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cornerofmadnesskeeping the ice storm away from here? What? Won't work? Ain't risking it.
Did manage to run out of sugar pills and guess who needs them now? Yeah. at least i have oranges.
Got home and the landlord was waiting with that filter he went to get a week ago...then informs me that on friday they're coming into my place to put a molding around the living room ceiling....Um WHAT? Oh it looks great. takes about two hours. WHAT??? Do I have to move things? thinking i'd have to take off work to accomplish this. Nah, we can work around it. Oh lord... I'm going to move some things any how.
Kanda now insists on being held constantly. I'm not sure if he's afraid he's next (as I mentioned last night), lonely or enjoying being my only son at the moment. I suspect the latter.
I finally got to see the Ishval arc on FMA:B. I think I had failed to follow it in Japanese online by this point. Wow. way to rewrite it and completely condense it into one episode. They managed to totally miss some of the most important points. Riza always seeing her father die (In the library dudes, not his deathbed), Riza asking Roy to burn her back. Kimbley got some nice parts, Roy and Maes too. The haunted eyes thing worked well...almost too well. I'm sorry. I know I have Vic M. fans on my flist but I am NOT one of them. The man has very little skill other than to scream out his lines to show emotions which was so utterly inappropriate for half of Ed's lines here. (for that matter, ditto for Yoshimori on Kekeishi (sp?) which is annoying enough without him). Very disappointing episode really. I would rather have lost the boring clip show with Hoho and gotten TWO episodes with this.
I'm also reminded today that British and American mysteries are SO VERY different. It's not uncommon for British mysteries to take 100 pages to get moving. American mysteries someone better be dead in a page or two or else. The weird thing is, British mysteries are still highly popular here (not so sure if the reverse is true) so why are American publishers so loathed to give an author a little time to set the stage (though arguably the British ones take too long to get to the point)
My Ling/Lan Fan/Al Springkink just took a weird bounce into a conversation totally not conducive to sex.
my cousin's Steeler tree
ETA - Damn, the ice storm cometh
Did manage to run out of sugar pills and guess who needs them now? Yeah. at least i have oranges.
Got home and the landlord was waiting with that filter he went to get a week ago...then informs me that on friday they're coming into my place to put a molding around the living room ceiling....Um WHAT? Oh it looks great. takes about two hours. WHAT??? Do I have to move things? thinking i'd have to take off work to accomplish this. Nah, we can work around it. Oh lord... I'm going to move some things any how.
Kanda now insists on being held constantly. I'm not sure if he's afraid he's next (as I mentioned last night), lonely or enjoying being my only son at the moment. I suspect the latter.
I finally got to see the Ishval arc on FMA:B. I think I had failed to follow it in Japanese online by this point. Wow. way to rewrite it and completely condense it into one episode. They managed to totally miss some of the most important points. Riza always seeing her father die (In the library dudes, not his deathbed), Riza asking Roy to burn her back. Kimbley got some nice parts, Roy and Maes too. The haunted eyes thing worked well...almost too well. I'm sorry. I know I have Vic M. fans on my flist but I am NOT one of them. The man has very little skill other than to scream out his lines to show emotions which was so utterly inappropriate for half of Ed's lines here. (for that matter, ditto for Yoshimori on Kekeishi (sp?) which is annoying enough without him). Very disappointing episode really. I would rather have lost the boring clip show with Hoho and gotten TWO episodes with this.
I'm also reminded today that British and American mysteries are SO VERY different. It's not uncommon for British mysteries to take 100 pages to get moving. American mysteries someone better be dead in a page or two or else. The weird thing is, British mysteries are still highly popular here (not so sure if the reverse is true) so why are American publishers so loathed to give an author a little time to set the stage (though arguably the British ones take too long to get to the point)
My Ling/Lan Fan/Al Springkink just took a weird bounce into a conversation totally not conducive to sex.
my cousin's Steeler tree
ETA - Damn, the ice storm cometh
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:28 am (UTC)Hahahaha to the Steelers tree.
Ewww to the Ice Storm.
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:49 am (UTC)ew to ice storms everywhere
Steelers baby. Our new lab rat came in today with a steeler hat, steeler gloves and a Troy Polomolau shirt (complete with hair down the back) and we were debating if we needed him. I said YES
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:58 am (UTC)Yeah, you need to keep that lab rat.
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:31 am (UTC)Well the quasi mystery/sci fi/alternate history novel I wrote...the bad guy gets killed only at the end of the book. Built him up enough to where I am sure, if I ever can get this published, that the readers will absolutely LOATHE him enough to cheer how he dies.
I really hate it when the bad guy, or guys, are killed by page 2...no build up as to why they are bad, no back story...ugh. Now if they were dead to begin with, I still like to know the "whys wherefores how comes" and who did it!
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:32 am (UTC)I've been skipping around the Brotherhood episodes. It's okay, but I'd rather just read the manga.
Too true about the mysteries. Agatha Christie has a huge following in the US, but if anyone every tried to use the same pace as she or any of her contemporaries, they'd never get published over here. Wonder why that is?
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:40 am (UTC)I've always been an anime fan so I like seeing it but I'm always one who wants movies to stick to the source material.
I have no idea why it is but it's true. And Agatha is a fast starter compared to some British authors i read
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:43 am (UTC)British lit in general moves veeeeery slowly pace-wise. Example - Dickens. Enough said.
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Date: 2011-02-01 04:06 am (UTC)yes yes they do
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Date: 2011-02-03 03:11 am (UTC)also, most of his young men have voices that alternate between screechy, or teh stereotypical 'gay man' voice. All that's missing is the stereotypical 'gay accent'.
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:49 am (UTC)GO STEELERS!
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:57 am (UTC)Yay Steelers
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Date: 2011-02-01 06:43 pm (UTC)Not a Vic fan here, agree with you that he's very one-note, especially next to the brilliant Romi Park. Learning he's a big homophobe does not endear him to me any more.
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:46 pm (UTC)exceeding one note as a VA and he is used SO DAMN OFTEN
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Date: 2011-02-03 12:38 am (UTC)A lot of Americans would learn a lot just by sitting and waiting to watch the sunrise without talking, or reading or texting or anything else.
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