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featherynscaleLast night I was driving up to a meeting at the House of the Weather Cats, which is really sort of over the hill and far away from my usual haunts, and I don't know the roads near there as well as I might. I had gone past the exit that one gets off at to go the House of the Weather Cats, so that I might go up and get some food before the meeting. I eat, I get back on the interstate, and I learn something: the exit I want is 56th Street, and there is no exit for that street on the southbound highway. So I take the next exit, Riverside A. I'm thinking, well, I'll just turn around here, get back on the interstate going north, and there will be no problems. So I'm looking for a place to turn around, and it's getting dark, and the road is kind of hilly, and it's hard to see where anything is, which is kind of a downer. And then, I see a little white church at the bottom of a hill. It's got a roadside pulpit sign, and the message on the sign is "God Allows U-Turns!". So I figure that's my spot. I pull in and turn around. As I'm pulling back out on to the road, I see a cop coming up behind me. And I'm thinking, "Buddy, if you pull me over, I'm pointing to that sign."
Later, much later, I'm coming home. There's a billboard on Highway 71 that reads "Weed: The more you smoke, the less you care." So I'm trying to figure out whether that's an advertisement or a warning, you know, and about that time I notice that the next billboard is for Crown Royal, "I love that new bag smell". I suppose that this means that irony is not dead, or something.
Anyway. While I've got you here, I've got a challenge for you. It's a meme, but it's an entertaining one. Here's the deal:
"Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission-- should they choose to accept it-- to write you an in-character post from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!"
And, here's my list:
- Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell)
- Any of the Endless (Sandman comics)
- Gambit (X-Men)
- Glinda, the Good Witch (Wizard of Oz)
- Jubal Harshaw (Stranger in a Strange Land)
- Simon Moon (Illuminatus!)
- Asmodean or Graendal (Wheel of Time)
- Schmendrick (The Last Unicorn)
- Aziraphale or Crowley (Good Omens)
- Trevor Goodchild (Aeon Flux)
- Jareth, the Goblin King (Labyrinth)
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Later, much later, I'm coming home. There's a billboard on Highway 71 that reads "Weed: The more you smoke, the less you care." So I'm trying to figure out whether that's an advertisement or a warning, you know, and about that time I notice that the next billboard is for Crown Royal, "I love that new bag smell". I suppose that this means that irony is not dead, or something.
Anyway. While I've got you here, I've got a challenge for you. It's a meme, but it's an entertaining one. Here's the deal:
"Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission-- should they choose to accept it-- to write you an in-character post from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!"
And, here's my list:
- Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell)
- Any of the Endless (Sandman comics)
- Gambit (X-Men)
- Glinda, the Good Witch (Wizard of Oz)
- Jubal Harshaw (Stranger in a Strange Land)
- Simon Moon (Illuminatus!)
- Asmodean or Graendal (Wheel of Time)
- Schmendrick (The Last Unicorn)
- Aziraphale or Crowley (Good Omens)
- Trevor Goodchild (Aeon Flux)
- Jareth, the Goblin King (Labyrinth)
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jackbabalon23 wins the Internet for at least a week.
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Date: 2006-03-23 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-23 06:39 pm (UTC)Okay, I'll Take A Stab...
Date: 2006-03-23 06:44 pm (UTC)Now, I see that you're requesting my attention to your tiny little journal. It seems you think to call me out of hiding by doing so, as if you expect I'd been reading this all along, taking note of your silly little dreams and attempts to promotore your abonination of a lifestyle. The fact remains, that while all of brecca's citizen's communications are strictly monitored, I do not take any personal note in them. That is left to the appropriate authorities.
It should also be pointed out, while I am here, that your threat of "dinosaurs", I believe, will not be tolerated. Should you continue with terrorist threats, you will be brought in, purged of all of your wickedness, and shall then serve us in a much more humbling fashion. I may even take to personally supervising you in your new possition.
With regards,
Trevor
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Date: 2006-03-23 08:29 pm (UTC)First let me say that I have nothing but thanks for the opportunity to observe a master Chaos Magician and to study alongside you. I feel, however, that at this turn in my career, it is best that our paths diverge and I make my own way. Your offer of access to the entirety of your famous library is prodigal, but I cannot be dissuaded from my path. We differ too fundamentally in what we see as the source of magic, and while the Cordian Path will not offer me so much in the way of written documentation, I am more and more convinced that the knowledge can once again be recoverd by taking a more practical course. From this day, I must be my own man and my own magician.
With warmest regards,
Jonathan Strange, Esq.
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Date: 2006-03-24 12:14 am (UTC)I invite you to rule with me. I know what you're thinking about my tights and ability to twirl transparent balls, but make no mistake; I am a fiercesome King. Sure, I may ballroom dance and break into song and wear lots of makeup, but always remember, I can rule the world with fear from my castle beyond the Goblin City. I am also a master shapeshifter and have also decided to incorporate education to the Goblin City so the Goblins will not be so daft. Let me rule you, and I will be your slave.
Your King,
Jareth
I had to do something about Lex's capitalization above
Date: 2006-03-24 02:35 pm (UTC)AyE... i COulD eVeN GIve yoU A pRe-HOStilE tAIl whILe I hOLD ONto yOUr hAnd... tHEn YoU could pICK tHINgs upupUPUP WIth iT aND hIT pEoPLE beFouR thEY maKe yOU mAD. wOULdn'T thAT be beTTeR? AnD no-BOdY wouLD exPECT iT be-cause HARdlY no-BODy haS A TAiL aNYmorE.
HIs NaME IS Barnabas. He'S mY doGGIe.
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Date: 2006-03-24 03:23 pm (UTC)Re: I had to do something about Lex's capitalization above
Date: 2006-03-25 04:01 am (UTC)I keep pondering Schmendrick, since Palimar might as well have been based on him. But I've been too tired to be sufficiently inspired.