Love, sister, it's just a kiss away

[cleolinda]

Sort of languid-sleepy. Feels a little like being stoned. Having a hard time concentrating--can't read for very long.

Banana pudding for my stepbrother's birthday. Race to shower for hair-washing rights; lost; still waiting. Had "Gimme Shelter" playing all day, for some reason. Two missed calls from "Number Withheld"; phone won't let me call back, because... number withheld. Need to call doctor about going on Lamictal. Not thrilled about it, but... not feeling good. Applying again for job; don't need to keep feeling like this. Not so much bad as... ready to hibernate.

Herewith, links compiled last night/this morning, when feeling more grammatical.


O SNAP: Turns out Sumner Redstone's wife is the one who got him to dump Tom Cruise from Paramount. Why? Of all the shenanigans he's pulled, the Brooke Shield comments pissed her off like whoa, and she used those to convince her husband that Cruise had bombed his own popularity with women. I can't put my finger on why I think that's the most poetic thing ever, but I do.

Demotivators: the original motivational mockery site. Be sure to read the comments at the bottom. Hee! And a few more.

Heeeeee--a Veronica Mars Threatdown, Colbert-style.

Local news: Scrushy ordered to repay $47M in bonuses, will start panhandling at all buildings in town bearing his name.

The only thing more disgusting than the Forbes article? The responses to the Forbes article. So toxic that the closest I got was the comments about the comments, which indicate that not reading the originals is probably for the best.

Kidnapped Austrian teenager begins to tell harrowing story. Freed Austrian kidnap girl refuses to see parents. Sounds bad, but it's more that she's saying she needs time to adjust to freedom.

Fire destroys St Petersburg cathedral domes. 

New Pirates 3 pic of... someone. Look, I don't know. (Keira? Really? Why does her face look weird?)

Knightley and Grant targeted in phone scandal. Apparently this is where some gossip tips have been coming from.

Stick of dynamite found in student's luggage; student claims he works in mining and that he therefore "knows how to handle" explosives. Damn, son, don't you at least watch Lost?

What terrorists want, and how we're giving it to them. Just something I found interesting, particularly the part about the liquids: "We're all a little jumpy after the recent arrest of 23 terror suspects in Great Britain. The men were reportedly plotting a liquid-explosive attack on airplanes, and both the press and politicians have been trumpeting the story ever since. In truth, it's doubtful that their plan would have succeeded; chemists have been debunking the idea since it became public."

China cracks down on striptease funerals. Wait, what?

Am I crazy for wanting to put fonts on my Christmas list? (Petronella! Old Glory!)

Halloween lipgloss. I kind of want the Sleepy Hollow, Full Moon, and whichever one is the gingerbread one. I bought some of their catalogue glosses--what, last year?--and the scents are amazing. The ones I ordered seemed to have no flavor at all--not sure what's up with that--but user comments on the site seem to indicate that they are supposed to be flavored. So I don't know.

Sweet Lord. Apparently it's really not a tumahhhhh.

Comments

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

"she used those to convince her husband that Cruise had bombed his own popularity with women."

*is now giggling like crazy* That's just beautiful.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

That tumor thing reminds me of Stephen King's The Dark Half...Eck.

[morgan-c-hoax.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only person who thought of that.

Ohhh it's a lurker!

[crimsnfirestorm.livejournal.com]

I hate that sleepy feeling that sticks with you all day. Hope you feel better and more grammatical again soon.

"Strip shows have been commonly used to attract more mourners to funerals" is my interesting internet quote of the day, just to let you know.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for your posts, just goes to show, truth is much stranger than fiction.

[girlalmighty]

Hee! Thanks for linking the threatdown. ♥ Too bad it looks like the anonymice don't quite understand it was meant to be satire.

[moosl.livejournal.com]

Am I crazy for wanting to put fonts on my Christmas list?

Did you know about this collection (http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html)?

[xanath.livejournal.com]

I can't put my finger on why I think that's the most poetic thing ever, but I do.

I'd like to know where Sumner Redstone's wife got her information, or if it was just her assumption that since her panties were in a knot, all women's must be.

I thought Cruise was full of shit for what he said about psychiatry and PPD, but frankly, that's between him and Brooke Shields. The last time I checked, he wasn't on the FDA and had no influence with the psychiatric community. I may think he's cracked and a bit of an asshole, but I still enjoy his movies. (Mel Gibson is also cracked and a bit of an asshole, but I haven't enjoyed any of the films he's made since Ransom, so I don't watch them.)

