It is Monday.

[tealin]

Today's favourite line from the BBC (or rather, the person being interviewed):

"The UN doesn't have a history of this sort of hanky-panky..."

Ah, visual imagination.

July 16th, part ... er, lost count.
Torrey Pines - My favourite beach (most of the time) when we used to live in San Diego. It's a state park, I think, and it preserves what the coastline used to look like before it was covered in cookie-cutter stucco houses and overpriced boutiques ... which is actually quite lovely.
Kelp on the Beach - So pretty. There were sand crabs. I've never seen them anywhere else. I'm going to play with the clone stamp and see if I can remove that skim boarder on the edge...
Into the Sunset - Well, not really, more generally northwards, through the avocado (on the hillsides) and citrus (on the lowlands) plantations of the interior region, to visit some friends for the night.

And then, today...

This ... well.
I was trying to draw 'Aw Crap' Enjolras but I'm really really bad at square-jawed, dashing, charismatic rock-star types, so I tried a straight-on view. It ... didn't really work. But thanks to the accompaniment of my colleague and Brand New Roommate, I managed to make it all worthwhile. Even more worthwhile than it would have been.
He became Kane McCain, mascot of the McCain baking company (who secretly binges ... see lower right). The incredibly BAD drawing of my other roommate (she does not look that freaky) got incorporated as well, as did my example of M-hair, who became ... I dunno, Combeferre? Anyway, yes, I'm sure our paralyzing giggles were the entertainment of many people on the bus. Hah, we were having a better time than they were. And now I must study Makani's marvelous artwork to see how chins are done right. And noses.

Comments

[ari-enchanted.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I just watched Nicholas Nickleby, and I thought, "Gee, Smike's going to die because Lee Ingleby's characters always die!" And then...Smike died.

Stan can't die. He's...Stan! What would Harry Potter be without Stan?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Honesty compels me to say:

Almost exactly the same.

[ari-enchanted.livejournal.com]

True. We can only hope that Stan's potential (and ultitmately eventual) death causes Harry to wake up and stop acting like an idiot.

I honestly believe Dumbledore had to die simply because Harry needs to learn to think for himself.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, that's part of the whole Hero's Journey archetype. Dumbledore HAD to die at some point, and just before the climax of the series makes the most archetypal sense.

By the way, Lee Ingleby's survival rate in films I've seen is now up to 50% ... he doesn't die in the Cadfael episode Pilgrim of Hate and I'm pretty sure he didn't die in Ever After. It seemed too light-hearted a movie for anything like that. (What an odd thing to keep track of...)

[ari-enchanted.livejournal.com]

Yes, we all knew he'd die at some point. I wish I could feel bad about it, but he was that typical wizard-advisor-"I'll tell you what you need to know but I'll make it as convoluded as possible."-guy, and I hate to say it, but he was just irritating. Ah, well.

No, he doesn't die in Ever After. He does get beaten up though. Poor Lee Ingleby.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hence the 'kick me' sign. Maybe I should adjust it to 48%?