all my icons, Part VII

Icons, icons everywhere and not a post with substance...
Sorry, but it's one of those weeks where, when I do have the presence of mind to post anything, this is the best my brain seems to come up with...

Play Dead
Corpse Bride was a great movie and I'll readily admit that one of my favorite parts was the skeleton dog (seen in this icon by porcelainveins). I don't know why, but it was just so sweet and funny at the same time, the character stuck with me. Maybe it's the fact that it makes cuddly something that others would consider morbid.

I Refuse To Answer That Question

Righto, so I'm a smart-ass. And I generally appreciate other smart-asses. And I understand the value to society of occasionally being a smart-ass. It's for the public good, you know. We smart-asses perform a valuable service. Thank you, Douglas Adams (channeled by enriana). And everyone should go read Last Chance to See; while it has not a lot to do with smart-asses, it is a very important read. Go on, try it. It might make you a better person.

Grover
This is Grover (aka grover_rover2k). He is my husband. He took this picture using his camera-phone while skiing in the Alps. And this picture demonstrates reason #234 that I love him: he's a goof. just like me :)

Confused

Remember "sexpot"? This is a cousin. It's also related to "bibliophile."

From one of enriana's series of icons on words.

The Palm

With her permission, I turned this photograph by my friend Stacy into an icon. I love the "old-style" quality of the image. (Taken by stacyinthecity with her cameraphone.)


Strange Tall Man

Tall, dark and handsome, he is not. Tall, goofy and odd, he is. I really, really like the work of artist and comic/graphic novel writer Tommy Kovac. I particularly like his evil-looking acorns. This icon is one I made from his work, "Tall Underpants."


Mousecatfish and Rubrchick

I met Rubrchick in 2003. To write anything about her or our friendship would probably take a long time to write, read, and edit... Suffice to say, she (and my mother) are my best friends.

These pictures were taken at my birthday party at BJ's in 2005 and started a trend between us -- there's always a cannibal picture if we're together and if we're apart, there will be a picture of one of us biting the air where the other would be. Yeah, I know. We're weird :)

NIN Mirror

Lady_talon did a series with NIN lyrics. I don't know what song this one originally came from, but the idea that life exists on both sides of the mirror and the difficulty in sometimes recognizing which side you are on... it's a big symbollic situation for me, in life and in my writing.

Anubis

I'm not Egyptian. But some days, I wish I was. One of my favorite images from Egypt and Egyptian mythology and belief is that of Anubis. I don't think of myself as morbid, but I'm intrigued by the relationship between the living and the dead and how this relationship differs from culture to culture, across time and space. And, also, the line of dogs in this icon (made by skellorg) is also just plain cool.