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Rogue
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Posted on 12-30-17 06:17 PM, in Last Movie You Saw? Thoughts? Link
As terrible as it's probably going to be, I'm still going to see it, since JP is one of my fandoms. The first movie was magical and I saw it several times in the theater as a little kid. Every installment has been pretty shabby since, but I've seen every single one of them in the theater and I can't stop now.

"Jurassic World" was not great. It had its moments, but there was a lot of shit to sit through in the interim. I wouldn't have trusted that director with this.
Rogue
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Posted on 01-04-18 10:08 AM, in "Your 2017" Meme Link
I like filling this thing out every year, although all this did was remind me of my crippling anxiety (which has been flaring up most egregiously lately.)

Blank copy to follow for anyone interested in copy/pasting and answering it too.


What have you done in 2017 that you have never done before?
- To name a few things: explored a city in Canada, saw John Williams conduct at the Hollywood Bowl, went partying with my boss, attended Dickens Fair in San Francisco, went to see the superbloom in the desert, experienced 120+ degree heat in Arizona, attended a furry convention, grew pumpkins and amaranth, cosplayed as Rogue at work, naked hot-tubbing, read the entirety of a Harry Potter book aloud and soon after finally went through the Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios, saw loads of Shakespeare plays I hadn't seen before on stage.


Did you keep your new years resolution from this year, and will you make one for next year?
- It's been to try/learn something new every day and so far I've been living up to that.


Did anyone close to you give birth?
- Let's see. My co-worker, Cindy, had Max in January, the day before my birthday. Brandon's cousin had her daughter, Frederica, in February or March. Friend's girlfriend had Violet around the same time. Then, of course, Liz had Kisa. Now Maricela is pregnant with Diego and Nakey Heather with Sadie.



Kisa

Annnnnnd Liz just announced she's pregnant again.


Did anyone close to you die?
- Whimsic Alley, 100.3 The Sound, and definitely not the least of the bunch: Marty and Becky's cat, Skeletor.


Did anyone close to you get married?
- I think Russell's wedding was this year? Maybe it was last. I dunno. We're not that close these days.


Did anyone close to you get divorced?
- I don't think so?


Where did you travel to in 2017?
- Canada and Washington once, Arizona a couple times, the rest was just around California (Sacramento, Solvang, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, etc.)


Washington, getting coffee at the Starbucks roastery and eating giant pho in Seattle


What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?
- What I wrote last year: "I feel like 2016 was FAR MORE stressing and had much, much less peace of mind. Shit, man. 2017 could use a lot more just learning to let shit go and relax."

I feel like I'm never going to take my own advice here. Christ what a year of anxiety attacks 2017 has been. And I've still got a wedding to plan. Fuck.

I'd rather not keep the cycle going of wishing for peace and ending up losing my shit more than the previous year. I just want 2018 to have its moments of bliss. And travel, I guess.


What dates from 2017 will you have etched in your memory, and why?
- Our anniversary, but I'll be covering that in answer to a later question.

The top answer would be the day my cousin, Mom, Brandon, and I went to Dickens Fair for the first time and then Trader Vic's after. Pretty much all the days spent visiting my cousin and her family were very recharging.



And the day Brandon and I took Lee out to Oak Glen and then we did two Oktoberfests in the evening.



We also had some crazy full weekends. Like the one where we went out for my boss' birthday on a Friday night. It got INSANE and no one left sober. The next day was the Ops picnic, and then the next day our British house guest took Brandon and me out to Universal Studios. The day after that, I went to work and then at night it was the big Beer Dinner at BJ's with friends.



And the weekend we spent with Liz and Erik as his parents place in Yucca Valley. We drove around Joshua Tree, naked hot-tubbed against the rock face of a mountain under clear, starry skies (Erik's parents insist clothes have residue that gets in there and ruins it. It was just Brandon and me.) We also went out to Oak Glen with their baby.



And of course the day we saw John Williams conduct.



Hang on, a new contender has entered the ring. The day my co-workers got me a Kylo Ren/Ben Solo shirt as a surprise at work. They were also wearing Star Wars shirts and wanted me to wear mine so we'd all match. It was really freaking sweet.




What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- We're about halfway(?) through the wedding plans. So far we've got the venue and a caterer (who's also acting as coordinator), booked the band and hair/make-up person, procured most of Brandon's clothes, paid for my dress (which is getting made), and we sat down with the caterer/coordinator to discuss timelines, rentals, and such.


What was your biggest failure?
- Letting work drama get the better of me.


Did you suffer injury or illness?
- Went to urgent care a couple times. Once over a false alarm, the other because of abdominal pain. No diagnosis other than probably stomach flu.


