Sunday, January 9, 2005
Um.... you know how I was theatening lego invasion earlier last year? Well, now Lego dies the Bible.
Um. Looks like the StarWars and Harry Potter franchises were a Godsend. Harhar.
Friday, December 17, 2004
I know at least one or two of my friends (if they even visit this place) will appreciate a link to WeComicsReview's Best WebCokmics of 2004.
I especially like the freebie of The New Adventures of Death, boohissyah to it being subscription! Homicidal potatoes are quite cute, really.
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Australia revoted for Little Johnny.
As if that wasn't bad enough, America revoted for the shrub. At least 49% of the population still hate him, as Sorryeverybody.com points out.
Sunday, October 17, 2004
I have fat legs. (There; I've admitted my secret shame in public)
I loathe them with a passion. But apparently some unnamed European finds them entirely arousing, particularly on someone like me, since on his classification scale I rate as something like a V21-V22 with disproportionate legs.
All my life I've dreamed of having pegs like Audrey Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe's. Alas, it is not to be. :p
I suppose this si the part where I take refuge in the fact that someone somewhere finds my legs attractive... today i think I'll be different and pass on that, thanks.
Friday, October 8, 2004
I think I've found my new job.
That is all.
Sunday, October 3, 2004
You are Puella angstia, the Angsty Sue.
Nobody understands you. Nobody at all. Your
life is bitter and meaningless. Alas, your
ostentatious suicide attempts are always
stopped just in time.
What Species of Mary Sue Are You?
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Yup, Mary Sues. There are now two fieldguides to the evil soul-suckers, and apparently HP-fandom is so overrun that they've started a new house just for all the "sparkling green-eyed, magnificent figured, half-cat, quarter unicorn, demisemi goddess'd" characters.
Monday, August 30, 2004
I'm assuming that you, as an (at least) semi-adult, English-literate human being has seen Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, or at the very outer reaches of possibility is aware of the Star Wars franchise and the related machines, worlds and people, yes?
I am also assuming that as a semi-adult, English-literate human being you are interested in sex and have heard of that relic of sex manuals, the Kama Sutra.
BEHOLD! Two things taht should never have been mixed - HAVE.
*snickers, shrieks and runs away*
Friday, August 20, 2004
Say What???
You, too, could get rich quick plying the world of imaginary girlfriends!
Thursday, August 12, 2004
I think I'm going to have a mental orgasm of joy.
Water Cooler Games! In their own words 'a forum for the uses of video games in advertising, politics, advocacy and other everyday activities outside the sphere of entertainment'.
Apart from the fact that I'm a grrlgamer, there's the fact I successfully subverted one of my courses during my degree, and managed to have pretty much everyone on the mailing list discussing The Sims and society. Mmmmmmm.... cultural studies via Sims. Which is how I ended up at this site in the first place - Same-sex relationships in The Sims.
Sunday, August 1, 2004
Ohh the shame! -- I've become an Australian idol tragic!
I lay the blame all squarely at this girl's door; Billie McCarthy. Billie used to come in to the Lush Australia HQ once every week when I worked there. Towards the end of my three hellish months there I began to wait for her to turn up, because she was such a pleasant change to pretty much the rest of the office.
She'd make the fresh face and foot masks, mix up the body scrubs, and make a godawful mess of herself and anyone in the immediate vicinity in the process (mudpies, anyone?), warbling along to the radio the whole time. She was gangs of fun.
Despite the fact that she's been coming off sounding as if she's been listening to too much Norah Jones lately, I still think Billie's a major talent and is deserving of as much bang as her buck will buy on AI2.
So, I've ended up glued to the idiot box every Sunday, and find myself spending rather alot of time at sites like Inside Australian Idol, and surfing the AI blog for mention of her name.
See? Tragic.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Agape Blog - for those who are lingually challenged, or are simply anglophiles (in the sense of the language); get a word a day with a definition and example. And they're not boring words either.
Monday, July 26, 2004
Oi, my eyes are swimming from staring at scanned daguerreotypes and carte de visite (sp?). Here's a cute collection of Victoriana links, for those so-inclined. :)
Sunday, July 25, 2004
I'm going to a Victorian party on the weekend (which really amounts to an excuse for my hostess to show off her lovely neo-Victoriana), so I'm researching hairstyles and the like. I'm currently thinking of either going with a half-pompadour, as pictured under 1865-1890 here, or with a Gibson-girl do, at the bottom of the same page. My other option is getting out the rags for curls at the back, and doing something like the picture in the second row on the left here.
Considering my probable state of (un)dress, I think I'll be going as a madam (since a common prostitute would no doubt be barred from the tea-party imagined).
Luckily my partner already has a hairstyle very similar to the Asian gentleman pictured here, under the heading 1840-1865, so we're both now set in that area. He can be my financial backer. Or whatever.
And this is an interesting little piece about Victorian mourning garb, whilst we're traversing that era. Now I'm off to research traditional photographic poses and settings, in my role as tea party photographer. ;)
Saturday, July 10, 2004
We are Pony of Borg... resistance is futile.
This one's for all my fellow My Little Pony fans.
