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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
 I got Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men this afternoon, yet I'm going to sleep as soon as I finish my English homework. Such is my t00bish devotion to my role.
This show is going to be fabulous, methinks. Lauren and I convinced Mr. Oliver and Miss Morton to drop "It's All The Same" another minor third, making it far more singable and quite a lot more earthy and wenchy. Huzzah! Opening night tomorrow! ::squees:: Again, everyone is invited, if you happen to be in the Dallas area. Jesuit, at 7:00. Bwee! Priscilla said at 10:49 PM This is why I love America.
Priscilla said at 1:55 AM Priscilla said at 1:38 AM *is giddy*
My final dress rehearsal as Aldonza went swimmingly. I am so in love with my costume, it's not even funny. And yay, we have footage! So now I just have to convince Burkhead to let me use her computer to upload various scenes for your enjoyment. Huzzah! Now sleep. Priscilla said at 1:34 AM
Sunday, April 27, 2003
Quote of the Day:
Cut to: Patrician's Palace. Vetinari has just thrown him up against a wall and ravished him. I so cannot believe I'm writing this. --Sam Priscilla said at 10:03 PM I believe strongly in this philosophy. Gotta love "Get Fuzzy". And quoth Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes", "Verbing words weirds language."
Priscilla said at 11:11 AM 
You're Cat. You live, eat, sleep and breathe coolness. Clothes are your #1 hobby, and if you were any more vain.... well, that's impossible. Me, me, me, me, meeeeeee! Which Red Dwarf Character Are You? Priscilla said at 11:09 AM Aaaaaaaaarg, I hate my life. Perfect bloody timing, ha. I just got my period today, which is very evil, as I always get asolutely horrible cramps on the second and fourth days, which coincide perfectly with my final rehearsal and my first performance as Aldonza. Evil, evil, evil. ::stockpiles Aleve::
Boys have it so easy. Bah. Priscilla said at 10:55 AM Saw Antigone, which absolutely rocked. Of course, I got to pitying Creon a heck of a lot more than I pitied Antigone. Heck, she was an insolent upstart. Pish posh to the chorus' feeble "moral law" excuse! Anyway, Matt played one of the guards, who were hilarious. They definitely stole the show humor-wise, while Xandu's Creon was the high point dramatically. Huzzah!
Quotes of the Day: I don't think esotericness is really a quality I look for in tea. --Me I can't help thinking that if I put milk in my tea, the British Empire will disown me. --Me Rachel: "Pinky and the Brain" did a parody of "Man of La Mancha" once. Brain sang "To Scheme the Impossible Scheme". Me: Somehow, I knew that parody had to exist somewhere. Priscilla said at 1:49 AM
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Chewbacca isn't dead! 'E's just pining for the fijords!
Priscilla said at 8:00 PM YAYFUN! Mum and I went to Rose's, a costume warehouse in Denton, and I got the perfect bodice and blouse thing. Huzzah! My Aldonza costume is now perfect! Squee!
::happy dance:: Priscilla said at 7:59 PM Lots to do today! Rather glad I didn't go to the RenFest now.
Things I have learned today: Apparently, they don't make bodices for skinny people. Wah. Priscilla said at 2:55 PM Note to a Certain Cast Member Who Will Remain Anonymous:
If you want to slander me and say I can't act, sing, or dance in order to make you feel better about yourself, go ahead. Just take care not to say such things in front of fellow cast members who have seen both of us perform and can decide for themselves. Or in front of my friends. Don't think I don't eventually hear every word you say against me. And you know what? It doesn't bother me in the slightest. In fact, I find it hilarious. Don't think I haven't seen people acting out of their own insecurities before. I'm going to continue being nice to you, regardless of what you do or say to me. What exactly do you hope to achieve? You'll only make yourself miserable, and your behavior will turn people against you, not me. Cordially, Priscilla Priscilla said at 11:39 AM Oh -- as for Mrs. McCullough murdering me! She actually wasn't mad at all. She loved the direction it was going, and was generally pleased with my work. She could tell that I had put a great deal of effort into it, so she didn't go nuts. Joy! As long as I finish it this weekend, life will remain lovely.
Priscilla said at 10:43 AM Ah, I forgot to mention why we got out of rehearsal at 9 last night. We got our costumes! They're not horrible, but they could be better. A lot better. At least I have some red in mine, a necessity for prominent figures onstage. Meanwhile, my friends' costumes were pretty hilarious. Among the gypsies and moors, the gypsy dancers had traditional gypsy belly dancer-type garb. I turned to Emily, a Pratchett fan, and said "Pass me your fez, Corporal Beti."
