A funtineli boszorkány

Ki gondolta volna? Wass Albertet olvasok. Nem hittem, hogy ilyen gyönyörű lesz, bár még csak az elején tartok. De annyira gyönyörű!

Csak két idézet:

"Aztán nem is szólt hátra többet, csak ment. Egy darabig még volt valami ösvényféle a patak mentén, ide-oda kanyargott, ahogy emberek s juhok rendre kitaposták. Aztán az is elmaradt. Szerte-foszlott az üverekben. Csak a patak zúgott a kövek között, s a fák hallgattak. Ágaik helyenként leértek a fehér, tajtékzó vízhez. A levegő könnyű volt és fényes. Színültig tele volt a víz partján álló napvirágok kesernyés illatával. Itt-ott egy-egy szitakötő rebbent. Kétoldalt hallgatagon őrizték a csendet óriás bükkök és sudaras fenyők.

Sokáig mentek így. Lábuk alatt puhán süppedt a moha, és egy-egy virág bólogatott. Olykor csermely keresztezte útjukat. Csilingelve jött, és futva a hegyoldalból, és a patakba sietett. Árnyas üverek illatát hozta és mohaszagot. Ormótlan szürke köveken billegtek át. Néha villant egy hal fehér hasa, s a leányka hosszasan nézett utána."

"Mélységesen mély volt az éjszaka. Szikrázva lobogott a tűz, halkult a szó, s az emberek befele fordultak, önmagukba. Lomha hullámokkal hullámzott a csönd, mint egy nagy, sötét tenger a hegyek között.

Aztán lassan följött a hold, s a Bradulec tetejére kiült. A pojána szélén megnőttek a fák. Árnyak suhantak törzseik között. Túl, a Galonya katlanaiban párját hívta az öreg bagoly.
(...)
Mélységes volt a csönd s az éjszaka. Valaki ült az Istenszékén, s hosszú ősz szakálla köddel lepte a fenyveseket."

Szóval nem érdekel, mit mondanak a pasasról, a könyve akkor is tetszik.

My own little boulder

This is my namesday present. It's a boulder opal. I had my eyes on a few, but managed to get this one from ebay. Thanks for Mango for helping my folks out. ^^

And this is it. (I thought it would be smaller... oh well.)Yo, Frodo! Eyes up here! :P

Dexter would be so proud!

I went mad. I admit it. But I had to...

Today I went and bought some nail polish - cheap. Doesn't mean they are trash tho.

• Maybelline - #59 - Crazy Coral, Colorama (a deeper, coral, metallic orange)
• Astor - #071, Fash'n Studio (an almost milka-like violet with a mauve, satiny shine, because I sadly couldn't find magenta - it looks almost blue on the picture tho o.O)
• essence - #053 ALL ACCESS, Multi dimension XXXL shine - oh my! (metallic deep green, like a peacock feather - love at first sight!)

Lucky me, there was a sale.

And this is the picture. Forgive me, I applied it sloppily. I will fix it later.The yellow one was an old Avon (French Manicure, gold dust) nail polish and since I had no magenta, the last nail (index finger) had a layer of coral, then a layer of violet and another layer of coral over it... strange, but actually pretty fun and not at all unpleasant).

And the non-metal knights

EMOCORE:
The knight’s mother drives the knight and his friends to the castle. He kills the dragon with some awesome armspinning and spinkicking while his friends observe the scene with their arms crossed. Then the princess laughs at the knight's ridiculous hairstyle and the boys leave weeping.

PUNK:
The knight hitchhikes to the castle, asks the dragon for some bucks, buys some cans of beer, gets pissed, insults the princess as “monarchist cunt” and “commerce bitch”, sprays the castle with anarchistic symbols and leaves in a black maria.

POP ROCK:
The knight and friends arrives in a limo. The dragon lets them in as long as they sign an autograph for its mum who is a big fan. The knight leaves with the princess and they get married.

PORNO GRIND:
The knight arrives at the castle without any clothes on and grunts loudly for a few minutes. Then he fucks the dragon in every body cavity it has, kills the dragon, fucks the carcass the same way again, grunts loudly again for a few minutes, grabs the princess and fucks her in every body cavity she has, kills her and fucks her in the same way again. Then he piles up the dragon’s and princess’s remains, fucks them in every body cavity they have, grunts loudly and screams senselessly for a few minutes. Then he leaves.

