Screencaps, News and a Meme

[misscam]

Been screencapping season three and season four of CSI (season one and two to come). Here's a small selection, rather Grissom/Sara, Catherine/Warrick focused, but with other stuff as well. *coughlotsofWarrickcough* High resolution, feel free to use if you find any use for them or want to make me something pretty (I have no shame).

S3&4 Selected Screencaps

A BBC story that caught my eye - A growing number of pharmacists across America are refusing to dispense birth control and the morning-after pill

I find this more than a little troubling, to be frank. All in all, there are more than a few rather fundamentalist Christian campaigns out of the US of late leaving me feeling vaguely disturbed. I am not Christian. I do not want fundamentalist Christian morals to dictate *my* choices or the laws that govern me, but the US is great influence on the world. On my little sheltered Norway, too. But there are other forces at work too, of course. Fundamentalist Islam, growing secularism.... The future is still ours to shape and nothing is ever much certain.

In Norwegian news:
Crocodile seized in Oslo
'Russ' challenges draw ire
Football season starts

Five questions mem, as asked by belegcuthalion.

1. Norwegian people seem to be rather patriotic. What makes you love your country so much?

We're small and tiny and no one ever notices us much, so we have to love oruselves extra much to make up for it ;) Okay, kidding aside, I think it's a tradition bred into us by first the independence movement up to 1905 and later our occupation by Germany during WW2. And it is a beautiful, peaceful, quiet country where we live well.
2. If anyone gave you 1.000.000 $, what would you do with all the money?

Buy a little flat, then half the year work for various volunteer missions, the other half of the year I'd write, relax, run various web projects I'm pondering - just live. Eventually I'd use my experience to get a job at the UN or maybe even suceed as a writer.

3. Which famous book would you love to have written yourself?

Heh. Lord of the Rings, obviously.

4. What's your favorite drink?

Ice tea, green tea.

5. What kind of music makes you run anway screaming?

Neo-Nazi heavy metal with Viking references.

If you want me to ask you five questions, just make a comment.

And I had the oddest CSI/Amazing Race crossover dream yesterday. Grissom and Sara were racing and were in the final three teams, as was Warrick and me, though I'm not sure if I was dreaming me as me or me as Catherine. Most peculiar either way.

Comments

[deesarrachi.livejournal.com]

*begs shamelessly for questions*

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

Hit me. :)
(Literally, if you'd like. With a trout if you want!)

[belegcuthalion.livejournal.com]

Heh. Lord of the Rings, obviously.

Interesting enough I'm surprised.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. You are gifted one talent you do not have, but you must pay for it with a bad personality trait. What would be the talent and what would be the trait?
2. What would Shakespeare be writing if he was living in our time?
3. If your gravestone was your choice, what would it be and what would it say?
4. You could mute one person in the whole world forever. Who?
5. Cats or dogs. You must choose.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. You have been chosen to change the US Constitution. You can add one amendment and take one out. What would they be?
2. Your life summed up in five words?
3. I lend you the great Trout O'Smacking for a day. Who'd be your top three targets and how many smacks for each?
4. You have a harem. Who's your top five stallions?
5. Which fast food chain should be burned to the ground?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Really? I'd thought it obvious.

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

You could ask me five questions. I'd be game.

[perhatikan.livejournal.com]

Got any questions for me?

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

1. That's tough. I would love to strike any and all religious imagery from the text first (grrrr) and do away with the electoral college, but as for amendments, but I'd like to clarify the 2nd most of all. The right to bear arms is outdated language that fools and criminals hide behind. My dream amendment outlaws the death penalty. (Then I abolish marriage completely and allow civil unions between any two people who want them. Take that, Red states!)

2. "How did I get there?" (Ah, the Talking Heads)

3. I would smack Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice until the trout fell apart, and then I'd poke Rupert Murdoch with the bones.

4. Gary Dourdan, Josh Charles, Colin Firth, Johnny Depp, and I guess my boyfriend. :P If he fails to serve, then I'll throw in Seth from Saturday Night Live.

5. As much as I'd like to say take out the big one (McDonald's) it would please me greatly to firebomb KFC, because their support of inhumane and immoral and digusting and vile and infuriating technques for raising and slaughtering animals makes me ill. Fuckers! Burn!

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

Here, not there. Blah, 5 word quote and I screw it up. Someone needs more coffee, or more sleep. Or both. Mmmm...

:)

[elvea-aure.livejournal.com]

Dominant fundamentalists scare me. Bah.

