Far from this opera for evermore...

Anyone else sick of the LJ spotlights...

Thu, 24 May 2007 19:04:54 GMT

"He met her on LJ, now share in their great news!"

Also, Oz and BSG were excellent, as was what I read of Pattern Recognition. I'm so very close to finishing the latest chapter of my book, but I don't know when I'll be getting to it. I didn't sleep much today and I am so very exhausted, but I want to play basketball in a few hours. We'll see.

When I get around to it though:

Oz, Season 3, Episode 4: Unnatural Disasters

Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Episode 7: Six Degrees of Separation

On tap for tonight and a request

Wed, 23 May 2007 23:08:05 GMT

First, the request: I am still going to keep this livejournal as close to blog form as possible, but I'm going back to a blogspot account in order to have daily reading when I wake up and don't feel like doing much else. So, send me blogs that are your favorites, whether you are a conservative nutcase or a liberal nutcase, or just a complete nutcase, whether they are all about Anime or all about poisonous dart frogs. Just send!

Okay, so I missed a night (Oz watching was supposed to be last night and BSG watching tonight) because a. I was writing and very tired, THINKING I was going to sleep, b. not able to sleep, so reading Pattern Recognition, c. still not able to sleep, turning on the television, seeing the original Die Hard showing on Cinemax West, and d. WATCHING THE ENTIRE MOVIE.

So, tonight, I will actually attempt this order:

Oz, Season 3, Episode 3: Legs

Novel writing: Chapter 2 and 3 (chapter two has taken a lot longer to finish than I originally anticipated, but I am nearly through)...I should have enough time to get into three as well, at least to start moving the handwritten portion onto the computer.

Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Episode 6: Litmus

Interestingly enough, both are single word episodes starting with "L." I guess that transitons perfectly into the last thing of the night:

Pattern Recognition, Chapter 7: The Proposition

If I'm not exhausted, I will continue Wealth & Democracy. I'm really fucking tired right now though, so we'll see. I will dedicate tomorrow night to it, if not tonight.

We found fucking Masks

Sat, 19 May 2007 18:14:21 GMT

Thanks to the WAY BACK MACHINE.

Fuck you myspace

Fri, 18 May 2007 20:50:13 GMT

Stop making me fall in love with match.com girls.

Of course it isn't really love. It's more like, "I wonder if she could be the right mix of human being to set off something that I haven't known for way too long." Probably not...and if so, would I even be the right mix for her?

This post has been approved by Mister Swearengen as a moment of absolute fucking honesty and in need of a shot...or twelve. Cocksuckers!

No, I am not a Ron Paul supporter.

Fri, 18 May 2007 07:42:52 GMT

But I did enjoy this:

I love when people attempt to legitimize their occupations...

Wed, 16 May 2007 22:24:23 GMT

Especially one that I have done my fair share of studying on...and is flawed beyond belief. The usual excuses and distorted reasoning are fed to me like I 'don't know how it is.' Sorry, but that's just what you've been taught and you're accepting it without question. You and everyone else. Welcome aboard. You'll fit right in.

Finally...

Wed, 16 May 2007 08:31:25 GMT

I figured out a satisfactory ending to the second chapter and I am working my way to it. The third chapter is started, and its direction is sort of known...but its ending is very much up in the air currently. I can see it going several directions. After that, open waters...I have lots of ideas, but how they will fall into place, and if the characters let them fall into place...only time will tell.

I know I've done this before, but I'm giving it another shot. Some of these things have been mentioned in previous posts, but this is the current reading/watching list:

Reading:

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich; by Kevin Phillips (Nonfiction)

Pattern Recognition; by William Gibson (Fiction)

Watching:

Battlestar Galactica, Season 1: I'm about three episodes in and Apollo just became my hero with a single line. (NO SPOILERS FUCKERS!!!)

Oz, Season 3

Bureaucracy at its finest...

Wed, 16 May 2007 02:57:39 GMT

Charges dropped, inmates still held

WEST PALM BEACH --
(AP) -- Some Palm Beach County inmates have waited in jail for days and weeks without being released after criminal charges have been dropped, according to a newspaper investigation.
At least six inmates remained jailed within the past year from two days to two months after prosecutors decided not to file charges or dropped cases altogether, The Palm Beach Post reported Monday, based on information provided by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

All of them were indigent, the newspaper reported.

Sheriff's Maj. Chris Kneisley, a jail supervisor, acknowledged the suspects had been jailed too long.

''Our job is to bring people in and release them when they are supposed to be released. That did not happen,'' Kneisley said.

But many of the problems are caused by paperwork, or a lack of, he said.

According to Kneisley, in four of the cases the jail never received notice from prosecutors or clerks that charges against the inmates had been dropped.

http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/106919.html

Kim Kardashian sex video...

Tue, 15 May 2007 22:53:14 GMT

Most boring, uneventful forty minutes of my life...she was a stripper? The bodies in the Official CSI Stripper Morgue have better moves in bed than her.

Anonymous tip edit: If you are a fan of blowjobs, the little piece with her working in that arena was probably the only saving moment in the video...and we agreed, it was more her hand work than mouth work. Still, the total package of this sex act was a definite A.

