| Eleven's look revealed |
[Jul. 20th, 2009|06:44 am] |
Here's the link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8158556.stm
Predictably for Who fandom, the initial reaction seems to be varying wildly.
What I think: On top he looks a bit like a nerdy college kid who raided his granddad's closet. But it works. Helps counterbalance Matt Smith's youngness for the part. Right in keeping with the Doctor's eccentric image. Especially with the work boots for that little touch of incongruity. Overall, he doesn't look bad in it.
I like the fact that they appear to have trimmed his hair. That was one thing that put me off a bit when I saw the first images when he was initially cast. Now it just looks like it might look a bit Peter Petrelli from Heroes season 1 if he turned his head the other way, but I can live with that.
And Karen Gillan as Amy Pond (nice name) looks cute and approachable.
(BUT DAMMIT, I'M STILL GONNA MISS DAVID TENNANT!!!) |
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| Five questions meme |
[Jul. 19th, 2009|08:41 am] |
Gacked from, and with questions by, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kyrina
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If you comment with a request for me to ask you five questions as well, I will do so. |
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| Wacky rumor |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|12:09 pm] |
I'm taking this with a MOUNTAIN of salt:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/5849482/Doctor-Whos-David-Tennant-tipped-to-play-Bilbo-Baggins-in-The-Hobbit.html
Looks like someone's been drinking the Koolaid.
David Tennant is a fantastic actor, and it's fun to imagine him being involved in The Hobbit or anything else Tolkien-related. But even though I can easily picture him pulling off the hobbit attitude, he just does not have the build for it. Squeezing a 5'6" person down to 3'6" via CGI, forced perspective, and lots of kneeling is one thing. Squeezing down Tennant's rangy 6'1" self... there's only so much special effects can do, I think.
He'd be much more believable as an elf (Thranduil, perhaps, or Elrond if they can't get Hugo Weaving), or maybe Bard the Bowman. I picture Bard as a bit beefier than Tennant, but it could work. Anyway, there's not even a script yet, last I heard, so any speculation at this point is... can you say, jumping the gun?
Incidentally, I am SO jealous of the people who are going to get to see Tennant at his first con (San Diego Comic Con) later this month, that I can't even see straight. Even if I had a chance of getting across the country, it's sold out. There'd better be a BOATLOAD of reports, footage, etc. |
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| Fanficrants |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|09:45 am] |
I've been looking at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) fanficrants on and off, though I'm not a member.
I understand it's a place to vent, and some people let frustration build up for a long time before finally blowing, but I'm a bit taken aback when someone signs off their rant with "Kindly die in a fire."
Someone wrote something in a fanfic that you didn't like, and you're wishing for them to die in a fire?
Wow. |
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| Tags |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|08:45 pm] |
After never really bothering much with tags before, I now have gone through all my entries and tagged them where appropriate.
Those who wish to find posts of mine on any particular subject (that I *have* posted on) should have an easier time doing so now.
(Gotta do something while my husband is out of town...)
(yes, I know I didn't tag THIS post) |
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| Writer's Block: Le Quatorze Juillet |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|08:56 am] |
The Tour de France. It makes my husband happy every July.
Also, the fact that without them we (the USA) wouldn't exist. A lot of Americans today forget that, and malign the French over WWII and Iraq. I'd like to apologize on their behalf. |
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| Random observation |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|10:19 am] |
Ever spend a day sitting by one of those metal barrels with a slot that people put their ticket stubs in, and at the end of the event the barrel is rolled around and whoever's stub is pulled out of it wins a prize?
Ever wonder how many times in one day you can hear people say, "This one's the winner", or "Better pick this one", or variations thereof, without going mental?
About 92. Well, it felt like 92.
I wanted to put up a sign by the barrel saying, "The next person who says 'this one's the winner' DIES."
(it was a hamfest, BTW, a sort of convention/flea market for ham radio operators, and my husband was the prize-booth guy.)
