http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Touch-of-Grey37&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Touch-of-Grey37 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:11:32 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28719112/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28719112/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:05:47 PST My father
My grandmother
Hector (but there was a third thing at Target I'm getting him once my next paycheck drops)
Ellie
Mike and Eric
Wayne and Kelly
Tom
And a gift for the holiday grab bag

My mom is getting an IOU for Glee: Season 1 which comes out 3 days AFTER Christmas (great marketing move, there.). I'm going to have Hector preorder a copy for me at MovieStop with his discount before he quits the store. Hee hee hee, so devious am I. Anyway, since Jim and Pat aren't coming to our holiday get together this year and Laura and family will probably do the same, the only member of my immediate family I have to get something for is my favorite cousin, Jessie.

But this is no explanation as to why comics are bankrupting me.

See, even though I have a 20% discount on Wednesdays at my comic store, I'm still buying a crapload of comics. I only get two series from Marvel, Runaways and New Mutants, and they're $3 each. Oh wait, Runaways just got upped to $4. Thanks, Marvel. Here's a weekly breakdown of my DC books for this month:

12/02 (except that the books don't actually ARRIVE in comic stores until Thursday, despite the website saying that today is the release date. Thanks a lot, DC!):

Blackest Night: Flash $3
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman $3

12/09:

Adventure Comics $4
Batgirl $3
Booster Gold $4
DC Holiday Special $6 (this month only, thank god)
Green Arrow and Black Canary $4
R.E.B.E.L.S. $4
Red Robin $3
Secret Six $3
Titans $3

12/16

Green Lantern Corps $3
Power Girl $3

12/23

Gotham City Sirens $3
Green Lantern $3
Teen Titans $4
World's Finest $3

12/30 (or 01.06, if my comic shop isn't participating in the Green Christmas program)

Blackest Night $4

So let's add that up. Week 1 is $4.80, week 2 is $27.20, week 3 is another $4.80, week 4 is $10.40, week 5 is $3.20, plus the Marvel issues that come out sometime during the month (Marvel website doesn't tell me in advance, dammit) are another $5.60. Add that all together and you get $56 for this month. If you subtract the cost of limited series (the Blackest Night minis, BN itself, World's Finest, the holiday special, etc), I buy $46.40 worth of comics every month. EVERY MONTH. Oh, I also buy Superman: Secret Identity for Hector, that's another $3.20. Not to mention the times I buy action figures ($14-$18 each), trades ($10-$20 each), or backissues (anywhere from $1.50-$4 each, sometimes more). DC has a straw in my bank account, and it sucks out a little more money every week. But I can't stop! I wonder if there's a rehab group for comic book fans. At this point, crack may honestly be cheaper. Anyone else have a similar sob story?

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28689536/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28689536/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:59:31 PST
SO CONFUSED AGH SO CONFUSED. See, I grew up reading Wally West as the Flash (and hating him), and the only time I ever got to read Barry stories was if I hijacked my grandmother's friend's husband's old Flash comics. He collected them until around the 70s, so I never really ran into any stories involving Barry's dad. Then again, his collection was full of gaps, so that may be another reason why. It's also why, when I first picked up a Flash comic with an Elongated Man feature, I went, "Huh, Ralph changed his costume. WAIT, this is older. Oh, okay then." But that is a horse of a different color.

According to Rebirth, Barry's mom was murdered by Zoom, but Zoom framed Barry's father for it. But in the issues prior to Rogue War, Barry's letter to Wally says that the reason he mindwiped the Top was because he was going nuts and harassing his (Barry's) parents and digging up Iris' grave and stuff. Sooo...new history?
No parents + no torture of parents= No mindwipe of the Top =...how did he die again? Which leads back to me going SO CONFUSED AGH SO CONFUSED.

No more retcons, please. Please? Next thing you know, Wally will actually be Barry's adopted son and Bart never lived in Alabama.

Crisis on Infinite Earths Barry is not pleased. Erm, or being anally violated. [link]

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28688387/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28688387/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:36:55 PST [link]

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Have a nice day.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28671822/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28671822/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:45:36 PST
So I was down at 7-Eleven about half an hour ago, getting a refill of the ESSENCE OF LIFE, aka Diet Coke. Now, I'm dressed a little haphazardly today because I forgot to do my fecking laundry last night. Quick rundown: Long sleeved black shirt with a gold heart with bats spilling out of it over my right boob, a green and blue striped, short sleeved, zip-up hoodie that only goes down until just over my stomach (long sleeved shirt makes this an okay item to wear today), my green wrist cuff, my Tripp red and black cutoffs (or are they called something else? They only come down to just over my knees), green and black striped long socks, and my green boots.

So I get my drink and go stand in line. Just before she leaves, the lady in front of my turns to me and says this:

"You may think dressing like a freak is cool and hip now, but boy will your kids laugh at you when you're forty."

WHAT THE FUCK. So as she's walking to the door I call back, cool as you please,

"I'm thirty seven, sterile, and you're a bitch."

She turns around really fast, opens and shuts her mouth a few times, then leaves. HAHAHA. Seriously, what's her concern if I dress like this? I love the way I dress, and consider my laundrty day creations to be amonst my best work. I hope to run into her again someday when I'm walking around dressed as Black Canary or Supergirl. That'll be fun.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28666892/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28666892/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:31:01 PST
Borrowed money from Hector to get some good, used (read: CHEAP) movies for my friends and family. Paid him back, then I went out and bought nearly $40 worth of half-price Legion Reboot and Batgirl comics. I always buy my Christmas and Hanukah presents early, no ones going to fault me if I get some comics for myself, right? Tell that to my guilty conscience telling me I could have used that money to but my grandmother something, or at least get myself a pair of long jeans. I've been Jennie Breedening it lately, aka wearing my cutoffs every day since my last pair of long jeans bit the dust.

My knees are cold.

Anyway, whine whine whine, bitch bitch bitch. On the upside, the first issue of Blackest Night: Flash comes out this week (Wondy too, but I'm not looking forward to watching her kick an undead Max Lord in the balls repeatedly. I'm still getting it, but I'm not looking forward to it), my current paycheck is supposed to be $117 (if it ever drops), I have a fresh bag of plain Ruffles, John isn't singing in French yet, and we have a repair being done on some Spanish guy's bike. Uhh oh, he seems to be hitting on me. What is it with me and attracting Spanish guys? I like the one I've already got, thank you very much. Interferance run, he's gone to bug John.

And on that note, I think I'm gonna go mess around in the guilds on Gaia before it gets terminally nooby. I swear, Furious has been letting everyone and their psychic grandma into the Justice League guild. I even caught some ninjas in there last week, but I think they've been banned. As for the Green Lantern guild, GLs have been popping up like daisies in a funeral home since Blackest Night started. A few Star Sapphires and Blue Lanterns have invaded as well, and a member of the Indigo Tribe. It's kinda fun having all the lights in one place, for the most part. But that Star Sapphire is REALLY getting on my nerves. She does another two-word reply on one of my threads, Greynasia's gonna have to smack a bitch.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28549873/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28549873/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:39:06 PST
By the way.
A couple weeks ago I was driving from DC to Cincinnati, and if I find out which one of you thought it was a good idea to put a Slender Man scarecrow up on Route 50 near Athens I will kill you. I caught it at just the right moment to see it, get terrified, and go "oh whew it's fake". Didn't help that it was right at dusk. It was just out by the road in front of some trees and

oh god I hope it was a scarecrow.

Ooooh, spooky! Also, a picture:

[link]

HOLY TAP DANCING JESUSKABOBS. And now Slendy: the explanation (in several parts):

It helps to sit alone in your basement (or your mom's, whatever) late at night, read this thread with all the slenderman pictures, and then maybe check out the videos that were posted as an offshoot of this thread over in the Marble Hornets thread.

It's more a suspension of disbelief thing. Part of the "scariness" of it is that there is no real solid definition for what Slenderman is. He's different a little bit for everyone. I think the only consistent "facts" about him are that 1) he's long and narrow in every aspect, 2) is approximating human clothing, and 3) shows up goddamn everywhere in creepy ways.

It's sort of a spooky madlib. What spooks you out? That's what Slenderman is/does.

For me, he's there late at night when I walk into a dark room just before hitting the lights on. I keep expecting to flip the light on and there he is, just loving standing there, right in front of me, waiting for who knows what, but oh my god I almost walked right into him what the gently caress get outofhererunrunrunrun...

Do you ever get that feeling? That feeling like you're being followed, but whenever you turn around there's no one there? I think that's him. That's what he does when he follows you--he gives you that feeling. If you notice him, he notices you.

I see him outside of my house, now. At the windows. I close all of the blinds, but I always look outside. He only comes at night, but I'm starting to see him in the daytime, too.

I don't think his eyes are darkened. I think they're just... gone.

He follows me wherever I go. I see him at work, so I don't go there anymore. I see him outside, not always but even when I don't, I always feel him there. I don't go outside anymore. I don't go anywhere.

*whimper*

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28545752/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28545752/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:52:28 PST
The moral of the story is, don't do drugs or eggnog, kids. It gives you hella weird dreams.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28517323/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28517323/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:39:14 PST
[link]layList&=07C6E022BCFAA30D&index=13&laynext=2&laynext_fromL

Watch the trailer, then try to figure out why I'm excited.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28506878/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28506878/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:10:36 PST
The Professor Zoom in Rebirth is from the future AFTER Blackest Night, proving that Black Lanterns can, in fact, return from the dead.
Golden Glider and the Top will team up to take Lenny down.
James will eat Axel's heart, then go fuck with Piper's emotions for awhile before attempting to kill him.
Piper's control over the anti-life equation is still relevant, and it may or may not help destroy the Black Lanterns.
Digger will go after both Bart and Owen, and the two will finally be made aware of their brotherly connections.
Black Lantern Rainbow Raider will be very, very dangerous.
Sam Scudder will be looking to make sure that he is the ONLY Mirror Master.
Family reunion time for Weather Wizard!
The Top won't contain himself to simply Flash territory.
There will be more than one undead Thawne on the loose ;-;

If any of those predictions come true, y'all owe me sodas.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28499289/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28499289/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:47:47 PST
I'll tell you, but you guys have to promise that this just stays between us. Okay, here it is:

Sometimes, late at night, if I'm sorting through old convention flyers or if Disturbed comes on the radio, I really start to miss Bobby.

Bobby as he used to be, I mean. Not the Bobby I've randomly bitched about since April. Because when I first met him, he was this charming, sexy, funny guy that didn't think I looked stupid hauling around a case of gay manga and liked my smile. My smile! Not my rack, not my legs, my smile. We only spent two days together, really. And during that time, his friend Nick had hit on me first, so I ended up going out with him, to be fair.

But as soon as Nick and I broke up (two weeks, a semi-decent trial run), I turned around and called the number Bobby had scribbled on my arm before he left the convention. I had written it down, guys. I'm not such a ditz that I'd leave it on my arm.

From the end of June to the middle of November, we talked pretty much every day. Somewhere around September, he admitted that he had fallen in love with me. After we got off the phone, I jumped around my room for ten minutes. I was so happy, because at that point in my life, I'd really, truly thought myself to be in love with him.

That all changed when we saw each other again in November. I was so HAPPY when I saw him at the comics shop, where he was meeting me, I completely ignored the fact that he was over an hour late. Even Barry Allen had a problem with punctuality, right? Anyway, I'd known that I was going to get my period around the time he came down for ASC, so when we met up and it looked like things were going to get hot n' heavy, I made up some BS story about it hurt really badly every time I had sex. He said he was okay with it, and I believed him. An hour later, after I'd painstakingly painted spots all over the left side of his body for some costume he'd made, Bobby dumped me in the Dealer's Room. I don't think he realized that we'd still have to share a room that night. Well, I didn't go back to the room until nearly 6 in the morning, and even though I'd gone to sleep later than everyone else, I was still up and out by 9 the next morning, before the rest of my roommates had even cracked their eyelids. I avoided everyone I roomed with until the late afternoon. As for Bobby, he probably wondered why pretty much every girl at the convention was evil-eyeing him all weekend. Fact of the matter is, you never mess with the girl that provides all the other girls with a cheap gay manga fix. It was probably because he couldn't find any other girls at the convention, coupled with the fact that I revealed that I'd lied about the sex hurting thing, that caused him to text me, begging me to take him back.

And because I was an idiot then, I did.

