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Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post (which somehow always makes me think of Harry Potter and Hufflepuffs) makes an awesome point about the whole Sarah Palin thing:

...Palin, and the circus she's brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.

Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.

[sic]

And the plan has worked beautifully. Just look at what's being discussed just 57 days before the election. Is it the highest unemployment rate in five years? The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The suicide bombing yesterday in Iraq that killed six people and wounded 54 -- in the same market where last month a bomb killed 28 people and wounded 72? That the political reconciliation that was supposedly the point of "the surge" is nowhere near happening? That Iraq's Shiite government is now rounding up the American-backed Sunni leaders of the Awakening? That the reason 8,000 soldiers may be leaving Iraq soon is so more can be deployed to Afghanistan where the Taliban is steadily retaking the country?

No. We're talking about whether Sarah Palin was or was not a good mayor, whether she was or was not a good mother, whether her skirts are too short and her zingers too sarcastic.

Christ but it's true, isn't it?

Read the full article here.

so. much. work. to. do. Haven't been able to get on YM, though I've been commenting on some of your LJs (that was me putting off work, btw) and catching up on The Daily Show. Colbert Report up next. :|

and also, somehow, I was able to watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when he had Russell Brand over. (Which Americans, I believe, can watch here.) Russell Brand is ♥ (

boho, thank you so very much for introducing him. :D)

I loved Jay Leno's monologue at the beginning about Sarah Palin:

"She may actually be the first beauty pageant contestant to bring about world peace."

Except, of course, she's also Sarah Palin.

"Another Vice President who hunts. What could go wrong?"

Palin is the Twilight of the political fandom, y/y?

Okay, I really should be working now. :| (

acidpop25, I shall be on YM tonight.)

Current Mood: swamped & yet, procrastinating

From

acidpop25:

1. List your top ten ships.
2. Put all of them in order of your love for them; 10 to 1, 1 being your favorite.
3. Name their fandom.
4. Supply photos for said people.
~~5. Tag six people.~~ Coming up with the ships is enough. :| But you must all do it!

( And in what I tried to be proper order... )

Since it started reading like Gossip Girl, that's when.

Apparently Palin's daughter is pregnant.

Not to be confused with the alleged cover-up of her daughter's pregnancy, mind.

Man. Where's the popcorn?

ALSO, omg, where's Gossip Girl? Us TV-less people need our fix still! D:

Just in case you all thought my political posts were biased-- so I found out John McCain picked a woman to run as his vice president. (She is a woman who, according to

ccharlotte, wants to take polar bears out of the endangered list so that we can drill for oil in their habitats. :|)

In marketing we talk about how people/companies/brands send out messages based on what they do. Instinctively, this is the message I got from McCain:

"O HAI AMERICA. I guess I don't look like I'll be changing anything in this country compared to Obama over there, but HERE ya go-- white female veep, so in case I croak in the next four years (and I probably will)-- you guys will STILL have your first non-white-male president!

"PS. I can has votes nao?"

Sorry for the spam today. :|

guys? The HP Lexicon is gone. D: Bring it back bring it back. *cries*

UPDATE: According to this comment it's just changing domains. Keep your fingers crossed!

SO a couple of nights ago I was re-watching one of my favourite shows in the world, and a scene just really struck me as very, very relevant to today's current issues.

A man had just been voted to premiership, and three people were sitting around a living room telly, talking about him. Slightly paraphrased:

"I was going to vote for him," said the girl.

"Oh really?" one of the men asked.

"Yeah, me too," the second man said.

"Why?"

"I don't know," the girl said, "But I liked him."

"Yeah. He was always good to hear," the second man agreed.

"I felt safe," said the girl, tapping her fingers on the cup she held.

And then The Doctor frowned, because he'd heard that drumming sound before Martha was tapping out on her cup before, and then Harold Saxon started talking on the telly, and their telly got blown up and they had to be on the run because they were suspected terrorists--

But I'm getting ahead of myself. :|

Because you know-- maybe the United Kingdom didn't work out much for The Master, but he's definitely set his eyes on America since then! ~~And I can't believe no one's pointed it out before.~~

Yes, flist. Obama is The Master! ~~I need an icon for that.~~ Come on-- good orator, rose to prominence fairly recently (when did we *really* start hearing about Obama, hmm? *narrows eyes*), bewitches the world with his words...