What was the best thing you bought?
- All the stuff for when I went all out on theme days. Hawaiian Day was my specialty. I bought so much shit and everyone loved getting a silk lei. I also bought a buttload of eclipse glasses for clients and staff.




I suppose I should say stuff for the wedding, particularly the clothes, but the dress hasn't been made yet, so... yeah.

Oh. OH! Yes, the best things were my new camping chairs and my big, beautiful, rolling cooler. All for Shakespeare season, but I've used them for several picnics since.


Whose behavior merited celebration?
- It's a very tough call this year, so I'll go with the easy answer of Brandon since he's put up with so much of my anxiety and depression. My mom is also up there. When I had really bad abdominal pain one night in August, Bran and my mom took turns sitting up with me through the whole night.


Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
- Pretty much every other person I work with at the center. There's been so much drama over nothing. Women who have freaking grandchildren are acting like teenagers and doing absurdly immature things. Even the people I consider friends have flaked on things we plan to do together outside of work.

But seriously, fuck whoever stole my last goddamn pumpkin from the community garden.


Where did most of your money go?
- A combination of Trader Joe's, Amazon, and Torrid. After that, all the wedding stuff that we've had to drop gobs of money on. The dress is just under $1,000 and being made.


What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- Reylo, first and foremost. I was already pretty heavily Reylo, but "The Last Jedi" had re-awakened it and I ended up joining a friend's secret community where we just talk excitedly and post Reylo fan art and memes. You should have seen me jumping around like crazy when we saw the costumes at the El Capitan before our third screening because Rey and Kylo were together in the same case. The next night, we hung out with Pat and Deborah for the first time in years and all talk was almost exclusively about Reylo.



After that I also got super excited about going to Dickens Fair in San Francisco, seeing John Williams conduct, going on a short trip to Canada, going up to the mountains for cider, a Scotish bridie, and fall foliage, and not the least my favorite things -- Shakespeare season.


What song will always remind you of 2017?
- The soundtrack to "Coco," definitely. And of course, the songs that got featured in "Baby Driver." And now, "You'll Be Back" from "Hamilton" because it just keeps reminding me of Reylo and laughing my ass off when I sing it.


Compared to this time last year, you are:
a) Happier or Sadder?
- About the same?
b) Thinner or Fatter?
- Fatter.
c) Richer or Poorer?
- Poorer.


What do you wish you would have done more of?
- The easy answer is, "Traveled." I should have exercised and read more books, though.


What do you wish you would have done less of?
- I feel like this question just keeps getting repeated throughout this meme in one form or another. The answer is, "Had anxiety attacks."


How did you spend New Year's Eve? (December 31, 2016)
- A few co-workers and I went to Grand Park and watched the countdown at City Hall. Afterward we went to a random Mexican restaurant to get something to eat since Norma was starving and kept saying she wanted tacos.




How did you spend New Year's Day? (January 1)
- Went to the Autry and then got lobster ramen at the Americana.




How did you spend Valentine's Day? (February 14)
- Brandon drove me to work, and when we got nearly there I went ahead and called out sick. We went and got breakfast, ran a few errands, and I went ahead and started donating to NPR. The gift they offered for my donation level was giving 40 meals for families in need.


How did you spend St. Patrick's Day? (March 17)
- We went on an impromptu crawl of the breweries near my work. Our friend, Derin, saw my FB updates and showed up to hang out. We got sushi.




How did you spend Easter? (April 16)
- I apparently spent it napping and getting ready for Brandon's and my anniversary trip.


How did you spend Cinco de Mayo? (May 5)
- May 5th was pretty boring for us. We just tended our community garden, making sure my pumpkins were doing well, and then ate tamales.

Really it fell exactly between two more interesting days.

May the 4th, we worked on our Star Wars-themed bulletin board and Bran and I went to see "Guardians of the Galaxy 2."

May 6th was Free Comic Book Day, one of my favorite holidays and so we did our usual comic shop crawl and our friends' band played at shop in Ventura.




How did you spend Mother's Day? (May 14)
- We took Mom out to breakfast at the Crab Pot and then Brandon, Lee, and I went to the Renaissance faire for the second day in a row. I went over fabric swatches for my wedding dress.




How did you spend Father's Day? (June 18)
- We went to Old Spaghetti Factory in Balboa with my grandpa, Uncle Tony and his family, my parents, and Brandon. Afterward, Brandon and I drove along the coast down to Laguna.


How did you spend the 4th of July?
- We had been in Phoenix for Brandon's grandmother's birthday. It was 122 degrees that day, and Sara's daughter was hanging out in a kiddie pool out back. We were heading home by way of San Diego so Brandon could buy an Apple desktop computer off a friend of ours. We were able to see the Big Bay Boom fireworks display.