See, this is the part of the story where most of you have probably stopped reading. You've realized that I'm a moron and an emotional masochist, and you're a combination of sickened by me and sorry for me.

Moving on.

He came to my house the next day, we went to the library, fed some ducks, talked about past camping experiences, and I realized that even though he hurt me, even though I was about as much use to him as tits on a bull, I still loved him. If you could call it that. Because I'd never been with an attractive guy before, y'know? Call me shallow (and god, was I ever), but even though Bobby had a nose that made the ice pick on my face look like a snub and a case of terminal acne, you could break a board over his stomach, he was so ripped. Hey, I was only human, guys.

After the awkward duck-feeding, we sat on his car and I asked him if he could name five things about me that he loved. He could. I could do the same. I don't remember what those things were now. Then his friend Ryan called, so we went to meet him at the comic store. Following that, shenanigans. And then he left for South Carolina, and I wouldn't see him again until April. All in all, he still owes me a birthday present.

I feel better now. Recounting the whole story (for what may be a second or third time) is almost theraputic. I jumped into flings directly after we broke up, and even had a ONS. Never got any sort of closure, and Bobby still harasses me via text occasionally. But it's safe to say that I've moved on. I love Hector with all my heart, in a way that I never loved Bobby. With him, I was always afraid that he'd see me as weak, so I always acted tougher than I am, yet quiet and polite, so that I'd still seem like a girl he'd want to have around. I don't love him any more, but I do miss him.

In my dreams, when I fire the semiautomatic. But only half the time.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28467171/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28467171/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:50:18 PST
Magical Girl Star Sapphire (?!)
Soranik Natu drunk on soda
Guy/Kyle
Kyle/Guy (yes, there is a difference, and this one scared me)
Celestial Lanterns (Sailor Moon in GL? WTF?)
White Lanterns
Hal/Kyle
Alan/Kyle
John/Kyle
Soranik/Kyle (yes, you are reading this correctly)
Sinestro/Kyle
Kyle deathfic
Guy/Ice/Fire (woo!)
Commentry on Guy mooning Batman
Batman/Guy
Hal/Guy
G'nort/Kyle (I had to wash my brain, and it was a pg fanfic)
Kyle basically being the Corps bicycle
Star Sapphire Kyle
Star Sapphire Guy
Blue Lantern Ice
Connor/Kyle
Sinestro Corps Batman
Sinestro/Vril Dox (*shudder*)
Hal/Barry
Hal/Ollie and Connor/Kyle interaction
Little Kyle and his mom
Kyle/Jade
Hal/Kyle/Airplane (yeah, what?)

And it was about then that I decided that I was sick of reading fanfic about Kyle and came here. Huh, now that he's dead, he's probably going to become ten times as popular. God help us all.
(all the "new Corps" [aka noncanon Corps] fics were hilarious, especially because the author of the White Lanterns fic has no idea how to spell Guardians)

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28404586/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28404586/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:47 PST
Y'know the good thing about having a boyfriend that doesn't care what you wear? I can steal his clothes. I'm wearing his boxers right now. Feels good.

I got this awesome leather wristband at Art in the Park yesterday. It looks just like Thad's wrist strap thing, except maybe a lighter green (depending on what comic you read). Also, my boots came in the mail. I am totally rocking the green these days. Ellie still isn't getting her Converse back, though.

I really, really suck at DJ Hero. I tried playing it while Hector was at work, but I really, really suck. I miss Brutal Legend.

You may now adjust your computer screens.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28350839/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28350839/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:29:55 PST
The first, Fuyuko Yuki, my Siren, is actually less Japanese and more Greek, simply because of how she was raised and where she spent the largest part of her life. I don't have her do any stereotypically Asian things (liking rice, being a bad driver, karaoke, etc), in fact, I never really address her ethnicity at all. To me, she's a Siren first and Japanese second, which is how I like her. But honestly, this entire post is being written because one of my more Japan-savvy net friends pointed out an unintentional naming pun.

In 2006, I started work on a new girl character to kind of go along with the One Year Later Titans team, not to mention 52. I decided that she would have been initially rejected as a superhero (I was really into the idea of having a character that relied on an object as the source of her powers, and Ko's object was a magical wishing flute. You can see why she was rejected at first, as it's sort of a dumb power) during 52, then show up OYL as a technical advisor in Titan's Tower. I described her as a short, slightly round Japanese girl with serious looking square, black framed glasses and wild purple hair, and her name was Kodako Takabe. One of my RP friends (who had spent a year in Japan when she was in college) recently told me that she thought I may be a megane fetishist because nearly all of my characters wear glasses. Then, laughing, she directed me to a Wikipedia page:

Meganekko (メガネっ娘?) (メガネ, also めがね or 眼鏡, pronounced megane ("glasses") and 娘 ko for "girl") is a Japanese word which translates to "glasses(-wearing) girl,". It is also often used in anime and manga fandom to refer to females who wear glasses, especially when it is considered their most attractive trait. Their usage may or may not have anything to do with a character's eyesight, and they are often a "neutral" costume not as closely associated with more obvious fetishes such as meido (maid) or seifuku (school uniform), though they are very often depicted with a pageboy haircut. They sometimes have the connotations of geekish or bookish behavior, but in a complimentary fashion.

The most common stereotype associated with the term, especially in youth-oriented stories, is the ubiquitous "Class Representative" (iinchō; a well-doing, charismatic but sometimes bossy student who is respectful of authority. This usually earns them the respect of good students or contempt of slackers.

Male characters who wear glasses are referred to as megane.

*headdesk*

I mean, Ko isn't EXACTLY like that (she gets seriously bitchy if anyone goes into her control room, and her goal in life is to overthrow her evil father as the head of Takabe Shipping Industries and end all the injustice he uses his company to cause), but it's still pretty damn close. HOW THE HELL DID I MAKE A STEREOTYPICAL GLASSES-GIRL CHARACTER WHEN I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE STEREOTYPE EXISTED?!!? I feel unclean.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28323779/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28323779/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:25:31 PST
Skitsy, Tp, Chien, afangirlsdream, do I have your permission to use your art? I mean, I'm almost done uploading all the art and scans I want to use, and I'd credit you guys like crazy, but I just want to make sure that it's okay. Pwease?
I'll totally link the vid once it's done and uploaded.
And the song I'm using is Trigger Happy Jack by Poe <3
I mean, the main chorus is:
You can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being.

I am of course drawing more on the canon Thad than the more mellowed out (but still kinda nutty) Thad that y'all play, draw, and write. Don't hurt me?

EDIT: Nevermind, FUCKING Youtube won't let me use Poe's song, and none of the prepackaged garbage they offer is even remotely Thadlike. ANGER.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28308851/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28308851/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:11:29 PST
DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED, DON'T READ.

I'M SERIOUS, YOU GUYS.

So, Lyrl Dox. WHAT THE FUCK, DC?! By willingly submitting his mind to Starro and officially becoming Brainiac 3, he's pretty much signed his own rape warrant. Because if his papa don't shoot him next they meet, the boy is gonna go to prison. And you KNOW what they do to pretty Coluans in prison. It was kinda nice what he did for Strata and her family, though. And the panel where Stealth and Harbinger completely ignore each other in order to go after their respective prey was actually the funniest thing connected to Blackest Night I've seen so far. But the Black Rings weren't the only power rings to make their way to R.E.B.E.L.S. this week. How much do you want to bet that by the time the war of light is over, the Sinestro Corps will be the new L.E.G.I.O.N.? God, Sinestro and Vril Dox working together on something. Makes all the hair on my body crawl.

I thought you could never take a Dollotron mask off? Does this mean that Scarlet could potentially be a personal nemesis for Damian? Also, bye bye again, Jason.

RIP, Kyle. That's whatcha get for messin' with them Korugarians, mmhm. But seriously, even though I never really liked this kid (GUY GARDNER FOR LIFE), you've got to give him one hell of a hand for the way he went out. I mean, he took a few hundred Black Lanterns with him, and that's gotta count for something. Though I think the best part of the issue was probably seeing Jade(?) fly off with Soranik Natu's hand still stuck in her mouth. I actually refrained from making a BJ joke out of respect to the dead. Oh yeah, and Kilowog yelling at all the dead Lanterns was pretty boss. I'm so glad that he didn't have to fight his family. That would've made me cry.

EVERYMAN IS BAAAAAAACK HOLY SHIT

Just for the sake of rehashing painful continuity, and correct me if I'm wrong, but after Max killed Ted, didn't he have Sasha Bordeaux cremate his body? A casket at Ted Kord's private funeral would have been completely superfluous, because while the world thought he died of a massive heart attack, the heroes in that room knew that he was only just so many dust particles in Switzerland. I was hoping and praying that it wouldn't be painful for me to see Ted as a Black Lantern but, well, it is. I sort of want for them to come out with a Blackest Night Blue Beetle figure, just because I love tormenting myself.

So, thems were the spoilers. Now discuss.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28179889/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28179889/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:02:01 PST I love comics.
I love action movies and movies where people get sliced in half (EFFING GHOST SHIP YES).
I'm loud, but the good kind of loud, not Fran Drescher loud.
I stand up for my friends, and also to my friends, if need be.
I give good hugs.
Apparently, I have an adorably infectious laugh.
I -KNOW- my Batfamily trivia.
Flash family too.
I've got a decent sized collection of horror flicks.
I've got a decent sized collection of action figures.
I like weird things, like bats, green tea ice cream, and Carrot Top.
I can sing you songs from the 1920's, but I've got no clue who has the #1 video on MTV right now. It seems to be endearing.
I can get away with telling people to kiss my ass if I bat my eyes just right.
I can touch my nose with my tongue.
I love musicals, but I'd never force anyone to go see one with me.
I wear bright green leggings and goggles alot.
I have a 20% discount at the comic store instead of 10, because the owners like me so much.
I like silver better than gold, and shiny beads better than fake diamonds.
I eat like a guy.
I can't light my own cigarettes, when I choose to smoke.
I can sing in pretty much any language in the world, just because I'm good at mimicing things.
I've got 4 longboxes, 2 shortboxes, and three packed shelves of trades.
I write deep things.
When I talk to someone, I always keep eye contact.
My local oldies station has put me on the radio so many times, I'm practically part of the evening show.
I love my dad and grammy.
I help out at the family business.
I'll just come out and say it: I've got a damned decent voice. Never gonna do anything with it, but it's there. Like a nuclear bomb.
I'm a 38D (going on DD).
I'm not afraid to sneak out at night, but I always look both ways before crossing the street.
I can stomp on a roach with my bare foot, then pick it up by the antennae and throw it away.
I don't give a rip about Edward Cullen.
Or that werewolf guy with the nice eyes. Liked him in Sharkboy and Lavagirl, though.
I once hit my mum with a bag of socks when she slapped me.
I cry during the Vietnam scene in Across the Universe.
I can pick up anything that weighs 180 lbs or less.
I can carry two 60 lb bags of cat food at once, one per shoulder.
I've got long legs and a short torso so even though I'm real short, I'm still able to kick really high.
I don't get stoned with the rest of my friends.
I can't take pills.
I know how to change a tire.
I make my own jewelry.
I like paying for my own food.
I don't like shopping for clothes in stores, and I really hate shoe shopping (the internet is a godsend).
I've met the cast of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and have Dana Snyder's email address somewhere.
I once gave Weird Al Yankovich an umbrella because, "It's been raining lately, and I thought you may need one. Also, I found it."
The "Leave Britney Alone" guy hates me personally.
I have actual fans.
I'm convention famous.
I don't do "fads".
I've been to more than one drum circle in the rain, and I light incense on a regular basis.
I've got an actual argument to support why Jason Todd is gay for Batman.
"Cry Me a River" is a slow, sad love song by Julie London, not a shitty song by Justin Whatshisface.
I'm too white to ever try to be "gangster".
I've got a hobo bag covered in patches and pins, and I always have gum.
I knew all the songs from Across the Universe, Mamma Mia, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, and Chicago before there were ever movies for them.
I give massages at random.
I hate reality TV, Lost, and Desperate Housewives.
I use the lingo of EVERY era, not just this one.

Okay, I think that's all of it. Oh, wait. Forgot the big one:
I've already got a boyfriend and am therefor unattainable.

There, now that's all of it.

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I didn't bitch at all when they came out with Donna, Dinah, and Zatanna. I actually wanted my own Batgirl (version Babs). Huntress and Hawkgirl were okay, as were the first versions of Catwoman and Wonder Woman, and Power Girl. I liked her, too bad she was a limited.

