"Turn off the lights or say get out."
Oct. 28th, 2010 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greygirlbeastThere's cold air on the way, but this early afternoon it's 74F and sunny, and my office window is open.
The comments from yesterday's post were a little overwhelming, and I didn't reply to all the ones I ought to have replied to, I know. The kind words are appreciated, but I was left feeling as though I were fishing for compliments...or something. Which isn't at all what I was doing. Anyway, whatever. Thank you. I think my favorite comment came from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catconley, who asked, "Does the tweeter also think that Stephen Hawking is a computer?" Brava.
Seeing there was no hope of working yesterday, I left the House, and we went to What Cheer (Wayland Square) and the Curious Mermaid (Wickenden Street), looking for the things that will be making up the Dancy box. The things we aren't making. Little religious tchotchkes, a black plastic dog, an old postcard. This started out as just something extra to offer with a lettered copy of Alabaster (letter X). But now it's grown into a piece of art in its own right. Spooky's cousin Ben is sending us the perfect cigar box from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It was a warm, drizzly day Outside, and I spent most of it sorting through postcards from the forties and fifties and sixties.
Jada sent us voodoo dolls for Halloween.
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Mixed feelings about last night's episode of Glee. On the one hand, it was neat. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a huge part of my life long ago. Somewhere there are photos of me as Magenta. Oh, here they are (thank you Spooky):
"The Time Warp"
"Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me"
Anyway, I'm perplexed at the word "transsexual" having been replaced with "sensational." And they somehow managed to do the whole thing without cross-dressing, which is sort of like doing Doctor Zhivago without Russians. Maybe I'm not perplexed. Maybe I'm only disappointed. Oh, and saw the new Caprica, but I did so immediately after getting the news that "SyFy" has canceled the show, and that the final five episodes won't air until early 2011. May I call this SyFyail? The show was too smart, and too off-beat, and the money can be better spent making shitty movies and reality shows, I'm sure. Caprica will go down after only a single season.
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Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks.
Sometimes, my heart's just not in an entry. Like now.
The comments from yesterday's post were a little overwhelming, and I didn't reply to all the ones I ought to have replied to, I know. The kind words are appreciated, but I was left feeling as though I were fishing for compliments...or something. Which isn't at all what I was doing. Anyway, whatever. Thank you. I think my favorite comment came from
catconley, who asked, "Does the tweeter also think that Stephen Hawking is a computer?" Brava.Seeing there was no hope of working yesterday, I left the House, and we went to What Cheer (Wayland Square) and the Curious Mermaid (Wickenden Street), looking for the things that will be making up the Dancy box. The things we aren't making. Little religious tchotchkes, a black plastic dog, an old postcard. This started out as just something extra to offer with a lettered copy of Alabaster (letter X). But now it's grown into a piece of art in its own right. Spooky's cousin Ben is sending us the perfect cigar box from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It was a warm, drizzly day Outside, and I spent most of it sorting through postcards from the forties and fifties and sixties.
Jada sent us voodoo dolls for Halloween.
---
Mixed feelings about last night's episode of Glee. On the one hand, it was neat. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a huge part of my life long ago. Somewhere there are photos of me as Magenta. Oh, here they are (thank you Spooky):
"The Time Warp"
"Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me"
Anyway, I'm perplexed at the word "transsexual" having been replaced with "sensational." And they somehow managed to do the whole thing without cross-dressing, which is sort of like doing Doctor Zhivago without Russians. Maybe I'm not perplexed. Maybe I'm only disappointed. Oh, and saw the new Caprica, but I did so immediately after getting the news that "SyFy" has canceled the show, and that the final five episodes won't air until early 2011. May I call this SyFyail? The show was too smart, and too off-beat, and the money can be better spent making shitty movies and reality shows, I'm sure. Caprica will go down after only a single season.
---
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks.
Sometimes, my heart's just not in an entry. Like now.
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Caprica
Date: 2010-10-28 05:20 pm (UTC)Everything you say here is exactly what will be happening, and it bothers me so much that my head might just explode.
May I call this SyFyail?
Perfect coinage and, if you don't mind, I will be taking that, now, to use far and wide. With attribution, of course.
Re: Caprica
Date: 2010-10-28 05:37 pm (UTC)Perfect coinage and, if you don't mind, I will be taking that, now, to use far and wide. With attribution
Anything that fracks "SyFy" is fine by me.
Frack!
Date: 2010-10-28 05:35 pm (UTC)2) Glee - jumped the shark already
3) Rocky Horror rocks always
4) Those photos are great to see, but bring back VERY COLD memcories
Re: Frack!
Date: 2010-10-28 05:36 pm (UTC)It was in 20s, and the snowing.
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Date: 2010-10-28 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-28 05:36 pm (UTC)Apropos of nothing, I was reading a book on mosasaurs and other marine reptiles, and in the 'thank yous' in the beginning was your name.
There are a few of those.
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Date: 2010-10-28 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-28 05:38 pm (UTC)Yep, Richard Ellis is a cool guy.
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Date: 2010-10-28 06:14 pm (UTC)On an unrelated note, I absolutely love your work, and I can't wait for the 'Two Worlds' collection. Thank you for everything you've written.
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Date: 2010-10-28 06:17 pm (UTC)The whole thing was just...odd. Transvestite as a lyric is okay, but transexual isn't? Heavy petting is okay, but seat-wetting isn't?
Exactly.
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Date: 2010-10-29 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-29 01:22 pm (UTC)THAT wasn't too risque, but those lyrics were?
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Date: 2010-10-28 06:33 pm (UTC)It takes me back to high school french class and my teacher flipping past chapters of "Le Petit Prince" we "don't need to read because nothing happens". argh.
