I got my Spider Jerusalem tattoo today (and covered up my first tattoo with a black heart).



This is the first tattoo I've gotten in over 6 years. They told me head tats hurt far worse than any other. But really, getting my first tattoo covered up with a black heart hurt worse than any tattoo I've ever gotten. And actually, I had that one done first, and I was really scared of how much the head one would hurt, but I couldn't back out because I'd already shaved the spot on my head (so now I look like I've got one hell of a receding hairline). But it didn't hurt at all. Actually, I almost fell asleep because it was so relaxing, with the light in my eyes and the weird vibration in my head... Weird ;)

Anyway, I hope there'll be many more. I have 4 more tats to catch up on my 'one-a-year' rule I developed when I turned 18.

I made bentos for me and Boyfriend :)
(egg, radish, carrot, cucumber, apple/sauce, lettuce, rice, and seaweed)
I added little fishie bottles full of soy sauce later.

I spent a billion hours on them trying/failing/trying again using my new bento-making toys from J-list.

(yes, that is a bookshelf made of Quadra 700 Apple computers from '91)

Press Play.




at 8:40 you'll see my beloved professor of sci-fi lit, Dr. Carl Silvio :D




And Symphony of Science music videos I can't get enough of...



A Glorious Dawn (Carl Sagan with Stephen Hawking)




We Are All Connected (Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye)




Our Place In the Cosmos (Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Michio Kaku, Robert Jastrow)

Aww crap. mooncalfe tagged me. I must obey.

( snore )

Long-awaited. But finally.

Halloween

My Halloween costume:



Tomorrow, I will have photos of the beautiful cake I created, as well as some swirly cupcakes.

Today, I have to do an astronomy project while I recuperate from the illegally imported Absinthe + jungle juice which I consumed last night at Meagan's party.

And also, I'll be going to the Voltaire show in Ithaca. Late, though. Unless someone would like to take me earlier???

Coolest costume I've seen so far this Halloween comes from my favourite voice actor and his supermodel wife:


Bill and Sookie from True Blood.

Not sure if the photo shows up, since it's from facebook.




What will YOU be for Halloween???

This is an old blurb, but I've just come upon it and it's the funniest thing I've read in a long time... mostly because it's totally Warren, but also because Boyfriend gripes on me when I order my meat still kicking.

MAN COOK MEAT WITH FIRE
Not "man show fire to meat and then eat it while it still squirts and pulses."

KILL IT DED WITH FIRE YUS
"Medium rare" = "good vet could get it up on its feet in an hour or two." That's not cooked with fire. That's threatened with fire.

I DO NOT SEASON STEAK
Start seasoning steak and before you know it? You're French. No. I go to my personal butcher and say, "Give me a piece of meat that's been sawn off an animal." And they throw me a chunk of animal. And then I say "Show me the animal this meat was sawn off." And they show me a picture of a crying cow with a gaping hole in its side. And I say "Did the animal cry when you sawed my piece of meat off it?" And they show me a Ziploc bag full of cow tears. And I say, "Rub that on my steak! Let that be my seasoning!"

Reason #343 why I love Warren Ellis.
Relatedly, I just finished all ten volumes of Transmetropolitan. It was fucking rad.

Today, I got the inspiration to make a bento for Boyfriend. He has to work 8am to midnight today and only had an hour free to pop home. This doesn't happen often, but when it does, I like to make him a nice bento, just in case traffic makes it too hard to stay here long enough for him to eat it.
Anyway, here's what I came up with:



Inside the spinach wrap is ham, a scrambled egg, jasmine rice, and swiss cheese. Top right are halved apple crescents stuck in apple sauce, and under that are halved cucumber slices surrounding carrot bits on a bed of lettuce.

Hopefully, I'll be getting back into the habit of making bento. But preferably (for the sake of BF), under different circumstances ;)