Saw the movie Paranormal Activity, freaked me out pretty good, I enjoyed it... I guess, I am easy to scare, considering how many people are saying that it is an over rated movie.

Is it because I let myself actually suspend disbelief, because I believe that a situation like the one in the movie could actually happen? I don't know, a lot of people who claim that they didn't like it say they were bored and that nothing happened for most of the movie.

Personally I found that lots of things happened during the movie, its just they weren't big exciting actiony type things they were slow, subtle, creepy, character establishing, etc. Some of the things were really quick, that if you had blinked you might have missed them. And the main characters were definitely two normal people that I could relate too even if I did want to strangle the boyfriend for being so stupid.

Anyways, as I said earlier I liked it, it evoked the fear that it was supposed to from me. And if you don't mind that its a subtle slow paced movie, and that their won't be an answer to all of your questions then you should go see it.. I had a good time... Even if I am not sure whether I will be able to sleep properly tonight or not..

The news reporting on the Right Wing march on Washington not only depresses me, it completely shakes any faith I had in any lingering decency in the American Public.

That people have become such sheep that they will believe any claptrap that the Republicans feed them. And any reasonable response is drowned out by yelling and hysterical screaming or ignored as too long and too boring. There are still people who believe in that Death Panels lie, individuals can't seriously be that stupid can they?

Watching the news media made me ill, for every well spoken thoughtful individual in the march, there were about 4-5 right wing conspiracy nutjobs, calling out cries of Socialism and Communism. And those well spoken individuals seemed to be blind to the mob that they were actually a part of and participating in.

The inherent greed that is part of their movement is so clear, "How dare you threaten to raise my taxes in order to pay for Healthcare?" Exactly how do you expect them to pay for it?

Listen I hate paying taxes as much as any other American does, but I am also not stupid enough to believe that the government can pay for everything that it does for us and not have to tax us for it. I will gladly pay in to taxes if need be, if it means that, people who are afraid to go to the doctor, can do so, without the fear of "Can I pay Rent? Can I buy Food? etc." Hanging over their head. No one should have to choose health over the other necessities of life.

The insurance companies have failed America, I don't want to see your ability to choose private health insurance to go away and there is no part of the planned health care plan that forces you to choose government health over private health. If you have enough money go ahead and pay for your fancy covers everything policies.

But there are those of us who aren't so lucky as to be able to afford the insane prices of private insurance. Or whose workplaces don't offer insurance or even worse, offer insurance that has some of the worst coverage on the market. We would like to have a public option, a real one, not one that discriminates on being so poor that you'd have to be homeless to take advantage of it.

And the real big problem, is that the pro health care side has called time and time again that they would be willing to make some compromises. But that those who are anti-healthcare, I haven't heard any ideas or willing ideas for compromise its just yelling and screaming and worst of all false accusations and deflecting of real issues.

But finally after months and months of putting it off I finally finished this season of Ugly Betty.

You know DVR is a wonderful wonderful awesome thing, because I was going through an incredibly depressed spell where I felt so depressed that I felt that I couldn't watch T.V. shows by myself. So I stopped watching Betty months and months ago about the time the whole Tornado Girl episode happened.

Thats right in the last week or so I watched like friggen 10 or more episodes of Betty because thankfully my DVR kept them all nice and taped and safe for me... How did I survive before stuff like that... LOL

Anyways as I said I am sure there is only one person on my list that actually cares that I finally finished this season. But I was very very sad about certain things at the end of it...

Oh and yes wirrrn that is Eric Mabius in my icon, he's in the Ugly Betty show that I like so much as a Rich Playboy named Daniel Meade.

http://www.afterelton.com/blog/lylemasaki/buffy-comic-angel-spike-slash

Check out the link full of amusing..

Yay the AfterElton Hot 100 list is out.. for those of you who don't know the Hot 100 is a list of men voted for by gay/bi men that they think are the hottest.

And under the cut you can find out in order which men gay/bi guys are all hot and bothered over this year..
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So I went to see Star Trek this weekend, I had gotten a special coupon that got me a free movie ticket from one of my friends for my birthday. (Not specifically to Star Trek but that's what I chose to use it on.)

Anyways, no spoilers, but I really really enjoyed it. I mean beyond the we are all young and pretty thing which doesn't detract as much as I thought it would. It was lots and lots of fun, and its the first Trek movie in years that I was not only interested in going to see but also haven't been disappointed by and that I will probably buy on DVD as soon as it comes out LOL... I wouldn't mind going to see it again in theaters which is fairly rare for me...

Its that time of year again, for all you gay/bisexual guys, to pick your top ten hot guys and nominate them for the AfterElton top 100 hot guy list..

go to http://www.afterelton.com/people/2009/hot100/voting for details and to vote..


here is my list for this year...

In no particualar preference or order.

David Tennant

Gareth David-Lloyd

Seth Green

Lance Bass

Jeremy Piven

Ewan McGregor

Neil Patrick Harris

James Roday

Alan Tudyk

Anthony Rapp

Tis my birthday today, we went out to eat nothing real special..

The real birthday party is this saturday hopefully with lots of me drukedness LOL...

Heya Guys, if you haven't heard, WotC has done one of the dumbest things that I have ever seen a company do. They forced all the legally selling PDF's of all their products on all sites that were selling them,(I.E. sites like Paizo, and DrivethruRPG) to be taken down.

There has been no official statement from WOTC at this point but there is word that is filtering down that it has to do with pirating and copies attained through online distributors.


