why i love carrie fisher

The way she uses language. From her latest blog entry:

My brother and I were raised with the epic, mesmerizing (to us) story of how we came to be. According to my mother, I was the love child—–conceived when my parents were still riding the warm wave of romantic love. And he was the child she managed to extract from my disinterested father’s penis so that I could have company.

LOL. And later:

By the time Todd was born, my father was consoling Elizabeth Taylor’s heartbreak over the loss of her husband and father of her child, and namesake of my brother, Mike Todd. Eddie consoled Elizabeth the one way he knew how—- with his trusty, grief eliminating child inseminating penis.

I heart her.

bsg and friday

( Blood on the Scales )

It was a good, if frazzled, first day at Comic Con. I saw a few friends, including Doctor Who genius Paul Cornell (who is in town for a few days so I may get to see him for a drink or something later) and also Joe McCabe who I rarely get to see and who asked if I'm on Facebook, and goddammit I really am going to have to sign up now, sigh. Joe is a reporter for Fear Net and likes to taunt me with all the times he has interviewed Jamie Bamber. Bastard. (Message for my RL peeps: I also saw Tim and he may get Alex to come for a little while tomorrow, hee.)

I did go to the panel Aaron Douglas was on, and also on the panel with him were Brian Thompson, aka the Mighty Morphin Bounty Hunter from X-Files (who was HILARIOUS), Thaao Penghlis of legendary daytime fame and Phil Morris aka Jackie Chiles from Seinfeld. He's actually the brains behind this web series Aaron is going to be in, which they haven't even started filming yet. It was kind of weird. But fun to see all those guys. Aaron used his usual line of "One of you put booze in my drink last night," ha. Tomorrow is supposedly free photo with Aaron day so I'm going to try for that. Might try for one with John Noble from Fringe too, we'll see.

Also, my brother is thinking of coming on Sunday and bringing my nephew, and that would be awesome.

(Yes I am taking pictures and thanks to a loan from oeilade I even got some video!)

OK, need to get ready for bed. Long day ahead tomorrow.