Little but linkspam

[cleolinda]

I came home from class (Ann[e] is officially calling me Cleo now; she seems to be pleased with her copy of the book, and I tested out the This book: *is signed* bit on her, and it seemed to go over well), and my poor dog meets me at the door and then I notice he can't even get up the stairs hardly. He's holding his front right paw up and limping really, really badly. My mother's initial diagnosis was "arthritis aggravated by the sudden cold," and I was like, "Fool, you have arthritis--has it ever hit you with a stabbing pain in a single, localized spot on the bottom of your foot?" But even after we got Lucky to cooperate and roll over, we couldn't find anything in his paw. Fortunately (kind of), Meko's having a tooth extracted tomorrow, so Lucky can tag along and get his paw examined. I feel so bad for him, though, because somehow he hurt himself pretty badly, it seems, in the two hours that I was gone, and he's used to running upstairs and down all day long. Plus, he sleeps upstairs in my room. Poor baby.

Linkspam:

Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead At 92.

Gas prices are doing something crazy: falling.

Report: Cheney told top aide [Libby] of CIA officer [Plame].

Former In-Law: Janet Jackson Has Daughter.

From rockgeisha: the inspiration behind "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" The final section is actually a brief discussion of the Oates story and remarks she made about her writing process.

I was browsing Project Gutenberg and came across something on their top 100 called The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler or, Working for the Custom House. How can you NOT download that?

The mystery of V.C. Andrews. Namely, who's writing books "by" a woman who's been dead nearly twenty years now. I keep meaning to pick up some of her stuff, because seriously, Flowers in the Attic is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. "EAT THE COOKIE, MOTHERRR!"

Antique Lace is back in the main BPAL catalogue, rescued from discontinuation. Although, if you paid $100 for a bottle on eBay, as I have heard has happened, you may not be so pleased about this development.

Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I logged into Yahoo Messenger, and shortly before it crashed (again), I was able retrieve the following messages left for me four days ago:

[user] (10/20/2005 11:26:30 AM): salam

[user] (10/20/2005 11:26:35 AM): u ki hasty

[user] (10/20/2005 11:26:35 AM): ?

[user] (10/20/2005 11:26:48 AM): chera harooz vaseye man mail send mikony

[user] (10/20/2005 11:26:49 AM): ?

[user] (10/20/2005 11:27:00 AM): montazere javabet hastam

[user] (10/20/2005 11:27:03 AM): felan babay

Jigga what, now?

Anyhoo. I've been having trouble sleeping lately, and suddenly today I feel deliciously tired, so I'm grabbing a glass of milk and hitting the sack early.



  

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Just finished reading the book, and it is just WONDERFUL. Am totally bringing it around campus tomorrow.

[megotelek.livejournal.com]

*taps foot impatiently* Mine's apparently breaststroking across the Atlantic verrrry leisurely...

Me want my book! *pout*

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

My best translation:

--I bid you greetings with luncheon meat!
--Are you exceptionally swift?
--I await your response to my interrogative.
--My hairy chair is looking for the postal delivery employee who will bring me milk and honey.
--Again, I am pausing for your acknowledgement of my attempts to gain information.
--People from Montana applaud my swift wagers on coffee.
--See you later, adorable criminal.

The trick to not being confused by a foreign language is not trying to understand it at all and forcing it to conform to your reality. Besides, you're a best-selling author. It's your world now, dawg.

[achipiquonque.livejournal.com]

Oh, gee, thanks. You just killed me. That was really funny.

[cisforcorrie.livejournal.com]

Oh, those VC Andrews books were wacky bits of fun, huh? I didnt' even know a movie existed though, I'll have to hunt that down for sure.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's got a young Kristy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Swanson, is the best part. I want to say that Louise Fletcher is the evil grandmother, but I can't remember exactly. Victoria Principal may or may not be the mothersisterniecewoman.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I used to adore Flowers in the Attic when I was a teenager. That movie made me go out and read as many V. C. Andrews books as possible, which was maybe about three or so before I realized they were all about a happy poor girl who gets ripped from obscurity to live with her rich so-far-unknown family where she's tentatively content until she gets knocked up by her half-brother.

Not that that stopped me from reading about ten more after that realization, but still.

[linden-jay.livejournal.com]

Oh my god... it's like looking at my childhood! Uh, reading habits anyway.

Doesn't she always get raped by the boy she has a crush on who turns out to be related to her? That or the older uncle/father/stepfather type, who uses her because his wife is too squeemish to have sex?

If I end up going looking for my VC Andrews collection again, I'm gonna have to smack someone around....

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

You should read My Sweet Audrina. That was fucked up. I read this when I was in my early teens. I still remember that book more than any other one I read at that age.

