I hope everyone’s Halloween was great — just the right amount of scary & lots of candy!

Or at least, better than mine. I’ve been sick with the flu the last few days & I’m finally starting to feel a lil more like myself. (I guess that’s what I get for not getting my flu shot, huh?)

At the end of this month (October), eBay is making it mandatory that you accept Paypal if you’re a Seller — no more checks, money orders, or even cashier’s checks (the ones from your bank).

How convenient. They’re forcing you to use a payment option that makes them money — for all of you who didn’t know, eBay owns Paypal. So they’re screwing you over when you list, at the end of the auction, and now when you go to collect payment.

For other things which will make you snarl & mash your teeth together, check out this link:

eBay’s new stupidity

Read the whole thing, cuz the big stuff is at the bottom. Here’s part of it:

“Starting November 1, 2008, in order to list, sellers must have a minimum of 4.3 over the past 30 days in all four detailed seller ratings (DSRs): item as described, communication, shipping time, and shipping and handling charges. Sellers with less than 10 DSRs over the past 30 days will be evaluated on their DSRs over the last 12 months… Sellers who do not meet the requirement will be blocked from listing on eBay.com, eBay Motors Parts & Accessories, and Half.com.”

The DSR they mean is that rating thing that pops up when you leave feedback. So if people don’t take the time to fill that out — I think I’ve taken the time once — then you’ll be blocked from listing on eBay.

WTF???

So, c’mon, somebody, come up with an alternative to this piece of #%$king garbage. Not just for doll stuffs, or toys, but for all things. Seriously.

eBay can kiss my ass!!

Ninjas!!

Tho this is so totally wacked-out & bizarre, it’s also insanely funny. So I had to share.

Enjoy!! :D

So I’ve finally fallen under the spell & pre-ordered one. Meet Vanity:

OK, she’s really not technically the first I’ve liked — but Midori was too expensive for me when she was available (tho I still like her a lot) — but she is the first I’ve bought. I’m so excited!! Mostly cuz she’s a repaint of Triad’s Theala head that rocks! (Whereas Theala was just the head & the outfit for $90, Vanity comes with a body/head/outfit for $60.)

Triad says that she’ll be shipped around the end-ish of November. She comes with everything in the pic & then some (extra hands & more guns). Sexy & lethal!

I really miss you. I can’t say that I’ll ever stop.

Y!JA does it again. I’ve been trying to stay away because everything I take a fancy to goes for insane cash. But, of course, I had to go look. To just take a peek. And here’s what I see:

This time ’round it’s more than just the head — you get the entire outfit (including the glasses and shoes) & all the yummy lil accessories to set the complete mood. Too bad the auction’s well over $300.

I wish the winner all the best!!

Yet again stolen from Jo.

Here’s the meme:

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee *hearts*
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (I lovelovelove this book!)
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger *hearts*
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy — read partway-thru but haven’t finished
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy — started but never finished
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams *hearts*
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding *hearts*
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

So, 6, huh? I guess that makes me not normal then. :)

OK, I just saw these on Junkyspot:

They’re some of Obitsu’s new 25cm female child bodies. Besides the fact that the torsos are proportionally too long for the overall figure (giving the appearance of being pregnant — at least to me :D), there are sooooo many things wrong here.

The boobs are squishy. Now, I don’t know about you, but I can’t see a reason for this. Beyond squishy, do you see the size of the boobage on these bodies?? All kinds of red warning flags are going off in my head. To me, this just screams “child pr0n” & all kinds of other inappropriate behaviors.

I realize that not all people are the same height, so there could be innocent & quite reasonable uses for this body — the younger 15-17 year old sister & all that. But I wouldn’t consider these to be a child, more like “young adult” or “teenager.” Obitsu needs to be a little more careful about how they classify their products.

I’ve been a member of DoA for almost 4 years now, but you’d never know looking at the number of times I’ve posted. And now I’m starting to regret it.

Usually I like looking thru the gallery and the marketplace. Some of the members have some incredible BJDs and take some awesome photos. But the behavior of some lately is turning me off. It started with a hypothetical debate that got too heated because some of the posters were simply looking for someone to attack. Now, with the incident at Dolpa, some of those same posters are coming out of the woodwork trying to stir up trouble.

I admit, I, too, thought some of the responses were silly or made me go “WHUT?” in their over-the-top-ness. But I refused to ridicule specific members for their inane postings because I was taught to treat others as I’d want to be treated. And basically, that’s what the mods are for — to steer members back on track to the reality of the situation.

But it’s obvious that not all who post at DoA were brought up the same way. Some of their responses are the reason so many hate BJDs/DoA/doll-hobbyists. Or the reason that groups like DoD exist.

If that’s how you get your kicks, picking fights or ridiculing others, go somewhere else. Seriously. Because I didn’t join Den to be subjected to immature brats; I’ve long ago moved on from kindergarten.