Too amusing. I feel so sorry for Emil, who plays Dr. Carrasco. He's absolutely blind in the Knight of the Mirrors outfit. He has to do all this intimidating stuff, but he can't see a thing. And the sounds guys hadn't rigged his mic up properly, so he had to shout his lines inside his very echoey helmet, which made him temporarily deaf. And afterwards, he couldn't get his helmet off, so half the cast had to take turns trying to pry it from his head. Meanwhile, we were all giggling madly. Ricky, Stage Manager Extraordinaire, kept yelling at us to stop laughing. Meanwhile, Mrs. Felice was crying with tears of mirth. "How?" she asked him. ::hugs Emil:: Poor guy. Fortunately, we figured out how the helmet is supposed to be removed (there's a catch), but it doesn't fix the problem of how he sees out of it. Hopefully we'll find some solution in the next two rehearsals! Eep! I also feel sorry for Lobo, who plays Sancho. His knee-length trouser things are slightly too small for him, so that when he got down on one knee to recite the missive, he first had to resolve uncomfortable bunching. Also, when he leapt into the air on the line "He fights!", it resulted in unfortunate straining. Ouch. Mrs. Felice's "note" for him was "Brian, wear a jo-- nevermind." Once we sort out costume issues, this show is going to be fabulous. And my mom will take pictures Monday, probably, so I'll post them later that week, as not to spoil the fun for the Lincolnites that are seeing the show live. Hurrah! Wednesday and Friday, kids. ::bounces:: Priscilla said at 10:41 AM Bleh. I was supposed to meet a bunch of my friends at Urseline at 8 this morning to go to a Renaissance Fair, but I forgot to set my alarm and was awakened five minutes ago by a phone call asking where I was. Now trying to decide if I should still go. Maybe life will be clearer after a shower? ::is still asleep::
Priscilla said at 9:45 AM
Friday, April 25, 2003
Priscilla said at 11:47 PM Wow. I'd like to see this, should it ever come out in America. What gorgeous animation! And the waiter! He's so bendy! ::is amused::
Priscilla said at 11:36 PM Wah. Tnm.n is on crack again. *pokes blog*
Just got home, oddly enough. It's not even hell week, and I got out of rehearsal at 9! Lunacy, I tell you. Disappointing, as I had hoped to see Matt & Co. in Antigone, but it started at 7:30. Hah. I guess I'll have to see if tomorrow night. Priscilla said at 10:37 PM I told Mrs. McCullough I'd have my next piece done for her tomorrow. After working solidly all evening, I'm about half-done. That's it, I'm going to sleep. If I have it done for her on Monday, plus extra, I doubt she'll injure me fatally.
Priscilla said at 12:41 AM
Thursday, April 24, 2003
I want this shirt. *chortles merrily*
Priscilla said at 6:32 PM Priscilla said at 6:16 PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
We got the MoLM posters from the printers today. Shooooo lovely, so precious. ::pats them, but carefully, as not to make fingerprints on their lovely, shiny surface:: You can see the design here, except the white bit is bright red, the dark red is navy-ish blue, and the black is white. ::nods:: I'm putting them up tomorrow morning. I feel a bit nervous about stepping on Antigone's toes, as they just got their posters up a couple days ago for a performance this week (and ours are a lot more eye-catching XD), but bah, I don't care. We have as much of a right to advertise as they do, so I'm not concerning myself with it.
I want to draw right now, but I have massive amounts of work for Studio Art due Thursday, and I'd rather spread it over two days than kill myself tomorrow night. Poo. ::trudges off:: Priscilla said at 10:33 PM Good gravy. One more rehearsal as Aldonza before curtain. Wibble?
Priscilla said at 9:43 PM Just got an email from a woman very intent on asserting the supremacy of Croqueweb over we love the iraqi information minister.com. But then again, she also claims that Croqueweb is "the one and only fanpage of the Minister for Information of Iraq: Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf!"
Indeed, I found this to be so. She is correct! There are no other websites dedicated to this man! There are no websites within a hundred miles of here! The others all committed suicide upon the gates of their FTP server. Praise Allah! Priscilla said at 12:47 AM Whupped heiney on my James Fee presentation. Go me! ::grooves:: The girls in my class complained that I was going to mess up the curve. Yay overachievers!
