bits and bobs

[rm]

I know the journal is very fannish lately, which I'm sure is delightful to some of you and aggravating as hell to others. C'est la vie. It's always been a cyclical thing around here, and in this summer heat there's little else I can manage.

On that note:
http://telesilla.livejournal.com/456170.html is the latest installment of a HP/LotRPS crossover. Yes, that's right I'm not just rec'ing a crossover (which is something I generally loathe), I'm rec'ing something that's also partially RPS and involves Viggo Mortensen being a squib. I know it sounds like crack!fic but it's really rather elegant (of course, I have a record of loving things that should be crack!fic and turn out amazing, a la Sushi's In Academia). Links to previous installments of the thing are at the post.

On other notes:

Managed to get something that wasn't coming together to come together just in the nick of time this morning.

Since when does New York have flying roaches?

I was attacked by a parrot on the way to work.

New AC:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/43300/basic_marketing_tips_for_actors.html
Basic marketing tips for actors. Again, if you have a pulse, you figured this out. Apparently most people don't have pulses.

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Giant flying roaches made a -thankfully- brief appearance in my bathroom at my parents' house on the UES when I was 14. On one day, there were two separate sightings, and JESUS CHRIST those things are huge.

It's still referred to as "The Bathroom of Doom," even though there's never been another instance.

[neo-nym.livejournal.com]

flying roaches
The first time I saw a flying roach was in Richmond, Virginia. I didn't know what the hell it was. I never knew they could fly. Those suckers are huge. You could pack a camera on their back.

I was attacked by a parrot on the way to work.
With or without a pirate?

[rm.livejournal.com]

No pirate.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

A parrot? Eee. A colorful parrot, or one of those big grey ones?

[rm.livejournal.com]

All green. Not that big. Flew out of its cage and went for my hair.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The provoked a lot of commentary from the peanut gallery here. But as for me, aaa!

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I've wondered about palmetto bugs/flying roaches hitting NYC. A friend who went to University of Toronto in the 80s was there when they brought palmetto bugs up from Florida for the biology lab. The labs are linked to the dorms by steam tunnels... and the inevitable happened. I always figured it was just a matter of time before they made it here.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I've seen them sporadically here, but only once every few years. Now it seems they are everywhere. But we also are living in a sauna right now.

[volund.livejournal.com]

Also known as the American cockroach ...

(The non-flying variety we're more familiar with is called the German cockroach.)

[miep.livejournal.com]

um, there were some in marie howe's apartment when my friend hil was housesitting there in the 90s. they flew around in her kitchen.
that was in the village, just off hudson.