Iconography

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fearsclave boldly went forth and asked me to explain seven of my icons. Reply if you want me to do the same to you, knowing full well my tendency to let such things slip when I'm distracted by sports/Nethack/writing/beer/The 1812 Overture/beer/beer.



Can't remember where I found this, but it amused me in its resemblance to a famous photo of Peter Townshend. It is a detail from a work by Hieronymus Bosch entitled Beehive and Witches. I use it for frustration, anger, and my perfectly legitimate desire to beat people senseless with a lute.



Ah, the sticky spot on your radio dial... KOME was the rock station in the South Bay when I was growing up. This was back when you could listen to a DJ say things like "I'm going to play you a track from a record I found in the import rack at Tower." KOME had the best jocks, an incredible play list, and the Diamond Decal was everywhere. I remember a car that had literally been covered in the things. isomeme may argue, but I think Dennis Erectus was the best DJ ever. This icon is for nostalgia, especially of the musical kind, and for posts about my life as a teenager.



We all know I'm penguin-mad, so using an image from Poke the Penguin was a natural. Actually, I have three from that game. This is a pretty generic icon, I use it when I feel like it, or when I'm trying to get replies.



Blazing Saddles is possibly the most brilliant comedy ever made. Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr simply oozes evil. And the scene from which this icon is taken, is hysterical. I use this icon for when I'm feeling especially evil and devious.



Taken from Turn Signals on a Land Raider. This is a web comic about a bunch of Warhammer 40K figures who know they are figures, and revel in it. Fun stuff, especially if you've ever done any kind of miniature wargaming. I iconized this panel just because I loved the phrase. This icon has several uses. It's one of my "people die now" icons (scary how many of those I have...), it's a tech geek icon, and a general gaming icon.



Your basic symbol of magical wisdom. I use it for posts on ancient history, magic, or fantasy gaming where I'm doing metagame work on how magic and deities work.



kshandra and are both fans of The X-Files and Babylon 5. This poster is a spoof of the poster seen in Fox Mulder's office with a Shadow ship from B5 instead of a flying saucer. You really need to know both shows to understand why this is so funny. I use it for general weirdness and strange news.

Comments

[heartofawarrior.livejournal.com]

Hehe, dad has told me many times that I was born a generation too late, and as such missed out on the fun that was KOME.

And, even though it's been a couple years, it still disappoints me a little that "Weird Old Uncle Frank" became "Weird Old Aunt Fran"...

I WANT TO BELIEVE

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why the Shadow ship makes it funny, esp since B5 already has a thing about the saucer-riding bigeyes speaking in incomprehensible symbols, plus it was the Vorlons kidnapping earth people.

That said, the icon has been hilarious to me because I thought it was supposed to be a hazy silhouette of the flying spagetti monster.