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[cleolinda]

The play last night--Dollhouse, a 2005 reworking of A Doll's House--was awesome. The lead actress and her performance had a definite Amy Adams/Junebug vibe (which is a compliment), but the story allowed her to take the character all the way to breakdown and then build her back up differently. All the actors were great--you didn't realize how good until at least halfway through, because a good bit of the action is conducted from behind cheerful or smarmy facades, and it's not until the different characters cut loose that you really see what they're made of. Really, really great.

And then we went to a bar where a friend of the Lovely Emily's works: the Back Nine, where boomers go to die. It has a lovely fun bar topped with solid ice, though. I came home redolent of cigar smoke and wobbly from two and a half Long Islands (I'm probably the only the self-professed lightweight drinker who asks for four different kinds of booze in one glass), and had to wash pretty much everything I wore, slept in, slept on, or thought about. I drank plenty of water when I got home, though, so I wasn't hungover and was actually up pretty early sorting through BPAL oils, because I woke up to a bank statement informing me that I am very nearly broke. I've always been lackadaisical about money, sometimes catastrophically so, which means that I am now wondering if I actually spent all of this money myself, or if unauthorized charges were made (say, by someone who cribbed my info from an internet purchase). Part of this is related to Christmas shopping and part of it to realizing I had no wardrobe basics, but--I thought I had a fairly good idea of where I was, and this is way, way off.

So I'm looking at things to sell off--which sounds all scary and desperate, but really they're things I've meant to sell for months, if not years, and just never got around to it. I mean, I bought a couple of Weta items for the sole purpose of reselling them later; I have a ton of BPAL oils that I don't like (in addition to the ones that I do), and it's only a lack of bubble mailers that's kept me from putting them up for sale. So, because I'm still stupidly shy about actually putting something up on eBay, I went ahead and sorted out my oils (lab fresh, only tested, half full, that kind of thing) and will be putting up a sale post (on this journal) in a moment. It was unpleasant to wake up to that, but it was probably the kick in the ass I needed.


Fatah gunmen seize Palestinian parliament.

Documents Show U.S. Army Seized Wives As Tactic.

Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him. Any time the phrase "silence him/her" is used, I automatically imagine frantic midnight back-alley chases and gun-waving Men in Black and cars blowing up. I suspect I would be disappointed on this one.

wumbawoman: "Thought you would find this interesting. Remember all that stink about Target pharmacists not having to fill the morning after RX if it was against their beliefs? Well it seems Walgreens has stepped up to the plate as being progressive in thought. Walgreens wanted all their pharmacists to sign a pledge that they promise to dispense the RX. There is a pending lawsuit because some say they got fired for *not* signing the pledge. Be interesting to follow."

Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Justice. And liberals are supposed to be the traitors?

Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Dethroned in Hawaii.

Former Ranger claims he served as Aiken's Claymate.

A detail on the last episode of Lost that you missed if you don't have hi-def TV (*shakes wee lo-fi fist*). In case you're not seeing it: far left side. It's the Nigerian plane.

Frey Says He Won't Write About Disgrace. Also, I just read in EW that Frey had said that Nan Talese refused to accept his book as fiction and then took it as memoir; I thought Talese had admitted that somewhere back there. Turns out this was Frey's claim, and Talese refutes it. James Frey: Well and truly thrown to the sharks.

And the most important trait in a mate is... Guess. Oh, c'mon, guess. Sadly, I was able to--and if you want to know why I say "sadly," look at the difference between what women look for vs. what men do.

Pottersues returns:

The other day, [Bad username or unknown identity: ]took me aside and told me a secret. “I am not the Dread Blogger [Unknown site tag],” she said. “My name is Bethany. I inherited this blog from the previous Dread Blogger [Unknown site tag], just as you will inherit it from me. The blogger I inherited it from was not the real Dread Blogger [Unknown site tag], either. The real [Bad username or unknown identity: ]has retired and is RP-ing Snape’s mother over on GreatestJournal.” Then she explained the name was the important thing. You see, no one would get over flamewars over being snarked at by the Dread Blogger Bethany. So here I am, having inherited this blog handed down a long line of snarkers.

Oh, and dailydigestnews has also been updated.

Comments

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Don't get too excited about Walgreens -- they've shown more interest in siding with whatever the law is in a given area than actually standing up for patients who wish to receive legal medication without judgment. CVS, on the other hand, has made it their policy to fill ALL prescriptions. I encourage people to go to CVS and tell other pharmacies why.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome about CVS.

Crap! I lost that link you gave me when Semagic crashed. I'll go back and get it--it's an important one, and I didn't mean to leave it out.

[aki.livejournal.com]

I switched pharmacies to CVS for that very reason.

(of course, they're across the street from each other, so it wasn't a huge sacrifice...)

