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Belated Birthday Goodness!

I got a note from Renata, conveying the Birthday wishes of Abe Lincoln and Delirium (how did I not notice that I am now a SCORE? Score!) and a copy of the B&S, the parody newspaper she edits. Bwaha, I am so entertained. *tapes birthday card to wall*

Also, though certainly not for me per se, Seviet chose today to gift the fandom with nekkid Percy! Percy is in his birthday suit, so I say that’s close enough. :D

Also, Happy Birthday to Jon Stewart! Though we’ve known that he’s the answer to life, the universe, and everything for quite some time now. *grins*

So this evening I saw “Finding Neverland” with Chungy and Ashley, which was fantabulous, then went to dinner with them at Cafe Brazil, where I had an utterly fantastic sandwich. We mentioned the election in passing.

Chungy the Bush Supporter: I almost wish Kerry had won, ’cause now I won’t be able to spend the next four years griping.

Me: !!!

My life is full of angst.

Wow. At the tail end of last summer, I went with my parents and aunt to my aunt and uncle’s house in Colorado. I took a lot of pictures, but I didn’t have enough time to develop my black and white or infrared rolls, so I just had the black and whites developed professionally, along with a couple rolls of black and white I found on my bookshelf. My mom just showed me the contact sheets, and I was stunned. The three rolls from my bookshelf were of NYC, from my project on James Fee from senior year, one of which being a roll of black and white equivalents of Empire Burning, one of my favourite photographs.

Currently scanning my favourites while I still have access to the handy-dandy transparency adapter at home. I’ll probably post them on LJ eventually. Good gravy I need to update the art section of my website.

For those of you who couldn’t bring yourselves to watch last week’s episode of “The Mountain”, buffy.nu was kind enough to assemble this clip of just James Marsters’ scenes. Thank you, buffy.nu!

Also, Joss is apparently not out of the running for X3! Series producer Lauren Shuler Donner is quite a Joss fan, we learn. :D

Meanwhile, on BandwagonSpotting:

randomly bursting into song is love
brought to you by the isLove Generator

Too true!

I tried it again and got “Simon/Kaylee is love” which makes me very happy, though I’m more in favor of “great and t00by loff” rather than “love” for them. Bwaha, fluff! *squeaks* So last night I was listening to the Firefly commentaries while looking through books from the SMU library for my Film History research paper, and my great and t00by loff for Jane Espenson continues to grow. Apparently, in Shindig, she was going to have Simon and Kaylee dancing in the second-to-last scene, which makes my poor shipper’s heart squee with nearly-canon glee and merriment. She’s a shameless Spuffy shipper and she writes adoreable fluff for Simon and Kaylee? Good gravy I love this woman! Band Candy, A New Man, Superstar, Triangle, Intervention, After Life, Life Serial, Storyteller… and that’s only a fraction of the eps she wrote. We can certainly find it in our hearts to forgive you for “Flooded”. ESPENSON LOVE!

Dear Joss,

In the Objects in Space commentary, you gripe about Simon and Kaylee not getting a chance to kiss before the series was cancelled. You can do something about it! With Inara mostly out of the picture, who will be the movie’s Big Love? I trust you to make the right decision!

Worshipfully,

Priscilla

*pauses, reads over entry* You know, sometimes I scare even myself.

Then I tried it again and got “men at arms–the musical is love”. Bwaha. Then “procrastinating is love”, which I took as a hint. Back to work!

*laughs and chokes*

Now on ebay: The exploded head of the demon that killed Wes!

Now up there on my list of most ridiculous BtVS/AtS collectibles in history, next to a lock of James Marsters’ hair.

I should probably clarify what I meant in yesterday’s entry about that pic of PJ reminding me of Dom. First off, I’m probably just imagining it, because I was again strongly reminded of Dom while watching this documentary thing about Andy Goldsworthy last night — something in the eyes, I think — so I therefore cannot be held responsible for my hallucinations. With PJ, it was probably the nose and cheek area in that picture. I blame sleep deprivation, as I didn’t arrive at the airport Wednesday night until midnight and spent far too much time at the airport, and therefore I could not be expected to be coherent on Thursday, coupled with angst and woe at the absence of a new episode of Lost Wednesday night. So there.

