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[cleolinda]

Sorry about the icons going belly up on m15m--had to throw another $9 at Photobucket because my three months of paid account had expired.

arpeggiodreams: "God forbid we teach the girls to like themselves!"

hulamoth: "In case you're interested (of course you don't have to post it!), here's one for No Nonsense in November - activism against proposed Constitutional Amendment 21 in Texas, which would define marriage as solely between a man and a woman. The particular wording of the amendment might have bad effects for common law marriages, as well as for gay couples with adopted children."

Wife of Calif. defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz found slain.

Bigfoot Conference in Texas Draws Hundreds.

Anti-White Supremacist Protesters Riot in Toledo, Ohio.

L.I. Principal Cancels 'Bacchanalian' Prom. "Kenneth M. Hoagland had heard all the stories about prom-night debauchery at his Long Island high school: Students putting down $10,000 to rent a house in the Hamptons for a weekend bash. Pre-prom cocktail parties followed by a trip to the dance in a limo loaded with liquor. Fathers chartering a boat so their kids could go out on a late-night 'booze cruise.' Enough was enough, Hoagland said. So the principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School fired off a 2,000-word missive to parents at the start of the school year informing them that the Catholic school would no longer put on the spring prom." I gotta say, the man has a point.

Police: Women Brawl Over Microwaving Soup. That soup better have been chunky, man.

3parts:

Way back in March, you posted this - a link to a virtual pets game. I know you had problems getting it to work at the time and haven't logged in since April, but I was one of your referrals that stuck around and I've been active since then. The site has grown by leaps and bounds (we hit 100k users last month) and there's loads more to do now and most of the more annoying bugs have been fixed.
ANYWAY. They've just introduced their associate program:

"With the GoPets Associates Program, you can earn a reward for the purchases made by the users you refer. Whenever a user you invited buys Gold Shells or a Premium Subscription, you will automatically be received a percentage of their purchase amount. You can choose to receive your reward in Gold Shells, cash, or even donate your earnings to charity!"

The rewards aren't retroactive - unfortunately - but I believe you referred a number of users who are still active and who are continuing to subscribe (hi!). With your current charity efforts, I thought it would be good to let you know that you have yet another way to get people to make donations if you pimp out your referral link.

Besides, Cookie misses you. Aw, kitty.

Cookie! And I got her to work this time! Maybe it's the patches they added; maybe it's that I'm running GoPets on the new computer now. But I am on the site now, and updating the GoPets blog with random Cookie thoughts and observations every now and then.

As for the program, there's a part of me that says, "Charity, of course!"... and a part of me that wants it in gold shells, because damn, is that food expensive.

I already loved Keira Knightley, but now I have to see Domino.

Did I admire "Domino"? In a sneaky way, yes. It's fractured and maddening, but it's alive. It begins with the materials of a perfectly conventional thriller. It heeds Godard's rule that "all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." It gives us Keira Knightley in a role all the more astonishing because I've just seen her in "Pride and Prejudice." It not only stars Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken, but uses them instead of just gawking at them. It blows up a Las Vegas casino, and it's a real one, not a fictional one. And it contains the line "I'll never tell you what it all meant," as if anyone could. Seeking guidance in understanding the movie's manic narrative, I poked around online, and discovered in one review the explanation that the movie "totally challenges the bourgeois notion of the nuclear family."

Oh.

Hee, more from Ebert in his letters section, on Flightplan: "I got a lot of complaints like yours, including a masterpiece of analysis by Andy Ihnatko of Boston that was so thorough I believe he even disproved the existence of the movie itself."

Oh, good Lord, Madame Alexander goes LOTR. 

Larger version of the Daniel Craig Bond pic.

Tons of HP&GOF pics.

virtuistic: Excellent Wikipedia list of Latin phrases. Also: "I was just wondering if you would be so kind as to pimp a community for me? It's invadetheglades, for ABC's Invasion, and it's still very wee." Well, I'd say that's of community interest, so up it goes.

