Oh the talent of my friends

How cool is Trae for creating this gorgeous Victorian lady? Especially in the depths of the crap snow...

Dubai updates...

How it happens in Dubai.

The Truth About Dubai has posted a critical update on the status of (Diz) Cat Le-Huy, my good friend and the boyfriend of Coilhouse co-editor Mil Von:

Cat Le-Huy as of the 22nd of February remains in Al Wathba Prison… Currently the decision rests with the Dubai Chief Prosecutor as to whether to charge him or drop the case entirely. It is almost like a pre-trial and the legal fees for this are are expected to be in the vicinity of £50,000. We have raised half this amount already thanks to your donations, and are now making an appeal for people to keep donating to reach the full amount. We have been advised that there is a 90% chance this case will be closed if we can raise the financial assistance in a timely manner.

Cat’s close friends and family have already given up everything that they could, and even his company, Endemol, has made a donation (though he was not there on business). That’s how we raised the first half of the legal fees. But now we need help from you guys. Please donate to the Cat Le-Huy Legal Fund to save Cat.

You don’t need PayPal to use the link below, just a check or credit card. No amount is too small. Please circulate the donation link to as many people as possible. Thank you!

just freakin cool

I love these... Lisa Black is just amazing to me.

WooHoo

I'm gonna be an aunt again... My middle sister is pregnant w/ a wonderful new niece or nephew to join our family - I can hardly wait.

I want one for my birth control pills

Is that wrong? - It is just too damned cute - lil fetus heads for candy dispensers...

OK

This was too cool to ignore...

another eclipse alone

Le sigh...

I have blonde hairs in my head

for the first time since childhood

HAPPY HORNY WEREWOLF DAY!!!
the Roman Lupercalia is today & I am so happy.

If u know not of which I speak - go practice your GoogleFu and sort it out.

I'm just doing ok. Stil sleeping alone though...

I hate Ohio

Bloody 2 hour drive home from Beachwood.

arrived

My heart is here
And I love it
Memories of previous posts about it & therefore links to where I got it. Etsy.com rocks & Nanopod is an awesome seller.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH

Dogma anyone?

I love that Kevin Smith took care of explaining this one, plenary indulgences & all so I don't have to.


Ah life...

Dubai updates...

Here. Grrrrrrrrr.

on Dubai

No good can come of this. Which is also this. Only less bad can come of it all.

Gets me thru the bad...

DISTRACTION.

LAST ONE EVER...

The final fucking State of the Union Address tonight. I've cracked a bottle of red (& decanted it Toby) - & I will be curling up to watch it & yell obscenities. I hope things are better next year.


Updated: 9:26pm - I hate him. I just hate him & this is why I drink when I watch. I think that he should be punched really hard in the face. Like everyone on the planet who has been hurt by his policies should be allowed 1 punch. Just one each. Slowly. So that as time passes everytime he recovers from the wounds he gets randomly punched by others. Moral boundaries by 9:28pm. 29 mins in he invokes "not destroying human life" - & yet ignores the thousands we are killing every day. He has spent more time threatening & chastising congress than anything else. I hate him.

I hope it gets better. Please, it has to get better.

so very near our futures...

Lordie - got home to read this... All I'm gonna say is 2 words: Jennifer Government.

Bitchy Omnivore

Days like today I wonder if I shouldn't be writing a blog somewhere by that title. I love food. I'm not skinny. I am healthy however. I was watching some random tv on in the background show the other day - wherein they were about to slaughter & kill the pigs they were raising for food into food. I am not against it. I am all for it. Yum, farm-raised goodness. The big controversy within the family was eating an animal that they had come to know & love & see alive. I'm mean & hateful & off my rocker according to most. I think everyone should have that experience. EVERYONE should know exactly where their food comes from. Should know the faces of the animals they consume. The leaves of the plants they eat. To me it is important. I don't understand the idea of growing up & not knowing where the food comes from. Not knowing what it looked like or where on the animal it came from. I just wanted to get that out of my system.

Sci-Fi Marathon 2008

Yes, my very first year in attendance...
I'm tired so you're going to have to do the IMDB look ups yourselves. Though if you are really that unfamiliar with most of these movies - let me know & we'll arrange a movie night for you.

