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.

[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.

[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.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww, yay! (Can you believe I finished it somewhere in the neighborhood of May 30-June 1?)

[achipiquonque.livejournal.com]

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

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See you later, adorable criminal.

I am totally stealing that for my list of things to write when signing books.

[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....

[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.

[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.

[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.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, half of the time, it's rape, and the other half of the time, it's total mind-blowing hearts-and-flowers LUUUUUV with someone she later turns out to be uncomfortably related to.

But she ALWAYS gets pregnant by this close relative, and while she never has a kid with three heads, she always ends up having it in the back of a car or in a mountain cabin or a garden shed or something. And everybody's all worried because it's a month early and, you know, because of the rich inbreeding, but then she gives birth to the most perfect premature child EVER. Which either gets named after whichever loving adoptive relative died so that she can end up with this incestuous Brady Bunch or ends up with some flowery, girly name.

...

No, I didn't read waaaaaay too many of those books. *headsmack*

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

Oh god, my firstborn is yours. Oh god.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

P.S. You gave a really severe giggling-induced asthma attack.

[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.

[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!

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Mine took five days from when they sent me the "dispatched" email.

[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.

[linden-jay.livejournal.com]

... I think I still have them. Like, all of them *hangs head in shame*

... No, I'm not now considering looking them up when I go home for Christmas break *headdesk*

God, I forgot about the Brady bunch names... I know there was an Annie, and a Christy, and Heaven, who's middle name was Leigh *eyeroll*... it really is scarring me how much of this I remember.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

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

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I am in love with your icon.

[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.

[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?"

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I think Heaven Leigh was my favorite one of the names, to the point where I was actually considering that name for a kid one day.

God, am I glad I never became a pregnant sixteen-year-old. *headshake*