Insane Far Beyond Her Years

What do you get when you have a can of sweet, condensed milk in your kitchen cabinet and it's 100+ degrees for several days and you don't happen to have A/C?

The answer is that your condense milk magically cooks itself into caramel. Not that I don't like caramel, but I needed sweet condensed milk.

I wonder if all the cans have the same problem?

One word for all this: HOT, HOT, HOT.

So, I bet you're wondering: Regann, when you aren't bitching about BOLDELETION 07, what have you been up to? It's certainly isn't finishing your Psych fic!

This is true, sadly. I wish I could write but I'm a bit run-down at the moment. Just tired, you know, drained, not in a bad way or anything, though. Sometimes I have to get out of fannish-mode and go back into regular-tv-watcher mode. So I've been rewatching some of my favorite eps of SG-1 of DVD and watching a new show.

That new show would be Numb3rs. Man, I <3 this show, where has it been all my life? Actually, I know the answer, it comes on opposite Sci Fi Friday, damnit, and I just alway missed it. And given the way the writers on SG-1/SGA shafted me as a fan (I have not watched an episode of either Stargate on Skiffy in this whole calendar year of 2007) I wish I'd been watching CBS instead.

( More Numb3rs squee. Seasons 1 and 2 )

Anybody else out there watch this show?

It's amazing sometimes, even with the internet, how very regional things are and how you don't even realize it until you come into contact with people from far away. I grew up in North Carolina and my family is very tied to the history here, to the past. Tobacco, for one. Native American displacement. Weird holdover vocabulary from the colonial times; we have all that in my family.

But I was thinking more like pop culture things. Bojangles'. The Shag. Cheerwine. Krispy Kreme. Pepsi-Cola. They all started here in the Carolinas, some here in Charlotte and I never even think about how regional some of them are. I remember how amused I was when Ben Browder mentioned in an interview how much he missed Cheerwine when he was filming Farscape in Australia. (Cheerwine is a cola drink, kinda like one of those Dr. Pepper Code Reds that came out years ago.)

(For those who haven't heard this story yet, Ben Browder and I graduated from the same high school, only different years! ZOMG! /fangirl!)

Shag and Beach music are a big part of our cultural history, with my grandfather growing up on the coast and my mom inheriting a love for the music and the dancing. But what's interesting is that I never stop and think about how locative all this is; that Katie probably doesn't know what Cheerwine or Bojangles is, and that everyone didn't grow up listening to the Platters or the Dominoes, or learning to shag with their mom in the kitchen on Saturday mornings and they've probably never seen Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs in a concert in the park and shagged along with their best guy friend.

This is such silly stuff but it means alot to me and probably everyone reading this has those same little things that have filled up the nooks of who they are and probably never think about it. Sometimes I think we forget that just because the internet connects us in fascinating, global ways -- we still live in a fixed place, fixed culture, fixed past.

And, now, I leave y'all from this journey down Memory Lane with some very fun lyrics from one of my favorite shaggin' songs, Sixty Minute Man:

( I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long )

(Drawback A to twin-posting: No Semagic on work comp.)

I've noticed that everyone everywhere -- RL, online -- have been rather antsy and angsty for the past week or so. And, personally, I have a theory:

Back to School Time.

For thirteen (or more) years of our early lives, we are condition to expect a major upheaval every August when we'd have to go back to school. For some, it was a time for excitement; for others, it was nerve-wrecking and anxiety-producing; and some just dreaded it. But, for everyone, it was a signal for a time for MAJOR CHANGE.

I don't think we ever lose this feeling of expectation for change; for the rest of our lives, we expect August to bring this change to us even though once we're out of school and in the workforce, it doesn't happen. But I think the expectation to change excites (or distresses) us anyway, especially as we get bombarded with all the BACK 2 SCHOOL cues through sales and marketing.

I could be wrong, of course, but that's my thoughts on the matter.

On top of deep thoughts -- I know the .mp3 fairy (or iTunes fairy, I ain't picky!) wants to bring me a copy of All-American Rejects' "Dirty Little Secret" today. I KNOW S/HE DOES! ;)

And, eff me, but it's effing HOT outside. Ugh.

Like many on my LJ flist, I am disturbed by the recent permanent deletions with no warnings, with the way LJ/6A did so after refusing to clarify their policies for months, with the way they still aren't answering questions.

Now, these things don't concern me, as in, affect what I've written and haven't written. However, I think it's pretty damn personal for any person who uses their LJ for fandom purposes. Moreover, I am left uneasy by the number of people who don't see to realize that cries of "not my fandom / not my porn / not my taste" are missing the bigger issues of which this is symptom.