[linden-jay.livejournal.com]

That book freaked me out. The whole swiss cheese memory thing, and sitting in the rocking chair trying to channel 'the first Audrina'. VC Andrews is messed up shit!

[khaman.livejournal.com]

Jeeeesus. I read a handful of the original Andrews novels when I was in high school. This is giving me a weird, disturbingly nostalgic pang to give 'em another read. I'm in the mood for stupid stuff.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

ICON! Please tell me I can steal because when my two big fandoms have beautiful iconbabies, I want to cuddle them. :D

[krazykarot.livejournal.com]

that's a sketchy message! the first is just arabic for peace, a common greeting... the rest is... half poorly spelled english and half... jibberish? it's hard to read arabic transliteration (using our letters to spell arabic words) because everyone spells the phonemes differently.

[sagitare.livejournal.com]

Antique Lace is back in the main BPAL catalogue, rescued from discontinuation. Although, if you paid $100 for a bottle on eBay, as I have heard has happened, you may not be so pleased about this development.

I got an imp of this as a freebie in one of my orders back in January and swapped it unsniffed because it got discontinued almost right after I got it. There was no way I was trying it and falling in love with it, only to never have any more ever again! However, based on the reviews alone, I've added a 10ml to my next order, just in case it decides to go bye-bye again.

Now, if only Cheshire Cat will come back, but with the hurricane season being what it is so far, I'm thinking there's not much chance of that. Sigh.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Cheshire Cat AND GLITTER OMG. Seriously, Glitter's the closest I've come to paying out the nose for a blend, and even that's mostly just, "Hey, can I buy that imp off you if you don't want it?"

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping the return of Antique Lace might bode well for Three Witches coming back.

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

Aha! I knew someone had a CSI/Flowers icon! :D

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

I shake my tiny fist at you, because I have finally succumbed to the Silver Jewelry Club, when the bracelet I'd been eyeing ended up being online just when I got home from lab this afternoon. I need no more jewelry, yet I can't look away. At least I'm safe from BPAL, as I absorb scent at an alarming rate, and thusly have very little interest in perfumery.

I read all the VC Andrews I could get my hands on as a kid (I don't think my mom quite knew what they were about), and I guess she died right around when I was reading it all in an embarrassed pre-sexual manner. Now I think they'd just be mortifying to remember, though damn, there were a lot of the things even back then.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

I just have to ask: is your icon based on reactions to reading 'Celebrian'? I'm not even a LOTR fan, I mean, I never could bring myself to read beyond The Hobbit, and yet even I know how screwed up that story was. That was the first time I ever came close to throwing up while reading.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

wtf, am I the only politics geek who tried to click the Cheney link and realized it's broken? *shakes finger at all other readers* ;)

Cleo, do you still have that link?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, I'm a loser who put the title instead of the URL into Semagic. Bad!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051025/ts_nm/bush_leak_cheney_dc

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

OMG gas! It is overly expensive here in Cali. But, really, everything is.
Oh, and I Love the 80s 3D all this week! And Jorge Garcia is on it too!

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

Ahh, VC Andrews - my middle-school library had the Dollenganger series. And I went to a teensy-ass private school where there were never more than 20 kids in my (blended 6/7/8th grade) class, and couldn't have been more than 75 books in the classroom library. I always wondered - did the teacher (gradmother of two of my classmates) not know what they were about? Or did she know, and just not care, or maybe she thought it would do us good to read something with social issues (or whatev.)?

And now the real question - should I use my icon of Simon and River (http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/33972266/519753) from Firefly or Sestuna and Sara from the manga Angel Sanctuary for this comment? (Ended up going with Sestuna/Sara 'cause dude, it's canon. Can't top that.) (http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/29614742/519753)

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

My seventh-grade teacher recc'ed them to us, and though I loved the books (c'mon, I was twelve), I still thought that was weird enough that I was afraid of that teacher for years.

That article sums them up brilliantly. Oh, and the widow has decided to poison them with arsenic, which makes them very pale, but still extremely attractive to one another. Yup, that's a fond childhood memory, right there. Reading it, I mean. Not actually being poisoned with arsenic or anything.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

Ah, V.C. Andrews. I used to borrow them from a friend and read them during school. I never got through an entire series except for the late one--with the orphan girls, all sharing their adoption experiences? Those were quick. In the others, the heroines TIRED ME OUT with everything. (Though I've heard "Haven" is possibly the best.)

