s'il suffisait d'aimer

Finally.

2009-10-03T05:37:49Z

Ed Bernero, producer on CBS' Criminal Minds, responds to the Roman Polanski apologists. Full text here.

Another popular justification seems to be, “The victim forgives him.” As a former police officer I can tell you unequivocally that the victim of a crime is often the person least capable of making that decision. They are frightened and humiliated. They just want it all to go away.

Twenty-years or so ago, the Domestic Violence laws were changed in most states requiring police officers to sign complaints instead of asking the abused spouse to do so. Why? Because a lot of them wouldn’t. They were so afraid or so used to the abuse, they didn’t think they could stop it. Jaycee Lee Dugard, the little girl kidnapped by Phillip Garrido, held and raped for eighteen years and forced to give birth to two children in a tent in a backyard (one when she was fourteen), APOLOGIZED to her family. After enduring half a lifetime of abuse, she is the one who feels guilty. Does that mean we let him go?

No. It is a just society’s DUTY to seek justice for them, ESPECIALLY when that victim is a child.

BABY GUBLER. And also FRANK IERO.

2009-09-23T07:31:17Z

Matthew Gray Gubler posted this amazingly adorable baby(...-ish) picture of himself to his Twitter. You guys, I don't even know.

EDIT: Right, so.

Watch for Frank during the breakdown. I'm sorry, are you playing the guitar on your head? Right, carry on then!

evil_authoress @ 2009-08-23T01:51:00

2009-08-23T08:53:44Z

Hineyni, for me, is the most powerful word in Genesis. Abraham says it to God. It means, "Here I am," but it is not a geographical answer. It is not an answer to "Where are you?" It is the response to the challenge to acknowledge the truth of the present moment; to recognize what needs to be done, and to be prepared to do it. Abraham says "Hineyni" three times in the most terrible of circumstances.

Mindfulness is also "Here I am, not hiding," and it is also an expression of freedom. Even when experience is painful, especially when it is dire, mindfulness is freedom from extra anguish, from the extra pain of futile struggle. "This is what is true. These are the possibilities. I understand the necessary response." And sometimes, "There are no possibilities other than surrender. So I surrender."

When I was a child and heard that some people were able to go to the gas chamber saying, "I believe with perfect faith..." I didn't know what perfect faith was, but I knew that I wanted it. If it were possible, in such unspeakable situations, for speech - declarative, affirmative, fearless speech - to find its voice, I wanted to know "How?" I wanted to be able to do it.

I try to pray as if my prayers make a difference, but I don't believe that prayer saves us from terrible things happening. Terrible things do happen. I do believe that fully mindful prayer, undistracted presence, establishes the capacity of the mind to see clearly, and, when necessary, to surrender gracefully. Hineyni.

Hineyni is also the imperative to be fully present in moments of special joy, as well as in every day moments of the amazing blessing of simply being alive. My father said grace at dinnertime, and sometimes, probably in an attempt to be modern and funny, he would say, "Well, here we are again, God."

That was it. The whole grace. Maybe that is the whole grace. Here we are. Here I am. Hineyni.

- Sylvia Boorstein, "That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist"

Holy damn.

2009-08-15T07:15:21Z

The following picture just reconfirms everything I still love about bandom.

I mean, seriously. Seriously.

ETA:

gerardway @LinzDawgPA Thats our wedding photo. We figured since it was so curiously featured in the UA Hardcover preview we might as well post it.
about 4 hours ago from web

I lol'd.

Here it is, ladies and jellyspoons.

2009-08-03T15:30:35Z

Well, today is the day. I'm taking off out of SFO in a couple of hours, to arrive in Japan ~IN THE FUTURE~ (tomorrow, in other words). Except I think it will still be today here? I have no idea how this shit works. At any rate, I will have internet (LJ, AIM, email, the whole thing), so don't think you've escaped me or anything. I'll have my phone, but only for emergencies. (saintawesome's usual spam of cat pictures will unfortunately be postponed.)

See y'all when I get there! Except...you know.

Time for a meme I got from futureperfect!

2009-07-12T08:30:43Z

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

Renne picked:

So I talk about them here.

Right, so, the end of Sailor Moon Stars anime is brutal. I don't really know if it's more brutal than the manga or not, given that my favorite character from that storyline is Sailor (Heavy? Are we still using Heavy?) Metal Papillon. And my favorite scene is Kakyuu's death. ...why did this turn into a paragraph about how I am weirdly morbid? ANYWAY. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ANIME. It's basically the closest thing to torture porn that you can, in good conscience, air on a Saturday morning. It doesn't come quite as close to the manga in the "rock falls, everybody dies" department, but that just gives us more time to beat the absolute shit out of the Starlights. I like my Starlights beaten shitless. ...I'm being told this is weird.

