Chat Box – Art imitates life, the bastard

FyreHaar: dude
FyreHaar: fucking BattleStarGalactica

SonicRob: heheheh
SonicRob: where are you?

FyreHaar: pres Roslin was close to death
FyreHaar: and she’s saying goodbye
FyreHaar: and there’s all this love and bittersweetness
FyreHaar: I’m still crying

SonicRob: yeahhhh
FyreHaar: I couldn’t sleep after that for hours
FyreHaar: she’s our mother
FyreHaar: I had to pause the fucking show and just sit there and sob
FyreHaar: I’m losing my shit at work
FyreHaar: fucking quality TV
FyreHaar: how dare they?

SonicRob: awwww

Chat Box Special – Geek Love

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot?!: allo?
FyreHaar: allo!
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot?!: the new DoW expansion has been released!
FyreHaar: yes!
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot?!: shall I download it for you?
FyreHaar: I am trying to decide if I want the collector’s edition, it has posters
FyreHaar: screw it, yes please!!!

FyreHaar: you are the bestest husband ever!!!!!
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot?!: I think you get bonus stuff for the race of your choice, which is that?
FyreHaar: oh! Eldar, please, unless you don’t approve, in which case, space marines

Geek Love is a partner who starts the Steam download so that by the time you get home from work, the new expansion pack is ready to play.

Chat Box

FyreHaar: I experimented last night
FyreHaar: I sang along to “That’s What You Get” and I turned Audacity on to record myself
FyreHaar: My voice is out of shape dude

SonicRob: yeah?
SonicRob: it is scary to hear yourself without the song

FyreHaar: that’s why I did it
FyreHaar: reality check

SonicRob: sure
SonicRob: well, you do not sing like the original singer
SonicRob: do your own style

FyreHaar: it wasn’t super horrible
FyreHaar: yeah I need to stop trying to sing like her
FyreHaar: I am done with puberty

SonicRob: ha
FyreHaar: and trying to sing like a little girl just sounds stupid
SonicRob: yeah, you need to get all Fyre on that shit
FyreHaar: right?
FyreHaar: well I need to fully memorize the words and tune
FyreHaar: and then drop an octave

SonicRob: heh

For the Kids!

Fyre and Sonic will once again trek to the wilds of “The City,” risking untold dangers and horrors to rock out and benefit Child’s Play!

Umloud

Thursday, December 9, 2010

DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA.

This year, we might even get on stage! In fact, make a song request and we may play that song on stage.

Let us know if you will be there, that we might rock out together.

-fh

Fantasy Lover & An Unforgettable Lady- Cannonball Read #37 & 38

Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Slightly paranormal romance with contemporary setting.

An Unforgettable Lady by J.R. Ward writing as Jessica Bird. Contemporary romance.

I found myself in the position of having read back to back two romance novels wherein the protagonists spent most of the book trying not to sleep together.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel – Cannonball Read #39

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Adventure novel of derring-do in Revolutionary France.

Highly reminiscent of The Lady in the Lake, Orczy gets things off with a bang.  Two pages in and the milieu is set: A teeming bloodthirsty mass against the lone, hidden hero.

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