Also, today was the first day back for rehearsals after the horrid week-long Easter break respite. Quite glad to see Tom, Eugene, Margot, Gaby, et all again. I was amused, as Tom proposed a petition to get me to perform all four nights, which was enthusiastically supported by the people in our conversation. Certainly not going to happen, but warmfuzzy-inducing nonetheless. Besides, I have prom. Bleh, I wish it were a different night. I'm not going to be able to be present at the final performance, where we give flowers to the directors and managers and such. Or the set strike. Or the cast party. Wah. Priscilla said at 12:24 AM
Monday, April 21, 2003
::goggles:: After three years, I've finally figured out how to work my scanner properly. Usually, it has an awful time with near-black values, making the image wretched and blotchy, but I just figured out the settings I needed for perfect scanning. Go me! ::throws a fiesta::
If only I hadn't printed nearly all of the images already! James Fee presentation tomorrow. ::nods:: Priscilla said at 9:40 PM Let it be known that Alicey is the most wonderful person in the universe. Loff!
Priscilla said at 7:44 AM
Sunday, April 20, 2003
I now declare my great, t00by love of Photoshop Phriday. And while I'm linking somethingawful.com, I might as well share this link as well. Gotta love that wacky information minister!
Priscilla said at 11:40 PM Support the troops? I support Edgar!
I saw this in the grocery store and couldn't help it. I think Cult of Lincoln is going to have a tabloid layout next. *gets to work* Priscilla said at 10:26 PM Good lord. I've transcribed four pages already, only to find that I've only done 20 minutes. And I was on the phone for 75 minutes. Waaaaaaaah.
And your-site.com can BITE ME. Tomorrow, I'm going to start looking for a new host. Any reccomendations? Priscilla said at 6:35 PM As excited as I am about my interview with James Fee, I'm *really* not looking forward to transcribing an hour and 15 minutes of footage. Wah.
Priscilla said at 11:24 AM [regarding my plots to find Alicey's trove of ancient sketchbooks]
spockmonkey4: I will sink to any level to glimpse Alicey's old sketchbooks! queekie99: you may have one problem with the old sketch books though. queekie99: there's about thirty of them queekie99: in a large plastic box spockmonkey4: *shrugs* queekie99: and it's about 10 feet up in my closet. queekie99: it's.. very very heavy queekie99: i almost killed myself putting it up there last week. spockmonkey4: my strength is the strength of ten because my heart is pure! queekie99: oh, quit speaking like.. like.. queekie99: um queekie99: er spockmonkey4: Carrot? queekie99: Jesus? spockmonkey4: *snorks* spockmonkey4: Carrot is Jesus! queekie99: most likely queekie99: and Percy is God queekie99: uh oh. spockmonkey4: and Boba Fett queekie99: if we pay attention to the Divine Trinity spockmonkey4: Carrot is the son of Percy? That explains a lot. queekie99: Carrot is Jesus, and Jesus is God, then Percy is Jesus who is Carrot who is Jesus who is God and who is also Percy who is also God and Boba Fett is God too and thus Bo.. queekie99: ...der. spockmonkey4: *confounds Alicey* queekie99: this needs to go in your log spockmonkey4: it will queekie99: tehehe. Priscilla said at 12:55 AM Quotes of the Day:
That must be the reason I avoid organized religion. They make you get up so early! --Me It's one thing to walk in on someone naked or in the shower. It's an entirely different thing to walk in on somebody singing! Quotes of A Few Days Ago: It's not fluid dynamics! It's a pie! --T-Barr There aren't all translations for everything. Like "onward ho" isn't for encouraging prostitutes. --Matt Cheese is like duct tape for food. It solves everything. --Mack I just yawned and longed for Snapple. --Me Loh: Monopoles don't exist. Schlien: Every time you say that, a monopole somewhere dies. (a few lines later) Now we have to clap our hands to bring the monopole back to life! Ashley: No day but tomorrow! There's no time like the future! Me: Jonathan Larson would cry. Priscilla said at 12:41 AM I have a new hero. Visit his fanclub at:
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/ Priscilla said at 12:03 AM
Saturday, April 19, 2003
Holy cow. Ancient files upon ancient disks! I found my first attempt at Potterfic, which unbeknownst to me at the time sparked the Percy Weasley fandom. I found a ridiculous quantity of etymological research I did for my failed Marauderfic. I found pages of early HP4GU message clippings I saved for one reason or another. I found parodies I started, but never completed. And I found this gem from October 2000, back when RML was alive and kicking. God Bless Filks. ::gives Ellie Rosenthal alterego a swift kick in the head for good measure::