A must for your next eHissy: The Lurkers Support Me in Email.

Oh shit, you guys! The Yule BPAL update is live, and we are all so screwed.

The price per bottle for out Limited Edition Yuletide scents are $16.00 per 5ml of the Cracked Bell, Herr Drosselmeyer, G'Poppet 2005, Hearth 2005, Jacob's Ladder, Lick It, Midnight Mass, Midwinter's Eve 2005, Mistletoe 2005, Nuclear Winter, the Peacock Queen, the Rat King, Rose Red 2005, Snow Bunny, Snow White 2005, Stardust, Sugar Cookie 2005, Talvikuu, and Yuletide 2005. A portion of all profits from the Yule LE series will be split between the Humane Society US Disaster Center and Running Wild in the Night / Covenant House.

Sol, the first of the Musica Universalis Revisited [aka Celestial] scents, is a harbinger for both the inception of TAL, and also the BPAL Three-Year Anniversary Shindig. More details will come later. For now, all you need to know is that Sol is $15, as is Beaver Moon, and they both are impless and come in 5ml’s only. Sol comes down at the same time Beaver Moon does. Sorry, guys, it has to be a one-nighter on this scent, too.

I wanted to get Al Araaf and Haunted Palace from the Poe section, and I have been waiting on tenterhooks for the foody Christmas scents--Gingerbread Poppet, Sugar Cookie, and Midwinter's Eve in particular--so I am so. so. screwed. (And everyone raves about Snow White, and Stardust sounds interesting, and Snow Bunny is supposed to be light, and I like that kind of thing... NO! NO! BAD WALLET!)

Also? Beaver Moon is cheesecake and cupcakes. Think about it.



  

Comments

[khaman.livejournal.com]

AAAUUUGH! FUCK! BPAL update and I am hardcore poooooor this week.

[khaman.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god, very little of it looks truly MUST HAVE yummy to me. I can either do a very small order or wait a week. Pheeew.

[the_powerlines.livejournal.com]

The AFA needs to bite my ass.
And why is it that all the news coming out of Ohio is perpetually bad and embarassing?

I've never tried BPAL, but I'm such a sucker for the Christmasy-snowflakey-vanilla scents. I need to be strong...!

[ladyhawke-wings.livejournal.com]

Cleolinda, your advocacy is so admirable!

Some of your links are super interesting and I periodically even cross post one or two to other sites just to pass the word.

Thanks!

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I saw Domino, and while I'm not sure I think it's as good as that review makes it out to be, I suppose it can be if you look for the right things. The visual style is worth checking out, even if it's a bit trying-too-hard at times. And it's a decent heist flick. But there's not a whole lot there in terms of characterization, unfortunately. Keira makes a fairly convincing badass, though, so I think you'll like it.

[partitioning.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the larger Daniel Craig as Bond pic. He's one of my favorite actors. :)

[magikalcrab.livejournal.com]

I nearly died when I saw the new BPAL update. And I'm now selling off imps and bottles that I don't use in the desperate hopes of being able to come up with the cash for all the bottles I DO want.

Midwinter's Eve is a fantastic choice, by the way. I got a bottle of it from Ebay just last week, and it's amazing. Not at all floral, which I almost expected.


Heee. Beaver Moon. I mock.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah--I'm probably going to start selling off Sideshow/Weta polystone to get the bottles I want. AUGH.

[pigsnicket.livejournal.com]

Noooo, not BPAL! I have no money! Argh!

[lafemmeluna.livejournal.com]

*weeps at the thought of money to be spent on BPAL* And I was just thinking last night that I needed a sweet/cookie scent or two. *shakes fist* Damn you, bpal.

>_> *mosies on over to the website*

[karintheswede]

Yule update. I'm broke. Dammit! Snow Bunny sounds fabulous, and I want to try Snow White and Rose Red.

I'm so glad I'm not at all interested in the foodie Moon.

