What I cannot love, I overlook.

Good lord!

My eyelashes are 3/4 of an inch long!

1: Put your media player (or mp3 player) on shuffle
2: Post the first line of the first 25 songs (no matter how embarrassing)
3: Strikethrough the ones that people guess the artist and song title.
4: Looking up the lyrics on a search engine is cheating!
5: Post one in your journal if you like it!


1. Let it never be said that romance is dead, 'cause there's so little else occupying my head.
2. Joan and Mitchie were gettin' kinda itchy just to leave the folk music behind.
3. Sometimes I find myself sittin' back and reminiscin', especially when I have to watch other people kissin'.
4. I wanna be a Kennedy. I wanna be a real heart-breaker. Live fast and for real, and you can follow it in the paper.
5. Sometimes I sit, starin' out the window, watchin' this world pass me by. Sometimes I think there's nothing to live for. I almost break down and cry.
6. I got my sight set on you and I'm ready to aim. I have a heart that will never be tamed.
7. You were the one thing that I could count on. You were my everything. And then I found out that we meant nothing from someone on the street.
8. When you try your best but you can't succeed. When you get what you want, but not what you need.
9. In my eyes, indisposed, in disguises no one knows.
10. Just like a white-winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singin'.
11. In the land of chimpanzees, I was a monkey.
12. Tea's gone cold, I'm wonderin' why I got out of bed at all.
13. Why does blood turn brown when it dries and why do the tears well up in your eyes?
14. I will break into thoughts with what's written on my heart. I will break!
15. It's funny how I find myself in love with you.
16. You are my only girl, but you're not my owner.
17. I dig my toes into the sand. The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket.
18. Love me cancerously, like a salt sore soaked in the sea.
19. Beauty queen of only 18, she had some trouble with herself.
20. Slip inside the eye of your mind. Don't you know you might find a better place to play?
21. Gettin' born in the state of Mississippi, papa was a copper and the mama was a hippie.
22. Can't stop addicted to the shin dig. Cop top he says I'm gonna win big.
23. I'm ahead, I'm a man. I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah.
24. Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananman Square was Fashion the reason they were there?
25. When I see her eyes look into my eyes, then I realize that she could see inside my head.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cookalmostanything/~3/385728136/whb148.html

Ulrike from Küchenlatein is hosting Weekend Herb Blogging and this week I've found something that is more than just another pumpkin...



This is a Jap pumpkin and it is said to have derived its name from the growers who weren't quite sure how to to market this new pumpkin so ended up calling it Jap, an acronym of Just Another Pumpkin.



I'm not sure if it's true or just an old wives tale but it certainly is a good story.

With a speckled skin and orange flesh, it has a sweet, nutty flavour. Due to its colour it is high in beta carotene which our body can convert into Vitamin A. There are also good levels of Vitamins C and E as well as potassium.

I'll be using this pumpkin to make a soup but it won't be just another pumpkin soup. Inspiration comes from a roasted red pepper soup we enjoyed during our recent anniversary getaway.

It's a two part process - curry spiced caramelised onions at the centre, surrounded by a velvety pumpkin soup.

The soup itself is a simple mix of pumpkin and milk. I may sound like a broken record as of late I seem to make all my vegetable soups using milk, but it really can't be beaten as a neutral agent in which flavour is carried. The milk enriches the texture and focuses on the natural flavour, rewarding you with soup that tastes of the vegetable rather than the stock that you've used.




Jap Pumpkin Soup with Curried Onions
[Serves 4]

500 grams Jap Pumpkin, peeled, cut into small dice
milk
salt

Curried Onions
2 onions, sliced finely
Madras Curry Powder, or your favourite curry powder


Make the curried onions:
Heat a little oil and a knob of butter in a skillet over a gentle heat and when the butter has melted add in the sliced onions. Cook very slowly, stirring often.

When the onions have softened but not coloured sprinkle over 1 teaspoon of Curry powder. Stir well to ensure its evenly distributed. Taste and add more curry powder to suit your preference. Continue cooking until golden and caramelised.

