Random thoughts

[cleolinda]

Ahhhhh, a big ol' Law & Order: Criminal Intent marathon last night. Nice.

I had forgotten how much I like peach fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. It's like sunshine floating in a sour cloud.

Hey! It's the Ted the caver story!

Ah, the Chewbacca defense.

I can't get the GoPets client to work, for some reason--it crashes when I try to log in. Woe.

Okay, I redownloaded the client and it's working now. Until I try to play Shanghai, and then it crashes afterwards. (How do you earn prize points, anyway?)

Oh God, Kingdom of Loathing is having to reset itself back six weeks. We who have ascended are screwwwwwwed.

Hee! The photogenic MommyBeast pimps my boo(k).

(Speaking of which--if at all possible, read the beginning of LOTR--Story Time with Galadriel--with "Cool Rider" from Grease 2 playing, in your head or otherwise. That's what I was listening to when I wrote it. I mean, clearly, this is the missing piece of character motivation to explain why she fell for the lies of Sauron/Annatar/Jerkface: he was a rider that was cool. Coo-oo-oo-ool.)

(I'm trying to think of any other musical cues y'all might enjoy, and can't. All I remember is that I listened to a lot of Prince and some Sheila E. when I was writing Titanic.)

(I also kind of find it hilarious that a book that includes Vengeful Dolphins, tiny white warrior mice, and Pink Lady Galadriel is reviewed as "accurate.")

firefly_ca: "I don't know if you've seen it or not, but I figured you (and all your readers) would have a good laugh. All I know is, one of my friends sent me this link this evening, and I'm now firmly of the opinion that the regular Backstreet Boys should just give up and the Chinese Backstreet Boys should get all the fangirls." Firefly also mentions an auction a while back for an air guitar (case not sold, for display only) that is a little bit genius.

Oh shit, you guys! They're adding stuff to the SJC catalogue that involves opals and lavender jade. And OPALS.

"King Kong" Super-Sized. What you can possibly say about King Kong for three solid hours is beyond me.

Bush Abandons Push for Miers Nomination. "'Let's move on,' said Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi. 'In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?'"

2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers.

Ala., Detroit to hold services for Rosa Parks.

Hospital workers subpoenaed in post-Katrina deaths.

Star Trek's George Takei is coming out.

Suit: Siegfried taunts, torments, humiliates his magician partner Roy.

Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration. (I don't think that particular story is up at Snopes yet, but count on it being there as a story-proven-true within days, if not hours. Meanwhile, when I went to search for it, I was greeted by this link on the front page: Cabbage Patch dolls designed to get people accustomed to the appearance of mutants following a thermonuclear war (False). There's also a legend at the site about the company dispatching "death" certificates and/or coffins if you sent a doll in to be repaired, which is frickin' hilarious, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I'm just bitter because mine was named Mary Anne, unlike everyone else whose dolls had awesomely cracked-out names like "Phoebe Jolene," my sister's actual doll that she still has to this day.)

Oh, and I was hoping y'all would remember the significance of the new button down there, but in case you don't: please click the breast cancer button this month, even if you never do again, because all clicks are tripled and they're behind on their fundraising goal. And seriously, all you have to do is click, not even give anything.

Comments

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm not worried about Kong being lenghty. This is Peter Jackson, the guy who gave us 4+ hour movies and made us love them.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

...Three hours? That's...that's just ridiculous.

Totally awesome.

But ridiculous.

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

I clicked! My aunt has breast cancer. She's doing quite well, thankfully. Her son is 16, and he wears those pink bracelets all the time. He is an awesome kid. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's great of him. : )

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Okay, seriously? I hooked a fair amount of the hogwartsishome RPers into KoL, and so now chat opens each evening with "Is it up yet?" Because the HiH RP is frozen while we modsearch too, so we've got nothing to do with ourselves.

Except write pr0n. So much pr0n.

[elisa0984.livejournal.com]

Oooh, opals. Black or white?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

... I'm not sure?

http://www.silverjewelryclub.com/PHOTOS/SR6858.jpg

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Wow, if you had me guess which Star Trek actor was gay I'd...well, it wouldn't be obvious in any case but...I wonder what the reaction to this would be? Considering Star Trek has played the song of "can't we all just get along", whether we're white, black, half-white/half-black, half-black/half-white, or have genitals on our knees. Sci-fi fans can really miss the point, like when X-Men readers freaked out that a character was gay.

I'm telling you, Kong is wealthy with shades of movies that were predicted to be sure things and ended up being critical crashes.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I love Peter Jackson. I want this movie to do well for his sake. However... you know how sometimes I totally call things months, if not years, in advance? Like Pirates of the Caribbean being a hit, from the first moment I heard about it? Yeah. I heard PJ was doing a remake of his favorite movie and my first thought was, "Who the hell is going to want to see that?"

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I just checked, and my copy of the book should be getting here sometime before Halloween. I will have to bring my camera to school so I can take pictures of my friends fighting over it.

[tanamaria.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that one about the cabbage patch kids death certificates.

and my doll came with the name Ilonka Alberta. I changed it to Chrissy Ann. I don't remember the name my premie came with but I changed her name to Fawntina Marie (the name i was supposed to have). :0}

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

mine was named Mary Anne, unlike everyone else whose dolls had awesomely cracked-out names like "Phoebe Jolene," my sister's actual doll that she still has to this day

Cabbabge Patch Dolls. Talk about your relics from the eighties. Mine was named "Margot Lenore", and, um, yes, I still have it. I even have a Koosa ::is kind of embarrassed::

[theonlykow.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you had read about the issues in the forums, but Jick claims everything should be close to back to normal, ascentions included, after a little bit of tinkering with the people who need the fixings. Not to worry!