How did you spend Patriot Day? (September 11)
- The clients and I went for a walk around Terranea.


How did you spend Talk Like a Pirate Day? (September 19)?
- I brought a bunch of pirate party stuff to work for the clients and came dressed up. The clients and I went on an all-day trip to the Natural History Museum and California Science Center. It was Mom's 71st birthday, so we went to dinner.




How did you spend Halloween? (October 31)
- I went to work dressed up as one of the Rockford Peaches (the women's baseball team featured in "A League of Their Own"), and then we had a party in the back. We apparently can't legally call it a Halloween party and have been forced to call it a "Harvest party." After work I went by the Torrance Bakery and got some horror-themed cakes and into an old co-worker/friend while getting coffee.

At night we went by the Georgia Peach, the greatest house in Paramount, and almost always the best decorated house in the area. The family goes all out decorating it. We brought them a six-pack and hung out with them, and then we got to walk through the house for the first time.

I'll include Dia de los Muertos in there since it's my favorite holidays, and it's only a couple days later. On Nov. 2, we went to Olvera Street for the celebrations. We went by Grand Park, briefly, to see the altars there. Came back a couple days later to take pictures.




How did you spend Thanksgiving? (November 23)
- My parents, Brandon, and I were in Sacramento with my cousin and her family.




Did you go shopping on Black Friday?
- Not really. I spent Black Friday wandering around Old Sacramento with Brandon and we did walk around in the shops, but it's not like they were selling discounted electronics at the break of dawn. We went to the local tiki bar and then my cousin threw a Tim Tam Slam party for her daughter and her daughter's friends.




How did you spend Christmas? (December 25)
- Christmas Day we just hung out at home, picked up my grandpa from his retirement community in Huntington Beach, had dinner with him, my uncle, three of his kids, and my parents. We had some nice conversation, but the whole thing was over and done pretty quickly. Christmas Day was flanked by us watching "The Last Jedi" on Christmas Eve and Dec. 26. Dec. 23 we saw a production of "A Christmas Carol" and had flaming punch afterward.


Did you fall in love in 2017?
- Brandon and I hit 13 years together. For our anniversary, we flew up to Washington and spent a bit of time with his sister and her kids. The day of our anniversary we drove up to Canada and spent the day in Vancouver. We had a heaping breakfast of smoked meat with maple syrup, walked on the suspension bridge with the view of the waterfall, took a mini hike in a moss-covered forest, was hailed on, saw the steam clock in Gastown, had a little picnic at the Granville Public Market, and finally saw and tried what Tim Bits were.




What was your favorite TV show?
- Apparently for the past couple years I've said "Game of Thrones" and "Rick and Morty," and that's mostly true for yet another year. It was also a great year for "Bojack Horseman," which I've re-watched all the way through a couple times this year. We also got really into "Community," which I'd never really watched before despite it being on for years and canceled twice. The first few seasons are gold. After that we also were obsessively watching "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," which we're also following as it's airing now. Watched "American Gods" and all of TNT's anachronistic Shakespeare show, "Will." There were several other shows we watched, but none I'd really count here.


What was your least favorite show of 2017?
- Based on what we watched it's "Runaways." I LOVED the comics, reading them as they were getting published (up until Joss Whedon's run, then I read them in graphic novel form later.) The show's taking fucking forever to actually get to the main story, but they'd rather waste so much time on all this original bullshit backstory for the parents that doesn't AT ALL match up with the books (the evil sorcerer parents were GIVEN the Staff of One and it works electronically? WHAT?) There's one episode left to go in the season, and I still think it's irredeemable.


Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
- Well, there's A LOT of public and political figures I could answer this with, not to mention several co-workers. Egads.


What was the best book you read?
- The quick answer is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," which I read aloud in its entirety to my clients. I also read "Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good" and "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors," and I definitely recommend both. As for graphic novels, I read the very last "Chew" and was pretty depressed about it.

Brandon and I read Asa Akira's autobiography "Insatiable. Porn: A Love Story" aloud to each other, trading off chapters. It proved to be an amusing couple's activity.


What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Brandon and I finally got premium Spotify accounts, and I have so freaking many playlists for all the theme days and holidays we had at work. I've been obsessively listening to music from Edgar Wright films, particularly by The Fratellis. My favorite song this year, though was this arrangement these kids did of the song from "Twelfth Night":

View on YouTube


What did you want and get?
- A new hat for my faire garb, new seasons of "Rick and Morty" and "Game of Thrones," a trip for our anniversary, to see family for Thanksgiving.


What did you want and not get?
- Well, I'd say a new job, but I'd already decided to put that off until next year. My parents and I had an overseas trip planned that we dropped because wedding expenses.


