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sab ([personal profile] sab) wrote2004-11-13 09:56 pm
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it's to keep the ALIENS from STEALING your THOUGHTS

*I* am staying in tonight, the first Saturday in AGES, and retiring to a bubble bath with my book on iPod. This being, of course, Dark Tower VII, and I've got about eight-ten hours left to go so I'm trying to let it linger (while desperately needing to know WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!). [livejournal.com profile] _maayan is off to the bar to represent, yo, take one for the team, as it were, and tell Shox that I'm wet and naked at home with no interest in anything else. *g*

Last week I was in NY for Dad's 70th birthday -- photos to come, including some highly adorable ones of baby me and baby [livejournal.com profile] spycookies -- and I blew off this week under the pretext of recovering from my cold and writing the Great American Screenplay about Abe Lincoln, but next week it's back to the grindstone and 40 hour weeks with the DNC. Which is fortunate if for no reason than I need the money, putting aside the great Democratic post-election ennui that needs a sharp kick in the ass. I'll keep you posted.

But mostly, mostly, I'm suffering sensory overload. I ain't built for this rockstar lifestyle, yo! THOUGH, yesterday I saw Jason for the first time in weeks -- M and J and I went out to a little middle-eastern place and sat quietly in the courtyard and drank Lebanese beer and spoke like civilized people, which was long overdue and very nice. Ostensibly the extended Jason-Chris-Elijah brigade is having brunch tomorrow at some ungodly hour, which may or may not also be calm and civilized, but it sure as hell better be if I'm waking up at 8:00 for it. But I swear, I haven't spent so many nights a week drinking since COLLEGE. [livejournal.com profile] pene, you would not recognize me what with all the groovin' and bar-hoppin'. I need a WEEK holed up in my room, is what.

While we're on the subject. Or not. I notice I've got some new friends since I laid the smackdown on Jason's behalf regarding his photographs of Elijah et al. Welcome welcome, there's nothing wrong with new friends, but if you're expecting me to be some sort of font of Elijah info I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I don't know Elijah terribly well yet, we only met a couple months ago through Jason and Shox, and even if I did, I'm not in the business of using this LJ to chronicle anyone's life but my own, and me, I'm just yer run-of-the-mill fangirl. It's also worthwhile to let you know that I've known Jason and Shox for YEARS, and they're both well aware of my porny fangirl habits -- and Lij et al are certainly aware of the internet's interest in them. So, y'know, keep on keeping on -- I have always endorsed a healthy fannish lifestyle, and plan to continue mine for years to come. *g*

I'm also not terribly familiar with the LOTRips fandom (everything I know I learned from my loyal henchwoman [livejournal.com profile] esorlehcar) but -- as I venture toward being part of canon what with this new surreal twist my life has taken, I find myself exposed to some marvelously tinhatty freaks. So, you know, if you're a freak, and you're reading this, basically as long as you don't show up at my house and throw stuff or try and harm my family we'll all get along fine. Yes? I'm not in the habit of friends-locking my LJ (I tend to use that to keep RL friends *out*, and therefore only lock it if I'm, like, bitching about my current girlfriend or boyfriend or co-worker or boss) and I don't wanna, but maybe I'm just being stupid. Seriously -- is anyone out there plotting to harm me or my family? If I friends-locked this journal, would that PROTECT me or my family? [livejournal.com profile] spycookies, are you afraid of tinhats harming you or Beanie? And -- world at large -- do you think I'm being stupid? Am I putting myself in danger? How dangerous ARE these LOTRips people?

In conclusion, a kitten, thanks to [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh, and I am off off off to the Dark Tower and a bubble bath for mon peau sensible!

(Meanwhile, [livejournal.com profile] likethesun, [livejournal.com profile] gamesiplay, whatever hat you're wearing, and [livejournal.com profile] septicemic [purveyor of fine icons everywhere], go have lunch together on my behalf and I'll buy you both dessert and I'll even text-message your cell phones while you're there so I can participate in the festivities.)

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what I've found so far. I've gotten so many e-mails from nice people looking out for me, expressing concern over the fact that I've got the pictures up, that I've publicly associated my fannish LJ with Jason et al, making sure I'm not worried about my fannish personal getting public. Really, I think most folks are just being kind and considerate, which is why I pointed out that my sekrit pornish nightlife is no secret to my friends, and I'm not terribly worried about anythign I post becoming public -- unless, as I said, somoene sees it as an opportunity to physically accost me. *g*

But I have had the experience you describe, so far, all very nice people who have found me and friended me through this extravagaaaanzza. Feel free to friend me, if you want, or don't, but thanks for posting and responding.
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[personal profile] kazbaby 2004-11-15 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I take that as a most positive sign that I'll be praising and cursing Stephen King. I'm even more anxious now. *bg*

*wonders if she can get to B/N before wednesday*

[identity profile] intl-princess.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
i'm not new, but i'm keeping you. because your rockstar lifestyle makes me smile, and your last-ditch, all-or-nothing sell-the-world approach to keeping the internet on at all costs always makes me laugh. and because you're super special to [livejournal.com profile] furies, and that's more than enough. i don't approve of tin, but i hope they leave you alone. i'm all set up back home, and am thinking about Our Boys again.

