cyphomandra

On this day in 2011 I got my first LiveJournal account. I consider my LJversary to also be my fanniversary since it marks the time I found online fandom community. LJ has been and continues to be one of only two social media platforms where I am consistently active (the other one being Dreamwidth here).

Current Mood: celebratory
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

luthien

Six-ish sentences from Chapter 3 of Angry Kitten:

"What are you doing?" Roz asks, frowning ferociously. He's radiating 'keep the fuck away from me' vibes. The tension practically ripples through his shoulders, and he's doing his very best to loom at Cliff despite the fact that Cliff has several inches on him.

"You can't drive to Montreal," Cliff says, and then adds quickly, as Roz's scowl deepens, "Not by yourself. You're tired and your ankle isn't healed" - plus, he doesn't say, you're in a deeply self-destructive mood - "and you'd probably drive yourself into a ditch before you got even halfway there."

"So, what? Are you offering to drive to Montreal with me in the middle of the fucking night, Marly?"

"Yes," Cliff says simply. "Someone has to save you from yourself. Might as well be me."

torachan

1. The other day I noticed a new Vietnamese coffee shop had opened nearby and this morning I rode my bike over there to try it out. They are famous for their banana coffee, which was sort of a frappuccino style drink, so I got that. It was super delicious, but they had only drinks, no food, and I wanted some sort of pastry or something. There's a bakery a couple doors down that is suuuuuuper trendy and has a line down the block all the time so although I would love to try them, I didn't want to wait in a line so long my drink would be gone by the time I got my food.

So I decided to leave my bike parked there and walk a few blocks down to Randy's Donuts, which is a famous LA donut shop that started opening new locations in recent years after having just been a single location for ages. I've never actually been to the one in Santa Monica. As I was walking, I saw there was a Dunkin Donuts across the street just one block down and was briefly tempted to just go there, but I knew Randy's would be better so I continued on and I'm so glad I did because they had a Pride donut and also a mango tajin one and both were so good. Their donuts are big and I really only should have gotten one, but I wanted both lol. The mango one had mango tajin frosting and a delicious mango filling. The Pride one was just a frosted glazed donut with rainbow stripes, but even for a basic donut it was really tasty. I was very full afterwards but it was such good breakfast.

2. It was still hot today so we went to Disneyland for dinner instead of going earlier in the day. Sadly it was warmer than I would prefer even at 6pm when we got there, and super muggy. But we did have a delicious dinner.

3. Tuxie's fur has been growing back on his forehead. I don't think you can really even see where the wound was anymore. So handsome!

thistleingrey

Seen variously---

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conuly

Either the Knicks won or… I can’t actually imagine an or for this sentence.

Go Knicks!

musesfool

The New York Knicks are your 2026 NBA Champs!!! Jalen Brunson scored half the points the Knicks had! MVP!

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Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Knicks post-game show

flemmings

Another hot blowy day. Played clothesline bingo, got several tanktops and sleep bottoms out to dry/ bleach in the hot hot sun, and lost a tanktop and a shirt to the birds, not the cherries. The cherries themselves are beginning to both ripen and fall so that's it for clotheslines until maybe a month from now. Underwear of course is hanging from the living room chandelier and drying in the living room fan.

It felt hotter than yesterday, which is probably the difference between going outside at noon like today, and 4 pm like yesterday. But what I wanted was a Johnson cocktail-- that's gin, dry vermouth and sweet vermouth-- and I didn't want to go out to buy the fixings. So I put in an order with UberEats and all was tickety-boo until the very end when they wanted me to take a photo of my ID, take a photo of myself, and upload both. Previously it's been the delivery guy who photo'd my ID and in each case had extreme difficulty in so doing, so I was pretty sure I wouldn't manage it either. So hell, let's try SkipTheDishes, even if I keep having to correct my address with them. They said the Dupont LCBO has gin and sweet vermouth but no dry; the Bathurst outlet has gin and dry vermouth but no sweet. Uber said they could get both. Yeah, and both Skip and Uber's interface lagged like a lagging thing. The hell with it, I said, and closed the browser. Johnson cocktail erases the owies better than anything but my system really hates it, a fact I tried to ignore.

SNDs were out back gardening. He-SND was hacking away at the great overgrown clump of vines on the fence between our yards, with a battery operated trimmer and a manual hacksaw. And even with both those and a male's upper body strength was finding it hard going, so thick are the stems now. I have a bigger trimmer that might work but I've never used it in the seven years I've had it and discover that it needs some assembly. Also an outlet and extension cord, of course.

But tomorrow will be rain all day so no gardening happening. I slept with just the fan last night but am not sure that will work tonight: and I did keep waking up sweating. A modest hydro bill came in last week and I overpaid 300% so maybe I can afford the luxury of a window AC, especially since next week is forecast to be window fan cool at night.

petra

The comment read, "I’d gladly read other limerick stories."

At which point I realized that, while my limericks are tagged on AO3, my limerick cycles hadn't been.

So I indexed them for the person, and then I tagged them all with Limerick Cycle, which should shortly be a canonical tag.

Current Mood: i think i'm funny
Current Music: There once was a fan from the Great Lakes

greghousesgf

Had a nice time going out for breakfast (I had hush puppies) and hanging out in the Haight with my friend, then I went home and went swimming.

Current Music: Bach

silverusagi

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Current Mood: calm

ilanarama

Part 3 of our Croatian adventure! If you missed them, Part 1, Part 2.

