No, really.

And this is the most disturbing thing I've ever written.

And... wait. Something's missing.

*seeks notebook*

*finds notebook*

*opens to notes for elljay entry*

Every month, my chosen chain of bookshops sends me a short publication with information on upcoming releases. Well... two of them, actually. Every month. I think they're posted by men wearing blue gloves.

Today, I'm back to observations about buses. Today, there are two. One is about disreputable men, and the other is about graffiti. Neither is terribly sensible, but I hope at least one might be fun. So! Let's start with the disreputable man.

He's entirely typical, so far as disreputable men go. He smells bad, rarely washes, can barely dress himself and manages to put his two feet up on no less than three seats at a time, by way of some kind of incredible feat that would doubtless interest theoretical physicists.

And what is it that makes him interesting? Nothing at all. Though apparently I'm interesting to him.

Dear Disreputable Men,

I'm NOT interested in you. There are three reasons for this.

The first, and most obvious, is that you are men.

The second is that you are disreputable.

The third is that my nose has standards.

Sincerely not yours,
[livejournal.com profile] active_apathy


Next, the graffiti. There seems to be a new movement in bus-graffiti here, at the moment - drawing glasses and goatees on pictures of people in ads with a pen. I shall call this 'neoclassical graffiti', and give you all a moment to ponder a kind of public defacement art scholar.

...

Moment's done. My musings led to an entire university that would be a skate park, where the engineering department gathers on an old timber bench that's been tagged into oblivion, discussing the relative merits of various combinations of wheels and bendy plywood. Or the law faculty, which deals with where, when and how punch-ups are to be properly held and resolved in order to decide who's right about any given subject. Or the geology department, which studies exactly how gravel forms and which forms of gravel result in worse gravel-rash.

I wish my imagination had an 'off' switch.

In an end to my semirandom scribble for today, I'd like to alert people to the existence of a 39-disc seven-season Buffy: the Vampire Slayer box set for a mere $290.

A BOX WITH THIRTY-NINE DVDs OF BUFFY.

ijhnrv.kjbnjkasb nk.

And... that's it. Mind your step while the universe unmakes itself.

OMGWTFBtVS!

Date: 2006-01-17 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nekoama.livejournal.com
39 disks?

I don't even like Buffy and I want that, if not only to add 39 fucking disks to my collection!

Date: 2006-01-17 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
39 discs, all in a reasonably pretty box. Every episode ever of all seven seasons of Buffy.

It's a step away from them just selling Joss in a special collector's box.

Date: 2006-01-17 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
I'd buy Joss in a collector's box.

I'd then conduct a MASSIVE acution.

Date: 2006-01-17 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
*auction, even.

Date: 2006-01-17 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peebs1701.livejournal.com
In the US it's only $170. I never even wayched the show and I want it now.

Date: 2006-01-17 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
This Buffy set is the reason why people like me shouldn't buy DVD sets as they are released. It'll be hell convincing the boy to shell out half for this when we have ALL OF THEM already.

Well, mostly all of them. I'm sure there are extras that we haven't seen that are only available in this special set.

But still.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I'm just having problems with the mental image of 39 DVDs all hiding in that one little box.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
Then 40 will blow your mind!





::runs away::

Date: 2006-01-17 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
*points at icon*

Special features.

Exclusive special features.



And the 40-disc one won't work in my DVD player.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
::sticks tongue out::

Neither will your fancy schmancy Serenity!

When I go home today I will watch it and think of you... WHO CAN'T WATCH IT. So ha.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
Neither will your fancy schmancy Serenity!

In mine, that is...

Date: 2006-01-17 05:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Look. I can make my own screencaps. I shall say no more on the subject.

Also, *squish!*

Date: 2006-01-17 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
::squish::

You know I'd think of you anyway.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
Pardon my blatant American Valley Girl-ness, but... duh. Who else would I think of?

Date: 2006-01-17 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] one-bullet-left.livejournal.com
...I had just got that song out of my head. *whimpers despairingly*

And my sympathies as regards the disreputable men. I had two of them (drunk, no less) lurking about the lobby last night.

As a completely random note (well, not completely random, actually, it's inspired by my icon, because I was going to offer you a turtle for luck, because that's just a nice thing to do), I really think you should read "The Dark Tower" series. It's by Stephen King, and if you like Garth Nix (and I get the feeling you do) you will LOVE The Dark Tower.

My, there was a lot of parenthetical content in that comment...

Date: 2006-01-17 05:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Ummmm... *points to icon*

Yay! Turtle!

And new books to look into. I have The Amulet of Samarkand waiting to be read, and a copy of The Golem's Eye lurking in my room. I'd have Ptolemy's Gate but it's a different size so I want to wait until it's as tall as the other two so they don't look funny on the shelf.

...

That was an awkward sentence.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] one-bullet-left.livejournal.com
It makes me happy beyond belief that you've got the Bartimaeus books. Bear in mind the the first one, while excellent, is the least of the three.

Date: 2006-01-17 05:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Then I expect much happy... once they're all equally tall. :)

Date: 2006-01-17 06:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leila82.livejournal.com
Disreputable men scare me. Mostly because I know you're not supposed to respond to them, but at the same time I feel guilty not responding because it's Not Proper and Polite and phooey on my parents for instilling these silly Manners in my head.

39 DVDs. In one box. That just can't be possible.

Date: 2006-01-17 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
*nods* 39 DVDs, in one box, as surely as I'm typing this.

Date: 2006-01-17 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raptor-au.livejournal.com
Hm, I've seen it for $249 round these parts, and that's without looking for it on Ebay. I'm trying to decide if I should sell seasons 1-3 and the first half of 4 that I already have, or just complete my collection with single DVDs. Cause it would be awful nice just to have them in the one set...

Date: 2006-01-17 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
Have you seen this? It made me laugh. A lot.

Date: 2006-01-17 04:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I'm trying to decide which is more disturbing - that manip, or Jayne in lamé tights.

Date: 2006-01-18 02:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
IMHO, Jayne in lamé tights. The manip is amusing.

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