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  <title>If my brain exploded, there would be enough stories to last ten lifetimes...</title>
  <subtitle>"Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."  -Marianne Williamson</subtitle>
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  <updated>2009-10-27T22:16:33Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:12578</id>
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    <title>Writer's Block: Seeing stars</title>
    <published>2009-10-27T22:16:33Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-27T22:16:33Z</updated>
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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which character from any film, television show, or book would you most like to take on a date and why?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;Submitted By &lt;span class='ljuser  ljuser-name_blue_mariposa88' lj:user='blue_mariposa88' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://blue-mariposa88.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://blue-mariposa88.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;blue_mariposa88&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1115'" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1115"&gt;View 2263 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Wow, this is surprisingly difficult!&amp;nbsp; There are quite a few characters that I absolutely ADORE...but I'm not sure who would make the best date...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Torchwood&lt;/strong&gt; - Ianto Jones.&amp;nbsp; Completely ignoring the events of CoE, of course.&amp;nbsp; Ianto would probably be fun to hang around with, he would be able to show me all the sites in and around Cardiff, but it wouldn't be a real date.&amp;nbsp; He's Jack's through and through.&amp;nbsp; And who stands a chance against a man from the 51st century?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/strong&gt; - The Doctor (Ten).&amp;nbsp; He would be amazing to travel with, but how can you have a relationship with a Time Lord?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stargate Atlantis&lt;/strong&gt; - Major Evan Lorne.&amp;nbsp; Oh, Lorne!&amp;nbsp; Sheppard's right-hand man, the handsome marine with a softer side; he paints!&amp;nbsp; He would most likely make an excellent date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leverage&lt;/strong&gt; - Eliot Spencer.&amp;nbsp; Definately one of those guys your mother warns you about.&amp;nbsp; He's a tough, gruff, &amp;quot;retrival specialist&amp;quot;; a killing machine with a (buried) heart of gold.&amp;nbsp; One of the sexiest men alive in my book, but unfortunately he's kind of a manwhore.&amp;nbsp; So, while I'm sure he could show a girl a good time, there would probably be some consequences from said good time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt; - Mal Reynolds.&amp;nbsp; Even Captain Tightpants need some lovin', but the man is practically married to his ship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burn Notice&lt;/strong&gt; - Michael Westen.&amp;nbsp; The love-child of Batman and McGyver, only waaaay hotter.&amp;nbsp; He has the brains and brown to get out of any situation.&amp;nbsp; But if we went out, he would only be thinking of Fiona the whole time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/strong&gt; - Patrick Jane.&amp;nbsp; He would know just what to do to make it a perfect date, since he can read people like a book.&amp;nbsp; But you could never be sure what his ultimate motive was, or whether or not he was manipulating you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Numbers &lt;/strong&gt;- Colby Granger.&amp;nbsp; Have you seen this man with his shirt off?!&amp;nbsp; I mean, come on!&amp;nbsp; How can I be expected to think of anything else?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NCIS &lt;/strong&gt;- Tony DiNozzo.&amp;nbsp; Funny and hot as hell, but a total adolescent manwhore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In closing, it would probably have to be Major Evan Lorne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:12364</id>
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    <title>Who would win the fight?</title>
    <published>2009-10-15T04:25:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-15T04:25:23Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">This isn't &amp;quot;who do you like more?&amp;quot;, it's &amp;quot;who would win the fight?&amp;quot;...be honest and give valid reasons why you think some one would win.&amp;nbsp; Feel free to suggest any other match-ups!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eliot Spencer &lt;em&gt;(Leverage)&lt;/em&gt; or Lt. Col. John Sheppard &lt;em&gt;(Stargate:Atlantis)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ziva David &lt;em&gt;(NCIS)&lt;/em&gt; or Zoe Washburn &lt;em&gt;(Firefly)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Westen&lt;em&gt; (Burn Notice)&lt;/em&gt; or Eliot Spencer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jayne Cobb &lt;em&gt;(Firefly)&lt;/em&gt; or Leroy Jethro Gibbs &lt;em&gt;(NCIS)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Sheppard or Mal Reynolds &lt;em&gt;(Firefly)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kate Todd&lt;em&gt; (NCIS)&lt;/em&gt; or Fiona Glenanne &lt;em&gt;(Burn Notice)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Westen or Leroy Jethro Gibbs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mal Reynolds or Jack Harkness &lt;em&gt;(Torchwood)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tony DiNozzo &lt;em&gt;(NCIS)&lt;/em&gt; or Nick Stokes &lt;em&gt;(CSI)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:12219</id>
