Invasion of the Ladybugs—Run For Your Life!

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Everyone needs to read this obituary in The Paducah Sun. It’s hysterical--I think someone just went insane. Just let me know if you can’t see it--it wasn’t something where you had to log in, so it should be fine. Mentions of underwater basket weaving, and other weirdness is in there.

From Io9: When Monsters Change Sides: 10 Horror Icons Who Turned Good. Real Ghostbusters gets a mention in there.

31 Classic Halloween TV Episodes and Specials



1 - What's your favourite Doctor Who moment?
This one was hard, as I have quite a long list of moments that I loved, so I’ll give three. When Donna and the Doctor realized they had to blow up Pompeii to save the world, and pushed the button together, along with her pleading to save just one person. The end of Utopia, as the Doctor realizes who Professor Yana is, and everything that happens after. For a lighter moment, the whole bit in The Unicorn and The Wasp, when the Doctor is trying to cure himself after being poisoned, and Donna is trying to interpret what he wants.

2 - What's your favourite Halloween movie?
It’s not a movie, it’s a documentary. It’s a tradition for me to watch The Haunted History of Halloween on The History Channel every Halloween. Other than that, whatever movie or special happens to be on that I’m interested in.

3 - What's your favourite Buffy episode?
Once More, With Feeling.

4 - Where would you most like to visit?
I honestly don’t know. Maybe England.

5 - Have you always lived where you live now?
Yes.

1. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!'
2. I will pick 6 of your icons.
3. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I chose.

ithildyn picked the following:


A cute icon that was made by redscharlach. The aftermath of the Vashta Nerada devouring someone.


taibhrigh made this one, of the Adipose sitting in a sink. Rather cute.


darknss_r1sing made this one, and I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to use it. It’s just a weird icon involving the Daleks.


I love this one. It’s just Evie being Evie, and translating things in The Mummy. Saving the world with Egyptology, as it says. It was made by iconsbycurtana.


This is just Jack swishing his coat around melodramatically. It was made by capedcrusader92, and I rarely use it.


Back when I was trying to find icons that were Xena or Hercules related when I was writing a Hercules fanfic for Yuletide (in 2006) I stumbled across this one. One of the better Gabrielle icons that I’ve found. It was made by gracent_dic, and I haven’t had many occasions to use it.



Also, Mom would like to know what you can do to kill ladybugs, or get them to leave everyone alone. In the last three days, they’ve taken over. One step outside, and you are covered by ten, at least, with more diving for you. The entire front of one neighbor’s son’s house is covered in them, and he can’t walk outside right now. It’s only our side of the street in our neighborhood—Nellie’s house is fine, as are a few others on that side.

And is anyone else having trouble with logging in to AIM today?

ETA: After reading my friends list, I see that at least a few people are having issues with AIM being down, so it's not just me.

In other news, when Mom got the mail, she discovered a sympathy card from her brother. To all of us, about the cat.