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thistlechaser ([personal profile] thistlechaser) wrote2015-02-10 08:21 pm

A collection of random things

1) Can I tell you how excited I am about the new Jurassic Park movie? It's been years since I last stepped foot in a movie theater, but I might have to go back for this. It's going to be such a hard challenge though, if I do. Popcorn is my #1 favorite food in the world, but it's also a food I can never eat again. I can resist it in day-to-day situations, but going to a popcorn-scented movie theater? Don't know if I can... but still, Jurassic Park movies MUST be seen on the big screen. :/

Anyway, they hired on a new star, and made a promo for the park featuring his character:



2) This song came up in RP today, and I died when I googled and found it was a real song. ("Real" song? A song that was sung by a character in a TV show.) NWS lyrics.




3) This tree is quite amazing! Linked for size. It's like some kind of modern artwork thing. I see a dancer with more trees growing out of her.

4) #3 lead me to the most amusing discovery. I visit reddit a lot (a social/information/interesting links kind of place). Different groups or subjects have subreddits. Apparently 'tree' is slang for pot, so the /trees subreddit is actually about smoking pot. Since that was taken, someone made /r/marijuanaenthusiasts for people who like trees! Ha!

5) Seraphina (by Rachel Hartman) is the BEST BOOK EVER. I have about 8% left to go, then can review it. And I'm SO HAPPY SO SO HAPPY I was offered the next book for review! I have it waiting for me right now! It's not for sale yet, which usually doesn't matter to me, but this time it works out so eeee! It's put out by a major publishing house (Random), so hopefully this will get me lots of good offers in the future.

6) I had previously accepted a different book for review, and usually read them in the order accepted, but I'm making an exception in this case. I suspect this other one (Chaos Station by Kelly Jensen and Jenn Burke) is actually Captain America fanfic with the serial numbers filed off. (It's about a "retired, broken super soldier" and his lover (officer in the military) who everyone had thought was dead...). I accepted it for review more to see if it was fanfic-ish than anything else, so Shadow Scale (Seraphina #2) comes first.

[identity profile] ashmedai.livejournal.com 2015-02-11 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It sucks that you can't have popcorn, I love it too! I'm not tempted by the popcorn in our movie theaters in Germany, though. Germans tend to like their popcorn sugared, not salted, and...ew, no!

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2015-02-11 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, sugared? Yuck! I'm with you, buttery and salty is my favorite. We have some sweet popcorn around here (kettle corn), but it doesn't work for me. Can you ask for salted, or is it just always sugared?

[identity profile] ashmedai.livejournal.com 2015-02-11 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It's usually sugared, I only know of one movie theater that offers it salted too. You'd think salt costs a fortune to keep some around for us with a different taste, but no. Yeah, buttery and salty is the only way to eat popcorn, IMO!

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2015-02-11 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Very odd. Well, I fully agree with you!