Ooh! UIP Netherlands has a wallpaper-sized version of that new Serenity image I was griping about commenting on the other day. Much higher quality! Huzzah! And I have since noticed that in the original image (not visible in the wallpaper version), the metal under their feet is not the horrid blue color, so hopefully that’s just wacky lighting and the ship isn’t actually that color. I feel better.

Hah! A fellow fangirl on my flist used an LJ cut promising “C/A love!” My first reaction: “Carrot/Angua! Man, it’s been ages since I’ve read a decent C/A fic! Hurrah!” Then I thought, “Oh, wait! It’s got to be Crowley/Aziraphale! I don’t have any big Carrot/Angua shippers on my flist.” Then I looked at the screenname and realized “Oh. This person is a Buffy fan. That means Cordy/Angel. Wow, it’s amazing how quickly I stopped caring about this post.”

Gotta love fandom acronyms.

Woohoo! Today, in our family tradition, we celebrated a combined Thanksgiving/my birthday. I totally cleaned up! I got some very cute tops from my mom and sister, plus a fabulous velveteen jacket I’m wearing right now. I got a fun bracelet and a pair of earrings from Aunt Janet and Uncle Lew (the earrings will be passed on to my sister, as my ears aren’t pierced), and the Firefly DVDs from the family. *does the dance of joyful Joss-age* Man, I’ve been drooling over those DVDs for months! Mmmmmm, Firefly. I shall finally get to listen to the DVD commentary! And while working on long-neglected CGs! Man, I love the holidays. If only I could find a subtle way to drop hints to my parents about the RotK:EE DVD… such as posting an entry in my blog, which they both read. Durr. Yeah, I’m quick.

Oh, and in my last entry, I note that I neglected to mention those Americans who for one reason or another choose to celebrate Thanksgiving with the consumption of the noble entree of Tofurkey. Be proud, noble eaters of tofurkey!

So anyway, I was looking over my aunt and uncle’s massive desk of photos, and I saw two I hadn’t seen before: my aunt uncle with George W. Bush and the other of them with Jimmy Carter. Wow, could you get any further apart on the international relations front? Good gravy. Of course, after glimpsing Bush’s smirk next to my aunt and uncle’s smiling faces, I had to clutch the Jimmy Carter photograph to my chest and quietly hum to myself while rocking back and forth in their desk chair for a few minutes.

Um… in other Thanksgiving news, here’s a commentary about Pangs, the Buffy Thanksgiving ep. Bwahaha, good episode. A yam sham, funny syphillis, femaleempowerment!Harmony, littlematchgirl!Spike… gotta love 4th season Spike. Okay, so I love every season Spike. Moving on. Ooh! And Whedonesque has squeeful news about Joss’ “Astonishing X-Men”! TV Guide picked the Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1 TPB as a top holiday gift (even though the TPB isn’t coming out until January 12th, I’m given to understand?), and Wizard Magazine have announced that the comic book is their “2004 Book of the Year”. Snaps for Joss! And to get all my Joss links and comments in one basket, here’s a note from Summer Glau (River) regarding the delay in the Serenity release date. And here’s another from Jewel Staite (Kaylee). I’m given to understand some of the other actors have come forward to express their thoughts, but Jewel and Summer are the only ones I’ve encountered. EDIT: Scratch that! Here’s a message from Adam Baldwin (Jayne)! And immediately below, a note from Keith R.A. DeCandido, the guy writing the novelization.

In other fandom news, Peter Jackson is posting video diaries on Kong is King.net, and MAN has he lost weight! And the glasses, too. And is it just me, or does he look in this picture slightly like Dom? Anyway, he no longer resembles my high school physics teacher, which is sad.

And to finish off this entry, a non sequitor! Literally! It’s ObviousMan: The Movie!

Happy Turkey Day! Stuff yourselves fat on gravy and taters and cranberry sauce and other bounties of the harvest! Unless you’re not in America, in that case have a lovely ordinary day! Stuff yourself fat on haggis or croissants or pasta or weiner schnitzel or whatever. :D