What was your favorite film of this year?
- OK... this is going to be controversial. Based on the fact that I saw it four times before the year's end, "The Last Jedi" was one of my favorite. "Coco" was arguably a better film, and I did see that one twice. "Logan" and "Wonder Woman" were also pretty fucking awesome.


What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
- I turned 32. At midnight the night before we went to see my friends' new Rocky cast. During the day of my birthday we went to Solvang, stopping at our favorite old tavern in Santa Barbara for tri-tip sandwiches along the way. Went to three tiki bars (the wine-based cocktail one in Solvang -- High Roller Tiki Lounge -- and then Ventiki in Ventura, and finally Damon's in L.A. with my parents for dinner) and got three new mugs.

The next day we drove out to Palm Springs, originally with the intent of going on the tram up to the snow, but that was backed-up for hours. We ended up at Tonga Hut where we met a couple and talked tiki for a long time. Found them later on Facebook since they were also hugely into the tiki forums. We drove out to East Jesus, Slab City, and Salvation Mountain, essentially year-round Burning Man where people swear it's the last free and lawless city. Brandon and I were watching five hipsters crammed onto one motorcycle and try to ride past us. The art is definitely interesting.

The day after that we went to the Huntington with a friend who was on her way, moving to Boston.




What is one thing that would have made your year more satisfying?
- This is ostensibly the same question that appears throughout this meme. The answer would of course be the same a previous ones: little to no anxiety attacks.


How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2017?
- The short answer is: Torrid. I've been wearing head-to-toe Torrid clothes and boots.

Since I tended to buy whatever jeans were on sale, I got a few pre-torn, form-fitting ones. I often got photographed wearing a blue dress with skulls and paisley, my floor-length black dress, or my blue/gray plaid flannel shirt. More recently I started wearing my Ravenclaw cardigan a lot more.

I bought my first pair of Doc Martens while in Seattle since I only had my knee-high ones from Torrid, which I'd worn so much the sole was coming off. Sara held onto to the damaged boots for me and brought them to Arizona. I had them repaired by this father-daughter business in Long Beach.


What kept you sane?
- It's the same answer as last year: keeping something positive on the horizon. Brandon's also been my rock through everything.


What celebrity/Public figure did you fancy the most?
- "I'll admit a guilty pleasure here, though: 'Shipping Rey and Kylo Ren. Shhhh...."

I wrote that last year and teeheeeeheeeeee, it still applies. And to be clear, I have a crush on Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, NOT Adam Driver (though I do like the dude.) Outside of the Kylo look and costume, Adam just looks and speaks like a completely different person because well... ACTOR.


What political issue stirred you the most?
- H'oh boy. Part of trying to keep sane this year was turning off NPR (which I ended up sponsoring two stations of and mass-donating to the arts and parks since so much of their funding has been cut.) One story that doesn't involve Trump, North Korea, the immense amount of harassment cases, or the gigantic wildfires we've got that really got me upset, though, was hearing that Iceland has such a low birthrate for Down's Syndrome because, after getting screening results, in almost 100% of cases the mother decides to abort. I'm so conflicted. I'm for a woman's right to choose, but at the same time I'm offended for people with Down's, some of the greatest people you can ever hope to meet.


What news story was the most overblown?
- For me, it was hearing that Chris Pratt and his wife separated. For weeks, my Facebook was crammed with people posting articles about them and commenting shit like, "I guess there's no such thing as true love," and "Love is a lie." Even months later there were still articles published trying to analyze the situation. I mean, I know I could easily reference any number of stories coming out of D.C., but Pratt's divorce was making too many waves among people I knew for it to be reasonable.


Who do you miss?
- Loads of people.


Did you reconnect with anyone?
- Hung out and talked with Pat and Deborah for the first time in years.


Tell us a life lesson you learned in 2017.
- "The best teacher failure is."


Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
- Every damn year I just re-quote "The Parting Glass." Still would fit since the song played at the end of "Assassin's Creed IV," which I played.

Hm. All right, I'll switch to another favorite song.

"Here's to good health
To a long happy life
To many more days
And warm, festive nights.
Here's to our women
And to songs that we sing.
But enough of that,
Just grab your lass
And have another drink!"



What plans do you have for 2018?
- A wedding.


What are your resolutions for 2018?
- Still doing my "One New Thing a Day." Pretty much just that.


What will you be doing for New Year's Eve?
- It already past. We were at Don the Beachcomber watching the band, The Hula Girls, which has two burlesque dancers in coconut bras dancing to their music on go-go platforms. Toasted the new year with a Painkiller.


