They Told Me To Be More Careful

BigBang Art

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:04:16 GMT

I'm posting this early because I'm going to be out of town and without a computer on the posting date.

Cover Art The Chapter House

I know there has to be a better way to post images, but I have not yet figured it all out.

Thanks

Fri, 08 May 2009 15:58:24 GMT

So after a long silence I have agreed to do art for the big_bang. Any advice people have is appreciated.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:24:42 GMT

Leave me a comment and I will reply with why I like you. If I don't know you, I'll either make something up or tell you why I like your LiveJournal. You must pay for the privilege by posting a message like this one on your LiveJournal.

Meme

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:47:38 GMT

I got this list from dodger_winslow's post

Here I continue my effort to share more information about myself.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) ~~Strike out~~ the ones you thought SUCKED.

SUCKED is such a strong word, lets say ones I was greatly disappointed in. For me that means I did not like to overall point the story seemed to be making, or I was in a really bad mood when I read them

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
~~9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman~~
~~10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens~~
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinici Code - Dan Brown

42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

32 not bad.

Hey Look I Update

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:59:40 GMT

Sorry for the 8 months of silence I fell back to my lurking ways.
This fandom really helped me through a very hard transition year, and all the wonderful writing has inspired me to do something creative, in my own way.
I have returned and now bring gifts.

As seen in my profile (also updated) I’m not much of a writer, but over the last year caring for my grandmother I’ve spent my time learning how to cook (also my TV is in the kitchen). So for my contribution to fandom I bring you…

Episode Inspired Recipes

Pilot

Sweet Mary Milk
(This is actually a drink I liked to make during cold winter nights, its warm sweet milk with a spicy and alcoholic kick.)

Ingredients
Milk
Kalua
Cayenne Pepper
Cinnamon

In a heavy bottom pot sprinkle in equal amounts Cayenne Pepper and Cinnamon (about 2 or 3 shakes each). Warm the spices slowly with stove on low and meanwhile fill the mug you are going to use ¾ of the way with milk. When the spices are warm add the milk to the pot and heat slowly stirring constantly until it is heated to steaming (don’t allow it to boil). In the bottom of the mug put a splash or two of Kalua (just not more then ¼ of the mug). When the milk is steaming pour it in to the mug.

Sweet Jess Cookies
(These cookies are inspired by the end of the pilot, mixing the sweet cookies with the hot smoky sensations of the fire. They also tie in to the Llorona story that inspired parts of the mythology of this episode because the tradition of mixing chiles and chocolate originates from the same culture and geographic region as the this story)

Ingredients
Peanut Brittle
(The source of this recipe from here http://www.fudgemail.com/peanut_brittle.htm)
1/2 cup corn syrup
1 cups sugar
1/4 cup water
1 cups peanuts
1/2 tsp liquid smoke
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tbsp butter

In a thick bottom pot place corn syrup and water and put over medium-high heat warm till just before it boils and add sugar. Let it come to a full boil and stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
Using a candy thermometer heat the mixture until it reaches 250 degrees F. In the meantime measure out the peanuts and sprinkle them with the liquid smoke. When 250 degrees F is reached add the peanuts and salt. Stir the mixture and allow it to return to a boil.
Keep the mixture heating still intermediately allowing the peanuts at the bottom of the pot to toast, but not burn. You should be able to smell the peanut toasting a bit, but this stage takes patients. (For more advice on this step go to the wed site cited for this recipe above).
At 300 degrees F remove the pot from the heat and immediately add the butter and vanilla. Stir until the butter is melted then sprinkle the baking soda over the mixture. and stir again.
Quickly pour the mixture evenly on to a buttered cookie sheet. Allow mixture to cool and flip off the pan and wack with a heavy metal spoon to break in to small pieces.
You will only need half the batch of brittle produces for the cookies so you can store the rest.

Chocolate
2 oz baking Chocolate
4 oz. semi-sweet Chocolate
1 tbsp Cayenne Pepper
1 tbsp Cinnamon

Break the chocolate in to smaller pieces and place in bowl with Cayenne Pepper and Cinnamon. Warm bowl over a pot of boiling water till the chocolate only just melts. Stir mixture and pour over buttered cookie sheet, spread evenly and put in freezer and allow to harden. Remove from the cookie sheet and break in to small bits

Sugar Drop Cookies With Oil
(I got this recipe from Joy of Cooking)
2 ½ cups flour
1 ½ tsp double-acting baking powder
¾ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup sugar
¾ cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.

In a separate bowl mix sugar with oil and each of the eggs, adding one at a time and stir completely between each addition. The add vanilla and still again.

Add four mixture to the egg one all at once and stir until mixed all the way. The add ½ the batch of brittle and all the chocolate and fold it in to the dough.

Roll dough in to ½ inch balls, roll balls in sugar place on greased cookie sheet and flatten with a fork.

Bake for 10-15 min.

Comments and feed back are appreciated.

Also any advice on where to post these to share them with the rest of this fandom would be great.

Hello

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:02:32 GMT

I've been lurking around livejournal for a while now and figured it was only fair to join. This is all new to me so it will take me awhile to figure it out. Being a fan of Supernatural brought me here, but I'm trying to expand my horizons.