good food, good company

talked to frank and enrique about slash (hp, harry/draco vs harry/snape, pirates of the caribbean, legolas/gimli vs legolas/aragorn, qui/obi, due south), lesbian barbie porn*, keira knightley as guinevere** and kk as g's boobs, feminism, post-modernism and its silliness, discourse analysis vs lit crit, the suckiness of the university of alabama, the suckiness of george w bush, the probability of some kind of conspiracy to steal the election via voting machines etc, gay marriage, us vs japanese customs officials, and lots of other things. there was alcohol, there was giggling, there was frank and enrique both petting perry until he almost purred even though he is a dog.

*enrique: what are these barbies doing?
me: oh, that! that's my lesbian barbie porn. see, there's the strap-on.

lillian: mom, look at her lesbian barbie porn. she used MY barbies!
mom, making no move to enforce her pronouncements: oh my god, lillian, you're not old enough to look at this.



**me: [describes keira's war paint, lingering on the line that goes between the breasts all the way down]
enrique: you're really enjoying describing this.

enrique: i just have a vision of all these people who haven't gotten over xena-withdrawal...
me: hey. she's cooler than xena.

enrique, looking at image of snarling keira with bow held in the air: yep, sex appeal.
me: no, what are you saying? that's menace.

i don't know if you've noticed, jeeves, but i appear to be in love with you

EEK, a reallyRILLY good jeeves/wooster! it melted me! into puddles of goo! several times, at least three or four. i'm feeling susceptible, i suppose; i almost cried at one point!

did i say 'eek'?

cause... EEK.

::pantpant:: now... where's the smut?

sorta rec. wodehouse slash again.

"Ho! That shows how much you know! I saw a chap in the pictures the other night who, for various reasons, had to escape the confines of his upper garments. Did he sit around twiddling with buttons? No! He placed his hands *here* and *here* and with a single powerful rending..."

"I imagine the gentleman in question was not proposing to wear the garment subsequently. I also imagine that if he did find in future that the shirt was required, it would not fall to him to repair it."

"Well, it wouldn't fall to me to... Oh. Sorry."

"Thank you, sir. Allow me.” (the rest of it isn't as good as that bit. so i'm not certain that this is a rec.)

yawnstretch

bah, stupid ring, stupid quest, stupid not-comment-posting database errors. ninglor, you'll never guess what was in the boxes my grandpa brought from massachusetts of the things i left there.

...

your umbrella.

::facepalm::

in other news: i am highly in favor of a nice SMUTTY jeeves/wooster that goes along with canon in narrative voice, characterization, etc etc. i can see i will have to read a good deal more wodehouse before i can hope to capture the wooster voice appropriately, and i may have to use jeeves's pov instead. if i'm really lucky maybe i can talk k'sal into writing it for me. she already has that wodehousean spirit down pat.

(no subject)

it's hot and i've broken my sunglasses again.

i wanted an icon of rocker!obi-wan, with the keyboard and guitar in the desert, but i can't find a good bright still of the video to weird al's 'the saga begins.'

bugger. (ahahha i just realized what 'bummer' means.)

and nothing's real

ahhh! found victoria's secret dot com.

find myself distressingly tempted by knee-high pink suede boots. would [hopefully] never wear them... what? am picking out christmas list!

dash it all.

having re-reduced myself to goo by re-reading that jeeves/wooster i yesterday recommended, i'm free to go 'dammit, what am i forgetting?' i wanted to write some karggo and had actually started. but i'm too gooey in the abdominal region, so it's time for strategic retreat to read in bed. so many things to be written, so little time. i want to buy some new underwear.

still come back to you

perry danced to queen's 'my best friend' with me. was so sweet. his little face (this is kind of uncomfortable but i trust you), the little grunts when i spun him around.

DAMN LJ

let me upload icons!

eta: teehee. it worked. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

and the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole

(i have a good and i have an evil
i thought the ocean
the ocean thought nothing
you are the welcoming back from the ocean
dar williams, 'the ocean')

i've always loved this song but never before bothered to look up, like, the words. and i couldn't understand that part about bars. it makes more sense now, yes.

and i still love it.

it's one of those songs that's really great to YELL along with in the car.

cim, ze ditz

i just this morning realized that 'the saga begins' is supposed to be from the pov of obi-wan, and not an omniscient narrator. then i went looking for caps of the video and found al in obi's costume strumming a guitar, playing a gray piano, and backed with a padawan choir, and generally laughed myself silly!

unless i was (quite possibly) already silly.

case in point: just now, tried to eat salad with a spoon.

the saga begins lyrics

( A long, long time ago In a galaxy far away Naboo was under an attack )

oh for god's sake,

not another story where people call snape 'sev.' ::delete::!

a 'humorous columnist'

pg wodehouse is not without similarity to diana wynne jones. i may detect an influence. also possibly lois mcmaster bujold. color me infatuated.

now, that said, [Poll #201572]

the thing with * is that in practice, a humor columnist is often humorous, and a humorous columnist is often a humorist, that is to say, a humor columnist as opposed to a columnist who happened to come out humorous in one way or another. but the main thing is that it seems to me that a humor columnist is a writer of humorous columns, while a humorous columnist is a column-writer who is also humorous. it needn't be his columns that are humorous to qualify for the appellation. he could have an adorablish tendency to forget the punchline of jokes, which invariably made people laugh at him, but produce horribly dry columns on engine repair.