Living on the Edge of the Unknown

I've just spent the last two hours LMAO watching this.  Some clunky parts as befits most satires, but Voldemort/Quirrell is truly something special.    Bravo to them all!  

Warning: It's broken into segments, but it's a full 2 hour  musical!   Get your popcorn, make yourself comfortable... oh... and make sure to pee beforehand!!!!

NOTE: The remainder has been taken down temporarily by it's creators, but say that it will be back up soon.
Here's the link to the rest:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXzd2UP6TOo&feature=related

Someone on my flist please enlighten me about this?  What is it?  Why do it?  I think I'm on info overload...

Here are Acts 4 and 5 of No More Than Reason: 

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A grand total of 163 gifts were created for the most recent sshg exchange - a monumental task conducted with grace and aplomb by shiv5468 ,ginny_weasley31  and scatteredlogic , with a huge assist by the devoted and talented mollyssister .   My lovely gift was art created by hjsnapepm entitled "Like a Wild Rose.  Please check out this beautiful and sneakily poignant piece!

My piece was gifted to sylvanawood , who pinch-hit in the exchange. 

ETA:  I thought I could get this posted in one bit.   Argh .... so the first three acts are below the cut:

Title: No More Than Reason (Acts 1 - 3)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Pure crack!fic ahead. Dangerous clichés. Drivers should take extreme caution.
Summary: Headmistress Granger has some new ideas for changing the school. Severus Snape is damned if he’ll let her get away with it. And the staff is stuck at Hogwarts for the summer until they do.
Original Prompt: A finding-each-other story (no previous relationship) with a happy, romantic ending.
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I don't know how many of you are linked to the CrackBroom community, but this one came across today and it is the most wonderfully wrought piece I've seen in.... maybe ever!  It's art... it's a video.  It's Snape and Harry and children and a song that must have been written for this.  Even if you don't care for/ship Snarry, it's irrelevant.  If you have a heart for Snape, YOU MUST SEE THIS!   

You will want to watch it more than once.  (Oh.. and there is a lovely coda after the credits...wait for it)

The art/video was created by littleblackbow for the recent Snarrygames.  Bravo to  her.  If you are on IJ, you can leave her a note to express your thanks and awe:
<url>http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snarry_games/213472.html</url>


Oh, and here are the lyrics to the song:

( Lyrics by the New Pornographers... )

I'm a featured author in this week's SSHG Quiz!  Thanks to mollyssister and morethansirius for this lovely banner!!

I was invited to NYC City Hall to join other NYers to watch Obama's Inauguration this morning.  If I can get any  of the terrible video out of my phone, perhaps I'll edit this and add it later.

Hundreds of NYers filled several large meeting spaces in the old building, where large screen TVs were set up.   The front rows were reserved for several school groups, and the kids were resplendent in their Obama T-Shirts, red/white/blue headbands and mini-flags. 

We had to show up before 9 am, so it was a bit of a wait until the festivities began on TV.  But it was already quite the celebration among us as we chatted and smiled  and laughed and filled the room with expectant and positive energy. 

Local TV crews were there filming us, be we were riveted to the screen when they began the CNN feed from Washington.  The views of the crowds were astonishing, making us all VERY glad we were sitting down and indoors!  The image of wheat sheaves blowing in the wind came to mind as I watched the throngs move together on the Mall.  

Loudest cheers went up from the collective group for Hillary and Bill and, interestingly, Jimmy Carter.   The Obama kids and Michelle were greeted like pop stars by the attending school kids.  And the room lit up like a firecracker when Obama himself was announced with fanfare.  

Boos and hisses followed Chaney's appearance on the screen.   Bush garnered some too, but the real vitriol went to Dr. Evil. 

Finally, when the Chief Justice asked the assembled crowd to stand for the oath, we all rose to our feet as well. 

I'm so glad that I could share the moment with my fellow NYers and lend my voice to the collective cheers and shouts of hope and promise. 

I don't post often, so i imagine most folks on my flist have no idea that I exist or, for those who do recall, that I'm still here.

