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[17 Aug 2008|10:46pm] |
You know those awful Bratz dolls, right? Huge eyes and lips but no noses, huge heads over tiny bodies with twiggy limbs and exaggerated curves, and enough makeup to make a stereotypical streetwalker proud?
Welp, Barbie just pwned them. Or Mattel did. Seems the guy who came up with the trashy pieces of plastic did so while under contract with Mattel--so the company that actually made them, MGA Entertainment, has been doin' wrong. And they just got legally smited for it.
Now, I'm no fan of Barbie either--but in comparison to the even more warped female image put forth by Bratz, Barbie's practically 110% girl power.
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Wanna kill a few hours? Or figure out the origins of all those weird references that get bounced about various forums, cons, and Anonymous picketings? Then go look at the Internet Memes timeline. :D Though in all seriousness, it's not nearly as addictive as tvtropes.org.
But speaking of odd references: Everyone needs to watch this video. Even if you don't like stoned hippies, watch it--because otherwise you won't understand when I start going on something about "DON'T YOU KNOW, I GOT A LEG!"
And because life wouldn't be complete unless I shared this one too:
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[15 Aug 2008|11:27pm] |
Does anyone rational really take Fox news seriously, anyway?
Vid nabbed from foxattacks.com--check it out!
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[15 Aug 2008|02:59pm] |
Last minute oh-shit list:
Cake--Ordered, paid for, pick up Saturday at/around 11am (& add silly decorations then as the lady had no skulls or treasure chests to offer)
Chicken--Ordered, unpaid, pick up Saturday at/around 11am
Rent-a-preacher: Rented, arriving at appropriate time
Wedding license: on hand
Piggie--ordered, deposit mailed, beheaded upon request, pick up & complete payment on Friday, (start cooking at 7:30 or 8am Sat.)
Tent & tables--ordered, paid for (need five extra tables), delivery & setup on Friday
Skirt--arriving soon? (Or else I shall have a human pinata.)
Parents: arriving Thursday
Uber-weeding project: Thursday?
Collect ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) newameamazon--Friday afternoon
Need:
Watermelon for whale
fruit salad
c. 100lbs charcoal
c. 5 quarts lighter fluid
clean more
citronella oil/lamp oil
more flowers?
find the damned thank you cards I only bought last year
fix up/clean the bathroom
paint the fence
clean more
Bandana-nana-nana?
collect my massively scattered shiny things and put them in one (One!) place
(Add more shinies to the outfit!)
newageamazon, did you want dreads too?
clean lots
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[13 Aug 2008|12:28am] |
Buying weird lots on ebay sometimes means you get a ring that could easily double as a weapon--if its weapon function doesn't preclude the ring one entirely.
It fits two of my fingers--at once--or my big toe. zen_of_nihilism recommends I tie a rope to it and use it on people.
Ever gotten supremely, violently, curled-into-a-ball-fuck-you-I'm-not-moving sick from water from a just-broken water main? Yeah, I hadn't either. This sucks. ETA: Or it may just be an ulcer. D: ETA2: . . . Na, it looks like it was bacterial. Eew.
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[10 Aug 2008|10:03am] |
Yesterday my mom wanted to know if we had the cake together yet. "Not here," I told her, "but we know where we're gonna get it."
"A real cake," she said. "Not a Giant Eagle one, not one of those sheet cakes."
"That's a real cake. I tested."
"No it's not." She's been sporadically going on these "YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING TRADITIONAL!" kicks. As I don't give two shits about tradition, the kicks have usually failed.
"Well, I don't have a hundred fifty dollars to get a rum cake from DeLallo's, so sheet cake it is."
Key word in the phrase "usually failed"? Usually.
". . . Well, we said we'd do something for you, and you need to have a real cake. So let us know if you need a check, or if we could call and pay for it, or what."
This, guys, is how Random got her cake upgraded. :D
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[08 Aug 2008|06:38pm] |
I was working on The God of Animals (not a bad lit novel, though I'm starting to tire of the 11-13 y/o female narrators) and was probably going to finish it this weekend . . . but instead I got an ARC of Gregory Maguire's upcoming novel A Lion Among Men.
It's not released until October 14th, but it's mine now. :D D :D *uberglees!*
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[07 Aug 2008|10:56pm] |
To do list, long-term:
Until late August: Wedding stuff & con stuff. The boots are mostly done and I'm cranky with them--possibly just for the sake of being cranky. For not knowing WTF I was doing they didn't come out bad? They do need more shinies & to be tightened a little more up the calves, though.
Until late September: Con crafting stuff
After con: Print the damned first draft and carry it until it's done or until November, whichever comes first.
November: NaNo--what looks like b2 instead of SF/F craziness, just because it'd be good to have a draft of that done as well when shopping time comes around. Though if I'm feeling incredibly adventurous, I'll try writing them both. :D
Wonder if I can get my second vacation week that month . . . Hmm.
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