Semi-productive flurry of unpacking

[bunrab]

Woke up in the middle of the night, unpacked a few boxes until I was tired again. Today I bought some more cheap plastic shelving and other storage stuff, which more unpacking will get done into. Whee! I can see the windows in the spare bedroom now!

I have been re-reading, or possibly reading for the first time, I can't remember, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's A Baroque Fable. I had forgotten, if I ever knew, that it is a combined parody of (a) Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (b) LOTR, the book, and (c) Disney fairy tale movies. The characters burst into perfectly awful songs at the drop of a hat - or nothing at all - and the sheet music is included in the back. I can't tell you how grateful I am that Peter Jackson left the songs from LOTR the book out of the LOTR movies. Anyway, fun to read or possibly re-read. Still have to get to the library!

As with most icon makers, once I pick the hair and the clothes I actually wear, I look nothing like me. This is from a Simpsons icon maker.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Link to the icon maker! Now I'm curious.

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

The only Chelsea Quinn Yarbro stuff I've read is her vampire series featuring Count St. Germain. Decent work, if a trifle heavy on the period detail.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

I love the period detail, unless it gets too deeply into clothes. What the houses were like, the rooms, the furnishings, the streets - love them. This is nothing at all like the St. Germain books, though - this is completely silly.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15188
but then you have to use PrtSc to turn it into an icon - it's not direct from Flash to icon.