Epiphanize This

[trinityofone]

I am currently writing the world's worst essay on James Joyce's Dubliners (except for any essay ever written by my 12th grade English teacher, who claimed that the creepy old dude in "An Encounter" wasn't whacking off, when clearly...he's whacking off*), but an important question has arisen that must be answered:

[Poll #700967]

ETA: Dude, why're y'all voting for The Puddlejumpers for Shortest Band in the World? I'm sure Shep appreciates the publicity, but don't you think they're disqualified on the strength of Ronon alone?

Also, in other random Irish literature news, suitemate Jean just told me that John McGahern just died. That is so weird: I just finished reading his Amongst Women, and we're discussing it in class on Monday (with hot Scottish tutor Peter Mackay, no less!). All this, I know, has absolutely zero cosmic significance, but...I still feel it as odd, as quite sad.

*She also claimed that the line in "The Convergence of the Twain" about "that august event" referred to the month, "because the Titanic sank in August." When I pointed out that no, the Titanic sank in April, she got really huffy and was weird with me for the rest of the year.

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[birdsflying]

What I actually think is that it should be held in blue jello *and* on the stage at a U2 concert. Yeap.

Go write your papers, you. :pokes:

:ignores the lack of dissertation done today:

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I would pay good money to see siriaeve take Bono down :D It would be the kind of brilliant that one finds once in a blue moon :D

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

My Mum is doing her FYP on McGahern, so this'll be interesting.

At least he can't disagree with her about her interpretation of his works any more.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I am very stupid, but what's an FYP?

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry. Final Year Project. Y'all probably call it something different in Arts. I think maybe dissertation, but she persists in referring to it as "my essay".

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I ticked Puddlejumpers because my brain went "Whee! Puddlejumpers!" and next thing it was ticked.

I would want anyone to win in a fight against Bono. I looked at the paper this morning and who is on the front? Bono, smarming at a picture of Samuel Beckett. And this is to mark Beckett's centenary. What an honour, having Bono smarm at him!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

"Whee! Puddlejumpers!" eh? I think I can understand that. ;-)

*swallows Bono-defense* *pretends she isn't going to stalk him now that she knows he's back in Dublin*

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I forgot you were a U2 fan. Sometimes it just comes spilling out!

I think you could just go around to Lillie's right now and see if you can blag your way into the VIP area and then he might suck your fingers. I heard stories about him and finger sucking.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*head explodes*

Actually...no, I am too scared. In fact, I try to avoid meeting people I really like. Neil Gaiman was here, and I hid in my room. I have issues.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I just realised that I heard stories about Bono and finger sucking and also stories about him and singer fu... er, Andrea Corr.

A ha ha ha!! That kind of kills me with hilarity.

Yeah, I am similar. I once mustered the courage to bring some books to a signing with Terry Pratchett and then couldn't say a word.

[siria]

There are people who think I couldn't take Bono? Please. He may be wiry, but I can be vicious.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

There are two. So far TWO PEOPLE. The odds are in your favor, m'dear.

And damn, that icon is hot. Did you just make that? Hot, hot, HOT. With belly!

[siria]

Good. Clearly most people have seen sense and acknowledge my supremacy! Either that, or the thought of Bono kicking anyone's ass is as surreal to them as it is to me. *g*

Yup, literally five minutes ago. It's a cap from Boa vs Python from which I, uh, accidentally removed What's Her Face Blonde Chick, for there can be nothing wrong with an icon that displays the Hewlett arms, the Hewlett belly, and a competency with firearms. You want it, it's yours :)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't really picture Bono in a big rock 'n' roll brawl. Although I'm having a hard time STOPPING picturing him making out with whichever member of Oasis it was that he made out with that one time. *pokes brain*

Ahh, yes, I recognized the alarming, seemingly out-of-place hotness of BvP. I TOTALLY want it. Whee, gifties I do not deserve when I am being such a slacker! (Well, not TOO bad: have 1675 words of Joyce essay now. *shrug*)

[siria]

BONO MADE OUT WITH SOMEONE FROM OASIS? WHAT. GOD. NOT ONE OF THE GALLAGHERS? SO SCARRED NOW. SO. SCARRED.

