break time (again)

[ciroccoj]

• OK, too late for Easter, but I still think this is awfully cute:
  
  http://www.livejournal.com/users/belle_acirema/50245.html#cutid1
  
  
• These are other people's icons, but I have no idea whose, and it's really upsetting me, because I'd love to give credit for them:
  
  
  
  
  
  BTW, how many people out there know what the snowglobe icon means?
  
  
• And, for the curious,
  
  1. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, guessed by shellmidwife and siliconivy
     
  2. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke, guessed by animaltalker
     
  3. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984, George Orwell, guessed by dragonduerme
     
  4. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowlings, guessed by shellmidwife
     
  5. A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (and is it just me, or does that sound like a wizard name?)
     
  6. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, guessed by siliconivy
     
  7. They're out there. One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest, by Ken Kesey
     
  8. When I stepped out into the bright sunshine from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. The Outsiders, SE Hinton, guessed by shellmidwife
     
  9. Early one evening in September of 1974 a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport, and slowing, turned aside and taxied to a hangar where a limousine stood waiting. The Boys From Brazil, by Ira Levin
     
  10. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis, guessed by siliconivy
      
  11. When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself. Danny, The Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl (sort of guessed by animaltalker
      
  12. I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell, guessed by linaelyn
  
  
  
• Second draft almost done. Really dragging my ass on this one. As clearly evidenced by my time-wasting on lj.

Comments

[umbo.livejournal.com]

I know what the snowglobe means, yes I do, although I am not as enamoured by the concept as some people are--I think it's just another sign of how fucked up TF is.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

how fucked up TF is.
TF?

Oh - Tom Fontana?

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Yup. Didn't feel like typing his name out for some reason--I think I'm sleepy ;-)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

S'okay. People should be sleepy this time of night. Wish I was. Instead, I'm working on my bloody Globalization essay.

sign of how fucked up TF is.
Why for?

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Well, just negating the entire run of St. Elsewhere like that struck me as kind of obnoxious, the first sign of how he likes to take things he's built up and see if he can tear them apart.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Heh - I kinda liked it, but yeah, it is a bit of an obnoxious character trait. Especially since he does it all the time. My guess is that as a toddler his mommy wouldn't let him stack blocks and knock them down enough times for him to move through that developmental phase. Seems a common thing among men.

One reason I think it's kind of cool is that the snowglobe thing encapsulates so much of TV. Some guy once went through and connected all the snowglobe shows together and it was something like 50 shows. Eg, the senior doctors at St. Eligius once went to Cheers after a meeting, a little 5-minute cameo since both shows were set in Boston. So there goes Cheers. And with it, Frasier. Also, Drs. Roxanne Turner and Victor Ehrlich were both on HLOTS. So there goes HLOTS. And with it, shows HLOTS crosses with - like L&O (and therefore all its spinoffs) and the X-Files, since John Munch was on the X-Files.

And the list just grows and grows and grows. It's quite fascinating.

[bandgeek.livejournal.com]

Ack! That Nemo one is too funny.