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Something worth reading about the very recent issues with Amazon: an alternative explanation for what went down. And to be honest, it makes a lot more sense to me than a corporation willingly and massively making enemies of its most important commodity: buyers.

Read HERE.

In other terms...could this be cyberterrorism? Digital Terrrorism? It bares considering, at least.

Also, isn't it bitterly amusing that now ALL that happens on the web, it happens because of Twitter? Yes, possibly the numbers are in favour of Twitters, but all these 'news' people seems to forget that most twitterers also have a blog, a LJ, a wordpress page, and so on and so forth. Ah,to jump in on the latest wagon trend, so cool. /sarcasm

I have decided to buy a Mac for graphics/vidding/editing. I'm a slow/careful buyer, which means I'll take my time looking at what's available, but if there were no holds barred, what Mac would you get (esp for graphics and vidding)? What software? I've got loads of software/shareware/freeware for pc, for ripping source and mp3 and mixing sound/music and so on, but what would you get for a Mac? It's been something like 15 years since I had a Mac :) things change.

Life is short, enjoy each and every moment of it.

I'm off to Italy again on Thursd. then back here on the 7th but off to Scotland until the 12th...and will have to go back to Italy for another week soon after. Oh joy.


My brother told me that my cat Mimmi has taken a turn for the worse. It's off to the vets again on Friday, and decision making time, apparently. I'm heartbroken. There are huge, fundamental issues in the world needing solving, friends going through very harsh stuff, I know. Mimmi's just a cat. But I love him. I hope against hope that there is still something to do, but won't have him suffer in vain. It just hurts so much. It's just a tiny life. Preemptive thank yous for good thoughts sent his way.

I have skipped back to 180 entries on the LJ f-list and not even looked at the JF...I can't make it all the way back. Sorry. Poke me in the comments if you need me to see something!

And thank you :)

There should be a simple, fundamental shared meaning for this word, and it's certainly something that we want for ourselves.
It's only fair that it should be given to everyone else.

dodger_winslow talks about respect, HERE.

Personally, I also wish there was a lot more respect for women, from women (in fandom and in the world) - I don't see much of it around, frankly.

Haven't written a word yesterday (Sunday? Can't remember, will check) so I hope to make up today for that, eventually. --> me=blah. Waste of an individual, if you ask me.

In part, I got sidetracked by all the SPN Creation Con reports, photos, VIDEOS!
The fantastic super_wiki site has a full list of links to peruse. And Sam Ferris put a mini con report on her blog, too. How much does that woman rock, uh? :D

I can't tell enough THANK YOU to all the fans that went and shared their squee with the rest of us stuck in non-con land...
...(HAHA, that's funny *G* at times I do surprise myself). Sometimes Fandom is a bit PITA, but most of the times, Fandom is Love :D


And then, THIS.
For those of you who haven't seen OZ, you should. Yes, there is violence, goriness, foul language, male full frontals and all around nastiness, but if a show deserved to win awards and prizes, it was this one.

The following clip is at the end of the last season. Just a juicy morself that the writers throw us and the conclusion of Miguel Alvarez's story arc and ..the beginning of something. Bobby Cannavale (Third Watch, Kingpin) as Torquemada in all his splendour, even with a fake eyes and Billy Idol/Spike blond hair, just appears for this brief scene and another one, iirc, but wow....isn't this an intense, excellent, angst-ridden, sexual tension heavy moment.

There's nothing more than two men talking, in this clip. Do watch it. It's worth it.
PS. Cannavale is really, really tall. *G*

Have been a bit remiss with usual activities, but was/am a bit blah still, though know I know that's it's minor stomach-bug-flu thingy unsettling me (will spare you details, ain't I magnanimous? ;)

So, in case you haven't stumbled upon it already:

Trailers about the SFX team behind SPN's scary things that go bump in the night and assorted human bits, found HERE and HERE.
(found via x5vale, thank you :D)


As to the WRITERS (WGA) strike, I know the strike will hit us (the fans) where it hurts most (figuratively), and will hit lots of other people and create problems, but the reasons for striking seem really right.

You can find more info here:
WGA Supporters
(fans across fandoms organising activities to support the writers strikes)

zillah975 posted about it here, with plenty of reference links for more info.

I support the writers', btw. I'm sure I've missed something, but the gist is there.

Also, the HP fandom and related wanks never cease to entertain *G*

- only 5 drabbles to go (5 done!)
- email one more job application DONE!
- finalize writing plans for mini_nanowrimo nanowrimo (what to write, what to write! *panic*)
- watch the new Dexter and new The Unit DONE!
- drool/chuckle/awwww a few times more to NICK LEA SINGING LIVE! (see biani 's journal)

...I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting something.

eta:
- email per film articles/reviews (I know what that is, will give more details once it's finalised)
- finish/post meta for spn_heavymeta!


