Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues

I've got two new (well, one new and one I just got around to submitting) DeviantART pieces. Both are available for purchase as prints if you want to make me not poor!

http://mysticalchicken.deviantart.com/#/d4i3zhs - 1920s Girl

http://mysticalchicken.deviantart.com/#/d4iahvr - Awesome Octopus (this one has more print formats)

This needs to be stopped. I don't think I've ever been so pissed off about a bill potentially passing in my life. I swear this thing is so ridiculous that if there were an Island of Ridiculousness the king of said island would be like "...dude, wtf?" I've been signing petitions left and right protesting this thing.





The small glimmer of hope I have is that if it does get past Congress (who seemingly really, really want to pass it), I've heard Obama is against it (and I know Biden is), so there's a chance he'll veto it.

Holy crap I am on a ROLL today. Except the song was Pointer Sisters, not Van Halen. Oh well.



I actually pretty distinctly remember the people falling backward into that giant ... blanket ... towel ... thing.

EDIT: I meant to post this to vintage_ads! But I'll leave it up here anyway. For context, a previous ad I'd posted to that comm (deleted now because I accidentally the rules) mentioned wanting to find this ad as well, but I thought the song in the ad was Van Halen's "Jump".

One of my characters, Shirley the Alien (named after Shirley Manson of Garbage).

Amsterdam! (like that's a surprise) And I'd take anyone who wanted to go with me, I'm not too picky.

For the past couple of weeks, LJ hasn't been sending about half (give or take; just guessing) the comment notifications I should have been getting. Apparently other people have been having this problem too. Hopefully LJ will resolve this soon, I hate having to remember where I've commented/posted and having to go back and check if there are any replies.

A long time ago--when I was three, almost four years old--I used to watch the early '80s TV show Fame. That is, until one episode that traumatised me so badly I refused to watch the show ever again. That episode's title was lost to me over the years; but the one thing that stuck with me for over twenty years was the fact that the episode contained the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (or "the green witch" as I remember calling her. I distinctly remember being all "I'm not watching this show! I don't wanna see the green witch anymore!" because I think I thought she'd be on every episode from then on--such is the logic of a three-year-old), and that, in fact, was what frightened me badly enough to stop watching the show. Problem was, nobody I told about it later on believed me. They all said I was making it up or had imagined it, and I did dozens of fruitless Google (or whatever search engine we used in like 1995) searches when we first got the Internet, and never found it. Part of me thought maybe it had been a false memory, or a very vivid dream, but the other part was like "okay I KNOW this was real, I saw it, I just have to find it again!" I did some off-and-on searching over the years, never finding anything, until one day in I think 2006--23 years after I'd originally seen the episode--I posted a query about it to whatwasthatone (edit: okay, I think it was actually a different comm, because I just searched all my posts in WWTO and didn't find that entry at all). And someone in that comm finally gave me the answer I'd been searching for--in 1983, there was an episode of the second season of Fame where one of the characters hits her head and dreams that she's Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and the WWotW (played by the English teacher) had, indeed, been in the episode. The episode was called "Not In Kansas Anymore". So FINALLY I knew for sure that I hadn't imagined, dreamed, or made it up. Now that I had the title of the episode, I looked for anywhere I could watch it online, and again, had no luck. There were a few clips on YouTube, but not the whole episode, and no clips with the WWotW (I wanted to see if she was really as frightening as I'd perceived her as a kid). I did find it on iTunes, but that was on my old laptop and the episode would not play (fortunately, I got my money back for it). I didn't really think about it until one day this week when nevafeva tweeted something about Fame, and I thought about that episode again and then the thought came to me--"Holy crap, I wonder if it's on Hulu?" So I checked and--it was. Full episode, too. So, twenty-eight years after the episode had first scared the crap out of me, I watched it a second time.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/151850/fame-not-in-kansas-anymore#s-p1-so-i0

As an adult, it didn't really scare me that much, but I can totally see how it would have freaked me out at age 3. Especially with the WWotW's screechy laugh, and that one part where she's riding toward the camera on her bike. Funnily enough I didn't even remember the Eldritch Abomination-esque trees in the Junk Food Forest or whatever they called it, I think those creep me out more now than the WWotW does.

A small (now, anyway) collection of comics featuring the Sabretooth Vampire, by my favorite cartoonist, Mike Russell:

http://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/the-sabretooth-vampire/

My second-favorite part of the movie Tangled (although it's my favorite song of the movie), my favorite part being the boat/lanterns scene--if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about.



Best in full-screen, I think.