I find this whole thing rather stupid, this action will not stop those who pirate and will only hurt WOTC's bottom line..

In fact WotC's closest competition, White Wolf, has used this whole debacle to their advantage using the following press release.


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In light of recent announcements, some fans have expressed concern over the future of electronic (PDF) format book sales in the RPG industry. White Wolf Publishing today has announced that it currently has no plans to discontinue its existing PDF products.

“Quite the opposite,” says Eddy Webb, the Alternative Publishing Developer for White Wolf. “I believe this is a growing market with potential we haven’t yet had a chance to fully explore, both as publishers and as fans of role-playing games.” Eddy remarked that he has dozens of upcoming PDF-exclusive products on his schedule in addition to continuing to provide PDF versions of upcoming products, and that White Wolf is still actively looking into returning to the print-on-demand arena.

To celebrate White Wolf’s continuing devotion to PDF products and reward their growing, loyal fan base, the company is offering a free download of the Exalted Second Edition rulebook as well as a one-time 10% discount on the purchase of any White Wolf PDF titles through DriveThruRPG.com and RPGNow.com from 1 Am Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Simply enter the coupon code “wwlovesyou” to receive the discount. Both offers expire by midnight (EST) on Sunday, April 12th.

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Thats right folks a free core book for one of White Wolf's best selling products,

For those of you who don't know Exalted is a High Powered Fantasy Setting that White Wolf has made, an absolutely free download is a good deal I recommend taking advantage of the offer, yeah you have to make a DrivethruRPG account, but you don't have to buy anything else so its not a big deal.

I also recommend to take advantage of that 10% discount on White Wolf products...

So wow! 1000 posts, if you had told me Sep. 25th, 2002 that I would still be using this thing. Heck that I would be using it as a paid member I would have told you that you were nuts.

A lot has gone on in that I have missed out on posting about since I last posted to LJ, I knew that it was my 1000th entry and I just didn't think the small things were worth making into an entry. So now its gonna be one big entry so I have an excuse to write about the things that I have forgotten to talk about.



---#1 My 29th birthday is coming up next month, its making me very very depressed. For two reasons, first reason being that the number between me and 30 has gone down to one year. And the second one, is because what I am worried about, having set myself up for disappointment when it comes to my birthday party this year.

See my boyfriend had some financial problems during Christmas this year so he couldn't afford to get me a gift. I made him a deal, I love him and I didn't really need a gift so I asked him to make me a promise instead.

I wanted a party this year for my birthday, a real party, one where I have as many as my friends as possible, we play games, eat food, hang out, maybe karoke or something, and get as smashed as possible(One important thing was that my boyfriend needs to be able to get drunk to cause whenever we go out he always drives and thats not fair to him.) So I asked him to set a party up.

Anyways, so we are nearing the date of my birthday, and I realized that the weekend that this was going to be all set up was Easter weekend. Its to late to change anything, but I get the feeling that its going to severely impact how many people come. Also I think its a Vampire Larp game on the same weekend as well which I don't normally go to but a lot of our friends do..

I am sure that some of my friends are guaranteed to show up, but that is not exactly the thing I was looking for, I was more interested in something big and silly vs. small and intimate. (Its not that I don't like small and intimate, just that I have done small and intimate to death. I would like to think that I have grown beyond being the cloistered person in high school who doesn't have hardly any friends.)

--- #2 Watchmen, until recently I hadn't read the comic or anything like that. So the week the movie came out, I picked up the graphic novel and forced myself to read it before seeing the movie.

I don't know whether that was wise or not, but I am mostly glad I did. It helped me pick up on things that I am sure that people who hadn't read the comics never would have. I think the movie did as good as it could with what time constraints were put on it. And though I disagree with certain changes to the ending, its an overall good adaptation.

Also Jackie Earle Haley owned as Rorschach.


-- #3 The scans_daily debacle, I know I am more than a little late in weighing in on this. It happened after I had posted my 999th journal entry. I thought about making a post about just it, but I didn't want my 1000th post to only be about scans_daily drama.

So how do I feel about it? Well I was a member of the community, so I am rather miffed about the whole thing that's for sure. scans_daily had always existed in this state of questionable legality, but I tend to believe that the community had done the comic books industry more good than bad.

The community introduced me to things that I never would have known were out there if it weren't for scans_daily. And I added trades, graphic novels, and comics to my collection all because of the community. It also allowed me to avoid stuff that was complete dreck as well. Making me more savvy and aware of what was going on behind the scenes at the comic companies, and introducing me to the horrors of people like Greg Land, Dan DiDio, and Joe Quesada. It was important to me to know this stuff, I don't live really near to my comic store and can only go rarely so its important to me to use my time in there to its best ability.

As for Peter David's involvement, I have lost some severe respect for him. I have always liked his stories and involvement in comics and star trek and various other things over the years. But whether it was his intention and whether he was directly involved in what happened or not isn't the point. Marvel may not have caused the shut down directly, but Peter's histronics and foolish talking about things that he has no clue about were most likely an indirect cause of the incident. And his complete and utter missing the point, has made it unlikely that I will be picking up any more X-factor( Or anything else which he puts his name on) which makes me incredibly sad as Jamie Madrox is one of my favorite Marvel characters..


--- #4 Miscellaneous thoughts that I am using to round out this entry.

- I have now officially had more dreams about the 10th doctor than I have had about any other fictional character ever, 4 total, and one of them was a make out dream. I am so totally gonna miss David Tennant, and I support fully him being in the next Batman movie as the Riddler cause that would be all sorts of awesome.