I could upload this to the RML website and link it here, but I'm a lazy bum. Come on, scrolling isn't that painful. Another Mailing List (Another Pyramid, AIDA) Original music by Elton John and Tim Rice Parody lyrics by Ellie Rosenthal Ellie: While you're wasting all your bandwidth On the rest of all the web Let your course start to expand with An entirely different ebb Now, you know, this means a changing In the emails you'll receive There will be a wider ranging In ideas you will conceive Now, come on, you know you've gotta You won't know what you'd have missed. Send an email to Renata Start another mailing list There are many who will join us Soon we'll have newbies galore. Though a couple may annoy us We can put them on "ignore". If this list is going to last, now If we want it to succeed Then our modems must be fast, now and Renata must take the lead. Soon our mailboxes will all be filled And AOhell' be pissed. Switch subscription forms to "digest" For another mailing list Backups: Join it, join it. Another mailing list Ellie: I hope you have time to read all Of the email that we send (send!) You'll become an anti-social And you'll lose all of your friends (friends!) By Renata's coronation We'll have Lincoln on the dime We'll achieve world domination One small country at a time. All our families will gag and choke -- What step in upbringing had they missed? -- When we say we want to meet folks From another mailing list. Backups: Join it, join it. Join it, join it. Join it, join it. Join it -- ::music:: Ellie: You can check the huge list archive See how popular it is! So encourage all your friends to join Renata's mailing list. Priscilla said at 8:52 PM Priscilla said at 6:49 PM JAMES FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! ::dies of joy::
He's an absolutely wonderful person. He talked with me for over an hour, answering my long list of questions. He has such a wonderful philosophy! I wonder if there's any way I could take a class from him in the summer... ::happy sigh:: My report is going to kick seven kinds of heiney. Priscilla said at 5:31 PM Muaha. Just got back from taking pictures of kidlets looking terrified. Muaha, the weird things I have to do for my art.
Why am I suddenly so obsessed with the word "kidlet"? Priscilla said at 5:15 PM From the headlines: US marines hunt gazelles with rocks.
Priscilla said at 11:08 AM Absolutely sickening.
Priscilla said at 9:28 AM
Friday, April 18, 2003
Priscilla said at 11:41 PM Some of you may know that I have been selected to be one of the "Snapshot" teens for the Dallas Morning News, which picks a student (usually a senior), interviews them, takes a picture, and publishes for all to see. I turned in my answers this evening, and I'll tell you when it's printed and scan the column. Hurrah!
In the meantime, I present some of my favourite Snapshots from the past: Nelson Huckin Hunt (he must hate his parents) and the infamous Julie Mary Ludlow Miller (a large file, but oh-so-worth the wait). Muaha. I just want to know how much of this is a joke. Priscilla said at 11:34 PM Friday Five!
1. Who is your favorite celebrity? I'm quite fond of Neil Gaiman, because he's such a nice guy and doesn't let celebritydom get to his head, but no obvious "favourite" comes to mind. 2. Who is your least favorite? The Olsen Twins. They count as one entity. 3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? Neil Gaiman (hugged), Adam Pascal (hugged), Luke Wilson, Lisa Loeb, and all actors I have ever stalked (Scott Hunt, Heather Headley, Shere Rene Scott, etc). 4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not? I'd love to be cult-famous. Like how most of the world has no idea who Alan Lee is, but those that do adore him. I suppose I'd like to be known for Men at Arms: The Musical (in my delusions of grandeur). 5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? It would be fun to be J.K. Rowling for a day, so that I could go through her files and read the next HP book early (and send the file to my friends) and find out what will happen in future books. Priscilla said at 4:03 PM My Jewish birthday is Cheshvan 28, 5745.
I'm sure you couldn't live your life one more moment without this knowledge. Priscilla said at 12:38 PM ::explodes:: JAMES FEE EMAILED ME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HE WANTS ME TO CALL HIM TOMORROW FOR A BRIEF INTERVIEW!!! ::spazzes and dies of joy::
Priscilla said at 12:33 PM
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Hey! It's Back to the Future II's "Mr. Fusion"! Who needs Iraq when you've got 600 million tons of turkey guts?
Priscilla said at 4:44 PM Alas, the "Inside-Trading Time Traveller" story was apparently a hoax. Apparently. ::shifty eyes::
As someone on Slashdot suggested, "Bah heathen, he's obvioulsy from the future. its a government cover up! if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck it's probably just a tool of the conspiracy." Priscilla said at 4:30 PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Wow. It's quite a surreal experience to go from reading the horrifying Native Son to the happy-go-lucky Castle of Llyr. Remind me to choose more compatible books in the future. But then again, nothing is really compatible with Native Son. I was amused at the truth in Marcelina's comment that she read A Clockwork Orange afterward to cheer her up. Gravy, that book is amazing. Easily the most haunting and terrifying book I have ever read.
