Oh, my poor email.

[apocalypsos]

It's going to be stuffed full of comments after today. :)

So, just to make this one easy -- pimp something!

Pimp anything in the comments. Movies, TV shows, books, comics, your favorite conditioner, those potato chips you can't get enough of, whatever. Anything at all that more people should know about because they'd like it, pimp away!

(For the record, I'm going to continue to pimp Pushing Daisies until I'm blue in the face.)

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

The new breakfast sandwiches at Starbucks are awesome.

[speedcat93.livejournal.com]

Hi!
my new plant given to me by my colleagues, to wish me good luck.
:D

I knew I kept this icon around for a reason.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, you need to. Now-ish. Robert Downey Jr plays a small-time crook who teams up with private detective Gay Perry (Val Kilmer) to solve murder mysteries in Hollywood. He also narrates because, hey, it's his film, and he's an idiot but he's an idiot in love with a woman who beats up a transformer with a baseball bat who accidentally cuts his finger off after he goes to bed with her best friend.

Larry (which is to say, Mr Downey) screws up a lot. Perry is badass and awesome and definitely Kilmer's best role since Tombstone. It's basically awesome.

Re: I knew I kept this icon around for a reason.

[l-vera01.livejournal.com]

I want to second this rec for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. It reminded me just how good RDJnr and Val Kilmer are.

[chocolaticida.livejournal.com]

1. I just finished reading "Princess Bride", and it's great. Pirates and princess and a hero, and a spanish guy who speaks english and... it's very good.

2. The comic "The Sandman", because it's too awesome for words. It's too awesome for everything.

(I've been awake for way too long. Adjectives are failing me. Sorry.)
(Good night!)

[l-vera01.livejournal.com]

Wanted to add The Harry Dresden Series by Jim Butcher - a series of books following Chicago's only wizard listed in the yellow pages. Funny and sharply written it takes Harry's supernatural world and drops it right into contemporary Chicago.

After that - Rob Thurman (female author) who has started a series about two brothers - the younger one is half-elf (the dark twisty kind of elf) and the old human but has vowed to protect his younger brother once they find out he's a target for elves. As a result they both go on the run ... and well, let's just say she's Eric Kripke's twin on paper. Two books have been released Moonshine and Night Life. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

I'm adding Rob Thurman to my reading list. The Dresden Files are already on it. Thanks for the rec.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to get the Rob Thurman books but every time I have the money I can never find them. I really need to make a new Amazon wishlist. Mm-hmm.

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

You're got to see Deadliest Catch. It makes you really grateful for every bit of seafood that you've ever eaten. If you're not into seafood, it's still damn cool.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's what I'm watching right now. It's making me hungry. And grateful, but mostly hungry. :)

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

It's making me hungry, too. And they just had to show that woman cooking.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God, that cake thing?! *swoons*

And the commercials for Ocean of Fear are KILLING me, because I really want to watch it but I'll be at work tomorrow night. Damn it. *grumbles*

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

I couldn't decide if I was more excited abou the cake or the gravy. I really want myself some gravy.

Ocean of Fear might be a bit too much for me. I should be home tomorrow night so I'll probably give it a try.

[evanesce.livejournal.com]

GIMP. (Also here for Windows.)

If you've ever had the yen to icon or make graphics or banners and can't afford Photoshop's $600 price tag, this is what you want. GIMP is free, legal shareware, it's just as good as PS or PSP, and you'll still be able to pay your rent next month. :)

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Rosemary & Olive Oil Triscuits are made of win.

[bexone.livejournal.com]

Mike Errico is fully awesome. And at some point today when I'm back home, I can upload some of his stuff to prove it. (Not the new album yet, though. T'brother still owes me my copy all the way back from Christmas.)

[kelex.livejournal.com]

BURN NOTICE.

Its this totally awesome show on USA (Thursday, 10 PM EST, RIGHT AFTER SUPERNATURAL HOMG!) about a secret agent (Michael Westen, played by... Jeffrey Donovan!) who's had a burn notice put out on him and he's stuck in Miami, FL while trying to figure out who burned him.

It has the bonus casting of Sharon Gless as his mother, and--wait for it--BRUCE CAMPBELL as his best friend Sam.

[rosetapestry.livejournal.com]

I bring you the best chocolatey-tasting cookies in the world (http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/nspired/ococos/home.d2w/report). Organic, 90-calories-per-serving, and truly, truly delicious.

Also, Fruit chips and vegetable chips (http://www.flatearth.com/). No, really. It's not as weird as it sounds - they are yummy, and they count as half a serving of fruit/vegetables. My favorite are the 'Wild Berry Patch' chips.

[moveablehistory.livejournal.com]

Pushing Daises!!

I pimped it to a television/comm studies prof, and he's planning to track it one of his classes in the fall. Homg, what an awesome show. :D

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing? Chuck may be my new favorite female character on TV. I mean, she's small town but she's got BALLS. And her and Ned! They're so cute like puppies! The handholding thing KILLED me.

[tsiankiio.livejournal.com]

ReGenesis. Canadian series about bio-terror/infectious disease. Pretty good writting, excellent characters and twisty plots.

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

Movie: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
film version of crack fic.

