"Kippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga?

[sistermagpie]

Is it Saint Swithin's Day already?"

Yes, it's Saint Swithin's Day! Patron Saint of The Simpsons, to me anyway, for inspiring this, my favorite Simpsons line (once quoted in an HP movie review so there's a fandom connection there as well).

To celebrate teasel wrote this amazing essay on Sam. It not only gets into Sam's character, but Tolkien's use of free indirect discourse and thoughts on language in general. It's just great.

Did I have anything else? Oh yes, I'm going to do that meme because I've read everybody else's with interest.


wearing: sweatpants, TV funhouse tee-shirt, pink hoodie. Yes, a pink hoodie (it has Cookie Monster on it).

hair: In a ponytail.

makeup: All washed off.

ate today: Ummm, a plain donut at breakfast, two cinnamon pop-tarts for second breakfast/elevensies, slice of pizza for lunch and a handful of goldfish I grabbed from the jar at work.

last said: I work hard for it, honey!

last phone call: Talked to my writing partner about way to push editor to give us her edits or just do a mercy killing on this stupid book and whether we can finish the fairy book Saturday.

in your bag: Wallet, checkbook, pocket calendar, work I.D., metrocard, lip liner, powder, rosebud salve (melted into a strange shape since that Bikram yoga class), keys, pack of gum, pen, my watch I need to get a new battery and band for.

playing on your iPod: No iPod.

desktop picture: Monet's painting, "The Magpie."

last watched on TV: I Love the 90's (it's on now)

last website visited: LJ. Before that a Native American site on the Wappinger Indians.

plans for today: Write my new word count per day minimum which I've actually been following (it'd be nice if it didn't suck, but one step at a time), figure out name for fictional city, eat dinner.

last thing bought: New lighter for incense.

last showered: This morning.

last IM: Saturday night.

I need: To stop messing around livejournal and get stuff done.

looking forward to: Finishing the fairy book.

worst part of the day: When I was trying to look up something on the 'net and every site that looked promising was a broken link.

best part of the day: E coming in to give me my bonus...and saying he heard many nice things about me from my boss.:DDDDD

favorite person of the day: He gave me money and said I was great. E, of course!

thinking about: The Siwanoy.

current annoyance: That editor.

current obsession: Manhattan

random TMI: Marigold has some sort of...thing near her thigh. It's not a tumor, it's not cancer. It seems to be some sort of infection and it's all swollen. She's taking antibiotics and has to sit on a heating pad twice a day.

You know, I'm watching I Love the 90s, and I lived through the 90s but I thought it was a really sucky decade. I used to think, "The next decade's got to be better." So the trouble with this is that I remember everything but most of it didn't mean anything to me. Like the annoying songs were just annoying songs, not annoying songs that sparked nostalgia or made me laugh at liking them. And beyond that they just don't seem as fabulously stupid as the stuff from the 70s and 80s. However, it is worth it finding out that Hal Sparks played a drunk and angry Cheyenne youth on Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. That's one thing from the 90s I really did/do love, though I Love the 90s couldn't really plunge the sublime depths.

Comments

did we outlaw nostalgia in the 90s?

[shusu.livejournal.com]

I always figured the 90s were half the champagne spill from the 80s and half the New Year's resolutions for the 21st C. Lots of good things got a running start, at least.

I am glad I kept a top forty list of the songs I heard in high school, though, because that does leave me nostalgic.

Re: did we outlaw nostalgia in the 90s?

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Hee! I think I remember a lot of the ones from my high school too.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Oh, the show definitely has its moments--and I was never totally anti-Spice Girls. I remember my nieces getting the dolls for Christmas. Only to me it seems like it just happened.

I think maybe that's the thing...things haven't changed quite enough where everyone seems like they're on a different planet, you know?

[closet-geek.livejournal.com]

Who's Marigold, btw? I'm sorry about her infection.

I kind of agree about the 90s...my main problem with it is it doesn't seem so different or as distinctive as the other decades. I'm starting to feel the same way about the current decade we're in (the 00's?? I have no idea) because even looking at something as trivial as fashion you see a lot of recycled styles from the seventies or eighties. I wonder what my children will be dressing like in the future--there's nothing from the 90's or 00's to copy, is there?

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what it seems like to me too. We seem to be just living in watered down versions of the weirder decades. There's probably less to be embarassed about, but in some ways that's unfortunate.

And yes, Dr. Quinn rocks!! She filled the hole left by Little House on the Prarie and brought new weirdness to it.

Marigold is my roommate's dog. Hopefully her infection is on the way out...

[closet-geek.livejournal.com]

Btw, loved *loved* Dr. Quinn as a kid. (Still catch it every once in a while even now.) I always thought Jane Seymour and Joe Lando had such great chemistry.

[anehan]

Do you realize how odd it is to see my (almost) name at the subject line of an entry on my flist? I stared it for a while before realizing that it wasn't about me.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Really? Is your name Helga, Swithin or Kippers??!

[anehan]

Take the first and replace the g with a k.

Kippers. *snorts*

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I can see why that would be odd to read!

I think the "k" version is prettier.:-)

You're Sirius, and I'm Crookshanks

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiiii SisterMagpie!

*purrs like a cat*

Thanks for the link on Sam. I'm really into LotR's and I hope that "The Hobbit" is made into a movie by Peter Jackson very soon. :(

Re: You're Sirius, and I'm Crookshanks

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

That would be great! I think PJ has said even he thinks it would be weird if anyone but him directed it.