Beth's Wordless Wednesday

Dean probably does have a Cas bear stored somewhere. #dean #deanwinchester #destiel #winchester #cas #castiel #angel #hunter #teddybwar #teddy #spn #spnlife #spnfamily #supernatural #jensen #art #cute, originally uploaded by casonmonster.

Tunes Tuesday: Classic Fuel: Blind

But, seriously, the real question is why has no one made a Supernatural fan video using this song? Unforgivable, folks.

Hottie of the Week: Cory Monteith

Now wouldn't be the time to tell me you think this is disrespectful or to give me your opinion on Cory's death. A person's life is more than how they died and more than any stupid mistakes they made while alive. For me, the fact is that Cory's voice and his work are part of literally almost every day of my life. That's pretty huge, it's pretty important, and it's worth remembering and honoring. Plus I like tall dudes. So let's take a long, shallow moment to just stare.

Beth's Wordless Wednesday

Passed by Cory Monteith's memorial in downtown #Vancouver #RIPcorymonteith #fairmontpacificrim, originally uploaded by michaelespiritu.

Tunes Tuesday: "Fight For Your Right (to Party)" [Glee cover]

Glee Sneak Peak: "Sweet Dreams"

RIP Cory Monteith

I have nothing clever to say. Just going to share some of my favorite pictures. So very, very sad to lose someone so talented with so many people who love him so much.

Jensen Ackles - Eye of the Tiger

A nice laugh for your Friday AND a hottie for the week. I'm the whole package, guys.
And bonus Jensen singing and meaning it - 

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I murdered the Fail Whale!, originally uploaded by nickbilton.

Hottie of the Week: Heath Ledger

In the lost but not forgotten category, we have the beautiful, talented Heath Ledger. So sad that we aren't still getting a chance to watch him grow and mature and become even more awesome. And hot. If you say you didn't fall in love with him in 10 Things I Hate About You, you're either lying or wrong.

I was a teenage copy editor

Uber geek being uber geeky.

First, let me point out that I am not only wearing a Callisto shirt but chakram earrings. I was that hardcore a Xenite. If you don't even know what any of that means, we might not be able to virtually hang out anymore, and I'm sorry that you aren't more cultured. Second, the picture above shows me in my junior year of high school hard at work putting a floppy disk into a super old Mac so that I could use PageMaker to do some layout work.

Newspaper - and especially my journalism teacher Ms. Warren - was formative for me in a lot of ways. I started doing UIL competitions in journalism during my freshman year while I was still in the intro class. The next year I joined the staff as a writer, then I moved up to Copy Editor, and I was Editor my senior year. For the first time in my life, not only was I writing but people were reading my writing on a regular basis. Okay, not a LOT of people since it was a small school and not a well-loved paper, but it was still a boost for me. I did well at UIL too and even went to state for my headline writing skills. No snarky comments about my generally lame titles here, please. I got confident about my ability to write, to get things out on a deadline, and even to polish the writing of others.

Oddly enough it also inadvertently led me to the thing that superceded writing as my primary creative outlet - graphic design. As Editor, I laid out the paper, made plenty of the ads, and made sure the text flowed well. It makes my eyes bleed now to see the things I did, but I glowed with pride over every issue at the time. While sometimes I do miss putting more time into my writing, I don't regret the odd, twisted path my journey is taking. I own my own business, Wilde Designs, selling my art; I work full time as a graphic designer; I have a beautiful toddler, a wonderful husband, gorgeous puppies; and I'm finally putting time back into my writing too. So those of you out there who are still young enough to feel weird about being a newspaper (or UIL or yearbook or whatever) geek, don't. It's part of your experience. It will hep you grow. And, hey, at least it's cooler than chess club.*

*Note: We did not have a chess club at my school. Also? I'm not even sophisticated enough to know how to play chess.

Beth's Wordless Wednesday

SX10-IMG_3090, originally uploaded by old.curmudgeon (on the road again).

Tunes Tuesday: Sugar Ray - When It's Over (Video)