Okay. Here's the deal. I don't like using the journal here, I like my livejournal. If your interested in looking at my livejournal tell me and I may or may not be inclined to give you the link.

However, it bothers me that this hasn't been used in a while. So instead, I'm just going to put down links to websites I like and wish to share, so that you may enjoy them as well. Good? Good.

Blog and Bloggish Sites

Bookslut: [link]
The Show With Ze Frank: [link]
The Comics Curmugeon: [link]
Mutant Reviewers from Hell: [link]
Postsecret: [link]
Keyframe: [link]
Cute Overload: [link]
The Satorialist: [link]
Ask Pud: [link]

Artist and Author Sites

365 Portraits: [link]
Jonathan Carroll: [link]
Neil Gaiman: [link]
Scott McCloud: [link]
David LaChapelle: [link]
Haruki Murakami: [link]
J.K. Rowling: [link]
Banksy: [link]
Guerrilla Girls: [link]
Dave Werner: [link]
Ashes and Snow: [link]
Mark Jenkins: [link]
The Enchanted Doll: [link]
Lane Smith: [link]

Retail Therapy

J-List (Warning: sells adult products):[link]
Broadway Shows Guide: [link]
Suedy's Koo-Ki Sushi: [link]
Threadless T-Shirts: [link]
Black Pheonix Alchemy Lab: [link]

Comix & Animation

Sinfest: [link]
Contemplating Reiko: [link]
Neurotically Yours: [link]
Angry Alien Productions: [link]
The Perry Bible Fellowship: [link]
Lackadaisy: [link]
Questionable Content: [link]
XKCD: [link]
A Softer World: [link]
Copper: [link]
The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom: [link]
Power Rings: [link]

That is all.

Step One:

Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want. If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two:

Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it. You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

The List

1. Anything Hayao Miyazaki related. I have the DVDs but if anyone can find plushies or figurines or cards or little trinkets like that, I will be a very happy girl.
2. Art! Draw me stuff. It would be especially cool if you drew something based on one of my favorite movies, since I'm a movie freak (If you want the full list of my favorite films, just leave a comment. It's easier that way.)
3. A ravenclaw scarf.
4. A Series of Unfortunate Events book, I only have #1 & 2.
5. Hey plushie makers, wouldn't it be cool if an okapi plushie existed? Just saying...
6. Chocolate!
7. A mixed CD of songs you think I would like.
8. A custom My Little Pony based on one of the Cirque Du Soleil shows. Because I think that would be awesome.
9. Broadway show ticket(s).
10. An oboe.

Hey, a girl can dream.

I'm not posting my contact info for all to see, so if you want it, just comment!

I think this is a way cool idea: [link]

I voted for The Great Wall of China, Chichen Itza, The Roman Coloseum, The Easter Island Statues, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Stonehenge, and The Taj Mahal.

Time to say...something.

I have an actual art comission right now. Sorta. I'm designing publicity for a play that I didn't get into acting-wise. But it's not something cool like a poster design. It's a logo and the name of the play, basically, and it's going to be made into stickers. Maybe. Assuming we can find people who know how to do that.

Right, but here's the problem: illustration and graphic design? Not the same thing. Some people can do both, but that doesn't make them the same thing. Director man seems to be under the impression that it is the same thing, hence why he expects me to be able to do this entirely on the computer. Fat chance of that. It'll get done though either way. The only reason I said yes was for resume material.

Other than that...nothing much really. My family is moving to the Seattle area while I'm still in the NYC region. That's gonna be rough. I feel like I need to go to the mall and spend disgusting amounts of money.

I don't really know what to do for Halloween. My friend was planning on making us all dress up like Family Guy characters, and I agreed to be Meg. But if no one else does it, I'm just going to look like myself. So I'm thinking of trying to find a secondary costume.

By the way, this is dangerous: [link]