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| Okay. The Ultimates 1 &2. Great. Starts you off on uneven footing, and you get less sure of your assumptions and second guess yourself even more from there. From the word 'go' the entire world is ever so slightly off kilter, and the story is relentless enough not to give you time to reorient and get your bearings. Definitely recommending to sit and read it in one go. It's four TPBs, not really that long, but it's got quite a bang for your buck. Cameos from everybody. And truly *epic* covers for the entire run. It's really quite astounding.
Also, am rewatching Torchwood. To everybody who thinks the Limeys are nothing but staid, stuffy and repressed: TORCHWOOD. And no, John Barrowman (Cpt. Jack Harkness) is not actually an American, he just plays one on telly. This show is breathtaking. The scope is epic, the music is good, the stories can be a bit over the top with the gore (eg 'Countrycide' and 'Meat'), but the sex is *fantastic*. I seriously love Jack/Ianto, and i wish Gwen would quit thinking that the universe revolves around her. I miss Owen and Tosh, even as I sit here and watch them; it hurts more, knowing what's coming up. There's nothing quite like seeing it for the first time, all unknowing what lies ahead. Seeing it the second time, (or third, or fourth,) I feel like I know these people, I empathise with them. And knowing what is in their future, it hurts that i can't give them more time or see them solve their problems or have a "happy ever after" even for just a little while.
It's still kind of irritating that they strap all kinds of useless and extraneous LEDs to absolutely *everything*, though. I mean, come on. A *toolbox*?
Really?
P.S.- 'Rum' rhymes with 'yum'. Remember that. - Mood:tipsy
 - Music:Torchwood S02E03 'To The Last Man'
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| It's like the whole world is on fire right now. The sky is smoky, the sun and the light are always a dirty orange, and the last two days have been an extended asthma attack. I heard on the radio (NPR) that this could go on for 30 days. Thirty days of gasping, feeling nauseous, floaters in front of my eyes, itching and burning and insomnia. Dear God, why didn't we do more controlled burns earlier so there wouldn't be so much damn fuel lying around. Smoke:  Original source and even larger photo at: USFS Active fire maps - Link at active fire maps
Fire:  From calfire.blogspot.com " This natural-color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on Monday, June 23 Red outlines shows the places where the sensor detected actively burning fires.
The Northern region of California has experienced record low levels of rainfall this spring, leaving dry vegetation throughout the State ready to burn when approximately 6,500 lightning strikes hit the Northern area of the State in less than a 24 hour period which ignited more than 800 Wildland fires. A rare example of 'dry lightning' that brought little or no rain but plenty of fire to the state's parched forest and grasslands.' The dry vegetation, rough terrain, windy weather, limited access, and firefighting resources slow to arrive has made firefighting efforts very difficult and dangerous. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz
MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC" - Location:94521
- Mood:steroid- induced palsy
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|  www.freerice.com help. - Location:den
- Mood:generous
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| I am Spiderman! Your results: You are Spider-Man| Spider-Man |
| 85% |
| Green Lantern |
| 85% |
| Wonder Woman |
| 62% |
| Supergirl |
| 62% |
| Superman |
| 60% |
| Batman |
| 60% |
| Iron Man |
| 60% |
| Robin |
| 55% |
| Hulk |
| 45% |
| The Flash |
| 35% |
| Catwoman |
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You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
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Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz... | |
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| Your Score: English Genius You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 86% Advanced, and 80% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
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| So, tomorrow at 9pm EST, Jamie and Adam are going to bust ninja myths.
I love the whole world right now. - Tags:awesomeness
- Location:den
- Mood:so very, very awake
- Music:crickets and tree frogs- the lickalicious kind
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| Dude, flying herds of whale and aurora borealis is DOPE SHIT. In a geeky, psychedelic 12 year old girl way. | |
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| Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is people's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal, if they want to, and the process continues! (Feel free to post anonymously too.)
Feel free to comment on each other's letters.
1- Doctor Who, any incarnation
2- Lazarus Long
3- Jubal Harshaw
4- Sherlock Holmes
5- Professor X
6- Wolverine
7- Jean Luc Picard
8- Spider Jerusalem
9- Jenny Sparks
10- The Doctor (Jeroen, from the authority)
11- Batman
12- Captian America | |
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| Poll #861105 School Stuff
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2 Can you define the term 'enfranchisement' as it relates to American politics? If so, please do. What type of government has the United States of America? Please rate the personal importance these civil liberties/rights/duties, 1 being the most important, 5 being the least.