Tue, 15 May 2007 18:35:17 GMT

Jerry Falwell is dead.

Uplifting quote of the day

Tue, 15 May 2007 18:16:01 GMT

"What's so great about that? I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back. The world will do better without us, when the blight of humanity is removed. That would be my academic argument to that." -Anthony Bourdain

Oh where, oh where can you be...?

Sun, 13 May 2007 08:23:02 GMT

=(

"Stray Bullets is so varied and all encompassing, it probably displays every influence I ever had to the point I don’t even think about it at all. It has the noir aspect; there’s a big Vonnegut influence, I see. I have a screwball comedy like zaniness going on there. And then me. That nihilistic humanity all my stuff has." -David Lapham

At least someone finally asked him what is going on with it...took long enough to search out:

From an interview on his work, Silverfish, a month ago:

"NRAMA: I’ve got to ask, what is the status of El Capitan and Stray Bullets?

DL: It kills me to put Stray Bullets on hold like it’s been. Maria and I both put a lot of years and a lot of hard work into the company and the book. And I still have one issue left in the current arc, left dangling. But the reality the last few years has been that it’s faster and pays more to work freelance right now. The reality is I have a family and I can’t just say stop everything and let’s do Stray Bullets for love. I do love Bullets and know I will complete it, and the sooner the better, but I just can’t commit to anything firm.

NRAMA: I think that’s an understandable situation. You released two of the “definitive” collections of Stray Bullets and solicited a third, which never saw print. Do you have a timetable when the remaining books might be coming out?

DL: Same boat as the last question. No one more than me wants those arcs in trade form."

And then...

"NRAMA: Would you ever consider bringing your El Capitan titles to another publisher so that you can focus on the creative aspect?

DL: No. I have the best publisher in the world in Maria, and creatively, no one can tell me shit. Something new? Okay, you can put your two cents in. I just don’t know how I’d take it if I had to explain why Virginia or Beth did something. I do have a lot of respect and a ton of freedom in all the freelance work I’ve done, but like I said, there’s nothing like working for yourself."

I really want to do a reality show...

Sun, 13 May 2007 07:27:20 GMT

...where the cops from the most corrupt agencies compete for who is the most fucked up agency, even if it takes all out violence to settle it.

My money is on these guys to beat out the Miami cops then get shot in the back by the New Orleans cops who plant the guns on the New York cops:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/12/la.cops.ap/index.html

For those of you who think the NBA is filled with brawling thugs...

Fri, 11 May 2007 18:21:06 GMT

Both of these are from Bill Simmons' blog:

'From JB in Chicago: "Here's an article from Drew Sharp about the '88-'91 Pistons/Bulls rivalry. It's really more of a mini oral history, with amusing quotes from Mahorn, Laimbeer, Paxson, Armstrong and others. I send it because it touches on a lot of points you've made about the NBA and its decline: old-school nastiness vs. new-school warm fuzziness, talent dilution, the genuine evil of Bill Laimbeer, and the changing role of fans as arenas became larger, cleaner and less intense."

And later...

"(Speaking of postgame beers, I couldn't agree more with this e-mail from Ed in Dallas: "Does the coverage of the Josh Hancock accident perfectly illustrate the double standard we have with different sports? If a tattooed, cornrowed NBA player had been been in a fatal, single-car accident with a BAC level twice the legal limit, allegedly on the phone with a woman arranging a hookup and with a stash of weed in the car -- he'd be posterized as everything that's wrong with the NBA. Since it's a clean-cut white guy, he's being treated like Barbaro.")"

Is it me...

Thu, 10 May 2007 18:09:20 GMT

...or does the beginning of the new Linkin Park single sound like the theme song to Halloween?

I haven't listened to more than thirty seconds of the song, so I don't know about the rest.

We were talking about this last night...

Sun, 06 May 2007 18:42:54 GMT

And my user pic is also from it.

Basically, I HIGHLY recommend it:

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/608494/Miracleman_comics

In the 'word' of Johnny Drama...

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:24:33 GMT

...unfortunately at the end of this clip:

Yes, I am done.

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:29:46 GMT

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:28:39 GMT

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:23:39 GMT

teacake911 posted an excellent article concerning the 'violent video game' excuse that is always tossed around.

Hah

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:34:58 GMT

CNN is drawing comparisons to Cho's videos and "Oldboy," even though the roomies don't know of him ever watching it. The image with the hammer and the gun to his head are all they've basically got, and that the movie is South Korean.

I've never seen it, but I've heard that it is good.

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:00:54 GMT

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:11:16 GMT

Apparently they were hearing cell phones ringing and buzzing from frantic parents on the bodies of the dead students as they pulled them out of the building.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:34:09 GMT

From cnn.com:

Another student, Tiffany Otey, said she and her classmates thought the gunshots were construction noise until they heard screaming and police officers with bulletproof vests and machine guns entered her classroom.

"They were telling us to put our hands above our head and if we didn't cooperate and put our hands above our heads they would shoot," Otey said. "I guess they were afraid, like us -- like the shooter was going to be among one of us."

PASTAMANIA...circa 1995 =(

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:37:54 GMT