Blog Entries For APRIL 2010

Entries are sorted in chronological order with most recent entries at the bottom of the page.

Passin' the sticky...
Thursday, 01 April 2010 04:53:13

Hey, that sounds kinda dirty, don't it? Hehe. Maybe I need a bath... Good thing I'm here with a cat and not a mess of puppies, cause I am covered in juicy beef drippings. Preacher's dogs would have me on the ground by now, but the cat could give a damn. She's picky that way. Good thing. I had one of those Italian Beef sandwiches, the kind they dip in the juice before they give it to ya. I'm kind of a messy eater anyway, but I cannot even begin to impart to you the level of mess that just occurred here. I had to take off my watch to eat, cause I just knew I was gonna be a total pig about it. Seriously, do you think folks would look at me funny if I just wore one of those plastic poncho things? It probably wouldnt do anything about the greasy residue on my elbows, but at least it might save some of my shirts. We ate pasta the other day, and I got marinara sauce on my shoulder. Not down the front of me, or on my sleeve. On my SHOULDER. How the hell do you get sauce on your shoulder?! And it won't come out, either. I don't understand it. I'm not going all medieval in the resturaunt or anything. I do use silverware. Somehow I always end up with stuff on me, though. Napkins are no match. This is why I refuse to spend a bunch of money on clothes. I spill, splatter, drop, sling, spit, and slop all over everything. If I had dunked an $85 shirt in marinara sauce, I'd be pissed as hell. It's bad enough with a $15 tee shirt. WTF?

There's just an acre of you fellas...
Thursday, 01 April 2010 23:14:52

Feminism Rant
Sunday, 04 April 2010 00:30:13

I posted something earlier about the Bechdel test today because I happened to be thinking about it. For those of you who aren't aware, the Bechdel Test is a writing tool for creating strong female characters. According to the test, well rounded female characters should have enough of their own hobbies/pursuits/conversation topics to be not have to resort to talking to each other about their romantic male interests, or their relationships with them. Here's the reference material, reposted.

I'm alive?
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 21:24:02

Yeah..I think I am! Hello! :D I haven't been on this site in months and months! And I haven't talked to many of my Browncoat pals even longer! I'm going to try my best and visit this site more often! I miss you all and the site. :) So, how is everyone? :D

Script Frenzy, Dicey Audio and other stuff
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 21:52:41

Okay, the wheel keeps turning ... I have a new job, I work as a software developer again. Small company, nice colleagues, great fun so far. April is Script Frenzy month ... write 100 pages of screen play in one month. Hah! Not even much of a challenge for a NaNoWriMo veteran like me. She who can write a novel in a month can accomplish anything! 100 script pages don't scare me. I am writing a webseries. SciFi time travelling stuff. Well, not really time travel. More communication between different time lines. Enough to get everyone confused. I will be starting a kind of play-by-post game for the Signal this month. It's called "Dicey Audio". The interesting thing about it is, that the posts by the players are not in written form, but provided as audio recordings. So it will be kind of an interactive audio drama. Check out the details if you are interested. I am still taking on players:

I want MORE!
Friday, 09 April 2010 00:08:18

I just finished watching the series and the movie. Now I feel a bit down. This series could have kept going for years. Lesser series have gone on for many years. The cast is FABULOUS. I have never enjoyed a series as much as I have enjoyed Firefly. In the movie I was crushed when preacher and Zoe's fun husband were killed. I wish the cast could have been kept in tact in case more movies or another Firefly series was started. With all the mindless garbage on t.v. I would LOVE to see this creative and entertaining series brought back in one way or another. Still Flying? Is it another firefly movie or series with the same actors??? I am new to this blogging and not sure how to correspond back and forth.