Supergirl looked like a gigantic slut, Cheetah looked like a furry, the second Catwoman (still Selina, but with a different costume) looked RIDICULOUS, and seriously, don't even get me STARTED on how Harley and Ivy came out. I'm going to post a link to a picture of what Cassandra Cain's Batgirl looks like, because my scathing words could not possibly do it justice [link]

And then came the new wave. Four figures, this time including a male. Follow the links.

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Okay, firstly? Wondy, what the FUCK is wrong with you?! We do not kill gorgons in the bikini from Star Wars! Common effing sense. Honestly.

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Now where do I start with this one? Cassie, pants, not chaps, are what we wear while superheroing. A bra is not proper combat wear, either. Finally, steel bracelets, not dancer's cuffs. GOD JAPAN.

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Post-Bane-back-breaking-Batshoulders, utility belt is completely useless looking, gloves are atrocious, MOVING ON TO THE FINALE.

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Looks like Dick Grayson finally got that sex change he's been threatening us with. Except...she's got Tim's weaponry. And she's being described as "sassy", which was obviously Jason's schtick. So...animated Teen Titans Robin turned into a chick? With a sliver of Carrie Kelly's hair? THE ULTIMATE AMALGAM!!!

Sad thing is, if this had been Steph, I'd have probably gone out and bought the figure. I'd go out and buy a Spoiler figure, if one ever comes out. Except, because Ame-Comi designers are on DRUGS, she'll probably end up looking like a whore. Have fun being horrified, fellow figure fans.

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]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28156703/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28156703/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:06:38 PST L- Deathnote
Misa Misa- Deathnote
Sai- Naruto
Yachiru- Bleach
Faye- Questionable Content (smarmy shirt, glasses, brown wig= FAYE)
Supergirl (80's version)- DC Comics
The Flash- DC Comics
Miss Action- Superhero parody of my own creation
Very Convincing Catgirl- Was totally chased by furries
Zatanna- DC Comics
Black Canary- DC Comics
Superboy (03 Titans run)- DC Comics
Fan Girl- Utterly Hilarious parody of my own creation

What I'm working on right now:
Inertia
Stephanie Brown's Robin
Green Lantern (just a generic one)

What I'll work on in the future, once my "to do" list is done:
Arrowette (YJ version, not Impulse)
Dead Jason Todd (saw someone who did an awesome job of that, want)
Aqualad (I want an excuse to wear an afro and no pants at once)
Blue Beetle (Ted Kord, not Jaime)
Fire (I could probably just buy a green wig and then use some of the clothes I already own, though. And get a tan...)
Ice
Stargirl
Cyclone

I WILL NEVER HAVE MONEY AGAIN!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28133881/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28133881/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:06:05 PST Jem
Thundercats
Freakazoid
Animaniacs (I was such a Minerva Mink fan, I'm surprised I didn't grow up to be a Furry)
Pepper Ann
Static Shock
Aaah! Real Monsters
Rugrats
Aladdin: The Animated Series
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Beetlejuice
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Captain Planet
Gargoyles
Hey Arnold
Kablam!
Doug
Pinky and the Brain
Rocko's Modern Life (an early form of Spongebob Squarepants)
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
So Weird
Are You Afraid of the Dark
A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Recess
The Smurfs
Xiaolin Showdown
The Little Mermaid TV series
Kenan and Kel (I PUT THE SCREW IN THE TUNA)
The Berenstein Bears
Ren and Stimpy
Daria
Invader Zim
As Told By Ginger
My Life As A Teenage Robot
Powerpuff Girls
Dexter's Lab
Codename: Kids Next Door
Chalkzone

My video case would be EPICALLY HUGE.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28128219/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28128219/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:53:50 PST
As you are compelled to bring me sensible things for Hanukah, have I got a request for you! Dr. Marten boots (midlength, as my calves are solid muscle)have been proven to be very sturdy and tough. Buy a single pair of Dr. Marten boots, and it'll be 20 years until you need to buy another. It's the reason they're so expensive.
I would like a pair in either dark green, or bright, shiny green in a women's size nine. I would wear them every day, no matter what I'm wearing. They go well with jeans, skirts, and my neat goth clothes. And I wear something green every day anyway, so the boots would just add to my legacy.

Love,
Alana

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]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28120661/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28120661/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:50:50 PST
So I was checking out the new Glee soundtrack, and I noticed something. The song that first drew me into the music, Sweet Caroline (originally by Neil Diamond, but is sung by some other guy who sounds hot), is the shortest song on the album. It's under two minutes. What the hell?! Gold Digger goes on for over three minutes, Somebody to Love goes on for almost five, but Sweet Caroline gets a lousy 1:58?!

You're burning me here, Glee.

That was my music dorkery for this week, folks. You may now adjust your computer screens.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28003826/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/28003826/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:47 PDT So I was checking around some different sites, looking for a list of what the new wave of DCUC figures would look like, when I came across a site that gave a good list of all the past waves.
WHAT I WILL BE SPENDING MY HARD-EARNED ON AT SOME POINT:
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[link] <---BEAST BOY FIGURE OMG
[link] <---VIC SAGE *humphumphump*

Why so Bat-heavy, shopping list? D: I'm a Flash fan. Where the heck are all the Rogues? I mean, I know I've got Barry, Wally and Len on there, but the only other Flash-related figure that's been put out is Gorilla Grodd. GRODD, you guys.
GRODD.

And that just doesn't sit well with me. C'mon, Mattel! Get with it! Wave 13 should be made up entirely of Flash villians! Wait, what IS wave 13 made up of. One sec y'all.

O.O O.O O.O O.O

O SHIT U GAIZ

I'M BUYING HALF OF WAVE 13.

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Okay, maybe not HALF, but I'm buying more figures from Wave 13 than from any other Wave. 3. Kon, Donna, Jaime, you are MINE. This has been Touch of Grey ranting about action figures. Goodnight.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27981284/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27981284/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:24:58 PDT
I was going to put the neat ear-wing things on my Thad avatar, then I spotted the neato Winged Anklets. So now I'm questing for 4 million gold worth of stuff. WHY GOD WHY

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27929483/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27929483/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:31:56 PDT
Ahem, I mean, oh, who am I kidding? If you haven't seen the newest issue of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, you've missed out on something epic. Neil Patrick Harris plays a villian called the Music Meister, who has the best power ever: anyone that hears his singing voice falls under his power and has to do anything he says, including singing and dancing. And Grey Delisle, who has also played such roles as Azula and Vicky the Babysitter, plays a SINGING Black Canary, and I've got to say, for a woman who has one of the most distinctively annoying voices in animation, she's damn good. Also, Green Arrow (minus beard)/Black Canary was shown in this ep. Uh, yay?!

If you want the soundtrack, either buy it off itunes tomorrow or sign up for this forum and get it free here: [link]

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27881946/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27881946/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:29:31 PDT
Chris Kent, codename Power Boy (he's redeeming the name). A sweet kid, and one of the "senior but not quite adult" members of the team. Unlike regular canon Chris, our Chris was never sent back into the Phantom Zone at the end of Last Son, which means he never became Nightwing and never met Thara. Instead, Superman found a way to stop his accelerated aging, and together, he and Lois (with a bit of help from Cousin Kara and big bro Kon, not to mention Ma Kent) raised Chris as their son. Chris likes being a Teen Titan because it means he gets to see Lian and the West twins more often, instead of just at super hero functions (meaning: funerals). Chris is very touchy-feely, and enjoys hugging his friends often, which is actually sort of embarrassing for them. Don't listen, Chris. Hugs are wonderful. Unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately, depending on how you look at it) Chris has been spending a bit too much time with his big brother. That's right, folks, yet another Super stricken with Robin fever! It's not his fault, though. Damian grew (and boy do I mean GREW! The kid is taller at 14 than Tim was at 18.) into a very handsome young man with a mischevious streak seven miles wide. Speaking of which...

Damian Wayne, codename Robin. What a brat! He's devious, cunning, has blackmailed half of his teammates...but his heart's in the right place. The first to jump into action and the last to be dragged kicking and screaming (usually by a blissed-out Chris) from battle, Damian has gotten, if possible, even wilder and more unpredictable with age. Dick's done his best to be a mentor and a brother to the newest Robin, but Damian just doesn't want that. You may be asking yourself, what the hell would a lone wolf like Damian be doing on what is tradionally considered the most familyesque of superteams. Well, Dick decided that if Damian didn't want to be an active part of the Batfamily, he'd damn well better go out and make his own. Damian takes great pleasure in tormenting Traya, but the kid's grown some thick skin, and her standard reply of, "Oh yeah? Well at least MY family still wants me." has sent him on some epic sulks in his room. He's not completely oblivious to the fact that Chris has a thing for him (mainly because Chris is a huge doof, following him around and trying to hug him all the time), but at the same time, he doesn't want to acknowledge it, because that would mean he's taking the time to ponder just how someone on his team may feel.

Traya Sutton, codename Whirlwind. Okay, so maybe Red Tornado is only her adopted dad and a robot. Doesn't mean Traya didn't take every opportunity to study her dad's circuitry each time he was out of commission between the ages of ten and thirteen. As Whirlwind, the smart little miss depends on an Iron Spidey-esque suit to keep her aloft, while also producing powerful blasts of air from her hands and forearms in battle. The resident techno dork (Ko and Hiro don't count, as Ko spends 90% of her time in a wall, and Hiro ignores every question shot his way that doesn't involve nanobots), Traya takes a lot of grief from the rest of her team, but her BFF Lian is always up for some quick verbal defense. As above stated, Damian and Traya do not get along, and are constantly involved in verbal disputes, usually ending in insulting each other's mamas and a good sulk.

Robert Queen, codename Shadow Arrow. Yes, his codename is a play on the names of his parents, shut up. I didn't come up with it. Currently the least developed, if simply because I know next to nothing about him myself, and Jaz isn't giving me diddly to work with. So his history goes a little something like this: After saving him from Dr. Sivana (and forcing the demented old goat to de-age him), Ollie and company decide that Robert would do better with them than with his mom, and give him the choice: go with mommy dearest, or chill with the Arrow Gang. To his mom's anger, he chose his dad, which caused Shado to lash out...which caused Dinah to have to beat the everloving crap out of her. Skip ahead six years. Robert is just another quiet, zen kid, sort of like a little Connor, pre-coma. At his father's suggestion, he joins the newest incarnation of the Teen Titans to make some friends. He does (he and Jai West are BFF's FOR LIFE, YO!, remember? Plus, Iris is his girlfriend, which is kind of awkward for the boys.). And that's all I've got on Robert.

Lian Harper, codename Arsenal. The unofficial First Kid of the DCU. I honestly love Lian as a character, as a plot device, as a human being. She's a bundle of contradictions. She's calm and quiet, yet she's the first person to jump up and scream at Damian when he's picking on Traya. She loves her family (yes, momma Cheshire included), but she's actually helped her team put her mom in jail several times. She likes Hannah Montana, but her favo... ]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27872629/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27872629/ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:03:22 PDT
Okay, so my BFNF (best female nerd friend) Jaz and and I were doing our monthly YIM (Yahoo Instant Messenger for the nonsavvy types) RP featuring her current fave technoboi Hiro Okamura and my netgirl Ko (the entire RP had them arguing over why they should/shouldn't put big boobs on their nanotech powered super-doll), and when we were done, in the twenty minutes between our leaving-off point and when Jaz got offline, an idea formed. A team, really. And it went like this(taken directly from YIM with the times erased):

Jazdaspaz: Heyo hey, just had an idea.
Touch_of_grey37: Speak.
Jazdaspaz: So, there are a lot of kids in DC, right?
Touch_of_grey37: Aye aye?
Jazdaspaz: Okay, so, what if all of the DCU kids that are kids right now someday became Teen Titans?
Touch_of_grey37: You mean like, Lian, Jai and Iris, Traya Sutton, Damian, all those?
Jazdaspaz: Don't forget Chris Kent and Robert Queen!
Touch_of_grey37: Is he Robert Queen now?
Jazdaspaz: No idea. But as I don't think Shado has a last name, he is Robert Queen for now. We can say that Dinah fought Shado for Robert and like, kicked her can. Now he's part of the Arrow Clan and he and Mia hang out and go shopping.
Touch_of_grey37: Jaz, he's 8.
Jazdaspaz: She uses him as bait! I dunno...maybe Ollie has another gay son?
Touch_of_grey37: Dun dun DUN! And I specifically left Chris Kent out of it because he's like, 23 now.
Jazdaspaz: FUCK CONTINUITY. He never went back to the Phantom Zone, Clark and Lois raised him as their own son, and as Kon's little bro, and now he OHMIGAWD.
Touch_of_grey37: What? What?
Jazdaspaz: AND NOW HE'S TOTALLY GAY FOR DAMIAN WAYNE!!!
Touch_of_grey37: ...lady, you are an evil genius. He's all crushing on Dami and being way obvious about it, but Dami isn't like Tim. Dami's all "Ew, shoo, get away, freakboi" while Chris smothers him in hugs because he was raised to believe that HUGS SOLVE EVERYTHING.
Jazdaspaz: YES YES YES and Lian and Traya are BFF's FOR LIFE YO, and Traya totally built herself an AWESOME MACHINE that gives her superpowers like her daddy, and Iris and Robert are bf/gf which is cool because Robert and Jai are BFF's FOR LIFE YO, and that all started because Robert was like "Dude, your sister is SO HOT."-
(she nattered on for like, another half a page about Iris and Robert, but it was kinda pointless, so I cut it. She loves Wally's kids, and I kinda hate them, not to mention that she's the current Robert expert, not me, so half of what she said made no damn sense.)- And the entire team is watched over by Eddie and Hiro and Ko, which totally works with our RP canon, because of that one futurefic you wrote about Eddie and Zat, where Eddie is one of the Teen Titans' mentors!
Touch_of_grey37: BECAUSE HE IS STILL ALIVE DAMNIT.
Jazdaspaz: Right right right, still alive. Soooo, when are you going to start writing fic for this?

