I am going to stop reading Lowering The Bar

The Times article points out that under the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales, "a barrister is not specifically prohibited from charging for sex, but he must not do anything which could 'lead to any inference that his independence may be compromised.'"... if this is going to set a precedent for applying ethical rules to this kind of conduct, there is more that British men may need to be worried about. Rule 701 requires a barrister to act "diligently and with reasonable competence," and to refuse "any task which (i) he knows or ought to know he is not competent to handle; (ii) he does not have adequate time and opportunity to prepare for or perform; or (iii) he cannot discharge within the time requested or otherwise within a reasonable time . . . .""

I am.

"Death v. Graves & Co., CGC-06-451316 (San Francisco Super. Ct. filed Apr. 17, 2006)"

Any minute now.

"United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins, No. 05-56274 (9th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008)."

... I am. Really. I have WORK TO DO.

July Dark Delicacies Trunk Show Stock List
Trading Post version

Prototype room sprays
Boothill
Asylum
Basil Hallward’s Studio
Parlor House
Rappaccini’s Greenhouse II
Le Café’ Du Rat-Mort
Villa Diodati

New Prototypes
Revenge
Sojourn down the Midway

Preview room spray
Erebos

Yuletide room sprays
Goblin of Yuletide Past
Goblin of Yuletide Present
Bah Humbug

Snow White room spray
Lupanar room spray

Bath oils
Ice Prince
Holiday Stress Relief
Glacies
Incendia

Plus all the scent lockets including the fabulous Neil Gaiman inspired scent lockets.
Imp Cases
Keychains
Claw Polish

And whatever else Papow finds.

Tags: events

Fandom: Torchwood
Theme Set: One
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Nothing at all for season 3 and written mostly pre season 2
Pairing: Pretty much everything canon - Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Ianto/Lisa, Tosh/Mary . . .
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't sue, much appreciated.

This way . . .

Just wanted to let everyone know, that a new version of MemcacheD has been released. We will be rolling this out to the memcache nodes during the week of July 20th to 24th. This should have very little impact on the stability of the website; however users may see a slight increase in load times as the cache is re-populated with entries.

The software has been tested and verified to be working just fine with the application; so we perceive this to be a very minimal risk in regards to updating, and the stability of the website.

Thanks...

Tags: memcache
Current Location: falling down the stairs
How I Feel: busy
What I'm Hearing: NOFX - San Francisco Fat

Okay, if you have not received your prints, all returned prints have been shipped, every single last one of them. This time, labels have been taped to avoid more annoyances. If you still have not received your prints by next week, please contact me via ebay so I can decipher what happened to them - but EVERYONE should have theirs this time around. Thank you for your patience, and don't murder the post office - they're generally good to me, this is the first major error I've had with them in years.

Previously on The Secret Life of Dolls: LITTLE EDWARD'S SECRET REVEALED.

( Why don't you show her? )

Tags: dolls, sparkle motion, the secret life of dolls, twilight
What I'm Hearing: Siouxsie and The Banshees - Dazzle

• Actors and Movies: Composer Nicholas Hooper declines doing music for Deathly Hallows
  
  Interviews of Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright
  
  Half-Blood Prince rakes in $58.4 million on opening day
  
  Dan Radcliffe talks of the forest scene with Gary Oldman in Deathly Hallows
  
  Jamie Waylett (Vincent Crabbe) admits to cannabis possession charge
  
  Video: Time magazine puts ten questions to Daniel Radcliffe
  
  
• Archive: FictionAlley is having server issues; site updates will begin 20th July 2009
  
  
• Challenges: snupin100 has posted Challenge #217: Parents
  
  
• Communities: hp_potterfest, a family-centric ficathon, is accepting prompts
  
  
• General Interest: BBC feature on wizard rockumentaries
  
  USA Today has a feature on Wizard Rock
  
  
• News: Documentary J K Rowling: A Year in the Life to air in America tonight
  
  
• Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fan-works and resources featuring Mundungus Fletcher
  
  

Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch!

Tags: thursday

Title: Rightfully Yours
Rating: M
Summary: Before either were born, she was meant to be his.

A/N: Multi-chapter. Veela!Viktor Mate!Hermione

Tags: 100 quills, fan fic, rightfully_yours
Current Location: Home
How I Feel: chipper
What I'm Hearing: "Izzo" by Jay-Z

Each bottle of BPAL oil is $20. No preorders will be accepted for the Cobwebs event. Bottles will be sold on a first-come basis, and there is a limit of five bottles per person until 30 minutes before the end of the event, at which point, the limit is lifted.

