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Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 10:00 am A Christmas Offer
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[info]femalegamer, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 06:25 am A technical question...
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[info]elynne, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 01:30 pm IRC Pairings: Zevran and Alistair
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[info]trojanphoenix, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 10:11 am BTC: “Every Time You Hear a Bell…”

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Morning already? Fuck… I’m think I’m still drunk.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… for watching holiday fare that’s lapsed into the public domain. Betcha can’t channel surf right now without stumbling across earnest ol’ Jimmy on his existential quest for redemption. Many of us know this movie by heart by now.

Or do we?

Not that you really need context, but this is a scene from 976 Evil 2: The Astral Factor. It’s a borderline unwatchable movie (even in spite having astral projection and Brigitte Nielsen in it). But this bit is pure genius. Context: busty sorority babe’s up late watching TV, trying to choose between Night of the Living Dead and It’s a Wonderful Life, but then a Satanic, sorority-stalking college dean turned serial murderer makes her remote wig out. She passes out and comes to trapped in the most horrific public domain mashup imaginable. Zuzu, NOOOO!


Post tags: Better than coffee, End of the World, Geekdom, Horror, Testing your faith

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Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 10:49 am
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[info]hopelikefever, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 08:27 am Typecast’s “Primitive North America” Mix

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“We remember it well now, our younger days, when we got the cassette deck for the car. The windows always rolled up, closing us off to the outside world. We moved steadily as things rolled by, always with the cassettes playing at the loudest possible volume.” [via]

Joshua Z-P (of Roadside Picnic Podcast and A Room Forever fame) and his friend Adam Helms were recently asked by Type Records (home to Svarte Greiner, Deaf Center, Grouper, and Koen Holtkamp, among other phenomenal bands) to compile a mix for their Typecast series. “So a mix we did – one of epic and biblical proportions which we now share with you. This isn’t your older brother’s black metal – there’s no Dungeons & Dragons posturing while wearing corpse paint. Just pure, brutal, lo-fi nihilism full of tape hiss and vinegar.”

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Cirrhus, Horrid Cross, Haxan.

All tracks were transferred from cassettes, save the Akitsa song. There’s Bone Awl and Ash Pool and freakin’ Ancestors and a bunch of even more obscure shit I don’t recognize at all. Holy balls, this mix is awesome. Sadly, the vast majority of our readers will find it unlistenable. So unless you enjoy making your eardrums hemorrhage with tinny, shrieking, blood-gargling KVLT AS FUCKNESS, please back away slowly from this post without making direct eye contact, and click here instead.

Tracklist after the jump.

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Read the rest of Typecast’s “Primitive North America” Mix


Post tags: DIY, KVLT, Music, Podcast, Radio, Uber

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[info]coilhouse
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 01:17 am FIC: Two Zevran/Alistair Snippets
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[info]callmeliterator, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 01:41 am Traffic Court
Has anyone recently gone to New Orleans Traffic Court?  I will be out of town on my Appear By date and wanted to know how I could reschedule or if I could show up earlier than the date they gave me and take care of it then?  Can someone else (like a friend or parent) appear in my place? Do I need to show up at a certain time? I know the hours of operation are 8am-4pm but it doesn't specify a time on my ticket and I wasn't arrested.  Their website is worthless and doesn't provide much information.  They only provide you with one phone number which no one ever seems to answer.  I've left multiple messages over the past month and no one has called me back, heh.  Does anyone else have a different phone number to the court?  How much are court costs in Orleans Parish?  I'm not from nola and I was the designated driver for my friend's bday, they were telling me where to go and they took me down a one way, so I have a ticket for going down a One Way and Rear View Obstruction since we had too many people in the car.  I'd really like to keep it off of my record b/c my insurance said I'll be paying an extra $50/month for the next 35 months! If yall have any information on your experiences in traffic court, where to go, who to call, etc. I would REALLY appreciate it.  My appear by date is Dec 29th. Thank you!!
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[info]sthrnbellektbug, posting in [info]neworleans
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 12:51 am Secret Swooper gift part 1 - for knowledgequeen
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[info]stellar_maiden, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 12:32 am Pear Sidecar
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I'm posting this in large part so I can have the recipe handy for later... but also to share it with my peeps in case anyone is interested!

This is the recipe my family uses. Makes 2 (small-ish) drinks.

