Catching Up With My LJnotes

[active_apathy]

With little slices of random to start and finish, because, well, random, yay.

So! EEEEEE!!! I've finally seen Movie!TPB, and while I somewhat prefer Book!TPB, Movie!TPB is a shinyshiny disc of love. It inspires great happy.

Now, on to my notes... hmm... not terribly useful. Grar.

There's a random observation, for which I have no more context.

There's a topical comment, which is no longer quite so current as when I meant to post it.

There's... GRAAR! ANGRY! Serenity is now out as a box set with Doom. OMGWTFnojustno. Grar!

And... a random, overheard comment, which had no context to start with and so has lost nothing. The quote?

So, in case your wife decides to give birth to gerbils, that's what you do.

See? There is no way that could possibly lose any context! Or, for that matter, make sense.

And... ooh! Karmacode! Lacuna Coil are love, and I have their shinyshiny new CD. Squeee!

...

that was a slightly shorter Squeeee! than my Squeeeeeeeeeee! for it being on the shelf when I went to the CD shoppe on Monday.

Now, lastly, we have the product of my brain finding some spare time. It's seamlessly fused Firefly with the art of spruiking. I'll leave you with the results:

MAL: We've got us a shipload of dolls from Paquin and they've all got to GO! They're goin' at outrageous prices, prices so incredibly low, low, low that your heads are like to wobble! These lovable geisha dolls are so popular we ain't even had the time as to unpack them from the boxes! People loved them on Paquin, people loved them on Persephone, people loved them on Londinium, and now y'all have your chance to love 'em your own selves. These wobbly dolls are the latest in fancified dollmakin' anywhere in the 'Verse - there's over 70 Earths spinnin', and you ain't like to find a better on any of 'em, 'specially not at our low, low prices! So come on in and get your wobbly dolls. Bring your horse, bring your mule, bring your ship, because these wobbly dolls have all got to GO and it'd be all manner of shiny if we could be offworld by sundown!

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

...TPB? The Phantom Book? Total Pants Bureau? Terminal Pythons on the Biplane?

And I spit like a llama at whoever thought of Serenity/Doom. That's one ship I'll gladly scuttle. Not only scuttle, but rend into tiny pieces and burn in an enormous, rum-fueled pyre. And then when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do...
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But, yes. It is stupidity of immense proportions.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The Princess Bride. :D

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

I was just, uh, testing you. Yeah, that's right. *coughs*

I did it that way round, too, and was very sad to learn there was not an unabridged version. When I was reading it, I was all, "an entire chapter devoted to Buttercup learning to be a princess? I read the sidetracks on Waterloo, barricades and the history of the Paris sewers in Les Miserables, I CAN TAKE IT!!!"
Damn you and your tricksy tricks, Morgenstern Goldman!

[aberrantangels]

I want to read the book to my nephews some day. And when I do, I'll claim to have read the unabridged version and allow as how, while the digressions don't advance the plot as rapidly as a screenwriter or even an average reader might like, they really are quite funny in a dry Douglas Adams-y sort of way*. Because that's how I imagine it would be. (It's probably even funnier in the original Florinese, of course.)

* Except, of course, this was before Douglas Adams.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Ack! your Douglas Adams comment almost made coffee meet a computer not mine. (This is after coffee, but before class).

And now I'm going to be using that as my meme for the day. (This is after memes and days, but before people shout 'STOP USING THAT WORD!').

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Who doesn't want to read the chapter about learning to be a princess? Or the chapter about hats? Or the chapter about unpacking the hats?

[aberrantangels]

Not only scuttle, but rend into tiny pieces and burn in an enormous, rum-fueled pyre.

"Then, we should invent a way to burn things that have already been burned before, and then burn that machine and the stuff together."

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Yay, Penny Arcade!

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

I've seen the film many many times, but I've only just bought the book. Reading it is going quite slowly, because to keep to the spirit of the thing I am reading it aloud to somebody else, and sadly we don't have that much spare time to do that in.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You'll even get to say, "she doesn't die at this time." :)