...ahahaha and now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Mister Rogers, okay. Mister Rogers is my childhood. I watched a lot of really classic TV as a kid - Sesame Street when it was still relatively Elmo-free, early Nicktoons - but I loved Mister Rogers most of all. He went to cool places and talked to cool people, and he was willing to try all sorts of things that white adult males might not necessarily want to be trying on television. He talked to kids, not at them. He wanted them to learn and build confidence, and he wrote all of those really endearing songs. If you need any more reason to love Mister Rogers, find the clip of him testifying to Congress about spending for public television on Youtube. Tell me you don't love him after that clip.

Gabe Saporta wishes he had boobies. That is my best guess as to what's going on here. Somewhere in my mind, I have an AU about Gabriela Cobra, the fierce-ass drag queen, and her new friend Willow Beckett, a MTF-to-be. And if you think that's weird, you should talk to saintawesome sometime. So either it's that, or he raided Victoria's bunk, and this was taken five second before she clubbed him to death with her angry fists.

Mikeyway as a persecon from Chobits. Anyone who has ever been friends with lovesongwriter or known her for a period longer than five minutes will be completely surprised to learn that this is her fault. I believe she said something about his off switch being in his ass. ...maybe I said it. ...no, no, definitely Bethy. NEXT.

Queen Adam of the planet Fabulous, commanding his army of gay dronebots, has come to assimilate us into fierceness. I, for one, welcome our new overlord (overlady?) and hir Bob Mackie shoulderpads. By the way, if that sentence made sense to you? Well then hi, there, Em.

And now for something completely different.

2009-07-03T08:47:54Z

Yessssssssssss.

Two bits. Well, one bit, really.

2009-06-03T09:03:24Z

[01:55] evil_authoress: Christ, how do these people take themselves seriously as RPers?
[01:55] evil_authoress: Do they not hear the laments of the English language as they rape it?
[01:56] saintawesome: they enjoy it's cries
[01:56] evil_authoress: lol I'm going to pretend I didn't notice your galling error right there.
[01:57] saintawesome: oh god i hate myself
[01:57] saintawesome: its
[01:57] saintawesome: ITS
[01:57] saintawesome: its
[01:57] evil_authoress: *laughs forever at you*
[01:57] saintawesome: I am forever shamed
[01:58] saintawesome: *kills self*
[01:58] evil_authoress: At least your at peace now.
[01:58] evil_authoress: /see what I did there?
[01:58] saintawesome: ARGH
[01:58] saintawesome: YOU'RE
[01:58] evil_authoress: I mock you and make you angry at the same time!
[01:59] evil_authoress: It's like a Reeses of cruelty.
[01:59] saintawesome: reeses?
[01:59] saintawesome: peanut butter cup?
[01:59] evil_authoress: Yes. Two great tastes, go great together, you know.

This post is basically just for saintawesome

2009-05-22T16:44:41Z

Since I haven't done anything noteworthy since my last final, here, have something adorable.

The only thing I have to say about the AI finale is...

2009-05-21T02:56:15Z

Are you this fabulous?

2009-05-20T05:21:05Z

In other words, I love Glee and I don't care who knows it.

And now for something completely different.

2009-05-19T23:32:14Z

• Few things are funnier than a two year old with a very limited vocabulary attempting to talk back to her dad. You had to be there.

• This might be one of those things:

Hee hee, baby!Jacksper!

Timberlake on SNL: Immigrant's Tale

2009-05-11T19:11:11Z

I lol'd.

The Princess and the Frog leaked trailer

2009-05-10T07:20:07Z

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm excited!

This is a thing made of stuff.

2009-04-26T08:03:26Z

Okay, saintawesome, you officially owe me some goddamn fic now.

god is dead (long live amanda)
An Adam/Amanda Jackson Video
Criminal Minds, s4ep20: Conflicted
Music: God is Dead/Whole New World - Midtown
made in Adobe Premiere Elements 7

Need a brief distraction from the rise of Protestantism in late nineteenth century Korea, so...

2009-04-19T22:51:20Z

...character meme!

Bethy gave me Bob Bryar.

(01) Do you like this character?

I always, always love Bob Bryar. With his stupid catching on fire, gettting gangrene, guacamole-leg-ness, and his buddy film friendship with Gerard, and his lumberjack beard, and his mad drum skills!

(02) What name/s do you call this character?
Bob. Occasionally, ROBERT CORY BRYAR when I am completely endeared with something he just did. Or when I found out that Cory was his middle name.

(03) What image/colour do you associate with this character?
Blue. Like his crazy intense Aryan eyes! Are you secretly a Norse god, Bob? I think you are.

04) What image-song do you associate with this character?
Anything by Rise Against would be good, I think. Earnest and aggro! He has a Serious Message but he'd also just like to punch you in the face!