ROCK N’ ROLL:
The knight arrives on a motorcycle, smoking some pot and offers it to the dragon who happens to be his friend. He then camps out with the princess in the farther spot of the garden. After a lot of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll he dies of an LSD overdose, drowned in his own puke.

REGGAE:
Our hero never arrives because he’s ‘tripping’.

ELECTRONIC:
They throw a rave party and everybody dies of an overdose.

All about Metal

This is not mine. It has been going around the metal community for ages. I just found it again and pieced them all together. Enjoy!

To describe each Metal type, imagine the usual knight rescuing the princess from a dragon scenario:

HEAVY METAL:
The knight arrives on a Harley Davidson, kills the dragon, drinks some beers and fucks the princess.

SPEED METAL:
Knight-kills-dragon-saves-princess-screws-her.

HARD ROCK:
The knight arrives wearing shorts and a cap. Disgusted, the princess clears off.

GRIND METAL:
The knight arrives, screams something completely undecipherable for about 2 minutes and then leaves...

POWER METAL:
The knight arrives riding a white unicorn, escapes from the dragon, saves the princess and they make love in an enchanted forest.

THRASH METAL: The knight arrives, fights the dragon, saves the princess and fucks her....... easy and quick.

FOLK METAL:
Our hero arrives with some friends playing accordion, pipes, violin and other weird instruments. The dragon falls asleep because of too much dancing and they leave… without the princess.

VIKING METAL:
The knight arrives in a ship, kills the dragon with his mighty mighty axe, cooks and eats it, rapes the princess to death, loots the castle and burns it down before he leaves.

DEATH METAL:
The knight arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the princess and kills her, then leaves.

BRUTAL DEATH METAL:
The knight arrives, kills the dragon, kills the princess then screws her.

GOTHIC METAL:
The knight arrives and kills the dragon. The princess falls madly in love with him, they get married with great ceremony, the king gives him his kingdom, he’s the hero of the people, he commits suicide with no explanation.

BLACK METAL:
The knight arrives at midnight, kills the dragon and impales it in the front of the castle.....then sodomizes the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual before killing her.....then he impales the deflowered princess.

TRUE BLACK METAL (OLD WAY):
The knight arrives pissed out of his mind, barfs into the moat, sacrifices the princess then starts hitting on the dragon.

TRUE BLACK METAL (NEW WAVE):
The knight arrives and starts telling the dragon that he’s all wrong, that he’s not actually evil. He kills the princess cause she interrupted him. The dragon, annoyed, eats him despite his spiked armbands. And says "you shouldn’t hurt ladies". (One can be a dragon AND a gentleman, what?)

GORE METAL:
The knight arrives, kills the dragon and spreads his guts in front of the castle, fucks the princess and kills her....then he fucks her dead body, slashes her belly open and eats her guts, fucks the carcass for the third time, burns the corpse and fucks it for the last time.

DOOM METAL:
The knight arrives, sees the size of the dragon and thinks that he never could beat him, gets depressed and commits suicide....the dragon eats his body and the princess as well.

GOTHIC METAL FEMALE SINGER:
She charms the dragon with her voice, goes to the princess, steals her dress and takes her place, then waits for her band’s drummer to come rescue her.

ALTERNATIVE METAL:
The knight arrives, refuses to be part of the system, tells the princess to screw herself and leaves.

PROGRESSIVE METAL:
The knight arrives with a guitar and plays a 26 mn solo, the dragon kills himself out of boredom, the knight goes to the princess’ bed, plays another solo, the princess runs away and goes looking for the Heavy Metal knight.

ATMOSPHERIC METAL:
The dragon’s scales gleam in the moonlight, the princess is on her balcony and gazes into the distance, melancholy; the wind gently ruffles the tree leaves in the forest. Not a knight in sight.

GLAM METAL:
The knight arrives late after spending 3 hours pimping himself up, gets in as the dragon laughs his head off at him, steals the princess’ make-up and paints the castle’s walls pink.

NU METAL :
The knight arrives and freaks when he sees the dragon, so he stays in front of the moat and makes obscene gestures at the princess. Then he goes back into the forest to wank off.

INDUSTRIAL METAL:
The protagonist arrives wearing a greasy overcoat, makes obscene gestures towards the dragon and gets escorted out of fairy tale land by security guards.

For the record, I still hate the rain, the grey skies, the cold weather, the pouring water freezing on the sidewalk and the dirty, remaining parts of the snow that refuse to melt.

