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So it's three days after camp and I think I'm pretty recuperarated. Of course I just slept 13 hours and another two this afternoon (missing most of "Ocean's 13" on HBO) so I think I'm ready and rested for TESFest.

My body does this when it finally needs enough sleep it finds a way to knock me out and get it.

Looking forward to the weekend, seeing all of our friends and hopefully getting to play some. If anyone else is going to TF via NJ Transit we are probably aiming for the 11:14am train from New York's Penn Station.

Safe travels to everyone coming to TESFest and hope we have a great weekend

P

Last week miashell asked for movie suggestions to raise her geek points. A few people threw their suggestions into a hat and then dasade was nice enough to put them all into a neat little list for us to use.

So Bold the ones you have seen, underline the ones you own and put quotation marks around the ones you can quote lines from


2001
2010
12 Monkeys
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
A Boy And His Dog
A Clockwork Orange
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Aliens 3
Aliens 4
Altered States
Andromeda (TV series)
Andromeda Strain
Anything by Ray Harrihausen
Army of Darkness
Babylon 5 (The TV Series)
Barberella
Big Trouble In Little China
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Blood Beach
Brazil
BSG 1985 (The TV Series)
BSG New Series (The TV Series)
BSG TOS (The TV Series)
Buck Rogers
Buckaroo Banzai
Carrie
Children Of The Corn
City of Lost Children
Close Encounters
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dark City
Dawn of the Dead
Deathrace 2000
Def Con 4
Delicatessen
"Doctor Strangelove"
"Donnie Darko"
"Dr. Who - Post 2005 (The TV Series)"
"Dr. Who - Pre 2005 (The TV Series)"
Dreamscape
Dune
Earth Girls Are Easy
Earthquake
Ed Wood
Enemy Mine
Escape from LA
Escape from New York
Fahrenheit 451
Farscape (The TV Series)
Firefly
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstien
Galaxy quest
Gamera
Gattica
Ghost in the Shell (specifically the original movie - then maybe the rest)
Ghostbusters
Godzilla
Hercules (The TV Series)
Highlander (the movie)
Highlander (the tv series)
Indiana Jones trilogy
Innerspace
Interstella 5555
Invaders from Mars
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the orignal)
It
It Came From Outer Space
Jason and the Argonauts
Johnny Mneumonic
Journey to the Center of the Earth or any original version of a Jules Vern book
Jurrasic Park
just about any Mystery Science Theater 3000
kaiju (Japanese rubbersuit monster movies - Godzilla, Gamera, et al)
Last Man on Earth
Lexx (The TV Series)
"Logan's Run"
Lone Gunman (The TV Series)
Lost in Space (TV)
"Matrix"
Maximum Overdrive
Men In Black
Metropolis (the anime version)
Metropolis (the original)
Minority Report
Night of the Comet
Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu (the silent version)
Odessy 5
Outland
Panic In The Year Zero
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planet of the Apes - ALL - not the new version
Re-animator
Red Dwarf (The TV Series)
Repo Man
Robocop
Rollerball (the original)
Salem's Lot
Santa Claus vs. the Martians
Screamers
"Serenity (The TV Series)"
Signs
Sleeper
Solaris (Russian Version)
Soylent Green
Space 1999
Spirited Away
Star Trek - DS9 (The TV Series)
Star Trek TOS (The TV Series)
Star Wars (original trilogy)
StarGate (the movie)
StarGate (the tv series)
Starman
Superman (original)
Terminator
The Abyss
The Big Lebowski
The Black Hole
The Bride of Frankenstien
The China Syndrome
The Cube
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Flight of The Navigator
The Fly
The Invisible Man
The Last Starfighter
The Lost Boys
Mad Max
The Road Warrior (Mad Max Movie)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Marix
The Omega Man
The Poseidon Adventure
The Running Man
The Shining
The Thing (The Original)
The Wraith
Them
Time Bandits
Torchwood (The TV Series)
Towering Inferno
Tron
Twilight Zone TOS (The TV Series)
V (The TV Series)
Valley of the Gwangi
Videodrone
War of the Worlds (the original)
Westworld
When Worlds Collide
X Men
Xena (The TV Series)
Xfiles (The TV Series)
Young Frankenstien
Zardoz

It's a good thing I have only had one cup of coffee today or I might be IRRITABLE!!!

Brooklyn NY specifically my neighborhood of Sunset Park. I live on a high hill a quarter mile above the 4th Avenue train station, in a co-op building built in 1913. This is the same building I grew up in when I was a little kid--I live here until 1985 and then we moved to Bay Ridge. I moved back here in 2000. Emily moved in in 2005. We share a 5 room apartment on the ground floor with 9 and a half foot ceilings, columns in athe living room, and an excess of well-meant clutter.

