Oh, but they'll try to get them. That's the motto of a politician: to work for the people, just as long as we can poke our noses into every stinking aspect of their lives, right down to how they pee.

Freaking politicos. lol. I gotta hit the hay. I'll be on tomorrow maybe. I have tons to do for my friend's vampire larp.

Originally Posted by Hyena

"Aren't you the guy who strangled a swan?"
"Yes. -sigh- I am that guy."
"...."
"You're going to ask me why I strangled the swan, aren't you?"
"I.. well..."
"I thought it would have been symbolic. I was dressed like Hamlet at the time..."

Originally Posted by Hyena

A Canadian TV series called "Slings and Arrows." Its a bout a Shakespearean theater company. Their artistic director is known as "that guy who went crazy and strangled a swan eight years ago." He was playing Hamlet at the time, and his girlfriend was playing Ophelia. He saw her cheating on him with the director... and promptly left the stage mid-performance to go strangle a swan in the park.

Kind of... true to character.

This is amazing :heart: And not just because I am obsessed with Hamlet. Though I am (see most recent post in *Fancypants*) but also because of this... D'aww I can't find it. Well, I'll quote it:

Killed a swan yesterday. Did a shit on it

And I'll give you this for context:

Here's a fan-made trailer that gives an overview of the episode:

Poor Margaret John/Nanatoo. She just died recently. What an amazing lady she seemed to be.
There's also an episode where Howard has some pictures of himself Dressed as Hamlet... Because he's always wanted to play him. I won't include that, because I've already bothered you enough in this post. Unless you put in a request. Then I could track it down.
Anywhoo.
-goes to put Hyena's quote as my yahoo status-

Edit: Oh also...
Sleeper by day, Starer ater of things by night.

HIYA EVERYONE! Sorry about the random poof last night, I had to get to bed for a math test. Yuck.

I had German. It helped with the whole sad thing I have going. Tomorrow night, I have a larp, which should help drown things out too. Playing a different part helps you forget your own troubles. :)

I find it very hard to watch The Mighty Boosh. Not that I don't get the humor, but I know this girl who is unnaturally obsessed with Noel Fielding... to the point where the novel that she's writing is called "Whispers of Noel" and every. single. painting. she. does. is inspired by him. And every single one of them is bad. She got mad at me once because I referred to her work as being "outsider art" which has its own credibility. She was like "you can't make judgements like that just by looking at my work! YOU DONT KNOW ME!" And I'm like... "I have a degree in Fine Art and the bulk of my work is in comic books. If I can be categorized, so can you. Get over it."

But I digress...

Duuuuude... we're about to have 9 people in our living room tomorrow for a D&D game. I wonder if Vella told... Joel that there's going to be a large amount of nerds invading out living quarters.

And then I realize that his friends come over without warning and smoke pot, thereby sequestering me in my room... so I don't care.

Oddly enough, that is the only episode of the Mighty Boosh I've ever seen.... :XD

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Oh, that sounds cool. I SOOOO want to play DnD someday, but I don't know anyone well enough to feel comfortable asking them.

I filled in for Bill one time and it was fun, but its not something that I would actively seek out. I'm waaaaaaay too busy with my own stories to get them confused with someone else's. xD

I like sitting in on them, though. As long as I'm not obtrusive, they don't mind if I make a wisecrack once in awhile. Plus... y'know... people. I like having some semblance of a social circle, even if they're not actually my friends. u_u

Oh Hyena, I Feel Your Pain. The fangirls are some of the most intense I have ever come across. Some of them are smart witty people. But things go from agreeable to awkward in no time flat when something prompts the fawning.
My love for the Boosh as an entity is just a natural outgrowth of my love for British comedy, fed to me from the time I was very small by my quirky father.

I never really got the feel of Boosh, probably because I couldn't see them in order... but the few snippits I did catch were amusing enough. Better than most TV right now.
I think that fans need to be able to laugh at themselves. It's the only way to avoid the awkward stage, like you said Cardinal. I've been that awkward fangirl... until I started writing crack fics. Being able to take a step back and laugh at it all is helpful. I'm still a fangirl, but I don't go all gooy at the idea of my fandom.
Lucky you Hyena! I'm not playing DnD until sunday. XD but it's always fun

Well, then I must applaud you, LoooongCat. You have one of the healthiest perspectives I've come across in the fanning world.
And the fangirls aren't going to stop me from enjoying it. It's been a wonder to watch this new crop of comedians put their stamp on the Britcom scene.
Have any of you seen the DnD episode of Community?

Biggles: Oh yay! A healthy Boosh fan. -omgrelieved-

I had to spend three weeks with this woman because I was essentially homeless while the apartment was being refurbished. She was okay at first, but then she became NOEL FIELDING'S #1 FAN and if I had to put up with another one of her spiels about how she was going to get a flat in London and work for BBC and make so much money off of her paintings (which made my eyes hurt) and how Noel Fielding spoke to her in her dreams and that she couldn't see herself marrying any other person in the world, I... ugh... probably would have just... there would have been a death threat. I will put it that way.

Its mostly that she was so deluded that she was going to be rich and famous and have this fantastic lifestyle because of her art and she was an artist which made everything perfect! And... you know... after being in art school and actually having the credentials to make a career out of being creative, I know that its really hard to make any money off of your work. And since most of her work is technically derivative (its all based off of imagery from Fielding's work) she is going to have a hard time finding a buyer. I've got nothing against dreaming big, its just... do your research, woman! DDD<

Loongcat: I've been the unhealthy foaming-at-the-mouth-fan before... back when I was into Inuyasha in high school. Buuuut... I grew out of that. >________>

Watching people's D&D characters react gives me ideas for interactions in my own work. Its oddly inspirational.