Rogue
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Since: 08-17-04

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Posted on 01-04-18 10:14 AM, in "Your 2017" Meme Link


What have you done in 2017 that you have never done before?
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Did you keep your new years resolution from this year, and will you make one for next year?
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Did anyone close to you give birth?
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Did anyone close to you die?
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Did anyone close to you get married?
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Did anyone close to you get divorced?
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Where did you travel to in 2017?
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What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?
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What dates from 2017 will you have etched in your memory, and why?
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What was your biggest achievement of the year?
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What was your biggest failure?
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Did you suffer injury or illness?
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What was the best thing you bought?
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Whose behavior merited celebration?
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Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
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Where did most of your money go?
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What did you get really, really, really excited about?
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What song will always remind you of 2017?
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Compared to this time last year, you are:
a) Happier or Sadder?
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b) Thinner or Fatter?
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c) Richer or Poorer?
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What do you wish you would have done more of?
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What do you wish you would have done less of?
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How did you spend New Year's Eve? (December 31, 2016)
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How did you spend New Year's Day? (January 1)
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How did you spend Valentine's Day? (February 14)
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How did you spend St. Patrick's Day? (March 17)
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How did you spend Easter? (April 16)
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How did you spend Cinco de Mayo? (May 5)
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How did you spend Mother's Day? (May 14)
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How did you spend Father's Day? (June 18)
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How did you spend the 4th of July?
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How did you spend Patriot Day? (September 11)
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How did you spend Talk Like a Pirate Day? (September 19)?
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How did you spend Halloween? (October 31)
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How did you spend Thanksgiving? (November 23)
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Did you go shopping on Black Friday?
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How did you spend Christmas? (December 25)
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Did you fall in love in 2017?
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What was your favorite TV show?
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What was your least favorite show of 2017?
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Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
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What was the best book you read?
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What was your greatest musical discovery?
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What did you want and get?
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What did you want and not get?
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What was your favorite film of this year?
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What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
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What is one thing that would have made your year more satisfying?
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How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2017?
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What kept you sane?
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What celebrity/Public figure did you fancy the most?
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What political issue stirred you the most?
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What news story was the most overblown?
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Who do you miss?
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Did you reconnect with anyone?
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Tell us a life lesson you learned in 2017.
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Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
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What plans do you have for 2018?
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What are your resolutions for 2018?
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What will you be doing for New Year's Eve?
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Rogue
If you're reading this... You are the Resistance











Since: 08-17-04

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Posted on 01-07-18 09:54 AM, in New to the board? Introduce yourself here! Link
Welcome, Luchan!

Well... I'd show you around, but it's pretty straight forward. Wipe your feet. Dinner's at 6.
Rogue
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Posted on 01-07-18 12:16 PM, in Last Movie You Saw? Thoughts? Link
There was just as much divisiveness when Empire came out. People were shocked at how the optimistic ending they got with "Star Wars" would carry on to a film that ultimately bummed everyone out. Luke loses his hand? Han's frozen in carbonite? Darth Vader's Luke's father? WHAAAAAAT?!

And they were pretty much writing the original trilogy movie to movie. It's the Lucas way. TLJ was at least fleshed out around the same time TFA was shooting.

Getting deeper into this new generation (I'm currently reading the TFA novelization, which expands in various directions and is canon. I've read the script and have been watching/reading behind-the-scenes stuff), so many things that were in TLJ were ultimately presented within TFA and the extended universe books and Rian Johnson just carried them over. I mean, it's been neat seeing TFA with fresher eyes.

I can go over each of the points of contention, if we really want.

Let me start with one point, though: The First Order are NOT meant to be Nazis. They are neo-Nazis. Something far worse and easily findable within our universe. They're the impressionable youth who saw what one fucked up generation did and are going, "I could do that! Yes, I found my place!" These could be ANYBODY within your acquaintance.

Snoke says on Hux leaving and Kylo entering the scene, "You wonder why I keep a rabid cur in such a place of power? A cur's weakness, properly manipulated, can be a sharp tool." This is to say he's keeping both of them in their places of power -- as incompetent and ridiculous as they seem -- because he's ultimately just pulling their strings, making them dance while toying with their egos, and keeping confident that neither one will attempt to overthrow him. Hux and Kylo have a lot in common (both have killed their fathers, both are denied higher ranks by Snoke [Hux is technically Grand Marshall, but is still only a general, Kylo's constantly put down as a stupid kid apprentice, etc], and of course both of them want to rule the galaxy. Based on the end shots of Hux, he's MOST LIKELY going to stage a coup against Kylo, thus being the big villain in Episode IX.


Now the "running out of gas" storyline -- what's the problem? The Resistance was backed by the New Republic. Hux carried out a genocide on them in TFA, blowing away the New Republic. The First Order caught them in the middle of evacuation with dwindling resources and they probably figured so long as they made a jump to get away from the First Order, they'd be fine picking up fuel elsewhere. Hyperspace tracking is completely new tech, something that came up in "Rogue One," and now Hux is using it. So long as the Raddus stayed out of the Supremacy's destructive range, since its smaller and can move faster on thrusters, their shields kept them from getting taken out. It's stalling, sure, but they needed to form a plan, thus Holdo coming up with hiding on Crait.

