| Emma Watson's new direction |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|10:50 am] |
"There's no doubt that Harry Potter has been good for my career, but I need a change, and I want to head in a dramatic new direction to show my range. I've even had a costume custom made to show my commitment and sent the photo to Steven Moffat telling him my idea. I suspect I'll be hearing from him any day now."
( Picture and Doctor Who joke below cut. ) |
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| Mini-Episode |
[May. 25th, 2009|08:59 am] |
The special Doctor Who mini-episode from John Barrowman's show, Tonight's the Night.
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| My Little Bull Terrier |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|01:20 pm] |
Bull terriers have an interesting quirk - they can bite down so hard that nothing will make them let go until they want to. Some people mistake this for them 'locking' their jaws, when in fact it's just sheer bloody-mindedness on the part of the animal. No matter how much damage is done to them, they won't let go until they are done, unconscious, or dead.
I once saw our 13 year old, half-blind bull terrier, Pancho, get into a fight with three other younger, bigger dogs that weren't on leads and ran as a pack. Dad tried to intervene, he always did if Pancho was involved in a fight, but after having the owner of the three dogs make no effort to stop them, and make a smiling comment along the lines of 'Sorry mate! Dogs, eh? Whatcha gunna do?' Dad decided to let Pancho do his thing. Dad wasn't trying to protect our dog. Pancho tore them to shreds, much to the dismay of the owner.
Sharon is a bit like a bull terrier At the moment she's pissed off at someone who is wrong on the internet, and is formulating her reply. I was going to reply to them myself, but ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shazgirl is going to do a much more thorough job than I, who would have been relying on memory and, too be blunt, can't be bothered arguing the point that much. They are making sweeping statements about events they weren't around to witness.
Normally Sharon wouldn't bother to reply either, but this one has annoyed her. She knows the statement made is wrong, and now she's doing the research to prove just how totally wrong it is. Today is the second day of her research. I would have gone into this with a figurative punch on the nose, Sharon will be going in with a chainsaw in each hand.
Love you, sweetheart! And I've never wanted you more! |
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| Mr. Bill |
[Jan. 14th, 2009|04:23 pm] |
I mentioned Mr. Bill in a recent comment to someone, which then prompted me to go looking for him on Youtube. The trials of this small plasticine man aren't to everyoone's tastes, but twenty years later, I still love him.
( Embedded Mr. Bill vid below cut ) |
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| Deep Roy Rules |
[Jan. 12th, 2009|12:10 am] |
Just rewatched Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I still prefer the original. I find the new one a bit variable, and have a hard time understanding the words in most of the songs.
But it's worth owning because I could watch Deep Roy sing and dance for hours! |
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| Quick points |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | australia, doctor who, lex, memes, serious thoughts, slice of life, things that delight me, tv, videos/dvds, watching the crap so you never have to!, wicked grin | ] |
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* Between Lex and selling stuff, I've had bugger all time to post. So here are a bunch of things I wanted to do proper posts about. ( Nothing of vital importance in here, move along... ) |
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| Teaser |
[Dec. 9th, 2008|11:17 pm] |
Last year I couldn't find a Chrissy tree I liked, so I improvised.
This year, I wasn't able to find anyplace selling real trees, and most fake trees just don't appeal. Then today, just when I was ready to go ahead and start arranging my skeletons, I found the perfect tree. It's plastic but that's okay...
Because it's black! |
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| Another QoS parody |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|08:57 am] |
Another silly Bond theme that sounds more like a proper Bond title song than "Another Way to Die." I know making a good song is hard, but at least getting the right sound to a Bond song shouldn't be.
( YouTube thingy below the cut... )I love the line about 'I know they do big bags of solace, but I don't want'em."
There's so many people online who have done their own QoS title song and many of them, with better singers, would be better songs than the one chosen. Of course all this bitching and moaning is for naught, as is most of the bitching and moaning on LJ.
But I'm still sure when EON read my posts, they'll see their error and get a new song and stick in ;P |
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| "You won't be able to take the baby on those trips of yours around Australia..." |
[Oct. 19th, 2008|01:30 am] |
A brief post for the many, many people who said we couldn't travel to remote places with Lex.
Post-Melbourne trip, my son, at 8 weeks, has seen more of the country than most of the people who offered me this advice, and we aren't home yet. Interestingly we have discovered travelling with him so far inland is no different than travelling with him from Canberra to Melbourne was.
10,000 years ago we all used to be nomads, yet somehow we managed.
And I have the Belwood!
A quick selection of pictures of places he's been, below the cut.( Read more... ) |
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| I need help! |
[Oct. 8th, 2008|12:37 am] |
No, not that sort of help, you bastards! I'm stuck. Genuinely stuck.
You see, just after Lex was born, we looked at his birth certificate and Sharon asked, "What are you going to put down for yourself as 'Occupation?'"
Without pause, and in a tone of voice that implied that it was a weird question, I replied, "Drover."
Then realised what I'd said. I haven't been a drover for over 15 years, but it's still so tied up in my identity that it's who I feel I am. So then I started thinking about it.
What is my occupation?
Strictly speaking I run a small business, but that's not who I am except from the perspective of wanting other people to be able to get this stuff too. It's what I do to stay sane given I've yet to defeat my inability to write fiction since the stroke.
I can fit into a box, but there'll be a lot of me sticking out the cracks and over-flowing the top.
One of my running gags has been that I should just put down Work of Art, because my life is my canvas and I just keep playing with it. You know, Bastard in the phone book, Danger as a middle name, always playing to the crowd, even when they aren't there...
Some may say 'This is Lex's Birth Certificate, he won't thank you for putting something silly on there,' and they may be right. But you know, every time I look at my birth certificate and see under occupation for my dad 'Slaughterman/Drover' it brings a palpable sense of who my father really was back to me.
And I'd kind of like Lex to have the same thing...
And let's face it, if he has my sensibilities, there's not much I could put down that would bother him.
So I've done a poll. I may not go with what people say, but it may help me figure out what I'm going to put down... So vote away! ( Poll below cut... ) |
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| Gender issues |
[Sep. 2nd, 2008|06:29 pm] |
We've been out and about a couple of times in the last two days, which has knocked the stuffing out of both of us. Many people have commented on our baby, and when they hear he's a boy, they all talk about what a good-looking or handsome child he is.
I'm thinking of introducing him to strangers as a girl now and again, just to see what they say.
Once I'm bored with that, I may start saying he's a hermaphrodite. |
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| Sweep |
[Aug. 22nd, 2008|01:40 am] |
Okay, I'm starting a sweep.
To be in it, pick the day and hour you think Lex will be born, and reply with it in comments. You can't pick the same day and time that somebody else has put down.
Nearest correct answer will get naming rights be sent a chocolate cigar. Said chocolate cigar may even taste okay, but no promises as I haven't received them yet. |
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| Some people never learn... |
[Aug. 8th, 2008|05:29 pm] |
Sharon's pretty bright. She was certainly the quickest of my partners to be able to accurately guess where I was going with certain pieces of weird logic and silly jokes. But then some days she just doesn't think.
( Conversation from earlier today... ) |
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| More preggo pics! |
[Aug. 7th, 2008|11:46 pm] |
But this time with the emphasis on ME! Had these ideas for a while, not happy with how they've turned out, but self-pics are often difficult. ( Four piccies below cut... ) |
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| Lies |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|04:01 pm] |
During my recent post on the baby, Grant got me started on the topic of terrible lies to tell children. My favourite came from rendragon and was -
When the ice cream van is playing the music, it means all the ice cream is gone.
My favourite of my own was -
Carpet tastes like fairy floss
So, who's got more? |
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