( Onward! )

Next up: Split!

watersword

A friend gave me her old aircon, I lugged it up three flights and got it set up, and ...it turns on and does nothing. I'll take the filter out and clean it tomorrow (UGH) but if that doesn't work, I am out of ideas. (Yes, I looked for the manual online. The troubleshooting tips are not helpful.)

Semi-relatedly, I still need to sort out repairing the oven and the dishwasher, which are both, separately, fucked up. Physical reality is the worst.

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senmut

I don't want "misunderstood villains" or "trying for redemption". Tell me a villain that is THE VILLAIN, they did do all that, and you absolutely hope the heroes get the upper hand every time!

The first one that defined this concept for me? J. R. Ewing of Dallas. When I compare Babylon 5's Bester to him, I mean it as a solid compliment. I don't want tragic stories pasted on, other characters 'fixing' them, or any of that. I want them to be as bad and as nasty as they do so well... and I will cheer any and every person that gets the upper hand on them.

Because, my lovely friends, heroes ARE measured by what they overcome, and that includes the antagonist.

moon_custafer

EI ran out—the two-and-a-half months they didn’t have to pay me because I was doing temp work didn’t get added on to the end, as I’d hoped they might, and they didn’t total enough hours for a new claim. I had a job interview last week, and three the week before that, but so far no offers, so I’m now in the process of applying to Ontario Works, aka the dole. Which asks an array of questions on the form, and a consultation with them yesterday boiled down to “give the simplified answer, and once they assign you a caseworker you can tell them the more nuanced version.”

Meanwhile it’s the weekend, and this week was our twenty-first anniversary, so we went to the boardwalk for a few hours. I think I might have got a touch of sunstroke, even though I wore a hat and sunglasses and it was a few degrees cooler than it was when I was out and about on Thursday and Friday. Currently sitting in a dim room because the light in the living-room makes me dizzy.

David Hockney died this week—he was nearly eighty-nine, and had had as good a life as anyone could wish, but I’m still a little sorry he’s no longer around. I liked his paintings, and his book Secret Knowledge partly inspired my recent experiments with the Phantom Line 100.

I’ve been doing a series of paintings of traffic cones that I see around the city, in hopes that I can get them accepted for show somewhere—it’s hard to submit anything without a thesis statement but I think I can pretend the traffic cones are a comment on urban gentrification or something.

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阜/阝 part 1 fù
队, team; 防, to protect/to prevent; 阳, sun/positive ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=170

词汇
错过, to miss; 错误, wrong/mistake ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
以防万一我再陪护你最后一晚, just in case I'll keep you company for one more night
那是因为你们之前的办案方式都是错误的, that's because you people's previous investigation methods were all wrong

Me:
他笑得像阳光一样。
我们差点错过了飞机。

mrkinch

I gotta stop going up to Tilden on Saturday! This week I parked at the Loop Road gate just as the Bay Area 100 folks were coming through. At least they did go through, never to be seen again.:) I started out by 7:30 under fog, which I mind less there than on the Inspiration Trail because it's not on the ground and there's rarely much wind under the tall trees. Happily it was clearing by 10 am. First surprise was a House Wren! I hadn't heard one in weeks, but this morning I heard three and even saw one. Next surprise was a Turkey Vulture perched fairly low in a eucalyptus not so very far off the trail. Waiting out the fog? They were gone when I returned. I walked up almost to the Peace Grove connector trail, further than usual but not was far as last time. Soon, I hope. Most of the usuals were around, though I never heard a California Scrub-jay nor a Black-headed Grosbeak, which seemed odd. ( The list: )

The third surprise was two California Quail foraging on Loop Road. It's always unexpected to see them where there is frequent traffic, and I wonder if it's the same pair we saw quite a few times in the Nature Area last summer. Speaking of wondering about unknowable things, while I was resting on the Loop Road bench at least two Common Ravens were making quite a racket down in the canyon, probably along the road to Jewel Lake, reminding me of the Ravens and the Great Horned Owl two weeks ago. Maybe they were at it again.

asakiyume

Wakanomori and I went to the Smith College Museum of Art the other day to see a Japan-related exhibit and ended up also seeing "Don't Mind If I Do," an exhibit centering disability and accessibility. The organizer, artist Finnegan Shannon, has created a space with bunches of comfortable chairs and couches arranged around a central space, and various objects move past you instead of you standing and walking past the objects. You're invited to touch them as well (... which I didn't realize until after).

At the entrance, a sign says "PLEASE WEAR A MASK IN THIS SPACE IN SOLIDARITY W/THE ARTISTS & FELLOW VISITORS."

There's a poem-statement on the walls:

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And here's the art moving by on a conveyor belt:

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( some of the individual pieces )

There was also an alcove with postcards of various art pieces. You were invited to write a postcard to someone about the exhibit, address it, and they would mail it for you (!)

Finnegan writes

Over and over when conceptualizing Don't mind if I do, I used the phrase "the artwork comes to you." But it doesn't really.

I, like many disabled people, am most often at home. Even under the best of circumstances, there are huge logistical, financial, and psychological access barriers to get to an art space. Things like exhaustion, sickness, transportation issues, COVID risk, distance, life responsibilities, doctors' appointments, and more all mean I miss a lot.

Mail art, a creative movement that involves sending art through the postal system, was and continues to be a way to experience art outside of institutions, a way to participate across time and geography. As ableism continues to isolate disabled people, mail art is a tool for connection.

The message is on the wall above the postcard instructions. Finnegan signs it, "With love from my bed."

I was surprised by how moving I found the concept and execution. It's at the Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA) through June 28.

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