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    <title>Writer's Block: My Favorite Neighborhood Business</title>
    <published>2009-10-13T02:20:31Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-13T02:20:31Z</updated>
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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is it about your favorite local small business that keeps you coming back again and again?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sponsored by American Express in association with NBC Universal for &lt;a href="http://sixapart.adbureau.net/adclick/CID=000017ba0000000000000000" target="_blank"&gt;Shine A Light&lt;a&gt;.&lt;i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1126'" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1126"&gt;View 291 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://sixapart.adbureau.net/iserver/ccid=6074" border='0' width='1' height='1' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Madeline's, a french bakery on Main Street in Concord NH.&amp;nbsp; The most amazing bakery ever!!&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:11904</id>
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    <title>Writer's Block: Concert mania</title>
    <published>2009-10-06T17:59:10Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-06T17:59:10Z</updated>
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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;What band are you dying to see live in concert that you've never seen before? Would you travel to a different city or state just to see them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1092'" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1092"&gt;View 2058 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
There are three acts that I just love but haven't seen live yet...Dierks Bentley, Christian Kane, and Rascal Flatts, and I would travel all around New England to see them.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, they almost never come to New England, and when they do, I'm either too broke to go, or not actually in New England myself....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a side note, I think it's funny that the only three acts I haven't seen live are the only three country acts I like...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And another side note, the best concerts I've ever been to were Green Day, and Josh Groban...&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:11706</id>
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    <title>Writer's Block: Mirror, mirror</title>
    <published>2009-09-28T23:10:41Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-28T23:10:41Z</updated>
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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you broke a mirror, would you worry about bad luck even if you're not superstitious? Would you walk under a ladder or cross a black cat's path on a dare? Is there anything you're superstitious about?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1084'" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1084"&gt;View 968 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
The only thing I worry about when I break a mirror is cutting my hand while picking up the pieces!!&amp;nbsp; I go out of my way to pet black cats, and I walk under ladders on almost a daily basis at work (usually just to freak out my boss).&lt;br /&gt;I do wear my birthstone, but it's because it's my favorite color and I think it's pretty.&amp;nbsp; And when I get married, I will wear; something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.&amp;nbsp; But that is more for tradition's sake than anything.&lt;br /&gt;Though I can tell you, it almost always rains after you wash your car!!&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Writer's Block: The truth is out there ...</title>
    <published>2009-09-13T04:00:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-13T04:00:34Z</updated>
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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;If someone discusses UFOs at a party, do you assume they're a visionary or bonkers? Do you consider yourself a believer or a skeptic?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1064'" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1064"&gt;View 1076 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
It's probably me discussing UFO's!!&amp;nbsp; I think&amp;nbsp; that some people have some interesting theories on UFO's, but at the same time, there are some real nuts out there!&amp;nbsp; I don't necessarily believe in them, but I hope they exist.&amp;nbsp; It's a pretty big universe, and it seems like an awful waste&amp;nbsp; of space if we are the only &amp;quot;intelligent&amp;quot; life here...&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:11114</id>
