Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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12:40 am - Putting the H in Pride Day
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I wanted to wish ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) belleferret a very happy birthday with hobbits! And since Bingo and Sam accompanied me to the DC Pride Festival last weekend, I thought I'd let them tell you about their day, or, really, mostly about each other, here.
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
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3:34 pm
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Charlie Ross is doing his One Man LotR Show at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA tomorrow night, and I highly recommend it if you can make it and scrape up the money for the ticket. It's totally hilarious. I saw it a few years ago at ORC in LA, so I bet he's added some more material since. The food is good at the Birchmere, too (regular DC area prices), so you don't have to eat beforehand.
Anyone else going?
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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10:27 am - There's some Jew in you
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Coworker: And your pocketbook is purple, too!
Me: Yeah, I like it. I got it from the street vender up the block. I actually bargained him down for it.
Coworker: So you got some Jew in you.
Me: I AM Jewish.
*nervous giggle from her and other coworker*
Me: Watch that stereotype there.
*she goes to talk about other coworker about business and ignores me*
current mood: pissed off
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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8:48 pm - A hobbity bday
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
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11:17 pm - Dreamwidth
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That dreamwidth crossposter works like a charm--I'm impressed. I just set my DW journal to crosspost from DW to LJ and IJ without having to work with any client at all. It even crossposted the tags. The only extra step I need take is to edit my LJ and IJ entries if I want other than the default icon to show with the entry--if they can find a way to allow us to choose icons through the crossposter, then it will be perfect, but what it does so far is most of the way.
And the import function for reproducing my LJ worked without a hitch, as far as I can tell. The only lack is it doesn't import all the icons from the comments.
So the inter-operability functions of DW totally rules--which was one of the main differences from LJ they were hoping to achieve. Whether I consider my DW or LJ my main journal, I'm still backed up effortlessly to both, and IJ to boot, if I post from DW. So no one is forced to choose. I'm not leaving LJ--I'm just being in more places at once. And now I'll be updating my IJ too without extra effort.
In any event, you can find my dreamwidth account here where I'm happy to have many icons again, since I went with the premium. I haven't paid LJ in years because I haven't been happy with a lot of their choices since Brad sold it, so I've really missed having more than 6 icons. And though I can have a lot at IJ as well, not enough of my flist plays over there to make that satisfying. I'm hoping DW pans out enough for me to have multi-icon fun again. So if you have a DW journal and cross post with LJ, I'm going to want to comment on your DW entry with my full icon battalion in tow. I'd rather you comment to me on DW if you have a journal there for the same reason, but I won't be funneling comments on LJ and IJ to DW in the foreseeable future--I'm OK with being scattered--it's my usual state.
If you need an invite code to DW, I have some--just drop a note in my LJ inbox if you want one.
current mood: pleased
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10:54 pm - Reading LotR Aloud: from Chapter 8. Fog on the Barrow-Downs
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My voice post of a snippet of Ch. 8 is here.
The readings for Ch. 7 & 8 from the whole reading_lotr_aloud community on LJ are linked here.
And I never linked my first reading for Ch. 4 in this journal, which is here.
And I'm trying out DW's cross-poster for the first time with this post, so wheee!
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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3:54 am - And now a hobbit interlude you might not expect
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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6:38 pm - Too much! Now they're twirling their mustaches.
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After claiming victimization for herself, this idiot is now hitting up the POC fans she insulted to work on her e-zine! Un-fucking-believable! This is an over the top display of privilege and if you want to know what racism looks like, that is it.
If you need some background on what this has come out of, see ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rydra_wong's LJ for a collection of links, starting here and here.
current mood:  angry
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
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12:23 am - The Cat Who Ate Bag End
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For the wonderful melyanna_65, who asked for more pics of the Bag End set, and who I know likes kitties with her hobbits:
Mr. Frodo, you look different, and no mistake! Still, you have the biggest blue eyes I have ever seen, me dear next to Stinkers, that is.
( And a couple more pics . . . )
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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11:27 pm - Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
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11:37 pm - Digital camera advice
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I'm looking into getting a digital camera and was hoping some of ya'll could advise me, as I know very little. What I've been using for the pics I've been taking for my picfic and of the cats and my home is the isight camera built into my macbook--that's my only experience with a digital camera. It's murder finding any specs on the macbook camera, it's really made to be used as a camcorder for teleconferencing I think, video based, not photo based, if that made sense, so I can't use it for comparison in selecting a digital camera. I'm able to get still shots with it by using Photobooth.