- I at one time was a rather active member of the Slash community on the internet. I used to spend entire weekends doing nothing but trawling and reading fics. Recently I have been so much more active with my weekends having a boyfriend, having games, and such that I don't read fanfic nearly as often. So it came as a surprise that during that time I had stopped paying attention to the net.

That one of my favorite writers had her site taken down, carolinecrane's site was no longer there with its BWOC, and DMOC and other awesome stuff. I found out about it going down months and months ago, I can't even remember when, and I felt really really bad for not having been paying attention to the net enough to even notice that it had happened, because it clearly had happened long before I had noticed it..




- I have a newer computer, one that can play video without dying on me.. And one that can play closer to modern games. I am also on City of Heroes/City of Villains, my main character Soul Jester, a villain who is on the Victory server for those of you who are on the game as well and want to say hi..

Though I am much less icky now, last week around Monday I started feeling pretty funky, and On Tuesday I was full on throwing up and didn't stop until about 4.pm. on that day.. I spent two days at home, tried to work on Thursday managing barely. And then realized that I had slightly relapsed and spent Friday at home. Then spent the entire weekend in bed...

I have worked all this week but I am still funky, very tired, and napping incredibly regularly. Almost hibernating, I am still coughing and feel just in general tired and stuffed but otherwise okay and medicated... I am fighting it with power naps and Gatorade and Jello..

I will be out this weekend because I can't stand two weekends in a row and also I mean if I am good enough to ride 4 miles on a bike to work and back 4 miles home. Then I am good enough to go out to friends, just that simple...


oooh just making a note this is my 999th jounral entry, maybe I should come up with something for a special 1000th journal entry?

I finally gots me a copy of Apollo Justice, I have been waiting till I finally took the time to finish Trials and Tribulations. I am happy with the graphical upgrades and the reintroduction of the things that they added to the bonus case in the original Phoenix Wright.

I am liking the characters already, I even like Phoenix's redesign, well at least I like how he looks, I am disliking the attitude..

I now have all four games released in America, I am looking forward to the Edgeworth game and the Fifth Ace Attorney game...

I have really been thinking very much of a Ravenloft campaign recently, for those of you who are unaware Ravenloft is a Gothic horror/fantasy setting for D&D. It has elements of all sorts of the various horror genres and especially eastern European folklore, Gothic Horror as in Dracula, and Frankenstein, and the old Universal Monster Movies are all drawn on for inspiration.( With other horror tropes mixed in lightly for good measure.)

The setting has some very important mechanical differences between it and normal D&D, one of the biggest being that alignment detecting magic never detects the good evil axis. The idea is that the players have to rely on their own judgment to make decisions on morality instead of relying on a spell to do it for them.

Ravenloft is my favorite D&D setting mostly cause I love the idea of mixing Fantasy and Horror.. Horror is my favorite Sub-genre, I like scaring and being scared, I am big into suspense and mood and dark looming landscapes.. Right now I don't know any group where I could run something like that though....





I have been working on ideas for a one shot.. with some pre-made characters on the side.. To give people a shot at getting to know the setting...


D&D (Ravenloft 3.5E): You and a group of other people have awoken in a completely deserted village in the domain of Mordent. Night appears to be coming soon and some strange force seems to prevent you from leaving.. Can you and your newfound colleagues figure out the mystery of the empty village before you too become missing..

Drusilia Rosegrave- Sithican- Elf- Female- Paladin- LG
A beautiful and strong, silver haired beauty, Drusilia believes that she was called to duty by some unknown good force to right great wrongs, she often claims that the voices tell her where and when to go next. Whether or not this is true she believes in doing the right thing and bringing light to all of those who are in need.

Charlotta Vercezzo- Borcan- Human- Female- Enchanter- NG
A young raven haired peasant who found the young Enchanter she was in love with mysteriously murdered. Charlotta ransacked his place looking for clues as to who had taken her love away from her. She found nothing but notes on hypnotism and magic spells. In the end she took his magic books and taught herself how to use them in hopes that they would someday help her find out who was her lover's killer.

Conrad von Brandthofen- Lamordian- Human- Male- Rouge- CG
A bright and clever blond haired man, Conrad was always in trouble with the locals. He sense of excitement and freedom was often looked down upon by the more sedate Lamordians. Chafing under the harsh eyes and boring attitudes of the locals, Conrad made his way to Port-a-Lucine. Using his quick wits and a bit of youthful charm he started a new life which better suited his brash temperament. Seeing the sharp divide in the classes Conrad saw no wrong in parting some of the more distasteful of the upper class from their belongings. He would keep some of the money from himself but also leave gifts of money for the local beggars who in turn kept their mouths shut to the local gendarmes.

Stefan Doyle- Mordentish- Half-Vistani(Naiat)- Male- Sorcerer- NG
A mysterious and alluring dark brown haired man, born to a young noble Mordentish woman out of wedlock. Stefan was despised by his grandfather who wanted a proper heir to the Doyle fortune, he recently discovered Stefan's sorcerous powers and drove Stefan out of the estate. Stefan now uses his powers to benefit other people, He hopes that this will one day prove that he is a worthy heir to the Doyle fortune and name to his grandfather.

Morten Corgonne- Valachani- Human- Male- Cleric(Ezra)- LN
A creamy tan skinned youth with glossy black hair, originally Morten was about to be ordained into the local religion of the Valachani people, the worship of Yutow the Peacebringer, however an attack by a Wereleopard and his rescue by a Wizard(Arcane magic is considered blasphemous by Yutow.) created a crisis of faith within him. After a few years of wandering and soul searching a kindly anchorite led Morten to the teachings of the Church of Ezra.

