IMDB! (Linked in Becky’s journal) This movie is going to be FANTASTIC.
And EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Apparently, the trailer is going to be online TONIGHT!!! Check the IMDB and Amazon periodically and be the first to “Zaphod’s second head, Ford Prefect in action, Marvin in motion, Humma Kavula and his body (or lack thereof) and more”! Via AICN, DouglasAdams.se. And hey, there are some folks on DA.se (in the thread linked above) that managed to get a hold of it when it appeared briefly on AICN, who generously offered to email it to the needy. As soon as I get a hold of it, I’ll be glad to share. Post there or comment here if you want it!
P.S.: Zaphod with black nail polish? YES.
In other fannish news, out today on DVD, Angel season 5 and the Director’s Cut of Donnie Darko. Plus: Serenity comic tie-in coming in July! And apparently, in the print version of Newsweek, there’s a picture? Anyone on FireflyFlans care to scan?
WOOHOO!!!! Ko and I got our first choice for housing next year! A two-room double with kitchen and bathroom, in Hamilton. Room 2213! With a REALLY easy-to-remember phone number! I just went upstairs to check it out, and it’s HUGE. The bathroom is almost twice the size of ours, and each of the single rooms are the size of Ko and my double room. There’s no surplus common room, but no worries. Also, there are massive windows that span nearly the entire wall, facing North. GUH. I am in love! No postcard view of downtown Philly, but hey, this way I can see at a glance if CVS or Fresh Grocer is open.
I LOVE NEXT YEAR’S ROOM!
P.S.: Grammar Queens — what is the proper syntax for saying “the size of Ko and my double room”? Do I say Ko’s and my, or Ko and my, or something else entirely? And if it was “Ko and Priscilla’s room”, would it be that or “Ko’s and Priscilla’s room”? I’m giving up any bad grammar that does not impose on my writing style for Lent. XD