Jesse is my new hero.

Woo hoo!

flea, I sometimes think about that. And use it to reassure myself that since my friends don't look all flawed and shit at 2x closer than when I see my reflection, it's really not that bad. Except of course, when it is and I've got that huge siren zit. But then, I don't tend to make note of those on my friends. Except when they put a bob the builder bandaid over one (ok, that was a zit+ babyscratch that kept bleeding, but she gave me permission to point and giggle, cause it was funny.)

Happy Birthday Laura!

Links to the final four collections were at Blogging Project Runway.

I think it was Bitches where this last came up, but no one looks at me the way I look at myself in a mirror. It's like posing for an unflattering camera. It doesn't capture jack that's useful. You're under weird light, prepped for criticism, not moving, talking, emoting, nothing.

Perkins, a theoretical insent to you.

I like me in a mirror better than me in a photograph. I don't think there's been a picture of me taken in 3 years that I like, but I've managed to avoid letting it bug me. And the pictures of 3 years ago I do like? Are of a slightly cranky, exhausted me holding my newborn nephew. I suspect the latter element is a big influence. Though most of my parents' favorite pictures of me? Are ones in which I was in a snit of some sort. So there must be something flattering about my photographed appearance when I'm cranky. Go cranky!

Woo! Hot Lego on Lego action!

I don't count me in a mirror. Mirrors never surprise me (well, except for my hair--that still gets a giggle now and then)--they show me the way I was expecting to look.

Jessica Rabbit isn't welcome in China -- and Michael Jordan shouldn't show up with any of his Looney Toons pals.

In one of the more bizarre orders from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, TV shows and films featuring human thesps with animated companions will be banned.

"These human live-action, so-called animation pieces will not receive distribution or distribution licenses," read the order, issued Feb. 15. However, films and shows that have already received permits will continue to air.

CGI and 2-D characters alongside human actors jeopardize "the broadcast order of homemade animation and mislead their development," according to a report from the state-run Xinhua News Agency.

"mislead their development" - wtf does that mean?

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Chinese regulatory authorities are notoriously skittish regarding broadcast and film themes that include the supernatural or fantasy, including talking animals. "Babe" was banned on the basis that animals can't talk and some viewers would be confused.

Heh.

Thanks, ita!

IcompletelyON, I just went from "I think I am getting a headache. Ow" to "Huh, I think I may need to barf" much faster than should be allowed.

On LJ I just read this comment about the last GA: 'Those of you who don't understand the last scene in "Yesterday" are entirely too emotionally healthy.' and it made me laugh. It was in response to a repost of the writer's blog entry about the ep.