Priscilla said at 9:34 PM Are you hooked on a feeling? 'Cause I know I sure am.
Priscilla said at 6:39 PM ::does NOT laugh until she cries::
This link is shameful and not funny at all and should not be tolerated. Under no circumstances. Yep. Priscilla said at 6:16 PM Monica, Alicey and I just spent five minutes discussing the cup sizes of various Disney princesses. I don't imagine this is healthy.
Priscilla said at 6:09 PM ph34r my 1337 sk1llz! Found James Fee's email address. Hopefully, he will have time to grant a brief interview before my report is due on the 22nd. ::dies over James Fee's American Noir photography series::
Priscilla said at 5:57 PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Wow, that rehearsal was fantastic. I'll be pining all this week, as we don't rehearse again until a week from today. Bah, stupid Catholic schools and their Easter brouhaha. When this show is over, I'm going to cry, I know it. I'm going to miss Jesuit theatre so much. It's going to be such an amazing show!
Priscilla said at 9:49 PM
Monday, April 14, 2003
Hmm. I would rather eat broken glass than go to school today. Interesting.
Priscilla said at 8:00 AM
Sunday, April 13, 2003
Whee! I am evil! Loff to you, Meghan!
Priscilla said at 8:18 PM Okay, changed my mind again. Sticking with blogger. Curse my feminine indecision! I'll probably change my mind back tomorrow.
Anyway, after having Les Mis on the brain for days, I went out and bought the London cast CD. Bleh. The kids I saw perform at ISAS were 50 times better. ::feels cross:: I wish I hadn't been stupid and tried to listen to the CD before I bought it. Or read reviews on CD now and determined the best cast from that. Priscilla said at 8:12 PM Wah. It turns out that in order to get RSS Syndication Feeds, you have to use Blogger PRO, which is $35 a year. Piffle. A paid LJ account is $25 per year. I'm actually thinking of switching to LiveJournal, ladies and gents. I think I will, in fact.
 priscellie the paid account expires in two months, so I think I'll keep it as my sketchblog, then use cultoflincoln to replace this one. Huzzah.Priscilla said at 1:22 PM Okay, that doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to get syndication feeds? ::goes to look for tutorials and such::
Priscilla said at 12:36 PM This is a test of the Cult of Lincoln LJ Syndication Feed. Cross your fingers, kids.
Priscilla said at 12:33 PM Yay! Sam got a LJ. How delightful and merry! Ahh, convenience.
Priscilla said at 12:07 PM Squee! I just got an email from my friend Tara, who I haven't heard from in about two years. Now feeling v. nostalgic and happy.
Priscilla said at 10:30 AM
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Mmmmmmm. That's good eatin'. Matrix Reloaded trailers! Link ganked from Tanja. :D
Priscilla said at 5:32 PM Hooooome! Neglected to mention that I would be at a Fine Arts festival in Fort Worth over Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and would therefore be away from the computer. Hurrah for ISAS! No one really knows what it stands for, so a girl I met there suggested "I Suck At Sports". We all readily concurred. Because the festival has gotten so huge over the years, Hockaday had to cap the number of students on campus at a time, and therefore only the Performance artists got to go on Friday, the main festival day. Because I only came for Studio Art and Photography, I was out of luck. Bah. Of course, the teachers put together a day of museum visits and such to keep us occupied, so it wasn't a complete waste.
