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cleolindaSo. Vladimir has finished translating White Jazz (so proud of him!), while I am still stuck running behind, plus my right eye has started twitching again from too much computer usage. I still can't believe how sweet y'all were in that entry from the other day, though--"I do believe in funny" was just a throwaway comment that I didn't expect people to actually run with. Bless. The funny seems to be picking up a little, too, so maybe all that clapping worked. : )
Assorted news and points of interest:
I love this story, and almost want to write a movie about it.
"Shrieking Frogs Unnerve Hawaiian Island." And that island's nerves were already shot after nearly failing that final, let me tell you what.
I think I got this from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anne_jumps: a MST of a new Jack Chick tract ("Not only does the Prince of Darkness have a gaggle of ugly hooded demons with no opposable thumbs and a permanent case of full body psoriasis, but he also has a lousy tailor. Damn, go to Men’s Wearhouse or something").
restriction has started a new ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lost_australia community for Lost fans in... well, Australia. I think the show is starting there soon? And believe me, y'all will be glad to have a place to discuss the show away from us spoilerhounds. (I think there are a couple of other comms, but Renne was saying that they hadn't really caught fire, so she was going to set up one of her own. Hence my offer to pimp it here.)
I love you, Cimorene!
Speaking of icons, I'm going to make a general-interestm15m post on the subject, but make sure you check the memories--under the keyword "Icons," I've saved some really good large-batch icon posts. I can't put everything people send me in memories (woe), but I have tried to put things I thought a lot of people would like--if you go through them, there are several Carlotta, creepy monkey, and "Neigh, baby" icons, as people have requested.
Sister Girl, meanwhile, is looking for someone who speaks Hawaiian to help her out with a recipe she apparently has to write for cooking school--she knows what she wants to do, just not what to call things, like "toast." I don't know. That's just what she told me to tell y'all. Anyone...?
Assorted news and points of interest:
I love this story, and almost want to write a movie about it.
"Shrieking Frogs Unnerve Hawaiian Island." And that island's nerves were already shot after nearly failing that final, let me tell you what.
I think I got this from
anne_jumps: a MST of a new Jack Chick tract ("Not only does the Prince of Darkness have a gaggle of ugly hooded demons with no opposable thumbs and a permanent case of full body psoriasis, but he also has a lousy tailor. Damn, go to Men’s Wearhouse or something").restriction has started a new lost_australia community for Lost fans in... well, Australia. I think the show is starting there soon? And believe me, y'all will be glad to have a place to discuss the show away from us spoilerhounds. (I think there are a couple of other comms, but Renne was saying that they hadn't really caught fire, so she was going to set up one of her own. Hence my offer to pimp it here.) I love you, Cimorene!
Speaking of icons, I'm going to make a general-interest
m15m post on the subject, but make sure you check the memories--under the keyword "Icons," I've saved some really good large-batch icon posts. I can't put everything people send me in memories (woe), but I have tried to put things I thought a lot of people would like--if you go through them, there are several Carlotta, creepy monkey, and "Neigh, baby" icons, as people have requested. Sister Girl, meanwhile, is looking for someone who speaks Hawaiian to help her out with a recipe she apparently has to write for cooking school--she knows what she wants to do, just not what to call things, like "toast." I don't know. That's just what she told me to tell y'all. Anyone...?
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Date: 2005-01-20 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-01-20 09:08 pm (UTC)Yeah, it was quite challenging... coming right on the heels of Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, to boot. From what I understand most people find it a bitch to read, so I guess I shouldn't feel too bad that it took me more than two months to do it. Feel totally proud of my rendition, too. Although it did make me feel totally burned out by the end...
...so what does my publisher do to reward me? Hands me a whole another friggin' book to translate by MONDAY, yo. Granted, it's some stupid Bob Dylan scrapbook, written in a tenth-grader style -- you know, one of those titles where you never even have to look up a word -- but it's still 63 pages to do over a weekend I had pegged for relaxing and mild sedated blogging.
*siiiiigh*
okay..
Date: 2005-01-20 08:46 pm (UTC)one cannot do any better than that icon. it just cant be done.
ps: i promise to be one of those nice, french girl type stalkers. we have alchool!
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Date: 2005-01-20 08:49 pm (UTC)Oh, also, big news... a friend of mine *might* get a part in POTC 2 and 3. As a pirate. Or a cannibal. And he'd be off shooting in the Carribean for 6 months. And yesterday he met Gore Verbinski and he saw Johnny Depp, who was on his way to a meeting and waved to Gore. *squee!* I hope I'm not jinxing this for him. I thought some of your readers might like to know something about POTC (like apparantly there are now cannibals?), and I'm just too excited about it.
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Date: 2005-01-21 08:39 am (UTC)(And good idea about the movie, methinks.)
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Date: 2005-01-20 08:50 pm (UTC)I keep thinking of the scene in My Cousin Vinny with the owl and picturing a few thousand islanders running out of their homes at night, shoes in hand, wondering where the frogs are.
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Date: 2005-01-21 12:16 am (UTC)I don't want to be Elfstar anymore!
Date: 2005-01-21 12:17 am (UTC)mercilessly heckledwatched it. Well, for large stretches of it we were doing impromptu renditions of songs from Jesus Christ Superstar. It's almost impossible to describe.Re: I don't want to be Elfstar anymore!
Date: 2005-01-21 12:31 am (UTC)Anyway, his stuff *definitely* deserves to be mst3k'd all over the place.
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Date: 2005-01-21 01:36 am (UTC)Hmmm.
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Date: 2005-01-20 09:40 pm (UTC)The link about the frogs wouldn't work for me, but they're the same as the Coqui' that are like the Puerto Rican National animal symbol. They sound to me a lot like cicadas, and they never bothered much, but they can be pretty loud.
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Date: 2005-01-20 09:43 pm (UTC)http://www.hisurf.com/hawaiian/dictionary.html
for actual Hawaiian as opposed to Pidgin.
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Date: 2005-01-20 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-21 04:15 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/haolegirl/
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Date: 2005-01-20 10:20 pm (UTC)With so much hype on my flist though, it's been hard not to peak, specially with the title of your post yesterday O__o
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Date: 2005-01-21 08:31 am (UTC)Hahaha god I hate them promoting it. "It's like Predator and Jurassic Park" "I'm dying to know the secret"
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Date: 2005-01-21 10:31 pm (UTC)Aussie has been been a little better in recent years bringing stuff in cos the networks are always looking for that Next Big Thing. So as soon as something's a hit over there, they all battle to snap it up. But Channel 7 sucks balls when it comes to keeping consistent timeslots - Scrubs for example. So annoyed it's them that won Lost.
I'm glad you stopped reading, as we can newbie together *grn*... I jumped up and down when I saw the ad too!!! So excited! But yes, what the bloody hell is up with the predator vs jurassic park crap... they're giving away half the plot before we see anything!
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Date: 2005-01-20 10:46 pm (UTC)I'll have to pimp this in my own community,
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Date: 2005-01-20 10:46 pm (UTC)No one, not even Jerome, knows the identity of the so-called "Poe Toaster."
Hee! That made me giggle.
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Date: 2005-01-20 10:48 pm (UTC)But of course we're going to run with it! WE
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Date: 2005-01-20 10:55 pm (UTC)And your funny? Was most definitely back last night!!! :D
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Date: 2005-01-21 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-21 04:12 am (UTC)"One does not simply walk into Mordor!" (http://users.telenet.be/gpunk/mordor-vi.gif)
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Date: 2005-01-21 04:33 am (UTC)~Sar
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