to find the truth you've got to read between the lines

(cliche_bingo #1. food, cooking & mealtimes)

Or: Writing George & Winona Kirk is trying to reverse-engineer two people who could raise TOS!Jim Kirk, and cherry-picking bits and pieces of his personality along with bits and pieces of nuTrek!Jim's personality (the overlap being Jim and the divergence being possibly owed to parental influence) and I don't think I could have written this story without having seen any Original Series.


ETA: 2,450 words and not even close to done, oh dear.

1x10, Dagger of the Mind:


I did not expect this show to be outright awesome when I started watching it! I was expecting something campy and fun and not thoughtful and smart and -

Awesome episode. (I would love love love to see, 1) for Dr. Noelle show up in the next reboot movie and 2) someone to write the events of this episode with the reboot characters.)

I love my show.


Once again I passed out late in the afternoon and woke up at 9:45; I watched Royal Pains (LOVE. just - it does not capture my heart like Burn Notice does but it does provide me with some A++ television entertainment), then made peanut butter cookies and caught the 12:00AM airing.

( what is it about my shows and my bulletproof literary kinks and the constant parade of awesome? )

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( speculation )

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Watched TOS episode Miri today. ( spoilers )

I'm trying a few different variants and picking the one I like best for otakon - I still need to hit party city for some liquid latex + cream makeup + greasepaint.

This version uses foundation (about two shades too light for me), flour and a combination of purple & green eyeshadows (on the eyes and cheeks.)

I'll probably keep the eyes and ditch the flour; I don't think it'll have staying power over the course of the con and I'd have to bring a green-tinted batch as well as a black-tinted batch.



( full serving size of BRAAAAAAINS )

Q. Does anyone have a copy of An Inconvenient Truth and/or a youtube link to the part where Al Gore talks about how NOT AWESOME it would be if the Greenland Ice Shelf fell into the Atlantic Ocean?

A summary of how the aforementioned NOT AWESOME might go down would also make me happy.


It is for research!

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Also: I am going to otakon! I get my train tickets tomorrowish (The car: it is not dealt with, woe!) and will be tooling around with pico_the_great and autophanous (with whom I am riding up on the train) and would like to meet up with people for the purpose of HANGING OUT AND STUFF. (If someone with a laptop would allow me to commandeer it so as to dump files from my camera (32MB memory card, woe!) to my ipod I would LU forever.)

I may be running around in a bathrobe + towel + flamingo pajama ensemble proclaiming DON'T PANIC. Or as a zombie, IDK.

I am also interested in the How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse and the Steampunk Fashion And Gadgetry panels.

Yes the series finished airing before most of my flist was born, but I and others like me are watching spoiler-free (well, as spoiler-free as you can get with things that have entered pop culture by osmosis, see also: the zillion and one Kirk/Tribblepile icons floating aroubd LJ).

Episodes watched:

+ Where No Man Has Gone Before
+ The Man Trap
+ Charlie X
+ The Enemy Within (currently paused as I make this post)

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I am surprised by the number of ladies in the background! With or without spoken lines, I would be unsurprised if TOS Starfleet had a population of appx 50% XX-chromosome bearing individuals! (This is pretty awesome to me.)

And now I need a TOS icon or ten.

I stayed up until six in the morning, slept for five hours, woke up and had tea + breakfast (fried eggs + fried potatoes; I have not had such a breakfast in ages and it was absolutely worth the mess and the caloric load currently sitting in my stomach. the only thing missing was bacon, although cooking fat consisted of 1/3 bacon fat:2/3 olive oil.)

Tonight: Write or Die party with wizefics, possibly calling of my parents/other relatives and sleep sometime *before* six in the morning.

today is going to be a good day.

Okay so, who's going to write me the story where Spock and Teal'c meet and compare notes on their many and storied experiences with the weird earthlings?

The Backstory:

Some months back, dungeonwriter posed the question of whether, in an Italian dinner, margarine is an adequate substitute for the butter on garlic bread. (Cliff's Notes Context: Kosher dinner. Real butter garlic bread + meat sauce = badness.)

My first instinct at the time (myself being deep in the center of my vegetarian phase) was to answer "margarine? on garlic bread? EW." and to suggest real garlic bread with real butter alongside a vegetarian lasagna or pasta primavera, concerns over potential social faux pas re: serving a vegetarian dinner to non-vegetarians aside.

What I actually wound up suggesting was a roasted garlic spread which does not try to be butter. Today, I field-tested it. And OMG, I may never stop smelling like a field of garlic and I do not care because it is the most delicious thing I have ever tasted in my life.

A brief digression on the natures of butter and garlic:( Read more... )


The Recipe: ( Read more... )

Yields slightly more than 1/4 c. of spread.

