It’s A Bingo!

Here’s a strange, midday nap dream narrative for you.

I pop across the street during my lunchbreak to the British Museum where I run into Christoph Waltz, who is apparently my sexy German language professor also starring in a musical called Schadenfreude!, for which there are 2-color, 60s-style adverts everywhere. On my way back to work, I am abducted by the Voldemort resistance, who take me back to my old high school, which the Death Eaters have bombed with fireworks. After refusing to accept the Dark Mark, our car is sent careening down a pit a là the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland, and we have to the escape the Temple of Doom while singing and dancing a choreographed Broadway number.

So, dream analysts, what does that mean?

Oh, I’m not sure anything but Photoshop can convey the sheer hilarity of the 60s-style adverts. To illustrate, I have whipped something up while I procrastinate from work. Now imagine these plastered all over Tube stations and hung as giant 300 foot banners of a Tate Modern-esque building meant to stand in for the British Museum in my subconscious.

Yeah.

Also, I don’t know why my dream was taking place in London when I haven’t lived there in almost six years. It also looked nothing like the London I know.

And now back to writing the Most Epic Editorial Letter Ever.

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It’s Okay To Be Takei

Why is George Takei so awesome? Because he’s the awesomest man IN THE UNIVERSE. Is it because he’s gay? He’s sooooooooooo Takei!

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She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn’t think of him; didn’t speak to him in her head, didn’t relive every moment they’d been together, didn’t long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish for ever.
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

This series never, ever fails to reduce me to a weeping wreck.

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My Inappropriate Crush

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This was absolutely ADORABLE and DanRad is great in it. If only I had a gazillion dollars, I’d totally go see it again! (ILU, DANRAD. CALL ME.)

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I Am Highly Amused

Because who doesn’t whimsical videos that riff off Tetris? Good Lord, I spent hours on this game when I was a kid. I got pretty good at it. I still play it today. On my ORIGINAL NINTENDO GAMEBOY. That’s right, I kick it old school.

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Fancy Meeting You Here

From the awesome Bri-chan, who has the most amazing Disney art.

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When Harry Met Sally 2

Oh my god…the twist just about killed me…

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This is a story about women--tons of women. Every personality type you can imagine. Young women, old women, queer women, straight women, ditzy women, brainy women. This is story about the bond of friendship between these women and how they are the most powerful people in the universe.

Sailor Moon is classic superhero stuff- eldritch villians, secret identity drama, the power of friendship, face-melting horror, epic battles--but it's set in a world where teenage girls are the greatest heroes.

Comic Book Girl

Former Sailor Moon fanatics, unite! Moon Kick-assing Power!

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What I Aspire To Be

  • JJ: I think “whimsical” and “creepy” are two wonderful adjectives, especially when put together.
  • Colleague: I’ll remember that when someone asks me what you’re like. “JJ? She’s whimsical and creepy.”
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Disgrasians!

Wow, from an extended blogging silence to two posts in a day? Is the apocalypse nigh?

Anyway, two things for you! The first is a video I dubbed for the Oslo Freedom Forum. The speaker is a North Korean defector talking about his time in a gulag…in a girl’s voice. (The material is serious, but I couldn’t resist.) Can I just say that dubbing is much more difficult than I thought?

Trying to keep the flavor of the Korean language + trying to make it sound closer to idiomatic English + keeping the timing more or less together = REALLY, REALLY HARD. That’s why my voice sounds so monotone; I had to try and figure out how best to phrase things while keeping in time with the speaker, so modulating my voice just wasn’t going to happen.

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