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Date: 2010-10-28 06:34 pm (UTC)It takes me back to high school french class and my teacher flipping past chapters we "don't need to read because nothing happens". argh.
Pretty much.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:01 pm (UTC)I'm hesitant to ask this, but is there any way we all can contribute to the project? I suppose it might diminish the "made by CRK and Spooky" value, but still. I think your readers have lots of junk which could be pressed into service of this object d'art. Is there a definite list of things you're looking for that you could post?
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:03 pm (UTC)I'm hesitant to ask this, but is there any way we all can contribute to the project? I suppose it might diminish the "made by CRK and Spooky" value, but still. I think your readers have lots of junk which could be pressed into service of this object d'art. Is there a definite list of things you're looking for that you could post?
At this point, all we really need is a little New Testament, you know the tiny ones with a fake leather cover? And I think we can find one locally without too much fuss. I'm actually having something almost like fun making this. I sort of wish we didn't have to sell it. But, anyway, thanks.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:15 pm (UTC)Figured I'd ask.
Re: photos - Was your hair actually that curly once or is that a good wig? The photos are pretty stunning.
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Date: 2010-10-28 10:16 pm (UTC)Re: photos - Was your hair actually that curly once or is that a good wig? The photos are pretty stunning.
It's a wig, alas.
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Date: 2010-10-29 02:28 am (UTC)It's yours if you want it.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-28 07:13 pm (UTC)Tchotcke. That's a fabulous word (hands up, I had to look it up.)
Re: yesterday's entry. You were justifiably pissed off, and that's not fishing by any means. Hope things feel better now.
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Date: 2010-10-28 10:17 pm (UTC)Tchotcke. That's a fabulous word (hands up, I had to look it up.)
It is, indeed, a fine word.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:13 pm (UTC)I was always Columbia in PJs and mouse ears.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:21 pm (UTC)::sobs quietly::
Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 07:32 pm (UTC)Re: Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 07:40 pm (UTC)Also, to repeat a quote I thought just about said it: "They un-gayed the gayest musical that ever gayed." Sanitizing lyrics is one thing. Homophobia is another. You can't do Rocky Horror on FOX with a male Frank? Then how about you don't do it at all.
Re: Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 07:47 pm (UTC)Re: Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 10:19 pm (UTC)It's particularly odd because, for example, the Lady Gaga episode had massive cross-dressing, and the character of Curt often turns gender-bending fashion fabulousness up to 11. Weirdness.
Spooky and I discussed this very thing.
Re: Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 07:49 pm (UTC)Re: Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 10:20 pm (UTC)"They un-gayed the gayest musical that ever gayed."
And tried to make us think it it was The Right Thing To Do.
Re: Rocky
Date: 2010-10-28 10:18 pm (UTC)It's less Rocky tribute and more Rocky exploitation, exploiting people's warm feelings of the movie while taking out the things that made it daring and interesting.
Yes. Well said.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:49 pm (UTC)The shunned network
Date: 2010-10-28 08:30 pm (UTC)Can't wait to see the Dancy box. I have two of the three Silent In Reds and the anticipation is nice to savor.
Re: The shunned network
Date: 2010-10-28 10:21 pm (UTC)My apologies to fans of Ghost Hunters but for me, Farscape was the best SF show ever.
YES! Farscape. Best. Space Opera. Ever!
Gleefully Rocky
Date: 2010-10-29 12:18 am (UTC)Well, more episodes of Firefly might have been nice, but noooooo.
Re: Gleefully Rocky
Date: 2010-10-29 04:52 pm (UTC)They can shove their 'sensational' into whatever bodily orifice they wish. Rocky is fun, it has characters to love and it has Tim Curry. What more can you really want?
Well, like you've said more episode of...
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Date: 2010-10-29 02:20 am (UTC)Glee's Rocky made me kind of sad. It was such a bummer of an episode - Rocky has always been so much fun - I was disappointed. They cut out the soul with the sex. And yes, the lyrical changes were pretty random.... the "sensational" really threw me for a loop.
Nice Magenta pics! I played Frank in college but I would love to play Eddie some time.
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Date: 2010-10-29 04:52 pm (UTC)I played Frank in college
That is so cool.
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Date: 2010-10-29 04:16 am (UTC)Did you hear last night “South Park” referenced Cthulhu? BP drilled so far down they ripped into the multiverse or something along those lines. We were chatting while casually watching until I saw the Cthulhu caption on the screen. I am a little foggy on the story line.
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Date: 2010-10-29 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-29 05:55 am (UTC)Awesome. May I ask where those were taken?
And they somehow managed to do the whole thing without cross-dressing, which is sort of like doing Doctor Zhivago without Russians.
Yes, that rather does miss the point.
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Date: 2010-10-29 04:47 pm (UTC)May I ask where those were taken?
In the rolling shed of an old steel mill in Birmingham.
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Date: 2010-10-29 12:39 pm (UTC)Also those photos are adorable.
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Date: 2010-10-29 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-29 04:51 pm (UTC)But hey, at least we'll get more wrestling on SyFy, right?
Because the Science Fiction Channel...
...I mean the Sci Fi Channel...
...um...I mean SciFi...
Er. No. I mean SyFy...um...is all about wrestling.
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Date: 2010-10-29 05:01 pm (UTC)I think a show like Caprica would probably have done better on HBO or Showtime or a premium channel that would have let it grow. It's still a shame, though. SyFy had a chance to do something really well and unsurprisingly, they decided not to.
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Date: 2010-10-29 11:40 pm (UTC)I do, so go right ahead. I've run out of reasons to watch the channel anymore.