Five fictional characters

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

Lovely suejc3dogs gave me an S...

1. Seely Booth (Bones) - He and Brennan are just so irresistible.

2. Sarah Connor (Terminator) - She's the mother of the future. 'nough said.

3. Seth Gecko (From Dusk Till Dawn) - If you try to run, I've got six little friends and they can all run faster than you can.

4. Sofia Curtis (CSI) - came in as a CSI, went out as a cop and now we don't see her anymore. Strong gal. I miss her.

5. Samuel Anders but he turned out to be a Cylon so I'm gonna go with Starbuck, the original, the man. (Battlestar Galactica)

Writer's Block: I Can’t Live Without…

Hmm... internet connection or chocolate? Tough choice.

Overseas' Politics...

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Ever wonder what a meeting between Jed Bartlet and Barack Obama would be like? Columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times actually called Aaron Sorkin to ask him, and here's what Jed had to say:

BARACK OBAMA knocks on the front door of a 300-year-old New Hampshire farmhouse while his Secret Service detail waits in the driveway. The door opens and OBAMA is standing face to face with former President JED BARTLET.

BARTLET: Senator.

OBAMA: Mr. President.

BARTLET: You seem startled.

OBAMA: I didn't expect you to answer the door yourself.

BARTLET: I didn't expect you to be getting beat by John McCain and a Lancôme rep who thinks "The Flintstones" was based on a true story, so let's call it even.

OBAMA: Yes, sir.

BARTLET: Come on in.

BARTLET leads OBAMA into his study.

BARTLET: That was a hell of a convention.

OBAMA: Thank you, I was proud of it.

BARTLET: I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don't like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I've been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose -

OBAMA: Look -

BARTLET: - and selling Air Force Two on eBay?

OBAMA: Joke all you want, Mr. President, but it worked.

BARTLET: Imagine my surprise. What can I do for you, kid?

OBAMA: I'm interested in your advice.

BARTLET: I can't give it to you.

OBAMA: Why not?

BARTLET: I'm supporting McCain.

OBAMA: Why?

BARTLET: He's promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my "to do" list.

OBAMA: O.K. -

BARTLET: And he's surrounded himself, I think, with the best possible team to get us out of an economic crisis. Why, Sarah Palin just said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Can you spot the error in that statement?

OBAMA: Yes, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren't funded by taxpayers.

BARTLET: Well, at least they are now. Kind of reminds you of the time Bush said that Social Security wasn't a government program. He was only off by a little - Social Security is the largest government program.

OBAMA: I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.

BARTLET: Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.

OBAMA: Which was?

BARTLET: A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.

OBAMA: And?

BARTLET: I was.

OBAMA: I mean, how did you overcome that?

BARTLET: I won't lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.

OBAMA: What do you mean?

BARTLET: I'm a fictional president. You're dreaming right now, Senator.

OBAMA: I'm asleep?

BARTLET: Yes, and you're losing a ton of white women.

OBAMA: Yes, sir.

BARTLET: I mean tons.

OBAMA: I understand.

BARTLET: I didn't even think there were that many white women.

OBAMA: I see the numbers, sir. What do they want from me?

BARTLET: I've been married to a white woman for 40 years and I still don't know what she wants from me.

OBAMA: How did you do it?

BARTLET: Well, I say I'm sorry a lot.

OBAMA: I don't mean your marriage, sir. I mean how did you get America on your side?

BARTLET: There again, I didn't have to be president of America, I just had to be president of the people who watched "The West Wing."

OBAMA: That would make it easier.

BARTLET: You'd do very well on NBC. Thursday nights in the old "ER" time slot with "30 Rock" as your lead-in, you'd get seven, seven-five in the demo with a 20, 22 share - you'd be selling $450,000 minutes.

OBAMA: What the hell does that mean?

BARTLET: TV talk. I thought you'd be interested.

OBAMA: I'm not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I'm - wait for it - the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?