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    <title>Writer's Block: Under Protest</title>
    <published>2009-09-01T03:24:07Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-01T03:24:07Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">No.&amp;nbsp; But my grandmother and aunt wanted to boycott Sesame Street because, and I quote, &amp;quot;Oscar the Grouch isn't very nice.&amp;nbsp; He doesn't set a good example for kids.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They don't get out much.....</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:10936</id>
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    <title>Texas part I</title>
    <published>2009-08-18T03:04:03Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-18T03:04:03Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Fall Out Boy on NHPTV</lj:music>
    <content type="html">So, she did it.&amp;nbsp; My little sister is officially a married woman!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got back from Texas Saturday evening, (yes, the wedding was all the way down in Texas!) and I am still tired.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flew down Tuesday afternoon, had a stopover in Atlanta for about 40 minutes, and got to San Antonio a little before 9pm.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Dad got Nick and I our own hotel room right on the Riverwalk.&amp;nbsp; Wicked nice place.&amp;nbsp; Had dinner at the 24hour Denny's across the road after we got settled in (and checked out the pool...not something I would recommend for my fellow New Englanders...it was a warm saline pool, pretty gross.) and went to bed.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Wednesday we got up and went over to Alex and Shawn's new apartment, then over to New Braunfels for a nice 3 hour float down the Comal River.&amp;nbsp; I only got sun burnt on three little spots: one on each knee where the sunscreen wore off, and a small spot on my chest where I apparently missed with the SPF 50...oops!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Aferward, we went out to dinner with my parents and Shawn's mom and stepdad (veeerrrrryyyyyy interesting...) and I finished off a 17oz. Texas T-Bone!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Soooooo yummy!!!!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then I headed out with Alex, Eilleen, and Amanda for the &amp;quot;bachelorette party&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; We went to this cool little pub called Mad Dog's, and spent a few hours with a few drinks.&amp;nbsp; Nick went out with the boys at the same time, but I got back to the hotel room about 40 minutes before he did.&amp;nbsp; Of course, the girls were just down on the Riverwalk, and the boys were a few towns over!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm falling asleep writing this, so I think I will go to bed now and hopefully continue this tomorrow!!!&amp;nbsp; Night!</content>
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    <title>Pablo Sandoval</title>
    <published>2009-08-06T21:47:11Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-06T21:47:11Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret</lj:music>
    <content type="html">So, I am a Red Sox girl.&amp;nbsp; BoSox are my boys (I made myself a t-shirt that says &amp;quot;Mike Lowell is my homeboy&amp;quot;), but I just fell in love with Pablo Sandoval of the Giants.&amp;nbsp; Nick gets Sports Illustrated, and they did a piece on Sandoval.&amp;nbsp; The man has gone on record saying he would do something that I have talked about forever!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Teams have tried to pitch around Sandoval, but that is impossible, unless they throw the ball behind him.&amp;nbsp; He dreams of reaching across the plate and hitting an intentional ball.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;If it's close, I'll do it,&amp;quot; he vows.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;I did it in Little League once, and I got a double.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been saying this my entire life!!&amp;nbsp; I think it's cowardly to intentionally walk someone.&amp;nbsp; (Nick calls it smart, but we can agree to disagree on this.)&amp;nbsp; If, for some strange reason, someone tried to intentionally walk me, I would take a swing anyways.&amp;nbsp; I would try to hit the ball, but at the very least, it makes them throw another pitch.&amp;nbsp; Just throw the damn ball, and trust in your team to do the best they can to get me out.&amp;nbsp; If they can't, they can't.&amp;nbsp; There has to be a winner one way or the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and Sandoval's hitting philosophy?&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;...see the little white thing and swing...&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; He is my new hero!!</content>
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    <title>Awesome</title>