You get the drift, folks. And now I'm furiously typing up several different "As we hang around the Tower" fics featuring this specific cast:
(Name- current age- power- futurefic age)
Iris West- 10- Phasing- 16
Jai West- 8- Super Strength- 14
Robert Queen- 8- Archer- 14
Lian Harper- 8- Archer- 14
Christopher "Lor-Zod" Kent- 12 Powers of Superman- 18
Traya Sutton- 8- mechanically induced wind powers- 14
Damian Wayne- 8- The latest Robin- 14
Hiro Okamura- 12- genius- 18
Eddie Bloomberg- 17- Shifts between human and demon forms- 23
Kodako Takabe- 16- genius, former holder of the Wishing Flute, current head of Takabe Shipping Company via hostile takeover- 22

If anyone wants me to, I'll post a bit of a simpler version of how everyone lines up on the team. I'm off to Seven-11 now, as I am actaully still at work and I need caffine.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27784768/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27784768/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:15:14 PDT
I mean, a real fear. Not the standard fears of heights and car crashes and stuff like that. Had a minute to think? Then boy, do you read slow. But yeah, biggest fear:

You're alone in your room, maybe you're asleep. You suddenly get the feeling of being watched. You sit up and there, in your room, is someone you don't know, someone you've never seen before. A tall, reed-thin man with wispy arms coming out of his back and a pale face, no visible eyes. None. And you know for a fact that if he's there, you're dead. Or going to die. Or going to vanish to god-knows-where.

How many people are looking behind themselves now that they've read that? I'm a 19-year old horror movie enthusist, and this "Slender Man" shit is creeping me the fuck out. For those that are on the unawares, the Slender Man began as a photoshop hoax on the Something Awful forums. It is said that he abducts children. So I shouldn't be worried, right? Then there was another story. The thing in the story was similar to the Slender Man, except not. In this other story, the creature in question is first sighted in the bedroom of two adults (!!!), getting very close to the husband and touching the wife, before running into their daughter's room and injuring her. The father then drives into a lake as he takes his daughter to the hospital. Neither survive. The wife sets up a video camera in her room. Turns out the creature has been visiting her as she sleeps. She's now just waiting for the day she'll wake up while it's still there.

Okay, when I just thought that the Slender Man took kids, I was kinda creeped. Now that I hear this "Rake" creature guns for adults too...

So I took a little zizz at work today. Not a long one, one that someone would notice. It was just a short little zizz while the guys were eating lunch and the store was empty. It's my own fault, really. I've been killing myself with all these Slender Man stories I've been reading, not to mention that I've been daydreaming about what kinds of horrible things could be living in the woods in front of the shop. And that all sort of translated into my dream.

I fell asleep at the front desk, but I dreamed that I walked right out of the shop, across the street, and into the woods. I walked around for a little while, just looking at the trees and the animals.

And then I met the Slender Man.

He was probaby over 15 feet tall with, well, no face. None. Just two big white circles where his eyes should have been, and a line slit for a mouth. He was dressed impeccably, for a nightmare creature that lived in the woods but his back, his back had these horrible, wispy waving tentacle arms coming out of it. He had two normal arms, but they were so skinny and limp, it looked like he hadn't used them in years. And he wasn't moving, or anything. Just standing there, waving his tentacle arms at me. Until he began to speak.

He wasn't even really speaking. His line of a mouth wasn't moving, but words, horrible, whispered words, were still coming from somewhere. I wasn't scared, though. The Slender Man didn't want to hurt me. He wanted to be my friend. And he knew that I worked in a shop where lots of strong young people went. And he wanted me to send them to him.

Then the door buzzer went off, I woke up (nearly fell off my chair, too), and I got back to work. But now it's dark, and dad and I are the only people in the store, and I can't help but stare out the front windows at the woods, wondering just how much of my dream had truly been a dream...

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27638450/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27638450/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:49:08 PDT [link]

Ultimo = Bart
Vice = Thad

Trufax.

That is all.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27181201/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27181201/ Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:31 PDT Who doesn't?

2. How big is your bed?
Teensy tiny.

3. Is your room clean?
Boxes EVERYWHERE.

4. Laptop or Desktop computer?
Laptop

5. Favorite comedian?
Robin Williams

6. Do you smoke?
Cloves, occasionally.

7. Does anyone like you?
I know someone likes me. Many people like me. Were we talking about sexy like or platonic like?

8. Whats the sexiest thing about Condoleeza Rice?
Eurgh

10. Sleep with or without clothes on?
I prefer sleeping naked, but because I sometimes forget to put my clothes back on before getting foodz, mum tends to bitch. Rave on, madwoman.

11. Who sleeps with you every night?
Batty

12. Do long distance relationships work?
They work if phone sex is involved. Trufax, man.

13. How many times have you been pulled over by the police?
ON MY BIKE?

14. Pancakes or French Toast?
Pancakes FTW

15. Do you like coffee?
Orange juice, please.

16. How do you like your eggs?
Over medium, salted.

17. Do you believe in astrology?
Only when it's good news

18. Last person you talked to on the phone?
Hector.

19. Last person on your missed call list?
Hector.

20. What was the last text message you received?
Hector. OMFG LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY

21. McDonalds or Burger King?
The fries are better at McDonalds...

22. Number of pillows?
Two. My head pillow and my long cuddle pillow. Ah luv yew, cuddle pillow <3

23. Last thing you ate?
Burger

24. Last thing you bought?
Lunch

25. What are you hearing right now?
My cat meowing.

26. Pick a lyric?
Laying under the table and dreaming...

27. What kind of jelly do you like on your PB & J sandwich?
Ew, jelly.

28. Can you play pool?
I suck so much.

29. Do you know how to swim?
Yeah.

30. Favorite ice cream?
Chocolate chip cookie dough

31. Do you like maps?
I can't read them at all.

32. Tell me a random fact:
Geckos nipples fall off when scared, or so I hear.

33. Ever had a hard on at work?
I have no penis!

34. Ever attend a theme party?
TOGA TOGA TOGA

35. Ever do a keg stand?
A what?

36. Craziest place you've slept after a night of drinking?
I don't drink, though I once fell asleep under a table at a convention.

37. What is your favorite season?
Fall

38. What is the first music video you ever saw?
The first one I REMEMBER is Waterfalls- TLC

39. Pick a movie quote:
"You are everything I never knew I always wanted"

40. Favorite quote:
"Every silver lining has a touch of grey"

41. What is your favorite hangout?
It USED to be the bookstore...

42. Best friend's name?
Ellie

43. How long have you known them?
Since seventh grade.

44. Last time you laughed at something stupid?
Today at dinner with my dad.

45. What time did you wake up this morning?
9am.

46. Wake up next to anyone?
Not today.

47. Best thing about winter?
The cold.

48. Name a couple of favorite colors:
Green, purple, blue, red

49. How old are you?
19

50. What month is your birthday in?
March

51. Do you think pirates are cool or overrated?
Kinda overrated.

52. Favorite Dave Matthews Band song (if you have one?)
Ants Marching!

53. What are you doing this weekend?
Nothing, as usual.

54. Who will take this survey?
Tip, the survey HOAR. Love ya!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27180856/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27180856/ Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:24:33 PDT Nobody. Lonely phone today D:

What is something that you realized today?
Seriously, feelings. What the hell is up with them?

Do you think anyone has feelings for you?
I KNOW someone has feelings for me, and I'm trying to get him to stuff a sock in it.

How late did you stay up last night and why?
4am, upgrading my missing comic list system.

What do you currently hear right now?
ABBA. Still

Who was the first person you talked to today?
Mum. We argued.

Have you ever cried so much you threw up?
Nope!

Are you wearing jeans right now?
No pants!

Have you lost contact with someone you wish you didn't?
Yeah, but only because he doesn’t pick up his fricking phone ever to go read comics DANNY GONZALES YOU MANWHORE.

Are you a patient person?
It depends on what nutjob I’m dealing with at the mo’.

When was the last time you cried?
Last week, I think.

What is your current mood?
Kinda depressed.

What color underwear are you wearing?
White.

What are you thinking about right now?
I want to have sex, like, really bad. Stupid hormones.

What should you be doing?
Sleeping >_<

Do you like working in the yard?
I like dragging branches and cutting down trees. Just because I’m the only one strong enough to do it.

Where did you get your last bruise from?
Umm, heh heh heh. Got it the FUN way!

Have you ever thought you were gonna die?
Once a month. How the hell am I still alive after losing so much blood?!

Were you happy when you woke up today?
Nope.

Have you ever talked to someone when they were high?
Some of the most epic conversations I’ve had with people have been while they were high.

What did you do yesterday?
Rolled around on the floor, clutching my cramping guts that were totally falling out my stomach.

Did anyone see you kiss the last person you kissed?
Nah, no one was outside at the mo’.

Are you happy with the way things are going?
In my life in general, no. In my personal life, no. So, no.

Would you ever get a tattoo?
If I’m in a coma, yeah.

Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 months from now?
I don’t even want to be in a relationship NOW.

Who was the last person you talked to in person?
My dad.

What plans do you have for Sunday?
I dunno yet. Maybe talk Ellie and Danny into sneaking into Sorority Row.

What are you afraid of?
Losing my grip and just slugging someone so hard I break both their face and my hand. I need that hand to type.

Do you tend to waste a lot of money?
I’m the worst Jew on the face of the planet.

Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket?
On my bike? Oh, ALL the time!

Are you a jealous person?
Not really, no.

Do you think age matters in relationships?
No one younger than me need apply and if you’ve hit 30, back away. Those are my only requirements, age wise.

When was the last time you got a haircut?
I need a haircut so bad...

Do you know anyone that smokes weed?
Geez, who do I know that doesn’t smoke weed?

Have you ever laid in the same bed with the last person you kissed?
Yes.

Do you like to cuddle?
Ask anyone I’ve ever met. I’m such a cuddler.

Is the last person you hugged older than you?
Yup.

Are you comfortable with your height?
Only when my dad, my mom, Ellie, Hector, and this dude at my comic shop from Peru who is like, 10’8” bring it up do I become uncomfortable.

Who else is in the room with you?
I’M SO ALOOOOOOOONE!

Did you sleep at least seven hours last night?
HAHAHAHA- oh, you were being serious.

Have you ever wanted to be a teacher?
NEVAR

Is tomorrow going to be a good day?
I hope so. I’m sick of bad days.

Who was your last call from?
Hector. And he wouldn’t shut the hell up.

Would it hurt seeing the person you last kissed kissing someone else?
Only after I’m done hitting them. My hand may hurt a little.

What is something your friends make fun of you for?
My dad makes fun of me because I’m a stupid shrimp. 5’5” is not short!

Do you wish you were somewhere else right now?
I wish I was ANYWHERE but where I am now...

What were you doing 12 AM last night?
Talking to my cousin K.