He was so strangely hot in Boa vs Python. I mean, the hair was awful, and he seemed to be named after Christopher Lloyd's character in Back to the Future, and he was a herpetologist, for Christ's sake, but oh my the hot. It burns.

(Ooh, amazon.co.uk has it for €9. Do I dare waste more of my money on really bad movies? It could sit next to Family Album on my bookcase.)

1675 words is 1674 more than I've ever written on Joyce. You should feel proud. Have a cookie.

[birdsflying]

:coughs: I have never seen Boa vs Python. Not that I would be suggesting anything aside from the fact that watching me flail around in a mixture of nrrgh and horror while watching it may well be worth the 9 euros. :g:

:investigates finding it over in the UK:

[siria]

Hee! Oh, you should totally find it and bring it over with you. I would watch it again, because it's so horrifically cheesy that it's almost (almost) good, and David Hewlett gets all wet and has to buddy breathe.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

...And this is only one of several pictures I have seen of this. There's also one where their tongues are out of their mouths and touching. Apparently, there was a "lost" guitar pick involved.

1865! And look, monanotlisa DID make me cookies!

[siria]

Oh, my eyes. MY EYES.

*waves pom poms* You can do it! You'll get through all of them and there will be chocolate and David Hewlett and sparkly things and, and boy sex! It will have a beginning and a middle and also, an end. I have faith, Trin, I do!

Those cookies must be awesome. Because not only is there tasty deliciousness, it's like a metaphor. Crunchy and a little tough on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside. John and Rodney - their love is so like cookies!

(Yes, I know I should never, ever use metaphors in my writing. *hangs head*)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*pretends she doesn't secretly find the Bono/Liam kind of hot*

2,035! I just have to sum up now! Quick, let me arrive at a hurried and forced conclusion!

NO COOKIE METAPHORS! But it's not you, it's Joss Whedon. He has killed cookie metaphors for all time. Bad Joss.

[siria]

*HORROR* But, but! Bono may be a bit of a tosser, but Liam Gallagher is an enormous wanker.

Oh, god. I remember the days when 2,000 words was all I had to write. *small tear* Stupid bloody dissertations and their stupid unnecessary length. D'you think if I just edited mine down to "So, there was this castle. It was old. And stuff," that it would be acceptable? Because I am this close to making like Grant and going to live in a storage closet.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

But, but! Boykissing! I don't care how big a wanker Liam Gallagher is (a big one, I'm sure)--it's a pretty picture. And the one of Bono kissing The Edge is even prettier but let's just not go there kthxbye.

I thought you were done with the dis! Are you just trying to edit it down? I can help you with that...

Pour moi: One essay draft down, two to go!

[siria]

Boykissing is pretty, but I would much rather watch pictures of it between two people I could actually stand, much less find attractive.

Oh, I have a draft. But it's the roughest thing in the history of rough, so, you know. Even though I have it written, it still haunts me. Like a zombie. (Speaking of which, next week we should! With the thing. Yes.)

I applaud your drafts! That is most excellent. You might even be finished by Sunday, at this rate. (If you are, might I suggest tea? Tea would be good. I have had no tea today, a fact which I am going to remedy RIGHT NOW)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Bono is totally hot.

ZOMBIES! Yes, we must! Maybe we should try to finish it the way amireal and I have been doing our thing: a locked post with the story, and we tag back and forth with comments?

If I am finished by Sunday, which *crosses fingers* I hope to be, we should definitely have tea, and I could look over your dissertation, and if you were feeling masochistic, you could look over my papers? And then we could be awesome productive people who were ALSO tea-infused? And additionally, there could be some David Hewlett.

Get thee to a teapot, go! 'Cause all work and no tea makes Siria a dull girl.

*nods*

*goes to make tea herself*

[siria]

That, I think, would probably work. Because two sharing one laptop really doesn't go so well. I presume locked on yours, since I don't have a copy of the file?