I suggest making 2-3 heads worth of spread for every two people you're serving. Multiplying the recipe by 8 should be simplest.

1. If you were to have a scholarship created in your honor, what qualities would you look for in applicants (leadership, service, GPA, etc.)?


By recognizing that high school is in fact not the most important period of a person's life, and that activities a student participates in during high school are often driven by the desire to look better for colleges and scholarship boards rather than any real or heartfelt desire to make the world a better place, extra curricular activities would not be required. (Preference would be given to students with fewer or no extra curricular activities, although this would not be disclosed.)

I'd like a minimum GPA of 3.5 or of 3.0 with extenuating circumstances.
1-2 letters of recommendation (from a teacher or counselor).
An outline of the student's home situation, if student seeks "extenuating circumstances" exemption re: GPA.
A record of student's attendance (preference given to students who miss 50% or more of their classes while maintaining the minimum GPA).

Once enrolled in accredited college of their choice, a winning student would be required to maintain a 3.5 minimum GPA and to complete their degree in four years.


2. Who would be eligible to apply for your scholarship (members of a certain major, ethnic group, sexuality, etc.)?


Students who choose to test out of high school rather than complete their diploma. (Note: test out rather than drop out, a la the California High School Proficiency Exam*), and who seek admission to an out-of-state university.


3. Would it be need-based or not? Why?


Partially. There are plenty of merit-based scholarships available already, and mine would target intelligent-but-bored students. Financial need (as this would ideally be a four-year, full-ride scholarship) would be a deciding factor.



4. What would you call it?


Working name: The "Just Get Me Out of Here Already Scholarship."


5. If you made applicants write an essay, what would the topic be?


Why high school isn't the place for me.

*A CHSPE certificate carries the weight of a high school diploma by California state law; it is NOT a GED.

Can you tell that said scholarship would seek out students like me?

Re: the sleeping/breathing well several of y'all have put forth:

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Isn't the human body amazing?

My persistent exhaustion: any idea what's causing it?


eree + boo consensus = not mono (fact: have enough energy to get downstairs for food, but not much more than that)

Allergic to Richmond allergies now in full swing.

Fuck My Life.

Unrelenting low-grade distracting headache for the past four days, along with slightly runny nose & itchy eyes. The exhaustion isn't fun either.

Briefly: ( spoilers? )

ETA: No, my entry isn't redacted: it's spoiler'd out. Hilight it to read & hover over the grey bits for information on the type of spoiler.

Can we just subtitle this episode "MICHAEL IS A GODDAMN BLOCKHEAD" and be done with it?

Which, the way he's been acting this season is such a guy way to behave - digging in his heels and ignoring the last two seasons of character development and what he needs - what he really needs - is a swift kick in the pants and/or the revelation that he was going to be burned anyway, and perhaps more importantly for something he actually did.

Dear Costuming Department: Gabrielle Anwar is hot. This is a given. Can we not dress her in the most unflattering clothing on the face of the earth (this goes double for DVD cover art)? PLEASE?

A+ episode, discounting the ending. good god! YES MICHAEL YOU MIGHT UNDERGO SOME GROWTH AS A HUMAN BEING. Can we stop shoving it under the bed and pretending it doesn't exist PLEASE?

Madeline had the best lines and Sam had the best arc (OMG. SAM. BACKSTORY. STACY ILUUUUU A LOT! I can't believe Sam dated his mom but omg, it was awesome and unexpected and AWESOME. WHERE HAVE I SEEN STACY BEFORE?)

Also the change of heart ♥. Made of win! (Awesome use of voiceovers, too, especially in that scene but also overall.)

Detective Paxson? Awesome, and hot, and scary and passionate and I kindof want to be her when I grow up. I hope she comes back! I hope Agent Bly comes back! I hope they both come back in the same episode! (I kindof ship it, so help me.)

The Philadelphia Story: Awesome movie, why did it take me so long to see it?

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY PARTY POST!!

* why am I so tired?

* also "allergic to richmond" allergies are back. apparently they run end of june to end of october?

* everyone should go read and love on the dangers of improper usage by thistlerose, in which Uhura saves the day with grammar.

* because I am terrible at remembering actors (autophanous can attest to this fact), I did not realize that Zoe Saldana was in pirates of the caribbean. WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT SHE ALSO PLAYED ANAMARIA? (who is only my FAVORITE CHARACTER in the WHOLE GODDAMN TRILOGY??)

I am not #401 thank Jesus.

( MY BINGO CARD!! )

My cliche_bingo card has all of my bulletproof kinks and I am totally doing a blackout.

SHOW.

This episode is everything I love about this show wrapped up in a shiny package and mailed via UPS. Just -- EVERYTHING.

MY GLEE I CANNOT CONTAIN IT.

I have seriously just been provided with everything I wanted to happen in this season.