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cleolindaI am wiped, you guys. And it's not even that I did any particularly heavy lifting. But it did involve trying to buy a Christmas present for Sister Girl on eBay, a situation that spiraled so badly out of control in the space of half a minute that I was relieved to lose the auction, for the reason that I actually will need to pay taxes and tuition next year.
So, three mild heart attacks later, I work on an email interview (more on that later in the week), slice up my pound cake, and go to class. No one eats any of the pound cake, which is my grandmother's recipe, and possibly the best, moistest pound cake you will ever taste. I am miffed, until I realize that this... leaves me with more pound cake. Also, we didn't workshop the first thing in class, which was awesome, because I had gone completely unprepared and unpapered (I'd spent so much time taking notes and cataloguing evidence that I hadn't begun to try to stuff it all into an outline), so sitting around and eating and shooting the American Renaissance shit was completely fine as far as I was concerned. And that was my class for the semester.
We didn't go to Aeon Flux tonight because both Em and I were exhausted, and because we started hearing that it's "the worst movie of the year." Which I think means I should totally see it; I just don't know that I want to pay eight dollars for the privilege, and then fall asleep while I'm at it.
Tomorrow: tree decorating, and I am going to try to sit myself down to take care of all the mail I have piled up. Or finish annotating The Morgesons. Or finish Christmas shopping. Or SOMETHING, so long as it's useful, because I've got a solid week until the exam and I do not want to faff around for seven days. The faffing we save for Christmas vacation.
Livejournal is still not sending me all my comments. It has, however, begun to send me comments from November 20, which is... instructive.
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allthelivesofme: "Saw this, and immediately thought, 'Cleolinda and Sister Girl would probably appreciate it...' Celebrity cookies."
The answers to the Virgin Digital band picture game.
Poodlepanda WTF.
Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese marry.
"Splitney" calls in the lawyers.
omg The Wide, Wide World is online. READ THE FRENCH PORN!
Professor Loses Weight With No-Diet Diet.
Arkansas Man Scales White House Fence. Look at the picture: this man may actually be possessed by Satan.syneblue: "In the vein of Memoirs buzz, here's an interesting little essay on geisha in American culture."
Warring Narnia essays:
>> "Narnia is everything hateful about religion. See, Philip Pullman says so!"
>> "Before C.S. Lewis became a famous Christian, he was already a famous scholar - and there’s a lot more going on in his Narnia series than Christian allegory."
>> "The Chronicles of Narnia, seven tales penned between 1950 and 1956, are not so much Christian stories as stories penned by a Christian."
>> Philip Pullman is a stupidhead.
(I love His Dark Materials, but when it comes to his irrational hate-on for Lewis... he kind of is.)
The most awesome Narnia pendant ever. (Better picture.)
A first look at X-Men 3, a movie I fear greatly. (Here's the new trailer.) "We want this to look different from the first two." Uh, why? I mean, considering that the first two movies were good, and people liked them?
A site all for the O RLY? owls. I am way too happy about this. 
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Date: 2005-12-07 08:34 pm (UTC)Also, I read the book again yesterday, and I went back through all my Narnia stills, and I am pretty sure that Tilda Swinton has pre-emptively pwned me.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:11 am (UTC)X3- Beast looks good, but Angel is all wrong. Ben Foster doesn't have the arrogant beauty needed for the character- Jude Law, Casper Van Dien or Ryan Phillipe would've been perfect. Also, the wings are far too small to support a human body in flight. They need to be at least three times that size...
I'm a-scared about X3... No James Marsden, No Bryan Singer, Halle Berry agreeing to come back... *g*
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:17 am (UTC)(Yes, I'm a huge geek.)
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:16 am (UTC)When I was at work on Saturday, I responded to a fellow employee "O RLY" as I think (in my head) what the owl sounds like. He looked at me, asking "Did you just quote the owl?"
It makes me happy when people know what I'm talking about outside of the Internets!