Make the soup:

Heat a small knob of butter in a saucepan over a gentle heat and when the butter has just melted add the diced pumpkin. Stir well and cook for a minute before adding enough milk to cover the pumpkin. Let this simmer without boiling until the pumpkin is tender.

Pour the contents into a blender and blend until smooth. Taste and salt as required. Return the soup to a clean pot and over a low heat, bring it back up to temperature. If you feel the soup is too thick then add a little milk to slacken.

Assemble the soup:

Place a spoonful of the warm caramelised onions into the center of your serving bowls.



Place the soup into a jug and pour it carefully around the onions.


If you are serving this at a dinner party, get your guests to pour the soup themselves.


The soup itself is pure pumpkin, silky smooth and luxurious - the curried onions help to accentuate the pumpkins sweetness. It is a simple soup but the flavours are profound.

http://www.barackoblogger.com/2008/08/lawyers-needed-for-obama-voter.html

We very well know that the GOP will do anything to win, and if they can't, will cheat, and we can't let that happen again. Not this time. Fortunately, the Obama campaign is also on the top of things regarding this issue and has set up a counsel in 50 states and a vote protection team on the ground now. Hundreds of lawyers in the swing states have already signed up and agreed to watch over the election, but we need as many as we can get.

"According to Dennis Baron's Grammar and Gender,

In 1789, William H. Marshall records the existence of a dialectal English epicene pronoun, singular ou: "'Ou will' expresses either he will, she will, or it will." Marshall traces ou to Middle English epicene a, used by the fourteenth-century English writer John of Trevisa, and both the OED and Wright's English Dialect Dictionary confirm the use of a for he, she, it, they, and even I.

The dialectal epicene pronoun a is a reduced form of the Old and Middle English masculine and feminine pronouns he and heo. By the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the masculine and feminine pronouns had developed to a point where, according to the OED, they were "almost or wholly indistinguishable in pronunciation." The modern feminine pronoun she, which first appears in the mid twelfth century, seems to have been drafted at least partly to reduce the increasing ambiguity of the pronoun system....

He goes on to describe how relics of these sex-neutral terms survive in some British dialects of Modern English, and sometimes a pronoun of one gender might be applied to a person or animal of the opposite gender."

Here's the source. I hope someone actually finds this interesting, ha ha.

Rules:
Post 15 quotes from your favorite movies.
Strikethrough and name the ones that people get (movie or character or both).
Post if you like!

1. If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit by me.
2. Is everybody Gay?!
3. Big Bada Boom.
4. We drove all the way up from Midnight, Miss'ippi.
5. You're going to have to start getting scared immediately.
6. By Grapthar's Hammer, you shall be avenged.
7. Put Edwina back in bowl.
8. I was born a poor black child...
9. Closer..
10. Oh, the bend and snap! Works every time!
11. ...And One count of pure jealousy.
12. Don't leave, I'm not gonna marry Richard.
13. Throw me... Jack THROW ME!
14. Do not ... seek ... the treasure. Do... not... seek... the treasure.
15. Daww Hercules Hercules Hercules!

1: Put your media player (or mp3 player) on shuffle
2: Post the first line of the first 25 songs (no matter how embarrassing)
3: Strikethrough the ones that people guess the artist and song title.
4: Looking up the lyrics on a search engine is cheating!
5: Post one in your journal if you like it!


1. There's nothing wrong with me, there's something wrong with you, I hope your stepson doesn't eat the fish.
2. I never meant to give you mushrooms girl.
3. Look at all my trials and tribulations; sinking in a gentle pool of wine.
4. This ever changing world ever changing me.
5. Isn't it strange? Feels like I'm looking in the mirror.
6. Gaaay... We are.. on fire. We have.. Desire.
7. This place reminds me of, a time that's kvjakjf too old.
8. Fat and Docile, Big and Dumb, they look so stupid, they aren't much fun.
9. Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum.
10. Oh the shark has lovely teeth dear. And he shows them Pearly white.
11. If I was a flower growing wild and free all I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
12. I remember all my life, raining down as cold as ice
13. You fill up my senses, like a night in the forest.
14. Don't go changin to try to please me.
15. All right, I drink more than you, I party harder than you do, and my car's faster than your's too.
16. Oh love love, don't come easy.
17. Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead, yesterday is a promise that you've broken.
18. I've had enough of being nice, I've had enough of right and wrong.
19. American Woman, stay away from meeeee.
20. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.
21. Y'all want a single say fuck that (fuck that fuck that)
22. The world is cold, the world is wicked, It's I alone you can trust in this whole city.
23. The day is long. The night is yours alone.
24. Deep in the back of my mind is an unrealized sound.
25. Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me.

