I'll drink to that!

Be afraid.

Be VERY afraid!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! 

 

Linux and Microsoft are switching places...

Adra, during which-witch-switch-whatever week, everybody's member names are switched around a couple of times.  At 1:30, you could be Annie, and then at 8:15, you could suddenly find that you're now Raineypark.  It changes a few times during the week, and whatever posts you made under those names stay that way.  If you made a post when you were Annie, it will always say, "post by Annie", and so on.

                                                                         --LAFB

   So I was watching Gabriel and Gerard yesterday with their little encounter in the drawing room--Gabriel interrupts Gerard and Leticia, and she leaves.  Now Gerard says to him, "Gabriel, you have a talent for coming into the room at exactly the wrong time."
   At first it looked as though he was about to say something else and Gabriel interrupted him.  So I rewound and looked again.  This time I could see that Gerard had definitely said or mouthed something--but at the same time it also looked as though the film had rewound for a second. So I checked again and this is what I saw--

   "Gabriel, you have a talent for coming into the room at exactly the wrong time.  A~~hole."

   Was it just me, or did anyone else see that too?

   I agree with you on "Boy Meets Boy," Gothick.  I can never watch the reality shows like that---the whole, "Who will he/she pick?"  "Who's the backstabber?", etc etc.  You know the odds are likely that they will take their money and split.  Then you have the "contestants", who think that they're actors and try to turn it into a whole blown-out soap opera.........yadda, yadda, yadda............

   But then we have Queer Eye!  This is the one reality show that I will watch.  I don't think so much that the guys on there are forced into being "ridiculed" by the Fab five.  Some of them actually want to help themselves be better in order to succeed on their "missions."  Besides, you gotta love their tact.   

     No, I did not run into John Karlen at the Emmys..............

    It started yesterday at work.  I'm sitting in a room with some other girls pricing and marking clearance items, when a woman employee I occasionally see comes in to use the phone.  I heard her say where she was from, and she was asking the number of a nearby video store.  She was on hold, and then I heard her talking to the person from the store, and then I heard her ask if they had the "Dark Shadows videos, series one."
     I suddenly turned and started listening to her intently as she was put on hold again.  I must have had this strange look on my face, because the girl across from me leaned forward and asked with a smile on her face, "what's she talking about?"  I told her that I watched Dark Shadows and that it was about a Gothic mansion and the family that lives in it, with creatures running around and all the problems that they have, etc etc.  She said, "Really?  When's it on?"  I told her that it was on Sci-Fi at 8 in the morning for an hour.  When the woman got off the phone, the girl asked her, "what were you asking about?"  Turns out that she was looking for the videos to get for her husband's upcoming birthday.  She called her daughter and told her that she had found the videos there, for $59.95 (!!!) Her daughter was trying to get them for her dad.

       But anyway, I thought that was the weirdest thing, because what are the odds of hearing it mentioned somewhere?  But then, this morning, I went to theatre class, and what do I see?  A classmate of mine with a DS T-shirt, with Barnabas on the front!!

                                 

  I'm sorry but this current storyline makes me vomit with rage.   I realize it's a transition from 1995 to 1840, but parts of it couldn't be more coma-inducing (IMHO).
  So we've got two kids who are hanging out in a *mysterious* playroom at ages 12 or 13, easily amused by a carousel and dollhouse.  David's got a new friend who is a bit more the jittery sort than Amy.  Where are those sedatives when you need them?  They are encountering two ghosts, one good, the other evil (stop me if this sounds familiar), and periodically falling under possession.
  Then we have the grown-up bunch.  They got an advantageous head start by a list of clues that Carolyn left them in '95.  An unfinished horoscope of Elizabeth, who turned her nose up at these kinds of things before but is suddenly a believer.  They keep looking at the thing over and over for more clues that they can't seem to find.  Over and over Julia researches for Rose Cottage, which they can't find out about either.
  Then we come to the dumbing down of Quentin Collins.  He smells lilacs every time Daphne is around, which brings us to:  Why is she doing this to Quentin??  Why does she seem to want him one minute and not the next?  What is the point of luring him to her and then not saying a thing?!?!?  Why why why??  I know that the writers didn't know quite what to do with him once they left 1897, but this in my opinion, was the absolute worst they could do with him.
  Finally we come to the two key players here.  Barnabas and Julia are all set to sound the alarm when Gerard strikes, but they can't get anyone else into the act, since there isn't much to go on so far.  And it's not just because of a lack of bathrooms at Collinwood.  They fail to realize that the others are not acting quite like usual.  Quentin is becoming more evasive and withdrawn, and Liz just stares at them and speaks in a drone, accusing them of wanting to disrupt things around the household.  They haven't yet picked up on any of this!  Not to mention that Julia continually feels "the presence."  You'd think that by now at least Barnabas would be getting wise to this kind of stuff.

  I haven't seen some of these episodes, so if anything I've mentioned has been resolved or addressed, please tell me.  I've thrown my hands up at this point.
  The only good thing that seems to have happened is that David and Hallie are employing useful arts and crafts skills which will guide them well throughout their lives.

I went to orientation today for college, and I was at my acting professor's office, when what should I see but..........

A giant framed poster of "Inside the Music", the Donna McKechnie show from May, and Donna herself had autographed it with a heart underneath!

I'll still be there on Sat. and Sunday.  I'll also be in the costume event.  See ya "backstage"?

Forgive me for being dumb, but what is the costume event about?  I mean, is it a contest or something?  Where is "backstage?"  The lobby?