Tea and mutual paper reading through would be good things, I think. There is nothing like being a tea-infused awesome person to make your self-worth levels go through the roof. Additional David Hewlett would be just additionally awesome.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Go here (http://trinityofone.livejournal.com/64503.html).

[cynicatlantis.livejournal.com]

What scares me, is that we have it at the store I work at... and we have several copies. We've got a sale on Oh-My-God-What-Is-This-Crap/Didn't-We-Return-This-Last-Time? DVDs and CDs, and there are several copies of BvP lurking in the trestle tables, flaunting their $9.99 stickers. Though, last time, "Cube" was in there, so it seems all our sales have Hewlett representin', yo. \0/

At the same time, we've been playing U2's Live at Slane Castle DVD - and after hearing him recite the history of the band, list IRA bombing victims, and thank everyone from his dad to The Edge's cousin's dog for "a loan of foive hoondrid pounds" about 12 times, the funky counter staff just started skipping over those bits of the show *luffs them, luffs them hard*. I mean, I like their music just fine, and his sentiments are all very noble, but christ in a cream cheese sauce man, shut up!

[siria]

I have to admit that I would probably have already bought it from the local HMV, if it weren't for the fact that it's €32. And I love me some David Hewlett, but I'm not crazy. Cube is actually not a bad movie, even if it is incredibly creepy.

I like their music just fine, and his sentiments are all very noble, but christ in a cream cheese sauce man, shut up!

*g* I think that about sums up the sentiments of most Irish people now. We like Bono okay; we just think he's a bit of a tosser.

*peers at your icon* Is that Rodney with a tribble?

[cynicatlantis.livejournal.com]

I dig Cube, and felt kinda bad that it was in with all the DVD dross *sniff* poor neglected little thing.

*peers at your icon* Is that Rodney with a tribble?
LOL, actually it's Rodney with a Palantir, but I did a lousy job with the glowiness.

[siria]

Actually, it's more likely to be because my eyesight is bad. And hee! Rodney with a palantír would be a bad, bad thing.

Though possibly not as amusing as Rodney with a Tribble.

[wychwood]

She's not a real person, but actually a fleet of monkeys with laptops and an Ethernet connection.

See, I knew it! I KNEW IT, I DID!

siriaeve would totally take Bono. She would break his dorky Bono-glasses, and he would CRY LIKE A LITTLE GIRL. However, he would win the legal battle. So don't do it, siriaeve!

...I was so tempted to make visual aids to PROVE that The Puddlejumpers are officially shorter than U2 *g*. It's all done with mirrors, you know? Shep can't admit that he's actually five feet tall.

Go and write more essay! You can do this! :)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Ronon: sekritly a master at STILTS!

*totally wants them visual aids, dammit* ;-)

[looking4tarzan.livejournal.com]

hah I have less than one day for 4 pieces of work



dooomed

I hate Classical greece...and the late roman empire

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Do you know Gir's doom song? We could sing a duet!

[looking4tarzan.livejournal.com]

yes i think we could
I'm gonna be lucky to get 2 done

I have TWO copies of Euripides Alcestis, and Iphegenia in tauris

NEITHER HAVE LINE NUMBERS!

ARGH just about found them using the most evil and hard to use reference online

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

My copy of "The Rape of the Lock" doesn't have line numbers, either. WTF, world? You deny us line numbers, you deny us LIFE!

Or something.

[looking4tarzan.livejournal.com]

deny us the only ablility to tell you WHERE THE HECK WE ARE


took me long enough to FIND the quotes

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

I'm the only "other"? I guess I just know short bands. Gonna have to say "Mini-Kiss", the all midget Kiss tribute band.

But failing that, since they are a gimmick, 3 Inches of Blood. Canadian fantasy/scream metal band. Their lead singer is a dwarf.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yes! I knew someone had to know of a dwarf or midget band. You win! *vbg*

Also Canada, as always, kicks ass.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

Victory? Sweet!

Heh. Gotta love any country where the soda has real sugar, and whose bands honestly have songs that being:

"Hark! A scout has reached the gates, bringing news of war."

Hark! They began the song with "Hark!" Moxious!