Thursday: Carried lots of really heavy boxes for Mrs. Yoshii, hung my photographs, hung my art piece, t00bed about. After Hockaday's rather useless photography critique, I generally ignored all workshops and galleries and turned my attention to the Showcase Drama category, where all the musicals were. Saw the tail end of a performance of the first act of Romeo and Juliet, which looked more like RENT than anything else, then highlights from The King and I, including the at-least-15-minute "Poor Eliza" sequence, which was hilariously well executed and summarily well mocked by my friends when the show was over. It said in our schedules that South Pacific was next, but something was switched, and Witchitaw's Les Miserables took its place. GOOD LORD, IT WAS AMAZING. Every one of those kids could have gone straight to Broadway. Easily the most powerful high school production I've ever seen; "A Little Fall of Rain" had me in tears. Gravy. Next up was South Pacific, but hell, nothing could have followed Les Mis. Friday: We went to a bunch of different museums, each of which I had seen at least twice in the past three months. Joy. We got an hour of free time afterwards, where I worked on a drawing to replace that godawful Men at Arms: The Musical picture. A "before and after" study, I suppose, to see how my drawing ability has progressed in the last year. I was quite satisfied at the results. I'll post it when I'm finished. Afterwards, we drove to UT Arlington (whyyy???) to see Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, which was excellent. The actor playing Henry was fantastic. Gravy, I love Tom Stoppard. Must see/read more of his plays. ::nods:: Saturday: I worked more on my drawing for a while, then went to the 2-D Art critique, which was absolutely worthless. I think our adjudicator was senile. Seeing my image of a goddess bust in charcoal and acrylic on mylar, he suggested I try eraser drawings, which was pretty much exactly what I did, only about 7 steps backwards. I had used erasers and turpenoid to remove the charcoal and re-expose the mylar, so he was basically telling me how to do something I'd obviously already done. The ridiculousness was even worse for Peri, who did a collaged self-portrait of faces, hands, and feet, using layer upon layer of tracing paper to achieve the effect. He told her to experiment with layers, suggesting techniques she already used in the image. The entire art department shared a unified "WTF?" Hurrah for useless art critiques. But all was not in vain, because it turned out that there were seperate adjudicators who gave critiques to students who signed up on a certain list. I got a woman named Andrea to critique my photography, and it was a fabulous experience. She was genuinely intrigued by my work and offered insightful suggestions and dialogues. I discovered more about my own work than I have in ages. It gave me quite a lot of enthusiasm to undertake future projects. I think I'll print some more tonight, in fact. And now I'm back home. I feel especially happy because on the bus rides, I read The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster) and The Book of Three (Lloyd Alexander -- part of a series), which were two of my absolute favourite books in third and fourth grade. Being a senior has given me the desire to reexplore the things I loved as a wee kidlet, and these books were the first step. Yayfun! So all is merry, and I'm back. Now it's time to catch up on what I missed. ::dives bravely into her ridiculously long LJ Friends list:: Priscilla said at 4:07 PM
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
If anyone tries to trick/force/cajole me into reading the Book 5 rumors that are now propogating about the internet, I will kill them slowly and painfully. 72 days is a trifling price to pay when you've already waited three years.
Priscilla said at 11:54 PM See the first round of photographs from Man of La Mancha rehearsals!
Priscilla said at 10:11 PM
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Who's your daddy? Or maybe who's your great-great-great-great-great uncle?
Priscilla said at 10:18 PM Hee! Gotta love Sam. Granny Weatherwax meets Lord Voldemort:
"I'm not having with any of this Voldemort nonsense! You have a perfectly good evil name as it is, Tom Riddle!" ::tweaks the Dark Lord's ear:: "Now, say you're sorry for the snakes!" ::small voice:: "msorryforthesnakes" "Are you sorry for the diary?" ::small voice:: "msorryforthediary" "And what are you going to do now?" ::small voice:: "gointabeverynicetoharry" Priscilla said at 10:17 PM ::stares:: Has anyone seen my will to live?
Priscilla said at 10:09 PM Spam titled "Priscilla, Rates at an All-time Low. Do Yourself a Favor". The text:
But let his Grace, when he shall hear my name, Say only this: Gardiner procured the same. [Enter young Cromwell.] LIEUTENANT. Here is your son, come to take his leave. CROMWELL. Care to join me in a rousing rendition of "What the Heck?" Priscilla said at 9:56 PM
Monday, April 07, 2003
Future schoolchildren will look back on this war and laugh.
Priscilla said at 9:51 PM "Like millions of your fellow Americans, you enjoy ice cream but do NOT enjoy seeing your money funneled to wacko left-wing causes. We are not ashamed of America. We think it's the best country ever, and so we have set out to make the best ice cream ever!"
I want to believe this is a joke. Priscilla said at 12:52 AM O! SQUIRREL brother
Your tail, my hair. We are one. Yet I must eat you. For those of us that can't get enough mullet haiku. Priscilla said at 12:27 AM
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Thank you, Stephen Sondheim, for giving me such fabulous material to reference and parody. Edward D'Eath joins Assassins!
Priscilla said at 7:48 PM Mom: Time to wake up, Priscilla.
