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picspam: i love a journal cliché
Aug. 6th, 2008 11:31 amI'm feeling perfectly foul and panic-attacky, so here's everyone's favorite LJ cliché photo post, the book and video shelves! Yayayayay! *Kermit flail*
Apologies for the yellowing and blurriness. ( cut to spare your flists and connections )
Apologies for the yellowing and blurriness. ( cut to spare your flists and connections )
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Jul. 17th, 2008 03:41 pmStill working on cleaning the soda out of the fridge. It's not that it's stubborn or sticky, it's that the kitchen is very, very small, as is the sink. So I have to disassemble the fridge innards piece by piece, haul them to the bathtub, and wash them in there. Crispers are quite large once you free them from their fridgey confines.
I did discover that most of the soda had drained into the back, where it has formed a rather striking sugar-free waterfall. Happily, I own many hammers.
I'm sure there's an easier way, but, well, we can't all be brainy like Fern here.
Meanwhile, the new crop of school supplies has appeared in stores. This always makes me strangely happy, even though I have no practical use for most of it. Target has some nifty composition books featuring Hello Kitty and, swear to God, Domo-kun.
I am spending too much time playing a game called Monarch: The Butterfly King, from Best Buy's cheapass software rack. The cover blurb says it's a mystical adventure in which you glide through majestic Celtic ruins, rescuing rare butterflies. In reality, it's a matching game rather like Bejeweled, except with flowers. Yawn, you say -- except that the flowers fucking explode when you match them up, and if you get enough matches in a cascade, there appears a bottle of 'magic potion.' Which also explodes, sometimes with enough force to clear the entire board. Imagine playing mah-jongg with gelignite tiles, and it will give you an idea.
The Butterfly King himself, who spends the game hovering over to one side in his little crown and knickerbockers, is a spooky, death-mask-faced little bastard. I really feel no compulsion to help him, but the massive explosions are more than enough to keep me going.
Plus the background music is a lounge-y pastiche of It's a Beautiful Day's "White Bird." It is simultaneously hilarious and intent on driving the player to suicide. Bravo, game designers. Bravo.
I did discover that most of the soda had drained into the back, where it has formed a rather striking sugar-free waterfall. Happily, I own many hammers.
I'm sure there's an easier way, but, well, we can't all be brainy like Fern here.
Meanwhile, the new crop of school supplies has appeared in stores. This always makes me strangely happy, even though I have no practical use for most of it. Target has some nifty composition books featuring Hello Kitty and, swear to God, Domo-kun.
I am spending too much time playing a game called Monarch: The Butterfly King, from Best Buy's cheapass software rack. The cover blurb says it's a mystical adventure in which you glide through majestic Celtic ruins, rescuing rare butterflies. In reality, it's a matching game rather like Bejeweled, except with flowers. Yawn, you say -- except that the flowers fucking explode when you match them up, and if you get enough matches in a cascade, there appears a bottle of 'magic potion.' Which also explodes, sometimes with enough force to clear the entire board. Imagine playing mah-jongg with gelignite tiles, and it will give you an idea.
The Butterfly King himself, who spends the game hovering over to one side in his little crown and knickerbockers, is a spooky, death-mask-faced little bastard. I really feel no compulsion to help him, but the massive explosions are more than enough to keep me going.
Plus the background music is a lounge-y pastiche of It's a Beautiful Day's "White Bird." It is simultaneously hilarious and intent on driving the player to suicide. Bravo, game designers. Bravo.
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Jul. 8th, 2008 09:21 amCheapass Sailor Saturn resin figure arrived in the mail yesterday. She's not bad at all, just desperately needs to be repainted by someone who isn't a Chihuahua shut inside a fridge with an espresso machine.
Meanwhile, Ed is still having a hard time adjusting to his new environment, greeting all he sees with an expression of mute, puzzled horror. So I swapped his pool cue for Saturn's Silence Glaive.
Ed is rather pleased, and Saturn is happy to be free of the responsibility. I think she spent the night hustling the Be@rbricks at pool. Shaun, on the other hand, is horrified. Giving Ed the power of life and death over the entire universe is...well, Ed's a good guy and all, deep down, but for the love of God, there are limits. Ed would never harm one of the increasingly limited hairs on Shaun's head, but the probability of an accidental emfroggening are very high.
Still, he seems to feel a little better, and that's the important thing.
