Ooooooooh.

I thought you were calling in the cavalry for a beat down.

Plus, you sounded pretty scary.

I'm still bringing you a patty, and either jerk pork or smothered (which would you prefer?) and some plantains.

Because seriously, home food? Always cheery.

Actually, the gift is wrapped and ready to go. I'd meant to use the Terence Stamp image, but once I printed it out it didn't look as right as it had on the screen for some reason, and it didn't blend well with the other images. Which is weird, because I had no problem at all merrily blending Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Nathan Fillion as Mal and so on with portraits of real people from the period, but the Terence Stamp picture just didn't match somehow. So I used, um, the first person Plei linked to, whose name I've forgotten.

It turned out surprisingly well, IMHO. I'll have to take pictures if I can.

It was originally intended to be a children's story, wasn't it?

Well, in the same sense that the original Little Mermaid story was, I suppose -- you know, the one where every step she takes with feet feels like walking on knives, and the prince doesn't marry her and she turns into... sea foam, I think? And that's a happy ending.

I am glad ita has wifi and an Allyson.

Unrelatedly, I want to go home, climb into bed, and wish the world out of existence.

healing-ma to ita. And a cluestick to the doctors.

I sent an e-mail poke to Playboy, and now I have a response sitting in my inbox. I don't want to open it because I am dealing with enough emo cranky "wow, I suck" this week.

Open the e-mail, honey. Otherwise it will just taunt you with its unreadness.

If they offer you a job, we do a dance.

If they say thanks but no thanks, we make more porn jokes at their expense.

If they haven't made a decision yet, then at least you know what's what.

Playboy just poked you back, Woman, OPEN IT

t /SPP

It was originally intended to be a children's story, wasn't it?

Well, in the same sense that the original Little Mermaid story was, I suppose -- you know, the one where every step she takes with feet feels like walking on knives, and the prince doesn't marry her and she turns into... sea foam, I think? And that's a happy ending.

Well, it was a Disney DVD so I sort of thought the Matchstick Girl's story would be likewise Disneyfied. The Little Mermaid gets her man by sacrificing her voice, instead of giving up her comfortable life, her loving family and enduring stabbing pain with every step to dance at the wedding of the man she loves--who won't give her the time of day. Only to die in the end.*

The Little Match Girl's frozen corpse at the end of the cartoon wasn't upsetting for ME because I'm familiar with the story but I think younger kids would ask what was going on if they saw it.

*Yes, she gets an opportunity to gain a soul as a Child of the Air, etc., and all that inspirational yaddacakes. Which, I suppose is the meaning of The Little Match Girl--who sees wonderful visions of love and warmth by burning her matches and whose soul is taken to heaven by her dead grandmother in the end. Heathen that I am, I just see frozen corpse and seafoam at the end of these stories.

Open the e-mail, honey. Otherwise it will just taunt you with its unreadness.

Okay, fine, but you're the one who has to deal with me after I read it, you know.