--Kris

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

Heh, all hail the truthiness.

Which reminds me... I recently got obsessed with into VM, and I was wondering: did you ever made any Heroine Addict icons with Veronica/Kristen?

[sexion8.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't admit this, but...I want to see photos of the mutilated twin.

*steps into hell elevator and punches Level Wrong*

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

There's a video out there. Check tws_support.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I hope you get your med troubles sorted soon. It must be ghastly to go through the day feeling like a slug on Valium. (See, this is why I find Teresa Nielsen Hayden's situation so horrifying, because the drug to fix it exists, but it's been criminalized for boneheaded political reasons.)

That fetus-tumor thing is horrid beyond description. It's like something from an Alien movie.

[skullbutt.livejournal.com]

Bat Burp and Ghost Poop must be the bestest names for lip balm ever.

[reannaremick.livejournal.com]

"Sweet Lord. Apparently it's really not a tumahhhhh."

Huh. I remmeber that episode of Grey's Anatomy. Still, odd to see it in real life. Yeep.

Though what's always been creepier to me is a woman who was in our paper some time back because she was pregnant, carried the baby full term, and didn't realize it til she went into labor. She just thought she was fat. O.o

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

I saw one where the woman didn't even get fat, but carried the baby to full term, and gave birth not too long after a basketball game or whatever. She was so fit, and her body barely registered the baby. And it was a hell of a surprise for her.

cheers

[missmp.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine is an assistant producer on the show that's showing that "tumor" story. I'm going to have to ask her how the heck they find these people.

[skeletonhorse.livejournal.com]

LOLZZ @ your icon!

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Those Forbes comments are really.. disgusting. One guy keeps commenting in like.. every thread. I read a few till I got sick of it. I mean really, you can have a battle of wits only for so long before you want to stop and punch a guy in the face.

[skeletonhorse.livejournal.com]

You have more willpower than I, then. I read all the comments. All of them. -_-;;;;;;; *shudders* Hold me, mommy!

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

Tom Cruise wins an "Ernie Award" for sexism. (http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004652278)

[artemis-archer.livejournal.com]

"I've got Katie tucked away so no one will get to us until my child is born."

Did he think people would try to steal their, or excuse me, *his* baby from her stomach or something? I'm starting to think that the movie based on Katie's pregnancy is just going to look like a remake of Rosemary's Baby.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Can't be Keira. Absolutely not.

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

As V wisely said, I don't believe in coincidence...but it's still awfully strange for me to have been playing the song Gimme Shelter in my head, then check my friends page, and find that lyric as your subject line...a very wtf moment.

Since that is my current song of inspiration in writing my screenplay, I'm going to look at this as a good sign.

I also heard it on the trailer for Children of Men...and could just barely tell that was what song it was, while missing half the story to figure it out...

So, while such occurences are strangest to the person to whom they are happening, I hope you can appreciate the oddness of finding said lyrics at said moment in my life.

cheers here's to coincidence, or not?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See? *Signs.*

[blairwitchgreen.livejournal.com]

LOL, I was such a font-slut when I was pursuing my advertising degree in college :)

[smadronia.livejournal.com]

>>someone. Look, I don't know. (Keira? Really? Why does her face look weird?)

Stunt Double perhaps?

[fluffers.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was going to say. Because this girl does resemble Keira...in fact, kudos to whoever picked her, she looks more like the main actress than a lot of doubles.

[trede.livejournal.com]

Random:

Cleo, wondered if you want to watch my short animation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MQT_a6bAHk) I did for class? And if you like it, I dunno, tell others about it?

^ ^

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

That was adorable!

Cheers!

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I would have wagered twenty bucks on that funeral-stripping-extravaganza headline being linked to The Onion.

[pseudoblu.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think it's Keira.

[edda.livejournal.com]

I want to roll around in those fonts until I pass out.

And then laugh about Tom Cruise until my eyes bleed.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh man, what have you done? You sent me to the Forbes reply site about three and 1/2 hours ago, and I had some much fun smacking down the men there, that I forgot all about going to bed and such things. Fish in a barrel, I tell you. the best one was the guy going on and on about male intellectual superiority, all the while completely unable to spell or put together a coherent sentence at all. Good fun!

This is the sweetest thing ever

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

From the Austrian girl:
"Her father told Kurier newspaper that she had asked him: 'Daddy do you still have my toy car?' Koch said in the newspaper interview that he had this toy as well as 'all her dolls.'"

Maybe I'm just premenstrual, but that nearly made me cry!