"The Lurkers Support Me in Email"

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

is indeed by Jo Walton, as noted, but did you know that she's our very own papersky?

Re: "The Lurkers Support Me in Email"

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude! I had no idea!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_waterlilies/]

But...! Wibba....! Ughn....! BPAL...! Christmas...!

GOOD GOD, WHY DID I BUY MY NEW PHONE THIS WEEK?!? Who wants a ROKR when you can have yummy vanilla foody Christmasness?

(Well, okay, I do, but still! *whimper* BPaaaaaal!)

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

Oh gods...I already had four scents I needed to order from BPAL, but I thought I'd wait til the update and save shipping and now this!

Argh...my shopping cart is already up to $173...I've got to go prioritize some things... *wibble*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know--those two Poe scents I wanted just got kicked to the curb. Here's my theory, though: they're selling until mid January, right? We can wait at least a month or so for reviews to come in, can't we? That's how I'm prioritizing on scents I'm not 100% sure I'll adore.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Thank Hecate for decant circles. I should be able to sniff Jacob's Ladder and Rose Red without getting a whole bottle.

I did order a whole bottle of Gingerbread Poppet, though. Should be a reasonable replacement for the bottle of Shub-Niggurath I gave to Neil Gaiman.

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

Poppet and Shub are very similar, and if anything, I like Poppet a little better because it has a tendency to go sweet at the end of it's gingery little lifespan, instead of smoky/herbally, like I always felt Shub did. (On me at least.)

Another really good, not-quite-but-almost substitution for either of those is Chimera, which is a standard ol' catalogue scent.

I can just imagine Neil Gaiman as a BPAL fan/pimp...heeee...

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

Also? Beaver Moon is cheesecake and cupcakes. Think about it.

mmmm. i want cheesecake.

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, heavens help me. My wallet can't take the strain of more BPAL purchases. I just don't know what to do anymore. I think I have a problem. Are there any support groups for this sort of thing?

Also, the Kellenberg thing: kids, that's just Long Island. If Kellenberg's prom should be cancelled, so should proms at three-quarters of the other high schools on LI. And then it'll spread to other areas... the thing is, not holding a prom is just gonna make SENIORS'064EVAHOMGZ take their debauchery elsewhere. I really don't think the Kellenberg approach is the smartest one, but then again Catholic schools are not typically known for their moderate approaches to this sort of thing. I should know, I went to one, and ours was a notoriously liberal Catholic school, too.

Whatever. The Kellenbergians were our rivals, anyway. Go Titans.

[(Anonymous)]

haha I hate Long Island party teens and their sportscars and hampton beach houses.

i need to get off this island!

and growing up gotti does not help to contribute to the reputation of li teenagers.

[astael.livejournal.com]

Your linkspam posts are the best. Well more than half of all the interesting and entertaining things I've found on the internet, I've found through you.

Must...not...click on BPAL link....must resist....

[sturmclan.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I am completely out of luck. I want Beaver Moon, Drosselmeyer, Hearth, Midwinter's Eve, Snow bunny & Yuletide. Good Lord. $96. And I have zero dollars & 16 cents in my paypal. WAHHHHHH.

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

Pimpity pimpity: Yule Decants! (http://www.livejournal.com/community/alchemylab/1937769.html?)

We order soon, you get your imps in by Christmas, you'll be able to make an Informed Purchase of bottles that you know you'll love!