But I am.  And doing quite well, if you'd like to know.

2008 was a very good year for myself.  The year I reclaimed my sexual life after a LOOOOOOOONG draught.  And, odd to admit, but it was my love of fanfiction that pushed me to it.   Strange?  But true!!  After reading (lots of ) fics that featured my favorite characters having fantastic -- and often kinky -- sex, it finally occured to me that I might enjoy doing it as much as reading about it!  

So I thank all of you porn writers out there...  the credit and inspiration goes to you.  I've found that there is a world of amazing men out there that love 50 plus woman with curves and who remind me that I'm beautiful and desirable.  

Snap.  The girl still has it!

Blonde Goes Back to Work After Many Years of Not Working.                       It's short.  Don't blink.

.... Barack Obama has just been elected as the next President of the United States. I'm watching CNN and the commentators are all chocked up... people are celebrating by the thousands in gatherings in cities around the country... and in other countries.

Lines snaked around polling places in towns around the country. Children talked about politics and took part in this election.

Perhaps all is not lost.

I took the MB test years ago: my profile hasn't changed. Apparantly only a tiny percentage of people are in the INTP group... we tend to feel a bit like aliens on a foreign planet. I have worked hard over the years to become more integrated with the natives, so hopefully I blend in better!

Your result for The LONG Scientific Personality Test...

INTP - the Architect

You scored 36% I to E, 32% N to S, 62% F to T, and 68% J to P!

Take The LONG Scientific Personality Test at HelloQuizzy

 Cause two heads aren't always better than one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/nyregion/19turtle.html?em

 Harry Potter and the Deadly Abridgement - Chapter One  

We hope there is more!

 I snagged this from bambu, who's had a much more interesting life than I have.  Nonetheless..

I'm so pleased that this silly little fic has been enjoyed by so many!  Top 20 votegetter!  Wow!  I'm so jazzed and grateful to all who voted for it.   Here are my shiny banners for Minding Harry (best gen humor and top 20):

Also; congrats to all the other winners.... especially my friend Katie!!!!!!

 I'm thrilled to be listed among the nominees for the New Library Awards (for us 'underappreciated' authors - not widely read or reviewed).   There are many great fics here - so go read and vote! 

Nominee Lists and Links: http://community.livejournal.com/tnl_awards/3925.html

TO VOTE: Enter your vote via a comment here: http://community.livejournal.com/tnl_awards/4104.html#cutid1  The short version of instructions is that you have to manually type in the:
- Category
- Author
- Fic Name
You MUST vote for TWO  fics per category.  I'm not sure why.  I think to avoid a run off)

Of course to make things simple, the categories for my fics are listed below ; )   THANKS!

I run a small department.  Just me and my associate.  I've just lost the second of such persons in the last two years.  The first one lasted 6 months.  This one lasted nearly a year.  Both decided consulting was better than working for me.  Ouch.  Sigh.  Grumble.  I think I'm a terrific person to work for, but apparantly I suck at hiring the right people for this job.  Now I have to start all over and do the work of two for the next many months.  Oh, joy.

So here are tmy answers to the omnipresent Book Meme.  Just because.

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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has read only 6 books from the list of the top 100 books. So:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ if you so desire

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Here's a cute one:

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:  We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on "THIS" side of the road before it goes after the problem on the "OTHER SIDE" of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his "CURRENT" problems before adding "NEW" problems.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

GEORGE W BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground in the road. Oh, by the way... "Awesome speech Your Holiness!"

JERRY FALWELL:Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see "the plain side." That's why they call it "the other side." Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like "the other side." That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

NANCY GRACE :That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

 Thanks to all of you who took the time to vote for my fics in the Quill to Parchment Awards!  Your help resulted in wins! for Minding Harry (marauder era & humor) and Trust and Betrayal (maurader era)!!!!

Lookee at my shiny new banners!!




Congrats  to some of my favorite writers who were also deservedly feted!
dysonrules
subvers
ginny_w
ariadneangelmischa
sshg316
and my good buddy, Katie, aka celtmama aka an_fhanai