    <published>2009-06-27T23:53:21Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-27T23:53:21Z</updated>
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    <title>writingskier @ 2009-06-13T00:22:00</title>
    <published>2009-06-13T04:24:40Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-13T04:24:40Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Dear Sarah Palin, Paris Hilton, Ann Coulter, and Kate Gosslin....(among others)&lt;br /&gt;On behalf of females everywhere, please shut up!&amp;nbsp; You are making us look bad.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks.&lt;br /&gt;-Writingskier</content>
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    <title>James Blunt</title>
    <published>2009-05-12T01:09:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-12T01:09:30Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">I'm not sure how old this is...but I just watched it and it made me giggle.&amp;nbsp; So now I am sharing it with...all three people who might actually read this.&amp;nbsp; Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vR0-wbVHgM"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vR0-wbVHgM&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:9557</id>
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    <title>STAR TREK</title>
    <published>2009-05-10T01:02:11Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-10T01:02:11Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So...I saw Star Trek last night with my sister and parents...........and it was AWESOME!&amp;nbsp; I was like a little kid on a sugar high!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;To the people who are saying they don't like the movie because it's not like the old show...are you for real?&amp;nbsp; Come on now, it says in the preview &amp;quot;This is not your parent's Star Trek&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; It should go on to say &amp;quot;It's way f-ing better&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I love the classic Trek...I love the whole franchise, and I recognize that if it's going to survive another 40 or so years, this &amp;quot;reimagining&amp;quot; is exactly what is needed.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;(And to&amp;nbsp;the people who are complaining about how they got some minor detail wrong...if you were paying attention, it is all explained...)&lt;br /&gt;Sorry about this little rant, but I heard a supposed fan bitching about how they ruined the old show, and it really pissed me off.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The movie was awesome, the actors did phenomenal jobs channeling the original characters without making them cheesy.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; No, it was not perfect, there was one little bit I could have done without, but on the whole, it was fantastic.&amp;nbsp;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:9330</id>
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    <title>Writer's Block: Grab and Go</title>
    <published>2009-04-07T00:43:54Z</published>
    <updated>2009-04-07T00:43:54Z</updated>
    <category term="writer&amp;apos;s block"/>
    <category term="conspiracies"/>
    <category term="cover-ups"/>
    <lj:music>NCIS theme on tv</lj:music>
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&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scenario: For exactly 1 minute, you get access to all the databases of all the intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, FBI, KGB, MI-5, etc). What do you want to find out before time is up and you're caught and jailed forever? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=848'" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=848"&gt;View 503 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
Ohhh, this is a tough one...Area 51 or the JFK assasination?&amp;nbsp; I'd probably have to flip a coin!&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;And the coin says...Area 51.&amp;nbsp; If it's not aliens, I bet it's some pretty kick-ass, high-tech stuff.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:9005</id>
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    <title>Melissa Etheridge</title>
    <published>2008-11-09T03:36:15Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-09T03:36:15Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-06/you-can-forget-my-taxes/"&gt;http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-06/you-can-forget-my-taxes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Singer Melissa Etheridge rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California&amp;mdash;and she won't be paying the state a dime.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okay, cool I don't mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We're gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that's not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won't have to pay their taxes either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center"&gt;&lt;span class="PullQuote"&gt;Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip;Really?