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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2006-05-31 07:23 am

La Vie De TKP crossover with Sue's Country Livin'

So, these past three days I was in Austin, and whaddaya know, there was [livejournal.com profile] crazydiamondsue! Although there was not Sueage as I had originally intended to write because I surreptitiously leaned very close and got a whiff and can faithfully report to you all that she smells nothing like sewage. And I also met [livejournal.com profile] elcazavampiros, and tried very hard not to call him Caza. He was tall, fun to talk to, and Anya-loving, and had a shiny metal. Both Sue and I suggested he put it in a drawer and wear the hardness about his eyes. Because it's one of the best lines in fiction ever! But instead he had to wear it a lot. And I wore the cowboy hat he got with shiny fringe! That was after the margaritas.

So, flist & Curious Others, here is the REAL skinny on Sue, in case you've been wondering from someone IN THE KNOW (*gratuitous winking*). She didn't put a bag over my head and drag me off into a mysterious forest to have her way with me (except for that one time), and she's cute, with curly hair, and a good dresser, very color coordinated, with orange. She's also funny and witty and able to quote "The Yoko Factor", and laughs appropriately when I quote things, and did cheese-stick theater except with remotes. She's also smart and insightful and honest and talktoable about stuff, though stuff always makes its way back to Buffy or Angel or Xander or Anya or Hot, which is a good thing, and she taught me how to pronounce various lj names, which was nice but caused my whole world view to tilt.

I lugged her out to meet my brother and sister-in-law, which in retrospect wasn't the best idea because they can't talk Buffy. But we did see the Poncho Guitar Statue Guy with the ducks, and then we saw bats. See, there's this ritual in Austin where a bunch of tourists congregate under a bridge and turn their faces up towards the sky, lips parted, with a kind of worshipful stance, gazing toward Gotham Tower where Mr. Freeze lives. And then, of a sudden, there is a cloud of smoky dark up from under a bridge, and out swooping come eleventyseventbajillionandone bats, to rival the bat cave bats and then some. Then everyone starts doing under-the-bridgey things like sex and booze and murder and jazzercise and building fires in trashcans while Michael Keaton, Adam West, and Christain Bale fight naked slathered in guano. Okay, it's possible I kinda embellished that last part; there might not have been actual jazzercise. But I HEARD it.

So, in conclusion. Sue is the Sue I knew except cooler, and also with brighter eyes and smaller feet. Caza is a Very Important Person who goes to blowing bubble conferences. [livejournal.com profile] dovil is pronounced Doovil. I make the bestest cookies this side of Oklahoma; lots of people said hi to me on Sue's journal which Sue relayed and to which I say hi back; B/A spit is worth the wait, and I had a really nice time.

Except for the headache and fever and puking.

ETA: I feel much better now. It was a thing that hit especially hard that first night but kinda slithered off after that. I thought it was food poisoning but others I ate with that night have since said they're convinced it was a small virusy thing. I guess we wait until Sue gets back to find out if I infected her or Caza. Fun!

[identity profile] jgracio.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
How can you describe such a good time and end it on that note? You okay?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
The answer is I thought it was kinda funny. I really didn't feel good that first day, but it was actually that night, after I left Mr. and Mrs. Sue that the fever and puking happened. It was really only a spell of about 8 hours that was TERRIBLE, then I slept, woke up the next morning, and felt a lot better.

I'm better now, though I still feel a touch queazy when I eat. Thank you for asking. I should possible clarify the post. :o)
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[personal profile] lynnenne 2006-06-01 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'M BEING QUOTED! I'm, like, part of the popular culture! The Simpsons could do a satire on me! *thuds to the floor in shock*

This is the coolest thing to happen to me since I discovered slash. *beams*
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[personal profile] lynnenne 2006-06-01 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and I'm glad you had a good time. *dies of embarrassment, but not really because it's ALL ABOUT ME*
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[personal profile] rahirah 2006-06-01 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Doovil? DOOVIL? Say it ain't so! My world depends on dovil rhyming with, uh... O-ville.

[identity profile] southernbangel.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
YAY! Glad you and Sue and Caza had such a fabulous time! Well, except for the headache and fever and puking, of course.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
HAHAHHA! What's funny is I wanted to say that when Sue first posted about Caza's medal, but I kept thinking, would Lynne know I'm quoting that line because I love it so much? But then over margaritas Sue started talking about her favorite lines in fanfic and we said yours pretty much simultaneously and confessed we'd both thought about saying as much to Caza. That is how pop culture you are.

*longs to see Simpsons A/S*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
LOL.

*loves*

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
So Caza's a dude? Good to know. Glad you had fun.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
It's true! I know! Like I said: WORLD SHIFT. I told Sue the same thing about having thought it rhymed. Turns out her and Caza'd thought the same thing (I think?)

The other thing that kinda makes my head spin is being able to pronounce [livejournal.com profile] uberaeryn and finding IT'S NOT THAT HARD.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was indeed a fabulous time! And actually, although I was pretty nastily sick (as was my s-i-l) it turned out not interfering with Sue time too much at all.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
so, instead she rhymes with whoville! Isn't that better? (I am always the optomist).

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
My world was askew without you!

But I am so glad you had a wonderful time.

And if you had said that after all those bats came out, you saw Dick Greyson, I might have driven down to you straightaway. The fact that some people think he is only pen-and-ink is their problem.

I have a drabble up. Go back a day and you'll find it.

My favrite mispronunciation of a user name was spicedrum. I was convinced it was spice-drum because I am an idiot.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
He's Sue's husband. Also, he was dude-like. Oh! And recently he revealed the mystery of his name: "vampire hunter" in Spanish, but "el" because of the dude factor. So I'm going with a yeah.

And thanks.

[identity profile] sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
*twirls you carefully*

Glad you had a wonderful time, bay~bee.

*luffs*

[identity profile] sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Except for the end there, where, you know, you got sick and all.

ack.

*pets you*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
My world wasn't askew, it was cockeyed! On Saturday I am leaving for a two week trip. I don't know what I will do with my flist.

If I edit the post and add Dick, will you come see me?

What's funny is when I first glanced at that I read spice-drum too. I think there must be a lot of names I mispronounce.

I'm off to read.

[identity profile] southernbangel.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
There are so many user names that if I ever heard the correct pronounciation of, I think my head would explode. I hear them a certain way in my head and anything else is just WRONG WRONG WRONG.

[identity profile] 43100.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Tf I was wondering what was up with the lack of updates and the whole you going somewhere else thing must've slipped my mind. Hm.

That last part IS funny.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Not for me. There is a kind of innocence in Whoville I do not associate with [livejournal.com profile] dovil. I like my dovils devilish!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I didn't say anything about it on my journal; I'm kinda spotty about what I update on if it's not me whining about something fandomish. But I'm REALLY behind on reading my flist for about ...the past three weeks! So, I have to apologize for lack of commentage.

And heh. I really did have an awesome time! Except for the ...yeah. Life has its own punchlines.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I did have a nice time! And the sick was actually a very small time, so I got lucky.

*gets dizzy*

*and yet refrains from puking on you! Woohoo!*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! We also decided that the pronounciation of "Spike" was "Hot", of which I think you might approve.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Me too! And then there are the unpronouncable ones, which I say in my head as "the one that starts with ub" or "the one that has a t and a q and an i". Hearing the right pronounciation of those is WRONG too, because they are just...the unpronouncable ones.

[identity profile] dlgood.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh. See I don't read Sue's journal, so I missed that. Clearly, I should rectify. But, at least I remember enough HS spanish to know the derivation of the name now that you mention it...

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