Lucian Staninov- Barovian- Caliban- Male- Fighter- CG
An exceedingly tall whip thin, but wiry, albino, his eyes are pitch black (no whites) and he is bald as a cue on top . Lucian was born to young Barovian villager who it was believed have been cursed by a foul undead spirit, called the Pale Man. Despite his cursed nature Lucian's mother raised him as lovingly and as best as she could on the outskirts of a local village, the people of the village despised him though and threatened his mother often. When he finally became old enough he struck out on his own hoping to leave the hatred of his village behind.

Castor Trillingway-Kartakan-Human-Male-Cleric(The Ancestral Choir)-N
A broad shouldered, young man with short neatly trimmed flaxen blond hair and light blue eyes. Castor's parents died when he was very young victims of a wasting sickness that not only killed them but also killed two out of his four other siblings. When the villagers discovered the siblings all alone, they sent them to live with the Choirmasters of the Ancestral Choir in Harmonia. While Castor's brother and sister, both left the Temple when they came of age, Castor stayed and became a cleric of the Ancestral Choir.

One of these days I need to get enough money to commission glockgal who for those of you who don't know is a super cool artist with super cool art. If you want to to see you need to go to her glockart journal and I think become friendly with her if i remember correctly.


Though honestly I am not sure what I would ask for if I commission her though,

Thoughts include,

Zell and/or Seifer from FF8

Simon and/or Mal from Firefly

Superboy and/or Robin from DCU

Dr. Horrible meets the Tenth Doctor?

I don't know thoughts thoughts thoughts...


Bah I need the extra money in the first place and then she has to be like actually free to commission cause she's like extra busy lol... I think I kind of gave up on that a few years ago...

While cold and miserable riding to work today I did have a nice surprise waiting for me at home.

Some stuff that I had ordered from Amazon arrived earlier than I thought it would.

I gots me DVD's in the mail,

Dr. Who - The Robots of Death,

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog,

And Short Circuit.

The best part about the Dr. Horrible DVD is all the special stuff packed onto it including two commentaries, one of which is a completely new Musical, Commentary! The Musical... Its friggen Hilarious....


I can't wait to share with friends and be all fannish about it I am sure Tonya, will be all over the whole thing LOL...

Also NPH Mega Cutie.....

First off I need to thank carolinecrane for the Chrismas Card, I am sorry I didn't thank you earlier but its been a pretty depressing few weeks and every time I want to post in my LJ I just lose the will to do so.. But I really did appreciate the card because I mean how awesome is it to get a whole fanfic in the mail..

It was a difficult Christmas, lean with gifts and depressing, and New Years I just was so not caring that I went to bed at 10:30pm. And after new years I realized that I had run out of Paid LJ time so that made me annoyed cause I am not sure if I can spare the money to unlock all my dang Icons again SIGH! My family situation is just disintegrating, my dad is just completely a drug addict and mom refuses to leave him. My Grandfather is losing his memory, and my Aunt is a domineering bitch..

On the good side my sister and her husband are happy together, I am very happy for them, Emily did the right thing, she didn't just marry the first guy she had at least three long term relationships before she married her Husband.

I love my boyfriend, he's had a rough last few months poor guy had his hours cut and wasn't making hardly any money. He couldn't even afford me a present this year. Thankfully he got a new job which will start next week. I told him that instead of getting me a Christmas present that he has to set me up a big party with our gaming friends for my birthday which is four months away, one where we both can get drunk and if possible we can sing karaoke cause that would be awesome.

Final note, the Eleventh Doctor is going to played by an actor who is younger than I am, makes me feel a bit old lol...

So after a few months of putting it off and putting it off, I watched the last few episodes of Due South that I had bought months ago.

Why did I put it off? Cause I am a sentimental mook I guess. It sounds stupid but the show was a bright spot in a very dark dark time in my life. I was just so emotionally chaotic at that time and its one of the few things that grounded me.

Watching the last bits of something like that makes me all weepy and thoughtful. I know I am lame but shrugs, thats me. I am not only a bit of an emotional wreck, I am also a GRADE A certified softy.

Anyways, I should poke the wirrrn about him watching the show so I at least have someone to talk to about it lol or something...

I hurt myself about a week or so back, I was riding my bike home and I wanted to cross the street fast. You know how it is if you come to a full stop on a bike it takes you a few secs to get back up to speed. So instead of waiting for those secs I got off my bike and tried to trot it across the street. Well I really wanted to get across fast. And went way too fast, the front tire stayed on the ground but the back of the bike swiveled and hit the back of my leg as I crossed the street.

I scraped the back of my leg slightly and got a very large bruise for my trouble.. It didn't seem like it was all that bad or nothing and the bruise itself seems to be going away. I didn't really think to much of it but the area around the scrape seems hard and rubbery and paler than the rest of the skin. I am in a slight panic thinking it might be infected cause it itches and it looks funny, its not red or pussy or anything like that but it does seem odd...

If it is infected I have no idea what the hell i am going to do about it, I can't go to a doctor I can't afford it I am still in debt from the last time I went to a doctor..

I am so panicked right now, what am I going to do I can't even afford basic medical care, I mean damn it if its a simple infection an Antibiotic would clear it right up and I can't even afford that..

Don't get me wrong I am happy about Obama making President, its a very good thing it makes me happy..

