The Chickens are in the Hayloft.

How much product do they have to use to get Gabriel Macht's hair to do that?

Lauren German takes lots of pics with her iPhone and posts them on Instagram.  Scott Caan is frequently one of her subjects.

I LOVE the one she just posted.  http://instagr.am/p/jX3NZ/  Was discussing on Twitter with taylorgibbs that it looks like a picture from Steve and Danny's wedding reception. :D

The only spoilers in the pics are sartorial ones and SO worth it.

Had a great evening tonight.  Went to LACMA tonight with my roommate.  We went to watch a live read of "Shampoo" directed by Jason Reitman.  Reitman has been doing a whole series of these for LACMA and I'd definitely love to go again.

Bradley Cooper played George (the Warren Beatty character in the movie) and Olivia Wilde played Jackie (Julie Christie's character).  Cooper was fine, I was actually more impressed with Olivia Wilde than I thought I would be. 

Kate Hudson of course played Jill the character her mom (if you don't know who that is, you're too young to be reading my LJ) played in the movie and JK Simmons (who I always LOVE) was Lester Karpf (Jack Warden's character).

The total rock stars of the night though were Diane Lane (Felicia), Patton Oswalt (Norman and a few other characters) and Nick Kroll (Pope and other characters).  Patton Oswalt was just fabulous and did some great voices.  I'm pretty sure one of them was Bates from Downton Abbey.  Just when I thought my little fangirl heart couldn't get any bigger for him.

Diane Lane is beyond STUNNING.  The woman doesn't age.  Josh Brolin was in the audience and he was looking pretty damn good himself.

As soon as the reading was over Patton Oswalt scooted right out the door.  Turned out he had to go down the street to do a Q&A with Harlan Ellison.  Did I mention my fangirling of him???

I love my neighborhood!

I went to start this post several times and kept distracting myself with other things.  I also have another post that I've been wanting to do talking about this amazing event I went to at the Skirball last week where the US Ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues was honored by Jewish World Watch.  I keep hesitating to make the posts though because I'm worried about whether I'll be coherent or interesting or...whatever. 

Maybe this is the downside to having so many smart, awesome friends.  My "witty repartee" never quite seems to measure up.

Anyhoo, as part of my whole resolution to be okay with failing, I'm forcing myself to make posts even when I don't think they're particularly eloquent.  While the Skirball event does deserve consideration and thought before putting it up, I thought I could at least share some squee. :)

Squee-the-first... New Nightwing and Supergirl issues come out tomorrow!  These are definitely my two favorite books of the DCnU at this point.  I really like how both of the stories are playing out.  While a few of the other titles have been a bit of a let down, I really do like the way these two have been handling the back-stories of the characters.

Squee-the-second...Downton Abbey Season 2 is airing on PBS now.  I've already seen the season, but it still makes me happy to watch again.  What makes me really happy is reading the live-tweets while it's airing.  Patton Oswalt is apparently a fan.  This is one of the shows I really need icons for.  I want many of Anna and Bates and of course the Dowager Countess. :)

Squee-the-third...REVENGE!!!  ZOMG  Still loving this show so much.  I'm endlessly impressed by the writer's ability to keep the mysteries and twists and turns from getting tedious.  Plus Emily (aka Amanda original recipe) is bad-ass and Nolan is AWESOME!

Squee-the-fourth...Suits will be airing starting today in the UK.  Even though I'm not in the UK, it makes me happy because I can squee with others about episodes!  I need lots of Donna icons for this show. :D

I haven't watched this week's Once Upon A Time or H50 yet, so I'll leave the squee there for the time being.

Feel free to squee along (or even share your own squee) and note that spoilers are possible in the comments. :D

I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for an iPad or iPhone app for updating DW and/or LJ.  I know the LJ app is out there, but I'm not a huge fan overall. Plus I prefer posting from DW so it cross-posts.

I'm not the best at remembering HTML, but I'd like to be able to do posts from my iPad where I can insert links, etc...  I was wondering if there's some other kind of HTML for dummies app that I could copy-pasta into DW.

Help me oh flist!

So...One of the things I've been thinking about of late is how much of the squee of fandom has gone away for me.  It's not in any one particular fandom, but kind of overall.  I know a lot of this is because I allow myself to get dragged into negative discussions and situations.  I have no desire to change or judge anyone else's fandom experience, but I do have some level of control over my own fannish space and contributions.

