Having read the article from the City Paper, I am terribly sad.

I am sad because the showing of The Dark Knight we caught Saturday night ran so late we decided to not go to Spellbound. Based on a comment made by Kangal earlier in the week, I had been planning to show up wearing a headlamp, carrying my pickaxe. I am terribly, terribly upset that I missed my chance to make the portrayal of our scene in that article even more silly than it was.

I finally finished the possum-skull "voodoo" doll I've been working on for a couple of weeks now. It's the most detailed and, I think, nicest one I've ever made. However, maddeningly, it still isn't up for auction. While I like most things about my new all-in-one office machine (the Hewlett Packard OfficeJet 6310), its scanner leaves a lot to be desired. When I try to scan the drawings I do in copies of my books, the images often come out streaked with weird stripes of light that aren't present on the actual drawings. As for three-dimensional objects such as the doll, it cannot scan them at all. I know flatbed scanners aren't really meant to scan three-dimensional objects, but my old one did a pretty good job of it, e.g. this Little Blue Heron skull I found on our first post-K trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast:



Obviously, before I sell any more dolls or other hand-crafted items on eBay, I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and spring for a digital camera that can take decent closeups of small objects. My current antique -- a Vivitar Vivicam 3650 I bought in, I think, 2003 -- is remarkably forgiving of my poor photography skills when it comes to taking regular pictures, but its closeups are useless blurs. I know some of you have been waiting to see this doll, and I'm sorry about the delay. I'll try to upgrade my equipment soon.

I did manage to put up some regular book-type auctions: a copy of greygirlbeast's and my collection Wrong Things; a copy of the Gauntlet Press limited edition of The Lazarus Heart with an original ink drawing by me; a copy of the increasingly rare Con Party of Hotel California chapbook; and a copy of Plastic Jesus. As always, all items are signed and signatures can be personalized. I also added some inventory to my eBay store, including four copies of Alcool (the newly published French edition of Liquor). Please take a look and make a bid (or just buy a book) if you can -- thanks!

[ETA: Since many of you are probably at least as sick of this subject as I am, I'll just say that yes, I know our comments are gone from the Best of New Orleans thread about Chris' departure, and I'm sure it happened because somebody got his widdle designer briefs in a wad and went crying to The Management. I don't think it matters one way or the other; as far as we and most of Chris' regular customers are concerned, the Delachaise is toast.]

Found this at ThinkGeek: Battlestar Babes Posters by Steve Anderson. Pretty nifty, and I'm a fan of Anderson's work. Just wanted to share with you all.

These are a bunch that I've either been
randomly working on or entering into contests.

So, I hope you like them!

9 x Christian Bale
[4] 'The Machinist'
[2] 'Little Women'
[1] 'Batman'
5 x 'Moonlight'
3 x Sophia Myles
3 x Donovan Leitch
2 x 'Goodfellas'
1 x 'The Machinist'

Teasers:


(Behind Fake Curtain # 1!!!)

Tell me what you think <3 ...

And, as always, if you have any suggestions,
requests, or ideas just send 'em all over ^.^...

BTW!!! You can be looking forward to more
Christian Bale and 'Goodfellas' in the near future...

Love and Peace \\//

<3 Jamie ...

Hi =]
I have some icons for you guys.

[10] David Archuleta
[32] Christian Bale (Assorted stuff. A few with other people)
[20] Twilight Cast
TOTAL 62

Banners
[10] Christian Bale
[1] Twilight
TOTAL 11

Teasers ~


Follow The Icons NOTE ! The entry will only be open for two days. After that I'm closing it to friends only. If you want to see more of my icons you're going to have to join schizo_icons_xo

X-Posted to lots of places. So sorry if you see repeats.

TV listings might not be updated to reflect this, but both CTV and CBS will be airing Flashpoint at 10pm EST on Thursday (today). If you Tivo Flashpoint, it won't automatically pick up tonight's airing; you'll need to set up a manual recording.

This is a permanent change for CBS, and likely permanent for CTV as well.


On a side note, anyone else find Enrico Colantoni's character in Flashpoint (Sgt. Gregory Parker) similar to Keith Mars?

Why aren't you watching swirlygate?

Episode Three is AWESOME.

EDIT: . . . for reasons including but not limited to: the take on sci-fi cliches, the genderflip, Sheppard's perfect bored look, the hand gestures, the Jell-o, the ramble about Star Trek captains, and Chaya. YES. CHAYA.

portiareigns issued the challenge of coming up with 12 Youtube videos that "define" us. I've thought about it, but it's pretty hard for me to do. So I just picked a few videos that define how I feel right now. Right now I'm nostalgic and melancholy for some reason. And I found an online 80s new wave radio station I've been listening to at work. So I am internally reliving some of my high school and college days. So I sought out some music of that time to reflect who I was.

General Public: Never You Done That

Psychedelic Furs: Ghost In You

Siouxsie & the Banshees: Kiss Them For Me

Echo & The Bunnymen: Lips Like Sugar

Willkommen to a crack-filled musical (theatre!) tribute to Doctor Who's magnificent Martha Jones! There's plenty of the Doctor, too, and special guest star Capatain Jack as the irrepressible 'Elsie'.

