Nothin' but linkspam

[cleolinda]

... because I am tired, though for no particular reason. I think it's the PCOS.

'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged.

Senate Emerges From Closed Session on Iraq.

Death Possible for GI in Iraq 'Fragging'.

Senate's 'Gang of 14' Fractures Over Alito.

The Washington Post reports that the CIA holds captives in secret prisons abroad.

Debate rages on use of cervical cancer vaccine: "While almost 100% effective, some contend use condones teen sex."

Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union and Fear for the Virtue of the Nation's Schoolchildren.

Shots fired as French riots escalate, everyone surrenders.

Greenpeace to be fined as Rainbow Warrior damages Philippines coral reef.

Killer Sought Solace Online--specifically, on the Something Awful forums. In SA's defense, given the nature of their forums, they didn't believe the kid was actually going to shoot someone. But,as posters there say: "Okay. Deep breaths guys. Did we make fun of an autistic [Asperger's] kid, tell him where he can find buckshot, then laughed about it? Oh, shit." "Yeah, we did. And then he killed people. And himself. I don't think I'm sleeping tonight."

ohnotheydidnt: Tom's 5 rules for Teh Katiebot (really, do pregnant women need curfews?) and Kevin Federline DENIED! at the ATM. Twice. We knew he was going to run through all of Brit's money, but so soon?

Queen Latifah and Laila Ali an item?

50 Cent disagrees with Kanye West; sales of bulletproof vests skyrocket.

God, I wish I could remember where I saw this link, because it's hilarious. Happy early Thanksgiving!

Fireworks Promised on Live 'West Wing' Debate. And after that? A two-hour L&O: CI based on the Natalee Holloway case. Oh, that won't stir up folks around here at all.

Fancy, fancy chocolate.

Screw that, I want this. Omg nuts and milk chocolate. What? My tastes are simple. Expensive, but simple.

(Do not actually buy chocolate and mail it to me. These links are for entertainment purposes only.)

How can you not love a movie with this title?

For those of you who love the "Together, They Fight Crime!" page: Now They Ded from Coke!

The best Kingdom of Loathing quest EVER: 

Ah, good, just the Adventurer we wanted to see. We expect that, by now, you've noticed all the temporal rifts popping up around the Kingdom. Well, in our historical archive, we found an old medical journal dating back to the Cola Wars. Apparently, many soldiers on both sides of the war were infected by a mysterious plague, contracted from some of the many unexpected reinforcements that joined the two armies during the battle for the Nearby Plains. The symptoms described sound eerily similar to the plague that's been infecting our population in the present time.

The bad news is: the journal says that, left uncured, the Gray Plague turns those infected with it into mindless, slavering zombies. The good news is: the military doctors were able to formulate a vaccine for the Gray Plague. The other bad news is: the primary ingredient for the cure is a certain gland found in the heads of the aforementioned zombies.

However, we've been able to come up with a solution. Don't ask how, but we've managed to create a rift that leads to a temporal location of our choosing, to wit: the Seaside Town, 28 days from now, after the entire population of the Kingdom has transformed into zombies. We need you to travel there and collect the ingredients for the cure, and then bring them back to the current time so that we can figure out how to immunize the citizens of Loathing against the infection.

Oh, and don't try to leave the town while you're in the future, as the rest of the Kingdom is highly radioactive. Apparently, one of us decided -- um, decides? Will be going to decide? -- that nuking the Kingdom from orbit would be the only way to be sure. It probably will have sounded like a good idea at the time.

Ancient Burial Ground Discovered in N.Y. Under Inevitably Haunted House.

Wow, Anne Rice's Jesus book is out already?

ETA: The official Harry Potter site has updated.


I had some other links, I think, but I'm too hungry. Off to find sustenance.

Comments

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

I just read a bad review of your book in Total Film magazine- even though I haven't read the book yet, they were claiming they were funnier, and they're...not. To put it mildly.

Bah.

It did remind me to get the book next time I'm in a bookstore, though...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wow, a bad review in Total Film? That sucks. I mean, just in sheer terms of exposure, that sucks. Ah well. Maybe with any luck people will see it in stores and pick it up anyway, out of curiosity, and go, "Hey! They were totally wrong!"

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

Yeah- I was so tempted to send them a bordering-on-snarky email pointing out that no-one wears t-shirts/badges/avatars with quotes from their parodies on them. :p

I'm still buying it- I will also attempt to buy copies for Christmas presents. ;)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Do they actually write parodies themselves? I don't know that I've actually read a TF, other than article scans at fansites (LOTR or HP, for example)--being over here in the U.S., after all.

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

Yeah- this issue they did Lord Of War. They're very short, and it doesn't say who wrote them...well, not this one anyway.

I'm not sure if Total Film is that well heard of outside the UK. Most people are more likely to have heard of Empire (their rivals) instead, I reckon. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, that makes me feel a little better. I know I feel some irrational professional jealousy when it comes to parodies sometimes--kind of like, "That's not what I would have said! THEREFORE IT IS NOT FUNNY!" And "we're funnier" makes more sense in that context. I mean, if, uh... let's say, the Wall Street Journal was like, "Shit, *we're* funnier," I'd go cry or something. ; )

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

They only think they're funnier, anyway. ;)

Mind if I friend you, BTW? :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Go for it. I literally don't have room to friend people back, but I try to check up on people's journals now and then. : )

[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

Well, you know what they say--there's no such thing as bad publicity.

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as for Empire (just read your recent post) the review of your book in TF was accompanied by a review of a book (although not a funny one) that got two stars from them, but three stars in this issue of Empire- and I gather that they only deducted a star because they didn't like the layout of that book. So things on the Empire front look pretty hopeful. :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wow... they're kind of picky, aren't they?

[(Anonymous)]

While I don't think you have to worry about getting dissed by the Wall Street Journal, I do have to say, they occasionally manage to be pretty damn funny.

Just...unintentionally. :o)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

The "mention my name, I don't care how" effect may come into play here.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

seriously! i've been extremely irritated with their cleo-wannabe "rough cuts" for quite a while. is it the nov issue?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the Nov or Dec. Someone figured out that it's The Editing Room guy, and he's been around at least as long as I have, if not longer.

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

December issue- they're always one month early. :)