( New Years Meme )

"Know also, O prince, that in those selfsame days that Conan the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland and because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian ( Read more... )

Finished out another Sketch book this week. Got to go buy a new one. My sketch books used to be full of a lot complete pieces, but since I do most all finishing things on the computer these days, my sketch books are sad piles of pencil and scritch and scratch ( Read more... )

( New Years Meme )

As an experiment this year I decided to keep track of all the books I read from January to December. Typically I'm a voracious reader, but I kept a list this year in the hope keeping track of what I'd read would make me diversify my reading material.

Total: 33
Fiction: 27
Non Fiction: 6
Re-reads: 9
Given to me by AceOfSpaces: 4 ( Read more... )

My Grandmother turned ninety six this year, and has decided after living by herself for almost twenty years, she's finally ready. Moving her into an assisted living home has been a slow process. She found a place she liked near my mother (right in Santa Monica) and has been waiting for a space to open up. She's been methodically choosing what ( Read more... )

One of my friends recently stated she 'just wanted to move in with a bunch of artists in flat in LA', and I had to stop myself from saying something derogatory, such has, "Well, then who'd pay the rent ( Read more... )

I bitch a lot about how there aren't any TV shows that have kickass women. Gone are the days of Buffy, Xena, and Scully. Now we have Sookie Stackhouse, Miley Cyrus, and House Wives (Desperate or Reality).

And of course, being hypocritical me, I never watched Joss Whedon's Dollhouse when it aired ( Read more... )

( I LOVE IT WHEN THE DEVIL POPS UP IN MEDIA )

Tonight I went to go see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with a friend of mine. During the movie the main character is brutally raped, and the entire audience, including my friend, stiffened, turned away, and gasped. Me too. I kept expecting the camera to cut away, like in American Films, but instead the director of the movie chose to depict it ( Read more... )