It's Friday night! And I'm more than a little excited about staying home and catching up on Missing. (Last weekend had enough fun to last for a few weeks.)

My extra LJ userpics have expired. *sigh* I still have several weeks left on my paid account--which I will definitely renew--but I can't decide about the userpics.

Change of topic: I haven't talked about clothes in ages. How many times have I ranted about skinny jeans and tunic tops? Well, I'm trying a new tactic: wear them myself in an attempt to bring an end to the look. (Because teenagers seeing their un-cool teacher wearing clothes like theirs should definitely bring about a change, don't you think?)

( two pics )

Hey, tonight there's a repeat episode of Person of Interest, so if you haven't been watching, you have time to try it (and do some catching up if you want) before the next new episode.

( Recruitment post! )

I wouldn't say this is the best show ever, nor would I claim that it has a startling originality, but so far I'm finding it entertaining, and I'm pleased at how few of the tropes are the kind that really annoy me. Keep in mind that I have a high tolerance for implausibility and plot holes, though.

Tonight's repeat episode is 1.08 "Foe". It's not bad; a bit cliché but the themes worked well and I really liked one of the characters introduced in the flashbacks. If you can't watch 1.08, you might go online and take a look at episode 1.11 "Super". It's an homage to the Hitchcock fim Rear Window, and it works well as an introduction because a lot of the pieces are in place. The CBS website has it online for free for the US audience. ( spoilers in case you jump straight to 1.11 )

Okay, I think that's it. Give it a try. Then you could read my weekly posts. They include exciting things like random capitalization of Important Things and repeated use of the phrase dun dun DUN when there's yet another plot twist.

screencaps by poetfades2black

I made a sunset picspam to post to osculations, then realized that it could take months to be released from the queue by the moderator(s), so I'm putting it here now.

eta: just fixed the one really large pic to be smaller
( sunset walk in June )

shah_of_blah had a holiday wish: 8. Just keep talking about Kara Thrace. It was the motivation I needed to finally finish this post--I've been working on it for ages.

Somehow people are unaware that my favorite character on Battlestar Galactica is Kara Thrace. I have no idea how this might have happened. Ahem. Anyway, to rectify the misunderstanding, here are several reasons why I think Kara Thrace is awesome. With pictures to illustrate.

( back here )

Don't forget my ode to Kara's ponytail if you want more Kara pics now!

eta: This was posted before midnight (my time) on the day of Russian Orthodox Christmas. Totally counts as a Christmas present! Woohooo!
*adds 'Christmas' tag to entry*

I'm still sick. And bored, stuck at home. And I can't believe CKR is currently losing on nicole_anell's hotness poll. It's time to summon the minions! All... one of them!

Most of you know Callum Keith Rennie as evil (but hot!) cylon Leoben.


But he's more than just an evil cylon! He's a pretty face! And that's what counts in the poll!
( Non-Leoben pics of Callum Keith Rennie )

In conclusion: Callum Keith Rennie is lovely and if you agree, you should go vote off someone else.
Fly, my minions, fly!

Still feverish. Meh. More Battlestar Galactica stuff, all listified. (Feverish people are allowed to invent words. It's my new rule.)

1) taragel used one of the songs on my LJ Christmas wish list to make an AMAZING Kara video. It's all about Kara and Kacey and mothers and daughters and death and... oh, just go watch it. So awesome.

2) Why did I watch the promo for next week's episode? WHY? (It was the Canadian promo rather than the US one, but still... now I wish I hadn't.)

3) ( spoilers for this week's episode ONLY (4.14); shippy stuff--not that ship, the other one (and some of that one, too); also many pictures )

No new Battlestar Galactica this week. Woe. Also, I'm sick and staying in tonight. Woe woe woe.

So I bring you the picspam of doom of the previous episode of BSG. With bonus rambling comentary by me.
( here ya go )

There will be no new episodes of Lost until April 24. (And then I think it's just the one episode until... whenever season five starts.)

I had an offer from someone on my f-list to have an icon/icons made for me. Here are some pictures I'd love to see made into icons; I thought I'd share them with everyone because really random picspams are fun, right?
( pictures from favorite tv shows and movies )

I thought I was going to end L.A.W. with the fic I posted yesterday. But then I started looking at all these pretty picspams that daybreak777 linked to here (some links in comments) and I couldn't resist. So:
( One last bit about Leoben. With pictures. )

I really wanted to do another Colorado picspam, mostly because I *love* the San Luis valley (south-central Colorado; a nice flat swath of land between the San Juan mountains to the west and the Sangre de Cristo mountains to the east. The last picspam (of the trainride) started in the valley.

I have some childhood friends who lived near the very small town of Crestone, CO for several years. They ran a hotel there, in the middle of nowhere. The nearest stoplight is at least a 45-minute drive away. Wal-Mart--50 minutes minimum. In the summers I used to go there and help out--make beds, wait tables, whatever needed to be done. During my spare time I'd hike, read, whatever I felt like doing. Then they sold the hotel. *RUDE* Why didn't they think of me and my needs?! Heh.

Anyway, during vacation this summer we went back there for a few short days. It's still gorgeous and isolated. If I lived a different life I might choose to be in the San Luis valley somewhere.

This picspam is dedicated to the area from Moffat (the town where you turn off highway 285 onto County Road T) up to the hiking trails past Crestone. All photos taken in August '07.
( PICS: mountains, flowers, the back of my shirt... )