Anyway, it *was* a nice dry building (it was pouring rain most of the day) and people were pleasant, and I got a nice T-shirt from a table that was selling hats and shirts. The shirt has a sort of mutant treble clef on it with a cat's head, and says, "My cat knows the song in my heart and purrs it to me when my memory fails."
So I can't really complain about anything except lack of sleep, and being away from my computer. (Oh computer, how I've missed you.) |
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| Writer's Block: Duos |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
Ten and Donna. Ten and Rose. Desmond and Penny. Charlie and Claire. Odo and Kira.
Those people in the question aren't even close. And who the hell are Chuck and Blair anyway? |
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| Lucky update II |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|02:44 pm] |
Lucky (the kitty we trapped who had to have a leg amputated) has been adopted!
:-)
(not by us) |
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| Whew |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|08:54 am] |
Yesterday our legislature passed a budget just in time before the state would have had to shut down except for state police and other very basic services.
My husband, who works for the state police (well, for a commission that handles their communications now), was on a very short list of essential techies who were going to keep working. Everyone else would have gone on unpaid furlough and he would have been pretty much alone in the shop.
But instead it's business as usual. By the skin of everyone's teeth.
And our juice at home seems to have stayed on. Yay!
And we were finally able to have the vet check Karma's poo, and she doesn't have parasites. Yay! She's not leaking anymore either. Yay!
Hope things continue to look up. |
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| No juice |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|12:13 am] |
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What an interesting night.
The power is out on one side of the street -- our side. (It's a tiny little two-block street with a cul-de-sac at each end.)
There was an outage a little earlier that lasted about 50 minutes. Everything came back on for about 10-15 minutes, but then it went out again.
My husband has cranked up the generator. I hope I can sleep tonight. I hope the neighbors don't come at us with pitchforks. The bloody thing is loud. But we have our fridge, a few lights, and the computers running, for the moment. And we managed to give Zoe her meds and IV.
The light company says the juice should be back at 1 am. It better be.
Edit: The juice came back on about five minutes after I posted. Hopefully it'll last this time. |
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| Lucky update |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|09:27 pm] |
Well, we've heard again from the feral cat clinic.
Apparently Lucky has turned super friendly since having his injured foot amputated, so one of the ladies there called to ask if we would consider taking him in as an indoor cat.
I'd been thinking that cats are great survivors and he would probably adapt, but when the feral cat people (i.e. experts compared to us) have concerns about just releasing him back into the outdoors, that gives me pause.
I really don't know if we could take in another cat. That would make seven. Our house is only about 1250 square feet, and it feels really full right now with six cats. Two of whom have health issues that we can just about cope with. And anyway, how many cats can there be in one small house before it starts to cause them stress and leads to illness?
The lady at the clinic did say they are willing to try to find him a home elsewhere (they have a program to rehome friendly cats), if we won't take him. So it's not like he'd be tossed back out onto the mean streets if we didn't. But it *is* generally difficult to find a home for an adult cat, never mind one with only three legs.
*sigh* Decisions. |
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| Update on Lucky |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|11:06 pm] |
According to someone at the feral cat clinic, Lucky had to have his foot amputated. It was just too mangled to save.
I guess he'll still be able to defend himself with his hind claws. Don't know if he'll be able to climb, though. Or hunt. But cats are great survivors, so we're hopeful that he'll adapt.
Poor kitty. Now his name seems more ironic than ever. :-( |
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| WTF ad |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|07:33 pm] |
I've been seeing the weirdest ad lately. It's for a car dealer here in Indy.
It has a backdrop of "newsprint" that makes it look like the pictures of the cars are in a newspaper.
So far, not weird.
Then you look at the newsprint, and it appears to be in Latin.
*That*'s the weird.
In other news, the two cats we took to the feral clinic are still there recovering from their injuries. The one who was hurt worse (Lucky) seems like a nice calm kitty. He might actually have belonged to someone. The other one (George) is definitely feral and hisses at everyone in sight.
We tried to trap another one last night (that does not appear to be injured) but it eluded us. We'll see if we can keep the trap and try again next week. |
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