Life in the TARDIS? It's only a Cabaret, old chum.






( ...right this way, your table's waiting... )


Download links below the cut.

Essentially this is a companion vid to this, this, and this.

Have fun. Comments are ♥! :-)

Via The City Paper: Inside L Street's Dueling Goth Parties

For the record, pmhrh looks hot in her photo.

Milk Magazine
Issue number 365 published on 17th July. 4 page article.

This Chinese language mag comes with a blank writable CD with a Batman pic on it, pretty cool! Basically the first two pages introduces the film, I won't bother translating. Christian Bale interview in the last two pages.

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Esquire Hong Kong
July 2008 issue has 2 pages about Giorgio Armani for Bruce Wayne, it's all in Chinese and I don't think there's anything worthy to translate. Just enjoy the pictures! There's also a 1 page print-ad that we've all seen before so I didn't scan it.

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Icons:
[01-02] The Mighty Boosh
[03-09] Sarah Chalke
[10-12] Hayden Panettiere
[13-17] Heroes (Claire Bennet)
[18-24] Doctor Who and Torchwood (contest entries)
[25-36] Batman Begins
[37-45] Christian Bale
[46-57] Stock (Frack Lukasseck photography, horses, kittens, coffee)

Banners:
[58-59] Sarah Chalke
[60-60] Scrubs
[61-61] Hayden Panettiere
[62-62] Heroes
[63-64] Doctor Who and Torchwood (contest entries)
[65-66] Batman Begins
[67-67] Christian Bale

  

Find them here at quotewolf

Christian Bale
The Dark Knight
Gary Oldman
Robert Pattinson
Ben Barnes
Amanda Seyfried
Models/Fashion
Gaspard Ulliel
Louis Garell
RDJ/Indio PEDOBEAROMGILY
1 banner Clemence Poesy



All HERE at silly_whims!

Also, everyone, pls. WATCH the community! :)

http://www.fireflyfans.net/news.asp?newsid=1261

This applies to firefly in the sense that our Cap'n Tightpants could be shamed (of course by ignorant humps, but those ignorant humps are still potential Browncoats) At Comi-Con there have been tal...

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It's not loaded. Please don't sic PETA on my ass.

Frankie insisted on the grainy, B/W, assassin-in-the-newspaper filter. He also says his next victim is going to be a certain ferret-faced little social climber who co-owns a trendy Uptown bar and -- in the latest dramatic twist to this increasingly stupid story -- has been telling his wine guys to discourage other restaurants from hiring Chris because of Chris' alleged "unreliability" and "family problems." Of course, the wine guys just grin and nod as one tends to do in the presence of a loony, then call Chris to laugh about it.

This week, I've been thinking about fic and revision. I'm really lucky to have some amazing friends as beta readers; in fact, I tend to rely on them way too much. ;) When I get a story idea, I'll have brainstorming sessions with friends via IMs, and I'll send them scenes as I write. Once the story's done, I send it to my beta(s) and ask them to go over it for plot, characterization, and grammar. With the one I'm writing now, I finished the first draft on Sunday, but my friends noticed some big problems that have me rewriting and adding a ton of stuff. I'm enjoying it so far, but it's rather daunting!

Since it's been on my mind, I'm curious how others use beta readers and editing in general. Not that it's everyone's cuppa -- I've read some amazing stories that the authors told me they wrote in one sitting. ;) Personally, I've always really valued them, both for brainstorming and to point out things that I missed or don't work. So, for those of you who do have editors, here are a few questions! (Oh, and these questions were edited by my fabulous beta-reader, indigo419. ;)

1. Do you primarily use them for brainstorming or editing?
2. How often do you send drafts? (as you write, or the finished version)
3. What do you value most in a beta reader?
4. Do you prefer someone within your fandom and/or pairing, or someone with a more distanced POV?
5. Any particularly memorable editing experiences? :)

BTW, feel free to reply anonymously!

And here's the daily linkspam:

-- Salon has two TV articles: a review of Mad Men S2 and (old fandom alert!) an ode to the awesomeness of Dana Scully.
-- Galactica Sitrep discovered that Comic-Con is giving journalists temporary tattoos of Kara and Sam's "wings". Oh my god, I want one!
-- TV Squad lists eight 30 Rock guest stars that Emmy forgot. Bonus points for the Dean Winters photo.
-- Vulture wants to know about your secret pop culture shame: classic books/movies you haven't seen. As I've said before, I've never seen the Star Wars or Godfather trilogies, nor do I have any desire to do so. ;)
-- Via Mental Floss: a celebration of popcorn and what if fonts were people?
-- Via Jezebel: I enjoyed this story about a flight attendant and her passengers' crayon art.
-- Consumerist offers 7 ways your public library can help you during a bad economy.
-- I adore the movie Drumline, so I really liked the NYT's article on summer band camp at Florida A&M.
-- And a story after my own reusable-bag-obsessed heart: LA bans plastic shopping bags. Whee!