Me: wsflg? Mom: Remember, it's Spring Forward, Fall Back, so we lose an hour. Me: ::looks blearily at clock:: ::is suddenly very awake:: So it's almost 1 o'clock, then? Mom: Yes. Me: Doesn't my AP Physics practice exam start at 1? I'm sure you can guess how the morning went from there. Priscilla said at 6:49 PM Ah, Daylight Savings Time. Benjamin Franklin will pay dearly for inflicting this upon us.
Priscilla said at 12:40 AM
Saturday, April 05, 2003
Into the words
That trip your lip, and fry your brain And sprain your tongue Into the words So complicated grown-ups find it scary. Saw a student production of the first act of "Into the Woods". So much fun! I love that musical. Meanwhile: Yesterday: Uncomfortably warm. Today: Golf ball-sized hail. I can't wait to get out of this godforsaken Texas weather. ::launches self at PENN:: Priscilla said at 11:03 PM Copied straight from the Discworld Fanfiction egroup. But I'm sure VimesLady, who wrote the post, won't mind. Spreading the love!
The New Discworld Companion has just been released. I'm expecting my copy by the first of April. Those of you who have the original 'Discworld Companion' (and I pity the Discworld fanfic author who does not) are familiar with Stephen Briggs' fascinating and painstakingly detailed documentation of Discworld facts. The new version covers especially the books from 'Jingo' straight through 'Night Watch', and is a 544 page paperback with an awesome Paul Kidby cover. Stephen is the ultimate annotator of Discworld facts, and he works very closely with Terry in this regard. This means that Terry very often gives him background information which never quite made it into the novels, as well as occasional glimpses into future books. Stephen also mentioned at last year's convention that PTerry was actually writing some of the material himself, when Briggs found himself seriously short of meeting deadlines. I am sooo excited; I've been waiting for this book for years! The Wee Free Men is the next novel due out by Pratchett. This will be the second Discworld children's book, the first being 'The Amazing Maurice'. It features a 9-year-old who just may be a witch, and is described by Terry as "a classic fairy story but with the addition of the Nac Mac Feegle." Those are the little blue guys introduced in 'Carpe Jugularum'. I have seen several Proof copies of this book on eBay, but none, unfortunately, at a price I could afford to consider. The 279 page hardcover, complete with a Paul Kidby cover, is due to be released on May 1. The Art of Discworld is scheduled for release on October 16, 2003. Filled with colour illustrations by the amazing Paul Kidby, with text provided by Pratchett himself, the 112-page large-size hardback is being billed as a companion to 'The Last Hero'. Personally, however, I am envisioning a deluxe, much expanded version of 'The Pratchett Portfolio'. We are promised a compendium of Discworld characters including the City Watch, the Witches, and the Wizards (and Wizzard), as well as locations such as Lancre, Uberwald and, of course, Ankh-Morpork. I have always considered Kidby's work as canon, since PTerry previews everything he publishes. Besides, the man seems to have an ability to get into my head and put onto paper the images Terry has painted in my imagination. This is another book I have been hoping for for years. Monstrous Regiment, the next novel in the Discworld series, is scheduled for publication in November, 2003. Having heard Pratchett read a passage from his computer screen last September, I can tell you that it deals with a young woman, Polly, who disguises herself as a male in order to enlist as a soldier, hoping to locate her brother who has gone missing in the war. I'm guessing that this is the war between Borogravia and Mouldavia mentioned in 'Night Watch', but don't quote me on that. I do know that the protagonist finds herself in a regiment that includes a troll and a vampire. Although some characters from past books appear in minor roles, all the major characters are new. Excuse me while I explode in a fit of overjoyed squeeage. *bursts* Priscilla said at 7:02 PM Bwee! I'm in love with my negatives from the Spring Break trip. ::swoon::
Will scan the pictures I printed tonight tomorrow, when they're dry. Priscilla said at 12:46 AM
Friday, April 04, 2003
Priscilla said at 9:56 PM ::snorks:: I love my the girls in my art class. Mrs. McCullough announced that we were to hang our exhibition today, and Aschley reminded her that we needed advertisements, so we started to brainstorm for what we could say. We needed something clever. I suggested "Come see the exhibitionists!" as a joke, but everyone liked the idea, so it stuck. While I matted artwork, Aschley took Polaroids of Jayna from the back that made her look like she was flashing people, covering herself up with a Hockaday blazer. I took my umbrella out of my car, wrote "AP ART EXHIBITON" on it in masking tape, and Aschley took a Polaroid of me looking as though I only had the umbrella to cover myself up with. Then Jayna took a picture of Aschley, looking shocked. Over the weekend, Aschley is going to t00b about with a photocopier and blow up the images life-size. T'will be hilarious. I'll take pictures of the resulting posters and post them here. Muaha!