[identity profile] wisteria-way.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for being cool about all this. I doubt I could remain so calm in the middle of such a fandom windstorm. I've seen a lot of major kerfuffles but this whatever-it-has-been is different from them all. What I have appreciated out of this is actually seeing the real side of the life of that little guy I like and seeing he's just so normal and has regular friends etc. It's always good, I've found after many long years of fan-girling over various people, that seeing them as they really are tends to bring us firmly down to earth and out of the fluffy pink clouds of our imagination. Duh! They are real people! It's good for us to be reminded of this. I hope it is equally good for the objects of our fascination because it de-fictionalizes them and makes us respect them for who they are and not what we wish they were.

I was one of the people who emailed you back at the beginning of the Seekrit pics thing trying to warn you of the fan invasion that was likely to occur. I don't think many of us are dangerous, as I said, but many do tend to invade areas where we can gain info about you-know-who. Look, tell him it's his fault for being such a damn nice and appealing little dork. ;) Maybe if he'd start kicking paparazzi or something we'd back off a little.

But I think and hope you will be OK with most fans. We were largely bookish Tolkienites before we got into the whole movie fandom thing and not terribly violent people, mostly old and new hippie-ish types. There might be one or two or three fans I wouldn't want to get real close to but they problablyare mostly harmless. Here's hoping.

I think I will friend you because you have been so nice about everything and you seem to be a very literate bookish intelligent person. I'm a writer of sorts and not just fanfic..NOT RPS!... just LOTR hobbity stuff of the cute and cuddley sort. Apart from that I've been working on various versions of my 'great novel' for years and years.

So I hope that as long as this whole thing can stay confined to a few Live Journals everything will simmer down. Someone said that it got mentioned at Datalounge, though. o_0 That does not bode too well unless the webmaster there hopefully quashes the thread soon. They usually do knock these things down pretty quickly. So I'm hoping for the best.
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[personal profile] snacky 2004-11-15 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Even after death, we're still going to be laughing at this. I've been bursting out in uncontrollable giggles all day.

::waves to Sab::

Hi, we don't know each other, but have mutual friends from XF. Eso is an excellent guide to navigating the waters of LOTRIPS and Tinhat fandom -- stick with her!

[identity profile] reblog.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
i'm one of your nuts?
now there's a mental image i didn't need ....

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yay indeed! Lemme tell you, there is nothing better than a bubble bath and DT7 on the iPod. I had ginger scented candles to boot. Mmmm.

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to make a yeoman's effort to come down and see you next week when the girl gets back in town. And you are so right about it always being more fun in fic. Fic manages to leave out the long stretches of driving and waiting and coordinating, and, oh, I'm exhausted all over again.

But. This week, methinks. MeHOPES.

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Tonight I've blown off the rockstar hobbits in favor of the gays, and am scheduled for an all-lesbian night with, I believe, Mexican Lesbians On Ecstacy Playing Musical Instruments. Or so they bill themselves. I'll let you know if they live up to their log line.

Oh, to be home watching movies alone! Friends DVDs! You did steal me!

xoxox
me

Re: Tee hee

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
*curtseys* Yes, Eso told me you were safe and user-friendly. Hello! Welcome! Why don't you have an LJ? Why can't you be prom queen? What if I gave you an orchid corsage? So many questions! Nick Bantock! Mmmm.

What's DL? Is the Pope a fangirl? What's wrong with being a fangirl? Some of my best friends are fangirls! giggling Do these DL people want to harm me or my family?

And, yes. I am mostly quite comfortable in my skin, or, rather, as long as no one is going to physically harm me I am not particularly fussed about gossip or slander or whatever. Basically what happened was, I got an e-mail or two saying, "welcome to LOTRips, glad to see your photos, just want to warn you, there are some freaks around these parts." So I figured I'd do a survey and see just how dangerous these freaks really are. If we're just talkin' LJ fangirls and squee-ers and slash writers, I'm a freak too, so, I'm not particularly fearful.

Attention world! Elijah was last seen this morning in Marina Del Rey! Release the hounds! *g*

This was a very reasonable set of 2 cents. Thank you. And hi! *waves*

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yos yos, I am quite familiar with your name and we have all sorts of mutual friends. *waves back*

In between my laughing fits I'm mostly enjoying all the new people I've met, who are very friendly so far. And Eso is, indeed, a handy sherpa.

Handy sherpa!

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Glad to hear you're harmless too. *g* Welcome! And when in doubt: kittens. Sadly, I also have more than enough...

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Our Boys, dude. I was thinking about that site the other day. Go team Intl_P! And, yes. [livejournal.com profile] furies is my spiritual baby sister and I love her up to the furious sky.