Books: Ghost Road Blues and Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Mayberry (http://www.ghostroadblues.com/about.htm). Can't recommend the third book of the trilogy as it won't be out until next year. *snerks*

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Authors:
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files, Codex Alera
Kim Harrison - Vampiric Charms
E.E. Knight - Vampire Earth
Michael Moorcock - Elric, Hawkmoon, Corum, Count Brass
William Gibson - Neuromancer, Count Zero, Pattern Recognition
H.P. Lovecraft - Cthulhu Mythos

Food: Pita Chips!

TV - Um... most of what I like is off the air but: Stargate: Atlantis, Blood Ties

Toys: My Little Cthulhu!

Music: Weird Al Yankovic, The Arrogant Worms

[riskygamble.livejournal.com]

Seconding Gibson - I'd start with the anthology Burning Chrome to get a taste for his style (READ JOHNNY MNEMONIC DO NOT STOP TILL YOU DO FORGET THE MOVIE HOMG CAPSLOCK)

Also Niel Stephenson - Snow Crash. It's about a guy who lives in a storage unit with a Russian rock star but is the BADDEST MOTHERFUCKER IN THE METAVERSE, a take-no-shit skateboard deliverygirl named Y.T., and fuckin' Sumerian mythology. My favoritest book EVER.

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

oddly enough, i never could get into snow crash, but i freaking loved the diamond age. *flap* i mean, fuckit, who doesn't a girl born in the shanghi slums, raised by neo-victorians, and who may or may not save the world with the help of a book/computer/tutor/most awesome thing ever and an army of mice? *flaps more*


dude. anyway. yis. stephenson = awesome.

[riskygamble.livejournal.com]

Yeah, The Diamond Age was a good read too... I'm the opposite of you though, I couldn't get that into it. I loved Snow Crash so much, I guess I was disappointed that TDA wasn't that much like it. I ought to open it back up and finish the second half, it really was good reading. Did you find YT in it? :D

[fyrdrakken]

Thirding the rec for Snow Crash and TDA, and adding one for Zodiac and Cryptonomicon by the same author.

[natmerc.livejournal.com]

Seconding a rec for the TV series Blood Ties. The writing's a bit mixed in the first 7 eps, but then it really starts to kick ass. First 12 eps have already aired -- remainder are starting to air in October.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

Weeds - a suburban housewife who starts dealing pot after her husband dies. So funny, I can't wait until season 3 starts.

endless.com - my shoe addiction. free overnight shipping!

[mercymydarling.livejournal.com]

The band HIM! Everyone should listen to them, all the time, always, and thus I pimp a random song that I already had uploaded:
I've Crossed Oceans of Wine to Find You

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

jim_beaver- For fics, icons, screencaps, and info that deal with Jim Beaver or characters he's played in Deadwood, John From Cincinnati, and Supernatural.

http://www.homestarrunner.com - Strong Bad rocks

My Land Before Time/Supernatural fic for reel_spn- The Cave of the Screaming Ghosts (Dean, Sam, assorted characters, PG-13). Animated Dino!chesters. ;)

http://www.jonathoncoulton.com - go check out his music, he does hysterical and fantastic stuff

http://www.explosm.net - they have some of the best dirty/bad/wrong/oh so wrong comics on the internet

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

dude, deadwood. vylit and i are watching this together, and it's seriously one of the best shows i've ever seen. well acted, well written, and oh my lord the historical accuracy for sets and costuming just blows my freaking mind. plus it's got jim freaking beaver on it, which is made of win forever, and i hear tell that in season three we get a gale harold. but yes.


not to mention that i'm inclined to love any show that finds that many new and creative ways to use the word fuck, and where the insult of choice is cock sucker. \o/ my language has degenerated so much lately, and it's awesome.

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

ack, and sorry, that wasn't supposed to be a comment to killerweasel.

i fail at the internets today. *facepalm*

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Grandma Wymer's peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips added.
Recipe here
http://www.geocities.com/valarltd/cookie.html

Simple enough for a child to make (my 9 did it), and yummy!

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Body wash: Olay with body butter ribbons. The purple stuff which I think might be jojoba. The best thing for dry skin, evah.

Fruit: Hachiya persimmons. Available only in the fall. Heart-shaped (unlike the Fuyus which look like tomatoes and aren't as good.) must be eaten when soft and fully ripe. Honey sweet, perfumey heaven in your mouth.

Book: The World Without Us -- Incredibly interesting book about what would happen if man disappeared suddenly.

CD: The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives and Steel This is The Blues. Accept no substitute.

Movie: Monsoon Wedding. Catches hold of your heart and mind with its beauty.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

- Brad Paisley's song "Online". The video was directed by Jason Alexander, and features Alexander, William Shatner, and other faces you'll recognize. Video available at:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7GcVnhNjWV0
http://www.bradpaisley.com/

[doortje.livejournal.com]

The tv series Jekyll, it only has 6 episodes and its an creepy modern retelling of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

[fyrdrakken]

Seconding this -- I just watched ep 5 this morning (and was hence late to work) and have ep 6 downloading. Also it's about to start airing on IIRC BBC America in a few weeks.

[rachel-w-wings.livejournal.com]

The tv mini-series The Lost Room. Awesome and suspenseful. I dunno what I'd do without netflix's recommendations feature.