Priscilla said at 7:50 PM
Thursday, April 03, 2003
Whee! Got our 3rd quarter grades today! ::is quite merry:: All A's except for a B+ in English. Gravy, life is good. ::happy sigh::
Priscilla said at 7:45 PM
Wednesday, April 02, 2003
Well, I'm not fluent yet in CSS and I'm at an intermediate level in Java, but...
take the nerd test. Priscilla said at 11:52 PM Priscilla said at 11:37 PM I started to read Dune this evening, and at the mention of the Bene Gesserit "Littany Against Fear", I started wondering where it was I'd first heard it. I remembered a monotone voice full of comedic dread uttering "I must not fear, fear is the mindkiller, fear is that little death that brings total oblivion" very quickly, over and over. I wondered about where I'd heard it before last year, when we watched the Sci Fi Channel's 6-hour version in Sci-Fi Club, but I couldn't place it. For the sake of my continued sanity, I'm quite relieved to realize where I first heard it. Peter Puppy, from the WB show "Earthworm Jim". Wow, how many years ago did I watch that? It was part of my morning line up that consisted of Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Nickelodeon's "Real Monsters". And after a brief Google, I find that "Real Monsters" joined the Nicktoons in 1993, ten years ago. Good gravy, that's half my life!
I always find it so pleasantly surreal when I recall something from my childhood. For instance, when I was at Parsons, I dreamed large chunks of the movie "The Point", which I last saw when I was in 1st grade. I think it's part of being a senior that makes me want to revisit the things I loved when I was a wee kidlet, like the book "The Phantom Tollbooth", the first book I read aloud to my parents since the time I was first learning to read. I must have reread that book 15 times -- probably more. I wonder if the Lower School library has a copy. Meanwhile, I'll be trying to dredge up memories of Rainbow Brite. My sister would always insist on being ALL the "Color Kids", making me play the parts of Murky and Lurky. Maybe I'll rewatch some early Simpsons episodes and laugh at how many jokes I never understood. Maybe I'll rent "Mystery Mansion", the movie I rented almost every single time my family went to our old lakehouse thing. I'm slowly working through the Beatles movies, which I last saw in 2nd grade. But now it's your turn to help me. For Priscilla's Sanity, Name That Movie: Mt. Rushmore talking, with the heads moving back and forth. It acted as a sort of guiding figure. A warning: "Captain Smudge is following the fireworks." I think it involved a friendly sea creature, most likely "Serendipity" or something. Comment if you remember the movie I'm referring to. And now, if someone can only tell me what movie the line "Thank you for that ride down Amnesia Lane, gentlemen" is from, I would be a happy, happy person. Priscilla said at 11:20 PM These are the kinds of people I'll be hanging out with next year. Hurrah for DMD!
Watch the movie here. Priscilla said at 10:35 PM
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
The natives are getting restless. Here's the MoLM design, if you're so keen.
Priscilla said at 11:10 PM Breaking News:
April Fools was so much fun. All day, I wore around a plastic viking hat to add a bit of surrealism to everyone's day. Then I borrowed the short haired wig I wore in "The Pajama Game" to wear to MoLM rehearsals. Mrs. Felice has emphasized over and over that none of us are to cut out hair until after the show, so I hoped to give her a little scare. Every single cast member did either a double or triple-take when they saw me, horrified by my lack of hair. Even Mr. Oliver, the music director, was duped. I was quite disappointed when Mrs. Felice recognized that it was a wig right away. Ah well, it was fun. Afterwards, the wig got passed around backstage, where a bunch of the guys tried it on and all looked generally like idiots. One guy looked disturbingly like Austin Powers. Muah! Anyway, today we did the last 1/3 of the show, where I got to sing quite a bit. I got applause for "Aldonza"; go me. And my mom, who was taking a sneak peek in the audience, cried at "Dulcinea". Gravy, this show is going to rock. ::squeals:: Priscilla said at 9:42 PM Waaaaaaah, Blogger still not publishing.
Priscilla said at 8:15 AM Jolly good. Blogger is refusing to publish. Yippee skippy.
Priscilla said at 1:06 AM The Extreme Ironing Board ask "Who's Your Daddy?"
Priscilla said at 12:27 AM Har #1, Har #2, Har #3.
April Fools I think is one of my favourite days of the year. And this is not an April Fools day joke, but it's still hilarious. As is this. Hurrah for irony! Priscilla said at 12:02 AM Title cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, used without permission.
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