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[cleolinda]

God, I am so tired. No real good reason, either. It's probably because I'm sort of off my normal schedule and not really getting a set amount of sleep. Also? I hate cleaning. I know you're sitting here going, "She's still cleaning?" See, it's not vacuum-and-Windex cleaning; it's boxes-piled-in-the-corner-from-college cleaning. It's feral dustbunnies and no room to put anything. It's going to be a while, but I only have three weeks until class, and the natives parents are getting restless.

Didn't clean much yesterday because I had another poetry group meeting with the Lovely Emily and the Amazing McRachel. We loathe the Lovely Emily because her poem was really, really good. I hadn't written an actual new poem in... well, longer than I should admit, so here's how lame I was: I was using Black Phoenix oils as jumping-off points. Not writing about the perfumes themselves, but about whoever (or whatever) they were named for, while trying to mention as many ingredients as possible. Of course, if that didn't fit the format or just turned out to be lame, I ditched it whenever I felt I needed to. So far I've done Tamora, Persephone, and Mata Hari. I am so incredibly lame.

(Which reminds me. I need to post some more BPAL reviews and OH MY GOD I STILL HAVEN'T DONE THE EMPIRE RECAPS.)

Speaking of which: since it's in my Orion bio, I felt like it was time to attempt the resurrection of the Digest. Basically, I'm going to try to move it to LJ as a constantly-updated blog, instead of having one massive, hand-coded, white elephant of a daily update. So it's kind of in an experimental form right now: dailydigestnews. Plus, the tag system makes it delightfully easy to categorize and cross-reference stuff. I have two items up so far, about new GOF pics and the new Rent trailer, and I'm going to be moving back into things slowly--only high-interest news items for now, not the complete rundown I used to do. Also, we've had a movie reviews comm for a while that gets updated sporadically, if y'all want to help with that. More info:

dailydigest is a true community, in the sense that anyone who promises to follow the review format laid out and, you know, punctuate and spell correctly can post reviews of movies. Any movie they want. Any movie that is, in fact, a movie. Seriously, I don't care. There are movies. You review them. It doesn't have to be funny. It's pretty simple. You will actually need to join the comm if you want to post. If you just want to read it, you can friend or join.

dailydigestnews is not a "true" community--it's like m15m, in that it's a community journal being used instead of a personal journal because 1) more people can friend a community than a single user and 2) if I need to give posting privileges to a guest blogger (say, while I'm sick or traveling), I can. Joining isn't any better than friending. You can do whichever you want, the result is the same. No one posts (at the moment) but me.

I think Short Attention Span Theater is dead. I loved it, but I prefer LJ to Blogspot, and between my personal journal and whatever incarnation of the Digest we have going, it's pretty much redundant and/or obsolete. Woe. It'll still be there, though, in case you ever want to go back and read stuff. I think Trailer Park is also dead--I don't have time for 6,500 blogs (no! really?), and Gunther pretty much has the trailer angle covered with the fabulously useful trailer_spot. I still have my Blogger account, though, because their Audioblogger service is pretty useful, and I can still use it to comment on other people's blogs (like eris_rising's Field Guide to Geeks).

Oh, before I forget: book distribution news at the 15M community.

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

(Thanks, boarderbunny!)

Comments

[missmp.livejournal.com]

Aw, I first "found" you through SAST via Fametracker. Sorry to hear it's been retired. You're right though, eighty bazillion blogs are hard to maintain.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww! Yeah. I hate not updating it. But... I wasn't updating it anyway, and it's easier for people to find me over here. Woe.

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

Dang. That was my first point of encounter with you as well. And you posted the link to my Web site at a time when I was really down about traffic there, cuz you're sweet like that. So I lament its passing. But we'll always be able to find you here, eh wot?

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Whee! for you.

That's pretty much all I wanted to say.

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

RIP SAST. I tried having a journal at blogspot for my sports/football rantings, but like you, I too prefer LJ. So I just bore the heck out of my flist here instead.

And I'm a fellow INFP myself. *waves shyly*

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

I prefer LJ to Blogspot, too. I dunno, I guess LJ feels more - connected as a community or something. But I heart the Audioblogger thing.

Hee, that's a pretty neat idea about the BPAL perfume poems. I wonder what Dorian would be like...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, it's totally the community thing. Also, I am a ninja haxor on Semagic.

(Have you read the infamous review of Dorian? I'm not sure I could write anything else about it after that.)

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Ohhh man, the Dorian review. True, nothing really beats that.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I think I must find this review.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hit the "bpal" tag on the entry and find where I originally reviewed Dorian. There ought to be a link to the infamous review there. : )

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

With a review like that, I HAVE to order it.

I'm going to quit comment-spamming now. :o)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Seriously? It's totally worth it, too. I'm getting a bottle. It doesn't make me think of sex, but it's this delicious vanilla-sugar tea with a bit of lemon on top. There's a little musk and lavender at the bottom, but they just give it depth more than anything (and I have issues with both of those, so if I can handle it, you know it's mild).