...is it bad that I read his synop of "Petals on the Wind" and went, "Actually, dude, she was just told that the fetus on his desk was her aborted baby. Because of his sister, who told her about his still living wife. Then she went and married the other guy (Julian?), the ballet dancer who'd lusted after her..." *hangs head*

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

...is it bad that I read his synop of "Petals on the Wind" and went, "Actually, dude, she was just told that the fetus on his desk was her aborted baby. Because of his sister, who told her about his still living wife. Then she went and married the other guy (Julian?), the ballet dancer who'd lusted after her..." *hangs head*

That annoyed me as well. I'm wondering if the person writing did any research on the books or if they were just making stuff up based on rumors and reviews.

'Garden of Shadows' was my favorite if only because the young Grandmother managed to kick a surprising amount of ass.

"EAT THE COOKIE, MOTHERRR!"

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

"READ THE FRENCH PORN, EMILY!"

Re: "EAT THE COOKIE, MOTHERRR!"

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeee.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

One of my standby bookshop Very Funny Jokes used to be "V C Andrews - brings a whole new meaning to the term 'ghost writer'". Bastids never laughed.

Poor wee doggy!

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

I would have laughed!

And shelved her next to L. Ron Hubbard.

Tom Cruise never laughed.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Hope the doggeh is better soon.

I had the SAME sleepy feeling today. I opined that it's because I was wearing socks - usually I hate socks and my feet are cold.

So, ok, I did a dangerous thing:

(First, I have to explain that our law school newspaper is going online and I'm the webmaster - so there's this section called the Internets Corner (not sure why it's plural...) and the guy has put up some great links like Go Fug Yourself, TWoP, and Oh No They Didn't.)

So I emailed him with a link to m15m! If he decides to put it up, you may have some new readers!

(of course, the dangerous bit is that no one in my law school but one person knows about my LJ, so if he links it I may have to go back and friendslock a bunch of stuff. But hey! Free publicity for you and your book! :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeee, yay!

(Well, Bush once referred to "the internets," and the joke has run on ever since.)

Book available in Holland

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Cleo,

A little message from Europe:
You can order M15M at the site of Bol.com Holland.

Love
Esther

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Got my book last night. Squeed like a mad thing. Love, where is my "Hagrid, you had me at cake" icon??

[fba.livejournal.com]

When do you start getting sales figures? Must be terrifying and exciting all at the same time :)

BTW - how much did you UKify it? There are a number of jokes in Gladiator especially that seemed very UK specific, did the editors help with this or did you watch 'Carry On Cleo' for Roman-mocking inspiration? ;-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm, like what? We changed "Marcus Neimanus" to "Marcus Spencerius," but offhand I can't think of anything else. I don't think they changed stuff behind my back...

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

don't know if it's come up in the comments (how do you keep up with 60-100 comments on a single entry?), but "where are you going..." was made into a movie called smooth talk (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090037/). it's...okay. the director and scenarists (schmancy word for folks who write screenplays) changed the ending so that...i've gotten in trouble in the past for posting spoilers, but yeah. none too faithful to ms. oates' vision.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, tell me the ending, and I'll screen it. (It's been mentioned a few times in the comments, but I haven't asked anyone else for spoilers. I finally just can't stand it anymore.) The reason I'm curious is because I'm wondering if they went back to elements of the original Charles "Smitty" Schmid case that inspired it--that seems to be where the character of "Mary" (Mary French) seems to have come from.

[blackraven9.livejournal.com]

Amazon.UK came through yesterday!!! Finally! What a wonderful book, much better than the actual movies! My husband thought I was nuts as I sat in the livingroom laughing like a wacko!

Great work!

[suenosdejmi.livejournal.com]

love your icon :)

[gornishka.livejournal.com]

I think this is right up your alley: screen caps from a bad ly subtitled CoS (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shoukinkasegi/), or, as the Chinese now know it, Hally Porter and the Amazing Melons. Comedy gold in every frame.

[eldritch-flame.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, those are hilarious. I especially loved the one with Dumbledore going "she is stoned." Awesome.

the Andrews Mythos

[viggofest.livejournal.com]

I have a friend in NYC who used to work with these people. An agent once referred to V.C. as having put the "fun" in "dysfunctional family."
There are all sorts of stories about things that went on in her real-life family. Something about getting shot with an arrow...?
What's weird (er?) about Andrew N. is that he now has a house in the Andrews' family compound out west.
I also heard from this friend, that if you believe there were really completed manuscripts, or even just threads of stories left behind by Virginia (the "C" stands for Cleo, and her real name was Cleo Virginia), then you should be saving your money to buy a bridge somewhere.

Re: the Andrews Mythos

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. So basically, he's just making up incestuous sagas for teenage girls on his own to keep the name going?

[howielove2101.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link regarding the gas price drop. The lowest per gallon down here in Houma,LA is 2.439, and the news that it may go down even more makes me a happy Holly. :D