[mad muses] ayn rand quote

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

( In one corner of the spacious warehouse, he watched a pair of teenage boys struggling with a zig-zag box, trying to reassemble the girl they had just divided neatly into three equal sections. In another, he blanched as a second pair clumsily finished sawing another female compatriot in half... )

Muse: Tommy Karras
Fandom: Original Character
Words: 735

[myl] 64.1, 64.3, & 64.4

Things I Can't Watch:

- curling
- badly executed magic
- the Disney channel
- the Mets in the playoffs
- the Dodgers losing a run (I cover my eyes a lot during games...)
- Teletubbies
- HSN or QVC
- slasher flicks
- Paris Hilton doing...anything
- Dad trying to draw anything that ain't a building
- porn (what? It doesn't work for everyone!)
- cooking shows on TV
- that damn movie about my life that Tony Curtis starred in

Things I Sign My Name To:

- credit card receipts
- contracts
- purchase orders
- set sketches (I actually only initial those, does it count?)
- checks
- my personal artwork
- letters
- invoices
- miscellaneous stuff, nothing huge...okay, if you must know I've been getting autograph requests. You happy?

My Favorite Accessories:

- cell phone
- Blackberry (production office issue)
- silver crucifix
- earrings Sass gave me for my birthday
- Fraternity talisman
- Army jacket
- leather Affliction jacket
- Dodger cap
- leather baseball cap
- black bandanna
- Mayilia
- Sassy

Tommy Karras
Original Character

[text-a-muse] all work and no sassy make tommy something-something...

[what the hell do u think u r doing?]