I spent most of yesterday playing The Sims. I also went out to Wal-Mart, got some groceries and got the oil changed in the Neon. The TLE guys at Wal-Mart confirmed what Brandon Cercone told me over two months ago, the Neon needs new tires. I'm going to try get that done before we drive to Lebanon next weekend. I also did the Basic Moves Belly Dance tape on my own, and then Savannah and Jamie came over and we did Slim Down. I picked up Jeff from work and we grilled chicken and had salad.
Jamie and Savannah invited me to their Fondue party today, so I am looking forward to that. I am also still trying to decide if I can go to the event in Warren tomorrow, Michelle hasn't emailed me back, and I feel weird about going to meet new people by myself. Would anyone else be interested in going to a Libation to Poseidon in Betts Park tomorrow at 1 PM?
I'm at work, so I'll end this here.
Merry Part and Blessed Be!
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Postal Exam and Demons going Postal on me!
Today Jeff and I drove to Brookville so I could take the post office entrance exam. All in all it was pretty easy, we got there in plenty of time. We had a good lunch on the way down at the Long John Silvers/A&W in DuBois and a good dinner on the way home at Bavarian Hills (the golf course) in St Marys with Jeff's parents.
We came straight to campus when we got back so we could play Buffy. Paul handed out note cards with a few key changes to certain people's characters, and away we went. I tried to make Savannah's character, the half-demon Failin, prettier with a spell but I forced her into her demon form instead. Then I used the spell on myself later, to great effect, and she thought I had just failed on her and done great on myself to embarrass and upset her. I tried apologize, and she called me some names, a drink was thrown, and I was nearly eviscerated. In the aftermath of this, the Slayer, played by Jamie, and Savannah's character are on a plane to CHINA, where the Slayer is orignally from. Tom (played by Adam) and Llyse (played by Harriet) took me to the ER where I got stitched up. I think the Watchers are going to start watching Twilight, WV a little more closely after this. I think they might be most concerned right now because the Slayer, Palti Chan, has gone AWOL with a half-demon in tow. Great role-playing and reacting to everything by all, especially Savannah and Harriet, our newest dice-rollers. This episode I also tried to help Llyse with her telekinesis abilities a bit, advising her to practice on pillows and things that couldn't break or hurt anything until she became more comfortable.
Now I am going to bed, as I have to work tomorrow.
Michelle, if you see this, please email me about Sunday! Did you get my email?
Merry Part and Blessed Be!
We came straight to campus when we got back so we could play Buffy. Paul handed out note cards with a few key changes to certain people's characters, and away we went. I tried to make Savannah's character, the half-demon Failin, prettier with a spell but I forced her into her demon form instead. Then I used the spell on myself later, to great effect, and she thought I had just failed on her and done great on myself to embarrass and upset her. I tried apologize, and she called me some names, a drink was thrown, and I was nearly eviscerated. In the aftermath of this, the Slayer, played by Jamie, and Savannah's character are on a plane to CHINA, where the Slayer is orignally from. Tom (played by Adam) and Llyse (played by Harriet) took me to the ER where I got stitched up. I think the Watchers are going to start watching Twilight, WV a little more closely after this. I think they might be most concerned right now because the Slayer, Palti Chan, has gone AWOL with a half-demon in tow. Great role-playing and reacting to everything by all, especially Savannah and Harriet, our newest dice-rollers. This episode I also tried to help Llyse with her telekinesis abilities a bit, advising her to practice on pillows and things that couldn't break or hurt anything until she became more comfortable.
Now I am going to bed, as I have to work tomorrow.
Michelle, if you see this, please email me about Sunday! Did you get my email?
Merry Part and Blessed Be!
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Comics and Movies
So I have been having fun with the Internet this morning, and I've been thinking a lot about comic books and the movies based on them lately. Now this might partially be because of Jay and Jeff's conversations this weekend. Or because I read something called Marvel 1602 that Paul loaned to us.
This morning I followed a link from Jamie's IM profile to Superman is a Dick, a site which Paul has shown us a couple times during games. It's pretty funny. It has a section called Suffering Sappho! which shows Wonder Woman caught in all kinds of strange and suggestive situations. From there, I began thinking about the new Wonder Woman movie that's due out in 2007 that Paul was talking about, because his Lord and Master, Joss Whedon, is directing and writing it. The IMDb page for the movie mentions several actresses rumored to be in the running for the lead role in this movie, including Charisma Carpenter, Kim Basinger, Lucy Lawless, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sandra Bullock, Nadia Bjorlin, Mischa Barton, etc.
I don't think I'd like to see any of these women play Wonder Woman in the movie, depsite my love of Charisma Carpenter, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Sandra Bullock. Charisma Carpenter hasn't been in enough non-Joss Whedon projects to carry a major movie. Sarah is tiny, and Wonder Woman is an Amazon. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses, but I don't think of her as an action heroine. And I don't think she has the body for the costume. I kind of like Salma Hayek for the role, but I hear her accent in my head, and that's not what Wonder Woman sounds like to me.
Image provided by Amazing Amazon.com
One of my fondest childhood memories is watching Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter on TV, when I still lived in the trailer with my parents. Heck, I think Lynda Carter needs to have a cameo in the new movie. If she wasn't over 50, I'd say she should play Wonder Woman again. But as I said, the TV show made a big impression on me when I was little. I was even Wonder Woman for Halloween when I was about 4 or 5. So I feel somewhat qualified to make a few suggestions for the new Amazing Amazon. Here are a list of women that I think might be good choices for the new Wonder Woman/Diana Prince.