This is a chilling effect on free expression. This is corporate asshattery of the highest order. This is just bad customer service. The sheer disregard for fandom as a user base speaks volumes and should speak louder than whether or you personally care for NC-17 HP fan art. The swift, permanent deletions of users like ponderosa121 is setting a frightening precedent and that should bother everyone.

As of this journal entry, I am twin-posting both to Livejournal and InsaneJournal. All my posts from the last 3+ years have been backed up on IJ and on my computer. I am not running away because I do like the community of persons I've met and interacted with on LJ. But the sad truth is, I came here from blogger for that community and if my segments of fandom go, so will I. If the slashers have to leave, if the Wincest kids have to go, if we have to take our anime and videogame fics somewhere else because the majority of the characters are not older than 18, I'm gone, even if every character I've ever written having sex aren't underage or incestuous or of the same gender.

I'm am regann everywhere: Livejournal, Greatestjournal, InsaneJournal and, thanks to the folks at leavin_eljay, JournalFen. Right now, my refuge of choice is InsaneJournal but I will follow my fandoms and friends where they go.

Now back to your regularly scheduled reading. And I will go do laundry and other household things.

....testing......

So I take a break from LJ hoping to get my writing inspiration back and what do I see when I come back?

BOLDELETION '07!!!

(That's what I'm calling it anyway since they took Strikethrough away from us. Don't think I don't know that that's the kind of psychological demoralization many corrupt and totalitarian regimes have used in the past! I was a history major!)

I'm looking for somewhere else to go. My LJ is backed up. We'll see.

As some of you may know, I love the old '60s gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows, which me and my mom are currently watching on DVD. I believe we're somewhere around Number 1000 out of 1225 episodes at this very moment.

News came down this weekend that Johnny Depp has bought the rights and plans to make a movie version of it, with himself playing the lead role of vampire Barnabas Collins.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I love Johnny Depp -- I mean, seriously, since he was Hanson -- but I also love my show and I'm not sure what this will do to the Dark Shadows fandom. Not that I'm involved with it, per se, but I've got to dread the influx of Depp fangirls, no matter how well he might do the adaptation. I mean, Depp is one thousand times hotter than the original Barnabas but Jonathan Frid still brought the insane fangirls.

I guess it could be good, on the one hand, but there are so many questions about taking Dark Shadows from soap to movie...what plot are they going to use? Which characters, which storyline? Are they going to look to the movies for inspiration? SO MANY QUESTIONS!! I know I have my favorites and, if I've gotta watch it, I want the time-travel plot with Peter Bradford!! (Not that I'll get it.) I, at least, demand Victoria Winters, even if I can't have Peter.

And, for all you Buffy and Angel and other emo-angsty-vampire-with-a-soul type fans, this is where it started. YOU CAN BLAME (OR THANK) BARNABAS. :)

(Actually, you can blame (or thank) Jonathan Frid, the actor who played Barnabas, because he's the one who injected so much guilt and pain and kindness into his performance that really forced the show to take his character from "evil, soulless vampire" to the conflicted monster who strives to overcome his nature.)

One day, something will have to go right for me, even if it's a stupid little thing that doesn't matter in the larger scheme of things.

Today is not that day.

This has to be the biggest crock I've seen in a long time.

I didn't read it all and I don't plan to because it has to be the stupidest thing I've ever read.

Oh, if you don't want to click, the jist is: obesity is contagious and having fat friends makes you fat.

Um, no.

I have been overweight my whole life and my three closest friends are stick-thin, always have been. In fact, I have only had one obese friend in my whole life and she was obese when I met her.

( Allow me to offer photographic evidence )

Conclusion: one of us is still very very thin (and black) and the other of us is very very fat (and white).

Yeah, I'm thinking I don't buy this "friends make you fat" business. It's just giving people another reason to treat overweight people as an object of ridicule and derision, like average people needed another reason nowadays, ugh.

Thank god I work in PORN; my office is amazingly free of body-size discrimination.

Right now?

I am watching La Bamba.

THANK YOU NETFLIX! <3

Sorry, my LDP post is a little late today! In keeping with the theme of my earlier post showing you the YouTube video of my leather-wearing, pain-inflicting dominatrix supervisor, today's official LOU DIAMOND PHLLIPS post is a host of YouTube-y vids featuring the sexiest guest star in all of Psych-dom so far this season. And, yes, he's a man of many talents.

You know you want to watch!

( LDP moves in mysterious ways! )

After two days of pure visual bliss, we will return to more thinky topics tomorrow.

(Previous LDP posts are here and here.)

