State of the Effex
Oct. 5th, 2010 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effex* Current fannish projects: 1) finishing my (biosex-swapped Avengers IN SPACE!) illustration for the Cap/Ironman Reverse bang, 2) a fill for this Inception/Hikaru no Go crossover prompt at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
inception_kink, and 3) a Middleman/Losers crossover (with Wendy and Jolene!) for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
intoabar.
* TV I'm watching: Current seasons of Castle, Community and Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (why?), season one of Psych, Futurama and Darkwing Duck, season two of Sports Night and Mythbusters.
* Books I'm reading: Cold Magic by Kate Elliot and Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua. I've been picking away at both of them for over a month because I'm in some kind of book-reading slump, it's terrible.
* Sunday night, round 9 pm-ish, my roommates and I decided to go sing us some karaoke. Because that's how we roll. We went out to Hungdinger, the best Drag-Queen-owned-Italian-restaurant-that-hosts-regular-karaoke-nights in existence, and ended up staying until midnigh-ish. I did not punk out on my songs! I butchered 'Drops of Jupiter', but I did not punk out. Evening highlights included:
- A guy who looked exactly like Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter, circa The Half Blood Prince, and had a penchant for songs from Wicked. Boy could not sing. At all. But by god he tried.
- One of waiters singing 'The Saga Begins' by Weird Al.
- Less a highlight and more deeply uncomfortable - D did 'Before He Cheats' (by Carrie Underwood) and some dude decided to respond with 'Before She Freaks'. A parody, haha! I can't find the exact lyrics he used online, none of them use whore, slut, or skank enough (although they're all ridiculous), but he had that shit memorized. And was looking right at her the whole time. Rock that gayboy misogyny, son!
Still, we had fun. It's (mostly) a warm and welcoming environment with a good mix of incredible, middling, and terrible singers and we're gonna try making it a regular thing. Hurray for social activities!
* We've settled on a 'Post-Colonial Monsters' theme for the big gayborhood Halloween block party - I'm going as Vampire!Judith Butler, D as Zombie!Emma Tenayuca, S as an Anarcho-Communist!Mad Scientist, and I'm toldcheshire3000 will be joining us as a Sparkly! Muslim! Vampire! Plus maybe a couple other people? IDK, but it's going to be amazing.
* My boss left yesterday for a two-week business trip to China. Without telling me he was leaving on a two-week business trip to China. Or leaving any instructions. Sadly, no one is surprised.
* There are only two volumes to go in the Totally Epic Hikaru No Go Reread! We're planning a party type thing for the final discussion post and everyone is invited :D More details when we have them!
* Is the spacing on my header borked or is it just me?
inception_kink, and 3) a Middleman/Losers crossover (with Wendy and Jolene!) for intoabar.* TV I'm watching: Current seasons of Castle, Community and Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (why?), season one of Psych, Futurama and Darkwing Duck, season two of Sports Night and Mythbusters.
* Books I'm reading: Cold Magic by Kate Elliot and Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua. I've been picking away at both of them for over a month because I'm in some kind of book-reading slump, it's terrible.
* Sunday night, round 9 pm-ish, my roommates and I decided to go sing us some karaoke. Because that's how we roll. We went out to Hungdinger, the best Drag-Queen-owned-Italian-restaurant-that-hosts-regular-karaoke-nights in existence, and ended up staying until midnigh-ish. I did not punk out on my songs! I butchered 'Drops of Jupiter', but I did not punk out. Evening highlights included:
- A guy who looked exactly like Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter, circa The Half Blood Prince, and had a penchant for songs from Wicked. Boy could not sing. At all. But by god he tried.
- One of waiters singing 'The Saga Begins' by Weird Al.
- Less a highlight and more deeply uncomfortable - D did 'Before He Cheats' (by Carrie Underwood) and some dude decided to respond with 'Before She Freaks'. A parody, haha! I can't find the exact lyrics he used online, none of them use whore, slut, or skank enough (although they're all ridiculous), but he had that shit memorized. And was looking right at her the whole time. Rock that gayboy misogyny, son!
Still, we had fun. It's (mostly) a warm and welcoming environment with a good mix of incredible, middling, and terrible singers and we're gonna try making it a regular thing. Hurray for social activities!
* We've settled on a 'Post-Colonial Monsters' theme for the big gayborhood Halloween block party - I'm going as Vampire!Judith Butler, D as Zombie!Emma Tenayuca, S as an Anarcho-Communist!Mad Scientist, and I'm told
cheshire3000 will be joining us as a Sparkly! Muslim! Vampire! Plus maybe a couple other people? IDK, but it's going to be amazing.* My boss left yesterday for a two-week business trip to China. Without telling me he was leaving on a two-week business trip to China. Or leaving any instructions. Sadly, no one is surprised.
* There are only two volumes to go in the Totally Epic Hikaru No Go Reread! We're planning a party type thing for the final discussion post and everyone is invited :D More details when we have them!
* Is the spacing on my header borked or is it just me?
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Date: 2010-10-05 09:27 pm (UTC)Also the karaoke night sounds like fun ^_^
ALSO OMG! the crossover looks like it'll be awesome!!!
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Date: 2010-10-06 04:55 am (UTC)The crossover is going to be amazing if I can pull it off - I plans (and an outline). Epic plans (and an outline)!
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Date: 2010-10-05 10:21 pm (UTC)2) Yep, spacing's fucked up.
3) That is a Halloween party I would dearly love to attend.
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Date: 2010-10-06 04:58 am (UTC)Arg, spacing. Maybe something reacted badly to the last code push?
It is going to be SO AWESOME. I spent the evening fitting my fangs, no lie, they're badass.
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Date: 2010-10-06 05:53 am (UTC)Hmm, can you check your style options settings? It looks like the header height might have been set to 200.
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Date: 2010-10-06 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 06:40 pm (UTC)