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This morning I checked my task list for Monday and found a note that read simply: "White Collar pig manip".

I took a lot of decongestant earlier today (pretty much all the decongestant) so my memory of how that note got there was very fuzzy, but it did seem important at some point to do a manip of Neal Caffrey stealing a pig. I decided I could figure out why I was doing it later.


I have to tell you guys, when you're manipping a pig into a screencap from a TV show during work hours, it takes some circumspection.

I finally did go back and dig up the conversation we had which inspired this...whatever it is:

Sam: I just found an Italian website with the phrase "colletti bianchi: piedi di mantenere la calma e trasportare porco." Which translates via Google to "white collar: feet to keep calm and carry pig." I'm pretty sure it's a recc for "Keep Calm and Carry Crowbars".
Anya: It...doesn't make any sense in Italian either. It should be "Si prega di mantenere la calma" -- the feet are probably weird babelfishing -- but the "trasportare porco" is REALLY bizarre.
Sam: It's likely a spam site, so babelfishing is the prime suspect. Still, you can't deny the mental image of Neal stuffing a pig into his coat is pretty hilarious.
Claire: WHAT WAS THE PROVENANCE OF THE PIG?

And then Anya linked me to a photo of Bowie with a pig and it was all downhill from there.

Happy Sunday!

I have just one thing to say to you all:



(That's from Tonight's The Night, which is John Barrowman's usual combination of mildly painful and utterly charming. It doesn't do the his pink shirt justice, but I didn't know they even made day-glo pink dress shirts. I suppose he has them done custom. "Hey, could you make it pink...and blinding?")

MANIPSTERPIECE THEATRE PRESENTS: Robbin' Hoods

tzikeh wanted a Wanted Poster for Burke & Caffrey, Bank Robbers At Large. It wasn't quite to specifications, but I slapped something together...

(Warning for character death. Sorry guys, I didn't mean to spring it on you!)

( Burke is a former FBI Special Agent and should be considered armed and extremely dangerous... )

So, everyone on my Flist is doing the "I write like..." meme. But I decided I don't really want to be told I write like James Joyce (though I will forever love him for earning me a 5 on my AP Lit exam).



HELL YEAH. OWNING IT. Do not define yourself by a narrow band of literary forbearers! Especially since most of them seem to be dead white men and Margaret Atwood.

Or, if you prefer:



No word of a lie, to get the text for the badge I ran the opening paragraph of a Wikipedia article through the analysis machine and it says Wikipedia writes like HP LOVECRAFT.

It was an article on split infinitives.