Dreampepper - I'm feeling unaccountably unattractive

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	Tue, Jul. 15th, 2008 03:27 pm

I'm feeling unaccountably unattractive

365 days one hundred & sixty: for your time
Originally uploaded by Foxtongue.

"Free Speech is the right to yell 'Theater!' in a crowded fire."
-Abbie Hoffman

Barely averted disasters, not quite problems, almost, practically, nearly, verging, uncomfortably close. Yesterday I was right next to the mild downtown explosion, but managed to just miss nasty smoke inhalation; the resulting massive power failure kindly skipped the corner with my building, leaving us with power but no internet, so basically a blank day paid; the heavy wing-backed chair that dropped on David at work didn't break his arm, (he's hurt badly enough that he gets a paid day off work, but not so badly that he isn't glad about it); and we lucked out and managed to rescue Ray's vehicle, which was accidentally locked into a closed parking lot while we sat in the ER waiting room for three hours.

There seemed to be a downward spiral.

But then there was ice-cream and a Vincent Price film, The Last Man On Earth, (which is what I am Legend should have been), I got a message that my camera should be fixed by the weekend, and we gave Ray a DVD box-set of Bela Lugosi films and a cute stuffed bunny with floppy long ears, so yesterday was alright after all.

A white pebble day, by any account.

Tags: stuff

cycnet

infans idolon : praeco pierius

	Tue, Jul. 15th, 2008 10:50 pm (UTC)

I was born exactly 100 years after bela lugosi

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Tue, Jul. 15th, 2008 11:30 pm (UTC)

I never realized he was born in the 1800's.

frankie23

Frankie Benjamin

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 12:20 am (UTC)

I find it amazing that, with three film adaptations of I Am Legend, Vincent Price's version is still the best.

Then again, considering how much I love Price, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 07:00 pm (UTC)

I like it best because it's the truest to the story adaptation so far.

darkknightjrk

Jared

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 01:06 am (UTC)

Yeah, I Am Legend wasn't the best, though I would say that Smith's performance made that film, and I don't care how much someone might say the movie sucks, the last scene with him and the dog made you cry. Don't deny it, or you have no soul.

...

Wait, wait. Explosion? What the hell happened? :O

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 07:02 pm (UTC)

Then, sir, I have no soul. Nor do most of the people I know, who have all admit to rolling their eyes through the terrible slavering CG that snapped so close to his face, yet didn't quite make the mark.

As to the tiny explosion, Vancouver Hydro made an oopsie.

mjtheanarchist

mary jane

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 03:51 am (UTC)

No no no. You don't get to feel unattractive. It is forbidden.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 07:02 pm (UTC)

SOME DAYS I CAN'T HELP IT.

I think I need to have sandals and a little dress.

morbid_curious

Morbid Curiosity

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 05:15 am (UTC)

Your post title reminded me of this poem for some reason:

God is a Dancer - 2006/06/17:1540-1545
Someone said to me
That God is a dancer
That God is within:
Every flower, every child
Every ray of light, every dew drop
In Creation

I can see the beauty
Everywhere I look
Though the dancer eludes me
So If you see God
Please thank Him, for me,
For dancing with paint on his feet

Possibly the artistic barefoot dancing image you conjure up, which is far from unattractive.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 07:03 pm (UTC)

I haven't gone dancing since March, in Seattle, so perhaps this is part of the problem. It's the folk fest this weekend, though, so maybe I'll get some booty shaking in. Barefoot, of course, as always. I promise.

morbid_curious

Morbid Curiosity

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 07:33 pm (UTC)

Here's hoping it does you good.
Perhaps I should stretch my legs while I can - around ten hours until trans-Pacific economy class.

strumpetofmeat
Kate

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 07:07 pm (UTC)

holla to feeling unattractive!

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Tue, Jul. 22nd, 2008 04:40 pm (UTC)

Sometimes, you just gotta.

michel_lacombe

	Wed, Jul. 16th, 2008 10:21 pm (UTC)

Unaccountably would be the key word.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Tue, Jul. 22nd, 2008 04:40 pm (UTC)

I blame the moon.

michel_lacombe

	Tue, Jul. 22nd, 2008 05:11 pm (UTC)

Feh. Celestial bodies. What do they know?

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Tue, Jul. 22nd, 2008 05:24 pm (UTC)

Water retention.

lafinjack

‮.ecived noitatolf a sa desu eb ot toN‮

	Thu, Jul. 17th, 2008 04:47 am (UTC)

This is where I'd joke about that chair that ate people, if I could remember the movie it was from.

Yeesh, glad everyone on your end is OK. Does the rumor mill have any idea as to what caused it? I haven't seen any news stories that have even speculated about that yet.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Tue, Jul. 22nd, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)

Not even a bit. Workds like 'inexplicable' are still being bandied about.