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Really Old

I just read a comment in the lost_tv community about people born in the 70s being really old. It made me want to dig my own grave and shovel the dirt in on myself. I was born in 1967.

• My first LOST was LAND OF THE LOST.


• My first Battlestar Galactica involved Centons, Daggits, Space Discos, and clunky toaster Cylons that said in monotone machine-speak, "By Your Command."


• I was there when the Republicans began their unholy alliance with the Dominionists in a full-on attempt to take over the country. I saw the results of their efforts ruin this country in eight years' time.


• I made diary entries about the Iran Hostage Crisis.


• I celebrated the Bicentennial of the US by doing the bump with my best friend to the tune of "That's the Way I Like It (Uh-huh, Uh-huh)" by KC and the Sunshine Band.


• I saw the death of New Wave and Heavy Metal with the airing of one little song: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. I still haven't gotten over that one.


• I saw Star Wars Episodes 4,5, and 6 in the movie theatres before Lucas had a chance to dick around with them digitally.


• I was 5 when I had to tolerate my young cousin going berserk each day when re-runs of Adam West's 'Batman' came on TV. I was 11 going on 12 when the one who'd grow up to be the best Joker ever was born on the other side of the world. I was 21 when the best Batman was realised by Michael Keaton.


• I remember Gerald Ford tumbling down the steps of Air Force One.


• I remember John Lennon being killed moments after it happened. I was listening to the radio when they interrupted "Games People Play" by Alan Parsons Project to give the news. They then played "Woman" by John Lennon and I wept like my heart would break.


• I saw the Challenger explode on live TV. I hadn't missed a shuttle launch since the trial run of the Enterprise. I haven't watched a launch since.


• I remember when Pop Rocks used to be called Space Dust and it came in a powder.


• My parents were First Generation Hippies and my mom still lives that Life.

There's so much more I could add to this if I didn't feel so old and decrepit right now. So screw it. I think I'll go take an old person's nap.

Okay...where's the VILLAIN generator?

I'm fairly insulted, I am. Made at The Hero Factory by way of mladypain.



Aunt Tudi's is just cackling.

Writer's Block: Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind

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Several, actually.

I met TLC a few years before Left Eye died. They came to the BMG facility in Duncan. They were all tiny people, really really small.

I met Marina Sirtis and George Takei at science fiction conventions. I would have met Ray Park if he hadn't bailed on the con in Virginia Beach, but I met a lot of DMEB celebs there. I'd like to think I was a DMEB celeb too. I sure contributed a lot. But I wasn't anywhere near the wonderfulmousness that was MaulsMate, so maybe I wasn't. ::shrugs::

I met Alan Jackson backstage at a concert I went to only because everyone I loved at work was going and it was free. The man is a freakin' hillbilly.

I was serenaded by and later met Weird Al Yankovic.

I almost met Jeff Lynne. I was like three feet away from him when he stopped hobnobbing with fans and walked away. I was devastated.

And I met Barry Andrews, first online, then in person years later in Brighton, England. It was the most terrifying, wonderful, intense, Vampiric, inspirational experience of my life. I'm still not over it and it's been almost three years since that happened. I don't think I'll ever fully recover, truth be told.

Online, I've met Talitha MacKenzie and Bear McCreary, which is pretty grooveh.

I think that's it.

Ayup.

Stolen from every-damned-body. Nyah.

You Are An INTP

The Thinker You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But you're not an easy person to stay in love with. Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative. At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor. How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic

What's Your Personality Type?

Race

Taken from the lovely miintikwa.


If you think that anyone can be guilty of making a racist comment or performing a racist act, including you, and that you are willing to take ownership of your statements and actions, resist blaming the person who was offended, figure out why they were taken as racist, apologize, and not do it again, post this exact sentence in your journal.


Oh man, I've made so many mistakes in this arena, all because of stupidity more than intended racism, it's just ridiculous. If you're in the South, you're surrounded by latent and blatant racism. There's no getting away from it.
Oddly, there was reverse racism that was rampant in Asheville schools when I was growing up. You didn't look a black kid in the eye if you were white out of fear of getting your butt whipped right there in the hall. Looking back on it and knowing that pesky Law of Physics, I understand what was going on now. It almost turned me into a hater, but it didn't.

Besides, I don't discriminate against people because of the colour of their skin. I despise all humanity equally. BWAAAHAHAHAHA!