Due to some personal issues I won't be around much. I hope to be back soon.
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Post divorce (paperwork pending) and having my career stall, though still be very fulfilling, I decided to go back to school. I signed up for two classes that will help give me a leg up at work. Not having been to school in over a decade, I'm still a little wobbly getting started. I thought it'd be a great idea to buy my textbooks early.

Yeah, no. Bad idea, bad idea!!

My class changed teachers and this new guy, while very cute, swapped books on me. I, wanting to save money, bought my book off the Internet and so I'm now stuck with this book that cost me over 70 bucks and nothing to do with it. The bookstore won't take it, cause for some reason they have a surplus...hmm, I wonder how that could be?

Everyone suggests selling it online, much like I bought it, but I've never done that. I figure you sorta need that all important feedback or something. Grrr. Anyone have any info....Barnes and Noble offered to buy it from me for a whopping 12 bucks.

I'm so screwed. And lost...I don't know who to ask cause really, it's not something that comes up in conversation. "Oo, I just sold my old textbook last night, Yay!" Yeah, no.

You know those vids that capture your imagination and don't let go? You know the ones. They stick with you later on in the day and when you think about them, you giggle like a mad woman, which makes your co-workers think you've gone nuts. But you don't care cause you're replaying the vid in your head?

This is one of those! Supernatural: At the Movies

This vid is something special. ash48 has taken the fact that SPN works on so many levels and beautifully and creatively illustrated that point by giving us 6 "films" for the price of one. We get slapstick, slasher, western, noir, action, and drama. And it's all wonderfully wrapped up in a beautiful bow with movie posters and red curtains donated by the talented maichan808 .... it's just one of those vids you gotta see to believe. I don't know how she comes up with this stuff but I am thrilled I get to come along for the ride.

ash48 is one of my all time favorite vidders. She's creative, her skills are superb, and she's about just the nicest person I've ever had the privilege to collaborate with. This last year and a half has been really rough, really rough. But one of the things that always put a smile on my face and consistently brightened my day was getting an email from ash48 saying she had another version of one of her vids and would I mind taking a look. This vid not only made me smile, but I just about died laughing so many times I lost count. Not all of the vid is funny though. The slasher section made me squirm, the noir and western just had me boggling at her spot-on style choices, and the action was....well, action packed. Hee!

Girl, you know you rock my socks off!

So I'm totally in love with Kris Allen's performance of Heartless and went to Itunes to download the single.

The AI producers totally ruined the studio version! They added all this soft elevator type music into it ruining the whole piece. *rolls eyes* The reason it was so blow away brilliant was because it was just a man and his guitar not a man, his guitar, and freaking chimes.

Chimes!

*sigh*

Anyway, anyone got the mp3 of the show version? I'm not feeling very generous towards Itunes right now. *grumble*

Have you guys seen this?! FTLOMB Movie Poster!!!! *bounce-bounce*

About a week ago katekat1010 asked over at spring_with_xan for fics, whether old or new, or yes, even the dreaded WIP. So I put my forlorn WIP in. I always wanted to get back to this fic but I just could never seem to find the fire. Maybe this gorgeous fic poster will give me a shot in the arm? I hate that I have two WIPs. Some people have dozens, I should at least be able to finish off two. *hangs head*

So yay, look at the pretty! And if anyone still wants to take a chance on the fic, WIP and all, I hope you enjoy it.

If you stay away from WIPs like the plague, like I do, check out Rebirth. It was a chapter that I took from the FTLOMB world and turned into a one shot for the 2006 season of spring_with_xan. It's got most everything the fic does except that pesky plot. *lol* No seriously, it takes a good chunk of what the fic is all about and wraps it up in a pretty little bow. So maybe that'll more be your cup of tea?

Hope you enjoy and dude! Check out that poster! Wow!

Tags: artwork, for the love of my brother, human au, spander

So I haven't done one of these in a long time but this vid just needs to be recced!

Violence & Sex by ash48

This is a pre-Wincest AU vid set to "When Doves Cry". No, seriously! I'm not kidding. And it's freaking phenomenal! This could have been a train wreck, but she worked her butt off on this! You get the angst, the violence, the sex, the emotions!! She has it all and it works! The editing alone would have me drooling but her subtle use of effects just blow me away!

You guys know me, I love me some porn footage. So it was with great glee that I provided her some. I know how plain these clips are so I was shocked to see how beautiful she made them. She chose just the right moments and then the effect she used, wow, I still don't know how she achieved it, but the bodies subtly glowed! She found just the right balance, giving us sexy but not trashy. Nope, with as much porn is in this, it's not NC-17. Which is an amazing feat on its own! *lol*

The emotion, the effects, the editing, the porn...can't forget that! :P She always wows me but here, I'm head over heels blown away! Love it!!

Tags: vidding meta

Wow, look at me posting and all... :D

I'm back to pimp ash48, who is getting her day in the spotlight over at spnroundtable for this month's Ask the Vidder. For anyone not familiar with the comm, every month they pick a great vidder to come and talk about...well anything anyone decides to ask. I've been her beta for over a year now and we're still going strong.

She's put together a great 5 step process for how she makes her vids. She even asked me if I wanted to add my own little blurb in about betaing. I squeed my little heart out and jumped at the chance! So yup, if you have questions for me about vid betaing, I'm there too. :D

So if you're interested in vidding at all, go over and ask Ash what makes her tick. What she manages to do in her vids just consistently blows me away! The one she's finishing up now has had me nearly fall out of my chair with squee several times. I can't wait till she posts it!

So yeah, love vidding? Have a burning question to ask or just want to chat? Head on over! Ask Ash

Tags: vidding meta

I saw this and couldn't pass up posting it cause of spikesgurl who has seen this show over 30 times! I have no idea half of what they are singing but it made me smile. Hope you like it, hun!

Detailed plans to get out safely from Iraq in 2009!

Click here to read the speech Obama gave when he boldly opposed the war in 2002.

Click here to read Obama's plan to end the war in Iraq.

If any of you watch Real Time with Bill Maher you might have already seen this.

It's an international panel talking about Obama's appeal to the gay community, the Republican community, and the International community. They very nicely, and sometimes with a bit of humor, cleverly articulate why so many of us are ardent Obama supporters.

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Also, I'm not the only woman supporting Obama that is incensed Clinton is playing the gender card to the point of trying to make us feel as if we should turn in our genitals by not supporting her! I hope we can organize some kind of overwhelming support for Obama that would get national attention before Pennsylvania. This bull crap has got to stop!

ETA: This playing of the gender card has become so upsetting to me that I actually emailed CNN! "Why hasn't any of the MSM brought to light Clinton shamelessly playing the gender card? If Obama did the same concerning his race it would be not only considered bad form, as it would be, but covered nonstop. As a woman supporting Obama I'm incensed that Clinton has been able to get away with this."