Why didn't Holdo just tell Poe her plan to begin with? Because the plan was need-to-know and he was demoted for his brashness. He, Finn, and Rose conspired to "save" the Resistance with this longshot master cracker plan that everyone in the audience expected would work. They didn't inform Holdo of it. And then when Poe DOES find out Holdo's plan, what did he do? He threw a tantrum and then spread the confidential information to Finn and Rose, who were on speaker phone with DJ in the room, thus the info getting sold to the First Order and hundreds of Resistance members getting slaughtered when their shuttles are detected. Had Poe just accepted Holdo's command, they would have escaped to Crait without incident to hide out. Poe FINALLY learns that not everything can be solved by jumping in an X-wing and blowing things up, that retreat is a VALID strategy, and that potential losses should be considered. It's like how in a lot of superhero movies, the hero is just destroying the city, taking out buildings here and there (even if accidentally), probably killing thousands of people, to take out the one bad guy. And fuck yes on Holdo just turning around and taking out dozens of Star Destroyers and the Supremacy.

I've seen a lot of complaints about how the bombs got dropped from Paige's ship. All right. Star Wars vessels have plasma windows that are usually ever present. It's why Star Destroyers have those gaping hangars that look like they just open into vacuous space with TIE fighters flying in and out while troopers are just standing in formation next to parked ships. There's an invisible barrier. That's MY assumption when it came to the bomber. Why did the bombs just continue to drop in zero gravity? Because the ships are outfitted with gravity generation, hence why no one just floats around inside them. Once the bombs are released within that false gravity and enter into space inertia takes over and they continue in a straight line with no friction to slow, stop, or redirect them. This is just the way physics works within their universe, and yes, it's more fantasy and fairy tale than science.

Originally posted by Xeoman
I still absolutely hate Kylo Ren (and Adam Driver I guess). He comes off as a complete bitch and is just annoying. Now that this guy is the final boss and all the other interesting characters are killed off, it's becoming increasingly harder to care at all.

Sort of the point. Kylo Ren's an insecure kid in a mask. He tries to be punk, but Rey exposes that insecurity while he's interrogating her in TFA. "You ... you're afraid that you will never be as strong as Darth Vader." He's been living in the shadow of this iconic villain ever since Snoke took him. He destroys the mask and thus you never hear the Imperial March sound cues again thereafter.

And getting to his backstory: Mom and Dad abandoned him to their respective lives -- Leia to politics and Han to smuggling and roguing around with Chewie. He especially nope'd the fuck out of there when his son started showing force sensitivity. So young Ben Solo, having no real parental influence in his life gets dumped on Uncle Luke to be his padawan. Luke then goes through the internal struggle of whether or not to kill him (following along the "Would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a child, if given the chance?" hypothetical.)

The one place he felt he could turn was an inexplicable, all-powerful being who Stockholm'd him and offered to teach him how to be a badass motherfucker too. During that time, he didn't learn how to properly speak to women, how to express love or compassion, or how to achieve his goals without resorting to violence. The universe failed him, just as it failed Rey, another abandoned soul (what gives gravitas to him saying to her, "You're not alone" and her, "You're not either.") He has a warped sense of right and wrong, which follows with how Adam Driver says he plays Kylo. As he put it, Kylo doesn't see himself as evil, just that he believes he's doing what he considers is right by any means necessary. You then get into the debate of, "What is evil?" Everyone we deem evil just thinks they're doing what is right. This is how they justify genocide, murder, rape, etc. Take Hux wiping out the planets of the New Republic. It's to fit within Snoke's plan of "restoring order" and Hux was following orders.


As for Luke:


No character should be completely perfect (be it absolutely good or evil.)
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Posted on 01-08-18 11:24 PM, in Is your weather drunk? Link
We finally had a day of rain that lasted throughout. Not just 10 minutes and then blaring sunshine and annoying humidity.

Took long enough. Up to this point you wouldn't know it was winter. We've been having a lot of 80-degree days.

Problem with the rain is our car went into a skid a few times on our way to dropping me off for work.

It's been so long without rain that there's so much oil is coming to the surface and causing cars to spin out.
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Posted on 01-13-18 11:27 AM, in New to the board? Introduce yourself here! Link
Sometimes dinner's ready at 6 on Monday, but no one comes to eat it 'til Thursday and another nibbling on it a week later.
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Posted on 01-18-18 10:21 AM, in Happy Birthday Rogue! Link
Aww, thanks, sweetie!