Mrrr... ask me five, then...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. Why do you hate snow?
2. They're holding your eulogy. You're haunting. At what hideously embarrassing childhood story about you do you start making noises and scary everyone out of there?
3. Everyone in the Americans must watch one foreign movie. Which?
4. You can erase one so-called "classic" book from existence. Which?
5. Which football (*proper* football) team does Sondre Lerche support?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. The Python is very Monty. Why?
2. Where would you take your mini on vacation and why?
3. Which song is secretly about your life?
4. Elrond's son. Choose a twin.
5. One book you loved when you read and you're now embarrassed to recall ever liking?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. The holy hand grenade of Antioch is yours. Who do you lob it at?
2. Quentin Tarantino should at once make a film called...?
3. Would you have Oscar Wilde's babies if he wasn't gay and dead?
4. Best Terry Pratchett quote ever?
5. You have one threesome once in your life. Who are the fellas?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

The trout does not fall apart. It is the Holy Trout O'Smacking, blessed by Odin himself.

Wasn't the KFC starter a bit of a KKKer?

And amen on no death penalty, the smacking, most of the harem and the icon.

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

1. Because I hate winter. I hate the cold. I hate everything that has to do with such a horrid season. Snow is symbolic of that season, of the cold, of short days, of seemingly endless darkness. Plus, it's just a miserable thing.

2. I honestly don't know. I'm not trying to avoid the question; I really can't think of anything. I remember very little about my childhood, which is best. Feel free to ask me another question in lieu of this one.

3. Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs trilogy. And yes, they must watch all three. It's a trilogy, the story isn't complete without seeing them all. It's an interesting approach to "liberté, égalité, fraternité," which are at the basis of modern democracy. (Gotta love the French Enlightenment. Seriously.) The films develop these ideals not just poltically, but socially, personally, metaphorically, as well. And perhaps, it's time that we all reconsider what they mean to us. And also, the films are brilliant. Utterly stupendous. Des véritables chefs-d'oeuvre.

4. Orwell's 1984. I hated this book with a passion. I must've read the first paragraph over a hundred times and fell asleep with each reading. Gah. Insomnia is preferable. Honestly, the ideas contained within the book aren't what I objected to, just the writing itself.

5. I don't know! I'm such a bad fan - both of him and of the sport. I even checked his website, but couldn't find the answer. I imagine a Norwegian team?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*hugs poor unloved winter*

All right, another question then - what's the greatest t-shirt you've ever seen?

I've seen two out of the three colours. I'm missing Bleu, alas.

Sondre comes from Bergen and thus supports Brann. Bergen people can be very, very, very enthusiastic about their team. Probably because Bergen like to pretend they're their own country within Norway. Now you learned something today too ;)

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

Greatest t-shirt? A high school classmate wore it: it had a map of probably Latin America on it, with an image of soldiers printed over it. The caption said: "It's 10 pm, do you know where your soldiers are?"

Otherwise, there is nothing wrong with the classic red and black Che t-shirts. And I also loved the reading t-shirt that Rory wore on a season 5 Gilmore Girls episode.

Bleu is with Juliette Binoche. It's been too long since I saw it and when I did, it was in a noisy apartment in France and I missed at least half. I need to rewatch it. I haven't yet seen Blanc, because I'm not fond of Julie Delpy. I loved Rouge, though. I love Irène Jacob, who was also in La double vie de Véronique, which was an absolutely splendid and awe-inspiring film.

And I did learn something new! I didn't know that. I knew that he was from Bergen, but not the rest. So, two new things!

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

This trout pleases me greatly. Although I smacked more than the allowed number of people with it, since it is the Holy Trout, I'd like to smack Ashcroft too, for old times sake.

[velocityofsound.livejournal.com]

Bleu is my favorite. Mmmmm....

I never got that Rory tee, even though I lusted for it. /eyes her tax return. :)

[reenjalas.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Hit me with questions! Hit me! Pretty please? :D

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

Ask me?

[perhatikan.livejournal.com]

1. Because without Monty there wouldn't be any of the Python at all.
2. I'd take my mini to Indonesia to kick the arses of some potential matchmakers and their 'ideal mates' for poor me. In a perfect world Bush would be there so my mini could play 'stuff-the-coconut-tree-up-the-donkey'.
3. It would have to be hide's Lemoned I scream because it's weird and nobody really knows what it means, it's psychedelic and addictive. (It has to be this song because I've just returned from talking with an aunt on the phone I haven't seen or talked with for over 15 years. I used to weird things happening in my life.)
4. Elladan.
5. The Harvard Lampoon's 'Bored of the Rings'. "U canleada horsta wata bwana, Butya canna makit drinque!" (Yep, it's the completely insame poetry that does it for me. =_=)

[alice-to-qs-8th.livejournal.com]

I would love to look at your Warrick/Catherine and Grissom/Sara screencaps (as I have been contemplating icon ideas). However, the album seems keen on me giving it a password, which I don't have. This makes me a sad bunny.

[krazykat.livejournal.com]

*begs shamelessly for questions*

I agree with you about the BBC article. I wrote up a post about it, so I won't bother saying here what I posted then. That practice has me deeply troubled and worried.