But as a gay man I am very very fearful at the cost of this election, that even in a state like California where Obama gots 60 something percentage of the vote, Prop 8 passed..... For those of you who don't know thats an amendment to the California state constitution to prevent gays from marrying.

And not only that I don't remember what other states had them on the ballot but almost every single one of the anti gay marriage props passed. Except for the one in Connecticut... And since the Democrats won the overall election that means it wasn't just the Republicans that were anti gay it was a lot of Democrats as well.. It frightens me a lot, I thought things were getting better in America, but perhaps they are subtly getting worse...

-----EDITED FOR NOT HAVING ALL THE FACTS

For those Americans on my list remember today is the day to vote, if you want to be able to complain the next few years about who is in charge, I recommend going to do so.. This is the most important election in 4 years..


Also a special note to Minnesota voters, you may think that because you aren't registered that you can't vote today.. Well you would be wrong, because unlike many states Minnesota has same day Voter Registration at the Ballots, all you need is either your Drivers Liscence, State ID, or Mail with your home address on it.. Its very easy to do and takes very little time..

*Howls of anguish and teeth gnashing...*

Well there had been internet rumors about it for quite some time, but today right from the horses mouth it has been confirmed, David Tennant will be leaving after the current season, which will be made up of four specials instead of the usual 13 episodes.

I was kind of hoping he was going to take a stab at Tom Bakers record, in fact I thought i remember him saying as much at some point. But I guess its probably good to get out while your star is still shining bright and given the last series finale its gonna be hard to top that.



For the full story and rampant speculation on who is to be the new doctor
follow the links.


http://www.afterelton.com/blog/lylemasaki/david-tennant-quits-doctor-who-who-could-be-eleven

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

One of my favorite actors from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tom Lenk the actor who played Andrew Wells.. Has admitted that he is a member of my team... Its just so awesome that actors don't feel the need to hide like they used to, though its still a slow process. I wonder who else will come out in the next year or so...

For the full story follow the link..

http://www.afterelton.com/blog/michaeljensen/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-andrew-out

Probably a shock to more than a few people I am a slight Soap Opera fan. Its not like I am obsessed or anything but when your younger and your living with a single mom, soaps tend to be stuff that you end up watching.

When I was younger and summer was around, mom would have me and my sister tape her soaps for her. She is an ABC soap fan all the way so that means, All My Children(Which is her favorite), One Life to Live, and General Hospital. So being a rather not go out into the hot sun and play type of person I tended to sit and watch as I taped. I would end up getting all caught up in the storylines, but the cruelty of Childhood is that summer ends. School starts and you can't sit home and watch the TV anymore ;-)

So a a whole bunch a time passes and in Soap Opera time that sometimes means that kids who were just being born could end up in their teen years already LOL.. I would jump back into the shows next summer having to piece together what had happened in the intervening time. Though during the school year mom would be watching Knots Landing which was a night time soap opera.

Anyways its been years since I have actually sat down and watched a Soap on a regular basis. I just have not been interested... Some recent storylines have peaked my interest however, over on CBS the venerable As The World Turns, has the Luke and Noah(Called Nuke by fans) storyline, if you don't know they are the very first long time running gay couple on Daytime television.

Its a huge deal, though there has been controversy about the whole thing not just from people against it but those of us who support and are fans of the couple. Because of the appearance of poor writing decisions, and believed pressure from the shows sponser Procter & Gamble. Its been a rather slow going relationship, for a Soap Opera relationship, like Glacially slow. While other couples on the show have gotten together, had sex, broken up, made up, betrayed each other etc. Noah and Luke have just barely gotten to the point where they have been allowed by the sponser to kiss regularly on the air. Its a source of much frustration for Gay fans who feel that by not allowing the characters to do the things that the regular characters on the show do that they are limiting the characters developments and sending a message that Gays are okay as long as they don't do more than kiss each other.



On a more positive note on the cable channel completely devoted to soap operas, SoapNet, a spin off series of General Hospital, called General Hospital: Night Shift. It has the character of Kyle Julian, a new resident at the hospital who happens to be gay. He and his gal pal Claire fellow resident, just started working at the Hospital this year and living in the same apartment together. Being that its his first season in the series its happy to note that he has already been given a romantic storyline, with a patient named Eric(Played by out actor Chad Allen.) General Hospital Night Shift has much better writing than As The World Turns, has had Kyle evolve much more than Luke and Noah, and unlike the original General Hospital has yet to devolve into constant stories about the local Mafia. Unlike a regular Soap GH Night Shift is seasonal like regular TV shows and only on Tuesday Nights at 11/10 central time. (Though I am betting you can find stuff on youtube, for those of you interested especially in the Kyle and Eric stuff I bet you can find just that stuff to on youtube. LOL)

Also really cool are the special Kyle and Claire Webisodes on http://soapnet.go.com/soapnet/index about what Kyle and His best gal pal are up to outside of the Hospital.. Check them out they are hiliarious... The best sex she's never had LOL!




Anyways thoughts thoughts thoughts..

For those of you interested these are the guys from GH Night Shift
Left: Adam Grimes (Kyle), and Right: Chad Allen (Eric)

WOW! Just wow... Tonight Ugly Betty reaffirmed my devotion to it by dropping some huge bombs, and proving that it still has plenty of ummph still in it.. And just when you think you know how a Character works they do something that totally surprises you.. Heck that was totally the theme of this episode...


Also I need to find that song that was playing at the end of the episode I liked it..

For those of you who are Torchwood fans and are sad that next years Torchwood series will be rather short. Something to help tide you over.