Ever wanted to see the people that I worked with here at the porn company? Here's your chance! They made some funny little movies for our social networking site and I thought I'd share.

The YouTube clip is embedded behind the cut. It's mostly worksafe, I promise, and only about a minute long. Make sure you stick around for the dominatrix -- that would be my direct supervisor. ;)

( She's never told me to lick her boots, though... )

( Yes, sometimes I do think about things other than slash )

Anyway, enough of that tl;dr. What are your thoughts on yaoi? ;)

Welcome to the second day of my Psych LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS week! Yesterday, I brought you a post about who he is and why Psych fans should care but today I come bearing pure cheesecake in the form of hunky, hunky picspam!

As if those Psych promo shots of him almost shirtless wasn't enough, yum.

( Hunky, hunky LDP! )

Take a minute, remember how to breathe and catch that drool before it hits your keyboards. I know that's what I'm doing!

First, I would like to start by declaring today the first in this LJ's official LOU DIAMONDS PHILLIPS WEEK!

Why are we having a Lou Diamond Phillips Weeks? Because he will be guest starring on Psych this Friday at 10pm Eastern.

I am calling this new weekly trend of mine "PYSCH!UP" in which I try to post something at least once a day that keeps Psych fresh in our mind and our excitement up for the new episode. For the upcoming "Psy vs. Psy," our focus will be, of course, LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS.

Today we start with a little information about LDP and why we, as Psych fans, care.

( I HEARTS LDP! )

Tune in tomorrow for more LDP and Psych goodness!

Snagged from switch842

Rules:
1. Have your music library ready.
2. Choose one (1) song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your screen name.
3. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your screen name until you run out of letters (or numbers).
4. Post up your results.
5. BONUS POINTS: upload your mix (whether it's individual songs or a .zip of all the the songs) and include the mix in your post.

Due to the overwhelming amount of Stevie Nicks song in my iTunes (around 110 non-Fleetwood Mac songs, fyi) I created two lists, the Nicks Fix list and the Everything-but-the-Stevie List

( Everything-but-the-Stevie Mix )

( Nicks Fix Mix )

As for #5 -- If there's a song you see that you want, ask me and I shall upload it! :)

My friend Kissha and I went out last night and did dinner at Qdoba and, afterward, we went back to her house to wait for her boy to get off work. She leant me a stack of CDs she had that were from the golden age of our teenaged years and I spent most of last night ripping them -- Soul Asylum, Gin Flowers, Wallflowers, Bush, Goo Goo Dolls, and The Cranberries. It's like I'm instantly back to being fourteen again, and riding around in the car after dark is somehow the height of cool, playing the music too loud and screaming at each other to talk with all the wind in our faces. FUN.

I know it's odd but really 13 to 16 was the highlight of teenaged years; after that, Kissha and most of my friends had dropped out of school and were hard on the drugs while I was busting my ass in extra-super-hard-advanced classes and trying to juggle that with my mom first getting sick. So while I had fun in the last half of high school -- prom! senior pranks! fic writing! -- it was earlier when I was in my reckless-teenager-emo phase.

I was a skater -- or, rather, I was part of a skater group, I don't like to be injured -- and we walked the streets, we loitered on public property, tagged everything in sight; we spent hours doing nothing and it feeling important and it was so fun. And I don't think it's just nostalgia either -- I remember everything being so fun, so entertaining and bright. Life was fun and it's been a long time since I felt that way for more than a moment.

♥ to my old crew who'll never see this ~ Kissha, Thom, Carol, Dazy, and even Aaron.

...I suddenly feel the need to tag something and I don't mean an LJ tag. ;)

While y'all were all out worried about a silly children's book, I was having to defend my house against a strange, naked man coming onto my porch and looking in my windows, begging that I let him in my house at about 11:45pm.

I threatened him with a fire poker and eventually had to call the cops because he wouldn't leave.

I'm just glad I was here with my mom instead of somewhere else, leaving her alone.

In a few of my responses to people about the newest posts on lj_biz, I've referenced a case of text being the sole medium for which a person has been indicted on obscenity charges. Being the lazy girl that I am, I decided to write all the info I have in one place instead, so here it is – the federal obscenity case against Karen Fletcher, based solely on text, on fictional stories that she offered on her website.

( Cut for length. Story continued within. )

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. What I am is an employee of what the federal government calls a "secondary producer" of adult content which makes obscenity laws – and the DoJ -- a very real part of my life. Also, feel free to pass this around if you want; I wrote it up because it doesn't seem like alot of people have heard about it and I feel it's a good example of text and obscenity on the internet.