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[cleolinda]

Today's weather forecast on Yahoo Weather (12:54 pm):

High: 38
Low: 37
Current: 35

Wha?

VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies. O rly. Ya rly: far from "zero drinking," there was, in fact, beer. Which... well, when you put it that way, doesn't sound all that awful. But then, I didn't think lying about a blowjob was so terrible, either. Clearly I'm not cut out for this politics thing.

From suenosdejmi: "There's a website, www.invisiblechildren.com, which is of a non-profit that is working to help children in Northern Uganda. There's groups of people travelling the country showing this documentary film about these kids, and the war, & their lives there...it's all really powerful stuff.  I feel really compelled to help, but there's not too much to be done, you know?  If you could just help me spread the word about this website, there's all sorts of information there about the cause & the mission. Thanks!!"

Isaac Mizrahi Defends Red-Carpet Behavior. Except he doesn't so much "defend" it as defy all critics, promising more of the same (most famously, he grabbed Scarlett Johansson's breast and squeezed, like, three times). I would give my eyeteeth to see some starlet mace him on the red carpet come Oscar night.

Co. Hopes to Market Kid Rock, Stapp Tape. But I thought assisted suicide was illegal...?

Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning.

Nick Lachey files for spousal support. And jewelry. No word on who gets custody of the boobs.

NBC goes after You Tube. That's right! How dare you make "Lazy Sunday" a cultural zeitgeist! It was particularly cruel, how you revived the show's flagging ratings! And the way you updated the video with "We know how popular that video is but YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders. You can still watch SNL's Lazy Sunday video for free on NBC's website"? Reprehensible.

Michael Jackson has a Katrina song. God help us all.

redrum! redrum!

Words you never expect to see in a cookbook, no matter how old it is: To make the Brain Cakes.

Franz Ferdinand cover of Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For." Right-hand side, near the bottom, go!

Sonic teenager repellent. There's a fifteen-year-old in me that's totally indignant. There's also a twenty-seven-year-old who hopes the man who came up with this becomes so rich.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog ("Top X searches in myne networke: 10. John Gowere swyving a donkey").

Comments

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i love the teenager repellent.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I would give my eyeteeth to see some starlet mace him on the red carpet come Oscar night.

I would pay money for that. But which starlet? We know from Vanity Fair that Rachel McAdams (I mean, "a certain young actress") will not put up with unplanned nudity, so boob-pinching may set her off. And it will be awesome.

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Have you not heard about the Pete Doherty scandal (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/5617847.html)? It's very plausible, although the source is undefined.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'll try to perpetrate some outrage on pregnant Rachel Weisz, and Darren Aronofsky and/or the pregnancy hormones will reach out and brain him. I could see Heath Ledger pounding him into the gravel as well, for Michelle Williams' honor. Keira Knightley probably wouldn't, though--he asked if she was wearing underwear (!), and she replied, "Of course I am! I am a LADY." Although that opens up scenarios ending with, "And YOU, sir, are NO GENTLEMAN" (thwap thwap).

[historyblitz.livejournal.com]

In reaction to Redrum:: Whoa!

In reaction to Sonic Teen Deterrent: Hahahaha!

[scotchwhisky.livejournal.com]

Invisible Children is one of the dearest causes to my heart. Thank you so much for throwing it in there. What's happening to those kids in Uganda is horrible and so sad, and it's just these random twentysomething guys trying to make a difference in their lives--the tour is coming to my school, of course, while I'm out of the country. Woe.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

The anti-teenager noise thing drives me to all hell. Ok, lemme put it this way: there are still 10% of adults above 30 people who can hear the noise. What annoys me is that I've always looked about 4 years younger than I really am (which would make me look like a 17 year old), added to the issue that they'd most likely drive me crazy, since I have sensitive eardrums.

They shouldn't alienate their 20-30 market by installing them. Sure, it might keep away the high school set, but it's too close to the college students and 20somethings to do it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hadn't heard. Honestly, it sounds like a parody of the Frey/Leroy scandals--although it does answer the question, "How did someone as hangdog ugly as Pete Doherty become famous?"