Jennifer Connelly - To me, she looks like a young Lynda Carter. She's incredibly beautiful, and I loved her in The Rocketeer, Dark City, and of course, Labyrinth.
Kate Beckinsale - (this suggestion came from Jeff) - She has the action movie experience, with Van Helsing and Underworld under her belt. I can picture her in the costume, and she can also be funny, like in Serendipity
I like links.
Carrie-Anne Moss - Trinity from The Matrix. Again, here's an actress with action movie experience, and matches the blue-eyed, dark-haired mold of Lynda Carter. She's not a tiny woman, almost 5'9", which is also nearly Lynda Carter's height, and, like Kate Beckinsale, she looks great in boots with a big heel.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - The only non-brunette on my list, but as a model and from being in X-Men and X2, she's used to having to change her appearance a bit for a role. She's statuesque, I can picture her as a Amazon princess. I liked her supporting role in The Punisher.
If you can come up with anything better, make a comment!
That's all for now, Merry Part and Blessed Be.
This morning I followed a link from Jamie's IM profile to Superman is a Dick, a site which Paul has shown us a couple times during games. It's pretty funny. It has a section called Suffering Sappho! which shows Wonder Woman caught in all kinds of strange and suggestive situations. From there, I began thinking about the new Wonder Woman movie that's due out in 2007 that Paul was talking about, because his Lord and Master, Joss Whedon, is directing and writing it. The IMDb page for the movie mentions several actresses rumored to be in the running for the lead role in this movie, including Charisma Carpenter, Kim Basinger, Lucy Lawless, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sandra Bullock, Nadia Bjorlin, Mischa Barton, etc.
I don't think I'd like to see any of these women play Wonder Woman in the movie, depsite my love of Charisma Carpenter, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Sandra Bullock. Charisma Carpenter hasn't been in enough non-Joss Whedon projects to carry a major movie. Sarah is tiny, and Wonder Woman is an Amazon. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses, but I don't think of her as an action heroine. And I don't think she has the body for the costume. I kind of like Salma Hayek for the role, but I hear her accent in my head, and that's not what Wonder Woman sounds like to me.
Image provided by Amazing Amazon.com
One of my fondest childhood memories is watching Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter on TV, when I still lived in the trailer with my parents. Heck, I think Lynda Carter needs to have a cameo in the new movie. If she wasn't over 50, I'd say she should play Wonder Woman again. But as I said, the TV show made a big impression on me when I was little. I was even Wonder Woman for Halloween when I was about 4 or 5. So I feel somewhat qualified to make a few suggestions for the new Amazing Amazon. Here are a list of women that I think might be good choices for the new Wonder Woman/Diana Prince.
Jennifer Connelly - To me, she looks like a young Lynda Carter. She's incredibly beautiful, and I loved her in The Rocketeer, Dark City, and of course, Labyrinth.
Kate Beckinsale - (this suggestion came from Jeff) - She has the action movie experience, with Van Helsing and Underworld under her belt. I can picture her in the costume, and she can also be funny, like in Serendipity
I like links.
Carrie-Anne Moss - Trinity from The Matrix. Again, here's an actress with action movie experience, and matches the blue-eyed, dark-haired mold of Lynda Carter. She's not a tiny woman, almost 5'9", which is also nearly Lynda Carter's height, and, like Kate Beckinsale, she looks great in boots with a big heel.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - The only non-brunette on my list, but as a model and from being in X-Men and X2, she's used to having to change her appearance a bit for a role. She's statuesque, I can picture her as a Amazon princess. I liked her supporting role in The Punisher.
If you can come up with anything better, make a comment!
That's all for now, Merry Part and Blessed Be.
Blog Spam?
Apparently, I'm getting blog-spammed. I'm not sure what that's about, but I'm going to mess around with Blogger to see if I can block it somehow. And it's not like I think just a bunch of random people "found" my blog either, They're using a generic form-like comments post with links in it.
Lacy and Jay came to visit us in Bradford this weekend, and we had fun. Alumni weekend was kind of a bummer though, we hardly saw anyone we knew. But I guess that's what Kim's wedding in November will be for. We're going to Lebanon in two weeks to go to the Renaissance Faire, and so Jeff can buy more swords.
Jeff is getting a new PC, and we are pretty sure we are getting the laptop fixed, so we'll both have "new" toys soon. Jeff is getting a Dell. Some tea found its way into the laptop (Soth) and fried the motherboard. Until then, we have the cable modem hooked up to Takhisis, my computer. So, Grey if you read this, we found a different way of solving the not enough RAM in the laptop problem! :-)
That's all for today. Jeff's home from work again, he's on call though, so I'm not going in. Keeping my voice has been a losing battle at work for the past week or so, and my throat is all flemmy this morning.
Merry Part and Blessed Be!
Lacy and Jay came to visit us in Bradford this weekend, and we had fun. Alumni weekend was kind of a bummer though, we hardly saw anyone we knew. But I guess that's what Kim's wedding in November will be for. We're going to Lebanon in two weeks to go to the Renaissance Faire, and so Jeff can buy more swords.
Jeff is getting a new PC, and we are pretty sure we are getting the laptop fixed, so we'll both have "new" toys soon. Jeff is getting a Dell. Some tea found its way into the laptop (Soth) and fried the motherboard. Until then, we have the cable modem hooked up to Takhisis, my computer. So, Grey if you read this, we found a different way of solving the not enough RAM in the laptop problem! :-)
That's all for today. Jeff's home from work again, he's on call though, so I'm not going in. Keeping my voice has been a losing battle at work for the past week or so, and my throat is all flemmy this morning.
Merry Part and Blessed Be!
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