The New Evil: Pink

Nothing against Slimey (your new name m'dear, until you drop the Ms Floozy thing) but
Pink is emerging as the EVIL. This realisation came naturally to PP and I after a day of extreme Pink exposure at her house- via Bratz (horror of pink horrors) Mean Girls and PP's own aggressive use of the colour- encapsulated in her cyber-identity: the Pink Pistol.
The Bratz colour condemnation was most explicit- the chokingly bimboish Bratz wore any shade but pink, thereby apparently claiming some measure of street-cred. These preposterous, and literal, dolls then have the gall to mock a pair of equally airhead girls as fashion victims- because their dresses are PINK. But that's just a taster. We then cut to the Arch Enemy of the piece: fluffy pink incarnate. And she's terrifying, a power-hungry, pink-loving empress of evil. At least that was the impression I got before escaping the lunacy of that film.
Then in Mean Girls it's also very simple: wear pink=enter b**** world
Nanny Mcphee takes a slightly different but no less negative attitude towards the colour pink. The vulgar, grasping widow dresses and decorates lavishly in shocking pink, reflecting her crassness and tastelessness. It's bold- too bold.
One last example and I need only one word: Umbridge.

Case closed?

Ok I had nothing to say so i decided to trawl Livejournal for some good memes.

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.
3. Post in your own blog.

1. Gone With the Wind Rhett Butler, Fudge
2. Harry Potter (surprise, surprise) Fred Weasley, Designer Dentist
3. Everwood
4. ER
5. Little Women through to Jo's Boys
6. Anne of Green Gables series
7. Malory Towers/ St Clares
8. Neighbours
9. North and South: John Thornton of course, guessed by the Designer Dentist
10. The OC
11. Fiddler on the Roof The Rabbi's Son, Bikey! (excellent- I'm impressed)
12. Blackadder (Goes Forth specifically)
13. Georgette Heyers
14. What Katy Did series

Some of these were more obsessive than others, and then some are not a little cringey, but, as I recently explained to Pink, I and my whole household, do tend to become fixated and wholly immersed in whatever our latest phase is. I guess what we do is absorb it all until it's part of the establishment. Like when no one knew Firefly it was sad cause there was no common ground in the family community: we need to be to be at a point where we can share quotes and refernces. It's all very neat if you look at it in terms of linguistics..

ETA: I just removed Sweet Valley, Cecilia, Firefly, Anna Karenina, Lucerne Symphony orchestra, Dexter's Lab because Pink Pistol said the list was too long so I got rid of those which almost no one knew, I couldn't think of a favourite or they didn't qualify as obsessions. Ray if you read this you know Jayne Cobb wins hands down...
If BSE were around I'd be betting on her
When someone guesses right I'll put the answer on the post

A glimpse into my confused state

This morning is a fair example which should illustrate the slightly-lostness that made me miss the first few weeks of uni. What MD calls 'challenged'

To be brief then, I started the day very sure that it was Monday, and now I'm not so positive. I still think it is but a couple of things have thrown me off.
I woke up extra-amazingly early 6.30am, having decided to take advantage of the winter nights, and finished readiing The Scarlet Letter. My head is full of this book now which I didn't expect to be- somehow Puritan Salem drew me in and became my weekend obsession.

Anyhow I hitched a lift with Ray and Abbu and was of course late so I didn't try to go to my Mon 9am lecture. That there was my first mistake - going to my halls instead of classes meant my concept of time wasn't confirmed.

I then redeemed my room from it's deadly inpenetrable war zone status up to Visible Floor level- and indulged my shameless geek by listening to a couple of Leaky podcasts.

After a brief debate with myself on whether the upcomin 12pm Sounds of English tutorial was worthwhile my sensible side won and I left the room careful to remember my keys and purse. But there was a small victory for the foolish side because I left all papers, notes and the like in my room. So I had to go buy a notebook and waste 55p and be even later...

Except the class wasn't on and I'm sure I went to the right room. And I was 5ish minutes late so I couldn't be too early! Time: check, place: check, conclusion- wrong date. Also I'd seen many Student Market Day! flyers, which are only around on Tuesdays. It was like the tragedy of my GoF mix-up all over again except I'm not sad today.

So I logically go through my head of the markers that today IS monday (isn't it??) -
1) Ray went to school this morning so it can't be Sunday.

That was all I had. So you see the evidence is stacked up for Tuesday but I'm still pretty sure it's Monday. And that's the timetable day I'm going to stick with.

Review Binge

I'm sorry for the word binge- it's ugly and I don't like it but I've been intending to review a number of things; only each time something new happens and it's all snowballed now. But I have a lovely lazy post-coursework weekend so I think it is time.

Going backwards from Now:

I have finally, after much dithering, decided that going to Bangladesh is the right choice. Mainly because I know Scrooginess is what's holding me back and I don't want any Christmas ghosts visiting. So it looks like I'll be leaving Christmas day insha'allah and hopefully the world will look very pretty and twinkly from up in the plane. I do like all this winter sparkle. Yay! I get to go to weddings 4 & 5! Sorry Boz, that's what they're called.

Speaking of sparkle, Tab's Spectacular concept is sounding wonderful. I was feeling a bit sad that our big YMS dream wasn't quite getting off the ground but if this is a smash then we're all good. (Btw Tab, it was Mrs C who advised I shouldn't let it stop me from going to B'desh, though I'm sure you'ld say the same, it's not like using paltry exams as an excuse)

As for Harry Potter- I don't want to recount the sad (in many senses) story that resulted in my watching it so late- but it was The Most Magical. It actually looked real- I could just accept the underwater task and Voldemort's rebirth and everything. Wow, Voldemort was terrifying. And I felt worse about Cedric than I did when I read it. I thought I'd heard and read every review and it might be overhyped- plus I saw way too many clips- but it still topped my expectations which after PoA were pretty low. For The Review click here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/arabellasq/2377.html#cutid1

On the other hand I saw City of God last weekend at the C's and that is just on an entirely different level of amazing. It's no magical fantasy world but anyone who can handle the brutality watch it- it's unbelievable.

I ought to do a proper review of the Chechnya conference but I'm not sure how to present it so I'll think on it first...

The Chinese dude's Arabic calligraphy workshop- I can only shake my head in wonder at his skill. He'd do something you'ld expect to take hours as a mere five-second illustration of how a certain pen works. I'll put a picture up of my prize for writing the best noon on the board (compared to two others) Sure it wasn't much of a competition but I got my name written out beautifully so it looks like a bird. And Dude, I thank you for pushing me to do it and for shouting out that mine was the winner so it was a short step for him to agree to it :)

Hope that'll satisfy y'all for a little while!

Ps. I have successfully drawn Ray into the Firefly fold. The rest of you don't know what you're missing but I won't try to convince you anymore- I just needed someone to share quotes and references with. What's called 'common ground' if you want to get technical.