Chambered

[clevermanka]

If you have any feelings whatsoever about the, oh, let's call them discussions that are popping up all over the place in light of the Aurora shootings, I encourage you to read sherwood21's post here about gun ownership and gun laws and all sorts of issues involved in such. bart_calendar has a good post about the same subject, here.

I am a gun owner. I own an assault rifle. We have multiple firearms in our house. I am not mentally unstable, prone to harming other people, or inclined to act out revenge fantasies. Neither are any of the other gun owners I know personally. If you are anti-gun, that's fine. I'm not going to argue this issue with anyone. You have a right to hate guns just like I have a right to like (and own) them. But I think it's important for sane, responsible, and liberal/progressive gun owners to be open and honest about owning firearms. So that's what I'm doing.

Progressive, pro-sex, pro-legalization, party girl, and gun owner. Right here.



And now, some scattershot:

I just found out about a show that BBC Four did in 2010: A History of Horror, hosted by Mark Gatiss. Well. I need to find a copy of this.

I found out about it after watching this clip on how to make good fake blood.

And I found that while reading this incredibly well-researched essay on how Sherlock beat Moriarty in The Reichenbach Fall. WOW, Y'ALL.

Just when I feel like my Tom Hiddleston Feels are waning a little bit, I come across something like this. What. What. What. What. What.

If you use Firefox, ctrl-shift-t will reopen the most recently closed browser tab/window. So if, like me, you often have a gazillion tabs open and always manage to close the wrong one, this is VERY GOOD INFORMATION. I think it might work with Chrome, too.

From the Transformative Works website comes this warning of a rootkit virus spread through YouTube links/embeds in comments.

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Our man Tom is awesome.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

"Our man?" It sounds like you think I am planning to share him or something crazy like that.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Linkity link linking today.. very good ones, too.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Happy to spread helpful information.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

God that icon turns me on.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliment! I was playing around with makeup a couple nights ago and came up with a good look. Larger view:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/chernobylred/7638046072/)

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

My penis thanks you for this photo.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Your penis is welcome.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Seriously, if that photo is real you are fucking beautiful at the level that I can't even believe that someone like you even talks to me.

Why does a 9 talk to a 3?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Wow. I mean...wow, that could be the most amazing compliment I've ever received. Thank you.

Yeah, that's the real me, with a lot of make-up, but no Photoshop touch-ups. Believe me, I can look like a lot of crap, too. =D A quick scroll through last year's 365 project (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chernobylred/sets/72157625845549807/with/6715073903/) provides proof of that.

As to why I talk to you? You're funny and insightful and smart and you think about things and tell interesting stories. You're a good party host. Even when I don't agree with you, I like you and enjoy your (internet) company.

If I ever make it to France, please expect a visit from me. Cool?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Very cool - but if you make that visit assume I'll try to pay a visit to your pink parts.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ha! You can make the play, but my partner and I don't play with others. =/

I never turn down a good flirting session, though.

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

I think we might still have a copy of that around. The Mark Gatiss thing, I mean. He's such a fan boy. :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool!

I think it's important to remember that these celebrity actors that we get all het up about were probably just like us at one point: Theater Geeks and other Assorted Nerd Types.

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[tama-grey.livejournal.com]

Thank for the links re guns. They were both excellent reads!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[miischelle.livejournal.com]

For the record, while I don't want any guns of my own (except maybe a shotgun....maybe), I am totally for my sane mentally balanced friends having ALL THE GUNS THEY WANT. It's more houses for me to hide in should something happen.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You've always got a spot with us, hon!

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

Oh Dean. I could watch that icon all day.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You think that one's good. Check this'n out.

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

...

I'll be in my bunk.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v241/barefootseamstress/?action=view&current=5488830766036470_dlESOloV_f.jpg)
^
Am making the same face as Sam right now.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I have...a lot of Dean gifs.

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you're killing me over here. I'm in hysterics AND consumed with lust. Definitely going to have to load up the netflix and watch me some Supernatural tonight.

BBC documentary

[cmt2779.livejournal.com]

The BBC documentary series about horror film is up on youtube right now. I found it in a quick search and it's quite interesting. (I do prefer to get my stuff legally when I can, but this doesn't appear to be actually available in any way.)

Re: BBC documentary

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Good to know. The BBC site just had clips. I'll go digging on YouTube, thanks!

[kira-snugz.livejournal.com]

idk where i stand on guns. on one hand, automatic weapons are sexy and have incredible history. on the other hand.... its way too easy to get your hands on one.

what sort do you have? the assult rifle i mean. (i'm nosey nosey nosey, and you don't have to answer that)

part of me is still the twee twit who played goldeneye 64 and fell in love with the p90 and proximity mines. and then part of me knows way to people who are highly stressed, on the edge of bad things and have guns.

i want a magic meter on all guns so that civilians can't use them while drunk, or high, or during a bat shit crazy mental state. and while i'm at it, i'm owed a pony.

thank you for the firefox cheat!! because omg so tired of losing all my tabs.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I have an AK-47. Because yeah, it's sexy and has an incredible history (much more interesting than the U.S. AR-15, IMO).

I completely understand your ambivalence about firearms. Here are a couple examples that influence my feelings about the ownership of them:

Switzerland has high gun ownership numbers but low murder rates (https://www.google.com/search?q=switzerland+gun+ownership&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a). The common presence of guns in a society does not necessarily lead to common acts of violence.

Poor food choices, drinking habits, careless driving, and a host of other things that are equally dangerous to ourselves and others kill vast numbers of people, too. It's just that not as many people are killed at one time in large groups so those deaths don't make the news. Does it make sense it ban those things? No. Processed foods are poisonous and are going to put my father (and countless others) into an early grave. But I don't think it's helpful to make it illegal for him to purchase and eat them. Likewise, I would never suggest that a mother, who can only afford to purchase processed foods for her family, should be accused of child abuse.

I realize the politics of food are different from the politics of gun ownership. But I see them on the same spectrum, and the concept of prohibition has never been something that sat well with me.

[athenaartemis.livejournal.com]

Chiming in as another progressive, pro-sex, pro-legalisation, pro-a-lot-of-other-"liberal"-things person who owns guns. I guess I don't technically own them, John does, but the point is: guns. I haz them.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for chiming in!