In retrospect, I probably should have asked this before ComicCon while everyone was still around. Oops.

Men! And people who drink like men! I need beer advice! My brother is turning 21 on Tuesday, and I don't know what to buy for him. A request for Mike's Hard Lemonade has been made, but I want to get him something else in the beer family. The closest I get to beer is hard cider, so I don't know what to grab. Any recommendations?

It would be wrong to leave this section of the newspaper open on my mother's desk, yeah? Alas, I'm afraid that since I don't have a husband, the point will be lost on her.

I DARE YOU TO WATCH AND NOT SING ALONG. YOU CAN'T:


Not that this is on my current completely whacked-out fic soundtrack or anything. Not that it's STUCK IN MY HEAD or anything.

car accidents suck. out loud.


=/


recouping. before you freak (for the three of you still reading my journal), i'm fine; just bruised. i hit a parked work vehicle *facepalm* no one was harmed save myself and my car. i'm an asshole and dropped the cd i was going to change into my player and, natural reaction and all, i reached down to retrieve it. maybe i shouldn't have done that?



c'est la vie.

Grr. Why is it always on my busiest day of the week that I get inspired to write? I have more Jensen/Chad on the brain. I will just let it keep forming in my mind and then maybe I can get parts of down here and there. We shall see.

So much to do today. Receiving girl is gone. And now a potential major computer problem in the paint department. Again. Ugh. I swear if I didn't like (most of) the people here (and didn't need the money) I would quit. But it's a good paying job and I don't really hate it. It's just wearing me out. Yesterday I was pretty much wiped out by 3pm. I fell asleep last night just after 10pm while working on a proofreading job. I had 14 pages to go!! Luckily I was able to finish this morning before coming in to work.

Okay... work awaits.

Sorry, I know I just posted my new SPN vid, but I just saw this and wanted to post it, too.

Wired is reporting that the 3rd U.S. Circurt Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court decision from 2007 that the Child Online Protection Act violated the First Amendment.

Both courts also found that the standards for material that had to be hidden from open browsing were so loosely defined that any content not suitable for a four-year-old would have been hidden behind a age-verification firewall.

"Unlike COPA, filters permit adults to determine if and when they want to use them and do not subject speakers to criminal or civil penalties," the court wrote.

The Justice Department has been defending COPA since its passage in 1998, when the ACLU and others filed suit against the censorship law and won an immediate injunction. Since then, the court battle has made its way twice to the Supreme Court, though the government has never won any clear battles in the dispute.

COPA makes it a crime to knowingly post material that is "harmful to minors" on the web for "commercial purposes" without having some method -- such as a credit card -- to verify a visitor's age.

Critics assailed the law for infantilizing the internet and requiring website operators -- including news sites -- to live in fear of prosecution if even a small part of their website contained adult material.

Tap, tap. Is this thing on?

I think this is my last vid posting for July - and possibly the last for the summer, unless next month's heroes_lvms is super-inspirational. I'm getting greedy/needy for new content, so come September and the flood of shiny new shows...

But for now, have a little drink!

Title: SPiNa Colada

Song: "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes

Summary: "If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain..." Sam/Dean crack

Spoilers: for seasons 1 - 3

Download: * .mov version on Megaupload
* .mpg version on Megaupload

Watch it ( on YouTube behind the cut )

Long distance dedication: Happy (early) birthday, deirdre_c! (Posting early as I'm out of town for the rest of the week).

D, you're a terrific friend, a wonderful beta, a vidding mentor and a partner in squee! This vid's for you! And next month, I'll treat you to a RL pina colada, too!

Oh fandom, my disappointment runs deep. How is it possible that people are just now realizing that the owner of the fanhistory.com wiki is a grudge wanking psycho? People, the site was created so she could try to control what the internet has to say about certain fanfic authors she likes and doesn't like. I thought that was common knowledge. *facepalm* Consider yourself learned folks now.

