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| Monday, July 13th, 2009 | | 6:48 pm |
Then Again
The reviews for HPB are very good. Maybe I'll rent it. Current Mood:  curious | | Friday, July 10th, 2009 | | 11:56 am |
Manga/Anime Reviews
I've been watching Utawarerumono on netflix. It has a really interesting story. It's set in a fantasy world that resembles feudal japan. It has a masked hero who has amnesia. I love amnesia stories, btw, I don't know why, but I do. I also feel compelled to report that our local Borders has expanded its manga section, and I do mean expanded. It's a huge open area with tons of shelves. It looks like they imported an entire comic book store in there. So, my casual stroll into Borders became an exercise in self-restraint that I mostly failed. If you like shojo manga (that's the girly stuff), you might like Rasetsu. Volume one just came out, and so far, it reminds me a lot of Buffy. IMHO, you should avoid Haruka. It's another one of those "Modern teen girl goes to ancient Japan and is surrounded by cute guys instantly" kind of shojo manga, but I found the story confusing and the dialogue annoying. I also tried Tail of the Moon, which is really sweet so far. Ninja romantic comedy--huh? Whodathunkit? Current Mood: awake | | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 10:36 pm |
Yet Another Movie Rant: Why I won't be seeing HBP
I've noticed that the ads for HBP are ramping up. Probably nobody cares, but I feel the need to explain why I won't be joining all of fandom at the movie theater for this one. Actually, I haven't gone to see any of the HP movies since Goblet of Fire. I just don't enjoy the darker turn that the story took. I read all the books, because I wanted to see what happened, but I have to admit that the last few were a slog and the last book was trauma-inducing. I wept buckets, but of all the Potter movies, HBP is the one that I least want to see because: ( Spoilers... ) Current Mood:  cranky | | 10:33 pm |
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Movie Rant Redux
Last night SciFi showed POTC and I watched it again for the first time in a long time and I just have to say once again: ( Read more... ) Current Mood: geeky | | Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | | 1:22 pm |
Happy Birthday America!
Our Democracy has made it to another birthday, meanwhile: -I was up way too late last night post-gaming reading S/H fanfic and playing a very addictive game on the computer. -I just found out that the class I didn't think would run this coming fall semester may indeed run and now I'm in a panic because I need to start preparing. . . YESTERDAY! I thought I was doing well because I was forcing myself to read the boring book for the other class, but noooooooooo. The semester hasn't even started yet, and I'm behind. -I'm hungry right now for some serious junk food. Current Mood: awake | | Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | | 4:21 am |
Why I'm up so darn late
So I had my first hippotherapy class this evening-or I guess we should say last evening by this time. It was very weird riding a horse. It felt a lot like keeping my balance while sitting on top of jiggling jello--warm jiggling jello. And then there was the fact that I am very short and not very limber. Did you know horses have wide bodies??
Anyhoo, I took a pain killer which happened to contain caffeine--result: I am very high right now. Let's not talk about how sore I am likely to be later on today.
E-mail me if you want pictures of me on a horse. It's fine if this is a sight you would rather avoid. My plan is to be a bit more stretched and limber by the time next week's class rolls around--we will see how that works out. Current Mood:  and sore | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 1:55 am |
I'm back!
I'm all done wrestling with the cable company and now have my internet back. Current Mood:  cheerful | | Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 7:32 pm |
| | Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | | 8:02 pm |
The Joys of Naan
Compared to my parents, I am an ethnic food daredevil, so it wasn't in their company that I discovered Indian food a few years ago. It was thanks to my close friends. Now, spicy food is not really safe for me because of my GERD, but I do like to carefully indulge every now and then. Indian food opened up a whole new world of spices for me - and if things get too hot, I love that cucumber and yogurt stuff, yummy - but it's not the spices that keep me coming back to Indian food, or even the cucumber stuff, the chai or the mango drinks, It's the bread.
When A was little, she loved bread of all kinds. It became one of those family jokes repeated every Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I was never passionate about bread. I like it, sure, but that's as far as it went. I like eating generally. I'm the farthest thing from picky, usually, but I have a few oddities when it comes to bread. When I was a kid, I did leave the crusts of my bread uneaten.
As an adult, I don't tend to eat pizza crusts. I just find them too doughy and too hard to chew. I also tend to remove some bread from a sandwich, if I think the taste is being compromised by too much bread. I like flatbread these days almost better than regular bread, and I like english muffins better than toast.
Which brings us to naan. Naan is, to be direct, perfect. The first time I had a piece, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. It's flatter than your typical American bread and round, but it's way more moist and soft and chewy than a tortilla. It's like the best parts of flat bread and regular bread combined. Bring it fresh out of the oven and add a delicious sauce to dip it in, and you have offered me culinary greatness. When I pull a part a piece, and it greets me with chewy layers of goodness - ah!!!!!! The whole thing is really hard to describe if you haven't eaten it. I didn't know before my first bite that bread this sublime existed.
So this morning, I had my weight watchers weigh in - I was down this week again, thank goodness - and I went out to breakfast with my parents, a typical Saturday routine for us these days. Over the meal, I was trying to describe the wonders of naan to my Mother, and I was talking about how, even though I couldn't spell it, I deeply craved it since I hadn't been to an Indian Restaurant in so long (We didn't make one during Marcon this time.). Mom was skeptical, and she said that she just didn't think Indian food was that popular with people anyway - by people she meant non-fen (or mundanes if you want to be pejorative). She knows I and my friends like all sorts of weird stuff that regular people avoid.
So the next stop after breakfast was Anderson's. Do you know it? You can't get more Middle America than this store unless you are Walmart. Guess what was in the first display that we saw when we went into the store??
