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[cleolinda]

Two follow-ups on the previous entry:


Re: beignets. The problem with dating, rooming with, or being related to someone who writes anything intended to be funny is that you are inevitably going to get the short end of the stick in terms of the way you're portrayed, because... let's face it: it's not funny when things go right. My sister is actually a much better cook than the stories I tell about her would indicate, unfortunately. For example, she has made excellent fajitas (for dinner last night), cherry cheesecake with almond biscotti crust, tons of cakes that disappear in two days, blackberry cobbler with lemon cream, homemade salsa, duck l'orange ("Chef Whoever said my sauce was the best!"), fruit dessert pizza, truckloads of omelettes, napoleons that her boyfriend and I actually fought over, and beignets that did not, in fact, try to conquer the known universe. But things that turn out well aren't funny, so you don't hear much about them.

The thing about cooking and learning to cook--as my aunt, who recently got the same degree at the same college that my sister's getting, will tell you--is that you're bound to mess something up, try something that doesn't work, or have something blow up in your face through no fault of your own. Cooks, unlike writers, don't have the luxury of being able to revise--it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they have to start all over. There's no backspace on beergnets, let me tell you what. So please, don't get the wrong impression, because I don't want to die.


Re: accents. I was talking about accents with some folks last night and made some joke about not coming over to my LJ and saying, "So, you guys, which accents do you think are really hot?" But in the course of the conversation, two things kept coming up:

1. Of all accents, everyone loves Scottish.

2. Almost no one finds any American accent, with perhaps an exception or two, to be the least bit attractive.

Since there are a lot of y'all and you're from all over, let's actually take a look at this. So... which accents do you think are really hot, guys?

Comments

[sparkythehamstr.livejournal.com]

Of course everyone likes Scottish accents; they are simultaneously adorable and sexy (see: Billy Boyd). Glasgow is, of course, the pinnacle of such simultane... ity? I personally find every accent in the UK sexy, except perhaps for Cockney accents. Maybe that's because whenever a fellow American attempts (and I do mean attempts) a British accent, it's always some bizarre conglomeration of Monty Python and Cockney. *shudder*

No one finds American accents sexy because... well, we don't really HAVE an accent. Though I must concede that I've started to find Tennessee/West Virginia drawls rather sexy lately (yeah, I don't get it either... I guess it's a result of... um... associations).

[iamthemoon.livejournal.com]

I wish I could see Billy Boyd...here...in my doorway.

Love your icon by the way. What's it from, do you know?

[sparkythehamstr.livejournal.com]

I honestly have no idea. I saw it in a picspam and decided that little white space was begging for text. I created it initially for F_W, but it amused me so much I made it my default LJ icon. Quite apropos, I think. :D

[museofswearing.livejournal.com]

It's from a short interview conducted around the time the Two Towers came out in theatres, featuring Dom and Billy shooting pool in a Wellington bar and talking about their experiences on the movie. The thing Dom's holding is a piece of duct tape, which had been stuck on Billy's skin to keep his chest hair from futzing with the microphone, and which Dom was given the privilege of ripping off at the end of the interview. If you look closely at the icon you can see the hairs still on the tape...

*hides in a corner* I have the clip on my computer. I'm well-adjusted, I swear.

[iamthemoon.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought it was from; I've seen it.

"OW THAT HURT!"

"Look, it's only like three hairs."

"STILL HURT!!"