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Stolen from damn near everywhere:

Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.

See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."

Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1) Found over 700 geocaches.

2) Played a pick-up game of basketball on the parquet floor of the old Boston Garden.

3) Worked for a summer in a plywood manufacturing factory.

Just got home from the movie theater where we saw Wall-E. Pixar has hit another home run with this one. If you haven't already seen it, bump Wall-E to the top of your must-see list.

My card today

Butterfly (NA) Butterfly today is telling you there is transformation coming. Take a look at where you are in the cycle to determine where you need to go. As a creature of air Butterfly is here to help you by bringing mental clarity to your journey.
ask yourself -

Is this the egg stage? - a thought or idea?
Is it the larva stage? - Do I need to make a decision?
Is it the cocoon stage? - What are you doing to make your decision a reality?
Is it the birth stage? - Is it a compete idea?

When you know where you are you can decide where to go.



This coupled with last week's Hare makes me think I need to get off my ass about something. Now I just need to figure out what....so many choices.

In the past two months, pinksbrat and I have visited NYC twice. The first trip is well documented here in her journal. I was incredibly lazy (from a journaling perspective) and failed to make my own post. That will be rectified here.

In my typical style for a post about a trip, we'll do this bullet-style: ( Cut because I love... )

A friend (miashell)recently asked what she could watch to improve her geek points. There was a LOT of movies suggested, and I compiled the list. I then counted the 160 movies/tv shows, and realized that I scored a 148 out of a possible 160 for geek points!!!

2001
2010
12 Monkeys
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
A Boy And His Dog
A Clockwork Orange
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Aliens 3
Aliens 4
Altered States
Andromeda (TV series)
Andromeda Strain
Anything by Ray Harrihausen
Army of Darkness
Babylon 5 (The TV Series)
Barberella
Big Trouble In Little China
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Blood Beach
Brazil
BSG 1985 (The TV Series)
BSG New Series (The TV Series)
BSG TOS (The TV Series)
Buck Rogers
Buckaroo Banzai
Carrie
Children Of The Corn
City of Lost Children
Close Encounters
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dark City
Dawn of the Dead
Deathrace 2000
Def Con 4
Delicatessen
Doctor Strangelove
Donnie Darko
Dr. Who - Post 2005 (The TV Series)
Dr. Who - Pre 2005 (The TV Series)
Dreamscape
Dune
Earth Girls Are Easy
Earthquake
Ed Wood
Enemy Mine
Escape from LA
Escape from New York
Fahrenheit 451
Farscape (The TV Series)
Firefly
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstien
Galaxy quest
Gamera
Gattica
Ghost in the Shell (specifically the original movie - then maybe the rest)
Ghostbusters
Godzilla
Hercules (The TV Series)
Highlander (the movie)
Highlander (the tv series)
Indiana Jones trilogy
Innerspace
Interstella 5555
Invaders from Mars
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the orignal)
It
It Came From Outer Space
Jason and the Argonauts
Johnny Mneumonic
Journey to the Center of the Earth or any original version of a Jules Vern book
Jurrasic Park
just about any Mystery Science Theater 3000
kaiju (Japanese rubbersuit monster movies - Godzilla, Gamera, et al)
Last Man on Earth
Lexx (The TV Series)
Logan's Run
Lone Gunman (The TV Series)
Lost in Space (TV)
Matrix
Maximum Overdrive
Men In Black
Metropolis (the anime version)
Metropolis (the original)
Minority Report
Night of the Comet
Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu (the silent version)
Odessy 5
Outland
Panic In The Year Zero
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planet of the Apes - ALL - not the new version
Re-animator
Red Dwarf (The TV Series)
Repo Man
Robocop
Rollerball (the original)
Salem's Lot
Santa Claus vs. the Martians
Screamers
Serenity (The TV Series)
Signs
Sleeper
Solaris (Russian Version)
Soylent Green
Space 1999
Spirited Away
Star Trek - DS9 (The TV Series)
Star Trek TOS (The TV Series)
Star Wars (original trilogy)
StarGate (the movie)
StarGate (the tv series)
Starman
Superman (original)
Terminator
The Abyss
The Big Lebowski
The Black Hole
The Bride of Frankenstien
The China Syndrome
The Cube
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Flight of The Navigator
The Fly
The Invisible Man
The Last Starfighter
The Lost Boys
Mad Max
The Road Warrior (Mad Max Movie)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Marix
The Omega Man
The Poseidon Adventure
The Running Man
The Shining
The Thing (The Original)
The Wraith
Them
Time Bandits
Torchwood (The TV Series)
Towering Inferno
Tron
Twilight Zone TOS (The TV Series)
V (The TV Series)
Valley of the Gwangi
Videodrone
War of the Worlds (the original)
Westworld
When Worlds Collide
X Men
Xena (The TV Series)
Xfiles (The TV Series)
Young Frankenstien
Zardoz