A radio drama just made by the BBC with the Torcwood actors guest starring Martha Jones..

Download it here Its free for a day or two more I think..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/torchwood.shtml

RASSA FRASSA GOD DAMN IT!!!!

Okay i already knew it was going to happen, I just you know kind of hoped that maybe something would change.. The Nights Past game, was the game that I got most excited about playing every month. (Changeling I ST, so its fun but not as fun as playing where I don't have the stress of trying to be impressive lol.)

Anywho, I am intensely annoyed. though I am curious as to whether or not I should make Changelings on 2nd Friday nights as it might make for a possible easier night?( I realize Tonya had specials this month so possibly begining next month. prolly if I make it later in the evening and on a Friday we could possibly add someone if need be?) Also I want a Vampire Larp to play in, (Or a Changeling Larp, or Wraith Larp but whats the odds of those happening anytime soon.) but of course neither one that is currently around attracts me at all... SIGH... I guess I could run my own but I don't have clout like other people do, I couldn't ever get a location. And then I would be running, and I am already an ST for Table Top and a LARP. I am not sure I want to do more, RASSA FRASSA...

Damn it damn it damn it.. I need my fix... TC has not been doing it for me lately.. GARGH!!!

I have missed the last few days of the Olympics due to busyness, but I heard some interesting news that I am shocked my Australian buddy the wirrrn has yet to mention.

Australian diver Matthew Mitcham apparently the only openly gay man competing at the Olympics took home the gold medal in the mens 10-meter platform. For those of you don't realize this is a huge deal because of the fact that he's the first Gay Athlete to win a gold and already be out to the world at large. Though NBC's coverage of the Olympics missed out on this detail..

If your interested in the specifics and more here are some links to some articles on the gay male website AfterElton.

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/matthewmitcham

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/matthewmitchampicturetribute

The only sporting event that I ever really get interested in is the Summer Olympics. So I am in one of my happy places right now, especially now that I have a DVR so I can watch stuff that I normally don't cause of busy schedule.

Swimming, and Diving of course being the things I am most interested in. I also have interests in Gymnastics, Wrestling, and various other events.. (Honestly there are just so many events during the Summer Games that we get to see, that we don't see here in the states otherwise, at least not on a regular basis.)


Of course I also won't lie another good reason to watch the Olympics, eye candy of course. And my favorite events have the eye candy in abundance.

So for your viewing pleasure behind the cut, pics of olympic swimmers and divers LOL...

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Most awful thing to happen to a Companion EVER!!!

This message brought to you by the council of people who dislike Rose Tyler...

yeah yeah i realize this is all old news to those who have computers that don't barf when you try to watch something on youtube like mine does. But I have a DVR at home, and it tapes for me various things over the weekend. Including Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who whenever there are new episodes.

Sci-Fi just aired the first part of the series 4 finale of Doctor Who, last friday and it was so friggen awesome.. That I watched it again today..

I knew about a lot of the things that were going to happen, the basic ideas anyway, but still, just it was a big huge love hug to the fans of the Whoverse. With a massive companion reunion, crazy amounts of mix and match crossover goodness that wasn't hokey at all. The whole thing was fast paced awesome and the Daleks were just so freaking scary that I had a dream about a Dalek invasion the night after I watched it.. I can't wait till i get to see the rest.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! to one of my favorite online friends, carolinecrane


May your day of birth be full of happiness, joy, and fun. And may you get every present you want, and hopefully a good meal paid for by somebody other than you heee..

Yes yes I know I have posted this before, its actually a good post to do I get such interesting answers from it... Besides I always want to get people who haven't done it before to do it now.. Yes some things on this list have changed favorites change sometimes people...


Shruggles.. I don't know bored and such la.. can't really figure out why I am la.. I know I will list some of my favorite things and ask you to list some of your guys stuff in my comments la..

Favorite Planet: Saturn
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Classical Element: Water
Favorite Greek God: Hades
Favorite Egyptian God: Anubis
Favorite Norse God: Hel
Favorite Great Old One: Cthulhu
Favorite Season : Summer
Favorite Holiday: Halloween
Favorite Time of Day: Night
Favorite Gemstone: Emerald
Favorite Soft Drink: Sprite
Favorite Hard Drink: Long Island Iced Tea
Favorite Candy Bar: Take 5
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Boo Berry
Favorite Type of Food: Indian
Favorite Fast Food Resturaunt: Culvers
Favorite Actor: Gareth David-Lloyd
Favorite Actress: Lucy Liu
Favorite Anime: Card Captor Sakura
Favorite Video Game: Silent Hill
Favorite Video Game System: Wii
Favorite RPG Setting: Ravenloft
Favorite Band: Heart
Favorite Solo Artist: Utada Hikaru
Favorite DC Superhero: Superboy (Kon-el)
Favorite Marvel Superhero: Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)
Favorite Disney Cartoon Character: Donald Duck
Favorite Warner Bros Cartoon Character: Dot Warner
Favorite Slash Pairing: Xander/Andrew
Favorite Feature on a Guy(or gender of your particular bent): Face
Favorite T.V. Network: Cartoon Network
Favorite T.V. Show on air: Doctor Who
Favorite T.V. Show off air: Firefly
Favorite Sport to Watch: Olympic Swimming and Diving
Favorite Sport to Participate in: Swimming (Though I really really suck at it.)
Favorite Webcomic: Weregeek
Favorite Newspaper Comic: Foxtrot
Favortie Comic Book: X-factor
Favorite Board Game: Arkham Horror




Don't feel constrained by this list its what i could think of at the time la.. please answer as many as you can and add any of your own that you feel worth adding la....

