OK, I admit it, I've been wanting one of these. Feel free to be creative! *HUGS ALL*



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love, lore

Current Mood: shy

purplefluffycat asked "What are your favourite animated films/shorts/series/artists/styles, and why do they appeal?"

Which is probably too big a topic to leave for the last day, but let's see what I can do...

Films: Rock and Rule, The Little Mermaid, Toy Story, Anastasia, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, The Iron Giant, Wallace and Gromit: Attack of the Were-Rabbit, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and lately, Superman: Doomsday.

Shorts: Classic Bugs Bunny ranks at the top of the list. After that, there's Felix the Cat, Wallace and Gromit, and a host of others.

Series: DARIA, Jem, BTAS, The Tick, Kimagure Orange Road, Gravitation, the D&D series, Danger Mouse, Powerpuff Girls, etc.

Styles: I like clean lines and smooth movement, which is why you won't find much in the way of Hannah-Barbara here. I prefer humans over animals, but obviously, there are some exceptions.

As for why Animation appeals...Doesn't it speak to the child in all of us? No matter how adult the story may be, animation draws us in and puts us in a younger frame of mind. Also, animation can be beautiful in a way Real Life can never be. Animation means all things are still possible within the story.

love, lore

Current Mood: numb

Loooooooooooong day. If I said things about it, I'd SAY THINGS. Company was good, though. I need to remember that I can't bring an entire city home in the trunk of my car.

*HUGS*

love, lore

Current Mood: exhausted

Mmm, brussels sprouts out of a ceramic mug.

Well, the best friends had News. Good news! Pretty news! Sparkly vampire news! Or maybe just the sparkly....

No one got knifed during our Thanksgiving. How about yours? However, we did see two paramedic vehicles at two different houses on our hour-long drive. You just know knives were involved there!

Now we're settled in for the night and the SO is watching an AFI special, all of which are designed to piss people off.

Anyway! Off to labor! *HUGS ALL*

love, lore

Current Mood: pleased

• 14:30 Funny, all the houses you discover are there after the leaves are down. Hope you all are well and in turkey comas! Love, lore #

Happy National "Gee, I hope nothing bad happens with a knife" Day!

~_^

I have a lot in my life to be thankful for; more than I have to regret. As sarcastic and slyly evil as I can be about the holidays, there is a certain peace in being with the family. I know my family doesn't understand me when it comes to this, though. We argue, piss, moan, snark and throw Pringles, but that doesn't mean I don't love them. Sometimes, they lose sight of me that way and I have to reassure them, even as it baffles me. They're my family. I love them. Just because it can be an adventure putting a bunch of Italian women and their occasionally temperamental but normally passive significant others in a room together doesn't mean the resulting melee ends in me not loving them. Besides, they usually start it! *snicker*

I didn't really get to any food-giving this year, so I made sure to put a big hunk of cash in a food-collection site jar, and I'll give actual food for Christmas. I've tried much harder to spread our giving out this year, so I'm not feeling the usual guilt that comes with the end of the year and realising I haven't donated as much as I'd planned. If you see this, if you're having that twinge, remember, giving isn't as hard as it used to be, what with the writing of the checks and the stamps and all. Most charities have online sites and take PayPal or credit card donations, and you get an instant, easily printed receipt.

So, again, if you're feeling it, take a moment to look a site up and give them a little somethin'-somethin'. It will banish that narsty twinge and put you ahead of the giving game. Plus, you know, good thing to do for others and your heart and all that.

love, lore

Current Mood: quixotic

Remember this post? Maybe you thought to yourself, "huh, Rowling and Lucas would make a pretty ironic couple."

But now there's further proof that they were MFEO: Han Solo was married to a wookie.

Granted, Lucas said this in 1978, but it was after Star Wars had become a phenomenon and something he kept from canon to this day. In other words, Lucas was mucking with his canon almost from year 1, because Han never mentioned a tall, hairy wife in the Brian Daley series!

I can just see the headlines. "Dumbledore may be Gay, but at least he wasn't married to a Wookie!"

*headdesk*

And the Rowling/Lucas OTP marches on....

love, lore

Current Mood: surprised

Actually, we're more than halfway through, but I think this week is going to feel like two. I dedicate this entry to Gojira, Karasu and The Two Who Share One Brain.

"No man is useless while he has a friend." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

and one from the motherland:

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty. -- Sicilian Proverb

love, lore

Current Mood: awake

In all reality, I should give up on NaBloPoMo. I'm not making the kind of entries I want to make and that's not going to change by the end of the month.

Realistically, I'm over-thinking it and could say "BOO" for 30 days and could still qualify it as a "win".

So, today's news is: I want my chiropractor!! (owie)

love, lore

Current Mood: blah

Leave a message at the beep.

*BEEP*

love, lore

Current Mood: aggravated

Huh, well. Quantum of Solace was a different kind of James Bond film. I can't say I hated it, but I can't say I liked it either.

The story flowed in such a way that I kept waiting for it to actually begin. And we were halfway through the climax when I realised it actually was the climax, which is pretty damn sad. And while I applaud the writers' efforts in making the Bond Girl this time around have a good chunk of plot, intelligence and capability, Bond Girl felt completely wedged into the story just to get a "movie-long" woman in there. Ultimately, we could have lifted her right out of the story and it still would have ended up where it did. Also, while I love Judi Dench as M and want to see more of her all the time, there were a few scenes wasted on her with other talking heads, and I think the writers wasted the Big Plot Point with her that came at the very beginning. She should have been focused on the BPP, but instead, she spent her time trying to rein in Bond, which we all know isn't going to happen, as then there would be no movie.

All that said, this was clearly a transitional film for the Craig era, with new uber-baddies and and an ongoing subplot that could prove intriguing or get dropped like a hot potato. This film didn't drive me away from the franchise, but it was disappointing compared to expectations.

love, lore

Current Mood: melancholy

This also came up in my reading yesterday, and I'm going to copy over my response because Quantum of Solace awaits.

I have a pretty strong personal regimen about buying used and new BL books. I do both.

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love, lore

Current Mood: bleary-eyed