Donate $25 or more to your local food bank and enter to win a free Jayne hat!

Details at http://www.valeriebean.com/jaynehats4turkeys/

Hi all! I keep hearing how 1 in 8 Americans struggle with hunger, and so inspired, I donated to my local food bank. Then I thought of Jayne Hats for Turkeys.

Many food banks have special programs to provide a holiday meal - turkey and all the trimmings - to low income families who can't afford the luxury. It is one of the few times during the year that food banks will collect perishable items. $25 is all it takes to feed a family.

Donate to your local food bank (or equivalent hunger-fighting charity), let me know, and you could win yourself a very cunning hat. (See website for details on how to enter.)

I'm making no restrictions by country. The point is to feed the hungry. Please spread the word.

Thanks,
valeriebean

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We're having a Glee-a-thon and I'm noticing random hilarious stuff.

Example: In Preggers, Brittany seems genuinely disappointed that Kurt doesn't choose her to be his fake girlfriend in front of his dad.

I like you, don't get wrong, although you do have a tendency to annoy me at times.  However,  this is something I've been wanting to bring up for a while and while I can't really call you out to your face, I've finally decided to at least say something because it's been driving me up the wall.  Yes we play some of the same characters and our characterization of them are markedly different and while I may not be perfect, I'm a damn sight more IC than you are.  The characters in question are respectively.
A) emotionally cold and calculating. He doesn't do public displays of affection and he's certainly not going to change his mode of speaking to someone because it /hurts/ their feelings he calls them the same name he has for over a decade.  You have to /read/ between the lines here.  He's never been someone who really deals well with pointless social chatter.

B) reserved as hell. He has occasional lapses but for the most part, he doesn't let himself be swayed by emotion.  He chooses his words and actions carefully and he follows orders,  whether he agrees with said orders or not.  He was trained to do his job by a man who wouldn't tolerate half the outbursts I've seen you make icly. 

I've even shown your profile to people who are in the fandom and don't know you personally and the reactions have pretty much confirmed that you can't handle this character in a remotely ic way,  but you're always right so it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

So glad I'm not playing with you anymore.

Can we just get over this mush and on to business? We have a universe to save, an alternate dimension to prevent.

I think there's a reason my possible marysue character is turning evil. Just cause you "good side" people have too many love affairs.

This is just irritating the bejesus out of me, and the fact that the villian character I am supposed to co-conspire with is absent EVERY TIME I have available net.

Doesn't help that my computer crashed this week. Just makes me more mad.

[[duly note: this RP comm IS NOT on LJ - maybe that's why it sucks]]

This is an old one, but still annoying. It happened to my best friend on her RPing board (which we are now trying to revamp and revive, so that may have been what reminded me) and just made us both boggle. I'm typing this out with her on the phone.

( In which I abuse brackets a lot. )Because of all this drama right in it's opening days (and the copious pornage) the board never really got off the ground. Cynic ended up getting really put off the board and it all just died. That said, we're actually trying to get it back up again, revamping the backstory (and adding a wiki to it, if I have my way) and just making it better than before and a lot more coherent. Hopefully it'll work out this time.

And we're not telling them about it either.

Not even sock-puppeting this one. All that needs to be said can be said just by copy-and-pasting the question I just got from an applicant.

"Does the writing sample have to be something I wrote?"

Thanks everybody. G'night. Be sure to lock up on your way out.

Code Geass 20x
Gundam 15x
Final Fantasy 50x
Legend of Zelda 15x
Heroes/Heroes Cast 15x
Twilight/Twilight Cast 15x



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Congratulations to T Shadix, whose winning song parody of Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" earned 34 percent of the vote this week. We're having so much fun with these weekly contests, and we hope you are, too -- judging by the quality of the entries we're getting, you must be. So thank you!

And without further ado, the victorious caption:



"I Kissed A Girl/Missed the Wall"
 

This guy at Sears whose name was Stan
Sold me a Craftsman
I got so drunk, drill in hand
Lost my direction
It's not what, I aimed for
Just wanna hang a pic
I'm feeling blue 'cause I've
Drilled through my small intestine

I missed the wall and I'd like it
If you could call a medic
I missed the wall and my thigh's hit
I hope Sears will refund it
It felt so wrong
To drill so quite
Close to my innards tonight
I missed the wall, ow my right hip
My right hip.

-- T Shadix

See you on Friday with a new challenge.

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I feel like I'm the only person who hasn't really warmed up to NBC's Community. It keeps getting these slavish reviews, but in my -- admittedly limited -- viewings, the number of times I've laughed are outweighed by the moments in which I've realized I was boredly staring off into space, and had to say, "Wait, what's going on? I zoned out." I think it's because the show in part revolves around the assumption that the Joel McHale character is the kind of charming rogue who can make you love him even when he's being a douche, and in fact, I just think he's a smug asshat most of the time. ANYWAY. I'm sure I will eat those words in a few weeks, because that usually happens to me.

