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[green_queen]

So Adebisi is going to be on Lost.

Adebisi is probably one of my favourite character names ever. It sounds so cool when you yell it.

How You Life Your Life

You are honest and direct. You tell it like it is. You tend to avoid confrontation and stay away from sticky situations. You're open to new people and friends, which makes you a pretty popular person. You tend to dream big, but you worry that your dreams aren't attainable.

How Do You Live Your Life?

I scored Dom on abc_icons, so there should be a nice large Dom icon post in the not-too-distant future.

I watched The Greater Good again tonight and it had some fasciniting, insightful and horrendously sad things to say about terrorism in the current climate. I really think that politicians would do well to watch this sort of program.

I recently got into a very heated debate at the Bronze about racial profiling and terrorism and what it does to people. Someone on there was completely scathing, saying that racial profiling was a necessity, we shouldn't worry about upsetting anybody's delicate sensibilities, anyone who sympathised with terrorists should be locked up. It almost made me physically ill. He also suggested that I was a weak-minded hippy if I didn't agree with him and said anyone who sympathised with murderers and terrorists should be locked up in Guantanemo Bay. Which means I should be arrested. Lovely.

Putting aside for a moment my complete disgust for what he called "Gitmo", this episode of Lost showed precisely why not having sympathy for terrorists (and Muslims) at this point in time is costing us so dearly. A man who lost his wife because of the war, who was essentially in the terrorist cell because he had no other choice, who didn't want to hurt people, was convinced to commit a terrible crime. Sayid, a man of strong moral convictions, was the one who convinced him to do it, because the CIA and the Australian government coerced him into it by threatening a woman who was essentially on their side in Iraq. The whole episode so clearly denounced terrorism and the dirty tactics in fighting it, and how perfectly good people (Sayid more so than Hassan) are dragged into the whole mess just because of their nationality. And if you don't sympathise with Hassan, well, I'm scared for the world.

Also? Hassan was hot. Hassan kissing Sayid was hot.
I'm just sayin'.

Song: Mal's Song by Escape Key

Have I recced this yet? It's a longer version of the Firefly theme (made up, I assume, by the band) sung by a woman at what was probably a convention. It's utterly beautiful.

Link: peter_and_fran has updated. I love edamame and Dom the firecracker.

ETA: Ha! Also, today I said "Syphilis is more hip than Tom Cruise right now," and made myself laugh. I am teh dweeb.

frozenwithin posted hot Jared Leto pics, including some extremely slashy one with Nic Cage from the movie they're doing together.

I present you with an icon meme instead of pics. Sorry.

Stolen from zoniduck
My First Icon:



My Latest Icon:



From my user pics:

My Default Icon:



Oldest Icon in Use:

by xveritaserumx, because it still makes me laugh.

Newest Icon:

by crystalkirk. Me, on a Firefly kick? Nah.

Favorite Icon In Use Made By Someone Else:

by _chocobox, one of my favourite icon makers. I downloaded it ages ago, but it just kept gnawing away at the back of my mind, so I finally had to upload it. I haven't looked back since.

Favorite Icon In Use Made By Me:

Technically not that great and a bit old, but seriously the best caption I have ever com up with, and:


Technically pretty good and just such a gorgeous picture. Plus my first winner at lost_awards!

And I'm gonna add a category here,

Favorite Icon Not Currently In Rotation:

by melkor_ - it never seems to be the right time to use this.

I hope she makes you whole again
Green Queen

Comments

[jpettibone.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't think they arrest people headed to Guantanamo Bay. They just hold them indefinitely without ever bringing charges. *Hangs head in shame at my country's doings*

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I think he said we should be arrested and anyone who thought about actually doing it should be sent to Guantanemo. Including people who change their mind and do the right thing. So apparently, according to him, thinking is a crime.

He made my blood boil.

[french-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee your icon! my favourite moment of the whole trailer! *grins*

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude, if Orlando is as good in this movie as the trailer looks, he might completely change my opinion about him. He looked like a guy! Who could act!

And I can't stop listening to the song from the trailer.

[french-hobbit.livejournal.com]

He looked like a guy! Who could act!
My thought exactly - especially since i've watched the new trailer: thanks for the link, btw!

[lunabloom.livejournal.com]

"Guantanamo." No "e." :)

I admire your determination, attempting to reason/debate with Neanderthal Boy. I've been having the same argument for so long that I think I've lost the energy to attempt it anymore (online, that is). Which is shameful, but there you go.

Also? Hassan was hot. Hassan kissing Sayid was hot.
*nods furiously*
Amen, sister.

_chocobox is brilliance. Her Boondock Saints icons? Aaaaaaagghhhhhh. *swoons* Not to mention her HP icons. And- hell, ALL her icons, really.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I don't like that place.

The thing is he's not a neanderthal boy - that's what's so scary. If he was just an idiot it'd be okay, but he's educated. Bastard.

Yeah, she makes fab icons.

[lunabloom.livejournal.com]

(Wasn't trying to seem snotty or anything, with the whole spelling thing. You just seem like the kind of person who'd rather be corrected than say/spell something wrong. I'm the same way, actually.)

I apply the term "neanderthal" to anyone whose bellowing puts them a few millenia behind the rest of us. Education's only what you make of it, I think, and he doesn't get any bonus points from me for being able to spell "xenophobia" correctly. *picks up random objects and throws them at him*

*pets lovely _chocobox icon*
I've got a bunch more of hers that I'm going to try to work in when I re-haul my icons. I hate having to get rid of old icons that I love to make room for new ones I love! *growls at LJ and their stupid 50 icon limit*

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

No, you're absolutely right, I like being corrected so that I don't make the same mistake in the future.

Yeah, I have about a million _chocobox icons lurking, waiting to be used....

[oftheunderworld.livejournal.com]

...Okay, so what exactly is Lost, anyway? You talk about it all the time, and so does everyone else, so I figure I'm just missing something here.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude. What rock are you living under? Lost is a TV show, starring Dominic Monaghan and about a million other fabulous, good-looking people who got stranded on an island. We get flashbacks to their pasts. Best show on television.