5TH ANNUAL RALEIGH "SERENITY" SCREENING
Friday, 09 April 2010 14:40:05

Still flyin' for the fifth year in a row, "Serenity" will be on the big screen in Raleigh on Sunday, June 27, 2010. Doors open at 6pm for dinner, raffle and costume contest. Movie begins at 8pm. WHERE: Raleighwood Cinema Grill, 6609 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh. Raleighwood is a full-service restaurant with appetizers, entrees, beer, wine, and desserts. Please help us support our venue by arriving early to order food. TICKETS are available through eTix this year. See the event website

Finally done!
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 01:24:50

I have FINALLY finished my Wash pony! I feel like I am just FAR too busy with life to actively make these babies. I have a Mal pony head finished, but for now, the firefly ponies are on hold until I have time in my life. You saw how long it took me to make just ONE!

Testing blog posting on FFF.NET 2.0
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 02:22:42

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MY MOVIE...FINALLY!
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:55:17

So a slight delay....youTube only allows 10min videos and our film was 10:25...so I had to re-export it from Premiere which takes about 4 hours and I needed my computer for other assignments until yesterday :P It's in HD (I think you have to choose that setting on youTube). I did the cliff, lightning and tropical scenes (found around 3:30). I also was the director, camera holder, music editor, sound mixer and production manager. Please keep in mind that we are students...so it's not professionally done or anything ^___^

2X2
A few silly stories
Friday, 16 April 2010 14:41:41

I've got a few silly stories that I had only posted on LJ, so I thought I'd post them here over the next little while. Some of them are pure cracky fun, most are just drabbles, but I figured for completeness sake I'd put them all up here too. Not necessarily my usual fare, but hopefully worth a read :o)

I passed my driving test
Friday, 16 April 2010 17:17:19

Fifth time lucky :biggrin:

Serenity
Sunday, 18 April 2010 14:39:18

I just watched serenity and was absolutly amazed and i was so happy when river over comes all her fears

Help Survivors of Sexual Assault
Monday, 19 April 2010 02:30:58

A supposed expert said to a young client, "Rachel, you have to accept the fact that you'll always be weaker than others because you're the victim of sexual assault." From the day I first met Rachel at a renaissance festival, I knew one thing: Rachel isn't the kind of girl to accept being pushed into a box of limitations, not by a therapist, not by a teacher, not by a sexual predator. She's not the kind to surrender to silence and shame. She's the kind of person who goes from being an anxious girl afraid to speak up about what had happened to her, to being a confident young woman leading a grassroots campaign to speak out against sexual assault and the silence that surrounds it. She's a survivor, not a victim--and when she is done, there won't be a girl in Washington state who is afraid to stand up and speak out. Does that sound weak to you? If you'd like to support Rachel's efforts, please take a few moments to go to www.harmonyhypnosis.net/speakforspokane.htm All she needs is a few small contributions from a lot of people who care. If you can spare the cost of two lattes or a fast food lunch, you can help her spread the news: you don't have to be ashamed of a crime someone else commits. It's like Shepherd Book once said, "If you can't do something smart, do something right."

Fist of Dragon Trailer
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 02:43:42

From the producers of Ip Man 2, trailer for upcoming Fist of Dragon.

Diet vs. Plainjayne
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 04:35:44

Yeah, and guess who's fuckin' winnin'? I'll give you a hint... It aint me. I am straight up about to bust outa my shorts here, folks. All that Tex-Mex has left it's mark. It's just a damn good thing I'm too cheap to buy new clothes, cause I'd probably be as big as the side of a gorram alliance cruiser by now. So it's time to cut it back. I was trying to do the "more exercise" thing, because I am downright crappy at the "eat less" part of that equation. My gimped-out ankles still aren't 100% (see "Calamity-gorram-Jayne now" for that particular adventure), so that's been put in the slow lane for the moment. All that's left is to eat less. I am really, really difficult to get along with when I'm hungry. So please take me with a grain of salt over the next little while. There's a reason I'm a bear (so when I'm peeling your car open like a gorram sardine can to get at that box of twinkies, please don't shoot at me!) and as soon as I can comfortably button my shorts again, I'll go back to being my old charming self. Meanwhile, don't leave that shit sitting out in plain sight... Just putting it out there.

Got your rosmary...
Sunday, 25 April 2010 06:58:13

...for ANZAC Day? I got up for the pre-dawn service and watched the march in Sydney.