Thought you might want to know.

I want spring already!

disturbing facts

The snowman that the kids in our house built is slowly melting. It's the old-school kind of snowman, carrot for a nose, all the works. Actually, the arms are also made of carrots and he had tangerines for eyes.

The melting got so bad the poor fellow shrank a lot and his eyes rolled out of their sockets. They are in front of him. It was kinda morbid... I laughed.


Second fact: I've finally started watching Dexter. The gore doesn't really get to me. Strange. Also, when the guys used a blood-splattered wall of a suicide victim as a Rorschach test... I lost it and laughed. I hope I'm not too weird.

Not to mention that ever since the first episode I have this strange feeling... because every time Dexter meets the black cop and they don't kiss, not even a make-up kiss after every fight...

I blame Six Feet Under. I mean said black cop is kind of a dead-ringer for Keith, and as we know, the actor playing Dexter was also playing Six Feet Under's David Fisher, who was, most of the time, in a relationship with Keith... a black cop.

Yeah. Blame me, but I have sort of grown up watching Six Feet Under (and other assorted TV series of that time, but you get my point).

There... I'm sort of... out of it, I guess. So sleepy.

...my brain hurts!

Today I saw a blog where someone was explaining in great detail how to tie a scarf. There was a picture included. On the picture you could see a woman with a scarf tied around her neck in a simple design: wrap it tightly around neck (not choking - for dummies), then bring both ends to the front and tie ends in one simple knot on the front loosely and let it hang.

Simple, no? Of course it is. Seriously, is there anybody who can fail at simply imitating a picture and tying their scarf around their neck two times (once tight, once loose with the ends tied in the front)? Well... obviously there are some people like that. Good gods!

I wonder, with the picture included, why she had to give such a detailed explanation. Have women became so vapid that we need step-by-baby-step explanations? Have our brains melted and is there only a chord running through our head between our ears to keep them attached?

Well, this was a nasty reality check. I didn't know there were women so vapid... so stupid... so very dense. I'm ashamed. And I want to hunt this woman down and beat some sense into her. Obviously, instead of shopping she should use her brain more often.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

Why men want to move in with you

I've had an epiphany. After years of breaking up with and saying no to guys who suddenly seemed to become very serious and wanted to live together with me.

Why don't I want guys to be serious about me? Because I hardly ever hook up with the right guy to settle down with. They are guys to well... fool around. They are either pretty and total idiots (how else would I be able to date a hot guy anyway?) or available. I have never, ever dated a guy I could imagine the future with.

Those guys I could imagine my future with hardly ever spare me a glance. They usually pick the heartless pretty bitches who suck them dry and leave them - and they go for the next one in a few days - or they pick the very best. Either way, the good ones (the ones most women want) are well aware that they are out of my league. But still, I refuse to date scraps seriously. I still have my pride. Not to mention I'd rather go without than get into a relationship with a guy I can't or can barely tolerate.

Anyway. Back to the topic. Those guys who wanted to move away from mommy's coddling and find a nest with me staying over... now I know it wasn't about little old me and our exciting future together. They wanted a maid, who cooks them nice meals, who washes their clothes and cleans up after them and who drops her panties whenever they ask her to. Pure win, they thought. Who would leave mommy's cooking and care if they didn't get a bonus (as in a nice tumble or two when they want it)?

Well... now you know why a guy would move away from her mom and lure you to move in with him. Or at least the kind of guys I dated would.

Am I indignant and pissed off? Hell yeah. I mean they would get a maid and a whore... and what would I get? More chores!

At least the latest one admitted he expected me to cook, wash, clean and to sleep with him while I stayed over at his flat. Obviously I said hell no. I didn't even want to go from the start.

So, pigs, this is for you: you want a maid and a whore: go find one. But don't try asking me! What I want is a partner, not a landlord who works me and fucks me. Get real!

OMG These Assholes!!!!!!!!!

The heirs and next of kin of Hungarian Holocaust victims are seeking reparations from the Hungarian railroad company.

The complaint describes plaintiffs as "Hungarian Jewish victims of the Hungarian Holocaust or their heirs or next of kin" who are suing defendant Hungarian National Railroad for, among other things, "knowingly providing the trains for delivering 437,000 Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz," and looting plaintiffs' possessions and valuables.