Watching a singular television show all at once can be taxing, so you have to take breaks. So since i got my new set of DVD's it has taken me till today just to get to the 3rd season of Due South. The season where the indomitable Callum Keith Rennie shows up to play Stanley Raymond Kowalski.

Its gotten me to thinking why I like the show so much, and I can plainly say its certainly has to do with chemistry.. Both Marciano(Vecchio) and Rennie(Kowalski) had awesome chemistry with Gross(Fraser).

And while I personally prefer Kowalski more, I like Vecchio only slightly less, and his episodes are just as amusing, slashy, and clever as the later ones. You might not see it if you look at his earlier episodes where they had the poor Marciano dressed in horribly awful outfits, but once the second season hits they give him a much needed haircut and fixed his wardrobe so it wasn't quite as hit or miss. He became quite a looker..

Here's another look at the three leads for those unfamiliar

From left to right Paul Gross(Benton Fraser), David Marciano (Ray Vecchio), and Callum Keith Rennie (Stanley Raymond Kowalski)

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Anywho babbling and musing overly as is usual for me.... Being out here in Cottage Grove is a strange kind of isolation. The closer to my family I am the more cut off from the world I feel. So all this stuff that I enjoy I headlong dive into and think about, its strange.. Still it gets weirder when I get into really niche stuff such as this show.

Makes me wish I had someone to talk about with this stuff local, I would love to borrow this to someone after I am finished and have them tell me what they think... But niche lol... Strange thoughts...

I am tired I guess just randomness, I need thoughts.. I need less vacuum... BAH!

I guess maybe I am partly remembering what Due South means to me and thats where these emotions are coming from. It was a very very dark period in my life. Very DARK! I was in such a dark depression, it was a small bright place in my world, it helped me get through that dark place... Helped me see the light at the end of the tunnel..

For those of you who are interested, Afterelton has announced the winners of their second annual list of Hot 100 men. Here you are beneath the cut..


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For those of you who want to see the whole article follow the link.
http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/6/hot100

Its interesting how sometimes not keeping up with things is good, apparently, one of my favorite shows ever, Due South. Had already been slowly crawling its way out for an American release DVD wise.. If I had known this I might have made the mistake of buying each season individually. Thankfully I just learned about the shows release on DVD just recently and learned that on May 6th that they were releasing all three seasons in one set for 39.99 on Amazon, heck of a lot cheaper than purchasing each season individually which was $70+...

So now I am having myself a marathon and enjoying myself throughly. Ahhh due South, the very first show that I watched because of the Slash fiction. That's right, Slash fic first, then show.. Hah! its hilarious how that has happened to me on at least a few separate occasions.. It has me all nostalgic for my fan fic days when I trawled for fan fic a lot more than I do now...

For those of you unfamiliar with the show its about a Mountie, Benton Fraser(Paul Gross mmmm..), who originally comes to Chicago in search of his father's killer. He ends up paired with a slick, wise cracking cop named Raymond Vecchio (David Marciano). And through various misadventures he finds who his fathers killers are and brings them to justice back in Canada. But because the people he finds are high profile and the circumstances around his father's death embarrassing. He ends up back in Chicago, forced to work at the Canadian Consulate. The rest of the series centers around his misadventures in Chicago, helping Vecchio and later Vecchio's replacement Stanley Raymond Kowalski(played by the smoking hot Callum Keith Rennie) solve crimes, help people, and be a general hero .. There is also the general hilarity that ensues because of culture shock and Fraser's practically Dudley Do Right personality.


Its an interesting show, the show has a very Canadian sense of humor, it exaggerates the American characters personalities as how I have heard them described by many many people who don't live in America. Though Fraser and the Canadian characters in the show are very much exaggerations as well.. And heck you can't help but slash Fraser with either Vecchio or Kowalski. (Though Fraser/Kowalski will always be my paring.) Anywho here a pic of Vecchio, Kowalski, Deif, and Fraser.

The Second Annual AfterElton Top 100 Hottest Guys list is open for voting.

Like People magazine AfterElton is compiling a list of hotties unlike People, they are specifically asking only gay and bisexual men who they think should be on the list..

for more information you can go here

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/hot100/intro#comment-39762

this is my ten nominees in no particular order

Gareth David-Lloyd
Seth Green
Ryan Gosling
Jeremy Piven
Ben Browder
Eric Mabius
Alexandre Despatie
Alan Tudyk
Anthony Rapp
Joaquin Phoenix

if you just want to skip straight to voting you can do so here...


http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/hot100/voting

get out there guys and vote and have a good time ....

Heya, took this meme from my buggy friend the wirrrn

List Ten Fictional Characters You Would Sleep With:

Took me time to pare it down to just ten but I am willing to suffer for science. ;-)


Top Ten listed below with pics.. They are listed in no particular order or preference.


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Hope you enjoyed it, as much as I enjoyed putting it together...

Beat Origins first time through, managing to make it after a few times of starting and stopping cause I would get so nervous and scared lol..

Not a very tough or long game.. Without spoiling actual plot details, a nice psychological story, tied in with Alessa's story... Apparently there are three different endings.
There are also 14 different outfits that you can unlock by doing certain things while beating the game and they are not lame like Heathers endless slight variations of the same costume....

