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Okay, this afternoon unamaga and I were reflecting on our continued joy re: the Obama administration not being the Bush administration, and some of the awesomely hilarious informal "campaign materials" that came out during the elections, particularly the Obama and Biden macros. (Probably NSFW due to a lot of profanity.) "His font got serifs goddam" has stuck with me to this day.

Then, as things inevitably do, I pointed out that Castiel needed a macro. Mel agreed.

( you want him to do your taxes look at that fucking coat )

Yeah, I know.

(Back tonight with Day of Happiness #3! The happy thing just needs to happen, but I'm pretty sure it will.)

Really, how awesome was Aretha Franklin's inauguration hat? So awesome I had to spend my evening with it. These are supposed to be, kinda-sorta, vinyl album covers. *facepalm*

.previews: (all 400.400px)



( soul train! )

Technically the wee previews are icons, so you can snag them if you want ♥

There are things I should be working on, because... well, there are lots of things to do, but it's been a week. Not only did we have a Major Historical Event in the election of Barack Obama to the office of President (Woo hoo! Woo hoo!), but a Somewhat Minor Historical Event in my submission of my dissertation proposal and chapter to the graduate college so I can defend them.

Woo hoo! Woo hoo!

Anyway, my roommate has been watching Charlie's Angels (the series) for some women in popular culture class, and...

( Ronon, John, Rodney = Teyla's, like, Angels or something that doesn't sound so ridiculous )

I'm sorry, this is what my brain does when I don't keep an eye on it.

.eta: I have been meaning to post it, but I am dumb and forgetful... anyway *cough* Over at artword, the ever-so-awesome newkidfan has started posting the fifteen stories and art pieces from the Round Robin challenge. Woo hoo! I have participated in a wee bit of writing here, and committed art here and here. Go checkitouuuut!

This is what my brain does after being forced to contemplate things like Latin and grant applications and proposals.

( Rodney = Antiques Roadshow appraiser, y/y? )

I've seen that "your week in pictures" meme going around, and it occurred to me that, while it would be fun to do, I'd never actually finish because I'm always forgetting my camera when I go out. That, and my days lately usually involve wandering between a chair in the kitchen and my desk chair, and my living room is not very picturesque.

But, speaking as one who spends a bit of time here, I like the things that happen to wander into the sphere of influence around my desk.

( brownie cookies! hats! dogs! lolcats! PANDAS! )

I recently redid my layouts for aesc and discolore and yes, I did slash my headers.



( why you so dirty? )

Don't look at me like that.

.eta: eeeee thegrrrl2002 wrote a lovely bit of commentfic, where John has decided to be belligerent about marrying Rodney! It finishes off this thread and its particular comment is here.

I wasn't intending to spam today (one more thing tonight and then that's it, I swear), but this is something very ridiculous I doodled for cesperanza, a scrap from the sensationalist memoir In the Halls of the Ancients, as described here.

The angel of history is a voyeur and likes unauthorized biographies.

( Iram Nos once wrote, 'You who write, seek the truth in all things.' And when I found John Sheppard and Rodney McKay in a clinch in a far-flung corner of Atlantis, I knew I had found it, and so much more. )

.eta: Excerpt from Chapter 10. Threesome?

1: meeeep... Thank you to those who commented on my paintedspires piece :"> It suffered from two false starts, a sinus infection, endless retractions, and in the end its minimalism was mostly a function of "crap, I have to post tomorrow." It's also the first time I've tried to tell a story in under 100 words, and for a person who clings to verbosity, it was... unnerving.

2: My brain has taken a beating for the past week, in the form of endless, endless amounts of copiously boring work. Metaphorically, my current task has been described as "mind-numbing," and according to Discovery News (thank you Gmail!), your brain really does go numb, or something like it when you do these sorts of things. Reading two foreign-language texts simultaneously to see how one (which is an extremely, extremely loose translation of the other) departs from the other and then typing out the relevant passages from both (when one requires a whole host of special characters and mysterious keystrokes) is probably the least glamorous part of my very not-glamorous field, and my cortex is feeling every stultifying second of it.

So I am not responsible for what you will read next.

3: In the spirit of the radium-coated tie, another "cool" thing from vintage_ads that John Sheppard would buy:

( Not a girdle! 100% undetectable! [not radioactive] )

In other news: It's been sort of a sucky two weeks. The dogs were up at an unreasonable hour, barking unreasonably and making me unreasonable in the process. I want to go back to sleeeep.


ETA: Oh oh, and technology recs! I am going to use my tax return to invest in a tablet, I think. I really really achingly want one. Do any of you technological art people know of a good tablet, somewhere in the $250-$300 range? I could maybe go a bit higher, depending on the level of bookbuying extravagance I achieve at Big Conference in a couple weeks.

For reasons of economy:

1: Written for mcsmooch: Office Hours (John/Rodney, Restoration Hardware AU), in which we learn that Rodney's second base is comprehensively stolen.

2: THEY ARE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. Our fandom brings the crack, and it is good.

3: Because some of you seemed to like it, more Beokitteh, the next twenty-eight lines or so, cut for length.

( Thar wuz big boat on teh beachez (not failboat)/all icy n stuffs, pimped out liek woah! )

In other news: I don't know why I haven't done this before now, but I downloaded Trillian, so I'm reliably aesc36 on MSN, Yahoo, and AIM.

John Sheppard has this tie. You must read the ad copy, because it's awesome.

( There's no trick, no hidden batteries, no switches or foolish horseplay, but a thing of loveliness )

In other news: New Hewlett icon! \o/

And, for those of you still around or just tuned in, model!John and reporter!Rodney improv with siriaeve.