Observe what he did to the world when he was in power (PS: What follows is spoilerific of Doctor Who 3x12):

I would worry if I were you, flist.

I would. *nods solemnly*

PS: You know I love you guys hardcore, but as I really didn't invest myself in this whole election as little more than a bemused and fascinated observer, I thought last night that the reactions to his speech were interesting (Transcript available here, btw, thanks to

morganashkevron who posted it). Actually, the reactions to him are, in general.

PPS: I can totally start a Real-Life Quibbler-esque blog of crackpot conspiracy theories, y/n?

Current Mood: crazy

Does your royal family have a last name? It can't just be Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth and a string of first names with tagged-on nths to identify how original the name was, right? Can it? Am I to assume they are all Tudors? Or is Tudor not a last name but, like. A place of birth or something?

ETA: Windsor! It wasn't in Wikipedia when I checked, but it doesn't mean it isn't somewhere. :| :P

I don't even know why I started wondering, but I am direly uneducated and need immediate rectification. Will a Brit please educate me? Like, about the whole monarchy system thing.

Thanks!

***

In other news, did you know that in France, women who wanted their marriages annulled used to bring matters to court, charging their husbands with impotence, so that the only recourse would be for the husband to prove in court that he was not impotent, and so therefore, as part of the court proceedings, masturbate in front of a so-called team of experts?

Of course, hardly (haha, no pun intended :|) anyone would actually be able to do that, so husbands who didn't want the humiliation that came with being proven to have a flaccid penis would demand a Trial by Congress, which is, essentially, a live show. Husband and wife had to show up at a ~neutral~ spot, and perform the act in front of the ~experts~, and there must be sufficient proof that they ejaculated, too.

I don't know how they thought that would help. :|

Let that sink in for a bit, and then I'll return to this wonderful, glorious, fantastically hysterical historical book.

PS. It's Napoleon's Privates. Tell your friends. :|

~~THEANONYMOUSMEME~~

O HAI, ANON. Haven't done this in a while. :|

ETA: MAXED! Anonmeme me here instead?

HALFBLOOD PRINCE RELEASE DELAYED TIL JULY 2009.

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

Why, WB, why?? ~~(Actually, the article I link you to says why, but.~~

Things, things, things, in no specific order:

Washington is a pretty city, but I'm not trading Chicago for it. Washington is all neat and proper and appropriate, while Chicago's got this edge to it that HELLO, IS IN BATMAN. :|
While American history, as it turns out, doesn't do much for me, I believe I'm acquiring an interest in all things World-War-II-related. :| Like. Everything. The period itself is-- I kinda see what Captain Jack Harkness loves about it so much, and just. Yes. :|
This vacation has been grrrrreat. Like, I'm under no stress to omg-see-everything-NOW and as it is also largely unplanned, it has become somewhat a natural occurrence for me to simply stumble into pleasant surprises. My first day it was the Portrait Gallery, yesterday it was the Holocaust Memorial, today it was Jim Henson's gallery at the Smithsonian Castle. I've allowed myself time to sit under the shade of a tree when I so desire to catch up with a book or fill out a crossword, though I've not had the chance to write.
Neil Gaiman is going to be in a Chicago suburb this October. I want to seeeeeee. I hope I can. Fingers crossed!
I have decided that I am going to try to go to Leaky Con in Boston, because I loved Terminus so much and anyway, I've always wanted to see Boston. Who's with me? :D (I even have ideas for programming, lol)

I decided two weeks ago, purely on whim, to visit the capital after Terminus. So, um. As of 1 hour before departing for the airport, I have:

my boarding pass
the confirmation number for the hostel
a mostly packed bag
dressed myself

I don't have:

directions from the DC airport to the hostel
any other plans

This is the sort of thing that will either be made of epic failure or epic win. Wah or wahoo.

OMG YOU GUYS WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Current Mood: mini-spasm attack

acidpop25, I nearly forgot to put this up. Erm. I have no scanner, so I took a photo.