"The defendant knew exactly what it was doing. It was using nearly all of its trains day and night to transport people one-way to Auschwitz. The trains were empty as they rattled along the tracks back to Hungary. Without the trains provided by [defendant], hundreds of thousands of Jews could not have been transported to Auschwitz," the complaint states.

The complaint also states "Even though discussion of money is necessarily crass in the context of the unspeakable evil that was inflicted upon the Holocaust victims, nevertheless the law is powerless to do anything other than to obtain financial restitution."

WHAT
THE
FUCK?!

These opportunistic bastards, who weren't even born yet are suing my country and me, included a big bunch of people who also have lost relatives for money for... what exactly...????

Because the railroad company is owned by the country itself. So we Hungarians would have to pay! So... they are suing the company (that is run by Hungary itself), that had been under orders??? About 65 years later?! When nobody who did it is even alive anymore?!

So in plain words they are suing Hungary itself for the holocaust losses? Why not sue Germany instead? That would be a little more logical imho.

Why aren't they suing the politicians instead, who had all to do with this?

Oh, because they are dead? Or because even if they were alive they would be in prison and unable to pay?

Money-hungry fucking assholes!!!!

I hope these fuckers get their asses whipped and get taught a very very important lesson. How about learn to think, for starters, asshats?!

Hell, now I hate America even more!

The Twelve Kingdoms

I have a few bones to pick with this anime. I was bored so I watched it, but I found it lacking. A lot.

The story was simple enough, but the whole thing felt flat. There were no jokes, no sarcasm, nothing remotely interesting happened. It failed to be funny, it failed to be entertaining and it failed to be creepy as well. It also failed to be scary... but it didn't fail to be depressing and booooooooooring!

So... It was a fantasy one. A girl gets spirited away to a fantasy land to be a ruler. Major mishaps happen, girl meets a lot of bad people until someone finally tells her what's going on. After a load of trouble she gets to be a ruler, and from then on we see other stories about the other kingdoms. All these stories are separate and the thing is just tedious. I didn't stay up late to watch more and more of it.

My problems:

• The idea was good, but there was a crapload of technical terms, and I couldn't remember what meant what, didn't feel like taking notes for any anime I watch for enjoyment (where's the enjoyment?!) so I was continuously puzzled and lost.
  
  
• One original idea was that in the fantasy world where everything took place kids grew on trees in fruits... which was all nice, but then what need was there for males and female? I mean why did women have breasts, when that part only happened to develop thanks to evolution to lure in males and to feed babies... so what's the point? It was an inconsistent and badly done part. Not to mention there were still marriages, but there was never a same-sex couple, women were mostly maids, I didn't see one female scholar even in the most flourishing country and there was only one female warrior... the female protagonist. Pathetic.
  
  
• Even though sex did not exist in the fantasy world, hookers did. The first "nice" person the protagonist and her friends met sold them to a brothel. What, pray tell, do the hookers do over there? Because sex ain't one of those things. I'm still flabbergasted at this huge mess up.
  
  
• Nobody ever cracks a joke. Well, there was one time. That joke died right there. It wasn't really a joke, just an attempt. There was nothing funny or entertaining in there.
  
  
• Everything was predictable. I mean you knew who the bad guy was and that he was gonna die in a few episodes' time.
  
  
• Good people almost always died a painful and horrid death. If one of the main heroes met someone nice, friendly and pretty much harmless you were sure they were either gonna part ways the next episode or end up skewered, eaten by some monster or in some other gruesomely gory fashion.
  
  
• The artwork was... decent. Not pretty exactly. Clothes were mostly bulky. Some were frilly, but those only happened to the girls with the gravity-defying hairdos who took care of the kirins and who were also having err... it was suggested they were having sex with men who came whenever a new kirin was presented to the world. I'm floored, I am.
  

This is all I can think of now. The story could have been better, new terms could have been less or more memorable... No, I vote for less. This isn't a frikkin classroom, learn to entertain! Sadly, with the children born from a tree all the sexual jokes and innuendos were gone, so... it was boring. No jokes at all were mentioned and somehow the whole thing sucked.

Why did I still watch it? I need something in the background while I crochet or bead. I multi-task often. But this wasn't really what I wished for.

My advice: avoid. Plot is predictable and pretty boring, artwork is decent, but can be a turn-off a lot of times, not funny, only slightly entertaining and you get lost in the terms for almost everything in the fantasy world. The only good thing is the soundtrack, all 2-3 of those songs.

I give a 3 out of 10 for this series, and I was generous because of the nice soundtrack.