3 things I've done that I bet you haven't (stolen all around)

1) Have sex in Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness. (Near the windows on the pic called "Tower House Basement")
2) Had sex with a girl on a US Navy Ship.
3) Touched a nuclear missile.

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Ether
Ether who?
Ether bunny is here to kick your @ss!!!!

http://black20.com/secret-lives/easter-bunny-hates-you

If you want to know how a good bunny goes bad... Here is the prequel.

http://black20.com/secret-lives/easter-begins

My card for this week

Hare (C) - Hare brings with it balance, intuition and the promise of fulfillment. Hare is a creature of the Goddess, who stands between the night and the day. Shapeshifting is strong in Hare. She is here to help guide you thru this time of transition and change, from one creative endeavor to the next.

bonus jumped out at me card -


Blackbird (C) (r) - Blackbird is the smith's bird. If it comes into your life reversed it is telling you its time to create a life of purpose and passion. All four elements are used in metal working and Blackbird is calling you to integrate all four - mind,heart,instinct and intuition into your life. Just standing between both worlds without doing anything is not enough.



interesting...

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Part I: LPN-Leather Pride Night

The usual hustle and frenzy of getting ready for LPN this year was increased by two factors--the fact that I had to be there at 4:30 and the fact that I had a major BOOT ISSUE. Yes, dear reader, I managed to get into my high-laced Chippewa logger boots. the ones with the army green laces. Took 20 minutes. Then I stood up and AHHH felt searing pain in both of my Achilles tendons. Fuck that hurt. So I took them off (with Em's help) and settled for a pair of dark blue Digger workboots (from Canada) that I bought back in '02 or '03--I forget which. Relics from times past but still comfortable and awesome looking

This year LPN was again at the cramped quarters of Splash, a club several cuts below our old haunts of the (demolished) Roxy and the (expensive) Puck Building. The event ran smoother this year, fuelled by a couple of "health shakes" from the bar (actually margaritas but I love a good running joke!) Saw a lot of good friends past and present and maybe some future ones too. Highlights included getting my boots blacked (by the excellent bbjim), hanging with good buds epinephric, drukwerk and iamtrogdor and fluffing a couple of auctions. Hey, it's for charity. And I'm a sadist :)

The only major thing I won was a registration for GLLA (Great Lakes Leather Alliance) which is a con in August I was thinking of going to anyway. It's in exotic, erotic Indianapolis (where I know some scene folk.) When I saw the GLLA presenter list today, I got psyched for this weekend. (scheduled one week after Floating World. After LPN, we went to the diner with friends and got a ride home from one of them. Then fall down thud tho I slept in the chair last night.


Part II: Folsom Street East

After resting and watching Star Trek this morning, I got my t, (Number 9 boot to the ass!) jeans and vest on plus the same blue Digger boots I wore to LPN--I wanted to wear my black rubber-toed ones because I had a bootblacking date but they are too worn down on the right heel to be comfortable. I mean those suckers are FRIED.

So I jumped on the train, cranked up the Pod and headed over to Folsom. Did my volunteer shift for GMSMA handing out flyers at the door. Then, boymeat asked me to do relief work at the TES table and I sat for an hour, smoked a cigar, handed out Prometheus magazine and watched the show which was much better (and not ear-splittingly loud) than it has been in the past.

The highlight of the afternoon was when Em showed up looking great in a white polka-dot dress and cute white hat. We continued to work the TES table while watching Bob Mould play an awesome solo set. Yes thats right kiddies, Bob Mould from Hüsker Dü! Talk about having front row seats. He played a long set, on solo electric guitar. I was impressed with the strength of his performance, his solid rhythm playing and his onstage energy. HD are a band I've never really gotten into but they are going to get a thorough hearing from me soon. Wow.

Then we hooked up with lordlnyc and went to pay our respects to florent my favorite NY restaurant which is closing in a week. Excellent meal as always with additional emotional twist that florent is soon to close (next Sat.) Hoping to get one more meal there (on Tuesday night!) before I go to LR....