Proof that Terminus Does Things to You

Right, so:

Invisibility Cloak Nearly Possible
The Best Table in the World
terminus_notes - Notes from Terminus by those who attended, for those who didn't. Um. It's bare bones for now, I basically just put in a working structure and stuff, but yes. If you know anyone who was in Terminus who took notes, or at least remembered the gist of the discussions they were in, please see if they would like to share their notes here. I'll put mine up probably after DC. (Speaking of, I'm never going to get anywhere in that place I have absolutely no plans. :|)

Good night, LJ. ♥

SO. I am back at my apartment (to talk to

ccharlotte, who is too lame to come to Terminus with me even though she's practically in my backyard-- oh, who am I kidding, Terminus is in my backyard) and thus commences Terminus Day 2 recaps. Or updates, or whatever. Um. (ETA: I started writing this last night, but apparently I was exhausted, because I fell asleep in my apartment. Um. Yeah. :|)

I kind of really really want a comm where people can put up discussion points from their Terminus panels and some such, but like. I think Tai and I were the only ones dorky enough to have been writing notes, like, everywhere. :|

Highlights:

Finding out that the one character in the book given the most due process (ie, a trial, an appeal, witnesses and evidence) is actually, um. Buckbeak.
Buying a Slytherin sweater! No, really, I have been looking at Hogwarts schoolgirls all this time and being all "I WANT". Except I don't know. We'll see if I can wheedle Bri into being a Slyth again so I'll have someone with me. Yes.
Impromptu Wrock thing by The Remus Lupins (Alex Carpenter), who led a horde of fangirls all the way to the park. He is so awesome with his fans. I think I may be a little bit smitten.

Also, um. The Hilton has the most depressing elevators in the world. They have little TV screens tuned in to CNN so in between panels and roundtables and presentations we'd go in and the elevators would tell us that Edwards admitted to having an affair and that Georgia was invaded and the Obama and McCain coverage would be awesome.

But CNN did not tell me that Bernie Mac has died. I found out when I got back home. :(

PS: I have officially overheard something. :P

I have a lot of clout, being as to how, you know, I actually didn't attend any of the Terminus panels yesterday. :|

SO. Tally of people I am converting to the Gospel of Dr Horrible: 4. (What, don't know Dr Horrible? Come to our room, 1224. Christmas Eve at the GnH lounge.)

Um. No. Well. The only reason I'm posting is because Bri (

moonlitmercury has finally sent me Theodore Nott, or The Boy Rumored to be Theodore Nott.)

( And here he is. )

Bri and Tai are writing Theodore/Terry fic. Ilovethem.

So, babble. I really should go back, I told Bri I'd only be gone a bit. ♥

I browsed my flist and there were no Terminus updates, which makes me sad, but um. That's because the Hilton charges quite a lot for internet, which is the last thing you probably want to do in a conference for people who all got into the conference because of the internet.

I'm just saying.

So, like, I went to Wrock Chicago last Wednesday and listened to the headliners for the first time ever (except I've heard Draco and Harry before) with

cmere (

miss_charmed we have photos!),

illuminations,

jazzyjello,

reallycorking, and I think

longleggedit. Did not get to meet

acidpop25 because of massive number-exchanging fail *facepalm* but Saturday will be better!

Wrock Highlights:

Everyone jumping so much the floor was shaking, til we were told to stop because there's a conference downstairs and the people there are concerned.
People actually following the rules, which, as reallycorking pointed out, says a lot about HP fans.
The Remus Lupins saying "To hell with that, this is a rock concert, I want to see you guys ROCK!"
cmere shouting "That is NOT Remus Lupin!" in response (because come on, Remus would follow the rules) JUST as the crowd quieted down, so that a couple of people (and maybe Remus Lupin) heard. ♥

Yesterday I met up with

perculious and

moonlitmercury, who I'm rooming with as well as Emily, Tai's cousin, aaaaaaaand we ran into

slash_a_holic while checking in.

Registration Highlight:

perculious singing and dancing "My Dad is Rich" for a 17-cassette audiobook of Order of the Phoenix.
Finding out that I'm dueling.

