Current Mood: awake

Torchwood

After seeing some of the buzz around fandom and having a great fear of being spoiled, I caved and downloaded Torchwood Children of Earth. Having stayed up until after freaking 2:00 am Saturday night watching and then finishing the last two eps on Sunday morning, and after adequate time to think rationally, I can state with authority: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I thought it was masterful, most of it. Oh, there were the usual plot holes and WTF moments, and it's a little hard to believe the British Home Office would have such astoundingly bad security, and it got (IMO) a little too heavily into the angst-and-tears department, but overall I loved it. Except for...... stuff I won't spoil for. AAAGGGGGG!!!!!

Current Mood: depressed

Sad

I heard about Farrah Fawcett at lunchtime today. While I was never a fan, she was a big icon of my youth and showed considerable talent in her roles after Charlie's Angels. Sad as her death is, everyone was expecting it.

When I heard about Michael Jackson over the radio in the grocery store, it was a complete shock. I'm surprised at how upset I am. It'll make no sense to people for whom he's always been that creepy pedophile guy, but he was an amazing and charismatic talent. Whatever bad he's done, that's what I'm remembering now.

Current Mood: awake

Happy Birthday

To my first friend in fandom,
to one of the first writers in Power Rangers fandom,
and still one of the best writers in Power Rangers fandom,
to a wonderful author,
a force in the fandom,
a great friend,
and a terrific person:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, germankitty!!!!!

Current Mood: confused

Question for my FL

I'm toying (rather seriously) with the idea of getting a personal domain and using it for a permanent email address that won't be affected by my ISP or a hosting site going out of business or not providing POP3 service. Since I suffered total brain-freeze trying to decide whether to go with .org or .net or .me or .name (which seems hard to register for some reason), or .us or WHATEVER, I thought I'd ask if anyone out there has done this (I seem to remember someone mentioning it) and if you have any advice or suggestions.

Thanks!

Current Mood: accomplished

Birthday Greetings!

New Hampshire is yay!

California is fail! (Well, for now.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,

starandrea!

Title: A Walk in the Park (You’ll never know how much I wanted to call this “Dog Day Afternoon”.)
Fandom: Power Rangers Time Force
Descriptors: Fluff, slash, Wes/Eric, puppy!
Summary: Eric had decided months ago he would never have another pet. Sometimes life has other ideas.
Rating: PG-ish

( Have a slice of Wes/Eric/puppy birthday fic. )

DW invites

I have ~~two~~ ~~one~~ no Dreamwidth invite codes if anyone wants them - just ask.

Both taken!

lilyleia78 tells me she has two unused codes as well. Contact her either directly or through me if you're interested.

Current Mood: awake

More random thoughtage

My cat Dusty is doing excellently, and had his stitches out yesterday. All is well for now on the kitty front, despite the fact that during his recovery I managed to accidentally drug the wrong cat with painkiller. She was so funny - sat on the fridge staring into space until I lifted her down, and then looked around wildly like "Where am I? Who am I?"

Dick Cheney. Sorry, dude - while you make excellent points about terrorist imprisonment and interrogation and I agree with at least some of what you say, all that self-righteous indignation over the word 'torture' just makes you a colossal hypocrite. Call it 'enhanced interrogation' all you want; we know what it really is.

RPM: I like this season more and more. It's got a subtly more adult perspective and a lot of self-awareness, like Ninja Storm did. LOVED the "Why do we have to scream 'RPM GET IN GEAR' every time we morph?" and "What's with the fiery explosions?" ( Spoilers for Brother's Keeper. )

And I'm writing a Wes/Eric/puppy OTP for

starandrea. Life is good.

Current Mood: awake

Dreamwidth account

I've ~~become a sheep~~ branched out to Dreamwidth. Anything I post here will be crossposted on LJ for the foreseeable future. Account name is cmar - nice to get exactly the name I wanted!