[lafemmezilla.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I just saw the following about Target yesterday:

Target pharmacist fired for refusing 'morning-after' prescription
Last update: January 27, 2006 – 7:06 AM
ST. LOUIS — A suburban St. Louis pharmacist filed a federal complaint after being fired from a Target store for refusing to dispense the so-called "morning-after" birth control pill.
Heather Williams had worked at a Target store in St. Charles, Mo., for five years before being fired last month. Her attorney says that until recently, the company accommodated her objection to dispensing the morning-after pill.
Her complaint was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Calls to Minneapolis-based Target were not returned.
Several states are wrestling with the issue of pharmacists who refuse to dispense emergency contraception pills for moral and religious reasons.

I'm pretty sure you gotta register to read the article, my apologies for the cut&paste.

http://www.startribune.com/1244/story/209009.html

Target's a pretty liberal organization so I wouldn't be surprised if they're changing their policies on this one. This week, anyway.

[nasus221.livejournal.com]

The articles about silencing the NASA guy and soldiers taking wives make me very full of rage.

[pigsnicket.livejournal.com]

Ah, Cleo, I feel your money pain. I was EXTREMELY fortunate to get some funding from my university last week that put my bank account from $8.50 to $2,000. There's a reason one of my entry tags is "money = pain".

I'll totally buy BPAL off you. I first heard about it from your site, and now I'm addicted. So, damn you.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Come and sit by me for luck.

(Awww!)

[miss-lithi.livejournal.com]

It would be more of a shock if Clay Aiken was involved in a straight sex scandal.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

If Star Trek TNG is to be believed, the humuhumunukunukuapuaa will be vindicated years down the line when it's chosen to be the spokesfish for the educational computer programs on the Enterprise.

...I am too dorky to live.

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

If you're too dorky to live, then I should have been dead at least 10 years by now. ;)

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I decided to go to the www.oceanic-air site to see if anything new was on there.

Opening the page in Firefox shows the following text somewhat badly-hidden by the "ceasing operations" message:

ase get word I'm alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse...

Sally

I survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.

I was able to highlight from the parts sticking out and copy, which is why I only have part of the 1st message.

Don't recall seeing that before.

[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

If anyone should find this message, please get word I'm alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse...

Viewed source ;P

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I thought of the same ting a few minutes after I posted. And also found this on another page on that site:
I would like to inform my financial institutions that I will be late making my September mortgage payment as I am STRANDED ON A FRIGGIN' ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE! Please have the Government send a search team immediately. OR don't. Shouldn't all the taxes I pay cover an expense like that?

*giggles*

[adaorardor.livejournal.com]

Ahem. I, ah, I've found something terribly interesting, and have been duly commanded to spread it here and there and everywhere, like a bad cold but much, much funnier. This seems like an appropriate place to do so.

http://www.frostmage.net/ifrc/

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in this play you speak of. I love Ibsen, and of course that's one of his best/most famous. I kinda want them to make some Ibsen into movies instead of just remaking half of Shakespeare and Jane Austen over and over again.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Rebecca Gilman's the playwright--program says it premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre last summer, so it's a very recent adaptation. And Gilman really did a great job of modernizing it.

[bodhichitta0.livejournal.com]

From the Aiken story "A DNA encrusted wash rag"??? How many different ways can I say "EWWWWWW"????!!!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!

[rhapsodeeinblue.livejournal.com]

o_O about the plane in the Charlie!vision.

[herigstad.livejournal.com]

Okay, Pottersues+Princess Bride refrence is the best thing I've read all week.

[aki.livejournal.com]

Awesome icon.

[herigstad.livejournal.com]

Shaa, Cat and Girl are the best.

[delle.livejournal.com]

Frey Says He Won't Write About Disgrace. Also, I just read in EW that Frey had said that Nan Talese refused to accept his book as fiction and then took it as memoir; I thought Talese had admitted that somewhere back there. Turns out this was Frey's claim, and Talese refutes it. James Frey: Well and truly thrown to the sharks.

Hm. James Frey... or Nan Talese. Which liar to believe.

Frankly, I think her, in this case. I've read other places that he was trying to sell the book as fiction and no one would buy. As corrupt as publshing is, and as despicable as I find Nan Talese, I don't think she would knowingly tell a writer to submit his fiction as 'memoir' so she could accept it.

I hope.

They're both horrid people.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

DIRT DIRT I WANT THE DIRT!

[delle.livejournal.com]

oh, damn, how much dirt do you want? I've been on a Frey binge (never read his lying piece of shit book thank goodness) ever since this all broke. I'm completely fascinated (in a train-wreck sense) of how this all happened, how he got published, how he spent two fucking YEARS proclaiming "this is the TRUTH!' to all and sundry and then got caught with his lying pants around his lying ankles.

I read the entire Smoking Gun article. I think that's where I read it was rumoured Frey had been shopping his 'book' as fiction and no one would buy it; but once he slapped 'memoir' on it, it was sold.

And I watched Oprah, with Frey and Nan Talese - who is equally a lying sack of shit.

