friday things

1. In love with the Google calendar. LOVE.

2. Must stop grinding my teeth. Yes.

3. It is juice817's birthday! [does kermitdance] YAAAAY!

pop culture meme

via sanj, Ten References You Expect Your Nearest and Dearest to Get:
(in addition, one assumes, to the entirety of The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the original Star Wars films.)

... This is actually a really hard meme for me. Partly because the first reference I immediately thought of was "So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you", and the second was "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" and the third was "That's no moon ... that's a space station!" And how are we defining "nearest and dearest"? There are references I expect my family to get ("Hark. I hear the cannons roar. Is it the king approaching?") and ones I expect my friends to get ("I think that's funny. Because Hitler was a mass-murdering fuckhead."), and there's some overlap but not much. "Friends" is further divided into people I knew first online or not. Gah! And then the references I make are more often identifiable by style, rather than by actual text. ellen_fremedon and I were talking about this the other day, how calling myself "needing-insurance girl" would have been a Buffy reference but calling myself "in need of insurance like an insurance-needing person" or something would have been a Sorkin reference. (She had a way to make it a Blackadder reference, as well, but I don't remember it.) And that's not even touching the number of references, family- and friend-compliant, that aren't pop-culture references at all.

So anyway. Ten? Whew. Here goes.

( In approximate order of publication: )

Huh. Turns out it was easier than I thought.

stardust

Hooray for movie fun time!

( I win because )

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[eta:  I knew the older Dunstan Thorn looked familiar -- it was the dude who played Laertes in Mel Gibson's ([hiss, spit]) Hamlet.  He was really good in that!  And also very good-looking, as I recall; but as I said w/r/t Jonathan Crombie in "Slings & Arrows", yeah, you know, it really has been twenty years.  For all of us.  Damn.]