BARTLET: Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

OBAMA: You're saying race doesn't have anything to do with it?

BARTLET: I wouldn't go that far. Brains made me look arrogant but they make you look uppity. Plus, if you had a black daughter -

OBAMA: I have two.

BARTLET: - who was 17 and pregnant and unmarried and the father was a teenager hoping to launch a rap career with "Thug Life" inked across his chest, you'd come in fifth behind Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and a ficus.

OBAMA: You're not cheering me up.

BARTLET: Is that what you came here for?

OBAMA: No, but it wouldn't kill you.

BARTLET: Have you tried doing a two-hour special or a really good Christmas show?

OBAMA: Sir -

BARTLET: Hang on. Home run. Right here. Is there any chance you could get Michelle pregnant before the fall sweeps?

OBAMA: The problem is we can't appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?

BARTLET: Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family's less safe than it was eight years ago, we've lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know ... I'm a little angry.

OBAMA: What would you do?

BARTLET: GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that's what they are. Sarah Palin didn't say "thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said "Thanks." You were raised by a single mother on food stamps - where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I'd ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you're at it, I want the word "patriot" back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn't know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can't do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie - the truth isn't their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they've earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It's not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It's not bad enough she's forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It's not enough that a woman shouldn't have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist's baby too? I don't know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she's got the qualifications of one. And you're worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!

OBAMA: Good to get that off your chest?

BARTLET: Am I keeping you from something?

OBAMA: Well, it's not as if I didn't know all of that and it took you like 20 minutes to say.

BARTLET: I know, I have a problem, but admitting it is the first step.

OBAMA: What's the second step?

BARTLET: I don't care.

OBAMA: So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?

BARTLET: No. You're elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week of your campaign, followed - granted, inexplicably - by the worst week of your campaign. And you're still in a statistical dead heat. You're a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren't the same thing and you're in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that's what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.

OBAMA: Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the show and your people were down and frustrated? You'd give them a pep talk and then you'd always end it with something. What was it ...?

BARTLET: "Break's over."
 

