So whoa, my Cthulhu stitch markers made it onto another website: http://geekcrafts.com/cthulu-stitch-markers/#respond

I made the stitchmarkers and other stuff for a craftster.org swap, here are some pictures:









It was really hard to get good shots of the stitch markers cause they're freaking tiny. There are more pics on my flickr, in the Crafty Creations Section.

I'm super-flattered that anyone liked my crafts enough to feature them on their website, especially a geek blog. Yay me!

And here's one more thing I worked on in the last month:



Two more onesies for the twins. Yay!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

George Lucas now owes
me another eight dollars.
I hate him so much

rating: 2 out of 5 stiff old men in fedoras trying to relive their glory days

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The lack of blood might
fool you into thinking that
this is a kids' movie.

rating: 3 out of 5 off-screen decapitations of fairytale creatures

The Pursuit of Happyness

Will and Jaden Smith
take on the white man and his
stock exchange, and win.

rating: 4 out of 5 adorable little-boy afros

Rise: Blood Hunter

Vampires can't die
unless Lucy Liu uses
her magic crossbow!

rating: 2 out of 5 gratuitous boob-shots

Iron Man

Sexy billionaire
designs metal suit that flies
to redeem himself.

rating: 5 out of 5 electric moments of flirtation between Tony Stark and his assistant

No crochet this time! I'm working on more buntings but haven't finished anything since my last post. Instead I've been working on:

( Sculpey )

( Embroidery )
( Decoupage )

So as you can tell I've been busy. And this isn't even the end of it! I've already done more since I took pictures of this stuff! LOL. Hopefully soon I'll get my craft room organized and start that Etsy shop. Maybe over the long weekend....

Shutter
dead Japanese girl
fails to scare like Samara
ending's not too bad
2/5 fake spirit photos

The Ruins
stupid tourista
if you wander off the path
you will die, dumbass
4/5 man-eating plants

Brazil
one of the best films
i've seen, and appropriate
to the times right now
5/5 fascist dystopian Britains

Event Horizon
accidentally
taking your spaceship to Hell
is really scary
3/5 ships that came back aliiiiiive!

Looking forward to seeing Iron Man this weekend.

I've had a lot more time to craft lately, so here are a few things I made:

( for Ellowyne )

( for Betsy )

I also made myself a jewelry organizer that coordinates with my bedroom, but I haven't taken pics yet, so more to come on that.

Hi.

Jamie Leigh Jones was working in Iraq for a subsidiary of Halliburton when she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by several coworkers.

For the last two years, she's been asking the US government to hold the perpetrators accountable, but the men who raped her may never be brought to justice because Halliburton and other contractors in Iraq aren't subject to US or Iraqi laws.

I just signed a petition urging Congress to investigate the rape of Jamie Leigh Jones, hold those involved accountable, and bring US contractors under the jurisdiction of US law. Can you join me at the link below?

http://pol.moveon.org/contractors_accountable/?r_by=11800-5215280-tBY96m&rc=confemail

Thanks!

So I manage to install Wine, but now I'm at the point in the World of Warcraft installation where I need to use the command:

cd /path-to-directory/
wine Installer.exe

Replacing /path-to-directory/ with the path to the directory in which I saved the WoW files from the cds. The problem is, no matter how I enter it, I keep getting the Bash error that the file or directory doesn't exist. The wow_install file is on the desktop, so the command I enter should look like this, right?

cd /home/panda/desktop/wow_install wine installer.exe

What am I doing wrong? I really don't want to call anivair and he's in class anyway. Help me figure it out!

I just got back from the WORST experience I have EVER had at one of your restaurants. I went to the Longhorn on Cleveland Avenue in Columbus Ohio and was treated to the most horrible service and disgusting food I've ever been served--and I got to pay for it! Yaaay!

When I walked in I was DELIGHTED to see that our server was the same idiot who screwed up my order at least three times at the Don Pablo's down the street before it closed. (He never told us his name.) I ordered salmon with grilled vegetables and a sweet potato. When the food came the vegetables were steamed and the salmon was delicious, but so salty I could barely eat more than a few bites (my dining companion also noticed this problem and did not finish his meal as a result). I made the mistake of sending it back, thinking that your cooks and serving staff actually CARED that I enjoy the meal I'm paying for. 15 minutes later, when the food had not reappeared, we attempted to flag down our server and were ignored. We had to ask our usual server (A lovely young lady name Linda who always does a fabulous job) to have the salmon boxed because I needed to go back to work.

Another 10 minutes later I finally got my food, in a to-go box, and the server brought us our bill. He had not removed the salmon from the bill.

When I returned to work--15 minutes late, at this point, thanks to our server's incompetence--and finally sat down to eat, I discovered that the cook had grilled the SAME VEGETABLES that I had been given before, the steamed ones, and hadn't even bothered to put any kind of spice on them. He apparently didn't notice that I had used the broccoli to scrape most of the salt off the salmon in the first place, so needless to say the vegetables were limp and tasteless (or coated with salt, yum!). And the salmon, which had previously been served tender and moist, is now cooked to rubbery consistency and has not been marinated or seasoned AT ALL. I took a bite and had to spit it back out again. The food is now WORSE than it was before, I guess I should have left mediocre alone and just eaten my salt-laden food. Oh and did I mention that I had to PAY for this crap?