What can always put you in a good mood?
Hugging someone, or reading comics.

What is something you need to go shopping for?
I don’t actually need comics, but I do want some. Also, I really do need bea... ]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27157029/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27157029/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:58:47 PDT
- Name: Alana
- Single or taken: Taken
- Sex: Female
- Birthday: March 7, 1990
- Sign: Pisces
- Hair color: Blondeish
- Eye color: Grey, but it changes
- Height: 5'5"
- Are you straight/bisexual/gay?: Bi

-----------• × • F A S H I O N | S T U F F • × •--------------

- Favorite place to shop for clothes?: Ross and Hot Topic
- Favorite designer?: ..I don't even know. I don't follow fashion.
- What is your sexiest outfit?: My red and black Tripp Skirt, red and black knee socks, ripped fishnet undertop, red plaid tank, and Ellie's converse with red laces. My tough-chick leather jecket if it's cold.
- What is your most comfortable outfit?: My Flash hoodie and Walmart superhero sleep pants
- What do you usually wear?: Jeans and a t-shirt

--------------• × • S P E C I F I C S • × • -------------------

- What kind of shampoo do you use?: Whatever's in the shower
- What are you listening to right now?: Still ABBA, guys.
- Who is the last person that called you?: Hector
- How many buddies are online right now?: Just Latkah is up on the IM, but Ryu is probably waiting for me on Gaia with the latest gossip.

-------------• × • F A V O R I T E S • × •-----------------

- Food: Sushi
- Girls' names: Shira is a nice name.
- Boys' names: Thaddeus, but just 'cause I'm biased.
- Subjects in school: English, Creative Writing, Chorus, Drama
- Animals: Bats!

----------------• × • H A V E | Y O U | E V E R • × •-------------

- Given anyone a bath?: Nope!
- Smoked?: ...cloves.
- Bungee jumped?: nope
- Made yourself throw up?: Never
- Skinny dipped?: several times!
- Ever been in love?: Indeed I have.
- Made yourself cry to get out of trouble?: Heh heh, works every time.
- Pictured your crush naked?: Who needs to picture when you actually have a picture? >:-D
- Actually seen your crush naked?: Urr, no. What? I'm allowed to have a boyfriend and a crush!
- Cried when someone died?: Aye
- Lied: yeahhh
- Fallen for your best friend?: Pssh, no.
- Used someone?: I think I may have, once. But the guy deserved it.
- Done something you regret?: I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THAT WHEELCHAIR!

------------• × • C U R R E N T • × •--------------

- Clothes: Flash shirt, no pants.
- Desktop picture: Standard background, because, as mum likes to constantly remind me, this is not my computer.
- CD in player: Who still owns a CD player?
- DVD in player: Porn, I think >:-D Not mine, either XD

----------------• × • L A S T | P E R S O N • × •----------------------

- You touched: Mum
- Hugged: Hector
- You kissed: Hector
- You IMed: Ellie
- Talk to online: Ellie
- You sexed it up with: Hector

---------------• × • A R E | Y O U • × •---------------------
- Understanding?: Yes
- Open-minded?: yes
- Arrogant?: I don't think so...
- Insecure?: Very much so
- Random?: NOMNOMNOM
- Hungry?: NEED FOOD
- Smart?: When it comes to stuff I want to know about
- Moody?: Yeahh every so often, but normally pretty happy.
- Organized?: On an OCD sort of level.
- Shy?: I walk around without pants. What do you think?
- Difficult?: Some may say
- Bored easily?: ENTERTAIN ME
- Obsessed?: ...YES.
- Angry?: Almost never.
- Happy?: Yep!
- Hyper?: Only pretty much ALWAYS.
- Trusting?: Yes

------------------• × • R A N D O M • × •---------------------

- In the morning I: wake up, rolled over, went back to sleep
- Love is: weird
- I dream about: the WEIRDEST shit
- Sexual preference: I like myself both the boobies and the man-meat, thanks.
- What do you notice first in the sex you're into: Shoulders!

---------------• × • W H I C H | I S | B E T T E R • × ---------------

- Coke or Pepsi: Diet Coke
- Flowers or candy: Candy!!
- Tall or short: TALL.

---------------• × • W H O • × • ---------------

- Makes you laugh the most: Ellie made me pee laughing once. I was on my period at the time, so the pad just thought it was more blood. YAY FOR GROSS VAGINA THINGS~!
- Makes you smile: Comics and my cat being dumb.
- Gives you a funny feeling when you see him/her: Hector. And, um, Danny. But just because he's jaw-droppingly hawt.

--------------• × • D O | Y O U | E V E R • × •-----------------

- Sit on the internet all night waiting for that someone special to IM you?: I have before
- Wish you... ]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27156443/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27156443/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:28:31 PDT

1. What is your best friends name?
Elisheva "Ellie" Aben

2. What color underwear/boxers wearing now?
White

3. What are you listening to right now?
Waterloo- ABBA

4. Whats your favorite number?
7

5. What was the last thing you ate?
A mini Crunch bar

6. If you were a crayon what color would you be?
Villian Green

7. How is the weather right now?
I THOUGHT SUMMER WAS OVER AGH

8. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Hector <3

9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Shoulders

10. Do you have a significant other?
My Hector <3

11. Favorite TV show?
That's still running? Cold Case, probably. Or, um, iCarly.

12. Siblings?
Only child

13. Height?
5'5"

14. Hair color?
Dirty, filthy, when-was-the-last-time-I-washed-this-mop blonde

15. Eye Color?
Grey, but it changes.

16. Do you wear contacts?
No, but I wish I wore glasses

17. Favorite Holiday?
HALLOWEEN!

18. Month?
October. Or March.

19. Have you ever cried for no reason?
Yeah

20. What was the last movie you watched?
Mamma Mia

21. Favorite Day of the Year?
Halloween!

22. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
If I'm actually really attracted to them, yeah. If I'm trying to make a point, no.

23. Can you do a headstand (not using the wall)?
No.

24. Hugs or Kisses?
Hugs

25. Chocolate or Vanilla?
Chocolate!

26. Do you want your friends to respond to this?
Sure if they want.

27. Who is most likely to respond?
Tip, as she is a meme HOAR (you know it's true, baybeh)

28. Who is least likely to respond?
Goldphishcrackers

29. What books are you reading?
Various comics and rereading the LBD books by Grace Dent

30. Piercings?
2. One per ear. And they're closing up!

31. Favorite movies?
The Swan Princess. The WB version from when I was a kid.

32. Favorite football Team?
As in like, soccer? Miami Fusion. Actual football...I do not watch.

33. what were you doing before this?
Gaia stuff

34. Butter, Plain or Salted popcorn?
Salted!

37. Dogs or cats?
Meow!

38. Favorite flower?
Sunflowers.

39. Been caught doing something you weren't supposed to do?
Yes

40. Do you have a best friend of the opposite sex?
Hector. And I'm not just saying that because I love him.

41. Have you ever loved someone?
I've loved, I've lost, and now I'm loving again.

42. Who would you like to see right now?
Danny. Bitch owes me a copy of Wet Moon volume 1 for constantly dodging out comic-related plans.

43. Are you still friends with people from kindergarten?
I still see them from time to time. And amazingly, I still actually hate some of them with the same vigor as when we first met.

44. Have you ever fired a gun?
Um, a paint gun. Once. And it hit my mom's car @_@

45. Do you like to travel by plane?
I wanted to be a pilot when I was little.

46. Right-handed or Left-handed?
Righty

47. How many pillows do you sleep with?
2, usually. One for my head, and one to cuddle. But I can sleep with 1.

48. Are you missing someone?
Hector ;-;

49. Do you have a Tattoo?
NEVAR

50. Anybody on DA that you'd go on a date with?
Not a date, no, but I'd just luuuurve to share a room at SDCC with Goldphish, Tip, Dakt, Skitsy, Rama, Chien, and Other Ph1sh. Things would be cramped, but the shenanigans would be both epic and ENDLESS.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27105966/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/27105966/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:39:57 PDT [x] consumed alcohol.
[x] slept in the same bed with someone of the opposite sex.
[x] slept in the same bed with someone of the same sex.
[x] kissed someone of the same sex.
[x] had sex.
[X] had someone in your room other than family.
[x] watched porn.
[x] bought porn.
[ ] tried drugs.
[ ] taken painkillers.
[ ] taken someone else's prescription medicine.
[X] lied to your parents.
[X] lied to a friend.
[x] snuck out of the house.
[X] done something illegal.
[X] felt hurt.
[X] hurt someone.
[x] wished someone to die.
[ ] seen someone die.
[x] missed curfew
[x] stayed out all night.
[ ] eaten a carton of ice cream by yourself
[x] been to a therapist.
[ ] received a ticket.
[ ] been to rehab
[x] dyed your hair.
[ ] been in an accident.
[x] been to a club.
[x] been to a bar
[ ] been to a wild party
[ ] been to a Mardi Gras parade.
[ ] drank more than three alcoholic beverages in a night.
[x] had a spring break in Florida. (Uh, I live here. Don't really have a choice...)
[ ] sniffed anything
[x] wore black nail polish
[ ] wore arm bands.
[x] wore t-shirts with band names.
[x] listened to rap.
[ ] owned a 50 Cent CD.
[x] dressed gothic
[x] dressed girly.
[x] dressed punk.
[x] dressed grunge.
[X] stole something.
[ ] been too drunk to remember anything.
[ ] blacked out.
[x] fainted.
[x] had a crush on a neighbor.
[x] had a crush on a friend.
[X] been to a concert.
[x] dry-humped someone
[ ] been called a slut.
[ ] called someone a slut.
[ ] installed speakers in your car.
[ ] broken a mirror.
[x] showered at someone of the opposites sex's house
[x] brushed your teeth with someone else's toothbrush.
[ ] considered Ludacris your favorite rapper.
[x] seen an R-rated movie in theater.
[x] cruised the mall.
[ ] skipped school.
[ ] had surgery.
[ ] had an injury.
[ ] walked out of a restaurant without paying/tipping.
[ ] gone to court.
[x] caught something on fire.
[x] lied about your age.
[ ] owned/rented an apartment/house.
[x] broke the law in the police's presence.
[x] made out with someone who had a gf/bf
[x] got in trouble with the police.
[x] talked to a stranger.
[x] hugged a stranger.
[x] kissed a stranger.
[x] rode in the car with a stranger
[x] been harassed.
[x] been verbally harassed.
[x] met face-to-face with someone you met online.
[x] stayed online for 5+ hours straight.
[x] talked on the phone for more than 4 hours straight.
[x] watched TV for 5 hours straight.
[x] been to a fair.
[ ] been called a bad influence.
[ ] drank and drove.
[x] prank-called someone.
[x] laid on a couch with someone of the opposite sex.

TOTAL: 58

If You Have Less Than 10.. write [I'm a Goody Goody]
If You Have More Than 10.. write [I'm still a goody goody]
If You Have more Than 20..write [I'm average]
If You Have More Than 30..write [I'm a bad kid]
If You have more than 40..write [I'm a very bad influence]
If You Have more than 50..write [I'm a horrible person]
If You Have more than 60..write [I should be in jail]
If You Have more than 70..Write [I should be dead]

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26850271/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26850271/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:07:24 PDT
I mean, aside from the general stuff that is wrong with me.

I'm talking to my computer again. Actually, "talking" isn't the right word. I'm YELLING at my computer again. See, I'm under the impression that laptop technology has advanced to far that I could yell a song title at my laptop, it will unmute itself, iTunes will automatically open, and the song that I yelled (which was not in my library, amazingly) will begin to play. I know I'm not sleep-deprived, as I slept from 11 last night to 7 this morning uninterupted, so I'm sort of worried about what is actually causing this little bit of personal mania.

In other news, one of Hector's old roommates died in a motorcycle accident this week. The funeral is this Saturday. I don't think I'm invited, which is fine by me. I hate funerals. I want to go to Mizucon.

Speaking of funerals, as I predicted, Eddie Bloomberg is dead. OH, FUCK YOU, DC! I saw his death coming the second he was depowered and didn't cut a new devil's deal. And the biggest indignity of it all? Zatara wasn't at the funeral. I mean, what the hell? Grr, I am full of righteous rage right now, I think I'll go take it out on eBay. Later, gators.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26336595/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26336595/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:51:04 PDT
WHY GOD WHY.

RYAN AND BRENDON WILL NO LONGER BE SLEEPING TOGETHER, I ASSUME.

