Sorta Like Bullets

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I made a Customer Service Bingo card today and tacked it up in a somewhat unobtrusive spot behind my monitor. It does seem to add an element of interest to the job: “Great! I only need ‘This has been going on for some time and I’ve just about had it with you people’ to make Bingo!”

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I am really liking this new definition of the word “porn,” where it means something like “things you can’t stop looking at,” “things that make you drool,” or, as gondolinchick01 put it, “any kind of sensory titillation.” If I were still in school I would write the hell out of a dissertation on it.

I’ve heard a few versions: there’s library porn, space porn, food porn.

Of course, searching for more examples may be a bit of a minefield, but hey—FOR SCIENCE.

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Meanwhile, last night I had a Really Awesome idea for a short story. It even still looked semi-awesome when I woke up this morning, which is a good sign. On the other hand, I may be one of few people on Earth who find the thought of exploding cows awesome.

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Also, it looks like I’m going to need a Halloween costume, after all. I wasn’t planning on it; I was thinking this year I would just dress up my dolls instead. (Damn those twins are gonna look cute.) But then I got involved with Jess's social circle again and suddenly I’m going to a party. So I’m going to take one of the costumes I was going to make the doll, and make it for me. Which means I have two options: I can either dye something I’ve already got a hideous slime green and then modify it, or buy more already-hideous-green fabric and haul it into my first day of sewing class with a reference photo and say, “I need to make this look like this by next Saturday!”

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Urg. Too much time staring at the screen. Gotta rest my eyes.

Comments

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

On my home computer I have folders of pictures of cars and pictures of guitars labelled 'car porn' and 'guitar porn', if that counts?

This usage of 'porn' reminds me of how, at uni, someone who has written a particularly interesting paper is your 'intellectual crush'. This gets disturbing when you realise suddenly that your intellectual crush is 65.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Totally counts!

I am careless with the use of the term "crush." I use it for anything that strikes my fancy, from a fascinating historical personage to someone I really want to be friends with. Sometimes I'll clarify with a hyphen ("friend-crush"), but that's only when someone looks at me funny. (So ... often, I guess.)

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Crush is one of those terms that I will generally throw around with gay abandon, but occasionally I actually *think* about how I just used it and then I get a brain-fuse... for instance, I have a tendency to get terrible crushes on fictional characters, as in they just seize my brain and demand I write fanfic about them, but actually *calling* them crushes gets awkward - for instance, my current fanfic crush is on Edmund Pevensie. Who is, like, ten.

Did somebody mention totally awesome guitars?

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Re: Did somebody mention totally awesome guitars?

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

WANT

I mean, I play a Fender Jag which is freaking gorgeous, but I think *that* pic gets to go in the porn folder too :D

Re: Did somebody mention totally awesome guitars?

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Wait'll you get a load of this one:



It's got a plasma lamp built in that lights up when the guitar is switched on! How cool is that?

This one has a sweet pickguard too:



I got more where those come from too, but they aren't uploaded.

Re: Did somebody mention totally awesome guitars?

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh.

Where did you *get* all this prettiness?

Re: Did somebody mention totally awesome guitars?

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Mostly 4chan's music board. I haven't been there in a while, but sometimes they have threads where people post pictures of wacky guitars.

Re: Did somebody mention totally awesome guitars?

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Awesomebix. We have a luthier in my city who makes gorgeous custom guitars and basses ... whenever The Boy and I take things down to him to get them periodically fixed (the problem with having a big collection is that the maintenance piles up on you) we end up getting sidetracked ... for hours.