Oh dear. Reading that account made me a bit sick to the stomach. Though I will say she and I share some of the same dreams (londonflatsomedayyouwillbemiiiine), but um, certainly not all of them.
Ah, I did a bit of InuYasha fanning myself in the past. But with most of these things, my interest was in the thing as a whole, not individual components/shexi bois

I lost interest in Inuyasha once it got to the third season and they hadn't gotten any further in their quest. Also, it became VERY evident how the story was going to end. But that happened in like... season 1. I just thought it would end sooner. I liked the historical aspects (although... not accurate by a long shot) and the portrayal of demons was interesting. But I got bored with it and moved on to FMA. And then I got to college and was like... Free TIME? WHAT!?

Oh, don't get me wrong, I have big dreams too. I have this pipe dream that one day me and Liz will be recognized as more than just roommates and I will be able to support myself on my art. Also we'll have three cats and a chinchilla. But I know from research that it will be a long haul for all those things. Right now my goal is just a place to live that isn't... temporary. And maybe a kitten.

I could never really get into Inuyasha. I like the demons and the ideas behind it, I just think that the style wasn't my key. I fangirled over YuYuHakusho, god how I adored Kurama. Looking back it was obnoxious, then I moved onto Saiyuki and from there to Metalocalypse. And omg college. Where free time goes to die... I lived in the library and the labs.
I'm with you on the dreams though. right now a paying job and a place to live would be nice. But eventually, a mountain home with two dogs and a job as a park ranger... :)

I have faith in your ability to achieve those things. Well, the things that have something to do with you specifically, and doesn't require the mechanics of government to get behind it. :/

Sadly, my dream is nothing short of an obsession. Observe:


Yeah... It did tend to drag on a bit, but then so do most of Takahashi's works. But I really appreciated the comprehensive setting she created. I was very into it all, and anime in general. And while I still appreciate what the medium can accomplish, there was a bubble in the mid noughts, and after it burst, and the advent of moe everywhere, it/the quality just isn't the same. So, I've reverted to my natural state of full time britcom-aphile, for the time being at least.
I have to admit though, I still think Miroku is one of my favourite fictional characters.

@ Biggles & Hyena: I have to admit, I still like Inuyasha (have since I first saw it at like...6), but simply because I like it, not for pairings or cute characters or whatnot. The pairings are just a bonus for me.

I have a paying job! =D

... at Walmart.

... where I am horribly underappreciated and underpaid.

Oh well. At least I don't have to pay Joel's groceries anymore.


Miroku, I think, was one of the most multi-layered characters of them all. But I have a soft-spot for the comic relief. <3

If The Final Act ever gets dubbed, I will watch it. I owe it to myself after investing all those hours in the original :lol:

@Looooongcat: Oh, your long term goals sound very neat indeed. I considered going into wildlife management for a time in high school.

@Hyena: I have a soft spot for religious scholars :lol: But I like that he was full of flaws, and still was capable of dramatic, serious noble gestures when it was needed. Like you said, the most multi-dimensional of the bunch.

@Hyena: I can't even get one of those! XD I've been volunteering at a museum for over a month and no real job since I graduated.
I do remember Miroku from the game, he was different. Seemed more fleshed out than the other characters. so he gets kudo points from me.
@Cardinal: My whole time at college was geared towards being a park ranger or a zoo keeper or a museum programmer. More education than management but still best thing for me personally.

Wait. An interest in museums and environmental concerns? You are stupendous. :insane:

hahaha. thanks? I went to an environmental science specific school (only has a science department) and I currently volunteer at the Franklin Institute in Philly. If I could afford to keep volunteering I would, but I need food and gas :<
I'm a dork any which way you cut the cake.

Miroku, I believe, at one time was meant to be an allusion to the next incarnation of Buddha. Or something along those lines. It was fun to theorize.

Loooongcat: Most jobs won't hire you unless you call them back. Unless you fail a background check, McDonald's will hire you regardless of any qualifications. My roommate Vella has an IQ of 107 and a pending dual major in Psychology and Creative Writing while trying to earn an Associates in Culinary... and she works Assembly at McDonald's. No such thing as overqualified. On the other side of the spectrum, the only reason Danny from Walmart couldn't keep his job at McD's is because he lied about his criminal record. It was alright that he had one, but he should have said something in the interview. xD

That is the meaning behind the name, Hyena, yes.
Do you think they will offer a position after just volunteering, LC? I love museums, and the school at which I'm going to be doing at least some of my additional schooling (I haven't actually put my application in yet BAD BIGGLES but there isn't any reason I should not get in...) has some museum courses, but they require a special programme to get the most out of them... Oh well, with my focus on art history and my passion for scholarly institutions like museums, I imagine I could find a place in one somewhere, if only in the gift shop...

Yes I understand, I can get a job at most retail and restaurants (because I can cook en masse), but I was really hoping for something in my field. LOFTY DREAMS I know... If I don't hear back from anyplace by the end of the month it looks like I'm returning to the world of retail for a while. As for the museum, they're not in the position to hire more people on. They're planning on a multi-billion dollar addition to the museum within the year so no room in the budget for me or anyone else. I had thought of looking at a major in recreation and hospitality management, but that would be for another day. And thanks for the tip on calling back. I'm used to emailing or writing a thank you after interviews, but I think it might be time to start calling a few places back.