So what do you want to know?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know the Frey shit (that's where I read the fiction/memoir thing as well). What I want is the *Talese* shit. This is the first I've heard of any (because... really, I don't hang out with people who talk about Nan Talese, but I had an unpleasant experience at a conference with her husband. Well, that's not fair--it was more like, "He bored me to tears during his convocation and some guy who was totally, like, in writer-love with the man whisper-yelled at me") and I want to knooooow.

[delle.livejournal.com]

here's a clip from Oprah's show (http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200601/tows_past_20060126.jhtml).

Basically? I thought Nan Talese came off as a total and complete bitch. She didn't *care* that most of Frey's stories were lies - "it's a memoir, it's HIS recollection of events" she kept saying. But he KNEW he didn't spend 87 days in jail, woman! He KNEW he didn't know the girl that died in a car accident when he was in high school - and he KNEW she was only a year older and he's wasn't 12 when it happened! and he KNEW he wasn't ostracized for 'causing her death' because she wasn't his bestestbestfriendEVAHOMG; her family barely knows who he IS.

So dont' give me this bullshit that it's all ok because it's HIS recollection of events and Nan, as the publisher/editor owes no apologies or *anything* to the millions of people that shelled out bucks for this book of lies.

I don't *car* that she's well known and well respected. I think, given the behavior I saw the other day?, that she's trash, plain and simple.

(and, yeah, I AM pissed off about this. because I'd like to be published one day and creepizoids like James Frey and Nan Talese make me puke)

[delle.livejournal.com]

gah. car=care stupid fancy nails.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww. Hee. She really did look awful (both physically and morally) in the screencap that Gawker had up--like this crazed Botoxed creature. I just wondered if you had, like, industry dirt or something. Because that would be awesome. But... Botox and Boring, that seems to be the best we can come up with. Heh. : )

[ter369.livejournal.com]

The play last night--Dollhouse, a 2005 reworking of A Doll's House--was awesome.

There's a translation problem in the title. Doll's is incorrect. Also, as a metaphor, the house isn't Nora's. She's playing a role in the house. I worked with a director who translated, one by one, all the major Ibsen plays for American Conservatory Theatre's productions through the 70s. The correct translation should be Doll House.

So making it into one word for English language use removes the confusion and preserves the symbolism.

Avoid the musical of what happens to Nora after the door slam. It's vanished from revivals, so it's easy to avoid.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Avoid the wha...?

(The end of this one is different--she leaves him but a tense minute or so later, she comes back and says, "Thank me for saving your life! SAY IT!" And they sort of begrudgingly start trying to hack a truce. The play was in the round, so I had the husband's back to me, but Nora was mostly facing me, and the look on her face was just wild through this whole part--like a valkyrie or something. And the last lines of the play are, "I'm going to pay for this, aren't I?," and she says, "Yes." It's somehow more disturbing than a wholly happy *or* tragic ending.)

[ter369.livejournal.com]

And the last lines of the play are, "I'm going to pay for this, aren't I?," and she says, "Yes." It's somehow more disturbing than a wholly happy *or* tragic ending.)

So, in Gilman's next adaptation, I take it that Hamlet will live?

Maybe she got her start writing fanfic.


Avoid the wha...?

The musical, A Doll's Life, is about Nora's life after slamming the door. I saw it in Los Angeles in the early 80s. There's a recording, too.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, the synopsis in the program goes on and on about "emotional deaths" in a completely twee fashion, so we'll pretend we didn't hear that. Actually, I went to the school's website (my alma mater), and apparently a handful of seniors learned, rehearsed, and put on the whole play in three weeks as an interim class. The quality of the performance seems even more impressive with that in mind.

[zahavah.livejournal.com]

princess bride reference <33333

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

'And how moved-to-comment-out-of-pure-joy I am, because of it!

<3

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Oh, lord. ... My grammar just waxed retarded.

~~~

'Apologies to: the English language, literate insomniacs, that dear commenter, and your journal.

But god, do I love me some Princess Bride reference. Mmm.

[valkyrie79.livejournal.com]

Dude, totally check up on where your money has gone. I just found out that my credit card was stolen yesterday (I think from the place I ate lunch since I haven't used it since) and they've charged almost a grand on it. Fortunately, I have fraud protection on my card, but if they hadn't seen an odd purchase and emailed me, I wouldn't have noticed til my bill came in a month.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Yeah, I'm looking for my previous statement. I mean, I wasn't keeping an exact count, but to think you should be somewhere around $1000-1500 dollars but be at $233? That's a little bit odd.

[valkyrie79.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's probably a good idea to look over your statements and make sure that you remember all the purchases. If there's a problem, the sooner you catch it, the better.

latest VM, no spoilers

[aki.livejournal.com]

I thought you find this of interest - on the most recent episode of Veroinca Mars, Donut Run, we finally get to see what was written on the fortune cookie Duncan gave her in the first episode this season. The sentiment is apropros for the recent episode's ending, but my favorite thing about it? The lucky numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42.

I don't have a screencap or a good source, so no proof, but I thought you might find that entertaining. You have to admire a show that gives shoutouts to other shows in its time slot.

(The episode [and the show in general of late] also contains a few TWOP references)