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Medievalists beware... *evils grins*
I have plans, for when I eventually attend a tourney event!
Saturday, March 20, 2004
Hey, RAOB has a.... ummm, niece? Sister? Cousin? blog, started by my friend crystalina. For anti-MSG, American, Christian (as opposed to anti-bellydancing-as-stripping, Pagan, Australian) ramblings with links go thisaway until I get around to making a button & permanent link.
Thursday, March 11, 2004
I seem to be forever posting these "make a face" thingies. This one is the latest craze in icon-making that's sweeping livejournal.
Thursday, March 4, 2004
Astrofaces is a research study. This study seeks to verify Astrology for modern science -- using photographs grouped by Sun, Moon & Ascendant signs.
Do people who share the same Sun, Moon & Ascendant resemble each other?
I used to be able to pick seven or so of the signs - I could tell just by looking at a person what their Sun/Ascendant was, or what planet was dominant in their charts. I got it right more times than I got it wrong, which surprised me as much as anyone else really.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
I've told you before that Miss Piggy is my role model, right? Well, it seems I'm not the only one with pig-fever.
And I still love her even if she is publicly displaying her nipple.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Some people have LOTS of spare time - how else would they be able to devote six das to covering a friend's house in aluminium foil? The only things uncovered were a picture of the victim's girlfriend, and a book entitled Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends.
Saturday, February 21, 2004
So I'm an imood freak - I just love my little face-and-wrd-inna-box. Now there's a promotional site for a rather dodgy book that works along similar (though much simpler) lines.
Friday, February 20, 2004
So you know the US is having alot of tugging back and forth about gay marriage at the moment, yah?
And the mayor of San Francisco retaliated to the abuse of Bush by saying that they would marry gay couples at the City Hall even if it wasn't supposed to be legal.
Somebody on livejournal started a movement - and people from all over the States are sending flowers to random couples waiting in line at SF City Hall to get married. Keeewwwwwwwwl.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
I'm not even going to pretend I've gone through all of the images at the WAR :Iraq poster exhibition. I do think it's a wonderful, creative idea - and wonderful in the mental/energy sense too - to take your feelings about a subject and create something from it. Which should be the point of creation, I guess.
Dammit, not thinking straight, nervous about a job interview today... Anyway, go take a look. There are manymany posters here from both sides of the story.
Friday, February 13, 2004
I found a copy of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha for in a secondhand bookstore yesterday, and devoured it all over again before going to bed.
Though supposedly inaccurate, I really do like that book - despite my Western preoccupation with Eastern things leading more towards the Middle East. So I've been looking this morning, and found the Immortal Geisha site, and this gallery of exquisite geisha and apprentice geisha.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
At last there's a parents' guide to Why CDs make BAD gifts for kids. Entitled "what a crappy present", the site provides plenty of reasons as to why CDs are no longer happy stocking fillers. It also provides a Kids' Corner, to help horror-struck children re-find their christmas spirit.
The great thing is - this works all year, so covers birthdays, Bat mitzvahs, confirmations, christenings and break-up ceremonies too...
Sunday, February 8, 2004
If you have a yearning to disown humanity and henceforward be known simply as one of many "words" the Ineradicable Stain project may be for you. Some strange Yankee lady with both a nose and labret piercing has decided to write a short story across the bodies of people worldwide. One word at a time.
The imagined conversations that sprang to my mind was very similar to what the author of this site describes:
"Why do you have the word 'preternatural' tatooed on your ass?"
"It's part of a vampire story. It's a literary project. I'm one of 1,000 people who each have one word of a 1,000-word vampire story tatooed on their bodies."
"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
"Hey, look. I was drunk, OK?"
Friday, February 6, 2004
It's a blog! And it's about MUPPETS!!!
*piddles self in excitement*
It has pictures of Indiana Kermit, Miss-Piggy-the-pizza-pig, and all the latest news on what those recycled floormats are doing.
I love The Muppets - for years Miss Piggy has been my role model; feminine, flirtatious, and not afraid to kick some arse when it's called for.
Friday, January 30, 2004
She took you the way a woman takes
a bargain dress off the rack
and I broke the way a stone breaks.
I give back your books and fishing tack.
Today's paper says that you are wed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.
Searching for Anne Sexton poetry one night this week, I stumbled across Plagiarist.com. Not only was I rewarded with The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator, but also Sylvia Plath's oeuvre, ee cummings', John Keats', and Pablo Neruda's.
I am in poetry heaven!
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Here's a little something for any Australians who happen to stumble across RAOB, courtesy of Clare:
Trivial Pursuit is creating an Australian 20th Anniversary edition, and if you can do something great enough to be forever embalmed in the annals of Triviality, you could be part of it. Fill in the form with details of your Trivial greatness, and you go into the draw to be a part of the game.
Friday, January 23, 2004
This is really cute - a photographic contest in which contestants must create "vintage" style ads for modern items (though some people seem to have gotten confused - see the "new" Bic quill). I think my favourite is probably the Miracle ball-grip Massager. It's so incongruous - and unlike the internet porn one above it, it's not trash-flash.
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