Naan. A whole rack of packaged naan complete with heating instructions - white and whole grain loaves.
So now, not only can I spell it, but Mom just made it for me for dinner. You are reading the LJ of a woman who just had warm naan with her American steak, salad and blueberries!
I couldn't be more satisfied - and Mom liked it too! Maybe I can even get her to try goat. :)
Current Mood: satisfied | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 9:39 pm |
The Castle Personality Test--so dead on it's scary!
| You Are A Thoughtful Idealist |  You are scared of new experiences. It's hard for you to break outside of your comfort zone.
You don't spend a lot of time thinking about how people see you. You're kind of scared to know what they think.
You are a very romantic person. You can't help but see the world as it should be.
Right now, stress occasionally makes you feel trapped in your life. You usually have a clear perspective on things though!
Overall, your life is dramatic and unpredictable. You life in interesting times.
You are extremely optimistic about the future. You feel like things are always getting better. |
Current Mood: surprised | | Monday, June 8th, 2009 | | 4:58 pm |
| | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | | 4:28 am |
| | 4:14 am |
RIP David Eddings
Apparently David Eddings has passed away. I really loved his first two book series The Belgariad and The Mallorean.
I thought his later work didn't measure up to those, but boy, it is a wonderful thing to write one good book, let alone the number that he managed. I read The Belgariad books until they fell apart. I felt really close to all the characters. I wish I knew where I've stashed those beat up old books so I could read them again.
Mr. Eddings was proceeded in death by his wife Leigh, who was his frequent writing partner. Blessings on them both. Current Mood:  melancholy | | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | | 1:25 pm |
Expanded Universe of Angst
So I was very into Trek before Marcon, because I had just seen the movie. I was reading Star Trek novels and so forth. Anyway, I was on the Trek wavelength, then I had a dream in which I was a Jedi Knight. I decided to be open to the Star Wars muse as well, so while I was at Marcon, I bought several Star Wars graphic novels. As you may know, like trek, the SW comic and regular book empire is huge, and money-making. It spans several eras of the SW timeline. What you may not know, is that unlike the trek books, some effort is made at keeping everything cannon. Lucas has oversight, and all the writers consult and etc. They try to avoid storyline conflicts. All of this is called The Expanded Universe. I have tended to avoid EU products lately because there's so much of it, and I only have one life in which to read all this stuff. I was enjoying my comics post-Marcon though, so I decided to use netflix to catch up on the Clone Wars animated shorts--the first ones, not the current series. They were good, but I'm not really that up on Old Republic EU stuff since the earlier era movies don't appeal to me, so I decided to check out the Wookieepedia, which is just what it sounds like.
It helped out with Clone Wars plot points and such, but then I made the mistake of looking up the history of my favorite characters. Yikes! Such Angst!
All of this needless pain has me very ticked off and in no hurry to read anything that dates past the rebellion--sheesh!
( Read more...if you don't mind angsty spoilers ) | | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 11:27 am |
Marcon Con Report
Okay this is a bit late, but here goes:
The theme for this year was British SciFi. I didn't know any of the guests and I didn't attend any pannels, but I still got the vibe.
We spent most of our time sitting in the halls or the food court chatting and costume watching. Last year, the con was a bit underpopulated, not so this year.
Classic Trek was much in evidence. The Klingon count was high as was the number of folks in starfleet uniforms.
Dr Who was also popular. There were many different doctors of different eras, but the latest doctor-the tenth?-was the most seen. Two large daleks roamed the halls looking for people to exterminate. Lots of folks had K-9s.
The other big costume trend was steampunk/gaslight. Lots of folks dressed Victorian with mad scientist accessories and so forth. There was some debate amongst us about whether Girl Genius was responsible.
Not so many Jedi were in the halls this year, but I did survive an elevator ride with Darth Vader and his stormtrouper escort.
Besides the usual shopping in the dealer's room, I spent most of my time gaming.
I was part of a fun game of Primeval QAGS, and I also ran a D&D adventure for D.
Mark Bernstein's concert was hilarious btw. I had no idea he could be so. . .well I guess sick covers it pretty well. His Promethius filk has made it impossible for me ever to listen to Vixy and Tony's very serious Persephone song ever again without giggling like a maniac.
Speaking of a vulture eating someone's liver, I totally blew my diet on burgers, pizza, ice cream and etc, but boy was that fun too.
I do believe everybody in my group enjoyed the whole experience. I do love Marcon!
Current Mood: cheerful | | 11:24 am |
Yippie!
The David Cook concert has been rescheduled for August 9th! Current Mood: excited | | Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | | 10:02 am |
More Idol
That was a great results show! David Cook! Keith Urban and Kris! Steve Martin and his banjo! Glambert sings with Kiss!
Kris, you guys, wow! I am shocked, but happy. I can be at peace cuz I know this isn't the end of the road for Adam, and its so nice how happy he really was for Kris and how humble Kris was about it all--Take that Danny Gokey! That's what humble is, since you seem to need the illustration.
BTW: I read TWOP's recap this morning and I just have to say that in a cornucopia of weirdness, Jacob is the weirdest recapper of them all.
I thought it made total sense that they gave him Battlestar Galactica because of his philosophical bent and the true fact that I couldn't make heads or tails of him ever, but it was a truly bizarre experience reading his Idol recaps. I'm going to miss that, I think.
I'm also going to miss Idolatry on EW.com. I'm off to see if they have posted yet.
BTW again, I spent two hours last night after the Idol final episode watching the Game Show Network. I love vacation! Current Mood: bouncy | | Monday, May 18th, 2009 | | 2:32 am |
| | 2:29 am |
A Brief Review of the New Star Trek film
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Current Mood: ecstatic |
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