Specifically, baaaaaaaby Moorhens!

( Momma included, free of charge )

Hey guys, remember me? ;P

Life has been crazy and exciting. So I'm gonna do some catching up behind a cut. ( Epic fresh start mode to a new year )

Now, I know I have a lot of crafty people on my flist, and I need some advice. Google has given me some mixed messages, and for the most part is talking about resin molds when I try to look this up... But Dashboard Ganesh lost his delicate ears in the car accident. I've taken to repairing him myself with Sculpey (which matches his skin perfectly miracles of miracles) and have managed to sculpt some very lovely replacement ears onto his precious little head. The question now is... how do I finish it?

I'm 90% sure that Dashboard Ganesh is resin. We got him off e-bay forever ago, and he came in a shell which he no longer resides in. He's already painted, and the paint doesn't want to stay on as is. His pants faded in the sun, and I'm going to repaint those as soon as I figure out how to bake his ears. I don't want to repaint all his beautiful details though, nor risk him cracking in the oven.

So how do I make this work? Leave his ears unbaked? Bake him slow at a low temp? What? I've never done a project like this before, and am eager to finish him up and put him in Pilot. It's not the same driving around without Dashboard Ganesh. Even with a flux capacitor.

EDIT: Yay, Dashboard Ganesha is baked!... that doesn't sound right... but he made it out of the oven just fine with brand new ears. :D Now we just need to paint and mount him! Oh, and add a finish! Thanks so much!

( Here are some baby bunnies for you - includes human hands and one mommy )

Have a bonus guinea pig: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bivoir/154081141/

Just because two things look the same doesn't mean they are. Case in point, Medium and Ghost Whisperer. While both may deal with supernatural elements and women who can speak with the dead, these shows couldn't be more different. Ghost Whisperer stars the always too-adorable Jennifer Love Hewitt, with a heart so big even the dead can't resist her.

It's sappy, predictable and overwrought with sentimental drama. By episode's end, all is right with the world, this one and the one beyond, and the dead see the light and "cross over." And then there's Medium -- unpredictable, dark and a little disturbing. It's also based on real-life psychic Allison DuBois, played perfectly by Patricia Arquette, who uses her "gift" to help the D.A. solve grisly crimes.

The fact that Medium is based on an actual medium helps the show's credibility, making it believable even to skeptics. For five years, the show aired to solid ratings and a loyal fan base on NBC. But when the peacock network decided to put The Jay Leno Show on five nights a week, suddenly there was no room for Medium. Thankfully, CBS picked up the series and initially paired it with Ghost Whisperer on Friday nights -- the only downside to the move.

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oh, yeah. i've been doing this polaroid a day thing, polamour. i forgot to mention it here. dur.



polamour.com
facebook.com/polamour
flickr.com/polamour

you may not be aware of this, but i loathe cold. and snow. f-ing cold, wet snow.

leggings + jeans + tank top + thermal shirt + hooded sweater + lined hoodie + scarf + arm warmers + fingerless gloves with mitten tops + three pairs of socks + boots + headband + hat. misery brought to you by j's iphone.


but, you know, priorities:

oklahoma is all snowy, if you haven't heard. i spent the last few days getting my truck stuck and unstuck, digging other people out, and bundling up to walk to parks for photo fun.

Today's British Antarctic Survey Penguin of the day is a chinstrap penguin chick and its parent. (The photo focuses on the parent, but this is a very cute baby bird.)

A Episode Description and Casting Call for the fifteen episode of MEDIUM's Sixth Season. Some seriously interesting details of the spoilerific kind behind the cut.

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HAPPY MIDWINTERS DAYS! XO

There’s been some discussion on our site about the possibility that Medium may be canceled. It’s true that Medium has done poorly in the ratings this season compared to CBS Fridays last season, but so have its bretheen Numb3rs and Ghost Whisperer. But I significantly doubt that CBS would cancel two of its Friday shows in a single season, no matter how far they fall. So, like the joke about the two guys running from the bear, all Medium needs to do to survive for another season is outrun Numb3rs.

The Good Wife is doing a bit below average ratings for CBS. On NBC it would be a hit. On ABC or Fox it would be safe. On CBS, something’s gotta go, that puts it on the bubble for next season. The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried’s low ratings could be tolerated for yet another season if CBS sticks to its goal of a second “comedy block”, but don’t be surprised if Christine goes and Gary stays.

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A Clip from the Sesame Street Episode (or segment) Patricia Arquette starred in (via HULU.com). She and this muppet character here are talking about how big the word "Metamorphosis" is and how much fun it is to say it. It's pretty damn cute and hillarious when Patricia ends up getting changed into a Pinguin.



( Video )

The Cleveland Zoo is home to two very active red panda babies. I saw them today and they are very cute, and very, very busy.

( Everyone knows the best toy is the tail of your sibling. )

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I have a question about writing dialogue. When you leave off in the middle of a sentence (perhaps the character was interrupted), you put a dash. There's no punctuation at the end, is there? One of my friends always does that and it always sticks out as wrong to me.

Like this:

He sighed. "I don't want this to--"
"Sssh," she cut him off.

She writes it like this:

He sighed. "I don't want this to--."
"Sssh," she cut him off.


It's the first, right?

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74 Icons from the Halloween Special (and homage to Night of the Living Dead), "Bite Me".

 

(Safe House Here!)

74 Icons from the Halloween Special (and homage to Night of the Living Dead), "Bite Me".

 

(Safe House Here!)