Friday, January 18th

Arrival in the early afternoon - too tired from work, I sat and zoned in the lobby til I had to move. Air mattresses were a stroke of genius & I curled up comfy all weekend on mine.

8:00pm Grindhouse: Planet Terror (2007)- love this movie - hearing so much of the audience respond to the goodness made me happy.

10:00pm Fahrenheit 451 (1966)- classic, perfect & reminds me why I have "Book-burning is worse than flag-burning" marked in OKC & shudder at the sheer #s of people who disagree.

Saturday, January 19th

12 midnight Omega Man (1971) - Replaced by Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)- I was most pleased with this despite the unexpected nature. Donald Sutherland is perfectly lovely throughout.

2:00am Surprise I - Ice Pirates (1984)- Pure comedic joi.

3:45am Fido (2006)- Billy Connelly as a Zombie, do I really need to say more?

5:30am The Walking Dead (1936)- I slept - I totally admit it, out like a light.

6:45am Sunshine (2007)- I tried to stay up for it, but I just couldn't. My dreams were totally worth it. Very twisted and interspersed with details from the film. I have moved it up on my queue so I will suffer thru it consciously, eventually.

8:45am Lifeforce (1985)- Patrick Stewart & breasts - but not breast on Patrick Stewart.

11:00am Young Frankenstein (1974)- YESYES FUNNYFUNNY

1:00pm Surprise II - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)- A wonderful piece whenever it is on. I think it should be mandatory for children to study it.

2:45pm The Return of Dr. X (1939)- Lots of details about blood as blood was being explored. I kept thinking - wow, I'm working for the hospital where they did the first successful blood transfusion... freaking cool.

4:00pm 28 Days Later (2002)- The Dr would never give away the ladies.

6:00pm Surprise III - Shaun Of The Dead (2004)- Yippppppppppeeeeeeeeee!!!

8:00pm Black Sheep (2006)- Genetically engineered weresheep. Hysterical.

9:45pm Night of the Living Dead (1968) - replaced by Night of the Living Dead (1990)- Dear god it seemed to never end. & I begged for it to just end.

11:30pm V for Vendetta (2005)- The perfect ending to a wonderful weekend - the theatre was silent for most of it out of respect. The jeers were saved for the jerks and the cheers were for all that is corrected in the film that is still so wrong in the reallyreal world. Lovely.

Overall I had a wonderful time & thoroughly plan on doing it again next year. Only I'll be sporting a crockpot of meatballs for sammies, yum.

So, life...

I started the new job this week and it is interesting. I am not getting computer training for another week. That is to say NEXT Friday I will finally get trained, until then I am sitting doing filing – learning bits & pieces that don’t mean much until I can actually use them. I am not allowed to answer the phones – because I can’t schedule & by the time I get to scheduling it is going to be a problem. The schedule is jacked up. And my style of work is going to clash with the woman who has been doing the job. So cute there is fear as I cut her off at the pass even now. I’m doing my best to just absorb and relax, but there are so many inefficiencies. And I multi-task like a mad fiend. She does too, but is almost defeated in attitude. That is not to say that it is a bad thing, because there is so much going on right now and it is all her responsibility, too much for one person to be trying to keep a handle on. This is going to be interesting.

In other news:

Liz needs to have that pesky shadow on her liver biopsied – per her oncologist. She is about to have her EGD just to double check that all is going well w/ her stomach. Apparently it has grown and has more clearly defined edges – but he does not think it is cancer. So yay. The best-case scenario: it is really a shadow – er a discoloration – a trick of the eye & light, but totally harmless. I'm not considering the worst case right now.

A friend, a dear friend’s father has just pulled the cancer card. I don’t know what I’m allowed to talk about, but out of respect to her and hers I will be discussing it without using names. He had his first colonoscopy yesterday. He is 56 yrs old. They saw a “pretty big” polyp and were in the process of removing it when, as they were getting through the base realized that it was more complicated than that. They are going in next week to remove a section of his colon, typing, and staging it.

Oh the happy thoughts that we/they need.