Shouldn't have had that apple...

Have you ever found a favorite author on LJ and then really wished you hadn't? You think, "Yay! Now I can read all of BlahBlah's thoughts on how slashy Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were, and how they're the great, tragic pairing of the Founding Fathers!" And then your read her LJ, and it turns out she thinks all pastries should be banned because they make people fat, and she doesn't believe in rights for tropical fish, and she's a fundamentalist Zoroastrian (do they even have those?), and all this unfortunate new knowledge colors your reading of her fic? I hate it when that happens. It's better for me not to know, really.

It's not any of you, of course. You're all wonderful. And I wouldn't talk about you behind your backs out where you can see me, and beat me up- I can be petty and mean, but I'm not stupid.

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I was going to have myself a Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed on Enterprise) mini-marathon, just for the heck of it. So I piled up all my DK tapes, excluding Enterprise because that would make my marathon no longer mini, and took stock. DK tapes I own include: BtVS "Helpless," Inspector Morse "Dead on Time," the pilot ep of The Immortal, half of G vs. E "Orange Volvo," an ep of "Love Street," and the complete Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com.

So... one great episode of a great genre show, one ep of a mystery I've never cared for, half of an okay genre show, a genre show that's horrible even by my very low standards, and two soft-core porn shows. Hm. You know, this mini-marathon may not be a good idea. That's a lot of bad TV at once. I don't think I'm ready. Maybe I should just do a Firefly marathon instead, and finally do something with my various scattered thoughts on food in that show. Or maybe I should finally (finally!) hook up the DVD player and watch FotR for the first time in months. Might be a good idea, that.

Or, more likely, I'll dither around all day deciding what to do, and not do any of it. Yeah, that sounds about right. I really should pull together my food thoughts, though, if only to have a non-spammy post for once.

I won I won I won!

Some days I just love Ebay. I just won myself a Watership Down score CD, for a not-scary price. Yay! I've been wanting this score for almost 20 years- it's this beautiful, oboe-filled work that I always find playing in my mind when I think of cool hedgerows and gently rolling English fields. Can you believe it? Dark Crystal and Watership Down in the same week! My score collection just got 400% cooler.

Also very exciting to me- my Shu Lien figure (with the "Sir Te's study" base, thank you very much) arrived today, at long last. She was the short-packed Crouching Tiger figure (why short-pack Michelle Yeoh? Because Art Asylum is evil), she sold out everywhere before I got one, and Ebay prices were usually in the $30 range (I like the figure, but not that much). But at last I found one on Ebay that had been mislabeled in the auction listing so no one else bid, and I got her for $13! Mint and perfect and gorgeous. I finally have all four in the line (not usually a consideration, but I loved this movie). Yay!

I am a very happy (and broke. And exclamatory.) geek this evening.