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The song is 99 Luftballons.
(I also probably know the original of Der Komissar, and Happy Birthday in 4 languages.)
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Girls will say they busy and be in their bed relaxin or sleep
melanin-majestic
Sounds busy to me
Reblog if you are busy
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“Few things in life meet that level of hype. And of all things, here’s a hip-hop Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton living up to its insane buildup. In an age when there are years-long marketing campaigns for the latest franchise movie, there is something refreshingly earnest about a piece of entertainment that is exactly what you’ve been told it would be. Hamilton isn’t selling out theaters based on fan obsession with the man on the $10 bill. It’s being sold on the pure joy that a friend or a critic or a random person on Twitter felt as they walked out of the theater. Even better, there is nothing coming next to alter this unique experience. There are no sequels. There is no Hamilton universe. When I told friends and family I had tickets, they offered congratulations in awed tones one might expect if I had said I was meeting the president or had won the lottery. I was one of the lucky ones, and not just because of ticket availability, but because the show is worth it. Even after the 50th or so time I’d heard Lafayette (Daveed Diggs) rap Guns and Ships at home, the experience of seeing it live was better. As much as I thought I knew about Hamilton and Burr, Miranda and Odom’s performances offered more. As good as I thought Hamilton would be, it was better. Everything about seeing Hamilton is crowded, it’s true. Everything except for the moment you take your seat and the orchestra intones those first few notes. As soon as the cast hits the stage and begins to tell the story of a “bastard, orphan, son of a whore,” it doesn’t matter that you’re squeezed into a tiny seat next to strangers. No one else exists. “How lucky we are to be alive right now,” Eliza Hamilton sings on more than one occasion during the show. How lucky, indeed.”
— What it’s really like to see ‘Hamilton’ (USA Today)
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#What I’m listening to today #One of these things is not like the other #Billy Joel apologist #I’m not afraid of you internet
This is a Billy Joel-friendly blog.
I mean, I have that shizzle on VINYL.
(Glass Houses was one of the first records I bought with my own money; the other two were Queen’s The Game and Blondie’s AutoAmerican.)
I have 52nd Street on 8 Track (and Glass Houses was one of the first cassettes I ever bought, too).
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to be honest it would make me a lot more comfortable if you guys would show a little concern about trump running for president again. Do not inbox me and say you don’t like joe biden omg i already know. but can we show a little concern. about donald trump. being the republican candidate for president. for the third election in a row.
it’s so strange stumbling upon old livejournal communities of once-popular fandoms, that have long since been abandoned…it’s like coming upon a fandom graveyard - or more accurately, stumbling upon fandom Pompeii - these were the people who once lived in this town, these were the old well-known usernames, these are their stories - frozen in time, last updated 2008, chapter 12/?
I posted on the fiction_alley livejournal today.
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The Happiest Place in the Known Galaxy
Where am I going today? It’s a leap day, so there’s an answer for that. 
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David Tennant: Oh, from when I was a kid? I loved… I mean, I’d love to be a kid now, I’d love to watch those super heroes movies that are coming out. I always yearned for them when I was a kid and they never really happened. There was a couple of slightly dodgy Spider Man movies, but I’d love to have been a kid when the Spider Man movies we have now were coming out. Or Iron Man… Oh I’m really looking forward to The Avengers.
REBLOGGING BECAUSE NEW AVENGERS TRAILER IS OUT AND OHMYGOSH.
ALL MY FEELINGS.
David Tennant, fanboy
Geekboy forever.
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oh he 100% doesnt know what year it is
i am not happy with our choices this election. But you should know that the reason he's the first president to "refuse" a cognitive test is because one isn't included in the presidential physical exam in the first place.
There was a petition of doctors who wanted Trump's cognitive function tested during his physical exam, and everybody involved on the republican side said no, and then Trump himself actually insisted he did take one in a fit of ego. He was, as far as i can tell, the first president to ever take one while in office.