1/4 cup pear brandy (my mom makes her own)
2 Tbsp unsweetened pear nectar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp simple syrup

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour ingredients in. Cover and shake vigorously for one minute. Strain and pour into chilled martini glasses. If desired, garnish with thin pear slices, or rim glasses with lemon juice and dip into coarse/raw sugar.

I'm not a great mixologist, and I recently tried my hand at these and they're delicious!
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Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 10:17 pm Happy Swoopering femalegamer!
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[info]tricotaine, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 12:19 am Palimpsest (in case you've missed out on one of the best books of the year)
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I've been wanting to post about Catherynne M. Valente's novel Palimpsest for a while now. I'm not certain that after two readings and much thinking, my thoughts are any more coherent than they might've been after that first mind-blowing experience with the book.

Short version is, it's an amazing novel, and you should read it.

There perhaps should be a caveat that this is a book somewhat about sex, and so you have to be okay with some amount of reading about sex. I would not, however, state that the book is only about sex; rather, this book is about desire.

I saw the book described as being about a sexually transmitted city; that seems to sum it up even better.

But to return to the idea of the book being about desire, well, that's one of the book's core themes. Desire for a sense of belonging, desire for one's lost lover or sister, desire for a place to call home, desire to be a home... this book is a tantalizing, delicious, and sometimes erotic journey through various states of desire, and the protagonists' increasingly maddening and mad attempts to access their desires.

It is also a book about homes, about immigration, about loss and coping and grief and sublime love.

It could be described as a work of fantasy, or magic realism, or metaphor... I've seen the book described as myth or fairy tale, and as a folklorist, I have to contest the use of those terms as we use them to refer to quite specific genres from oral tradition. Certainly, the book incorporates motifs, elements, and plot structures from myth and fairy tale, most notably the quest/journey. Some of my favorite fairy-tale motifs to appear in the book are incest and dismemberment; there are also people with the heads of animals, rivers of milk, and sentient trains. Valente draws on folklore and incorporates it seamlessly into her writing, but her writing is not itself folklore.

The book outright seduced me, and I think everyone should read it. (it boggles my mind that my ex put the book down after a few chapters, saying it felt smutty; just one more reason it didn't work out, I suppose)

Better yet, the book takes on a meta level of meaningfulness once you've read it, and once you know people who've read it... you can talk about turning your rings inward or outward; you can say whether you feel like you had to flee a situation like the chimera fleeing her saint; you can speak of the maps that mark (mar?) our bodies and our loves and our lives. In this sense, Valente has created an astounding and pervasive realm of folklore, an ecosystem of traditions that inhabits her work and reaches outward to inhabit us.

Or, as Pan and I discussed over omelets and Irish breakfast tea one morning: We should find a way to Palimpsest. Make our own map. Or make our own city--become our own Palimpsest--where our desires can roam free. We'll create Palimpsest here, and explore and intertwine our loves and lives, no matter how deviant, and become a waystation for other travelers looking for home.

(if only the book I have to review for an academic journal, though on revised fairy tales, were so interesting... but in the spring I'm presenting a conference paper on Valente's Orphan's Tales, which ought to be really fun to research and write...)
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Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 12:15 am WIP Completed!
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[info]lauresque, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 12:03 am tweets, twits, and bullet points from the collective unconscious
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Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 10:55 pm Spiritus Mundi Chapter 3
Current Location: Ring D of Saturn
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Current Music: V for Vendetta soundtrack
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[info]speakfire, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 11:31 pm Secret Swooper fooooor...
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[info]irvys_sefie, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 06:52 pm Happiness is a ...
How many lists can you guys top?
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[info]paulcarp, posting in [info]neworleans
Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 09:35 pm Weekly Challenge Entry
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[info]carebeartank, posting in [info]swooping_is_bad
Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 02:12 am Amazing Commisioned Artwork
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Dec. 21st, 2009 @ 11:25 am Grading Tutorial?
Hi! I'm a grading and CAD patternmaking teacher from Australia. I've been teaching the subject for 3 years, and have been in the industry for about 10 years, so while I don't think I'm an expert, I do know quite a bit about it.
I've read a couple of posts recently about people asking about grading patterns from standard sizes.
Is the information already out there somewhere, or shall I write up tutorials on standard and custom sizing?
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