Let me endeavor to write words that will NOT become my dinner:



I do not think Community's Gillian Jacobs made a stellar choice here. The dress might be made of the most expensive fabric woven from unicorn hair, black pearls, and the tears of a clown, but it photographs like it's shiny construction paper. And I can't decide if the epaulets are TOO Liza Minnelli, just Liza Minnelli ENOUGH, or merely the shards of David Gest's wedding toupee in search of a new purpose. It's a lot to feel at once.

I swear to god, my room is never cleaner, my stuff is never more organized, I never read as many books, as when I have A TON OF SHIT TO DO.

I wish I had hateable's problem of not being able to let homework sit for a minute. I let it sit and ROT forever.

Teach me your ways, non-procrastinators. I will pay you. With the money I do not have.

Do any of you play Kingdom of Loathing?

I hobbled back to it after a long departure. I am so lost!

i'm Extra Flamey on there. Hit me up sometime! I have like 10 million meat and a crapload of food, drinks so much inventory I don't know what to do with it. Presents!

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Stephanie Jacobsen is on the shockingly watchable new Melrose Place as the Med Student Who Pays The Bills With Prostitution (not a spoiler, since she turned to the oldest profession in the pilot). And she is much prettier than this:



That dress is a very, very sad sack. It could even be an ugly shirt over a mini-skirt. All I know is, she has no business wearing a glorified lobster bib to a party unless her date is a man-sized crustacean.

She also needs to learn a thing or two about short skirts and posing. This is safe for work, so no fear:


Of course, it's safe for work ONLY by the grace of whatever higher power you believe takes an interest in such things. I felt, looking at these photos, like I do whenever I watch a figure-skating routine after the kid has already fallen: I'm wincing, I'm tense every time the person takes off on another jump, I scrunch up my face in anticipation of CERTAIN DOOM, and I sit there going, "Oh, this probably is NOT going to end well." What can I say? I have empathy. Also, I've seen Ice Castles. When she fell SHE WENT BLIND. Fortunately Stephanie Jacobsen is not at risk of going blind if she bends too far backward and her Melrose pops out, unless of course the aforementioned deity in charge of clothing becomes furious and strikes her retinas with lightning. But STILL. She might want to take care. Especially if she believes in that particular deity.

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NICOLE KIDMAN: That's right, bitches! THE RED HAIR IS BACK.

KEITH URBAN: Can't see from my facial expression how relieved I am by this development?

NICOLE: Can't you see from MY facial expression that I know how HOT I look? And please, can it with all the "you don't HAVE facial expressions, Nicole" comments. I'M JUST SERENE IN MY TITIAN HOTNESS.

KEITH: Can't you see from my facial expression that I'm stoked that tonight's outfit didn't require chestal-waxing?

NICOLE: Can't we stop talking about you? And focus on ME?

KEITH: Yes, honey. Trust me, we're all glad you're back.

TITLE: Nothing Like Love to Pull You Up (4/?)
FANDOM: Glee
PAIRING: Rachel/Quinn
SUMMARY: Several years later, Quinn and Rachel reconnect.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 1000
SPOILERS: Anything through Mash-Up is fair game.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine. Just playing with them. They promise to keep their hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times.
NOTES: I've seen "Madison" used as the name for Quinn's baby a couple times, now, and I like it. So, I ran with it. This is to be a lengthy bit of fluff/angst/shippiness to balance out all that porn. The title's from a Celine Dion song of which I prefer a certain cover. I don't know how long this will be, but I have a long way which I'd like to see it go. As if I needed another WIP. But, really, I did. So, let's roll.
MORE NOTES: This is actually a sequel to Like a Record, Baby. And thanks to everyone who has already commented. Also, this fic very easily might take over my NanoWrimo project, so there's a strong possibility that this might be taking off toward 50,000 words. ;)

( And maybe it's not meant to last )

Below is a link to an interview with Pushing Daisies' Michael Wylie, winner of the 2009 Creative Arts Emmy for Best Art Direction. Figured it may be an interesting read for those curious and die hard...errr... pie-holers? Pie-tards? Pie-eaters?

May be a bit TL;DR for some people but I loved the sets so much in PD. He definitely deserved the Emmy nod.

http://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/screen/question-answer/1056-michael-wylie-not-doing-this-for-attention-but-deserves-it

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Behold socialite and "actress" Byrdie Bell:



ARE WE SERIOUSLY GOING HERE? I CAN'T.

37 Ed Westwick
18 Keira Knightley
18 Sarah Michelle Gellar
10 Blake Lively
24 Emma Watson
8 Mulan
10 Julie Benz
35 Jack/Elizabeth (POTC)
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Dear RP Partner I've Been Trying My Damnedest to Ignore,

Stop making all your female characters so over-sexualized no matter how OOC it is for them. Please, I beg you. Not every woman you play has to be a sex symbol because more often than not, they are so very very far from it. People have tried to correct you both gently and not-so-gently but you refuse to listen to them and it makes me rage a good deal. So for the sake of my blood pressure, either kindly realize that not all women need to be over-sexed or stop playing female characters all-together.

I Regret Giving You My Phone Number Everyday,
Kat