(05)What blood-type do you think this character is?
I think type B. Using my Google-fu:

Type B
People with blood type B are the most practical of the blood groups. They are specialists in what they do. When they start a project, they spend extra time understanding and trying to follow directions than others might. When they are doing something, all of their attention is focused on it. They tend to stick to a goal and follow it through to the end, even if it seems impossible. They tend to be less than cooperative, as they like to follow their own rules and their own ideas. They are individualists. B type people pay attention to their thoughts a little more than their feelings, and therefore can sometimes seem cold and serious.

See: Bob's >| face, which alternates with his :)! face. Also, Mr. "Gotta Finish The Take! Oh What, My Leg's On Fire? GOTTA FINISH THE TAKE!!!!"

(06) Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?

I'm of many minds about this! On the one hand, Gerard, because not only is there Bob Bryar's Solo Project to consider, but their adventures in buying cars and being endearingly domestic. Then there's Patrick, who, it has been canonically noted, roomed with Patrick during the TBP/IOH production days. Drummers In Love! Or something. Then there's Ray, who (despite the efforts of Frank's neckbeard) is really the only other bastion of testosterone going on in that band. Surely there's a lot of Manly Bonding to be had there. And of course there's ~~The Angriest Jew~~ Brian Schechter, who has a long history with Bob from his The Used days. All of these are excellent options to me!

(07) What would you want to say to this character?
Please don't get anymore life-threatening infections. Can I have a drum lesson?

(08) What do you want to do with this character:
Have him show me the drum part to WTTBP, or House of Wolves. Then probably attempt an elaborate prank on Frank.

(09) Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character.
Comment and I'll give you one!

evil_authoress @ 2009-04-08T01:02:00

2009-04-08T08:05:15Z

I can't see how this could possibly go afowl. ...Yes, yes, sorry, I'll see myself out.

2009-04-07T06:32:38Z

Obama Fried Madness in New York

Thought Obama Chicken Fingers were hard to stomach?

Then you'll absolutely choke on the latest shameless attempt to capitalize on the name of America's first black president: Obama Fried Chicken joints.

This time we can't blame it on clueless Germans or Russians, or even right-wing zealots who can't get over the results of election 2008. No, this trend is made in New York City by merchants who are, in all likelihood, just trying to ride the wave of Obama's popularity to riches.

America: land of the free, home of the incorrigible.

Writer's Block: In a Jam

2009-04-03T05:38:33Z

If you were in trouble or ran afoul of the law, which fictional detective or investigator—from tv, movies, or books—would you want to help you?

View 500 Answers

/obscure?

You want to talk subversive and edgy, Katy Perry? Yeah, this is how you do it.

2009-03-30T01:30:28Z

Israel's top openly gay pop star Ivri Lider covers Katy Perry. Even if you hate this song with the passion of a thousand burning suns, you'll like this version. Trust me.

More art.

2009-03-27T06:41:52Z

I've been working on a character mock-up for awhile. Here is the result. It is NSFW by default, because it took me three hours to draw that penis correctly, thank you very much. His tattoos are "Hell or Glory" over the chest, and the kanji for hurt (傷) and comfort (慰) on his hipbones. I'm still not sure what his scar is about. edit: Forgot to mention that this was drawn entirely in Photoshop CS3; Flash is used only for the interface.

Now I want some opinions. Since the last few things I've posted haven't exactly been comment boffo around here, what would you be interested in seeing?

View Poll: Things To Draw

Art post!

2009-03-24T06:00:17Z

Click the thumbnails to view larger.

city of wonder
ryan ross (panic at the disco)
drawn and colored in photoshop cs3

...in the afternoon (v2)
ryan ross (panic at the disco)
drawn and colored in photoshop cs3

A good day.

2009-03-13T08:35:25Z

Banana cake, made and decorated by my mom, with an undersea Playmobil playset. (Picture taken with my Blackberry Storm. Unf.)

A mighty fine birthday was had by me today.

My first art post at age 22!

2009-03-12T09:35:26Z

show the world the thunder
duo maxwell (gundam wing)
drawn and colored in Photoshop CS3
NSFW!

If Martin and Lewis hadn't been funny, they'd sound something like this.

2009-03-12T06:51:27Z

[23:45] evil_authoress: Man, I'm 22 in 15 minutes!
[23:45] saintawesome: You're almost old!
[23:45] evil_authoress: Almost!
[23:45] evil_authoress: But you'll always be older.
[23:45] saintawesome: ENJOY YOUR LAST 15 MINUTES OF BEING YOUNG
[23:46] evil_authoress: It's a wonder you can remember yours!
[23:46] evil_authoress: Did you ever get your AARP card?
[23:46] saintawesome: It's lost in the mail