Help With Deleting Profile/Account
Monday, 26 April 2010 15:08:40

Could someone please help me figure out how to delete my account on this website? I haven't been here in years and I would like to just get rid of it. Thank you.

See my captioned pics on my facebook pg.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:36:00

Here da link to my captioned pics -- many FF-related. Tryin' to spread da word 'bout the 'Verse. NOTE: yah gotta have a Facebook account 'cuz you gotta sign in to see my page.

Browncoat on da radio Saturdays 10:30am KSPA 1510-AM
Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:47:22

Ni-Haody all. . . Some probably know I write and sometimes co-host a 15-min. radio show called "Understanding Islam" on KCAA 1050-AM every Tuesdays around 9:20am. . . But we've recently started (as of April 17th) a half-hour version of "Understanding Islam" on KSPA 1510-AM where I am one of the regular co-hosts every week along with the writing duties. The show airs Saturday mornings from 10:30am-11:00am. This is in Ontario, CA. The station has a 10,000 watt signal so it reaches a LOT farther then the KCAA 1,400 watt station, so we're hopin' for some live inter-action and response from listeners. If you want to listen via the Internet, go to:

Lightning Amen Christ dies
Friday, 30 April 2010 07:06:32

OUR MESSIAH~LIGHTNING AMEN CHRIST~ FOUNDER OF THE CHRIST FAMILY, DIED IN THE DESERT, AROUND AND AROUND, AND SOON HIS FATHER WILL END HIS TOLERANT RESTRAINT WITH THOSE WHO HATE HIM. THE PEACE MANIFESTO OF LIGHTENING AMEN, THE BAREFOOT KOREAN WAR POW VET. AND VISIONARY, WHO WAS AN ENSAMPLE, A LIVE ARCHETYPAL CHRIST, HAS DIED, THE PENTECOST FROM HIS DEATH, [AND I DO NOT KNOW THE DAY NOR THE HOUR OF HIS DEATH] BUT ON THE 70TH. DAY, THIS A HERE IS THE VISION: AMEN AMEN AND MARANATHA EL SHADDA~I , > Joanna d'Arc > wrote: > > in a little while, LAKE BURNING WITH FIRE, > FOR YOU. > > THE HOMELANDERS AND FEMA FOLKS ARE SETTING THE OIL SLICK ON > FIRE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, IT WILL IGNITE UNDERGROUND VAST > LAKES OF PETROLEUM DUG BY GOVERNMENT UP INTO RED RIVER AREA, > DENISON, ACROSS INTO WICHITA FALLS, THE ENTIRE > ARK-LA-TEX-OKLAHOMA REGION WILL DESCEND DOWN INTO A LIVING > LAKE OF FIRE, AND YOU SHALL SEE AND FEEL THE TORMENTING > TORTURE ETERNALLY. > GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED, AND IT IS GOING TO BE > A FIERY INFERNO THAT WILL ANNIHILATE AND DISSEMINATE THE > ENTIRE SOUTH WEST...UP INTO THE DAKOTA S, THE NEW MADRIS-CARO > FAULT WILL LOOSEN, THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WILL FLOW > UNDERGROUND THROUGH OPENING CAUSED BY HEAT AND SHIFTS IN THE > PLATES, THE NATION WILL BE CAST INTO A THICK DARKNESS, > BY:1, TERROR, :2 CLOUDS OF ASH > AND OILY SMOKE MIXED WITH SCALDING STEAM, :3 LOSS OF ALL > ELECTRONICS & MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL FACILITIES, DUE TO A > DEVASTATING "ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE" THAT WILL TOTALLY > DESTROY EVEN THE CUNNINGLY DEEPLY BURIED BUNKERS THE ELITE > AND HOMELANDERS/FEMA PEOPLE RELIED ON! > > THE DEVILS PEOPLE'S GAME IS TRUMPED BY THE HAND OF GOD! > > TO SURVIVE IS TO BE WILLING TO DIE FOR THE TESTIMONIAL OF THE > WORD, FOR THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND TO LOVE NOT OUR LIVES, > UNTO DEATH. > > >