(Also, don't worry if you have a page there. Unless you're a BNF who's annoyed the wiki owner, having a page at FanHistory won't give you any more publicity than FF.net will.)

So.

8 Seasons. Popular show. Sexass lead character. Meaty ass story arcs. UST liek woah with gorgeous female lead and male lead. Dramatic and traumatic exit. Did I mention takes care of kids and plays guitar and piano?

Recipe for: Vehement shippers. Screencappers and icon-makers gone wild. Porn like you wouldn't believe. Steamy vids using almost-kiss and naked scenes.

Right?

Wrong.

As far as I can see, every single cast member of CSI: Las Vegas has a major fansite for both character and actor. Pretty much every possible pairing has at least one fanlisting and comms and etc.

Except one: Warrick Brown/Gary Dourdan.

There's one Cath/Warrick comm that you have to know the pairing name to find (it's YoBling *eyeroll*). One Nick/Warrick comm (but it's a Nick comm in disguise). Two inactive Gary comms and a handful of rare-pairing comms.

Other than that, it comes up pretty much nil - even off lj. IOW, the only comms that exist for Gary/Warrick are all comms that depend on his co-stars.

I'll give you one guess why I think that is.

*peeved*

Have you missed me?

PS - At some point, I think I'll write an essay on Warrick/Cath, because it's gorgeous and well-handled for the most part by its show. Until then, I'll just say: "it's supposed to be complicated" and leave it at that.

PPS - anyone who knows where I can find good CSI: Las Vegas screencaps, especially of s. 2 episode "Primum Non Nocere" I'd be in your debt.

TAI is keeping me filled with hope because I'm quite fond of the new song, it's not as good as 'About a Girl' but I've been shaking my ass and dancing to it like whoa, so that has to account for something.

The Academy Is... - Summer Hair = Forever Young

Apparently some douchewad on ap.net got his copy and says it's bad but he then also said it had no edge. ANd really, TAI never had edge. There is nothing edgy about TAI and anyone who thinks anything TAI has ever done was edgy is clearly kind of stupid. (Besides he said he liked Santi and okay, I like some of Santi's songs but really... SANTI)

Hey, muse, YOU DICK.

How come when it was time for big bang you were all "Oh, not right now...Law and Order's on...I have to wash my hair...my fingers hurt..." and now, months later, for no apparent reason it's, "Fifteen thousand words of random J2 geek-AU in two days? NO PROBLEM MAN."

I also have a headache. Ugh, is this news? I'M SORRY. I really, really suck at this LJ thing lately.

Things that annoy me:

1. Chad Michael Murray being the villian in fic after fic after fic. Chad deserves some lovin' people.
2. Having to work when there are good fics to be read.
3. 90% of fandom. At least.
4. Weeds. Seriously, I don't have the time or the inclination to spend pulling this shit up from the yard and the driveway.
5. The wealth of bad erotica and porny fanfic out there. I seriously don't know what is going through the heads of the women who write some of this crap. I can scroll through a bad sex scene if the story's good enough, but a lot of it is just plain dreck.


Things that amuse me:
1. Buddy trying to chase a bunny rabbit on our walk this afternoon and this bunny being so oblivious and slow that if not for me, Buddy might have caught it. (And his reflexes are almost as slow as mine.)
2. The hubby's newfound obsession with the Food Network. Seriously -- that's all we watch on Sunday evenings. He's even got stuff saved to the DVR so he can try out the recipes.
3. My icon. It makes me laugh every time I post or comment. Thank you xbirdseyeviewx. I don't know that I've been so in love with an icon in a long, long time.
4. The sex fantasy I had over the weekend that involved another fangirl taking me to a party with a bunch of famous people. We picked up Tim Armstrong, went back to other fangirl's place, and then she and Tim dp'd me. And it was So. Damn. Hot. And I've pretty much listened to nothing but Rancid or Tim's solo album since. I even had a Rancid song stuck in my head during actual sex with Chris the other night.
5. Myself, because of #4. *g*
ETA: 6. Chris in the other room talking to Buddy: "You don't need to be all up in my shit. I'm not all up in your shit." (Cause: Chinese food for dinner.)