CAPSLOCK CANNOT FULLY EXPRESS MY SADNESS.

ONLY GOOD NEWS: RYAN AND JON STARTED THEIR OWN BAND CALLED THE YOUNG VEINS. CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT THEY ARE NOW SLEEPING TOGETHER.

I'M GOING TO GO CRY, WATCH THE SCOOBY DOO MARATHON ON CARTOON NETWORK, AND EAT SOME CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26253209/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26253209/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:24:03 PDT
DC made only a few Flash announcements at Comic-Con, but they were big ones!

Blackest Night: Flash miniseries by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins — 3 issues starting in November. (announced at the Geoff Johns Spotlight on Thursday) The book will star Barry, Wally, and a whole lot of dead Rogues.
Flash ongoing series written by Geoff Johns, to start after Blackest Night: Flash. They’re not ready to announce the artist, but Geoff assures us that he’s “awesome.” (announced at DC Universe on Saturday)
Kid Flash ongoing written by Sterling Gates. No artist or start date announced. (also announced at DCU panel)
A new speedster will join the Flash family by the end of Flash: Rebirth (DCU again.)

Comic Book Resources has an interview with Geoff Johns in which he talks about the Blackest Night miniseries and the ongoing series. The first story is called “The Dastardly Deaths of the Rogues,” and he says that “all the Flashes in the Flash Universe will be major players in both Flash books.” There’s a lot more at the interview, such as this:

In “Blackest Night: Flash,” it’s the Rogues versus the Black Lantern Rogues and Flash is caught in the middle. And Captain Cold will be facing off against Black Lantern Golden Glider.

Oh noes! NOT LISA! Oh, man. That's going to be an epically sad fight.
New speedster? As in a new character entirely, Liberty Belle becomes Jesse Quick again, Max Mercury comes back from the Speed Force...what?
Also, I really hope I don't have to see a zombie Thad in the Blackest Night: Flash books. I'd cry. A lot.

But in other news...KID FLASH ONGOING?! Does this mean (since Kon is gonna be a main figure in Adventure Comics) that the Teen Titans are going to stay the way they are?! I kinda hope so. Can you even IMAGINE the horror that'd be Wonderwhiner on the same team with Kon, but minus Tim? Neither can I. Speaking of the most obvious slash pairing in DC history, anyone catch the end of Legion of Three Worlds? WHAT THE FUCK?! Cassie spent a year in a cult trying to resurrect Kon, and she gets to hug him. Meanwhile Tim, who spent god only knows how much time and money trying to RECLONE Superboy stands off in a corner. Bad call, Geoff Johns. Although sending Superboy-Prime back to Earth Prime and turning him into a serial blogger was just an epic win for everyone. I wonder what's going to happen with the Legion, though? If the Threeboot is the Legion of Earth Prime, and Superboy-Prime is out of the picture (for now), does that mean we're going back to the Reboot? I mean, they'll be off wandering the Multiverse, searching for survivors of lost worlds. That deserves a miniseries, at the very least.

I'll be off to Tate's sometime today (hwee!), so I'll pester my nemesis until some questions are answered. Ta!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26208629/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26208629/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:10:22 PDT
Gnnnn!

So I snark back at him, he messages me again today, and as I'm answering that message (with yet another modicum of snark), he IM's me. I didn't even know Myspace HAD an IM feature!

There isn't a single part of me that doesn't want to stab him in the face, but at the same time, Just seeing his screenname attached to a message in my mail inbox sent my heart pounding and my blood pressure through the roof. But that can happen with people you hate.

...right?

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26121856/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/26121856/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:29:36 PDT
I've got the greatest guy in the world as my boyfriend-slash-fiance, I'm out of the roach-and-flea infested crap house (AGAIN), I've got near unlimited computer access, and I've got a job interview tomorrow.

And I'm still awake at 6 am, crying my eyes out over a stupid Taylor Swift music video.

Why is it that whenever I'm supposed to be at the peak of joy, all I seem to do is make myself cry? And I'm not even making myself do it! It just, happens. I've got everything in life I could possibly want, and this feeling of foreboding is making me depressed and keeping me from enjoying it.

Worst of all, whenever this...random depression hits, do I pick up a phone and call Hector? I do not. Do I call Ellie, whose life if so much more depressing than anything I could ever come up with? I do not. No, I come and vent about how needlessly sad I am to people who are too far away to do a damned thing, if they cared at all in the first place.

Oh, that's not nice of me to say. I consider everyone who takes the time to read (and sometimes respond) to my musings a friend of mine. I'm just one of those people that walks around thinking that she's never met a stranger, and this attitude may very well get me killed someday. I love you guys. And no, I'm not drunk. I'm just...emotional. God, I hope I'm not pregnant or something. Does pregnancy make you emotional? I don't ever want kids.

Well, I feel mildly better. The sound of my fingers hitting the keys in rapid succession is like white noise or something. Calms me down a damned sight better than squeaking dolphins and the sound of the ocean, anyway. I should get to sleep. Hector will be home in an hour and a half, and I have an interview at Target at 2. Night, Devart. Thanks for listening.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25927427/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25927427/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:40:48 PDT [x] Red = loud
[ ] Green = stupid
[ ] None = freaky
[ ] Fuzzy = gorgeous
[ ] Yellow = innocent
[ ] Purple = a little too happy
[ ] Black = emo
[x] Stripes = funny
[ ] Gray = skanky
[ ] Pink = preppy
[ ] Light blue = sweaty
[ ] Other = hot
[ ] White = sexy

What kind of pants are you wearing?
[ ] Shorts = cutie
[ ] Skirt/skort = skank
[ ] Corduroy = faggot homosexual
[ ] Skinny jeans = scene kid
[ ] Ripped jeans = emo
[ ] Cammo = cage fighter
[x] Jeans = geek
[ ] Pajamas = pimp
[ ] Cargo = clown
[ ] Sweats = athlete
[ ] Boxers = brat
[ ] Booty shorts = female
[ ] Capris = Gangster
[ ] Nothing = hoe
[ ] Dickies = weirdo
[ ] Bikini bottoms = tiki girl
[ ] Other = sex addict

What is your natural hair color?
[ ] Auburn = that every one wants to make out with
[ ] Blonde = with a broken heart
[ ] Black = with a sexy smile
[ ] Dark brown = with a hot boyfriend/girlfriend
[ ] Red = that likes to have fun
[ ] Brown = who loves to be different
[x] Dirty blonde= with sexy eyes
[ ] Bald = with herpes
[ ] Other = with a nice ass

Pick the month you were born on:
[ ] 1 = who ate
[ ] 2 = who needed
[x] 3 = who killed
[ ] 4 = who shot
[ ] 5 = who killed
[ ] 6 = who smoked with
[ ] 7 = who banged
[ ] 8 = who ran shirtless with
[ ] 9 = who got stabbed horribly by
[ ] 10 = who cuddled with
[ ] 11 = who slept with
[ ] 12 = who ran naked with

Pick the day you were born on:
[ ] 01 = the kool-aid man
[ ] 02 = a dog
[ ] 03 = a shoe
[ ] 04 = a toothbrush
[ ] 05 = Santa Claus
[ ] 06 = two horny bi girls
[x] 07 = The Trojan man
[ ] 08 = a prostitute
[ ] 09 = a porn star
[ ] 10 = a bag of weed
[ ] 11 = a lover
[ ] 12 = a glass of milk
[ ] 13 = a horse
[ ] 14 = a lesbian
[ ] 15 = a stripper
[ ] 16 = a pickle
[ ] 17 = a jew
[ ] 18 = a person
[ ] 19 = an orange
[ ] 20 = a dildo
[ ] 21 = Chuck Norris
[ ] 22 = a whore
[ ] 23 = my crush
[ ] 24 = an easter egg
[ ] 25 = a jar of honey
[ ] 26 = a condom
[ ] 27 = a bowl of cereal
[ ] 28 = a french fry
[ ] 29 = your dealer
[ ] 30 = Paris Hilton
[ ] 31 = your grandma

Pick the color of the shirt you are wearing:
[ ] White = because I love marijuana
[ ] Black = because I’m sexy as hell
[ ] Pink = Because the lil’ people told me to
[ ] Blue = because I have AMAZING boobs
[ ] Red = because I'm a pimp and your jealous
[ ] Polka Dots = because I hate my life
[ ] Purple = because I'm gay
[ ] Gray = because I got dared
[ ] Other = because that's how I roll
[x] Green = because I'm good in bed
[ ] Orange = because I smoke crack
[ ] Turquoise = because I have a noodle in my nose
[ ] Brown = because I had to
[ ] Shirtless = because I've got abs
[ ] Aqua = 'cause the 306CBZ kick cunt

I'm a loud, funny geek with sexy eyes who killed the Trojan Man because I'm good in bed. Wow, how true that all is.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25927293/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25927293/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:33:30 PDT
2. Do you enjoy drama?: Honey, I live the drama every day. I'm sooooo sick of drama.

3. Are you a girly girl?: Are you fucking kidding me?

4. Who was the last person you hugged?: Ellie

5. Small or large purses?: A big one. How else am I going to tote around all my books and shit?

6. Are you short?: 5'5", what do you think?

7. Do you like somebody: Durrrr

8. What would you do if someone smacked your butt?: Punch them in the face...unless it was Hector. Then I'd just smack him back.

9. Do you care if your socks are dirty?: MY SOCKS ARE DIRTY? ASDFGHJKL

10. Do you dress up on Halloween?: I dress up when it ISN'T Halloween.

11. Are you double jointed?: Not at all.

12. Where is the weirdest place you have slept?: Underneath an Artist's Alley table at Mizucon.

13. Has anyone touched/smacked your butt in the past 24 hours?: Yup.

14. Is there a rumor going around about you?: Not that I know of, why? What have you heard?

15. Do you call anybody by their last name?: Nuh uh.

16. How many guys will read this just because it says "Girl Confessions"?: Anyone that wants to know about my personal life, I guess.

"X" Marks the spot:
[ ] I do wear make up.
[x] I have cried at a movie theater.
[ ] I can put mascara on without opening my mouth.
[x] I get jealous.
[x] I think Johnny Depp is sexy.
[x] I love to laugh.
[ ] I like death/grind/black metal.
[ ] I like rap.
[x] I like country
[x] I carry a purse.
[x] I'd be lost without my computer.
[x] I own a Spice Girls CD.
[x] I own a Britney Spears CD.
[x] I own a boy band CD.
[x] I get bored watching football.
[x] I've never been called a spoiled brat.
[x] Guys are confusing.
[ ] I've been called a bad influence.
[ ] I have/had a piercing other than my ears.

Come on ladies, be truthful!
1. What color is your bra that you're wearing?: Dark red.

2. Do you prefer light or dark haired guys?: Dark haired...or no haired.

3. Are you currently frustrated with a boy?: Nope, too in love.

4. Do you have a best friend(s)?: Just Ellie.

5. Have you ever had your heart broken?: Yup. Twice, by the same guy.

6. Have you ever thought of having plastic surgery?: Pssh, no way!

7. Do you like your life?: Currently, yes.

8. Has one of your friends ever stolen a boyfriend from you?: Nope

9. Have you ever jumped in the pool with your clothes on?: Twice in my life. Not with shoes on, though.

10. Do you have more friends that are girls or boys?: Boys.

11. How long have you had Facebook?: Like, since it first started, but I never use it.

12. Have you ever slapped a boy in the face?: Thrice.

13. What are your biggest fears?: Lizards, fire, and heights!!!

14. Have you ever cried yourself to sleep?: A few times.

15. Have you ever not been able to get someone off of your mind?: Yes.

16. Do you believe in the saying "once a cheater, always a cheater"?: Yup.

17. Have you ever had a good feeling about something?: Of course

18. Do you ever wish you were famous?: Wish?

19. Are you currently missing someone?: My Hector D:

This guy or that guy? Pick one.
Punk/Goth or Gangster?: Punk/Goth, but no makeup.
Preppy or Cowboy?: Cowboy
Face or Body?: Body
Sweet or Sexy?: Sweet
Well-educated or Dropout?: I *cannot* date a stupid guy. Period. Out of the question.
Armani or Abercrombie?: Neither
City-slicker or Rural Guy?: City boys have money, but country boys have muscles...hmmm...
Blue, green, grey, or brown eyes?: Grey or green
Contacts or Glasses?: GLASSES! <--total fetish for glasses

More Questions.
01. Eyeliner or Mascara?: Neither
02. Louis Vuitton or Dooney & Bourke?: Neither.
04. Skirts or pants?: Pants.
05. Socks or leggings?: SOCKS!!!!
06. Hoodies or jackets?: Hoodies.
07. Heels or sneakers?: Sneakers, with my awesome green and purple laces.
08. Straight or curly hair?: Straight
09. Hoop or dangling earrings?: Neither
10. White or black?: Black
11. Victoria's Secret or Bath and Body Works?: Neither, for they are grotty.
12. Smoothies or lattes?: Smoothies
13. Diet or regular sodas?: Diet
15. Pearls or diamonds?: Beads
16. Vintage or boho?: Boho
17. Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen?: Hmm...anorexia or bulimia? Hard choice... ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25910135/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25910135/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:23:29 PDT
Moving in with Hector this Friday, come hell, high water, a cold, my period, and/or my parents. Mainly because I've been stuck in the shit house (my affectionate nickname for my childhood home) for a week, and my legs have been gnawed down to the muscle by fleas and mosquitoes, and I just can't take it anymore. Also, because I love him and can't stand to live so far away anymore.
Also, he proposed, and we're engaged.

