seperis | Jul. 19th, 2011

Jul. 19th, 2011

Today is Tuesday, or Friday Minus Four, because it just makes me happier to say that.

Honestly, I feel cranky that I wasn't obsessively following the Murdoch thing more closely, but to be fair, it's not like the chances of it being hushed up were like, not VERY VERY HIGH. Yet here we are.

Rebeckah Brooks Arrested

Sean Hoare, Whistleblower on Phone Hacker Case, Dies; Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of MPA, Resigns; Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the MPA Resigns His Chair, hey, so wait, MPA is Scotland Yard?

Dow Jones CEO Les Hinto Resigns (Apparently he was chairman of News, Inc during the Hacking Thing)

Andy Coulson, Former Editor of News of the World and former PM spokesman, arrested

Former PM Gordon Brown Victim of News, Inc Hacking, Surprisingly Not News of The World, But The Sunday Times - this was kinda sick altogether. Read down about his son.

Murdoch Withdraws Bid for BSB

I started a Venn diagram of all the players and then realized they hit the CEO--oops, wait, make that former CEO!--of Dow Jones. Yes. At which time I realized I needed a bigger piece of paper and access to four dimensional graphing equipment.

And the FBI is looking into Murdoch and 9/11, I hear? Imagine that. Shocked, yo.

From

cereta,

batdina, and

wickedwords:

sherrold has passed on. The world is infinitely less with her passing.

To those who loved her, my thoughts are with you.

Murdoch Attached With Plate of Shaving Foam at Parliament (No, This Is Not From the Onion) (Guardian)

More: LA Times

suzvoy apparently saw it live. This is a day in history. I am at work and so video is denied me. Dammit.

Second:

roguesgalley is looking for a summary piece on the Murdoch situation to start with; does anyone have a good link to something along those lines?

Links, Summaries, More Information, Etc

califmole: Phone Hacking: What's It All About? (CNN)

teneagles: Interactive Timeline (Guardian) - Awesome.

jujuberry136: Who's Who Interactive (With Relationship Mapping!) (Guardian) - has corruption ever looked so technologically disturbing in breadth and influence? With neat lines between the players!

jujuberry136: Jon Stewart Tackles the News of the World Scandal

legionseagle: has posts here, here, and here with more Murdoch information. Thank you for posting those!

Dear Weather,

I have heard the legends of water that falls from the sky. Except the legends never referred to it as buckets.

Please continue. Dear God, keep it up.

Love,
Seperis (hoping for a very wet night)

I need X-Men vid recs. Please?

I offer a snippet of two telepaths playing very complicated games in return

(This story will never. Ever. End. Thirty thousand words of The Adventures of Charles and Emma Learning Telepathy Things And Having Ethical Debates and no end in sight. No beginning in sight. My life. Argh. I need inspiration.)

( xmenfic: within your skin )

ETA: The second section was cut off somehow, added back in.

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If you don't send me feedback, I will sob uncontrollably for hours on end, until finally, in a fit of depression, I slash my wrists and bleed out on the bathroom floor. My death will be on your heads. Murderers
. -- Unknown, on feedback
BTS List
That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ
Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ
Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003
I could rape a goat and it will DIE PRETTIER than they write.
-- anonymous, on terrible writing
AIM, 2/17/2004
In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
-- silverkyst, on wtf
AIM, 3/25/2004
Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004
silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005
You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005
Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005
It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006
Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006
Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
LJ, 9/1/2007
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Fan Fiction is John Cusack standing outside your house with a boombox.
-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
Twitter
I will unashamedly and unapologetically celebrate the joy and the warmth and the creativity of a community of people sharing something positive and beautiful and connective and if you don’t like it you are most welcome to very fuck off.
-- Michael Sheen, on Good Omens fanfic
Twitter, 6/19/2019
Adding for Mastodon.
-- Jenn, traceback
Fosstodon, 11/6/2022

Jul. 19th, 2011

britannica dramatica (with added dow jones!)

in mourning

murdoch lives an onion article on international television

raindrops on roses, sort of

xmenfic: within your skin (charles, emma, alex)

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