Crowded Upstairs

ryttu3k made me a present last night.

I love when people draw me pictures!

maddarilke makes my night by posting, among other things, thusly:

I have been re-reading TPDoEQ from the beginning. It is so dense that I've not even arrived to Bessie's first kidnapping, LOL. ;) I'm remembering some things about it that I'd forgotten, and discovering things I'm sure I hadn't noticed the first few (hundred) times. You know, I know you are a fabulous writer, and that your efforts unrelated to TPDoEQ are just as amazing, but it really is as phenomenal as your fangirls have been telling you, over the years. oxoxoxox

Thank you. :)

I only have a few minutes before I chain myself to my diabolical kitchen and attempt to scrub it clean. Yes, my kitchen is evil. No, I'm not making that up. Really.

Anyway. Today for lunch I went to Subway to try the sweet onion teriyaki chicken sandwich that Jared keeps banging on about in the commercials. That was, no exaggeration, one of THE best sandwiches I have ever tasted. Srsly. If you like that kind of thing, you should definitely try it. Plus I won a free cookie, so bonus.

I have a fundraising committee meeting tonight (blargh) but they're usually short so I can't bitch too much. Until then, I've vowed to continue my semi-productive streak and, as mentioned, clean the kitchen. However, to make this miserable situation more palatable, I've got the CD player hooked up and will be listening to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix while I clean. It was my intention to read one book every day this week, so that I would be pumped and ready and up to speed by Friday night, but it just hasn't worked out that way. Fortunately, I've read the first four books so many times I know them practically by heart, so I can sort of skip them. But I've only read book five twice and listened to it once, and I've only read book six once and never actually listened to it at all.

I'm coming to the conclusion that part of the reason my kitchen is always a certifiable mess is the fact that it is so TINY. (Those of you who have seen it can vouch for its size.) I mean, the kitchen in terms of available square footage is actually smaller than my bathroom. And we have so many dishes and appliances and things that I'm at a loss what to do with them all. I've been trying to root out the dishes we don't really want so I can donate them to the local homeless shelter, but oddly, it doesn't seem to be making any notable difference in the amount of useful space. Also, my floor is unspeakably hideous; it and the cabinetry date from roughly the 1950s, and it shows. And it's kind of annoying to have the washing machine in there. The boys (meaning Kevin and Andy) keep promising to move the washer into the laundry room, but I don't know when exactly they plan on doing this.

I love my house, but sometimes I wish I could just wave a wand and instantly fix the things that are wrong with it. And at the same time, make a few other changes. The house was built in 1875 -- isn't it a crime that a house that old doesn't have even one secret passage? I think so. :)

Home alone, because I'm a nice wife and suggested Kevin go spend some time with his best friend. Stole a meme from Clez to pass the time. Thought I'd show off the shiny new icon she found, too -- it's made by spubba, and it's McKay and Zelenka from Stargate Atlantis. Meanwhile, meme. ( Fandoms ahoy. )

This will really only interest valerious013 and _revolutionary, but I think I've found the discrepancy in the argument. ( Read more... )

I have a new icon. It was made by alapsuscalami and found for me by valerious013. However, I know some of you have not yet seen GOF, and are annoyed by the possibility of any spoilers, so I'll tuck it under a cut so you don't have to see it.

( Cut to protect the spoiler-wary. )

It just gets worse, I think.

Okay, so valerious013 and I are writing that story. For our hero, she cast Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as he appears in two different productions. For his darker/crazier moods, we use his look from the BBC television movie Gormenghast. When he's happy/cured, we use his look from The Lion in Winter with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close. (I watched that last night for the first time, and it's fantastic.)

Gormenghast is another fun instance of a whole lot of my fandoms slamming into each other. Because the cast includes:

~ Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths, Zoe Wanamaker and Stephen Fry. In the Harry Potter movies, Shaw and Griffiths play Harry's nasty Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, and Wanamaker plays the Hogwarts flying instructor, Madam Hooch. Stephen Fry isn't in the movies, but he reads the British editions of the books on audio cassette and CD.

~ Christopher Lee, who is an entire fandom collision unto himself. Count Dooku, Saruman, King Haggard; the man is everywhere, pure and simple. If he was cast in the Harry Potter movies at some point, I wouldn't be surprised.

~ Neve McIntosh, who plays Beryl Stapleton in the 2002 BBC version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. That's the one featuring Richard Roxburgh (LXG's M/The Fantom) as Sherlock Holmes and Ian Hart (Sorcerer's Stone's Professor Quirrell) as Dr. Watson.

Is it any wonder that I renamed my website When Fandoms Collide?

*grumbles loudly*

http://www.biglight.com/blog/2005/11/night-stalker-finis.html

Another good show bites the dust.

Rather than a regular review, I got an actual fan letter. This is...weird. Moving. Startling.

Slight editing to maintain privacy and correct a few small writing errors. ( People really love Elizabeth Quatermain, for some reason. )

Swiped from clez, it's the icon meme! (I have more icons on this journal at present, so I'll do it here.)

( Iconses, precious. )