New spamming journal

It looks like some of you would like to see the entries from the Forgotten English calendar. So in order to keep things neat, I've created a new LJ called forgottnenglish. The Forgotten Word of the day will be posted there. Since I'll be posting copyrighted material, the journal will be friends-locked. So if you want to see the posts, please feel free to friend the journal, and leave a comment here or on the first post over there and I'll immediately friend you back.

A note of personal history here: I am a packrat. Really. One of the things I've collected over the years have been pictures. Hundreds if not thousands of them. There's stuff I've hung onto since the 70's! No particular rhyme or reason to them; they're just things I like.

In a recent effort to at least try to streamline my possessions, I've been scanning these pics and tossing the originals. (Not to worry, anything of real value I've kept. We're talking things like magazine pics and such here.) And it occurs to me that many of you, especially anybody doing collage art or manips, might want to see them. So forgottnenglish will also be used for posting large picspams of this sort, not related to fandom. Many treasures there will be, yes, precious. *rubs hands together with glee*

Posts of Forgotten Words will start today.

Here's a little something for all of you

First of all, thanks to blackbird_song and westmoon for the lovely roses. *hug*


Now, for the goodies. Quite some time ago, I bought a DVD from Australia called Perverse Destinty. Don't know why it's called that, really. It has four very good short films on it. (I do like short films very much, and it's such a pity that seeing them is so difficult, even the ones nominated for Oscars!)

Now, I've only just recently acquired the tools to do things like back up DVDs, rip, etc., and have been having great fun learning about all this. Having backed this disc up onto a Region 1 DVD, I found I could now rip the files on it.


So, as a present to my friends list, I hereby present....*drum roll*

The Witness

(YSI link)


That's right. It's the short film Elijah made when he was just eleven years old, in which he stars with Gary Sinise. It's a .avi file, about 170 mgs. Please comment below if you take it, and if anyone can mirror this, I would greatly appreciate it!


WARNING: This is not a feel-good tale; it is a tragic story. There is character death! (You listening to me, Goldie?) Although the death is violent only in the sense that one person kills another - there is no blood or beating or bullets or anything like that - still, I thought I'd better warn you. So don't say you didn't know!


Enjoy! (If you take my meaning.)

For those of you knowledgable about such things

Can DVD's be used to store files like Word, or picture files? I've gotten the impression that they can be used to store more than just movies. If so, how would I go about doing that? I usually burn my discs with Roxio or Nero. :)