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation &amp;quot;eliminates the right&amp;quot; and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, &amp;quot;Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today&amp;quot; and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say &amp;quot;I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me&amp;quot;? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many &amp;quot;thems&amp;quot; back then. The blacks, the poor ... you know, &amp;quot;them&amp;quot;. Then there was the immigrants. &amp;quot;Them.&amp;rdquo; Now the them is &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the &lt;em&gt;thems&lt;/em&gt; made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no &amp;quot;them&amp;quot;. We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That &amp;quot;judge not, lest ye yourself be judged&amp;quot; are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Melissa Etheridge is an Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>RIP</title>
    <published>2008-11-05T20:44:52Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-05T20:44:52Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;RIP&amp;nbsp;Michael Crichton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=338162&amp;amp;GT1=28101"&gt;http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=338162&amp;amp;GT1=28101&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>writingskier @ 2008-11-04T20:09:00</title>
    <published>2008-11-05T01:19:05Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-05T01:19:05Z</updated>
    <content type="html">This was&amp;nbsp;stolen from &lt;a href="http://skidmo.livejournal.com/"&gt;http://skidmo.livejournal.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* Grab the nearest book.&lt;br /&gt;* Open the book to page 56.&lt;br /&gt;* Find the fifth sentence.&lt;br /&gt;* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.&lt;br /&gt;* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coraline&lt;/em&gt;, by Neil Gaiman&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;She went back into her bedroom, and rummaged in the pocket of her jeans.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:writingskier:8239</id>
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    <title>RIP Tony Hillerman</title>
    <published>2008-10-28T00:47:24Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-28T00:47:24Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Sad news....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/10/27/tony.hillerman.obit.ap/index.html"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/10/27/tony.hillerman.obit.ap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was one of my favorite authors.&amp;nbsp; RIP Tony Hillerman.&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>Writer's Block: Immigration</title>
    <published>2008-08-01T18:07:30Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-01T18:07:30Z</updated>
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Either Wales or Vancouver.&amp;nbsp; Most likely Vancouver...I don't think there's much skiing in Wales!&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Stolen from...sorry, I forget!   Book list!</title>
    <published>2008-07-02T01:02:17Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-02T01:03:24Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.&lt;br /&gt;2) Italicize those you intend to read.&lt;br /&gt;3) Underline the books you LOVE.&lt;br /&gt;4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've read 38, and I intend to read another 30....what about you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 The Bible &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte&lt;br /&gt;8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens&lt;br /&gt;11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott &lt;br /&gt;12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [Okay, so I haven't read everything he's written, but I've read a fair chunk.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger&lt;br /&gt;19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20 Middlemarch - George Eliot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald&lt;br /&gt;23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky&lt;br /&gt;28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll&lt;br /&gt;30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;34 Emma - Jane Austen &lt;br /&gt;35 Persuasion - Jane Austen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;em&gt;37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini&lt;br /&gt;38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres&lt;br /&gt;39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden&lt;br /&gt;40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;41 Animal Farm - George Orwell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez&lt;br /&gt;44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins&lt;br /&gt;46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery&lt;br /&gt;47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy&lt;br /&gt;48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;50 Atonement - Ian McEwan&lt;br /&gt;51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;52 Dune - Frank Herbert&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons&lt;br /&gt;54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen&lt;br /&gt;55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth&lt;br /&gt;56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov&lt;br /&gt;63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt&lt;br /&gt;64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville&lt;br /&gt;71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;72 Dracula - Bram Stoker&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;75 Ulysses - James Joyce&lt;br /&gt;76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome&lt;br /&gt;78 Germinal - Emile Zola&lt;br /&gt;79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray&lt;br /&gt;80 Possession - AS Byatt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell&lt;br /&gt;83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker&lt;br /&gt;84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro&lt;br /&gt;85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert &lt;br /&gt;86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;87 Charlotte's Web - EB White&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;94 Watership Down - Richard Adams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole&lt;br /&gt;96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas&lt;br /&gt;98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare&lt;br /&gt;99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo&lt;/em&gt;</content>
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    <title>writingskier @ 2008-06-11T12:21:00</title>
    <published>2008-06-11T16:56:36Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-11T16:56:36Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Ok, time for an update!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (My "a" key doesn't work very well...i might miss the letter a few times and not notice it...sorry!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, it's be wicked hot here in good ole' granite state for the past four days.&amp;nbsp; Pretty close to 100 degrees everyday, and very high humidity.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It sucked.&amp;nbsp; I still have a bit of&amp;nbsp; cold, so it's been impossibly hard to breathe. (Or sleep!)&amp;nbsp; Luckily there was a big storm last night, and the heat finally broke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, I've been having some pretty weird dreams as of late, and I'm going to blme them on the heat. &amp;nbsp; The other night I dreamed that the boy and I were getting married out in the country somewhere, and all my guest were arriving, but that there was something wrong with the dress.&amp;nbsp; I was all hysterical, but then Perez Hilton showed up and hugged me.&amp;nbsp; He brought me a new dress, and everything was ok.&amp;nbsp; Then I woke up before the boy and I could actually tie the knot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night I dreamed that I had&amp;nbsp; about 12 younger brothers and sisters (I have one younger sister in real life.) and that my parents disappeared.&amp;nbsp; Like, X-Files or Torchwood disappeared, not normal disappeared.&amp;nbsp; I was trying to protect the younger siblings, and some sketchy FBI-types showed up to question us about our parents.&amp;nbsp; We didn't know anything, but we wouldn't have told them if we had known anything.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I woke up soon after that, but I was a little freaked out.&amp;nbsp; It was very bizzare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third of all, the boy and I went to see Prince Caspian the day it came out.&amp;nbsp; It was fantastic!&amp;nbsp; (Spoiler alert)&amp;nbsp; I was very annoyed by the Susan/Caspian thing (especially since he's supposed to be about 12 in the book.) but Reepicheep more than made up for it.&amp;nbsp; He was so awesome it nearly killed me!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004581/"&gt;Pattertwig the Squirrel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: We could gather nuts!  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412850/"&gt;Reepicheep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: [&lt;i class="fine"&gt;sarcastically&lt;/i&gt;] Yes! And then throw them at the Telmarines!... Shut up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412850/"&gt;Reepicheep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: Choose your last words carefully, Telmarine.  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1602660/"&gt;Prince Caspian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: You are a mouse.  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412850/"&gt;Reepicheep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: I was hoping for something a little more original. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, Reepicheep is made of awesome!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also went to see the new Indiana Jones.&amp;nbsp; The interactions between Marion and Indy were classic, but the plot left quite a bit to be desired.&amp;nbsp; For me, anyways.&amp;nbsp; To me, it was just....so scifi B movie.&amp;nbsp; It was basically something I would expect to see on the SciFi channel at 2am, but with more expensive effects.&amp;nbsp; The boy liked it, but I think I had unrealistically high expectations of it.&amp;nbsp; I did grow up to the first three, so I guess that's to be expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like there's something else I'm forgeting...oh well.&amp;nbsp; I'll post again later if I think of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait, I thought of something!&amp;nbsp; I'm thinking about posting some of my fanfic and other works...but I'm pretty nervous bout that.&amp;nbsp; I love to write, but I don't have a lot of confidence in my own writing.&amp;nbsp; (And I have a tendancy to change the characters in my fanfics slightly.)&amp;nbsp; I don't know what to do!</content>
