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[cleolinda]

God, I have such a headache. Mom really enjoyed the Pride and Prejudice DVD, though. For some reason, her favorite part was... Wickham? She seemed pleased to hear that Keira Knightley snagged that actor for herself in real life. Or jellus. Or both. Also, there were Girl Scout cookies.

Poll: J.K. Rowling: Greatest Living British Writer? I think we all know how this one's going to end: in tears.

Amateur Cracks Secret Nazi Code. Oh, with the help of computers? I'm less impressed now.

Newsvine goes public.

The Calls of Cthulhu. ("Grrr! You stupid Callahan kids—you're the ones who egged my house last Halloween, aren't you?")

Bookslut: "Kimberly Maul looks at the literary adaptations that will play a role in this year's Academy Awards. Also be sure to read our own Liz Miller's take on the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees. It should be pretty interesting--if Brokeback Mountain wins, you can witness a possibly historic turning point for gay-themed cinema and literature. And if Crash wins, you can witness the death of art." (Related: my Oscar predictions.)

20 Calif. Students Suspended Over Web Site. MySpace, specifically. 

Blogs Either Are or Are Not Dying. Good to know that we're certain now.

Online coloring book! I just want to know why the hell Edmund is in a spacesuit, and I think the White Witch wants to know, too.

Grape Juice Good for Aging Brain. As my sister would have said as a child: mmm, grajuice.

Live-action Simpsons intro.

No! You can't change the name!  This movie! Is called! SNAKES! ON! A! PLANE!

Defamer: They Must Press The Button Every 108 Minutes Or Their Forbidden Love Will Die ("Brokeback parodies may be dead, but Jack and Sawyer from Lost are throwing a hell of a wake. Really, another classic").

Comments

[fleurrochard]

Online coloring book! I just want to know why the hell Edmund is in a spacesuit, and I think the White Witch wants to know, too.

Ah, I think I've seen that book in print and that picture was not only for colouring, it was a "Find the 10 mistakes in this picture" one.

[trileaderroses.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, that explains the palm tree. ;)

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

And the camel :D

[sualocin.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing the one with edmund in a space suit is one of those "Find what's wrong in this picture" things. Mainly because the white witch is holding a pencil.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I think this icon expresses my feelings on the movie title issue quite clearly.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

As does mine. :)

[firefly-ca.livejournal.com]

Ha! I love it!

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

So Keira got herself some Orlando Lite. Considering she's worked plenty with the taken Bloom, she probably saw Friend and thought "oh, fine, you'll do...in poor light...if I squint".

[rhapsodeeinblue.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I thought.

[cantinera.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Wickham=Legolas.

[amaelamin.livejournal.com]

Totally. My dad was watching the movie for the first time today, and he looked at me - "Is that Orlando Bloom?"

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

I just want to know why the hell Edmund is in a spacesuit.
Also, why the wardrobe is sitting in the middle of the wood.

They Must Press The Button Every 108 Minutes Or Their Forbidden Love Will Die *snicker*

In September, they're releasing another Lemony Snicket companion book, called The Beatrice Letters. (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?pdf=y&isbn=0060586583&kids=y&z=y&cds2Pid=1669&linkid=631211) This is just going to drive us mental without actually explaining anything, isn't it? Although, the profile of Beatrice on the front cover looks a lot like Violet to me...

[somewhatmoot.livejournal.com]

What is Cthulhu doing out of Ryleh? I'm rather alarmed.

[rhapsodeeinblue.livejournal.com]

What's the live action Simpsons thing for/from? Or did someone just shoot that one sequence for kicks?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Just for kicks, I think.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

It's for a Sky promo in the UK, and was made by the Simpsons producers, I believe.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Heeee, My Little Pony coloring book =)

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

I think this one is called Bukkake (http://www.coloring-book.info/coloring/coloring.php?dossier=My%20Little%20Pony&file=my_little_pony21.jpg)...

[rhapsodeeinblue.livejournal.com]

LOL @ Brokeback Island. That took some major audio splicing and editing.

...Or DID it? Er.

[livinthegoodlfe.livejournal.com]

Linkspam = =D

[shannonsequitur.livejournal.com]

You've probably already seen this (http://www.narniaweb.com/news.asp?id=833), but it looks like Prince Caspian will be released around the same time as the first His Dark Materials film. My wank senses are already tingling.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, and Pullman HATES Lewis, too. DUDE.

[shannonsequitur.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. I'd never heard of HDM until about a year ago and have never read the trilogy, so I mainly know about Philip Pullman because of his total hate-on for C.S. Lewis. To the wankshelter!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

On the upside, Caspian will come out on my birthday. Whee!

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Is the film still going ahead with the anti-religious themes toned-down? If so, any wank on Pullman's part is going to be extra-amusing. (I'm a huge fan of the HDM series, so when I heard that bit of news I was pretty pissed, especially about the fact that Pullman was totally cool with it. Of course, I heard it a while ago, so hopefully things have changed since then, and I'm wrong.)

I mean, kicking up a fuss over a film with religious undertones after you were all to happy to sign away the anti-religious ones in your film? C'mon.

