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Yesterday, I got the movie 30 Days of Night for free.

After watching it today, I really want a refund.

For those of you on Livejournal, check out limerick_mania. It’s a new community started by an LJ pal of mine, in which every post must be a limerick.

You know you want to!

…but based on all the available data, I still think Heath makes a crappy Joker.

Swiped from Snowgrouse:

Fannish things near my computer.

On my desk and atop my PC equipment:

• Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler and K-9 action figures
• The Tick (cartoon) and Batmanuel (live-action) action figures
• Five different R2-D2 figs, one C-3PO
• Quark from DS9 figure
• A few mini Ninja Turtles
• Slimer from Ghostbusters
• Insane Clown Posse action figures (the old ones from when they both had dreads)
• Sorceress Edea figure from Final Fantasy 8
• Sonic Screwdriver
• A few Big Finish Dr Who CDs
• Doctor Who: Voyager, a volume of collected comic strips
• These shoes which I just Dr-Who-ified last night
• Marx Brothers DVDs

Hanging on the wall:

• Groucho Marx poster
• The “Now You’re Playing with Power” poster that came with many Nintendo Entertainment System games
• An Upright Citizens Brigade sticker they sent out to their email list back when the TV show was on the air
• Insane Clown Posse sticker covering a cracked lightswitch plate I haven’t gotten round to replacing
• Alternate-universe combadge from the Star Trek: The Next Generation
• C-3PO badge from The Phantom Menace, paid for with real money before I actually saw the damn film, but not thrown away afterward because it’s still C-3PO
• Homemade “UP” poster from the Sealab 2021 episode “Frozen Dinner.”
• Toy PKE meter from “Ghostbusters”
• Toy Spider Man hanging from a gargoyle, from the first movie
• Bendy Pink Panther hanging on Spidey’s leg for dear life
• Micro Machines Enterprise-D hanging on a thread from a push pin

Wow. That looks like a lot when you write it out like that. My desk is large, though.

Gathering at the First Precinct in West Babylon, County Executive Steve Levy said law enforcement officials made 239 arrests during the sting, which targeted problem areas in North Amityville, Copiague, Lindenhurst and Wyandanch. The arrests included 27 felony charges and recovered four weapons. [...] “With the task force, we don’t hear gun shots anymore.”

WARNING: the following will bore you senseless if you’re not into Second Life, so feel free to skip it entirely. Get a snack or something instead.

A) If you’re logged into SL, you can use this link to check out my virtual HQ, home of such fascinating things as a TARDIS disguised as a soda machine, and a brick wall covered in posters.

2) Cool though said posters are, only some of them are clickable links to other places and things I dig. I need more of those. If you are an SL resident and have something in SL or on the web (Who-ish or not, a place, a shop, a website, a cause, a blog, anything original even remotely interesting that isn’t pr0n) which you’d like to pimp out for free via a poster on a brick wall in a place that’s reasonably popular with scifi geeks and confused people, just send it to me in-world as a texture or a moddable prim. If you’re a scripter, feel free to make it a landmark, notecard, or URL giver. I’ll be happy to have a look and, assuming I dig it even a little bit and there’s nothing flaggable or whatever, I shall add it posthaste.

d) If you’re like me, and I know I am, you’re into both Second Life and Doctor Who. If so, and you for some reason haven’t joined the SL group “Renegade Time Lords” yet, why the crap haven’t you? It’s a freebie exchange for Who and related stuff I and others release via the group notices.

%) I was recently given the title of “artist” in the Free Fandom Project, a group which exists to do for any and all fandoms what my group does for just Doctor Who fandom. Yay for me! Now I have somewhere new to start dumping the nerdy crap I make sharing the squee with people without the use of fake money.

Happy Twenty-oh-wait!

I mostly took today off from the world, apart from a brief dalliance with family togetherness which took about an hour.

Also, I made a stalk of celery in Second Life, for wearing on one’s virtual lapel. ACCOMPLISHMENT.