So I have three really good ideas that I want to write equally as much and I think you should all help me figure out what to write.

( My three ideas, let me show you them! )

Poll #1227328 Used Fic Exchange
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What should I write for my Used Fic Exchange asignment?

This is probably such a weird or stupid question. It comes with the territory of BEING ME.

Hey, vidders! Is there any way to take a clip from a movie/TV show and like...make it look like it's from a video game? You know what I mean? Say I wanted to take a scene from SPN and do that...make it look Silent Hill or Resident Evil-ish. Realistic, but not REAL. Am I making any sense? Is that even POSSIBLE? Is there a program out there somewhere that'll achieve this?

Helpo, helpo!!

ps. I fiddled with my email the other night, so if you sent me something and didn't get a response, please try me again! I think I lost a few to the spam filter...

please remove any entries indexed on ljfind


This is stupid and i have HAD the box clicked so i don't have to do this, and yet i'm finding i have to.


link, in case you need to know what's going on.

I know this is probably said by every person who ever codes a fandom newsletter EVER, but. Seriously.

Omg. I LOVE you icon-makers who are VERY SPECIFIC with your icon posts. NUMBER OF ICONS, EPISODES, ETC...I LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU. I want to hug you, kiss you, drown you in Hershey's chocolate sauce.

I WANT TO BUY YOU A MAGICAL PINK PONY.

Seriously. YOU CANNOT BE TOO SPECIFIC, OR AMIRITE.

So, since someone keeps asking for pictures...

( My two current knitting projects. )

1. Doctor Who

My kids often watch the vids I make - and sometimes have requests. Jon now wants me to do an entire vid of nothing but spinning Daleks and K-9, and he actually ( made a Dalek out of ordinary kitchen materials, sort of. )

He also has taken to spinning in circles and saying "Help me! Help me!" in a robotic sort of voice. I really ought to film him doing it.

If I'm not careful, he'll want to be a Dalek for Halloween. But he does have Ecclestone-esque ears, so maybe I can talk him into going as Nine.

2. Doctor Crane

( Spoilers for Dark Knight )

There will be at least one more, won't there?

3. Doctor Horrible

I woke up in the middle of the night on Saturday morning and wondered if it was up, and it was right there in my iTunes download-list, so I downloaded it, plugged in the earphones, and fifteen minutes later ( I was )

Not cutting the next part because I don't think the fact that Penny wears clothing in Act III is a spoiler.

Weirdly enough, I actually own the dress that Penny wears in Act III - I got it at Anthropologie back in March to possibly wear to the EyeCon banquet (although I didn't) and I am now considering getting a beige sweater to wear over it and wearing it on Friday to the comic con session on Doctor Horrible. I've never cosplayed before, and this is probably not exactly that, but, should I? Or would it be weird/silly/a bad decision?

Speaking of deirdre_c, as I was doing before - anyone want a sneak preview of the vid I did for her birthday? ;)

DUDE. So, someone just posted in one of the Jared comms that the Michelle Branch song "Everywhere" [which I LOVE] was written for JARED PADALECKI [who I LOVE] to specifically be in the video.

Obviously, I had to go look up the interview about it to see if it was REALLY REAL, and apparently [it is!] She had a thing for Dean Forester, and wrote A SONG. And wanted JARED for the video. Haha.

That's so cute! How come I never knew that?

So, Jensen Jesse McCartney wasn't the first after all...

THIS KEEPS CRACKING ME UP, aka If Sam and Dean were Military Ghost Hunters:


"If he yells corduroy, I'm fuckin outta here!"

I swear all this gaming stuff is going to mean JSQUARED PORN. Eventually.