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    <title>repost of the Jesus-fish rant</title>
    <published>2008-04-23T19:05:27Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-23T19:05:27Z</updated>
    <content type="html">This is an old post from my old journal...but I saw another Jesus-fish the other day, and I felt the need to repost on my newer journal...without further ado, here is my Jesus-fish rant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear People with the "Jesus Fish" on their car,&lt;br /&gt;You have to admit it was quite clever to give the fish legs and call it a "Darwin Fish"...you know, evolution and all that. But when you make a bigger "Jesus Fish" eating a smaller "Darwin Fish", you're not supporting Christianity. It's the big fish eating the little fish, survival of the fittest, one of the concepts of, wait for it...EVOLUTION! Yet again, you are proving that religion tends to make people narrow-minded, that it encourages ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;I'm not saying that all religion is entirely bad. You can believe in whatever you want, just don't push it on other people. Or act like a moron just because some dead guy 2000 years ago thought that premarital sex, homosexulaity, tattoos, and eating meat on certain days of the week were bad things. Be good to each other. Right and wrong are fairly easy to understand in most cases.&lt;br /&gt;And could you just take down the damn "Jesus Fish"?! &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;All the 20-somethings that are sick of organized religion screwing up the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If you are offended by this, don't bother posting a comment. It will ridiculed, because posting that I'm going to hell for expressing my opinion will only prove my point again. Just stop reading if any of this bothers you. In fact, if you're offended, you probably shouldn't be on the internet at all. Go to bed and read your Bible.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>FreeRice.com</title>
    <published>2008-03-19T19:39:21Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-19T19:39:21Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/writingskier/pic/000017zh/"&gt;&lt;img height="240" alt="" width="64" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/writingskier/pic/000017zh/s320x240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; www.freerice.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Help the world, learn new words, play a game...all at once!&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Arthur C. Clarke</title>
    <published>2008-03-19T05:04:51Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-19T05:04:51Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;We've lost one of the great minds of our time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RIP Arthur C. Clarke&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>I've seen 104 of these 168 movies...aka I need to get out more.</title>
    <published>2008-03-13T03:08:08Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-13T03:08:08Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show&lt;br /&gt;(x) Grease&lt;br /&gt;(x) Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;br /&gt;(x) Boondock Saints&lt;br /&gt;(x) Fight Club&lt;br /&gt;( ) Starsky and Hutch&lt;br /&gt;(x) Neverending Story&lt;br /&gt;(X) Blazing Saddles&lt;br /&gt;(x) Airplane&lt;br /&gt;(x) Braveheart&lt;br /&gt;Total: 9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Princess Bride&lt;br /&gt;(X) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy&lt;br /&gt;(x) Napoleon Dynamite&lt;br /&gt;(x) Labyrinth&lt;br /&gt;( ) Saw&lt;br /&gt;( ) Saw II&lt;br /&gt;( ) White Noise&lt;br /&gt;( ) White Oleander&lt;br /&gt;(X) Anger Management&lt;br /&gt;(x) 50 First Dates&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Princess Diaries&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement&lt;br /&gt;Total: 8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( ) Scream&lt;br /&gt;( ) Scream 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) Scream 3&lt;br /&gt;(x) Scary Movie&lt;br /&gt;( ) Scary Movie 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) Scary Movie 3&lt;br /&gt;( ) Scary Movie 4&lt;br /&gt;(x) American Pie&lt;br /&gt;(x) American Pie 2&lt;br /&gt;(x) American Wedding&lt;br /&gt;( ) American Pie Band Camp&lt;br /&gt;Total: 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) Harry Potter 1&lt;br /&gt;(x) Harry Potter 2&lt;br /&gt;(x) Harry Potter 3&lt;br /&gt;(x) Harry Potter 4&lt;br /&gt;( ) Resident