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Okay, one more question, and THEN I'll quit comment-spamming.

What kind of throw did you get with Dorian?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'd have to put it on again and get someone to tell me--I notice that BPAL tends to stay very close to your skin. Unlike commercial perfume, it doesn't follow you around in a cloud, you know? It lasted a pretty long time, though. I'd say it has medium/good throw--pleasant, but won't knock people down.

On the other hand, I think my skin eats up a lot of the initial throw. Of course, I say that, but Van Van and Sacred Whore had throws like a shortstop--literally, you could smell them in rooms I hadn't even been in.

[astael.livejournal.com]

Do you ever post your poetry online?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I used to--I kind of wonder about copyright issues now, except that... it's not like poetry ever makes money anyway.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

But it should. "Written on the Body", after all, has been printed out and taped to my bulletin board for...three years, now, I think. And it still never fails to evoke a response, no matter how craptastic I'm feeling.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. And the last workshop I passed that out in tore it up. :/

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Whaaa...? Had they recently been out for a day of electroshock?

And this is completely unrelated, but I just came across it...I wantses one.

http://www.punksandnerds.com/innocent.html

[-horcrux-.livejournal.com]

Completely not at all related to your post, but I saw Remus Lupin, and it reminded me that I have gone months in the fiction world with out knowing what "OTP" stood for, so I was wondering if you could help me.

[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

One True Pairing

[-horcrux-.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[yarha.livejournal.com]

I was using Black Phoenix oils as jumping-off points.

Ahhh, scratch and sniff poetry. Very avant-ee guard-ee. *cough*

Yarha, The Smells! They Remind Me of Spring! In My Nose!

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

You made TORN!!! (http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1123023492)

[eris-rising.livejournal.com]

Pimped on your blog?

Isn't this how Snarkfest got started?

IIIINNNNCOMMMMMMIIIING!!!!

*ducks and covers*

[edda.livejournal.com]

Please clean my place? I'll bake you cookies.

[draconifers.livejournal.com]

Can't wait for the book!

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

The bpal jumping-off thing is so not lame. Quit saying that! I think it's a vastly more interesting source of inspiration than many I've heard of. Especially as scent is so evocative. A smell can take you anywhere and conjure anything -- visual, tactile, and flavor "images" can all arise from a good whiff of something. So shut up and write already!

Also, if Orion is pimping dailydigest.net, are you going to embed the dailydigest community on the site? Because otherwise, the non-internet people who buy your book will be sad and lonely when they visit.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah--I'm gonna redo the front page so it points you to 1) the news comm, 2) the reviews comm, 3) the m15m comm, 4) my personal journal, and 5) whatever else I can think of. I can still use the site itself for special feature or awesome amounts of space to upload stuff, or whatever.

(Have you seen the Carnaval Noir stuff? It's extended through September 1, and I am totally going to buy, like, half of it. Hope you like poems about bearded ladies...)

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, how did you know? I've, like, loved bearded ladies for so long. You should get some Living Flame, though. Mmm, boys.

The site itself is an excellent splash page. Special features are a good idea. I think I'd make a fantastic special feature, actually. I am rich with material. You could get 15 pages out of the debutante thing alone, I bet.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eeeee hee! Seriously, I still love the little debutante walk demo you did for us in class that day.

I just realized--what kind of scents do you like, generally? Like, I realized that I'm mostly a sweet/fruit/food girl. Because if it turns out that you love musk and smoke and patchouli and whatever, I am going to have to take the fact that you are my scent opposite into account.

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

It's the walk sensation that's sweeping the nation!

Sadly, I'm not familiar enough with bpal scents to say. They're more complex than regular perfumes, which are my only reference. My two go-to scents are the men's version of Clinique Happy (mmm, boys) and the Verbena eau de toilette from L'Occitane (citrusy/herby) and OMG! Verbena is ALL OVER the splash page for their U.S. site! Gah! Where is all my money?! I must spend it now! Stupid L'Occitane.

Anyway, if that helps...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

All right, I demand that we have a movie night, and that the movie night turn into a smelling party. I will bring all my blends, and we will pass out from the number of smells unleashed in the room.

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

Whee! Yes, we must! Obviously it has to be soon, though. Maybe even Saturday night? Will The Lovely Emily be free? I don't want to cramp her style.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know--with her cold, though, it's likely she doesn't have anything else lined up.

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

That would be the best night for me b/c of packing, but I can do whatever. And now? I'm leaving early!

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

still cleaning?! yikes. is it fun at all? *cough* not that i would think it was.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I just dropped a giant box on my foot. On the upside, I just found several notebooks full of writing and a pile of Lovecraft stories I'd printed out, so that's pretty awesome.