We will begin giving out random numbers at 6pm. This gives everyone the opportunity to fondle books, poke at toys, sniff testers, and chat -- or leave and get a doughnut, whichever. We will open sales at 7pm.

Please note: the Vintage scents will be sportin’ a new label that was created for this event. You will not be getting the original label used for this scent.

Where and when is this happening?

Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank
Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A.

Friday, July 17th
7-9pm

1-888-DARKDEL
1-818-556-6660

darkdel *at* darkdel *.* com

( Once again, the list of scents available at the trunk show: )
Details on C15 and the Saturday night meet n sniff will be announced soon.

Tags: events

40 years of Apollo 11

This will never NOT be awesome.

*

I am up to Leverage 1.09. Every time I decide that 'X is my favourite character', someone else does something awesome, and I'm like, 'OMG ILU!!!!!'

Anyone looking for silly, fun show about thieves who fight crime steal things in many awesome ways to watch during the summer hiatus? This is it. Watch it. It is made of love and light.

Tags: made of awesome

This week’s Poly Weekly #207: The death of the two-parent American family (and we care because… ?)</a>.

Download the mp3 directly!

0:00 Introduction and host chat
Intro, under-18 warning and re-direction to www.scarleteen.com; friend me on Twitter and answer questions about what you want on the show, call 206-202-POLY with comments or discuss your own topics at the forums at http://forum.polyweekly.com.

Topic:The death of the two-parent American family
The Time article
Psychology Today’s corrections

Miss Poly Manners: who gets the friends after a breakup?

Wrap-up
Questions? Comments? Feedback? Email cunningminx@gmail.com or call the listener comment line at 206-202-POLY. And hey, why not attach an audio comment to that email? Check out PolyWeekly at Blubrry.com. Share this with a friend or write an iTunes review!

Want Poly Weekly for your very own? Get the Best of Poly Weekly collection from PodDisc.com

Our intro and outro music is courtesy of Pacemaker Jane, “Good Suspicions”

Originally published at Polyamory Weekly. Please leave any comments there.

Tags: breakups, family, marriage, parenting

but The Yarn Wench just updated!!!! Please stop by and check it out!!

Dear Yahoo! Canada GeoCities customer,

We're writing to let you know that Yahoo! Canada GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.

Wow. Nostalgia. I remember my GeoCities website. That was....back in the day. I feel like the pioneer village has closed down!

Admonition

If you dissect a bird
To diagram the tongue
You’ll cut the chord
Articulating song.

If you flay a beast
To marvel at the mane
You’ll wreck the rest
From which the fur began.

If you pluck out the heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.

--Sylvia Plath

Tags: poetryspam

Tweets copied by twittinesis.com

Via, who has it from a site where it's available as a T-shirt.

Originally published at The Chaos Axiom. You can comment here or there.

• Went to @illusivecomics with @pievuhg, saw @theatreg33k and @speckley. Was pretty cool till @illusivecomics left without saying g'bye. ;_; #
• Anywho! At home now, nommed brownies, possibly hanging out with @theatreg33k later. Mighty Boosh is now. <_< #
• :grumbles: Cable modem keeps resetting. Not pleased with this. Signal to noise is fine, thinking it might be firmware trouble… #

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I thought I remembered this, but it's good to know, as my account will expire shortly.

from Flickrs FAQ page:
"What happens if my Pro Account expires?

If your Pro account expires, don't panic! None of your photos or videos have been deleted!

This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you're now subject to the limits of a free account. If you upgrade again, all of your photos will be waiting for you.

Any of your sets that disappeared will magically reappear when you renew or upgrade."

Will have to wait a week or two before I can renew. Good to know my pictures won't disappear.

whew!

There will eventually be a LOT more. Used 2+ 4 gig cards over the 2 days. Not many more of Jim and I tho.

Tags: disney birthday 38

ALIEN INVASION
A melding of science fiction and horror in which extraterrestrial life forms come to Earth in order to…

* Colonize the planet
* Harvest humans for foodstuffs
* Enslave humanity
* Destroy the planet
* Use probes to perform uncomfortable sexual experiments

… among other nefarious objectives.

Examples: War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Plan 9 From Outer Space, the Day the Earth Stood Still

Slick, spiced space fruits and residual tentacle goo.



DIABOLICAL OFFSPRING
The passage into parenthood is, despite all its joys, often confusing, a little shocking, and sometimes frightening.

-- moreso for some parents than others.

Examples: the Bad Seed, the Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, and Alice, Sweet Alice

Baby sweetness and a touch of brimstone.



GORE-SHOCK
With its roots in the Grand Guignol, Gore-Shock is a transgressive art form, using visual depictions of graphic, horrendous violence to push the limits of social tolerance. In the words of Michael Arnzen, “Splatter films differ from typical horror films because they revel in the special effects of gore as an artform. They are part of postmodern art and depict postmodern condition as a vehicle for cultural transformation.”

