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Hey, our POTC skit from last year's Comic-Con is back up on Youtube! And there are a dozen comments from random people saying nice things about it! *warm fuzzies*

Further Youtube awesomeness: Fratboys doing a Newsies montage! Warning: may make you incoherent with glee. And the rest of it.

You guys, you guys, lookit what I found via lyssie's journal! There's a Devon/Danziger ficathon over at ddficathon! And a whole picspam of them too, and oh, it is so wonderful. Earth 2 was one of my first true TV obsessions, and I was heartbroken when they cancelled it. Yay for new fics and such!

ETA, unrelated: I've been reading back through A Dress a Day, and is this not the most adorably gorgeous dress in the history of ever? I could stare at it all day.

TNT is rerunning the first three episodes of Into the West today, and I've had it on in the background. You know what it reminds me of? Those Sweet Valley Saga books where they traced the long and proud lineage of the Wakefield family, where every generation had a pair of gorgeous blue-eyed blonde-haired (robotic) twins-- I was particularly fond of "Elisabeth" and "Jessamyn." Except Into the West has slightly more dismemberment and death, and no one's run away to join the circus yet. Keri Russell got kidnapped by Indians, though. That was pretty cool.

I went to my first LOTR tournament yesterday, Realms of the Elf-Lords pre-release. I also played my first obnoxious fanboy who thought he could steamroll me because I was a girl. Whatever. I ended up going 1-3-- my only win was Jamez. But even the people who finished last got a free booster, and my rare was the Palantir of Orthanc. Whoo-hoo! Not to mention I got two Long-Knives, two Such a Little Things, and two Morgul Skulkers (I think Skulkers) as my rares in my sealed-deck cards. Oo-rah!

And now for something completely different...

Almost exactly ten years ago, I, along with a bunch of people from my school, appeared as extras in "In the Line of Fire." We were some of the enormous crowd lining the streets of DC during the President's parade (the one where Clint Eastwood is trying to run along with the car, but he's too tired cause he's all old and stuff). Last night, I saw "In the Line of Fire" for the first time. I was amazed at how short and inconsequential that scene was, when we spent an entire day, practically twelve hours, filming it over and over and over. Those closeups near the end, when you can actually see the faces of people in the crowd? Those were shot on a completely different day. I really find it fascinating. And in the end, I have no idea if I'm even in the crowd in the shots that were used in the movie, cause Mom and I skipped out halfway through the day to go cool off in a shopping mall-- it was in the 80s, and we'd been told to dress for cool fall weather.

ThePenQuinn: dumbo
ThePenQuinn: nail-polish
ThePenQuinn: this is why i don't use the stuff
JainaMSolo: Not so bad as the time I got red nail polish all over the bathroom floor in Munich...or backstage at AHigh.
JainaMSolo: Also cause you're a guy.
ThePenQuinn: hmmmm
ThePenQuinn: maybe thats why i don't like nail polish
ThePenQuinn: the munich fiasco
JainaMSolo: Yes, I'm sure you were traumatized at age 5...
ThePenQuinn: possibly
ThePenQuinn: i seriously can't stand the stuff now
ThePenQuinn: i detest it
JainaMSolo: I'd think you'd be more traumatized by the time you flipped over your bike...or the time you hit your head on a six-pack of soda...
ThePenQuinn: THAT WAS YOUR FAULT TOO!!!!!!!
ThePenQuinn: you pushed me off!!
JainaMSolo: Not the bike thing, though.
ThePenQuinn: no
ThePenQuinn: that was me
ThePenQuinn: hehe
JainaMSolo: And anyway, you were being annoying.
ThePenQuinn: who knew if you stuck your foot in the spokes while the wheel was spinning that it would catapult you over.......
JainaMSolo: Such a smart little boy you were...
ThePenQuinn: yeah
ThePenQuinn: at least i didn't leave the go-cart outside for the stupid polish kids to steal
JainaMSolo: I didn't do that. Did I?
ThePenQuinn: yup
JainaMSolo: Hm, don't remember that one.
JainaMSolo: Well, I did some good stuff.
JainaMSolo: I taught you fractions.
ThePenQuinn: haha
ThePenQuinn: really?
JainaMSolo: And how to write your name. Sean M.
ThePenQuinn: hahaha
JainaMSolo: Yup, I made a play-doh pie with seven pieces and taught you fractions.
ThePenQuinn: SHIT!!!!!! i remember that!!!!!
JainaMSolo: LOL!
JainaMSolo: wait, you remember the fractions, or your name?
ThePenQuinn: fractions
JainaMSolo: :-D
JainaMSolo: See, I'm a good sister.
ThePenQuinn: at times.........
JainaMSolo: Okay, at times.
ThePenQuinn: yeah
JainaMSolo: The other times I was a raving bitchmonster.
ThePenQuinn: yup
ThePenQuinn: more or less
JainaMSolo: Who probably traumatized you in multiple ways for the rest of your life.
ThePenQuinn: probably
JainaMSolo: But I still love ya
ThePenQuinn: thats goo