Also I made a GIF:



It makes me a little dizzy to watch it, though :p Also there's an icon-sized one, but no direct link to it on GifSoup, so I have to upload it to Imageshack. I'll post it later.

Figured it was about time I changed it. I actually have a shirt that's pretty much exactly like that (although I couldn't get the colors quite the same), it's one of my favorite shirts. That white thing in my hand is an mp3 player I think, it's what it looked like to me anyway. And my hair IRL is actually a bit longer than that but no avatar maker I've ever come across has my exact hairstyle even though it's the simplest. fucking. hairstyle. ever. At least I could get the color of it right.

(But I didn't want that--or any--background; I thought if I didn't choose one I wouldn't get a background, but apparently I did. Oh well.)

So, YouTube is forcing users to link their YT acct with their Google account. This means that if I'm logged out of YT, I have to use my Google Account email (NOT my gmail address) and GA password to log in. The problem? THIS. DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WORK. No matter what combo of email/username and password I tried earlier to log in to YT, NONE of them worked. Google email with YT password? Doesn't work. Google email w/Google pw? Nope. YT username, Google pw? Not that either. And YT username/YT pw has been phased out, according to the message I got.

Before the forced link, I had my YT/Google accounts linked but unlinked them because of this very problem. I guess I'll have to make sure I never get logged out of YT or I'm screwed.

(BTW, I did manage to finally log in, but I had to change my PW to do so. And I don't even know if it's my YT or Google Account pw I changed.)

Definitely, there are books/movies I've read/seen upwards of a dozen or more times. Actually I've seen my favorite movie of all time (The Miracle Worker, 1962) at least fifty times, I think. I don't think I have an "upper limit". If I get the urge to watch/read something, I will, no matter how many times I've seen or read it.

And in fact, if I watch a movie or read a book more than once, I end up finding stuff in them that I missed the first time. Hell, sometimes I don't notice stuff until, say, the fifth time through.

A crow, for the sole purpose of being able to name it Naesala. A million points if you get the reference.

(Also because crows are awesome.)

Sleep.

All I remember of this morning's dream was that I knew telekinesis and spent quite a bit of time moving something large and heavy (a safe, I think?) back and forth, away from/towards me. There was no real reason for it, it was just a "Hey, look what I can do!"-type thing.

Speaking of dreams, I saw Inception last night at the Laurelhurst. It was awesome (although kind of confusing). I have to get it on DVD when it comes out.

I was going to post this earlier and forgot, and I've forgotten quite a bit of it, but what I do remember is that I was in my bathroom and there was a devil's coach horse in there as well, skittering around in the bathtub and up the walls and whatnot. Those things freak me the fuck out so I was trying to get away from it. (I don't know why I didn't just leave the bathroom, but hey, it was a dream.) The DCH scuttled onto the ceiling and then dropped down, but somehow it had turned into a huge metallic-green beetle (although in the dream I called it a cicada, for some reason). Either it landed in my hand or I picked it up (I'm not freaked out by beetles) and it sat on my palm. It was huge, nearly as big as my hand, and I could feel its weight. It buzzed its wings a little bit. I don't remember what I did with it, but I do remember it turned kind of a dull yellow when it wasn't in the light.

Oh my god, I could not stop laughing at this:



It's based on an old Hyperbole And A Half post.

Apparently there's a video going around showing a woman (or possibly a man) in some extra footage of a Charlie Chaplin movie from 1928, who appears to be holding a cell phone to her (his?) ear and talking into it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9f-s0KmOU&feature=related

And everyone's like OMG TIME TRAVELER, SHE HAS A CELL PHONE! There are, however, a few things wrong with that assumption, not the least of which is, if it is a cell phone, it wouldn't work anyway as there were no cell towers back then. Personally I think it's a hearing aid, although I really can't see anything in her hand at all anyway. She might have a toothache and was holding her knuckles against her cheek (I do that sometimes), or she might have been scratching her ear, or trying to keep her hat on. But seriously, people, there is no way it could have been a cell phone.

A few people mentioned she wouldn't have been able to talk to anyone in any case as nobody else would have had a cell phone. I think these people are forgetting--as I admittedly did for a few minutes--that cell phones can call land lines as well, which had definitely been invented by the late '20s, although you would still need a cell tower to get a signal. Still, the woman was not holding a cell phone--if she was holding anything at all. When the video changes scenes and fades and the woman starts to turn toward the camera, you can just barely see her starting to take her hand down, and she opens her fingers just slightly and there is nothing in her hand that I can see.

Music. EDIT: CRAP I MISREAD THE QUESTION. Changing it to TV. (I think I thought it said which would you choose to keep, or something.)

(It took me about three seconds to decide this, seriously)