The right to vote and hold office Woman's right to choose Jury duty The right to a fair and speedy trial The right to bear arms Do you think that you deserve the right to participate in government? Do you feel you have earned it? Do you think that a citizen should have to be able to read for himself in order to be enfranchised? Do you think that a citizen should have to serve his country before enfranchisement? What do you know of Social Contract Theory? How do you think Social Contract Theory applies to enfranchisement? | |
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| 1) Put your music player on random 2) For the first 20 tracks, find a picture of the artist via Google Images (or cheat *cough cough*) 3) Get your friends to guess the artist. a.-  Natalie Merchant b.-  The Offspring c.-  d.-  The Killers e.-  f.-  Greenday g.-  h.-  Collective Soul i.-  Ludwig Van Beethoven j.-  A Perfect Circle k.-  DJ Quicksilver l.-  Supreme Beings of Leisure m.-  MuDvAyNe n.-  Cherish the Ladies o.-  p.-  Godsmack q.-  r.-  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds s.-  Garbage t.-  Big Head Todd and the Monsters Go ahead. I dare your asses. Double Dog Dare, in fact. BooYah! ETA: I filled in the ones I could remember. Crap. I forgot the others. | |
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| 1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"'But she's not a witch; she's a fortuneteller.'
'That's what you think. She's not in regular commercial practise, it's true, being about nintey years older than Santy Claus, and feeble to boot. But she's got more magic in her little finger than you'll find in Solomon's Book.'"
Waldo & Magic, Inc. By Robert A. Heinlein | |
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| Jamie and Adam are my new heroes- right after Batman. But maybe even the goddamn Batman could learn a few things from these two wacky guys. I just saw them bust the myth that steel- toed boots can slice your toes off. and at the same time, thier filthy assistants tried to launch a human body using nothing but water powered (soda)bottle rockets. moo hoo ha ha ha... | |
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| It sounds good, but in real life... | You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer | 
Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from.
And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi.
Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics...
Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world! |
I thought it would be long and complex and interesting, but no. I was foolied! damn. back on to find the origin of "bitch cakes"... | |
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| MARRIED NOW!!! w007 w007!!! | |
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| whoo! lookit me rec, and with cuts and tags and all. woot woot.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) daegaer is the shiz- nit. (worship, worship)
spubba makes me smile. she also encourages me to be more of a fantard than i really am. oh well.
and go( here ) for lj cut fun.
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| i have decided unanimously that i am now collecting all icons regardless of content provided that they have the text 'bitch, please' on them. all of lyz's friends please to keep thier eyeballs peeled for all such icons.
PS- also, all icons featuring Andy Kaufman. Ja da. | |
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Armed and Dangerous
Congratulations! You scored 86%! |
| You made it out, alive and well supplied. You probably even kept most of your party alive too. You know what to look for, what to take, and when to just run. You even feel a strange inkling to go back. If you did, you'd probably do just fine. |
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| Okay. George, does ( This ) remind you of Transmet or what? | |
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| christ on a pogo stick, why wasn't this on the news, or something? ********************
Dead Men’s Pearls Filed under:
brainjuice
— warrenellis @ 1:20 pm
Time was that a world-changing news datum would come every ten years or so, if that. The world was slow. Around the time of the Industrial Revolution, that ramped up to a dizzying rate of one a year. Towards the end of the Twentieth Century, the rate was up to one a week, quickly reaching one a day in the early 21st.
Today, the rate is one every fifteen minutes. And here’s what’s at the top of the hour: turns out girls from San Francisco can make dead men come after all.
Either that or there’s a necronautical anomaly restricted to the Bay Area, but I like my version better.
As news-rich as we are now, there’s still no way to determine exactly how this began. I mean, how do you discover that you can give dead men erections? And, frankly, what kind of freak swallows, in that situation?
Nonetheless, word got around that, in NoCal at least, you can get dead men off. And there was a reason that the news spread. It turned out that corpse-loads, black and red and with the consistency of passion-fruit pulp, conferred some kind of near-psychedelic experience. The legs of perception spread wide and led you into the world of the dead. Which appeared to be a men’s toilet in an industrial club sometime after 1am on a Saturday.
It wasn’t long before communion-girls (and a smattering of men) began spitting instead of swallowing. Dribbling blackened cadaver-jizz into little plastic vials. And selling it. Dead Men’s Pearls, it’s called. Fifty bucks a pop, which is putting an awful lot of girls through media studies courses at UC Berkeley. And introducing a lot of guys to the taste of semen. Which is doing wonders for the social fabric of the Bay Area, in a “Honey, do I really taste like that?” “Honey, this is why I keep mints by the bed” kind of way.
We have made contact with the world of the dead. And it’s an endless corridor of toilet cubicles full of people throwing up with Einsturzende Neubauten playing tinnily in the background. Which, perhaps, is as it should be.
And since it’s taken fifteen minutes for me to explain all this to you, we’re now due the next world-changing new discovery.
Can’t wait.
(Written May 2004, very quickly, to try and get it the fuck out of my head.) ******************************
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| So this is my first post in my first LJ. Keen. No icon as yet, but will obtain one. must persevere. if some lovely out there could ckeck out my interests and make an icon for one of those, i would be most obliged. ta!husband's snoring - Mood:calm, relaxed
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