Post-Script.... Uh sorry, this got really long.


Well... I'd actually been going through depression for the better part of the week leading up to it. Our boss had declared "No more staff birthdays!" in December due to the fact that no one was contributing money to them and all the presents were coming out of his pocket. I kept getting sadder and sadder about the fact that my birthday was the first one that was going to go ignored.

I ended up requesting the Friday off and didn't tell anyone because I just didn't want to be there on the day when people might acknowledge it. What's more, they had planned to do Korean barbecue on the Thursday before and I pretty much took that to mean that they weren't going to do anything for me since NO ONE in this office finds motivation to go out two nights in a row.

I ended up voicing this sadness to a couple friends at work and one surprised me with a cake on the day of. (Our boss walked in late right after people sang for me and said things. Our case manager tried to get him to speak, and it was awkward since he pretty much just went to his desk and sat down while everyone stood there and looked at him. It hurts since I consider him a friend and had handed him an invite to my wedding a couple days before. I'd like to think it's just him "sticking to his guns" in front of the other staff)

Anyway... so I went to the kitchen to get utensils and plates for the cake. Of course some of the coworkers who don't like me or anyone had been hiding out in the kitchen and were dead silent and staring at me while I was getting the stuff. Honestly, I thought that shit was funny. I mean, they were bitches living up to their reputation for being bitches and I wasn't the only one who noticed it.

/pissy rant

I get back to the office with the stuff and my boss and his friends had already eaten the strawberries off the cake. I took a picture of the cake after the fact. While handing out pieces one coworker tried to reach around me and put icing on my cheek, but stuck her fingers in my mouth. So I'm licking off frosting without thinking about it.

A minute later the friend who got me the cake asks if he can have a corner piece. I cut him one and then cut the other (and last one) for myself (because fuck yeah corner pieces!) Just as I pick up mine to eat, my friend starts approaching me, going, "Hey, come here..." I back away. He walks faster. I then turned and RAN. Down the hallway, out through the entryway, onto the sidewalk, past the clients who were all lined up and ready to come into the center at 9, down the street, doubling back once I got to the church, coming back up the street, then INTO the street, where he finally caught me, getting the side of my neck and down my dress, which apparently my dress unbuttoned. Some time during the chase, he says, he gave up on the plate and grabbed the cake in his hand and started running harder. Through all of this, I was still holding the corner piece that I planned to eat. It immediately was all over Jose's head. His glasses flew off, he couldn't see, couldn't defend himself, CAKE EVERYWHERE.



Outside of that, another coworker friend had got me a pair of Cowboy Bebop pint glasses.

Went with them for Korean barbecue that night. My birthday wasn't mentioned the rest of the night.

Next day Bran and I went to Universal Studios, which was much more empty than we've become accustomed to since it was a weekday after the holidays. We drank spiked butterbeer while hanging around Hogsmeade. It made Forbidden Journey extra fun.

Next day, only thing to really report was that we went to a couple bars in Hollywood -- Scum & Villainy Cantina and Beetle House. S&V is Star Wars-themed, meant mostly to look like the Mos Eisley cantina. Beetle House is Tim Burton-themed.

The day of my birthday, we visited Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' grave (and Ronnie James Dio's and Liberace's, incidentally), rode the Griffith Park Merry Go Round, had bomb-ass breakfast tacos, saw "The Last Jedi" AGAIN (this time in IMAX at the Chinese Theater), had dinner with my parents in Seal Beach, and then went for tiki drinks at the Royal Hawaiian for the first time.

On MLK Day, didn't do much. Tuesday, though, we went out for cider and mead and watched "Shape of Water" at the Art Theatre.

Through all of this, people kept posting Kylo Ren fan art to my FB timeline.
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Posted on 01-18-18 08:48 PM, in "Your 2017" Meme Link
Originally posted by Elara
What are your resolutions for 2018?
-Less soda, smaller portions, be more active, get the fuck out of retail!

We should go hiking together or something when you guys are out here. Bran and I used to go all the time, but we've fallen back into being less active.
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Posted on 01-18-18 08:50 PM, in Is your weather drunk? Link
We've literally had less than a week's worth of days that would be considered "winter-like" for SoCal. While that might sound great for others, it's been HOT so many days and I'm worried we're in for another drought.
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Posted on 01-19-18 09:49 AM, in Waterfall Sunset Link
Thanks, sweetie. <3

So those coworkers I mentioned in my previous posts (the ones who flaked) ... they're total enemies now.

And I'm stuck in the middle of two people I consider friends.

I thought THEY were friends. Suddenly she's going to our boss about him to complain, and she says someone else has complained about him too (WTF?!)

