this is gonna be bonkers. bigger than you could expect. ill be there. you should be too.

I spent my day plotting out intricate Carnivale/Texas Chainsaw Massacre slash.

You can tell it's the holidays, because this time of year my brain goes batshit fucking insane.

(Seriously. I have plot and everything. *bangs head*)

Adam Elmakias - Snakes and Suits clothing shoot from Matt Lingo on Vimeo.

This Providence Snakes and Suits photoshoot with Adam Elmakias

tysm bryceavary you are fabulous
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I may not be able to continue this relentless campaign of denial that I have a cold much longer. *annoyed sniffle* I can still happily and accurately deny that I have the flu, though, so that's good. I know what every single one of my various body aches and pains is from. Apparently my body was not as much on board with me voting myself Queen Of Disco as it led me to believe on the night. Still, I have complete mobility, even if it hurts, so it can't be that bad. (And I probably shouldn't blame the disco, I should blame the hip-hop. I hit that pretty hard. As one does.)

What is good to know is that the Kivilaakso Method of headbanging (do it all-out and do it every day) still works exactly as advertised: almost no whiplash! Despite headbanging hard enough that I almost fell off the stage at one point. I think that may have been what led to the most rockstar way I have ever left a stage: one of my colleagues rushed the stage, threw me over his shoulder, did a victory lap, jumped off, and then dropped me in a chair. I was laughing way too hard to do anything but make rock hands. Epic.

And apparently, if I can believe the gossip, most of the night I looked like I'd worked out choreography in advance. Natural genius? Nope. Honey lager and too many dance shows. Good try though. :D

I am sorry if I sound like I'm too proud of myself, but you have to understand that Sober Pip is the least coordinated, least graceful, most likely to start and end on the wrong foot, hopelessly-whitest dancer going, and it is as much a revelation to me as anyone else that I can dance. Also, I have no proof except the recollections of people who were equally beered, and I can't usually tell if they're praising my skill, my shamelessness, or my stamina. Frankly, that's the way I like it, because if I knew I still looked ridiculous I'd probably never dance in public again. However, I sat out the Electric Slide, so my secret's still safe.

Thank you very much for all the snowflakes! I am delighted to have been thought of. I think I may try to make their real-world counterparts as this year's Christmas cookies. If indeed I ever do get around to baking. Signs point to yes, but not yet.

And apparently I got my final Awful Class project done a week early, because... I don't know what week it is. Stupidity never felt so good. :D

Pip

Overall shot of Attention To Detail Jacket.

My favorite thing we’ve done. Less than 150 available. Goes up for sale Tuesdsay, December 8 at some time. :)

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'I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers, an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.'

Here is the promotions post with all the communities submitted to us this week. If you'd like something promoted for next week, please leave a comment here. :)

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skinswishlist -- A community where you post ten prompts you wish someone can fulfill for you. Who knows, maybe your fandom wish will come true. ( Read more... )
skins20in20 -- This is a community in which participants have twenty days to make twenty icons of a Skins character. I've just put up the voting for Round One, and we'd love for all Skins fans to come and vote.

Mod Note: Please remember to tag your post properly using our existing tags. Also, when posting news and articles, please post them directly to the community; don't just provide a link to your LJ. The point of a community is to share discussions as a group. :)

'I believe the cost of life is death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born.'

Bill Hicks

Round TWO of the "Death Match" poll is now up. This is a "Gladiator" round. The top three characters go into a final round, in which only one will be left standing. (Watch your step, however! Things are tricky as you can only vote for one! Who will you choose?)

LOL

breaking finals-and-life-induced hiatus to say SLDKJSALDJAS THE CAB ON THE AP TOUR!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

goddamn I love those boys. srsly. I am so proud of themmmm! &TheCab; <333


(also, totally owned the speaking portion of my French final. the next two weeks are still going to be hell =\ )

A huge thank you to strikesoftly and oui_mu_sissu for my vgifts! They're probably the closest thing to snow I'll get this christmas, lol. :)

Also, don't forget about my christmas card post if you'd like one from me. I'm going to send them off in the next day or so.

Apparently this is Deleons Doppleganger. Who knew.

Edit JFC : http://apps.facebook.com/facialprofiler/

Give it a go and post your matches.

Today I did nothing but read and reminisce: yesterday we celebrated Sinterklaas. We had loads of fun and loads of presents:) Pictures of our party \o/. It was awesome.

The Onondaga Madonna

She stands full-throated and with careless pose,
This woman of a weird and waning race,
The tragic savage lurking in her face,
Where all her pagan passion burns and glows;
Her blood is mingled with her ancient foes,
And thrills with war and wildness in her veins;
Her rebel lips are dabbled with the stains
Of feuds and forays and her father's woes.

And closer in the shawl about her breast,
The latest promise of her nation's doom,
Paler than she her baby clings and lies,
The primal warrior gleaming from his eyes;
He sulks, and burdened with his infant gloom,
He draws his heavy brows and will not rest.


Watkwenies (The Woman Who Conquered)

Vengeance was once her nation's lore and
law:
When the tired sentry stooped above the rill,
Her long knife flashed, and hissed, and drank its
fill;
Dimly below her dripping wrist she saw,
One wild hand, pale as death and weak as straw,
Clutch at the ripple in the pool; while shrill
Sprang through the dreaming hamlet on the hill,
The war-cry of the triumphant Iroquois.

Now clothed with many an ancient flap and fold,
And wrinkled like an apple kept till May,
She weighs the interest-money in her palm,
And, when the Agent calls her valiant name,
Hears, like the war-whoops of her perished day,
The lads playing snow-snake in the stinging cold.


- Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)


These two pieces are quite beautiful and powerful in their capture of the struggle between past traditions and the present reality that Aboriginals faced in the early 20th century, and continue to face today. I'm writing an analysis concerning the relationship between form and content in both, and any discussion would be welcome!

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky passage.

******


It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.


The Writer by Richard Wilbur

Item One: THIS. Loverly. series of photos from November 24 in London, where the Boosh dresses in drag and some Xmas lights come on in front of a store.....
http://www.accidentalsexiness.com/2009/11/24/mighty-boosh-help-switch-on-the-christmas-lights/
(My opinion is that Noel is a naturally spicy little tranvestite, and everyone else looks like they are trying to be old ladies on Halloween, but you know, my opinion = mine, so what's yours? :)

Item Two: I have a DeviantArt site now here: http://leahjay.deviantart.com/ The 3 Boosh portraits are newly photographed, cropped, edited and all in one place (plus more artwork). Feedback feeds the muse monster, I'm brewing up a Noel/Julian piece in my diseased little mind.....so please come' round, thankees!

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What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.