Yeah, no idea what that means either. I'm like. "What, really?" Apparently dueling means going up to your "mark" (kinda hard to do in a con of 1500) and saying their name in a conversational voice ("Hello, Rainsparkles25!") before waving your wand (Does my pen count for a wand?) and saying "Tumultosa!" (I'm sure I got that spell wrong; shit. :|)
Having possibly the only two Terry Boot fangirls in the world in the same room. perculious and I are totally going to drive our roommates up the wall.

Quoth Emily: "Who's Terry Boot?"

Quoth moonlitmercury: We should totally have a Wizard Rock band. We can call it Terry's Boots. ♥♥♥

Quoth moonlitmercury: You guys are terrible.
perculious: Did you say we were terrible?
slumber: Did you spell that with a y?

But it is amazing. The password to our hotel-room-slash-dorm is like. Terry Boot is awesome.
Finding really good programming.
Finding Theodore Nott's rumored to have been cast in the movies already (LINE YOU TOTES HAVE TO SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HIM HE IS ALL KINDS OF PRETTY AWESOME. NGH. I'm gonna get the pic emailed to me so I can email it to you. :|)

The great big dinner was very Hogwarts-esque, which is cool except I felt like a first year, haha. Also, my roommates are all in the same house and I'm like. Not. Tragic.

Terminus staff keep telling us not to scare the Muggles away. I wonder why. :|

thanks to

cleolinda.

I know Twilight fans would have already read Breaking Dawn or something, but if you have only read Twilight and decided not to bother with the rest of the series (like me), or if you have never actually read ANY of it at all but fear that you might break down and do out of curiosity, then save yourself the trouble and read

cleolinda's recaps.

Actually, read them if you've read the books too.

Here plz, kthx.

In pseudo-fandom musing, I think I would have been in Team Jacob. Glad I never actually got into the books, lol.

That Lust Meme: The Rules of the Game

1) List 5 3 celebrities you would consider having sex with without even asking questions.
2) Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them [5 3 - 1, 1 is the hottest].
3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
4) Supply photos for said people.
5) Tag five people to do the same. (Tagging

ccharlotte, though I have it on good authority we basically have the same top three list, though in varying order :|,

miss_charmed,

boho,

thethirdbar, and

ant_power)

What, I only have three? Tragically, yes. While there is a neverending supply of pretty people in the world, if any of them ever came my way and tried to hit on me or get me in bed, I might-- there are only three people I'd actually do, without feeling any sort of guilt or inferiority or whatever else whatsoever.

Here's a list of the pretty people I'd love to look at but NOT do, necessarily:

10. Chace Crawford - Gossip Girl Gossip Girl Gossip Girl
9. Ed Westwick - Gossip Girl Gossip Girl Gossip Girl
8. Noel Fielding - Big Fat Quiz of the Year--he's just too adorable for words. That, and if Jimmy Carr is to be believed, sleeping with him will likely get me STD. :| (Russell Brand, more likely.)
7. Russell Brand - BFQotY. What? He's conventionally attractive.
6. Neil Patrick Harris - First there was How I Met Your Mother, and then there's Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog-- I can't help it, this guy is cute. Perhaps not in the oh-em-gee-I-wanna-sleep-with-you way, but I totes want to be friends with Barney. He's awesome and legen--wait for it--dary.
5. David Tennant - so so so cute, but you just don't sleep with the Doctor.
4. Natalie Dormer - The Tudors--man, I cannot stop staring at this woman every time I watch an episode of The Tudors. She is just so so so gorgeous and pretty and delicate and gah, so so so flawless. But out of pure reverence I can just, like, never touch her, so, you know. She stays here. Outside the cut. :|

( And my top three, those who I would ACTUALLY sleep with )

Current Music: lollapalooza

I am so bloody excited.

So Line (

ccharlotte) and I watched The Dark Knight yesterday, finally, and I loved every moment of it. (I love this city!) I won't wax poetic over it, but I have to admit that like

ronniekins77 I DID avoid reading what the flist thought of it, so this could very well be redundant or repetitive or whatever.

( I just have one spoilerific question )

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