I'm honestly shocked, and similarly hurt. He's thinking about quitting, and I'm legitimately worried that he will and that his friends will go with him and then I'll be alone again.
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Posted on 01-21-18 12:22 AM, in Currently playing? Link
Brandon got us a PS4 for Christmas, so we've been trading off playing "Star Wars: Battlefront II" (him) and "God of War 3" (me, since we never had a PS3.)
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Posted on 02-07-18 09:48 AM, in Busy? Link
We're attempting to make headway on the wedding plans.

Deposits are down for the band, venue, hair and make-up, the photographer, and we FINALLY sat down with our rentals/flowers/lights guy whom our caterer/coordinator said she always works with. Took a month to get him to respond to texts and calls and book us for a sit-down. Was figuratively tearing my hair out, worried we weren't going to get shit done with him. No tables, no chairs, no anything for the goddamn wedding.

We've done a tasting with the caterer. Just need to finalize the menu and put down the money for her.

Invites were sent out. Of course there's drama regarding who got one and who didn't. I handed them to a few people at work and told them to put them away, but apparently SOMEONE didn't since I was suddenly getting questions regarding them from people I specifically wasn't inviting. Can't wait to leave this job.

Waiting for my dress from Pendragon. Not sure when the hell it's going to come.

My parents have apparently been stressing what they're going to wear for the wedding. Bran and I had not had breakfast yet and we were on our way to eat and my parents insisted we drop everything and go to the costume shop they found to help them pick something out. We're shaky with headaches, practically going, "I don't care. Just pick something!"

I'm really looking forward to the three weeks I requested off in May.
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Posted on 02-07-18 09:50 AM, in Answer one, Ask one Link
Outside of just eating it reheated on a plate, I've only ever made them into sandwiches for Brandon and me to eat on the road on our way home from his grandmother's in Arizona.

I'm not much of a fan of leftover Thanksgiving turkey unless it was a GREAT turkey, which I've maybe only had a couple times. Almost all of them have been dry and flavorless, and I feel like an asshole for saying it out loud.


What are you looking forward to right now?
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Posted on 03-02-18 09:09 PM, in Busy? Link
I told my boss that I'm pretty much done and will be looking for other employment after the wedding.

I'm so sick of the people with whom I work. Everything's an exclusion game. You plan something and everyone flakes. They plan something and it's a game of who ISN'T invited.

What's more, people just don't seem to care about the clients like they're supposed to and they're shitty to ones that I favor in any way. I bought a client a pair of industrial earmuffs because he's super sensitive to sound. Apparently, some of the staff purposely don't get them for him and some take them away from him as a punishment. That's like taking away someone's kneebrace or something. You know, he's not going to die, but he's in fucking agony because they took him to a loud bowling alley and thought taking the earmuffs away was suitable due to him not wanting to change his shoes. I fucking hate these people.
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Posted on 03-06-18 09:23 AM, in Is your weather drunk? Link
Update to that last post: Yup, we're back in drought.

The past week's weather has been strange in SoCal. It's been raining off and on, but then it'll be hot in between.

I just spent the weekend in Arizona. It'll be hot during the day, but then freezing at night, which is typical for a dry desert. No rain at all, which was perfect, but yeah, dress really warm when the sun goes down.
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Posted on 03-13-18 10:04 AM, in Answer one, Ask one Link
Hah, I was in one of those. All the ladies kept talking about Twilight, 50 Shades, Nicholas Sparks, and other sappy chick-lit when they weren't talking about wine, etc.

My recs will make no sense, but here goes:
- "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family" by Nicholas Pileggi (It's not very long, it's based on a true story, and it was later turned into the film, "Goodfellas.")

- "Animal Farm" by George Orwell (It's not long at all, it's classic, it's cautionary and deep, loads to talk about.)

- "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Yes, it's a graphic novel, but everyone SHOULD read it. It's one of the greatest stories of the superhero genre.)

- "Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut (I'm not completely up on the literary sci-fi genre, but I liked this book, which came recommended by someone of whom I have high regard.)

I figure, if you're into YA, you probably prefer SHORT books. Not necessarily short stories, but books that you can plow through within a week. All of these, depending on the amount of time you have, can be read through in that amount of time.



Would you agree with society's belief that we are "living in the Golden Age of television," and if so, why?


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Posted on 03-16-18 11:08 PM, in Answer one, Ask one Link
Mint and chip.


What's the last YouTube video you watched that really made you think?
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Posted on 03-19-18 04:51 AM, in What Are You Watching? Link
We watched "GLOW" on Netflix. Pretty much knocked that out in a day since it's only 10 episodes, half-an-hour each. We've watched it several times through.

We've lately been watching "Godless," a Netflix miniseries about a town of mostly widows under-siege by outlaws. Almost done with it.

Always looking out for more shows to watch.
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