What I'm mainly interested in a digital camera is the macro-mode for close-up shots of small things. I'm looking for a cheaper camera--the under $200 range or under $100 if I can get something decent for taking close-up shots. And I need something that is easy to plug USB into my macbook to use with iphoto.
However, if you know it makes a huge difference for close-up shots of the kind I've been doing here on LJ to get a camera that is a little more pricey than that, I can wait and save up, so please advise. However, since my main priority now is my latest mania for doing my picfic, I may not want too high a quality pic--fuzzing the edges a bit may give my dolls and miniature settings greater verisimilitude--the blurred vision effect that mechtild delightfully dubs the "elderly lover's friend." (-:
So in selecting a camera, what should I be looking for? As I understand it thus far, the quality of the optical/digital zoom and the amount of megapixels it gets won't make that much difference for macro use. Is that correct? Do you have a camera that is good at photo-ing small things that you recommend? Know any really great sales I should look into?
I'd be most grateful for any advice.
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6:30 pm - And now a hobbit interlude that is better than lembas . . .
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Saffron and I do seem to have the knack of this riding business now. She's been taking us on a southwesterly route; I've seen no trace of Elf or Elven habitations as we've made our way through the wilds of Eldamar, but the birdsong has been a true delight.
Bingo's tale continues here . . .
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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11:25 pm - And now a hobbit interlude, but to what purpose?
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
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9:43 pm - And now a hobbit interlude on dissonant chords . . .
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Chapter 4 of Bingo's adventures are up:
There are times when even a hobbit as loquacious as Bingo must halt his narration and concentrate on the task at hand, and this was one of those times.
This dissonant episode resolves itself here.
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8:45 pm - Milk and Pinning down Mormons
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I just went to see Milk and it was wonderful! Sean Penn played Milk very lovably. And everyone else had hobbit hair! Everyone else being white boys, and one white girl, all with hobbit hair! A couple of black women got to stand in the background with hobbit hair. The Asian man who got to be in the group didn't have hobbit hair. But I guess the racial and gender breakdown was pretty accurate for how that part of the Castro around Milk rolled.
I remember the 70's well, though, and I don't remember that many people with hobbit hair--I remember a lot of long, processed elf hair. But the whole cast looked totally adorable in their hobbit hair! How more right and you-just-gotta-love-us can you be? The actors looked very much like the people they were playing except for having more tightly permed hobbit hair. Very inspiring. Go see it!
I didn't come out until 1985, and though I had some fairly radical concepts in the 70's about sex/gender that I really didn't know were fairly radical at the time because I was mainly, like many a nerd girl, doing the token woman thing, I was very repressed on sexuality until I came out when I was 23. And my political awareness in general wasn't that great either until after I came out. So at the time, I was barely aware of all the events that were covered in the film, except for possessing a keen awareness that Anita Bryant was very annoying.
And speaking of queer groups that are all too often centered around the interests of the white male, well-to-do portion of the queer community, there was an email waiting in my inbox when I got home from the Human Rights Campaign that is seriously wonderful!
The LDS church, accused of funding and being the force behind the win for Prop 8, because it's true, has been claiming they aren't against gay rights and civil unions in response to any backlash against them. So the HRC is holding them to their word. They're asking the Mormon church to support civil unions in Utah. Perrrrrrrrrfect! You can sign onto HRC's request that they hold to their words here.
I love it! More of the in-your-face-ness that Milk was calling for from groups representing the LGBTIQ community now 30 years later, please!
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
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7:40 pm - Chapter 3. Quite Simple: Bingo Bolger-Baggins
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
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10:42 pm - And now a hobbit interlude on oliphaunts . . .
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This picfic is getting longer in the telling, and as I find more props.
If you missed Part 1, and want to find it, you can find it linked here.
Now for Part 2:
As I just mentioned, this baby oliphaunt is quite the sweetheart, aren't you dearest?
If you wish to read more, follow my hobbit here . . .
If you actually want to comment, but find having to talk to my damn hobbit too twee, feel free to comment here on me regular (sorta) LJ.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
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10:44 pm - 81
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Today would have been my dad's 81st birthday. He died 2 years ago yesterday.
Happy birthday, Dad!
current mood:  sad
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
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10:37 pm - And now a hobbit interlude on conspicuous consumption
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
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5:58 pm - Rainbow meme
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grateful
