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[cleolinda]

Over at Vladimir's journal: The Shark Tale premiere/press conference. "I notice that the buffet is almost exclusively stuffed with seafood, and I point out the weirdness of that to the press office lady. She just smiles and says that Jeffrey [Katzenberg] has a weird sense of humor." (Bonus Will Smith quote: "I just flew over here from Tokyo and am travelling to South Africa on Sunday. I'm so jetlagged, sometimes I even forget to be sexy.")

He says now that he did get me someone's autograph, but he won't say whose. I would try to guess, but he also got me a surprise present a little while back, and I guessed it instantly, so... I'll just let that one lie.

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)

I was talking to aralinde yesterday and she said that, no kidding, she actually met someone named Cleolinda for real. Like, actual birth name and everything (I KNOW!). And then we were talking about the weirdness of Googling "Cleolinda" and coming up with nothing but stuff about me--not even about me, but things by me, endless blog and journal entries (because, as I've previously noted, I cannot shut up), and... this page.

And wouldn't you know it, there's absolutely no way listed to contact anyone running the site. I ended up having to write to their advice column ("So, uh... can you advise me on how to... uh... get in touch with an editor or something?"). Fortunately the editor got back to me within a few hours and seems like a nice guy, and the site, you must admit, is very spiff. I may take them up on that offer after all (though God knows what I would write about).

Anyway. Thanks to that site, I discovered Liberty Meadows today. I read all the strips available on the site and kept thinking, "Man, these storylines are so disjointed," until I finally realized that "uncensored strips" meant "only strips that had been censored in the first place." So now I want to read everything else. It reminds me a little of every "wacky pack of animals" comic strip you ever liked, but with this awesome Marvel Comics babe at the center. Seriously, I think I would switch teams for Brandy. She is that awesome.

(Waaaant.)

(MUST STOP SPENDING MONEY.)

(Will be good. Will put Liberty Meadows books on Christmas/birthday list. Mom starts Christmas shopping--well, in August, actually. Remember, she has two kids with December birthdays.)

Also: I have a headache because my headphones are finally on their last legs--only the left ear works now. The weird thing is, they've been crappy for at least a year now, but they didn't decide to die until I made plans to buy a new pair tomorrow anyway. But, you know, God forbid a constant stream of '80s music should cease to be piped directly into my skull.

Come to think of it, the headache may just be from today in general--my stepsister-in-law... my stepfather's son's wife... look, let's just call her "Beth"--wanted to come do a Mary Kay demo for Sister Girl and our cousin (mother's sister's daughter... sigh), and it turned into this giant bipartisan family luncheon/flying circus. I came downstairs about an hour into it, and it was all eyeshadow and prosciutto and Pomeranians barking and cat leaping across the room and Provolone and chicken salad and lip pencils and stephew jumping up and down wanna-go-swim and baby step-neice (steice?) flinging cantaloupe at the cat and dueling batches of brownies and my aunt watching football and honeydew chunks underfoot. (Honestly--makeup and toddlers and football? If I had been thirteen, it would have been the seventh circle of my own personal hell. As it was, I was just sort of like, "Mmm, smoked cheddar.") So all in all, not so bad. But hectic.

Comments

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

Lucky you with the autographs!

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy you found Liberty Meadows, it really is a great series.

If you can find a decent comic shop in your area you might be able to track down back issues.

The 'Evil Brandy' storyline is one of the funniest things I've ever read.


Icz

[denimjo.livejournal.com]

"(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)"

ROFLMAO.....that was SOOOOOO cool! Thanks for making such an abysmal...absymi...terriblly rotten day completely redeemable! *huggles*

Just out of curiosity, do you have a wishlist at Amazon.com?

[sphinxy-frolics.livejournal.com]

That is just fantastic about that website wanting you to write for them! It's amazing what you find when you google yourself.

[freethegayboys.livejournal.com]

hehe. Crazy family, I'm ver familiar with it all. I have a very large family, makes for interesting lunch time observation, especially when they all start singing... yes. Singing.

[jennilee.livejournal.com]

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)

Hah! You must write and then post in anthropomor_fic!

[autophanous.livejournal.com]

Right before she said I was evil for a JFK/Nixon OTP (theirloveissobitterandpolitical), bingodoggy said to friend you.

So, um, hi.

[gniko.livejournal.com]

Liberty Meadows makes me think of Wonder Woman and then I miss the early 90s Wonder Woman comics I gave away in middle school. And then I cry.

I really should buy headphones. Do you know anything of these.. hadphones? I haven't bought a pair in years and have no clue where to spend my small amount of money.

[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

"(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)"

That just made my day.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I love the ones I've got now--Sony MDR-V200, $20, lightly padded, longest cord I've ever seen, and have held up for about five or six years of heavy use. I'm basically going to Best Buy to see if I can find the closest thing possible.

[gniko.livejournal.com]

My dad had a pair of those all through my high schol years, they had a full life with the four children and rabid family of computer users.

They were the best headphones ever though. I see some on Ebay but will only buy if still in package ;)

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

heeee. you're the second person in 2 days to make that slash comment. im guessing that they've suddenly sent a lot of those spam emails out. (water/electricity = BAD pairing. trust me from personal experience!)