Gameplay wise, there are some issues, killing things gets incredibly annoying sometimes.. Especially the breakable melee weapons, Heavy Metal wrenches DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!...(Then again given that you can lug around dozens of televisions and not be weighed down perhaps i shouldn't complain.) The Camera can sometimes be incredibly awful, I have no problem with camera's angles for artistic dramatic reasons. I loved the way the Camera worked in Silent Hill 1, especially the scenes in the early part of the game where Harry was following Alessa into the dark back alleys where he encounters the little children demons for the first time.

Origins camera however is a lot of times just plain inconvenient... It sometimes really really detracts from the gameplay, unlike the first RE or the First SH, there was less a feeling of artistic camera angles to make it more movie like. Instead it looks as if sometimes the camera angles weren't really tested where the angle of the camera interferred with my movement in such a way that I ran right into the open arms of my enemies so they could gnosh on me...

In general though good, definitely passable for a game that was meant for a less powerful hand held system..

I look forward to seeing what Silent Hill V looks like, there is some mixed trepidation about it.. The little that has already been shown looks graphically good, especially the real time Otherworld shifts that seem to hearken to the Movie. OTOH hearing that some of the American developers want to bring Hollywood sensibilities to this new game worries me a bit.. But then I guess I am weird.. Like I see Resident Evil 4 as a great game, however not a Resident Evil game. It just happened to tack that name on to sell games. At least in my opinion..

Today is my Birthday, still its been pretty quiet, i am bored as heck..


I don't like getting older, wish I could trade in some years...

Good:

I finally got to look at Zero Punctuation this weekend. Really neat, for those of you unfamiliar tis a guy who lives in Australia, who does video reviews for video games that are effing HILARIOUS!!!.

You should check them out.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation



Also I am getting a copy of Silent Hill Origins, they ported it to the PS2 so I can actually play the damn thing without having to plop down cash for a PSP.


Bad: My aunt wants to sell the house, and take my grandfather out of it after he's been living in it for 40 some years.

My room flooded again..

I hurt from moving a refrigirator and heavy crap...

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/

For those of you who don't already know, or who aren't big gamer geeks...


Gary Gygax one of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons, died, March 4th, 2008 at age 69.

Its funny how a man I have never met, whom I have never even exchanged net pleasantries with has had such a profound affect on my life..

Role Playing is a big part of my life, and if it weren't for Gary and D&D the hobby wouldn't be what it is today..

I feel a profound sadness, its hard to explain, but his passing hit me much harder than I expected it to. Maybe its because I am so invested in the hobby? I don't know....

May the Grandaddy of all DM's rest in peace.

I caught the flu or something apparently I feel awful, I spent all of last night unable to sleep and running back and forth to the bathroom puking my guts out..

I feel so tired, and cranky, but you know when you reach the point of where you can't sleep cause you have been sleeping way to much...

I Am A: True Neutral Human Bard (4th Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-12

Dexterity-13

Constitution-12

Intelligence-14

Wisdom-13

Charisma-13


Alignment:
True Neutral A true neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. He doesn't feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most true neutral characters exhibit a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil after all, he would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, he's not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some true neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. True neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion. However, true neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it represents apathy, indifference, and a lack of conviction.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Class:
Bards often serve as negotiators, messengers, scouts, and spies. They love to accompany heroes (and villains) to witness heroic (or villainous) deeds firsthand, since a bard who can tell a story from personal experience earns renown among his fellows. A bard casts arcane spells without any advance preparation, much like a sorcerer. Bards also share some specialized skills with rogues, and their knowledge of item lore is nearly unmatched. A high Charisma score allows a bard to cast high-level spells.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)




and lets see random hot guy..



James Roday - Shawn Spencer of "Psych"

I feel awful, juts plain awful... Something that was supposed to be just cool, and nice and fun. Turned into something explosive and stupid and angry making. And I feel awful plain awful about it... I feel so bad, I didn't mean to cause trouble, I thought it was a good idea... Thats what I get for not thinking things through all the way cause I am stupid...

Ummmm yeah wow that wasn't something i was expecting at all....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_en_ce/obit_ledger_14

Its just something you don't expect to see when you doing general searches

A very awesome night of dreams last night, adventure, excitement, and all that jazz. My favorite set of them being a slew of Adventures that I went on with the Tenth Doctor.

I remember having several adventures but the one that I can remember most clearly was interesting. The Doctor and I were having a grand old time at an amusement park when we found a door to the past, inside was a door to a house in France, the Doctor recognized it as a place that he sometimes went to on holiday when he was young, I made a snide comment about how I didn't know he had ever been young. He looked at me and said " Yes even greatness like this doesn't just pop into existence."

So anywho we end up searching the house, and through the course of the search we discover that someone had tampered with the Doctor's memorys but had left a hard copy of his memories in this house. We were attacked by Wererats for lack of a better term. And I discovered that the Master was behind it all he had been searching for the Doctor's memories as well.. It was a rather fun romp we discovered the Doctors memories apparently etched into a DVD, and I came up with a clever escape plan when we were cornered in a room by the wererats.. and then after we made it back to the time door and the amusment park the Doctor gave me a big hug and said that he was very glad to have me as a companion...

Sometimes good dreams are just nice and good..

Happy Birthday to my completely insane LJ friend, the wirrrn may your reign of terror and hilarity continue for many years to come...

For him on this day of Hatching? or whatever...




Sean William(Erm.. Wirrrn) Scott, future consort of my said friend lol...

Interesting to note, I was checking Wikipedia to make sure I had spelled his name right and I learned something completely interesting, Mr. Wirrrn Scott not only was born in the small town that I am currently living, he went to High School at the same place I did lol...