Fandom Counts!

Read it, join it, pass it on! I can't believe I never heard of this until now.

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I'm quite sure most of you have already read on your friend lists about unfair deletions and the lack of response from LJ.

There are some people sending petitions and complaints to LJ, yet there are others that feel doing that is perhaps too tiresome, so instead a community has been created, fandom_counts, which isn't one where you can post-- in fact this is a body count and the request being made is for everyone to join it with every single journal they have.

Writing journals. RP journals. Hidden journals. Forgotten journals. Old and no longer used journals. Personal journals. Fandom journals.

Every journal you own, the idea is to make a statement, if a quiet one. The community has over 35,000 users as of right now.

From the community maintainer: "It isn't merely a census, though. We are fandom. No matter what fandom means to you - whether it's a family, a lifestyle, or a hobby - fandom is strong, large, and significant. As the ambiguous name itself says: fandom counts."

I've written pages upon pages trying to rid you from my bones

I am rapidly becoming obsessed with this song. Particularly the third verse.

The Decemberists

"The Engine Driver"

I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I work beside her
She's a long one, such a long one

And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go

I'm a country lineman
On a high line, on a high line
So will be my grandson
There are powerlines in our bloodlines

And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones
My bones

I'm a money lender
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Take my hand for tender
I am tortured, ever tortured

And if you don't love me let me go
And if you don't love me let me go

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
I am a writer, I am all that you have home
Home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
My bones
My bones

Planet Earth: "Deserts"

This episode was slightly less breathtaking than the ice or oceans episodes, but it definitely had some fantastic photography and film going on. The scenes of the flat lizards leaping up to catch flies.... way cool!

Living in America, I think we don't get to see kangaroos very often, so we just don't appreciate how weird they are. SERIOUSLY. A kangaroo is a weird, weird looking animal. Especially when its jumping and bounding over land.

The stuff with the elephants was neat. I felt so sorry for them! How hungry they must be, to survive out there.

In the portion that talked about Utah (which, in my opinion, was too brief) I recognized rock formations from Capitol Reef National Park, which I drove through the week before Thanksgiving. Gorgeous! Utah has the best rocks. It may have crazy cultists, but many does it have awesome rocks. I'm surprised the video didn't show the Grand Canyon, though, or even Bryce. I mean... Bryce is unlike anything I've ever seen before in nature, and of course the Grand Canyon is the Grand Canyon. Over Thanksgiving my cousin and I teased my brother mercilessly because we'd both seen the Grand Canyon and he hadn't. Everytime he countered with "Well I HAVE seen..." or "But I've been to..." We'd look at each other, then look back at him, and say "Sure. But have you been to the Grand Canyon?" It was fun to torture him.

Is Death Valley really the hottest place on Earth? I didn't know that. I knew it was pretty hot, but I didn't know that. Cool. For some reason I always thought the hottest place on earth was in Northern Africa or something. ... I did some googling, and apparently there are a couple of places that vie for "hottest place on earth", depending on what year was the record-setting temperature. I think I'm going to go wiht what the show tells me, though, because a) I trust the Discovery Channel, and b) when I have the guts to go swimming with man-eating sharks, then I'll begin to question them.

Now.... onto fresh water episode!

Doctor Who and Planet Earth

I keep picturing the Tenth Doctor, on the TARDIS bridge, hunched in front of his little monitor screen watching Planet Earth and getting orgasmic over it like the little science-loving schoolboy that he is.

Doctor: Rose, look at this! Come on, lookit!
Rose: What is it now? *has been called over 6 times already*
Doctor: Look at all the penguins marching single-file across the ice! Look at them, with their little wobbly feet! Ooooh, we have to go see them! Let's go see the penguins, Rose.
Rose: Um...
Doctor: Don't want to see penguins? Right, course, very cold in Antarctica. How about alligators then? Alligators are brilliant!

PT Box Set

Oh my.

The boxset for Princess Tutu is out.

I never thought they'd finish dubbing it! And It's only $27.50! I want it so badly! Aack!

New comic love! "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal"

This is a pretty good one, but there are many: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=691#comic

also amusing: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=767#comic

better yet: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=773#comic