Meanwhile, I think you've nailed me in one sentence there, or at least my last-ditch, all-or-nothing sell-the-world approach to keeping the internet on at all costs. One must have one's priorities in order, you see...

[identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hides behind T, then can't resist the urge to pinch T. on the ass...

[identity profile] pene.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
golly. they sound delightful. enjoy.

Re: Tee hee

[identity profile] ladragongrrl.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well no one has answered this yet so I'll hop in with the answer. DL is Datalounge. Datalounge is a gay gossip site with a popular forum. There is a thread there on a Ted Casablanca blind item that suggests that Viggo and Orlando are fooling around. I'm pretty sure that's the one NaT is referencing. Here's a link to the gossip forum:

http://dl.digitopia.net/cgi-bin/iowa/english/forum/threaded/trolls/newbies/gossip/all/page-1.html

And to the home page:

http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/english/home/index.html

And to the Viggorli thread:

http://dl.digitopia.net/cgi-bin/iowa/english/forum/threaded/trolls/newbies/gossip/all/page-11/thread/489787/page-1.html

Hope that helps. La

Re: Tee hee

(Anonymous) 2004-11-15 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, the Pope *might* be a closet fangirl. It's something I've not pondered much :) Fangirls are cool, DL definitely doesn't want to harm you or your family - right now they are very concerned however about Mac and Cheese recipes.

Don't have an LJ and don't watch tv. I think I am allergic to it all. Besides, I would bore people to death and then when they start passing out kool-aid cups I would get blamed for it.

Would definitely be your prom queen - gardenias please. But only if we could play with the Golden Mean all night.

"Attention world! Elijah was last seen this morning in Marina Del Rey! Release the hounds! *g*"

LOL, Dude I am still thanking the God of no religious affiliation that he didn't move next door to me. Am typing this from my laptop in the backyard and laughing my ass off.

The alternative would have been...well...
Elijah: "Got an extra cig"
Me: "Sure"
Elijah: "What are you reading?"
Me: "NOT DATALOUNGE"
Elijah: "Uhuh, Why are you sitting on the laptop?"
Me: "My ass is cold"

On a more important topic -- What are we going to do to save the US and the world for the next 4 years??

Take care!

NaT

PS...watch out for La, if you sleep with her she'll steal your socks. Or rather your left sock. I've not a clue as to why.

[identity profile] somedaybitch.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
*snort*

hugs S close.

Re: Tee hee

[identity profile] ladragongrrl.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's a cult thing. The members stuff the left sock and mount it. Er... on the wall of course. No where else. Um nope not at er... well never mind.

[identity profile] fourteenlines.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if the semi-famous rockstar hobbit lifestyle proves too much for you, at least you can fall back on being famous on the internet for writing porn complex fanfic under a variety of psueds.

It's all about your priorities, see.

And to think, this time last year all your fangirls were Farscape fans, slow in figuring out your super sekrit identity. Poor lambs.

[identity profile] noipeh.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hi! *waves stalks of celery* So does the celery make me an official stalker? No? *Wanders away munching stalks*

I'm almost embarrased to say that I haven't friended you, but I have really enjoyed reading everyone's posts. They've made me laugh on a day that was pretty stressful, and for that I'm grateful. The only stalking I do involves my three kids and trying to keep tabs on them. Which is getting harder the older they get. Anyway, this tinnie doesn't have time to stalk anything but her own flesh and blood!

[identity profile] fourteenlines.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Also, I now want to drive to Seattle and adopt that damn kitten.
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[personal profile] dafna 2004-11-15 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
came across this post in my occasional friendsfriends trolling and have had to do some backtracking and googling to decipher it, but now that I have, may I just say, hee! it's like the fannish circle of life, man. It was only a matter of time -- good thing it's happened to someone like you, who is unlikely to suddenly go all weird and start deleting your stories and stuff.

Of course, what will really be awesome is when some young fangirl now writing HP fic or something grows up to be an actress and is like, *in* one of the HP movies. Or something. The numbers are on our side, anyway.

actually have been meaning to sent you a note anyway -- the Red Sox insanity sent me back to "Tom Glavine" and let me again worship in your general direction for such a great "baseball as metaphor for life" story. You and Roger Angell, man.

also, not that you haven't been busy trying to save this country from itself, which dude, I totally appreciate, but any chance my Jed-Leo ficlet is still on a list somewhere?

my friend is pastede on yay

[identity profile] jood.livejournal.com 2004-11-15 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)

May I touch you?

Please?

I have pork rinds.

(Anonymous) 2004-11-15 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
My first thought when I stumbled across your message and journal was that these guys are blessed to have such a friend. And if that sounds sucky, so be it. It's the truth.

Like NaT *waves*, I'm a fan but don't have a LJ, either. But I enjoy your use of language. Gee, there I go again...

I also am a B5 fan. Londo/J'Kar interactions, especially.

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