Evil&lt;br /&gt;( ) Resident Evil 2&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Wedding Singer&lt;br /&gt;( ) Little Black Book&lt;br /&gt;(X ) The Village&lt;br /&gt;(x) Lilo &amp;amp; Stitch&lt;br /&gt;(x) Finding Nemo&lt;br /&gt;(x) Finding Neverland&lt;br /&gt;(x) Signs&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Grinch&lt;br /&gt;( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre&lt;br /&gt;( X) White Chicks&lt;br /&gt;() Butterfly Effect&lt;br /&gt;(X ) 13 Going on 30&lt;br /&gt;(X ) I, Robot&lt;br /&gt;(X ) Robots&lt;br /&gt;Total: 15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(X) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story&lt;br /&gt;(X) Universal Soldier&lt;br /&gt;(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events&lt;br /&gt;( ) Along Came Polly&lt;br /&gt;(x) Deep Impact&lt;br /&gt;( ) KingPin&lt;br /&gt;(x) Never Been Kissed&lt;br /&gt;(x) Meet The Parents&lt;br /&gt;( ) Meet the Fockers&lt;br /&gt;( ) Eight Crazy Nights&lt;br /&gt;(X) Joe Dirt&lt;br /&gt;( ) KING KONG&lt;br /&gt;Total: 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(X) A Cinderella Story&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Terminal&lt;br /&gt;(X) The Lizzie McGuire Movie&lt;br /&gt;( ) Passport to Paris&lt;br /&gt;(x) Dumb &amp;amp; Dumber&lt;br /&gt;(X) Dumber &amp;amp; Dumberer&lt;br /&gt;(X) Final Destination&lt;br /&gt;(X) Final Destination 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) Final Destination 3&lt;br /&gt;( ) Halloween&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Ring&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Ring 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) Surviving X-MAS&lt;br /&gt;(X) Flubber&lt;br /&gt;Total: 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) Harold &amp;amp; Kumar Go To White Castle&lt;br /&gt;(x) Practical Magic&lt;br /&gt;(x) Chicago&lt;br /&gt;( ) Ghost Ship&lt;br /&gt;( ) From Hell&lt;br /&gt;(X) Hellboy&lt;br /&gt;(X) Secret Window&lt;br /&gt;( ) I Am Sam&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Whole Nine Yards&lt;br /&gt;Total: 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Day After Tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;( ) Child's Play&lt;br /&gt;( ) Seed of Chucky&lt;br /&gt;( ) Bride of Chucky&lt;br /&gt;(x) Ten Things I Hate About You&lt;br /&gt;( ) Just Married&lt;br /&gt;( ) Gothika&lt;br /&gt;( ) Nightmare on Elm Street&lt;br /&gt;(x) Sixteen Candles&lt;br /&gt;(x) Remember the Titans&lt;br /&gt;(X) Coach Carter&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Grudge&lt;br /&gt;(X) The Mask&lt;br /&gt;( ) Son Of The Mask&lt;br /&gt;Total: 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(X) Bad Boys 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) Joy Ride&lt;br /&gt;( ) Lucky Number Slevin&lt;br /&gt;(x) Ocean's Eleven&lt;br /&gt;(x) Ocean's Twelve&lt;br /&gt;( ) Identity&lt;br /&gt;( ) Lone Star&lt;br /&gt;(X) Bedazzled&lt;br /&gt;(X) Predator&lt;br /&gt;( ) Predator II&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Fog&lt;br /&gt;(x) Ice Age&lt;br /&gt;(X) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown&lt;br /&gt;( ) Curious George&lt;br /&gt;Total: 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) Independence Day&lt;br /&gt;( ) Cujo&lt;br /&gt;(X) A Bronx Tale&lt;br /&gt;( ) Darkness Falls&lt;br /&gt;( ) Christine&lt;br /&gt;(x) ET&lt;br /&gt;( ) Children of the Corn&lt;br /&gt;( ) My Boss's Daughter&lt;br /&gt;(x) Maid in Manhattan&lt;br /&gt;( ) Frailty&lt;br /&gt;( ) War of the Worlds&lt;br /&gt;(x) Rush Hour&lt;br /&gt;(x) Rush Hour 2&lt;br /&gt;Total: 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) My Best Friend's Wedding&lt;br /&gt;(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days&lt;br /&gt;(x) She's All That&lt;br /&gt;( ) Calendar Girls&lt;br /&gt;(x) Sideways&lt;br /&gt;(X) Mars Attacks&lt;br /&gt;(X) Event Horizon&lt;br /&gt;(x) Ever After&lt;br /&gt;(x) Wizard of Oz&lt;br /&gt;(x) Forrest Gump&lt;br /&gt;(x) Big Trouble in Little China&lt;br /&gt;(X) The Terminator&lt;br /&gt;(X) The Terminator 2&lt;br /&gt;(X) The Terminator 3&lt;br /&gt;Total: 13&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(x) X-Men&lt;br /&gt;(x) X2&lt;br /&gt;(x) X-Men 3&lt;br /&gt;(x) Spider-Man&lt;br /&gt;( ) Spider-Man 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) Sky High&lt;br /&gt;(X) Jeepers Creepers&lt;br /&gt;( ) Jeepers Creepers 2&lt;br /&gt;(x) Catch Me If You Can&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Others&lt;br /&gt;(X) Freaky Friday&lt;br /&gt;(X) Reign of Fire&lt;br /&gt;(x) The Skulls&lt;br /&gt;( ) Cruel Intentions&lt;br /&gt;( ) Cruel Intentions 2&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Hot Chick&lt;br /&gt;(x) Shrek&lt;br /&gt;(x) Shrek 2&lt;br /&gt;Total: 11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( ) Swimfan&lt;br /&gt;(x) Miracle&lt;br /&gt;(x) Old School&lt;br /&gt;( ) The Notebook&lt;br /&gt;( ) K-Pax&lt;br /&gt;(X) Krippendorf's Tribe&lt;br /&gt;(X) A Walk to Remember&lt;br /&gt;( ) Ice Castles&lt;br /&gt;( ) Boogeyman&lt;br /&gt;(x) The 40-year-old-virgin&lt;br /&gt;Total: 5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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