Tannhauser

Is this thing off?

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:26:20 GMT

Long absence, and some confusion. I don't entirely know what this is, at this point. Im not wholly sure what I, this username, this entity, this series of statements and responses is. Which is all very first world problems, of course. Possibly it's not a useful line of thought. I sort of have a sense of what I do with this self, but said self is confused in its objectives, maybe, or just confused in its methods.

I'm having a bit of a day, I think, is the short answer. Especially if you're not someone I regularly interact with, feel free to leave a screened comment - give me, in a sense more literal than usual, what for, or wherefore.

Today

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:21:32 GMT

1) Everyday decay
2) Left 4 Dead
3) Zombie Panic
4) From A to Z and back again
5) I am not infected

I think I might be trying to break something in my head.

Out of Internet range this week...

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:05:58 GMT

Happy late birthday prayinmantis !

On the Nuremberg Trials - Rebecca West

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:36:48 GMT

The Allies reacted according to their histories. The French, many of whom had been in concentration camps, rested and read; no nation has endured more wars, or been more persistent in its creation of a culture, and it has been done this way. The British reconstituted an Indian hill station; anybody who wants to know what they were like in Nuremberg need only read the early works of Rudyard Kipling. In villas set among the Bavarian pines, amid German modernist furniture, each piece of which seemed to have an enormous behind, a triple feat of reconstruction was performed: people who were in Germany pretended that they were people in the jungle who were pretending they were in England.

Friendlist tidy

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:30:14 GMT

I'm doing a friendslist tidy - just wanted to be clear that it really is nothing personal. I'm taking off some people who no longer post (or who no longer post to a list I'm on), some people I added at one point or another but never actually got to know, some people who I speak to IRL so frequently that reading their journals creates a strange echo chamber effect, or people I just don't have time to follow - I'm radically limited in my LJ time at present. I'll be doing this over the next few days...

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:34:30 GMT

via Bearro.

Otter!

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:55:57 GMT

Did anyone happen to catch Demons?? I for one was excited by the freshness of the premise, and eager to see more adventures of the reluctant demon slayer forced to confront his destiny by an older transatlantic mentor called Rupert oh my God.

Depression speculation

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:59:57 GMT

Question for the cloud: how much is it appropriate to spend on a 32" LCD TV?

Supernatural romance covers

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:27:19 GMT

Pure awesome.

Riley Jensen is a vampire and a werewolf. So how can she choose among her lovers -- a vampire, two werewolves, and a horse-shifter --and stop a plot to create an army of super-beings?

I'd probably go for the horse-shifter. Just because.

A sudden and striking, but utterly worthless, thought

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:01:38 GMT

A statistically describable percentage of those who directed, acted in or crewed Reign of Fire turned down other work because they had already agreed to or planned to agree to direct, act in or crew Reign of Fire. This may not be the case for The Glimmer Man.

This all seems perfectly sensible

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:09:03 GMT

Magsafe would have availed naught.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:55:55 GMT

Ethernet cable, leg, table. The edge of my Powerbook now looks like the protruding lip of a dolphin. Knocking it back in with a hammer is probably not a good idea, is it?

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:23:24 GMT

Zombie catastrophe. What do you do - static, defensible position or stay mobile?

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:23:25 GMT

Wishing everyone at Yahoo! well...

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:39:07 GMT

Must remember not to eat surimi. If eaten surimi, not to look it up on wikipedia.

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:45:23 GMT

Hold on, Miquita Oliver is 24?

I feel that I have known Miquita Oliver for longer than members of my family.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:06:38 GMT

http://ping.fm/zb0Oo
the US election is in fact pro wrestling.

On reflection

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:03:49 GMT

It occurs that Meatloaf has undertaken not to lie to her, not to forget the way she feels right now, not to forgive himself if they don't go all the way, never to do it better than he does it with her (this is unpleasant on a number of levels, but given that he has not actually gone all the way with her suggests that he is already in need of some expectation management), and finally not to forget everything on the grounds that it was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling.

So, really, he'll do anything for love, but he won't do those.

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:18:56 GMT

Feeling somewhat better about buying the last generation of MBP.

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:15:44 GMT

The message here - http://ping.fm/N26jT - is basically that a vote for McCain is a vote for BEING PUNCHED IN THE PUPPY.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:11:18 GMT

Thinking of words that mean two opposed things. Cleave, obviously. Fastness.

George Saunders on Sarah Palin

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:26:28 GMT

Do you know the difference between me and a Hockey Mom who has forgot her lipstick?
A dog collar.
Do you know the difference between me and a dog collar smeared with lipstick?
Not a damn thing.
We are essentially wired identical.
So, when Barack Obama says he will put some lipstick on my pig, I am, like, Are you calling me a pig? If so, thanks! Pigs are the most non-Élite of all barnyard animals. And also, if you put lipstick on my pig, do you know what the difference will be between that pig and a pit bull? I’ll tell you: a pit bull can easily kill a pig. And, as the pig dies, guess what the Hockey Mom is doing? Going to her car, putting on more lipstick, so that, upon returning, finding that pig dead, she once again looks identical to that pit bull, which, staying on mission, the two of them step over the dead pig, looking exactly like twins, except the pit bull is scratching his lower ass with one frantic leg, whereas the Hockey Mom is carrying an extra hockey stick in case Todd breaks his again. But both are going, like, Ha ha, where’s that dumb pig now? Dead, that’s who, and also: not a smidge of lipstick.

Ray of Sunshine Dept.

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:50:16 GMT

Stodir has filed to go into administration, leading among other things to the nationalisation of Glitnir, and the plummeting of Baugur, in which Stodir had a 39% holding. The down side of this is that it has thrown into chaos at least 40% of what anyone knows about Icelandic business (unless there are moves to nationalise Bjork). The upside? Kick-ass sale at House of Fraser ahoy.

Go elves!

Terrifying thought for the day

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:29:20 GMT

The total value of all the gold in Fort Knox is maybe around a quarter of the top-line sum of the bailout being discussed.

A touch head-explody.

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:01:04 GMT

Thinking of Sarah Palin and the Aleutian Campaign.