RE: L.I. Principal Cancels 'Bacchanalian' Prom. "

[bed-bug.livejournal.com]

I can understand the reasoning behind their cancelling of prom. But I have to tell you, cancelling the school sponsored prom is *not* necessarily going to make things better. I went to a private religious school where dances were frowned upon b/c they are (in parents' views) going to lead to underage drinking and sex, so we had no dances, no prom, just a banquet where we all ate dinner and listend to a band while sitting at tables. That didn't stop the student population from throwing their own. The dances were held at rented banquet halls (on Thursday nights so that the out of town kids could go to school the next day and then take the bus home as per normal), and all the proceeds made from them went to subsidize the prom that was also student organized. I went to those dances, and I attended dances at other schools which my friends attended. The student organized dances were far, far worse in terms of the drinking, drugs and violence. A school organized dance has chaperones and rules, the best that could be said of our dances was that police officers knew how much crap went down at them and generally showed up. Our student body was banned from three banquet halls during my time in highschool. It's not as though my highschool was filled with delinquents or anything, but teenages seem to have a need to prove how grown up they are by acting like a bunch of idiots. I don't think cancelling prom will change that.

Re: L.I. Principal Cancels 'Bacchanalian' Prom. "

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Turns out the principal doesn't think it will change anything-- he just doesn't want the school to put its stamp of approval on the goings on. The original letter is here:
http://www.kellenberg.org/Resources/PDF%20Files/prom-september.pdf

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

Go Br. Hoagland!

Honestly, sometimes I wonder if HS seniors think that the right to have an outrageously expensive pseudo-formal evening of debauchery in which they act nothing like the ladies and gentlemen they dress up as is in the Bill of Rights.

[tifaria.livejournal.com]

While I totally agree with cancelling the prom, I don't necessarily think that'll make it better. I went to a Catholic school from kindergarten to the eighth grade, and believe me when I say that telling Catholic schoolkids they can't do something only makes them more determined to do it anyway. I knew girls that were sleeping around at twelve years old, and at least two of my friends had pregnancy scares in the seventh grade. If I'd known what "statutory" meant at the time, I can think of three guys who would've been arrested. But I digress.

I agree that he should've cancelled the prom because yes, it will force them to take their debauchery elsewhere, but at least it won't be his problem if they do. It'll be entirely the kids' and the parents' responsibility for whatever may go on that night. More power to that principal.

Also: HUGE THANK YOU for linking to No Nonsense in November! I know that in Texas it's a lost cause to try and vote against Amendment 21, but dammit, we have to try.

And crap, I'm trying not to get addicted to BPAL, but those Yule scents sound good. I've ordered my first set of imps ever, but haven't gotten them yet, so I might have to wait until I try the Yule stuff.. but oh man, cheesecake and cupcakes? So there.

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

Good point-- the principal is absolving himself of responsibility. Smart move, buddy. I wonder if he was a lawyer in a past life.

Oh, and $10,000 for a house in the Hamptons? That's, like, no big deal. This is Long Island, where everyone is trying to not just keep up with the Joneses, but forcibly overtake them and kick the dirt in their upper-middle-class faces. It starts with the First Communion and just gets worse. I went to Friends Academy (http://www.fa.org/) (on a scholarship, mind you), and by 7th grade when everyone started having their mitzvahs? My word, the lengths 13-year-olds and their obscenely wealthy parents will go to outdo everyone else's kids. By the time people are getting married you wonder what else they can do-- coat the Cornish hens in gold leaf? Drop diamonds from the ceiling for the first dance? Have the reception on the moon? Long Island is full of tacky.

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Woah, microwave-fight. It's MMmm good, bitch!

[(Anonymous)]

Those women reminded me of a bunch of women I work with. Ah, the Hood.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

Re: HP photos:

Every time I see a picture of Cedric, it makes me want to cry. These are fabulous. Must ask, though-- does it look like Harry's scar moved?

Thanks, as always, for the awesome links!

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

Oh my God--Snape is giggling like a schoolgirl. I see a golden future in icons for that screencap.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I poked around online, and discovered in one review the explanation that the movie "totally challenges the bourgeois notion of the nuclear family."

Oh.

It's a faux French movie.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

I was fine - FINE! - about BPAL until you mentioned it! Dammit, I'm broke and want Gingerbread Poppet cause I only have an imp of it. And Sugar Cookie, and Herr Drosselmyer, and.. and.... and...