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks for listing the Franz cover. *loves The Franz*

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Meh, it was just a hunting accident. What people should be getting worked up about is that the way Cheney has handled it is symptomatic of the way Bush administration generally handles this sort of thing: i.e., badly, with a stunning reluctance to say "sorry." But the news programs and the bloggers are acting like Cheney drank a bottle of vodka and went on a rampage.

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

It does read like a Brtish version of The Onion, but I've noticed that in all the pictures of him, he looks like the perfect druggie. The way he acts is just too obvious.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was slightly offended at the idea, thinking back to what I was actually like at 15 (i.e., not what you'd want to drive away). It could definitely be abused, but they did say that in practice, the shop owners would turn it on *only* when they had a large, unruly group on the lot (and yeah, I'm sure "unruly" is open to interpretation), and that you can't hear it inside the building. So it'll either drive people inside, to buy food or whatever, or away to start trouble somewhere else. Quite honestly, if I'd had some earplugs or something, it's the kind of thing I would have loved to have when *I* was a teenager, to keep assholes away from me.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

There was a blogger who noted that the Daily Show's coverage was hilarious not because the jokes were particularly funny, but because all they had to say was, "Vice-President Dick Cheney shot an old man in the face because he thought he was a quail." In other words, the truth was absurd enough to be funny on its own. That's pretty much my only interest in it--accidents happen, and everyone feels bad about it, so what're you gonna do?

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

That's like me on...Wednesday, I think. High was supposed to be 30. It hit 55. WTF???

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

I've had people get annoyed at a group of 8 college students at Olive Garden for a cast party, calling us unruly. (When I've experienced unruly, and we were not) Yeah, it'd definitely be abused.

And yeah, those things might keep the assholes away, but after extremely loud, unruly college roommates and sensitive ears... all they'd do is alienate someone like me who behaves myself.

Now if they could do that in movie theaters to selectively keep away the loud jerks... I'd go for it!

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not so much with the jokes as with the wording. Listening a dozen times over the course of three days to how Dick Cheney "shot a 78-year-old man in the face" is pretty funny.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I personally wish Christopher Marlow had a blog because you KNOW that would be raunchy. Or maybe Byron, but I'd have a suspicion that Byron would make a lot of his stuff up and most of it would consist of "OMG Mary Shelley was TOTALLY checking me out!!!111!!" and "my sister iz so hott".

And poor Nick. Anything to get back in the news. I feel bad for him as he sadly sits in the Dancing With the Stars audience and cheers his brother simply because I know he has nothing better to do.

[tifaria.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I am so in love with Franz Ferdinand's cover. In fact, that whole page is pretty neat. I'm a bad fan for not knowing about it in the first place.

Y'know, I'm not one to normally defend the VP, but geez, the media's really having fun with this, aren't they? All of a sudden it went from, "Cheney accidentally shot a man" to "Cheney was drunk and shot a man fifteen times in the face and he's gonna DIE and Cheney's gonna go to JAIL OMG". Not that this is terribly surprising or anything.

Also, that Olsen twins picture is possibly more scary than the actual redrum twins in the movie.

[lesamalie.livejournal.com]

That Lazy Sunday SNL thing really makes me crave Magnolia Bakery. This is sad as I live in Chicago. :(

[violetsocks.livejournal.com]

*dead from Chaucer*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, it's "because he thought he was a quail" that gets me.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I know that it's potentially annoying to non-teenagers, but that repellent thing is just far too amusing not to laugh at. *laughs*

Also, the Chaucer Blog is fabulous. :)

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

Michael Jackson was working on that song long before Katrina. A couple of years ago a friend of mine who is a poet and lyricist entered a contest in which Michael Jackson was seeking lyrics for a song titled "I Have This Dream." I always wondered if that contest was legit. Looks like Michael found some lyrics he liked. Let's see if he gives anyone else credit.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

There's a fifteen-year-old in me that's totally indignant.

Dude, I'm fifteen, and I think it's frickin' awesome. I kind of want one for my house now, for the next time stupid college students who live next to me decide to have a booze party in the street the night before midterms.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

My midterms, that is - Lord knows what they do for their midterms.