At his request for the cognitive testing, Trump's doctor administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment which is like 5 questions and has not been proven to be an accurate test of much at all. It's a lot like when you hit your head and they ask you the date and your name and stuff -- answering correctly in no way means you don't have a head injury or concussion or whatever, it's just a couple of first step questions. Then Trump said a lot of lies and bullshit about his "cognitive test"
Now republicans and right leaning publications are spreading shit like this. Biden didn't "refuse" a cognitive test, his aides confirmed that, as usual, a cognitive test is not included during the president's doctor visit.
again, i think our choices are shit this election, i don't like how old Biden is, and i think the way our first-past-the-poll voting system automatically results in an extremist two party system fronting candidates that the majority of the country doesn't like is some fucked up bullshit
but our house is on fire and one candidate is a bucket of water that won't help much and the other is a bucket of gasoline, and, y'know, angry as i am about it all i am still going to vote for the bucket of water while we look for other solutions
Don't let them trick you into letting gasoline get thrown on this fire please
At this point I’m not even posting this for politics reasons, I’m posting it because my GOD you gullible bitches need to learn how extremely basic propaganda works. Jesus christ.
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Mood.
I haven’t seen any bad valentine’s cards yet so I thought I’d make some
Where would I put my 22nd livejournal anniversary image, other than Tumblr?
80srecordparty
Historic Songfest For Africa Life, April 1985
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In early 1994, I was the Manager of Dartmouth’s Computer Resource Center, an artisanal pre-sales and consulting office in Dartmouth’s Computing Services. One morning, the Director of Computing stopped by my office and handed me a floppy disk and told me to check out what was on it. I popped it into my computer and saw that it contained a single application, Mosaic 0.9b. Curious, I launched it and thus began my experiences with the World Wide Web. Within a week, I had created Dartmouth’s first Web site (and one of the first 50 college web sites in the world, near as I could figure at the time). By fall, I created my blog (one of the first ever) and was looking for new, higher-profile projects.
I noticed that TV show websites were becoming a popular and I sought out a show I could get in on. My big obsession at the time was The X-Files so I reached out to the webmasters of one of the better sites offering my help. They told me they had things in hand and didn’t need any help so I cast about looking for other things I could do.
In the fall of 1994, Friends premiered and I noticed that since there was no USENET newsgroup for the show, people were talking about it in alt.tv.mad-about-you, much to the chagrin of the folks there who didn’t care for Friends or who were just OCD about things staying on-topic. It had no website, no mailing list, no newsgroup. And, hey, I really enjoyed the show. So, I sprang into action. I created alt.tv.friends, a LISTSERV mailing list, and a website.
Soon after, a supervising producer of Friends reached out to me to start providing some information back to us fans on the list. He told me that they put the Episode Guide and FAQ up outside the writers’ room to help with continuity. A thriving fandom had been born.
But by around January 1995, as people on the mailing list began to get to know one another more, topics began to stray from the show to talking to each other about anything. Friends were being made. This upset those people who preferred the list stay on-topic and there began to be some anger running around. I decided to split the list into two lists: Friends-TV for discussions only about the show, and FriendsZone for folks to just hang out.
On February 6, 1995 the list was created and the first subscribers began to appear.
The history of this virtual community is long and storied but the short version is that, 20 years later, it is still around. While there is still a mailing list, it is almost never used. Instead, a Facebook group now carries most of the conversation.
And this weekend, in Las Vegas, a group of these folks are getting together to celebrate the 20th anniversary. I wish I could be there with them but it just wasn’t in the cards for me. I hope they all have a great time and post a lot of pictures.
Happy Birthday Zone!
Heidi’s note: Yes, I joined the very first day. I was supposed to be in Vegas this weekend and for a number of reasons, suddenly I’m not, and I’m so sad about it. It’s not the first fandom thing I’ve missed - I haven’t made it to many of the Zone Ganzas through the years - but today, I’m really sad that I’m not with old friends in Vegas, and I’m thinking about all of the wonderful things in my life that have been impacted by fandom through more than 20 years.
If you’re a friend I’ve made in any fandom, I love you and I miss you and I hope to see you soon. And in a way, you’re a Friend I made because of The Zone, because it’s what got me comfortable with conversations online, with websites and html and mailing lists and off-topic chatter, fanfic and fan theories and trivia - and all the people who you meet along the way while discussing all those off topic things, and the fanfic and theories and trivia.
Happy 29th Zone-a-Versary!