Now those of you who know just how anti-marriage (please note, I don't hate marriage. It's just not for me, I didn't think) I am will be pretty shocked, but the conversation went like this:

Hector and I were watching season 1 of Scrubs in his room after the con, and we had this conversation:
Hector: If I asked you to marry me, what would you say?
Me: Depends, are you asking me to marry you? Like, right now?
H: No! Not now, I mean. We'd be engaged for a year or two. And there wouldn't really be a wedding. Just basically so my mom will shut up about us "living in sin".
M: So, are you asking me to marry you?
H: I guess I am.
M: So ask.
H: Alana, will you marry me?
M: Yeah, I will.

Truth be told, I'm sorta psyched. I mean, I love him. More than I've ever loved anyone or anything. I can't wait to be living with him, sharing a room, a bed. If that makes me a hypocrite well, then, I'm one happy hypocrite. Goodnight, all!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25680949/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25680949/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:10:55 PDT
Three notebooks of various sizes.
An umbrella.
My camera.
At least 20 pens/pencils/sharpies.
Goggles or sunglasses.

Five things in my bedroom:
(I am currently sleeping in my living room, as my cousin has taken my bed)
A TV.
Toto, a dog.
A rack of beads.
A couch, which is my bed.
Another couch, which is not my bed.

Five things I’ve always wanted to do in my life:

Go to Disneyland in all the other places aside from Florida.
Shave my head.
Write for DC.
Shoot Billy Mays.
Kiss Terrence Zdunich.

Five things that make me very happy:

Hector
Red Bull commercials
Showgirls from the old west
Inertia
Comics

Five things I’m currently into:

Hector <3<3<3
Futurama
Inertia <3
Staying up late
Beading

Five things on my To-Do list:

Get a job.
Buy the entire Question series that I've hidden in a box at my comic store.
Stop watching so much TV (except Cold Case. Cold Case rules.)
Exercise more.
Go to the beach and sell bracelets.

Five things some people may or may not know about you:

My intense love for obscure 90's villians is unrivaled.
I *HATE* Squidbillies.
I ship Spock/Kirk REALLY HARD
I have always wanted to shave my head, but I'd get too cold so I can't.
Sunflower seeds are my crack.

Five most important moments of the last year:

Met Bobby.
Was dumped by Bobby- twice.
Ellie was robbed.
Graduated.
Met Hector.

Five things you enjoy doing during your free time:

SLEEP
WRITE
SING
COMICS!
GAIA ONLINE (my crack)

Five impressions of the person who tagged me:
Wah!
Nobody
Tagged
Me,
Dammit!

Five people I myself now tag:
Dakt37
Skittering Roach
Tippetarius
Goldphishcrackers
Afangirlsdream

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25606130/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25606130/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:14:58 PDT
IN HONOR OF HIS DEATH, THIS HAS BEEN AN ALL-CAPS "SHOUTING" POST!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25543258/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25543258/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:27:39 PDT
Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, oh my god, it's a celebpocalypse of DEATH!

I'm rooting for the next death to be either Liza Minelli or Joan Rivers.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25343587/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25343587/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:48:26 PDT
I have no freaking clue who most of these famous people are. Who the hell is Sanjaya? And Tila Tequila? I actually had to go onto Wikipedia and look them up. How in god's name is it possible to start out being a whore on Myspace, and end up with your own reality show on MTV? I want a TV show. Is it bikini time? It must be.

I've never watched American Idol. Not even the episodes where all the people that really suck audition. Likewise, I've never seen Big Brother, Survivor, Dancing With the Stars, *blank* of Love, The Bachleor/ette, Gossip Girl, Hell's Kitchen, or any show with the words "Model", "Fashion", "Clothes", "Designer", or "Dress" in it. I've never picked up any of the Twilight books with the intention of reading them. I have no idea which actors are dating which musicians. I've got no idea why people like Tyra Banks, Janice Dickinson, or the Pussycat Dolls. I've got no clue who Kim Kardashian is, or why she's famous. I don't know what Hugh Heffner's 3 blonde bimbo girlfriends are named, though I'm almost positive that there are, in fact, three of them and not just one interchangable blonde.

While I've got Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, and Blogger accounts (not to mention my awesome Geek Blog over at Wordpress), I spend most of my internet time over at Gaia Online, or right here on DeviantArt. On Facebook, my dad and grandma are two of my friends, and I've got less than 20 friends on Myspace, all of whom are either celebrities I've met at conventions (plus Weird Al and Terrence Zdunich), my convention fangirls, ex boyfriends, and Ellie. I've not logged in to either Facebook or Myspace in about a month, though I'm rather fond of Twitter and I use it once every few days.

Who the hell cares about Jon and Kate's rocky marriage? I mean actually CARES, like your world revolves around these people being okay at the end of the day. Show of hands? What about Brad and Angelina? Tom Cruise and what's 'er face? If any of you said yes, stop reading right now and kill yourself. I can wait. Moving on. Paris Hilton. Don't give a flying rat's ass about her. And whomever this Perez Hilton is (her twin? Her gay shopping partner? An internet guy? WHO IS HE?!), don't care about him, either.

75% of the music produced in the last 20 years sucks. Yeah, I said it. If your popularity is solely based on you getting caught naked on camera with a married man, or busted for having drugs or driving drunk, or partying until your hair falls out from all the heroin, or getting shot nine times, I don't give a shit about you. I will say right now that while I find Lady Gaga to be a questionable human being, I love her music. Same goes for Britney Spears. Lady, you may be out of your fraggin' MIND, but you put out a good song every now and then. Katy Perry and Lily Allen, whether it be kissing girls or flipping off the former president, you keep doing what you're doing. Dude from Shinedown, with the foofy hair and the soul patch, you can have me. Notice how I'm only addressing recent artists? Chances are, if anyone that reads this journal is between the ages of 14 and 17, this is probably all you know. And I'm sorry.

The main reason I don't know anything about today's culture is because I spent most of my childhood with my nose buried in books while listening to my local doo wop station (that now only plays music from the 60's upwards, because most of the people that actually remember times before that are either dead or deaf), only surfacing to go to school, and watch good cartoons on the weekends, and Batman and Thundercats after school. I've never looked at the world around me, choosing instead to focus intimately on the culture of times past.

Jay and the Americans. Sam Cooke. Martha and the Vandellas. Any of these names sound familiar? How about Diana Ross and The Supremes, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. They're all from the same stretch of time. My mother is 56 years old and while we don't really get along, she came from one hell of an era, and I love hearing about it. My mother PERSONALLY dated half of the British Invasion, I'm pretty sure. It's what she says, anyway. She spent three years in Europe in the 1970's. She was born and raised in New York City. If you want to hear about some interesting times, go ask your folks about their swingin' youths. Ask them about their first concerts. Ask them if they remember hippies, mods, the war. And after that, go talk to your grandparents. Ask them about the Andrews Sisters, Julie London, Glenn Miller, news reels in movies, and their own war. If your great-grandparents are still alive, ask them about their childhoods. What I'm basically saying, teens and tweens, is take a break from the internet, television, video games, and your cell phones. Shut off the Ipods. Go learn something from those that were there. ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25302980/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25302980/ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:12:31 PDT
[link]

FUCKING STAR TREK WAFFLES, BITCHES.

Also, I had sworn to myself, SWORN ON MY AUNT COLLETTE'S GRAVE, that I was done with Star Trek slash. GOD DAMN YOU, SEXY NEW SPOCK! Why can't I see Zachary Quinto as something other than a booty-chaser? WHY?! Sylar/Mohinder: because what is a good relationship without a little S & M?
I refuse to call ANY PAIRING after an eating device. NO SPORK NO.

God, I can't wait to be done with my period for this month. It's been summer for a week, and I've yet to go swimming. And seeing as no one in my complex would like to attract sharks, no pool for me.

(Uhura was a plot device in about the same way that the cake is a lie. Spock/Kirk forever)

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25209585/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25209585/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:38:23 PDT 50 secrets about yourself...

1. Is that your natural hair colour?
As soon as the stupid blonde streaks grow out, it will be.

2. Where was your profile pic taken?
Did I put one up? I have one on y!Gallery, and it was taken at the Tate's sale last year.

3. What did you do today?
Cleaned the apartment, slept off the rest of my Supercon-lag, hung out with my boyfriend, took care of my grammy, read comics, finally checked all my internet stuff for the first time in FOUR DAYS AUGH IT WAS TORTURE.

4. Are you happy when your single?
I guess so. Though I'm never single for very long. I'm not bragging, I just seem to have a waiting list, aheh. But I like being with Hector, so I don't think I'd be very happy if we broke up.

5. What is your current mood?
SO HUNGRY FOOD PLZ HURRR

6. What colour underwear are you wearing?
Dark blue, with bicycles on them.

7. What makes you happy?
Reading comics while listening to the Repo! soundtrack as I cuddle with Hector. Comics and cuddles in general, really.

8. Are you musically inclined?
Yeah. Chorus girl all throughout my school years!

9. If you could go back in time, and change something what would it be?
I'd never have taken Bobby back the first time. Or I would have bought that wheelchair.

10. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day- what would you be?
A Bat!

11. Ever had a near death experience?
I was attacked by a Rotti at three, fell down some concrete stairs at twelve, and was attacked in a car in the hood at sixteen. Not once did I actually have to go to the hospital, though. Just had that "life flashing before your eyes" type thing.

12. Something you do a lot?
Sing and write.

13. What's the name of the song stuck in your head right now?
Her Diamonds- Rob Thomas

14. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
Hector

15. Name someone with the same b-day as you?
My best friend's grandma.

16. When was the last time you cried?
Hector and I got into a big fight in a stairwell at Supercon, and I thought he was going to leave me like Bobby did. D:

17. Have you ever sung in front of a large audience?
Many, many times. Epcot's Candlelight Processional twice in a row.

18. If you could have one super power what would it be?
Superspeed. I wanna have a suit made of goesfast!

19. What's the first thing you notice about the OPPOSITE sex?
The scent. If I smell anything other than manmusk or Axe, I'm outtie. Jake is MY damn cologne.

20. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
Small Java Chip, whipped cream.

21. What's your biggest secret?
I like NG better than TOS. Also, the fight scenes in Attack of the Clones KICKED ASS.

22. What's your favorite colour?
Green.

23. When was the last time you lied?
Up there in #21. That's not my biggest secret.

24. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
Try and stop me, bitches.

25. Do you have braces?
Nope. Never needed them.

26. If you could change one thing about your life what would it be?
Bobby would have never been my boyfriend. Ever.

27. What are you eating or drinking atm?
Nothing T_T

28. Do you speak any other language?
I know some Interlac. Oh yeah, I said it.

29. What's your favorite smell?
Hector <3

30. When was the last time you shaved your legs?
Friday. But it's just stubble now, and that hurts to shave, so I'll wait.

31. What were you doing this morning at 8am?
Cleaning up my room.

32. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
Checking stuff on Gaia.

33. What are you wearing?
Walmart superhero sleep pants and one of Hector's white tank tops that I stole from his luggage this weekend >

34. Are you mad at anyone right now?
Sorta?

35. The last two people to say they loved you?
Hector and Grammy.

36. Last thing received in the mail?
Application for work at Holy Cross Hospital.

37. Do you have any famous relatives?
I may be related to Warren Beatty, distantly.

38. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
Nope.