i saw michael moore on larry king last night. as a gift to his fans, he is offering a free download of his next film, 'slackeruprising', being released september 23. go to the link and spread the word! it's free to americans only.

http://slackeruprising.com/

jeannie

A few days ago I watched some interviews with Andrew Vachss -- about whom I'm going to write a detailed entry soon, at least that's what I'm planning to do, because he's an attorney exclusively representing children and youths, working in child protection, has a fascinating biography and also writes crime fiction, and he's one of my heroes. But anyways, for now I want to mention something he said during those interviews, because people often accuse him of being too aggressive, or ask him WHY SO ANGRY?, isn't that too negative and eating you up inside and couldn't you achieve more by being friendlier and WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SO ANGRY zomg.

(And I'm absolutely certain that a lot of you just nodded tiredly and thought I know that one, and how.)

And he said -- quoting from memory, here -- he said, I could let go. I could make the decision, today, to stop being angry, and I'd have no problems doing so, I'd be calm.

But, he said, I assure you, that after a single week I'd be back where I was before, because in that single week I'd have seen enough shit to make me angry all over again. ~

It felt good to hear that statement. To have those feelings acknowledged. Because the sad, the sickening thing about that kind of anger, is how you don't even have to look for a reason to come along. You don't have to make shit up, despite all kinds of racist, sexist, homo- or transphobic, sadistic, thoughtless, or privileged people trying to tell you otherwise. You're not "trying" to "find" things to "get offended or angry about". You don't have to do that. They find you. I spend a few days just reading blogs online, with a very limited range of topics, but still in no time I end up with news about male-to-female transsexuals being murdered, a lesbian author whose book I bought turned out to have written transphobic articles for the Village Voice, some misogynistic idiots told my friend that she was actually the "real" sexist by telling them how sexist they were because that meant she was telling other women what to think, a psychologist claiming in his paper that the fact women in earlier centuries didn't sail around the world and discover new countries had nothing to do with the "conspiracy theory of a patriarchal system" but rather it was somehow "designed" to be and women just weren't "motivated" to do something worthwhile, and during a discussion about transphobia I was accused of being a coward hiding behind my "professional victimhood" because I wasn't willing to stay in a thread where I was made to feel unwelcome as a transperson, and I haven't even touched on politics and racism and reproductive rights yet --

BUT OF COURSE I'M ONLY PULLING THAT ANGER THING OUT OF MY ASS.

I totally get the sentence "If you're not angry, you're not paying attention". I'm not thinking it means that you must be angry, all the time, or that we all have to be angry about the same things. What it says for me is, dude, you don't have to fucking LOOK for the fucked-up things, they're there, and also you can't unsee it, although sometimes I feel so exhausted or down that I wish I could go back to not seeing certain -isms and issues, because it would make my life easier, but then I remember it would also make me an asshole, and I tell myself that being less of an asshole to other people is fucking worth it, so there.

In short: the solution to the anger "problem" is not telling people to shut the fuck up and be happy instead, it's to behave less shitty.

Title: Guilty Pleasure
Author/Artist: (I'll remove names before posting) alwaysasnapefan 
Recipient: purpleygirl 
Pairing: Severus Snape/Arthur Weasley
Rating: NC-17
Word Count (for authors)/Medium (for artists): 7,883
Warnings: Restraints, orgasm denial, fisting, rimming, toys (dildos, cockring, and fleshlight).
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Arthur and Snape start something. But Arthur knows it's wrong. It's wrong—isn't it?
Author's Notes: I tried to make it angsty enough. I can only hope I succeeded.