[valkyrie79.livejournal.com]

Granted, I haven't seen the movie and other people seem to like it . . . but Crash looks like the worst piece of drek I've ever seen. Hey guys, racism . . .it's bad. Did you know?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee. I haven't seen it, but that's kind of the impression I got of it, too. (Em said she liked it, though.) Actually, it seems just hokey enough to win, if that makes any sense.

[valkyrie79.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Must not be all bad then. However, Geoffrey liked it too, which is a big red flag on occasion.

[mechamummy.livejournal.com]

The actual moral point Crash aims for is really obvious, painfully so. However, some of the actual scenes and performances inside it (not Sandra Bullock's, though. I try to forget that THAT subplot ever happened) were really, really good and I can honestly say that I enjoyed it more than Brokeback Mountain (which was a good movie but the first act nearly put me to sleep).

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

I think I need to see it just because now every time someone says something about the movie Crash I think of the screwed-up Canadian fetish film version instead of the supposedly well-made recent movie. *shudder*

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

That grape juice study was funded in part by Welch. *raises eyebrow*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, I was going to snark on that and forgot. I liked how every single mention of "grapes" had "Concord" in front of it, too.

[where-ru-now.livejournal.com]

Oh! My! God! Snakes? On a Plane? I feel like I would love that movie. and I don't know why.

And also, HOLY CRAP, that live-action Simpsons thing is amazing...this coming from a rabid Simpsons fan...Did you know that a few years ago there was actually a sweepstakes, and the winner won a real-live version of the Simpson home? Exact to the last picture on the wall, and everything was big and round, like a cartoon turned 3-D. It was really freakin' cool, but I think the woman who won it said she was just going to sell it. Which is CRAZY because I would pay money to tour that house. Am I the only one?

Ah, linkspam. How we love it so.

[firefly-ca.livejournal.com]

Snakes on a Plane is the only reason I plan on seeing the movie, so they can just leave it the way it is dammit. Hell, I've seriously considered buying it just because it's called Snake on a Plane, and to be honest, I still don't really know what it's about.

Stupid executives.

And Brokeback Island? Well, initially, I thought my favourite bit was when Sawyer's making out with Kate and says Jack's name, but that was before I heard, "I love you Sawyer...and I always will." That was beautiful.

And finally, a link that you may find interesting, since I know a lot of your linkspam has to do with books. I work in the kid's dept. of a bookstore and get a lot of people asking me things like, "I had this book when I was five, and I don't remember what it was about, or who wrote it, but it had a bright blue cover with a boy in a boat on it. Do you have that one?" Loganberry Books is a used bookstore in Ohio, and the lady who owns it has set up an amazing feature on her site, that can actually find that book. It's called Stump the Bookseller (http://www.loganberrybooks.com/stump.html) and people send her vague, sketchy information about books they remember from their childhood, which she in turn posts on her site. People reading the site offer suggestions about what they think the book is. Lots of booksellers/librarians/teachers follow the site and the success rate is very impressive.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ktk____________/]

Ha! The Simpson's thing was so cool! I don't know why it was made, but I'm glad it was... totally made my night :)

Also, I don't know if you've been here before, but I've found it useful (and a way to procrastinate while writing a paper... much more interesting than reading the dictionary or I dunno.. your bank statement I suppose) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
Look at the breach/breech error "'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,' means 'let’s fill up the gap in the line of battle,' not 'let’s reach into our pants again.'" teehee :) I fully accept that I am a nerd.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Wha?! I hope they realize that if the change the name form Snakes on a Plane to whatever they'll lose a great deal of their potential audience.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's the second "Brokeback Island" that I've seen. I prefer the first one (that I saw) more because there wasn't any talking.

[edda.livejournal.com]

I'm not nuts about McSweeney's (doesn't often mesh with my personal sense of humor, though I get most of what they're doing) but "Calls of Cthulhu" was funny. My only complaint is that if they're doing a parody of how the phone rules peoples' lives, they're doing it about 40 years too late.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

When I dig McSweeney's it's usually in spite of myself, because I have Dave Eggers issues. And yeah--"sitting by the landline" is kind of over, at this point.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

That's a broad definition of 'British' they've got there. Isn't Doris Lessing South African? And I'd always assumed Ishiguro was Japanese, though that doesn't preclude him being British by nationality, I suppose. (We'll claim anyone if they're a bit famous, we don't have a lot to be proud of these days.) Anyway, Kate Atkinson wasn't on the list, so I'm not playing. *sulks like a 3-year-old*

[daemonnoire.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman wasn't on the list, either, so I submitted his name. Not that it'll really matter in the long run, but I figured I'd make the effort.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

Though I am partial to the title "Brokeback Island" for some reason, sadly not the greatest parody I've seen. Still, an entertaining theory. I was kind of half expecting to see a Jack/Locke parody with a title about the 108 minute button. Oh well.

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

IT'S SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!

Sorry, couldn't resist!

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

hm...you know both of Keira's guys (the ex Jamie Dornan adn now this costar guy) resemble Orlando Bloom. Am I not the only one ot notice this?

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

Hee.
MySpace.com: The Movie
The opening sequence had me doubled over.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nFT-lyFN3BM