this is spinal snap!

[phosfate]

Woke up this morning to laundry room floor with a quarter-inch or so more water on it than I generally prefer. Cleared space. Re-sorted laundry. Hoping to find a cause at some point. Also hope rain will stop so I can take soaking braided rug outside to dry, or at least decompose in the outdoors.

Car has thrown shoe. More precisely, thrown an axle boot. I have no idea what that is, but it is being fixed, along with the dead headlamp. I only took it in for an oil change. God thinks he's funny.

Watched most of Millennium Season 2 over the weekend. That, my friends, is some damn good TV. You get Charles Nelson Reilly as José Chung vs. a cult that's nothing like Scientology, Darren McGavin as Frank Black's dad, Mary Magdalene in junior high, assorted demons and devils, an angel or two, flesh-eating bacteria, the earwormiest pop music accompanying wonderful torture and murders, and a really crappy painting by Hitler. Best Buy's got it for $19.99 right now, and it's well worth having. (The only disappointment is the godawful extras and commentaries. A Morgan and Wong show, but no Morgans or Wong at the party, not that one can blame them.)

Made Tommy a strange hat, and finished her Comet the Wonder Horse sweater. Alas, last week I heard the dreaded Obitsu Snap!, and had to send off for a new part to fix her. She keeps giving me the whole "Oh God...I can't feel my legs..." thing, then acts all pissy when I point out her lack of a nervous system. Disassembling her and doing a spinal transplant should be fun. For me at least.

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[nitasee.livejournal.com]

That, my friends, is some damn good TV. You are so right and for all the reasons you list plus some.

I really need to go back and watch Millennium from start to finish. I've got the whole series now on DVD.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I had a thoughy yesterday: is it possible that the reason that Katharine was [SPOILER]ed was because the Group knew that Lara gave her the [SPOILER] file? And what happened to it after? Did Frank ever find it, and would he know what it was? Or would the Group have simply stolen it during the chicken [SPOILER] panic?

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I'd explain it to you but I'd [spoiler] have to kill you.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I would have been killed in the first five minutes of "Owls," 'cause I would've walked into Ms. Knight's office, and said, "Hey! That painting looks like a Hitler! Boy did he suck."

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

You know, I would dearly love to read the original draft of the Selfosophy episode. The story is that the original script was even more pointedly satirizing $cientology, but the network lawyers made them tone it down because $cientology is so ligitious.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that be marvelous?

I imagine Darin Morgan watching the South Park $cientology episode and shrieking, "Goddammit! I wanted to do that!" at his TV.

I'm putting off the last disc for a few days. The first time I saw the last episode, I was traumatized and weepy for two weeks. (As opposed to, say, That Episode of Beauty and the Beast, which made me snicker inappropriately during the crucial scene.)

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

As opposed to, say, That Episode of Beauty and the Beast, which made me snicker inappropriately during the crucial scene

Aw, com'n. Who didn't laugh his or her ass off during that scene? Oh, right. Serious fangirls for whom this was IMPORTANT. I don't think I'll ever tire of mocking B&B fans

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

That, and the rose sex.

Joss Whedon is once again my hero for picking Diana as one of his top 25 TV characters.

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Linoleum!

"Beauty and the Beast" Diana? I liked her!

At this moment we can't do anything over a medium load in our washer or it leaks. Pain in the butt.

When my car went in for its last inspection, I had to have some crazy thing like an axel boot replaced for like, $200. Money we could have used on our Canadian trip.

[strigine.livejournal.com]

Aw, com'n. Who didn't laugh his or her ass off during that scene? Oh, right. Serious fangirls for whom this was IMPORTANT.

Hey, I was 13-14 at the time!

Uh...which scene are we talking about?

[ex-adarog.livejournal.com]

Can we see pictures of the Comet the Wonder Horse sweater? We've been watching Brisco here at Chez Cockatiel.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, as soon as (a) Tom gets her spine back, and (b) I have enough pix in the camera to make it worth a trip to Target to get a picture disc cut.