[levi.livejournal.com]

Hey, my birthday is in December too. Did you get the whole, this is for your birthday AND Christmas thing too?

[tundraeternal.livejournal.com]

Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)

I had to read that three times before i got it.

Then i died.

Can i quote you on this everywhere?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, man, whatever lights your fire. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think I was very lucky in that my mother was always like, "Ugh, that sucks." Of course, her birthday is February 18, so I'm sure guys would give her flowers for Valentine's Day and then four days later be like, "What? I thought we already had that covered."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, it looks like you can buy a pair new for $9.99:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B000092YPR/all/ref=dp_pb_a/103-9552528-7079039

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Eeeee, Liberty Meadows! Yes, I've seen some samples before, but hadn't bothered to look it up. Many thanks and so forth. It's amusin' how he drags in characters from other comics.

It says something that certain artists draw perfectly beautiful women, but tend to portray men as animals/gnomes/unattractive whatnots. Liberty Meadows reminds me a bit of the art of Larry Elmore (http://www.larryelmore.com/), especially "Snarfquest". Slightly. Or I could be hallucinatin', again. :p

Yarha, "Switching Teams" Means from the Yankees to the Pirates, Right?

[takekammuri.livejournal.com]

As to headphones, i do not know what you intend to buy yet, but i've bought this pair of audio-technica (code: ATH-FC7) in japan for what would be about US$45. VERY happy with them. I don't know if your loke radioshack carries them, might try virgin records in the nearest major city. I really like the sound they have - best headphones i ever had.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Ain't it interesting, the stuff that comes up when you Google yourself? When I Googled 'Arayuldaiel', have the stuff that came up were comments I've left on your journal o_0

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)

Water/Elec so needs a section on FF.n ^_^

Water sloshed around uncertainly in her heater while Electricity looked on confusedly. "Electricity...," she said sadly, "we cannot be together. Our love is so forbidden."

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)

Metaqouted!

[elven-kiss.livejournal.com]

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses!
WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)
hahaha, when I read slash your monthly expenses, I thought the same thing, and then read further and saw that you wrote it!

[levi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my mom was like that too, so it didn't suck as much as it could have, but my family was always like, here, this is for both. Poo.

[judas-river.livejournal.com]

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)

Hey, elke_tanzer got that ad too! You have to read the comments (http://www.livejournal.com/users/elke_tanzer/473807.html), they're absolutely hilarious :D

[thefaeriegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, the joyous rapture of Liberty Meadows! I adore Frank Cho. Thank the PTB that it is no longer running in the newspapers. As previously mentioned you should be able to find plenty of back issues at a local comic book store...and you know the comic book store is always interesting. Almost...sometimes.

[gniko.livejournal.com]

If I put out an extra $20 I can get the 300s in silver!

..indecision!

[ricyos.livejournal.com]

Before he did Liberty Meadows, Frank Cho did a strip for his college newspaper (University of Maryland I think) called University^2. A lot of the same characters, with a few differences and some more...newspaper unfriendly punchlines. It was collected into a trade paperback a few years back. Funny stuff.

I never thought of describing the strip as "wacky animals with a Marvel babe" before. I always call it "cheesecake and critters."

[yarha.livejournal.com]

I Google myself (or 'Yarha', anyway) now and then. Thanks to that celebrated search engine, we can find out exactly what dirty phrase our online nicks accidentally mean in Hindi, or Swahili, or Dutch, or whatever.

What would we do without it?!

Yarha, Also Month or Somesuch in the Jewish Calendar and Something-or-Other in Huron, Hopefully Not Obscene

[p-tripp.livejournal.com]

The whole "you writing for that really cool website" thing is really cool!!
It'd be good to get paid to write whatever you wanted.
Er, you would get paid, right? :D

(Oddity in my junk mail folder: We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!)
This makes me sporfle!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm 99% sure there'd be no money involved. Writing for websites is one of the least gainful employments you can have. ;)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hi!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help. :)

I do have a wishlist, which you can probably find if you search hard enough, but I'm sort of against posting it and taking advantage of people's generosity, you know? I'd feel guilty.

(It also looks like Vladimir wants to get me the Liberty Meadows books, so that temptation is removed. :)

[autophanous.livejournal.com]

May I add you, then? That is, of course, the standard procedure, I suppose, unless you'd prefer roses instead of Dove chocolates.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Of course! I can't friend people back at the moment, but when I free up some space, that may change. I still pop in and comment on people's journals anyway sometimes, though.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

We can slash your monthly expenses! WATER/ELECTRICITY OTP! THEIRLOVEISSOFORBIDDEN!

Someone needs to write this. Like, now.

dueling batches of brownies

Great line. Great image. Perfectly evocative of two woman trying to out-better-mother each other. I love how you can encapsulate that concept in four words.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Water/Elec so needs a section on FF.n ^_^

I second that.

[jazzchang.livejournal.com]

You do that at lunch? We do it at dinner.

Scares people no end, lemme tell you.

[freethegayboys.livejournal.com]

hehe.

It's odd isn't it? It gets more odd when you realise...

"I'm not the only one watching this family..."

yeah... definitely very interesting...