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:18 am (UTC)I'm sad, though, because Gambit only gets a brief cameo appearance! I heard that the role was originally offered to Josh Hollaway (which would be sooo perfect and sooooooo SEXY), but he had to turn it down because of LOST scheduling.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:18 am (UTC)It is not even a "Good Bad Movie". It is a vile, stinking pile of crap that is in no way campy or good-bad or enjoyable. it is an absolute mess.
i have stronger words to describe it, but i'll refrain here.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:31 am (UTC)RE: Lewis being reduced to an "IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS!!" "NU-UH!!" arguement, I agree it's a shame and it really takes away from the stories. Yes, obviously there's a heavy emphasis on Christianity, Christian values, and Christian allegory in his books. But you also find that in Tolkien and L'Engle, yet no one tries to remove/overemphasize it in their work. The great thing about Narnia is that it's obvious enough that Sunday-school-grown kids will read it and say, "AHHH! ASLAN IS LIKE JESUS!!" but it's subtle enough that the little kid who's been raised in an other religion (or none at all) can still love it and say, "AHHH! ASLAN IS LIKE NOT DEAD!!" Because in spite of what Christian fundementalists (and on the other side of things, Pullman) says, Lewis wasn't trying to preach to anyone. He was just telling a story by taking concepts and ideas from what he knew (religion, mythology, legend), and turning it into a kid's book. Kind of like how Tolkien described the Marshes of the Dead based on what he knew about trench warfare.
*cough* I'm sorry. I'll shut up now. As with Harry Potter character analysis, Narnia is something I can talk about for FOREVER if I get going.
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Date: 2005-12-06 07:26 am (UTC)Or if you're me (who was raised Christian but was apparently a very unobservant child), "AHHH! ASLAN IS LIKE NOT DEAD WTF PLOT CONTRIVANCE SO CHEAP!"
...yeah.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:32 am (UTC)And I bookmarked The Wide, Wide World. Will have to remember to get around to that sometime, because it sounds like a definite must-read.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:36 am (UTC)X3 looks cool. I like pretty effects. Shiny. But when will Fox finally release Night Watch?! I want my English-speaking friends to experience the awesomeness. It sucks having no one but my brother to share Russian fantasy and sci fi with...
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Date: 2005-12-06 06:05 am (UTC)I've been looking because they gave out a metric buttload of promo crap for it at a con I went to last year. I have 2 pins, a patch, a squishy mouse pad with little bats in it, a window cling, and a glowy rubber bracelet (which I chose over a flashlight). It would be kind of nice to see what it was all supposed to be for.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:38 am (UTC)Hey, eight hours of doing nothing? I'm up for it.
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:42 am (UTC)But yes, Philip Pullman is a stupidhead when it comes to Lewis and analyzing him. CS Lewis himself said that Aslan was like Christ and he wondered what would happen if a world other than our own (Narnia) needed to be saved, how Christ would save that world, and tada, you get Aslan. I know because my pastor has taken it upon himself to preach on The Chronicles until Christmas Eve, where at the service the message is titled, seriously, "Deep Magic Before the Dawn of Time".
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Date: 2005-12-06 06:27 am (UTC)Nice to see that Halle is staying with the cast of X-3 - I thought for sure she was giving it up after the second one, but she makes a great Storm. Is Jean going to be played by the same actress? (And is she going to have the same horrible haircut she had in the last movie?) I sooo wish Gambit could be in this one - AGH - but Beast is great, too, and it's about time they got him in there (he was one of the very first X-Men in the comics). Hugh Jackman is so awesome for sticking with this - I know he loves it, and I'm so glad that he loves it, because no one could do Wolverine as well. ^.^
I couldn't even make it all the way through the anti-Narnia articles...I had to make myself close the window before I could get too frustrated. I think it is very ironic that Philip Pullman is complaining about CS Lewis harping on a message, when his own books are pretty much centered entirely around "OMG the Church is EVIL!!!" (By the way, I read the entire His Dark Materials trilogy, and enjoyed it - but I felt much more bashed over the head with Message while reading that than when I read the Narnia series.)
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Date: 2005-12-06 06:45 am (UTC)Bitter? Me? Why do you ask?
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Date: 2005-12-06 07:14 am (UTC)That fence-climber guy was all over the news here.
Why are you afraid of X3?
(P.S. YAY! Angel is in this one!)
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Date: 2005-12-06 07:49 am (UTC)And aww...panda-looking' puppy dog.
Is Britney really divorcing Kevin or is that gossip? I'm totally out of it here, you know Cleo, you're like my main source on the latest in the celebrity world.
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