Ridin' that train

[darkemeralds]

I need a Jump for Joy icon, 'cause I'm going on vacation. Tomorrow, roseambr and I are taking the Coast Starlight to Santa Barbara.

Now, I may be the only person in the world who dislikes Santa Barbara, but that's because my family moved there in the middle of my senior year of high school, and no town, however gorgeous, can honestly be expected to recover from that. But my brother still lives there, and he's having an art show, and I desperately need to get away from the World's Tallest Basement for a few days, and foreign travel is completely out of the question.

So tomorrow around lunchtime, I'm hauling my overworked self, my computer, my camera, a couple of bottles of wine, and a toothbrush down to Union Station, and--in a complete absence of TSA agents, X-rays, metal detectors, body-searches, zip-lock bags, shoe-removal, or the surrendering of liquids--walking onto Superliner Car 1130.

And then? Twenty-nine hours of Pacific coast scenery, leisurely conversation with my best friend, club car visiting, wine-sipping, reading, writing, and snoozing in the private roomette, followed by two days of art and architecture in Santa Barbara, which I am determined to make up with.

I'm sure there'll be at least a couple of photos.

Comments

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

OMG! I neeed that Sam icon! That sounds awesome.

I've seen guite a few 'Big Damn Hero' ones as well. It pretty much works for any action/adventure series.

Although I now have this insane image of Abby and McGee from NCIS huddled around a computer together with that line, weird, since I am a borderline NCIS fan at best. But now I sort of what an icon like that.

And yes, Joss lines make the best crossovers, for reals!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Yes! Big Damn Heroes don't necessarily even have to tote guns. They can drive computers, or be someone's dad or mom. They can be the Lone Gunmen or Mulder and Scully. They can be ANYONE! See? Universality of Joss. He rules.

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

YES! The Lone Gunmen! Totally need a 'Big Damn Heroes' Lone Gunmen icon. :-D

Well, Joss is God so of course he rules...HEE!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Their last-ever scene would make a hell of an image for that icon.

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

Now I feel like a bad fangirl because I can not for the life of me recall their last ever scene. *sighs*

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Umm...dying? Locking themselves inside a sealed passageway with the lethal disease, while Scully stands outside the door and watches, with the whole hands against the glass thing?

OMG. It was killer.

A happier Big Damn Heroes image for them would be Langly with the blue face. That was awesome!

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

D'OH!!

I knew it was a shameful thing not to be able to remember. I really need to get more seasons of X-Files on DVD so I can re-watch, most of them I haven't seen in years. Not that that excuses forgetting such a moment.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Nah. Later season X-Files was really, really forgettable. I recently finished slogging through all nine seasons in order with my niece, and we now hold the last three seasons up as the key example of Television Gone Terribly Wrong. It was a zombie of itself by then.

Let's hope all those X-Files alumni working on SPN have the sense to close it down and finish their story within four or five seasons!

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

Good point, it did drag on a few seasons past it's prime. But still, I should have more than season 1, which is all I have now.

I should get up to 4 at least.

And yes, please, let SPN learn from X-Files lessons!