Further Note: I can't believe I wrote this in two weeks. I was only first because I was waiting for an opportunity like this, to write them as they would be getting into something, not as they already are. Thanks for the beta, Melody!

I'm running out the door, but couldn't resist passing along this icon I snagged on LJ. Isn't is fab?! Credit info is in my user pics if anyone wants it. *hugs my liberal sisters*

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/09/and-when-poll-was-cast-winner-was.html

Three weeks until the Library of Congress National Book Festival! I hope that everyone within easy commuting distance* is planning to attend. It's sure to be a fun day, just for the festival itself, plus the forecast calls for a light dusting of hijinks and shenanigans! There will be cake. I may wear a disguise.

UPDATE: Eden helpfully points out on the LJ feed that this is also an excellent opportunity to see the Jim Henson Smithsonian exhibit.


* Since it is on the Mall in D.C. there are many public transportation opportunities, including my regular standby: the $20 Bolt Bus that departs hourly between D.C. and NYC, Philadelphia, or Boston. The buses are new, clean, and have free wifi. You could take it down in the morning and then back up in the evening with a minimum of fuss.

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I have received quite a few emails from people having problems with the free NEVERWHERE ebook, but have no way of knowing what percentage of the overall number of downloaders these emails represent.

With that in mind, I conduct the following unscientific poll. Please click on the option that best describes your interaction with the ebook:

• Option 1: I did not attempt to read it.


• Option 2: I read it online.


• Option 3: I successfully downloaded it by clicking the button and was able to read it.


• Option 4: I successfully downloaded it using the posted work-around and was able to read it.


• Option 5: I successfully downloaded it using the posted work-around but was unable to open it.


• Option 6: I attempted to download it, got an "ebx.etd" file instead, and gave up.


• Option 7: I am running linux.


• Option 8: I am unwilling to install new Adobe software to read it.

See results.

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The Open Rights Group, of which Mr. G is a patron, is trying to reach 1,500 supporters by December. They are nearly two thirds of the way there. You can help by joining, and/or posting this widget on your site or blog:

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And now, your daily tab-closing:

• For those in Denver, Tony Award winning actress Deanna Dunagan will be headlining "Stories on Stage" tomorrow (Sunday), reading Mr. G's story "Chivalry". If you click on that link, there is an audio interview in which she explains why she selected that story.


• Who Killed Amanda Palmer? goes on pre-sale Monday!


• For those outside the US who have found themselves unable to download Neverwhere, HarperCollins also offers The Neil Gaiman Reader. This is not the book of essays of the same name edited by Darrell Schweitzer, but rather a PDF containing the first few chapters each from Neverwhere, American Gods, Stardust, and Smoke & Mirrors. It also requires Adobe Digital Editions. (HarperCollins previously offered a version which worked with regular Adobe Reader. If you're on linux you can probably find it online by googling.)


• There is now a Graveyard Book shirt available from NeverWear featuring artwork by Mr. G himself! Available in S, M, L, XL, XXL, and girl's baby doll sizes.

And lastly, because several of you have asked, let me go on record as saying that none of these are me, nor are these. And while I'm on the subject, these are not the web elf. Though this appears to be some fanfic inspired by her?

Everyone should check out the following Icon Challenges.

illyriastill a challenge dedicated to Illyria from the series Angel
fandomstillness An icon challenge for all fandoms welcome
whedonsworlda challenge for All things Joss Whedon
ulttvshowdown A challenge for all things on Television

These communities are waiting to be opened, once we have at least 15 members in each I will begin the challenges.


A fic community that everyone should also check out is

eroticjossverse Must be 18 to join and post, and open to all Jossverse shows.

So apparently my credit card company is being lamer than a sack of polio victims. *Pauses for laughter, upon receiving none," Bad taste?
Anyhoo, they're trying to take their fifty out of my account CONSTANTLY, and I don't OFFICIALLY have a job, and my bank isn't giving me any freebies or "pay us back laterzz" anymore.. so I'm racking up the fees. I officially owe 140 dollars on last month's bills. And I don't know what I'm gonna do. I need to get money into that account, but until that job has me come in, I have no way of getting the money. Especially since my parents decided that "OMG we can't has help Emma wif her bilz no moarz."