I have no plans to return to your restaurant until I hear that this server (I don't know his name but he looks like John Malkovich, seriously) no longer works there, and that your cook understands the difference between overly-salted and seasoned appropriately does not mean NO seasoning AT ALL.

You'll have to excuse my rudeness, I have only had a sweet potato for lunch so I am a little bit grouchy.

I look forward to your response.

Dear Lost writers,

Sayid is not getting enough airtime on the show. For reasons why you should write more scenes for him, please refer to the following exhibits:





Thank you for your prompt resolution of this problem.

-Sarah

P.S. No more shitty "Hurley and Sawyer Detective Agency" episodes either. Seriously.

Okay I keep seeing these 300-spoofs everywhere, so I want to share them and provide myself with easily-accessible links. So here we have:

It's Raining 300 Men

300 Kitties

300: The PG Version

Now I'm off to make some icons before the boss gets in. Ta!

Stolen from sheridanwilde.

C-bus People,

If you listen to 1230am, or you are a progressive, liberal, Democrat, Independent, etc., you should click the link below to help attempt to save our only progressive radio station. Even if you are not someone who would listen to this station, it is important to have some news outlet that is not biased to Clear Channel and the Right-Wing agenda. By signing this petition, you let Clear Channel know that you are interested in dialogue from both ends of the political spectrum.

http://www.ohiomajorityradio.com/

Thanks for signing.

The Covenant
A bit like The Craft
Except without the good parts
A waste of two hours

2/5 darklings

The Gift
A small-town psychic
Solves a murder mystery
All on the bayou

5/5 wife-beating hillbillies

A History of Violence
Tom owns a diner
He's good at killing badguys
Was he a gangster?

5/5 hot sex scenes with Viggo Mortenson

Saw II
Predictable but
okay, I suppose, if you
have a strong stomach.

2/5 people trapped in a house full of nerve gas

Verona Guerrin
Cate Blanchett is great
But this is not a movie
to watch on a date

3/5 feisty Irish journalists

Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Ricky Bobby drives
And acts like an idiot
It's pretty funny

3/5 little tiny baby Jesuses

In a little over 48 hours, ABC is airing a five-hour docudrama on the 9/11 attacks. The movie was written and produced by a right-wing activist who fabricated key scenes to blame Democrats and defend Republicans.

It's so partisan that even Rush Limbaugh was surprised ABC decided to air it. And a FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, "they were making things up."

Public outrage is mounting across the country, and ABC is now "mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether." But we only have a little time to act. Can you help out?

http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc/


ABC is deciding what to do about The Path to 9/11 right now. You can have an even greater impact by calling the CEO's office.

Tell him ABC must not air partisan propaganda on 9/11.


Bob Iger, Disney CEO
(818) 560-1000

Let us know you called by clicking here:

http://pol.moveon.org/call?cp_id=402&tg=358

This made me laugh out loud at work. Now I'm SURE my boss knows I'm not working. *tries to look busy*

Sneezy Panda!

I have created a Rotten Tomatoes journal (www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/j/sarahpanda), where I will be posting movie reviews in the future. You should create a free journal too and add me to your friends list so we can share reviews! The RT journal is extra-fun because I can make lists; separate my entries into categories; and write "buzz" about my friends. So if you like movies and you want to share your movie-love with me, make a journal!

yippee!

Hi!

I just signed MoveOn PAC's emergency petition to stop the "nuclear option" the far right wing's plan to seize absolute power to stack our courts -– and I hope you will sign too.

Starting Monday, the petition will be delivered straight to Congress every three hours until the final vote, and many of our comments will be read aloud on the Senate floor.

Please sign right now at:

http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear

Why is this an emergency?

This Tuesday, the Senate will vote on Republican Leader Bill Frist's "nuclear option" to break the rules of the Senate and give the Republican Party absolute control over appointing federal judges.

For 200 years the minority's right to filibuster has kept our courts fair, by making sure that federal judges needed to get at least some support from both sides of the aisle before they were given life time appointments.

If Frist eliminates the filibuster, his next step would be to force far right partisan judges onto the powerful U.S. Courts of Appeals. The real targets, however, are the four seats on the Supreme Court likely to become vacant in the next four years.

With that much power on the Supreme Court, the far right could strike down decades of progress on labor rights, environmental protections, reproductive rights, and privacy.

The "nuclear option" will live or die by a final vote, probably on Tuesday, and the vote is still way too close to call. There are at least 6 moderate Republicans still on the fence and only 3 more votes needed to win. If we can get enough of our voices into congress and into the streets in the next 72 hours, we can still save our courts.

Please take a minute to join me and sign the emergency petition today.

http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear

Thanks!

Films
Best: Hero, Ocean's Twelve, The Grudge
Worst: Alexander

DVD
Best: Six Feet Under seasons 1-2
Worst: Ethan Hawke's version of Hamlet

Book
best: The Otherland Series by Tad Williams
Worst: Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Album
Best: Elephunk by the Black Eyed Peas
Worst: The Christmas album played in Lane Bryant

Live performance
Best: Icon of Coil at Skully's. Ripped guys look really good in Kevlar vests. Who knew?
Worst: Ashlee Simpson on SNL

Club
Best: Skully's, predictably.
Worst: Outland. Someone got murdered there. Need I say more?