[ex-adarog.livejournal.com]

*nods cheerfully*

*resolutely avoids asking where Tom's spine went*

Last night we watched the pirate episode and I spotted the guy who played Klingon Chancellor Gowron in Deep Space Nine. Plus, NekkidtotheWaist!Bowler. Sweet.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It didn't really go anywhere. It just kind of snapped in two, thanks to a major design flaw in the Obitsu skeleton. In fact, at the moment, she's got more spine than she needs, and I have to go in to the downtown hardware store, where they already think I have some sort of learning disability, and say, "Can I have needlenose pliers that are longer than this?" while holding up my needlenose pliers like a kindergartner asking for more milk.

One Millennium features Pete Hutter in mufti. He's surprisingly handsome, in a neatly-groomed old guy way. Who knew?

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your poor paraplegic dolly. I *think* I may have finally seen an example or two of the body, but am not sure what head(s) you have. Or I was looking at something else completely. Amazing dearth of results when one googles Obitsu 60cm BJD. But if what I saw was accurate, way cool doll body!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

She has the unnamed head:
http://www.junkyspot.com/OBITSU/IMAGES/60OPTIONS/60HD-F02N-E.jpg

Here she is painted:
(http://photobucket.com)

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Totally awesome! I think the name Tommy fits perfectly. Is this a picture of your doll (or what your doll looks like, wig and all), or a version of your doll, but yours has some differences?

The eyes look much bigger with the glass eyes put in than without glass eyes -- how odd.

Some other reference I came across on Google showed a different brand of body with thighs that were hollowed out in the back to allow for Japanese-style kneeling, and the buyer was psyched because she could stand the doll on one foot unaided.

It was here: http://tinyurl.com/juwce

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's her, with her little Mia Farrow wig. Unfortunately the best photo so far was done with the blue tint function, but I hope that'll change.

I went for this mold because it's got the smallest eyes of any of the 60cm Obitsus. Gretel and the other one have these HUGE eyes, and they come out all Streisand-tarantula hybrid unless you really know what you're doing.

I've also seen dolls w/double knee joints that can kneel.

Tommy can stand on one foot if I use her magnetic base. But I don't think she likes it.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Here's what I looked at:
http://tinyurl.com/f3quy

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

The very thing, except mine's fleshtone* instead of pale white.


*Caucasian band-aid fleshtone. For some reason Asian dollmakers are big on Deco Peach and Undead White.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I know that ultra-pinky peach tone! *g* "Band-aid" describes it perfectly. Undead white--hee! So true.

And the Germans and Swiss and Italians are big on that sort of swarthy flesh tone, although my Phillip Heath dolls by Gotz are a little different than the usual Gotz dolls: the Indonesian girl doll's tones are more realistic, and my other doll is an Aborigine boy, so he's fairly realistically dark-skinned. Their facial expressions and ethnic features are amazing.

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

You kvetching lot should know that a ripped-up axle boot plays holy hell with the whole joint of that wheel if it ain't fixed pretty quick. Grit gets in there and starts wearing the metal down- car faw down, go boom! scrape! spark! doom!

$200 is, like, nuthin' in car problems.

But maybe I'm just cranky with insomnia at F-ing 5:30am now...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Not kvetching, just reporting. It's okay. It's fixed now.

Well, actually they forgot to change out the headlamp. The phone rang at 8:05. "We forgot to change out the headlamp." "Yes. Yes, you did." "Bring it by and we'll do that." "Thank you."

Get any sleep, doll?

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

Sweet of you to ask.
A last hour of sleep by way of bopping the alarm a buncha times. Skated in to work just in time. Ate my cookie ice cream sandwich as breakfast to give myself that extra sparkle... (coffee somehow does very little for me when I hit this stage) BLTSH(...Chemistry-->Sugar High) all day, it'll be.

Note that it was 3:30am when I popped awake, so I did get an initial 4 hours there.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Good. I hate it when I can't sleep. Usually I have to get up and eat cereal and paint.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Er..."paint" as a verb, not "eat paint."