I hate to do it, but I'm sticking out the donation hat again. For every dollar I receive I will make 10 icons (fandom of choice, I will make a poll soon enough for donators to vote and tell me their preferences)... If I reach 10 dollars I'll draw a piece of fanart for everyone on my friends list (along with the icons). If, by some miracle, I reach that goal of 100 (the forty I can get from my one friend who owes me like 40.)

However, seeing as I barely know most of you, I am NOT going to pressure ANY of you to donate. I entirely understand not being willing to donate to a perfect stranger on the internet. (But I do it, lol, when I have the money).

100 dollars would be equal to 1000 icons, just sayin. XD



On ANOTHER note, I think I might actually HAVE a job, but they haven't called me in for it, so I don't know what's going on with it, so I'm going to buy khakis this weekend (with guilt money I squeeze from my dad's wallet, he's been away all weekend and he usually gives me like 10 bucks if he feels he's been neglecting me).. so I should be able to savers-ify my wardrobe with a pair of khakis, and I'll hike up the 5 miles to the gas station and say "Hey, I applied, I got a call back about filling out the paperwork, what do I do now, when do you want me to come in?"

On still another note:

Welcome to all my new friends! And Hello to all my "old" friends :D I'm making a conscious effort to comment more often. :)

Freedom of... what's that word I'm looking for?

To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."

Go read the rest of the article. It's brilliant. But then, it is Gloria Steinem.

People for the American Way has a petition you can sign to let people know Sarah Palen does not represent you or your views. You can sign it here:

http://site.PFAW.org/Palin

Not a bad birthday. It's wet, but not really raining, which I think is gorgeous and really brings out any area. I'm on my period, which is good in my case because it makes me happier. I took my meds for the first time in a week or so. The cafeteria listened to my comment card and put out a couple non-sugar cereals for this morning!

Dad and Bitty are headed here, I wrote a fic(let), I joined piratesonline.com and have been playing it, and I'm assuming my ab machine came in the mail (my present).



ETA: Also, my animal crackers are not stale! Yum! (2 pound bag. I think I've had them since like the 10th. What an amazing chip clip!)

If everyone knew 1984 was when everything was going to happen, why was no one prepared?
Hexennacht is an alternate universe MWPP game set in 1985; a world where Gellert Grindelwald is now the Minister of Magic for all of Europe, and Muggleborn wizards live in fear of the Black Caps, Grindelwald's personal army, charged with keeping the Muggles and wizards alike in line. Hexennacht begins with the latest decree restricting magic allowed by Muggleborn wizards to the simplest forms of magic, while the purebloods are allowed to get away with murder. With the Death Eaters on the run, Voldemort in Azkaban with no hope of getting out, and the Order in hiding, along with the remains of their single ally, a former terrorist organization, is there any hope of restoring Europe to a land of tolerance?

Full information can be found in the moderator's info.

Game can be found here.

Wanted Characters: Death Eaters (Rosier, Karkaroff, Crabbe, Nott, Selwyn, Travers, et al.) James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Antonin Dolohov, The Weasleys, Prewetts, Bones, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Malfalda Hopkirk, Sturgis Podmore, Severus Snape, Heathcote Barbary, Merton Graves, Orsino Thruston, Donaghan Tremlett, Gideon Crumb, and others.

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poetspassion Poet's passion:
~This is a community for poetry and for poets. It was created because all of the other poetry communities seem to be dead. Deceased. . This is a place to post your poems. It is a place to post your favorite poems, or even poems you dislike, but are intrigued by. Or poems you dislike but everyone else loves and you don't get it. Basically this is a place for poetry discussion. Discussion with anything that even vaguely has to do with poetry :D


beyblade
~This is an asylum for Beyblade fans. Fans of the show, the manga/comic, the toys and game itself, can discuss Beyblade, post fanart and fanfiction, and hangout and talk about Beyblade.