In other news *points at icon* I'm declaring my writing status as to the month of November.
Please bear with me, I'll kick myself into giving precedence to writing before anything else, so ping/email me if you need my attention elsewhere :)

*is excited*

ETA 2: written so very quickly for halcyon_shift scare-a-thon:

"They say it happens when you least expect it.
They say it's so fast you don't realize it.
They say it's just another phase.

But when it does happen...when the blade comes down, when the trigger clicks, when the door slams and there's no wind...when you look into the darkness and bright yellow eyes look back at you, then you know.

You do expect it.
It's not fast.
It never, ever ends."

ETA 3: had to have a nap *sighs* also, our Japanese housemate keeps having people for dinner (which means from 6 pm to 12 pm and onwards) without EFFING telling us!
Adding clips/rip to do for LD to list of Things to Do Today. *nods*

WANTS. *makes grabby hands*

It's sold out. Maybe they'll make some more if enough of us ask them?

I sort of collect only two type of items:

a) model-cars from TV shows that I LOVE, which means I have the Pros' silver and bronze Capris and two versions of Starsky & Hutch's Torino (tiny one and medium size one)...so one day I HAVE to have an Impala.

and

b) mugs. Which are difficult, because it's not just any mugs, but mugs that mean something to me (for example, I have a fantastic, huge HOUSTON mug that art_of_mayhem gave me as Christmas pressie a couple of years ago; a Trinity College Dublin mug from the conference I went to there; a mug from Miami, bought when I went to the HL Cruise; a LotR mug with the One Ring that changes color once you put hot liquind in the mug, to celebrate the films....so, it's not exactly the shape of the mug, or the quality/cost - I do prefer bigger/solid/sturdy not expensive/fragile ones - but places I went to, people, events.)

Of course, this means that I can drink lots and lots of mint infusion every day without ever having to wash a new mug ;) for days!

ETA: OH! SPN mug!

And other pretty SPN things here...CineQuest dot com

ETA2: my reason for browsing that site, btw, was the announcement of 6" figures incoming (and also a John Winchester minibust! Though I don't like minibusts that much, or at all, but if the action figures are decent...My Boromir, Aragorn and Lurtz might have company in the future :D
article is HERE

..just so I know what I've done this (late) morning and why I haven't had lunch yet, the provider being incredibly slow being one of the reasons why it all took this long...grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

-posted mood piece to poorboyshuffle
-posted short new piece to nexus_verse
-checked the spn newsletter for John stories (something I do regularly and damn time consuming, because I get distracted and read stories! but necessary, wouldn't want to miss a John story)
-posted a couple of links/rec to papawinchester
-read and commented to a few stories
-checked f-list, left a few comments here and there
-tagged papawinchester recent entries (I make a point of tagging AND reading everything that's posted to the comm)
-opened a comm for my own spn au scifi verse (I like to keep it tidy and in one place): screamersverse

FOOD. NOW.
Will it be a late lunch, or a very early dinner??? *headdesks*

Total random post of the day...

ITEM ONE - I may be having hot pervy thoughts for the first dancing (blue, horned, tailed, not-human, digital character) guy in this vid
(taken from digital_opium)...he has a TAIL! and he's BLUE!

Perhaps I've been watching too much Farscape recently...




ITEM TWO - The Spanish Gardner...ahhhh, the classics! Brit film made in 1956, with Dirk Bogarde. It's been widely analyzed in terms of masculinity and homoerotic subtext, a rite of passage for a stuffed Brit man and his son faced with the exploding and sensual masculinity of the Spanish gardner ... only Bogarde certainly wasn't Spanish *G*
Still, the slash tension between the Brit diplomat and the gardner is sizzling, and with the boy being the point of contention of their affection, it all makes for a very pervy enjoyable viewing.



ITEM THREE - as much as it obviously is a way to expand their sales and their target, still...DOVE campaign for real beauty at least brings ads for older women with actual, real older women on our telly, and the same for women that do not wear size zero...and this film says more than a thousands words...worth considering and appreciating, imo.



ITEM FOUR - I may have applied for spn_harlequin..okay, I have applied, I am waiting to see if I'm accepted or not (nothing personal if I'm not, there are only so many prompts - 72 - so the one I asked for might be taken already...)...and I haven't even asked if I could write John Winchester in it! SHAME ON ME! ETA: yesss, I can. Any genre, SPN or SPN RPS. *waits for approval*

Anyway, this forces me to formalize the fiction I'm working on at the moment, so that I have to keep at it ( said fiction bunnies listed under the cut tag not exactly in priority order apart from the first two )

I have probably forgotten something, but most of all...
Damn.
I need to stop reading fiction if I want to write any of that! There just isn't enough time! It's not fair!

*G*