meming when I should be sleeping

Seen everywhere a little while back, that meme about the first sentence of your last twenty stories, give or take... Driving the jeep like a raving lunatic, according to the missus, Dylan glanced in the rear-view mirror at their son. (A Storm Brewing, SG-1) "Damn it all to hell!" Tools flew from under the console, scattering across the floor of the cockpit in loud clinking sounds. (Murphy's Law, SW/Firefly x-over AU) When asked what his worst enemy is, Ronon would, without hesitation, answer the Wraith. (Harness It, SGA) It stank. (Distant Early Warning, SPN) "What's this?" Sloane threw a flask on Merrick's lap when she got to where he was sitting in the MACO rec space. (I Got Your Back, ENT AU) Nobody's that pissed off for no reason. (A Little Step to the Left, NCIS AU) Probed, scanned, interviewed, re-sanitized, questioned, evaluated - on the many occasions Mike had dreamed of his return to the human race, this wasn't the welcoming party he had had in mind. (Want Bleach With That?, ENT AU) "You're shitting me..." (Chance Meeting, M7 AU) Warmth enveloped Annie and she relished it. (One Slip, SW/Firefly x-over AU) "If you just focus on the clouds up above and forget the blue isn't quite the same shade and that there is that extra moon over there near the horizon, you can believe you're back on Earth." (Cumulus, ENT AU) "That went well," Laurence said when she stepped into the observation room next door. (The Wingnut and the Frogman, WoD Twilight) In the back office of his busy little club, Seth pushed away from the ledgers, a satisfied smile on his face. (Doing the Books, ENT AU) Yara's captor was right; he had total control over her in the sense that he had her trapped there in that room, wet and cold and famished and half out of her mind. (Is There Anybody Out There?, M7 AU) Rain. (The Blond and the Flippin' Flippers, LotR AU) He took another swipe, his tongue almost rough against her over-sensitised clit. (Sweet Torment, SGA) All was well for a while. (Beads, ENT) "Nearly there," a reassuring voice reached her ears. (Monkey Games, LotR RPF) "Now!" (Blonds Have More Fun, M7/S&S x-over AU) Laurence sipped her cold drink slowly. (Morocco, WoD Twilight) "Lieutenant Marken, I've been appraised of what happened on the Pokolaree homeworld," Archer forced out the words. (Untitled, ENT) The ring of the phone jerked her awake. (Truth and Consequences, M7 AU) The mud squelched up around her boots and she cursed internally at the idiotic impulse of curiosity that drew her out to this particular field, lying somewhere between hell and nowhere. (The Child's Ghostly Judge, Revisited, WoD Twilight) ETA: I should have mentioned that I'm not that much of a fic writer. When I get a chance to write, because it's usually in short stabs, it's mostly for RPG posts or drabbles. What you have here is a few fics and mostly RPG posts (I went for the long ones) often done jointly with another player. Of course I only used here the ones I started off on my own. That said, there's some cheating here too. Some of the fics have not been posted, some aren't even finished. I think that if I only followed Rhaps' version of the meme found on Juno, I wouldn't have 25 entries to show. Sad but true. And I think I saw this one at : THREE NAMES YOU GO BY: 1. do 2. dodo 3. maman THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD: 1. dolarabee 2. lamaudite 3. totheBlack THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: 1. lips 2. hair 3. waist (if I can find it again) THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: 1. feet 2. legs 3. ass THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: 1. Austrian 2. Scottish 3. French THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: 1. losing my baby (either of them) 2. burned alive 3. Man's greediness THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: 1. cuddles 2. chocolate 3. sun THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING NOW: 1. Ugg boots 2. old grey top 3. glasses THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS: 1. Midnight Oil 2. Seether 3. U2 THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (RIGHT NOW): 1. Underdog, Turin Brakes 2. UFO, Newton Faulkner 3. Cemeteries of London, Coldplay THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP: 1. humour 2. love 3. trust TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: 1. I'm a cat person 2. life would be harsh without chocolate 3. integral part of my morning routine: coffee THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU: 1. eyes 2. ass 3. mouth THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES: 1. listening to music 2. watching a movie/TV series 3. reading THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW: 1. sleep 2. write 3. rock (in a rocking chair - too late for true rock) THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING/YOU’VE CONSIDERED: 1. biology 2. medecine 3. military THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION: 1. South America 2. Greece 3. Egypt THREE NAMES YOU LIKE: 1. Kieran 2. Laurence 3. Kyle THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE: 1. see the Earth from orbit 2. jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane 3. see my child grow up THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY/GIRL: 1. scared of spiders 2. don't want to have to handle car repairs 3. gattling-nag prowess THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY/GIRL (OPPOSITE SEX): 1. the way I look at my nails 2. in that I don't wear makeup 3. not slave to fashion accessories THREE PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW: 1. 2. 3. COPY+PASTE IS YOUR BFF!
<b>THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING NOW:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (RIGHT NOW):</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING/YOU’VE CONSIDERED:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE NAMES YOU LIKE:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY/GIRL:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY/GIRL (OPPOSITE SEX):</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i> <b>THREE PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW:</b> <i>1.</i> <i>2.</i> <i>3.</i>

just saying hi

Anyone heard of or watched the new vampire series called True Blood? I'm not sure what to make of it yet. I guess I'l have to give it a bit more time. I do like Anna Paquin.
 
First episode of the second season of Sarah Connor Chronicles was pretty good. Looking forward to next week's.

Useless meme:

Which Terminator Character Are You?

Created by BuddyTV

BONES!

I'm just about to sit down to watch the season premiere of Bones... just saw a little preview and found out that Andrew Buchan from The Fixer is in it!

*squee*

keeping my mind entertained

As rec'd by  , go check out that video! I'm not crazy about the song but it's nice to see Mulder and Scully again.