39. How is your hair?
Puffy D:

40. How many different drinks have you had today?
Just some water.

41. What have you eaten today?
Two McChickens, some fries, and some cereal.

42. Are you good at maths?
I can figure out basic... ]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25209391/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25209391/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:07:13 PDT
1. What is your name: Alana

2. A four letter word: Anal (hell, take out one of the a's and my name can be rearranged into anal. No wonder I'm so obsessed with the buttsex)

3. A boy's name: Alan

4. A girl's name: Ariel

5. An occupation: Archaeologist

6. A colour: Apple

7. Something you wear: Armor

8. A food: Anchovie

9. Something found in the bathroom: Ass-smell (live with men. It's there.)

10. A place: Amsterdam

11. A reason for being late: Attacked by 40 cakes(and that's TERRIBLE)

12. Something you shout/chant: AOOOOOOGAH!

13. A movie title : Aladdin

14. Something you drink: Appletinis (Scrubs!)

15. A musical group: a-Ha

16. An animal: anteater

17. A street name: Austin Terrace

18. A type of car: Acura

19. The title of a song: A Whole New World

TAGZ: Whoever wants to, go for it!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25207239/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25207239/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:06:27 PDT
10: After living, food, and crap-I-had-to-buy expenses, I still made over $120.

9: Yaya Han gave me a hug :3 (but I forgot to buy Persocom ears DAMN!)

8: Booing The Earth Dies Screaming, then stealing all of their demo cds so the suck couldn't spread (THEY WERE SO BAD OMG HOW DID I SHARE A SCHOOL WITH THOSE GUYS FOR FOUR YEARS?!)

7: "Oh lord, please grant us a Tom Tom!" and raining sideways at McDonalds.

6: Meeting Chris Claremont and Tony Bedard, and having them sign my books. Tony Bedard even recognized that I was dressed as Black Canary!

5: Putting Hector into goth clothes. My boyfriend walked around all of Friday in my green and black goth pants, Blind Mag Repo! shirt, top hat, and green domino mask. Yummmmmm!

4: Being sandwiched between Hector and Ellie in bed on Saturday...until she started jabbing her elbow into my stomach.

3: $1 comics!

2: Sharing a room with Nitai, Alli, DK and Jason (but omg was Celia annoying).

1: I'm 5 or 6 comics away from having the full Impulse series, now! Not to mention that I got a CRAPLOAD of Birds of Prey, Robin, Nightwing, some Batgirl, and a few Superboy annuals that I was missing, a new Impulse figure (to replace my wonky-legged little chum I've christened 'Gimpulse' ) as well as a Max Mercury figure in the same bag WITH STANDS for the low low price of SIX DOLLARS. Well, $29 with all the comics added in, plus I spent another $20 at Orlando's stand on lots of comics.

All in all, it was a damned good con. Right up there with the 07 FSC, where I met Todd Nauck, Rikki Simons, and Tavisha, in terms of sheer awesomeness. I could have done better business if I hadn't fallen asleep midafternoon on Saturday (prime time for selling manga, I assure you), but when you're kept up basically all night by a shrill girl you'd like to throw out a window, you take whatever sleep you can get. Anyway, it's late now, so I'm going to get some sleep. Stay groovy, everybody.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25088245/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25088245/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:41:35 PDT
CHRIS CLAREMONT!!!!!

For the longest time, New Mutants was the only Marvel series I'd ever liked, when I was picking up back issues as a kid. And he's the original writer!!! Now I can get his signature on my copy of the Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (first issue that the New Mutants appeared in), right under Bob McLeod's signature!!! I know I'm totally geeking out, but I'm just so dang excited!

Gonna go get back to work now >_<
Grife, I hate working at the bike store.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25004466/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/25004466/ Thu, 28 May 2009 19:35:50 PDT
Seriously, look at Xelliron's Shotaesque Ben 10 art. You will probably die from the cute overload. And then you will feel very, very dirty for enjoying it.

I mean it. Go. Look. Enjoy.

[link]

Tell here Touch sent you

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24935607/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24935607/ Mon, 25 May 2009 03:24:59 PDT
]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24917847/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24917847/ Sun, 24 May 2009 03:21:01 PDT
I need a job. >_< And I really don't want to be the person that cleans the gay bar after hours. That can get kinda nasty.

I've got to say, I've never really been impressed by the Plain White T's. Just not a fan. Can't see myself becoming a fan in the future. I think I'll turn off the videos and go to bed now. Oh, and before I forget...

Anyone ever had really awesome sex? Like, hold the headboard, tear the bedsheets, scream to the heavens awesome sex?

I am having this sex. I am having this sex in a big way. And it's freaking AWESOME.

Sorry. Didn't mean to turn that into some sort of public service announcement. I'm just too happy these days, and I'm sharing everything with everyone.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24902453/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24902453/ Sat, 23 May 2009 06:38:53 PDT
I AM SO FUCKING BUMMED RIGHT NOW.

AUGH!

Also, my cellphone finally got switched out for one that works! It's green~!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24884856/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24884856/ Fri, 22 May 2009 04:09:23 PDT
I mean, he's a sarcastic, monotone, bespectacled, bushy-tailed comedian that often gets mistaken for being much younger than he actually is. I can relate on all of those aspects, which makes me even crazier about him.

I only wish Whitedog1 hadn't blocked me from adding her stuff to my favorites for some reason. I don't know why she did that T_T

[link]

VIEW. SEE. LOVE. FAVE.

And if you can, tell her I love him for me.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24812668/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24812668/ Sun, 17 May 2009 20:30:31 PDT
He's 26, works in a porn store(<3), is taller than me by several inches(<3!), has chosen comics over food on several occasions(<3!!), is easy to talk to, likes my stupid stories, and has said (and I quote): "I would rather have you than an original print Action Comics #1, mint in package.". <3!!!!

He calls me adorable, and surprisingly, I don't take it to mean that he thinks I'm short (small and cute go hand in hand.), and I allow him to call me by pet names that lesser boyfriends have been clocked over. He accepts that fact that I wear fake glasses even though I've got perfect vision ("Just like Superman!"), and has seen me with messy hair in my Walmart superhero sleep pants and still wants to date me.

I'm terrified that I may be jinxing this, but frankly, if a guy as awesome as him actually wants to go out with an uberdork such as myself, I think I may actually starting to be...happy. Go figure.

In other news, my Grammy is in the hospital with a blood clot in the back of her head that makes it hard for her to see. Which would explain why she kept thinking I was a black nurse named Patricia. I've been semi-nursing her at the hospital for the last two days. My family has this habit of miraculously coming back from the brink time and time again, as well as living past 90. Let's hope the trend continues.

That is all. You may now adjust your computer screens.

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24762565/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24762565/ Thu, 14 May 2009 22:39:40 PDT You’re a 90’s kid if:

You remember watching
[x] Kenan and Kel
[x] Doug
[x] Ren & Stimpy
[x] Pinky and the Brain
[x] AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
[x] Rockos modern Life
[x] Animaniacs
[x] Gargoyles
[x] Hey Arnold
[x] Out of the Box (I still have the theme song stuck in my head, too)
[] Bear in the Big Blue House
[] You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
[] You just cant resist finishing this . . ."In west Philadelphia born and raised..."

You remember:
[x] Step by Step
[] Family Matters
[x] Dinosaurs
[x] Boy Meets World (I LOVE YOU WILL FRIEDLE!)
[x] Full House
[x] You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

[x] You remember reading Goosebumps

When everything was settled by:
[x] rock paper scissors
[] miss mary mack (No one ever wanted to play with me T_T)

[] When kick ball was something you did everyday
[] Playing with lanyard in the schoolyard.
[] 'Yikes!' erasers and stationary.
[x] You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time on a tape.
[x] You remember Super Nintendos and Sega Genesis (I never played video games, but my friend had one.)
[x] You remember The Original Game Boy
[x] You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos... but never taped anything funny.
[x] You saw 'The Mummy' in the movie theater.

You remember watching:
[x] The Magic School Bus
[] Wishbone
[] Reading Rainbow
[x] Ghostwriter

[x] You remember when Yo-Yos were cool (They aren't cool anymore?)
[x] You remember those Where’s Waldo books.
[x] You remember eating Warheads and Splashers Gushers (Everyone else ate them but me)

You remember watching:
[x] Batman the Animated Series (BEST BATMAN EVER)
[x] Aladdin
[x] Ninja Turtles
[] Ghost Busters
[x] You remember Ring Pops
[x] If you remember when everything was "da BOMB!"
[x] You remember boom boxes .vs. cd players.
[x] Making those little paper fortune cookie things,
and then predicting your life with them
[x] You played and/or collected Pogs
[x] You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere you went

You watched the original cartoons of
[x]Rugrats
[x]Wild Thornberrys
[]Power Rangers

[x]All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand (I still have some folders and a journal.)

You collected
[x] Beanie Babies. (I had like, a hundred @_@)
[x] Pokemon cards
[x] Care Bears
[x] Silver dollars, which were cool to have (My uncle still gets me one every year)

[x]Everyone watched the WB

[x]When everybody knew all the Pokemon by heart.
[x]When Digimon was still on.

[x] If you even know what an original walkman is...

[x] You know the Macarena by heart (And I invented a kick-dance to go along with it)

[x]"Talk to the hand"

[x]You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace and it was still sanitary.

[x]Before the MySpace frenzy
[x]Before the Internet & text messaging.
[x]Before Sidekicks & iPods

[x]Before PlayStation3 or X-BOX 360
[x]Back before X box period

[x]Before Spongebob.

[x]When light up sneakers were cool.
[x]When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs
[x]When gas was $0.95 a gallon.
[x]When we recorded stuff on VCR

[x]You had slap bracelets!
[x]You actually played outside until it was dark.


[x]Post this if you smiled at least more than 5 times.
[x]And if you remember at least half the stuff on here.

Re-post with the year you were born- 1990

Oh dear god, this brought back so many memories, it isn't even funny.
Any and all other nineties kids must do this!

]]> ~Touch-of-Grey37 http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24718314/ http://Touch-of-Grey37.deviantart.com/journal/24718314/ Tue, 12 May 2009 10:24:50 PDT I mean, I get cranky, overly-emotional, I need a chocolate I drip, and of course, I bleed out of my vagina. Combined, they do not make for a fun week.

When I get overly-emotional, I cry. Like, over stupid things in 52. "The menorah is wrong! Waaaah!"

Also, I miss people that I shouldn't. Y'know, I never realized how emotionally invested I was in Bobby until we broke up. God, cock-blocking him at FSC is going to be satisfying.

Yeah, that's all for right now.

Check out The ToG Blog to see Dakt37's Artist Spotlight interview later today, mmkay?

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"Blinded by the Light" was the first single from Bruce Springsteen's 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.. Springsteen's version was initially unsuccessful, and failed to appear on the music charts.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their album The Roaring Silence. The song reached #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 on 19 February 1977 and #1 on the Canadian RPM chart.

In the Manfred Mann version, it totally sounds like he's singing "wrapped up like a douche". This is probably the number #1 misheard lyric of all time, because absolutely NO ONE thinks he's saying "cut loose like a deuce". Doesn't sound like it in the least.

Go listen to the song, guys. And sing it loudly and proudly, in the middle of a crowded mall.

(The techno remix by Michael Mind isn't half bad, either, even if it turned a 7-minute song into a 3-minute song. I thought the point of remixes were to extend the song to an almost obnoxious length, but whatever.)

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1. Thad Thawne (Inertia)- Because it's what any fangirl of his would do

2. Dick Grayson- Because he's Dick "Does Everyone at Least Once" Grayson! Do I need a reason other than that?

3. Bucky Barnes- Because he's a secret Dom, that's why.

4. Pietro Maximoff- I've got a strange passion for guys that run fast, okay?

5. Gambit- Because you know he's the kind of guy that brings props.

6. Neville Longbottom- He needs to get lucky! Seriously, I know I'm not the only person that thinks so.

7. Jeannette (from the Chipettes)- But only in a threesome with Simon. I like getting the brainy ones together.

8.Roy Harper- Because I have a redhead fetish and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

9. Barbara Gordon- See above. Also, she's the type to secretly film her sex, I know it.

10. Billy Kaplan- But only if I turned into a guy overnight, and Teddy asked nicely.

I TOTALLY TAG: Dakt37, Skittering-Roach, Tippertarius, Ph1shfood, and Goldphishcrackers. Have at it!

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