Then again, these might be extreme gross-out flicks and nothing deeper.

Examples: Blood Feast, I Spit on Your Grave, Two Thousand Maniacs!

Pulpy, scorched, pork-like flesh, glistening entrails, and doughy skin with the coppery tang of blood, salty, sweaty musk, filth, and a huff of rusted machinery.



GOTHIC HORROR
The blueblood of the horror genre. Gothic horror borrows heavily from Victorian Romanticism: a dark, passionate sojourn into emotionally-driven aesthetic experience – reaching through gloom towards a vision of the sublime. Using sprawling, decay-riddled visuals, and lyrical narrative rife with suspense, awe, and dread, these films tell tales of tortured souls, long-buried secrets, rapid descents into depravity and madness, and grasping supernatural beings.

Examples: Vampyr, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Phantom of the Opera

Morbidly romantic, thick with murky melodrama, untouched by the centuries, and dust-rimed: Byzantine incense, benzoin, myrrh, bitter clove, spikenard, oud, and ancient balsam.


PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
This is not the Monstrous Other; this is the fiend next door.

Examples: Psycho, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, the Collector, and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte

It smells perfectly normal: a lovely, unassuming, traditional mid-20th century musk with something not quite right lying underneath.



ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Brains? Brains.

Examples: Night of the Living Dead (and all things Romero-plus-Dead), 28 Days Later, Undead, Planet Terror

Swirls of red jelly and sugary white ooze.


Available now on the Dark Delicacies web site, and available at their brick & mortar shop once Friday night's trunk show gets going!

TRUNK SHOW INFO
Friday, July 17th
7 to 9pm

Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank
Burbank, CA 91505

1-888-DARKDEL
1-818-556-6660

I took a picture in Tennessee that I actually quite like:



( Mostly I was working on the Photographers Are Mostly Crazy series )

pecunium was, of course,( busy doing Art )

Of which, more here.

Title: Like Falling
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Summary: Bones tries things Jim’s way
Rating: Adult/NC17
Word Count: 4425
A/N: #17 in the Two Men & a Starship series. Follows Good Start This is the final part of this series. Thank you to everyone who reads/comments! ♥

( Like Falling )

#16: Good Start | Series Complete!

Tags: adult, all my fanfiction, kirk/mccoy, star trek fic, two men & a starship series
How I Feel: satisfied

I saw a lot of lovely things today, and a few not-so-lovely ones, but overall it was a good day.

Nice things:

Sunlight on a freshly-washed and waxed wood floor and table. It's lovely the way it gleams.
An osprey riding the thermals around the golf course and creeling occasionally.
The same osprey making a dive for prey over the pond. I missed the actual strike, but the dive was amazing.
A kestrel or similar small hawk hovering over the tall grass on the state land. They're amazingly maneuverable little birds.
Cloud-shadows on the mountains. Today they were absolutely beautiful with the contrast between the dark pines and the sunlit ones on the slopes. It's tempting to hike up one of them some Monday.
An owl hooting in the twilight. I've seen it on late-evening walks before, but I'm still not sure what kind it is, save that it's a fairly large one and has a really deep 'voice'.

Not-so-lovely:
A pair of very drunk twenty-somethings trying to hit golf balls and winding up staying an hour past closing time. I don't mind being flirted with, but when the 'flirting' is basically repeated queries of 'You're single, right? What's your number?', it's a bit much.
Far, far too many golf balls out on the driving range. Added to the above, I wound up staying out there an extra hour and a half over my usual time because there was so much to be done. I didn't get to refill the bin before it got dark, either.

What the fucking hell, omg. D:

Our flight was cancelled. T_____T Yeah. Delayed by a whole 24 hours, basically.

I have been surviving on about 5 hours sleep in total for the past 3 days.

BUT WE ARE HERE!!!! IN SAN FRANCISCO!!! IN THE PARC 55 HOTEL! AAAHHHH!!!

I'm with draykonis, woldy, son_of_darkness, and melusinahp will be joining us tomorrow.

I have no US phone for the moment, but I plan to get one as soon as I can tomorrow.

Plan for tomorrow: meet with fiendling and longleggedgit for Muir Woods tour! FUCK, SO TIRED. D: But we will persevere, goddammit. >:0

Oooh and! PROVIDE ME WITH YOUR PHONE NUMBERS AND HOTEL ROOM NUMBERS, PLS :D! Email or comment on this post and then delete after, if you're worried about posting publicly.

Tags: azkatraz
How I Feel: exhausted