Meanwhile, Ed is still having a hard time adjusting to his new environment, greeting all he sees with an expression of mute, puzzled horror. So I swapped his pool cue for Saturn's Silence Glaive.
Ed is rather pleased, and Saturn is happy to be free of the responsibility. I think she spent the night hustling the Be@rbricks at pool. Shaun, on the other hand, is horrified. Giving Ed the power of life and death over the entire universe is...well, Ed's a good guy and all, deep down, but for the love of God, there are limits. Ed would never harm one of the increasingly limited hairs on Shaun's head, but the probability of an accidental emfroggening are very high.
Still, he seems to feel a little better, and that's the important thing.
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Aug. 8th, 2007 08:06 amWatched Flash Gordon while eating jaffa cakes. Life is good.
Just now:
Sharon (pointing at my Paranoia Agent man-bag with the scary-ass pink dog on it): Aw, that's cute!
Me: Actually it comes to life and torments its creator.
Sharon: Paranoia Agent. That's cute. I like that.
Just now:
Sharon (pointing at my Paranoia Agent man-bag with the scary-ass pink dog on it): Aw, that's cute!
Me: Actually it comes to life and torments its creator.
Sharon: Paranoia Agent. That's cute. I like that.
picspam: By the Power of Greyskull!
Jun. 4th, 2007 09:39 am
Castle Greyskull, waiting to be boxed up and sent to
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cybertards. Policeman officer from the fake-England gift shop at Epcot. Re-ment teacup, though it's actually got some sort of soup in it. At least I hope it's soup. I really, really hope it's soup.
Amigurumigeddon!
Mar. 16th, 2007 02:58 pmThe mention of Mr Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful a few days back sparked a lot of interest, so here are some more Japanese crochet books, coming soon to an Amazon near you:
( behind a cut, since it's fuxoring some of your friends views )
( behind a cut, since it's fuxoring some of your friends views )
more j-craft in translation
Mar. 8th, 2007 10:49 amThis one's for crocheting mascot dollies:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581809662/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_134/105-2804549-0993262
Alas, I cannot crochet.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581809662/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_134/105-2804549-0993262
Alas, I cannot crochet.
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Feb. 15th, 2007 09:14 amHoly cow! Aranzi-Aranzo felt mascot pattern book, now in English from the folks at Vertical. (They've brought us Ringu and Tezuka's Buddha, among many others.) Easy sewing, maximum cuteness. Use wool felt and not that craft crap.
http://www.amazon.com/Cute-Book-Aranzi-Aronzo/dp/1932234683/sr=1-1/qid=1171552397/ref=sr_1_1/105-2804549-0993262?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Cute-Book-Aranzi-Aronzo/dp/1932234683/sr=1-1/qid=1171552397/ref=sr_1_1/105-2804549-0993262?ie=UTF8&s=books
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Jul. 19th, 2006 08:31 amThe temperature should hit 104 today. We comfort ourselves by telling each other, "In six months, we'll be saying, 'Gosh, I hope it gets up to 0 today!' Har har." Kill me.
The BJD Orbyrarium, the book on ball-jointed dolls from Haute Doll, arrived yesterday. Really pretty, full of swell toy porn, and in English. Of course, since it's from Haute Doll, you're guaranteed at least one brain-bending bit of sentence construction on every page, and the organization is random, but I suppose that's just part of their charm. Aimee off denofangels.com did a fantastic wraparound cover illustration. Bonus points for giving it one of those crimp-edged vinyl jackets, so it'll keep that lovely new book smell for quite a while, and possibly give me cancer. *whiff*
The BJD Orbyrarium, the book on ball-jointed dolls from Haute Doll, arrived yesterday. Really pretty, full of swell toy porn, and in English. Of course, since it's from Haute Doll, you're guaranteed at least one brain-bending bit of sentence construction on every page, and the organization is random, but I suppose that's just part of their charm. Aimee off denofangels.com did a fantastic wraparound cover illustration. Bonus points for giving it one of those crimp-edged vinyl jackets, so it'll keep that lovely new book smell for quite a while, and possibly give me cancer. *whiff*
Jennie and Licca under different names means...affordable Jennie and Licca in the U.S., at last, maybe?
http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=82&show_article=71
http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=82&show_article=71
Oh my stars, the next Be@rbrick series will kick so much heinie! "Flag" looks like he's straight out of Alpha Flight, and "SF" is Robotrix Maria. In cute teddy bear form.
http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=107&show_article=54
http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=107&show_article=54