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

OMG I GOT YOUR BOOK TODAY, CLEO. I LOVE IT YAYE.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, how far in are you?

[following-blue.livejournal.com]

I now have the biggest urge to download Cool Rider.


... it's being slightly squashed by the urge to download Reproduction from the same movie. *headdesk*

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

mine was named Mary Anne, unlike everyone else whose dolls had awesomely cracked-out names like "Phoebe Jolene,"

dont feel bad Cleo...mine was named Jessica Ann.

[whiski_sour]

I think my Cabbage Patch doll wins at the most cracked out name ever uttered while toking the pipe: Charma Elva. And, no, I didn't change it. It made me feel lucky that I managed to get out with just having to go through life constantly correcting people on the spelling and pronuciation of my name.

I also had a doll I named Jinger Mary Ann because I had an unnatural fixation on Gilligan's Island and obviously had an unconscious desire to curse my dolly offspring the same way I had been cursed.

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Hee! Chewbacca defense is one of my favorite episodes. I can almost quote it word-for-word.
I think of King Kong as the Apes+Dinos+OMGJACKBLACKISRELATIVELYSERIOUS movie. And, as there are now all that new plot, I think 3 hours may be about right.
Aieee Chinese Backstreet Boys! Heh, I like the guy in the background. How he can not be laughing at all this, I don't know.

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

I couldn't decide what was funnier, the boys singing or the guy in the back! I was so waiting for him to turn around and smack the other two.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Speaking of breast cancer, did you see that they've FINALLY shown that mammograms are of proven (the key word here) benefit in preventing breast cancer deaths? Here's the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/health/27breast.html?emc=eta1

[are-there-stars.livejournal.com]

DEAR GOD, Ted the Caver!! I am completely scarred for life from that story. Honestly, why didn't he ever finish with a follow-up post? Did his friend go crazy? HOW did that boulder move and what was screaming, so many questions.

On another note, I watched that Chinese Backstreet Boys video on accident in a computer lab at school and precariously avoided being kicked out from laughing so hard.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What you're supposed to infer is that it--whatever it was--totally got him, and he never came back. The guy writing Dionaea House used the same narrative trick. ; )

[edda.livejournal.com]

What makes me laugh about the George Takei thing is that there's a guy at work with "MR SULU" vanity plates. I wonder if he knows, or will have a hissy when this really breaks big and have them removed.

Actually, I work in a place with a high techie concentration. Probably he'll just tell people "It's about the CHARACTER" and go on his determinedly Trekkie way.

I've heard George himself is fairly nice, though I don't know for sure. Hope he's having an OK time of it.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

They had a picture of ol' George in the cnn.com article, and all I could think of was how fantastically young he looks. What's his recipe, I wonder?

Whatever it is, I could use some. :p

Yarha, Jealous as Usual

[wulfric-tonks.livejournal.com]

Ted the Caver scared me to death. I am never ever ever going caving. Ever. And I will ALWAYS keep an animal near me, where ever I go. Too bad my cat doesn't like to sleep on my bed because I end up rolling over on her.

Boys aren't so evil after all. I feel enlightened by two Chinese boys ability to lip-sync.

And I can not find this Breast Cancer button. I think I am going blind for my eye has been paining everytime I move it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's at the bottom of the entry, next to the Hunger Site button? It doesn't have a border, but it's clickable.

[slash-puppy.livejournal.com]

0_0

You should put up a disclaimer about Ted the Caver~!! I'm going to be up for DAYS now because of that!

*cries*

[sturmclan.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, Cleo just linked to my blog. The girl-crush squeeing just woke up my kids. Hee.

I'm gonna have to get the Grease 2 soundtrack now. And it's all your fault. Crap, I loved that movie. The freaking "Girl For All Seasons" scene is hysterical. And I loved how they didn't even try to create innuendo in "Score Tonight". I think they oughta make a Grease 3 & just come out with "We'se All Gettin' Laid....After the Prom!" I think it would be very catchy.

And now I want a Cabbage Patch doll.

[mary-re.livejournal.com]

Ohgod, the Chinese Backstreet Boys are headbanging to I Want It That Way. Headbanging.
*weeps with laughter*

Thank you for linking to that and making my evening. <3

[nasus221.livejournal.com]

BAH I couldn't stop reading the cave thing. And I am alone in this house babysitting (because the kids are asleep now). The end part is so good though, it's like the Blair Witch how it just cuts off. Even if it so obviously not real, it's just written to real with those pictures and everything that it just freaks you out!

[ankhet.livejournal.com]

Ahhh I feel bad lusting after your book and going "she'll still get royalties if buy it in paperback.." (because, for the most part, I detest hardcover. Makes books less portable. *grin*) But, I WILL buy it when it is in paperback!

[malenky-devil.livejournal.com]

Chinese Backstreet Boys should get all the fangirls.

Hee! My friends do the same thing except they make full-length videos (complete with dance routines). I don't know what it is about asian college boys and music videos.

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

I know, fully! (I live in Thailand). Personally I think it's partly a bit of poking fun at the silly Westerners, seeing as Asian music videos are often so different to American ones. (Well I know Thai ones are anyway).