Two Comments

If you're having trouble finding enough situations to watch with horrified fascination...

I would dub the Pay Me For Fanfic 'Cause I Wanna Be A Writer trainwreck the Wankiest Wank That Ever Did Wank, had the bizarre Victoria Bitter saga not utterly, and for all time, blown the bell curve on that sort of thing.


If you're looking for a nice lesbian romance film...

Skip Salmonberries. k d lang is awfully awfully cute, but otherwise, it's two hours of "what? and the... huh? why'd they... huh?"


Thank you, drive through.

5 things meme

meme from saskia139

5 things you are wearing
1. classy-looking black mules that I bought at a yard sale.
2. long red skirt with a vaguely Indian batik-like design in black and cream
3. black t-shirt
4. six little hair-claws in my hair
5. green amber earrings and ring

5 things you can see
1. monitor
2. two insulated mugs
3. "mind the gap" mug with a London underground symbol holding pencils
4. slip of paper with contact info for the (rather cute) historian from IU who's doing research with one of my collections
5. Turkoman Bokhara Mouse Rug

5 things you are doing right now
1. blinking to try to get a stray eyelash off my conjunctiva.
2. thinking about the papers I'm working on.
3. wondering if I'll go get ice cream later.
4. sliding one foot in and out of my shoe.
5. typing

5 things you ate in the last 24 hours
1. hummus.
2. not-too-great broiled salmon (the frozen-salmon-filet-from-Trader-Joe's
experiment was not really a success.)
3. rice.
4. chocolate-covered peanut-butter-filled pretzel nuggets.
5. lemonade coolatta.

5 things you did so far today
1. Took trolley in to work
2. Answered some questions for that researcher
3. Made a Dunkin' Donuts run for my officemates.
4. Poked at my finding aid
5. Ate lunch

5 things you can hear right now
1. humming of the hvac system
2. traffic four stories below
3. my own typing
4. colleagues typing
5. nothing more

5 colors you can see
1. black
2. red
3. blue
4. peachy-beige-tan-Caucasian-skin-color
5. white

5 thoughts in your head
1. Even though I just ate, my mouth still wants that buffalo chicken wrap that I virtuously passed up in favor of hummus and crackers.
2. So, wait, the guy who donated this collection also donated another collection of papers about one of the same people, a collection which he subsequently took back and then gave to the University?
3. why am i so apathetic? what is wrong with me? this project should be finished already. those emails should be written already. i'd hoped i would do this better. damn. [I could have saved time and just said 'Radio KFKD' here, I guess.]
4. How you do that with the page numbers is... uh, you click on... no, to the... yeah... no... here, let me do it...
5. Is freon a chlorofluorocarbon or other kind of greenhouse-effect-enhancer?

Five songs meme from penwiper26 and <lj site="livejournal.com" us

List five songs that you are currently digging. It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good. But they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.


1. Crooked Still, "Orphan Girl" (Gillian Welch cover). Brilliant crazed fiddle-style cello, killer finger-picked banjo, lovely pure vocals and double bass that I'm sure kicks ass in some way I'm not musician enough to identify. One of those songs that just makes you happy.

2. Tracy Grammer, "Shadows of Evangeline" (music & lyrics by Dave Carter). Weird, hypnotic, complex, allusive. Typical Dave, in other words. I imagine a really chilling Buffy S7 vid to this song.

3. Jim Henry, "Ruby." I'm a sucker for father-and-daughter songs, and this one is so heartfelt and yet so funny.

4. Josh Ritter, "Snow is Gone." Another song that just makes me happy to be alive. Hello blackbird, hello starling/ winter's over, be my darling!/ Been a long time coming, but now the snow is gone

5. Tracy Grammer, "Preston Miller" (music & lyrics by Dave Carter). I guess you might call this the love child of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song and a broadside murder ballad. (This is one of the songs that, eerily, I always think of first in Dave Carter's voice, though I've learned it from Tracy's performance and recording. I did hear him do it once, at the workshop stage at Falcon Ridge in 2000 or more likely 2001.)