With that said, my intention is to make this journal a more friendly and "safe" space when it comes to fandom.  What this means exactly...

• I'll be doing regular Squee/Fluff posts where folks are welcome to come and gush over their fandom(s) of choice.
• I'll be doing regular memes that encourage fannish squee.
• I'll put any non-Squee fandom posts behind a cut.  This is more to make me really think about what I'm posting rather than add to the negativity.  (Again, this isn't any form of judgement of others, just looking to shape my own environment.)
• I'll be cheerleading fannish works as much as possible.  I'm happy to help pimp anything and to wave pom-poms for anyone looking for encouragement.

If any of this sounds annoying or just not your cup of tea, that's fine.  I would ask that you respect the space though and keep any negativity elsewhere when it comes to the squee/fluff posts. I always have open amnesty for anyone who would like to unfriend me.  No hard feelings (unless you're... well you know who you are). :)  On that note, I'll also be going through and cleaning out a bit of my flist over the next couple of weeks.  Mostly communities, but possibly a few folks as well.  I get that interests change, folks move on.  No ill will intended. :)

I'm in the magical land of Vancouver still.  Part of its magic is that I completely and totally lose all sense of time here since they have no proper sense of when to bring their sun out and when to put it away. :)

Most of my prezzie exchanges are coming in a week or so, but I did get an awesometastic gift from tartary_lamb that's a two-fer.  She got me two necklaces.  One is Steph!Batgirl and the other is Kara!Supergirl.  They are wonderful and then I love them both.  As a prezzie to myself I bought a new Fossil purse.  It's green and glorious and I love it.

During the week we've done much hanging out and consuming of fannish media (TV, movies, comics) as well as playing WoW. 

Yesterday we saw "Sherlock Holmes" and today was "MI:4".  I really liked them both.  I didn't even have to pull out the goggles to see the slash in either one of them. :)  Jeremy Renner is also getting higher and higher on my list of guys I like to watch.

My plans for the rest of the week is kind of more of the same.  I'm also looking to get some fannish reading in as well.  If anyone has recs from H50 or DC comics fandom, I'll take them. :)


ETA: Also, for those who are either new to Dreamwidth or who are now using it primarily, please feel free to add me there.  I'm Webbgirl in both spots. :)

So my cold has hit at what is hopefully full force.  Ugh.  My kingdom for a coherent thought.

Sadly, no random Scott Caan sightings today to help cheer me up.  Though I suppose I do have a laptop and DVD player that could help with that. :)

Hoping that lots of sleep and catching up on "Once Upon A Time" are going to help with feeling better.

For those who haven't seen it yet, there's a really good article/interview with Scott Caan in Western Civ magazine online. 
According to their twitter, the physical copy will be out early next year and they will be posting pics from the shoot on their Facebook and Tumblr.

eumelia has kindly put up a post with the yummy pics on her LJ.

Drool bucket and towels are recommended.  I can't decide if I find him on the
bike or him in the board shorts hotter.  It's the kind of thing I'm
willing to do endless research into though.

HUMINA!!!

I'm up late and channel surfing.  "Dr. Oz" is on and it caught my eye because he's talking about "The New Face of Hunger".  My immediate thought? BULLSHIT.

The whole idea that there's a "new face" on hunger and poverty in this country pisses me off.  What they're really saying is, "White folks who don't live in trailer parks now know what it feels like to struggle to feed their kids".  Evidently it's much more heartbreaking when it happens to kids who aren't brown or "ghetto".

There was a woman who literally broke down because she and her husband had to go into a local food bank.  She kept saying that she gave to places like that, she didn't go to get food from there.  While I do understand the idea of pride when it comes to that, I think it's indicative of the problem overall.  Too many people in this country look at poverty and hunger as something that happens to "others".  To people who somehow screwed their lives up or who have "dozens of welfare babies".  It's like some sort of revelation that the people going hungry are just like everyone else. I find the idea that there's some sort of acceptable class who should be the ones going hungry and needing help horrific.

Until we take away the stigma of needing help and giving help in this country without passing judgement I don't see how we can call ourselves a developed nation.  I also think that all of the preaching in the world about what kids need to eat isn't going to change anything overall.  You have to change the mindset that the people needing the help aren't some random "other" group.  They're human beings.  Just like they've always been.