Through the looking glass

[cleolinda]

Lamictal, day 14: Which means that tomorrow is day 15, also known as the Big Jump to 50 Milligrams. And, very likely, a return to being unable to read.

God, the weather is beautiful today--a breezy, gorgeous sixty-six degrees. This is pretty much the warmest I like things to get, so now you know why I like fall and spring so much.

(Okay, the smoke alarm just went off because my sister turned the fireplace on. It's sixty-six degrees. IT'S NOT FIRE TIME YET.

I foresee particularly bitter battles in the Thermostat War this year.)


Remember the Paris in Wonderland story I mentioned a couple of days ago? I told it to Sister Girl over dinner tonight, and she just stared at me for, in all seriousness, about five seconds. I honestly could not figure out what her reaction was. Finally, she said, "I... I don't think I've ever felt this way before."

"What is it--like what?"

"It's like.." Long pause. "Sunshine. And... rainbows. I think... I think I have invented a new feeling."

"Nahhhh, it's called schadenfreude. You just never knew what it was called before."


Astronomers find distant, fluffy planet.

[Bad username or site: lyrical nights @ livejournal.com]: "Dog the Bounty Hunter has been arrested for capturing Andrew Luster (rapist Max Factor heir) in Mexico andbringing him back to the US in 2003. That's some kind of bitter irony right there." More:

TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman and two co-stars on his show were arrested Thursday in Hawaii on charges of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters' capture three years ago of a cosmetics company heir.

The charges stem from Chapman's capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster on June 18, 2003, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, said Marshals spokeswoman Nikki Credic in Washington.

Chapman's capture of Luster, who had fled the country while on trial on charges he raped three women, catapulted the 53-year-old bounty hunter to fame and led to the reality series on A&E.

Two possible explanations for this story: 1) This woman may have had something to do with the disappearance of her son, or 2) Nancy Grace drove a woman to suicide.

"Survivor" maven's big racial experiment a bust. "At the outset, most players made feeble comments about the ethnic divisions. Some registered pride; others didn't care. Not that any of this is truly indicative of how they felt. The show always has been so slickly produced and edited that, in the end, what comes out of the players' mouths is mostly what the producers want viewers to hear. If you think, for even a nanosecond, that someone might say, 'We're going to show those (insert your favorite racial epithet)!' and it would get on the air, I've got some fabulous UPN stock to offer you."

New Casino Royale poster.

You, too, can live in the Shire. But if there aren't any round doors, you guys are just half-assing it.

Costumer's Guide: Tons new Marie Antoinette prettiness, and some excellent hi-hi-res shots of the Pirates 2 wedding dress, where you can see tecno_fairy's handiwork.

Comments

[anonymisty.livejournal.com]

(Okay, the smoke alarm just went off because my sister turned the fireplace on. It's sixty-six degrees. IT'S NOT FIRE TIME YET.

We've averaged about 75 every day, and my son keeps insisting on wearing his jacket to school. *rolls eyes*

And I liked the idea of the Shire - until I saw the twelve pages of CCRs one has to abide by in order to live there. And I was all set to move in to the Swordsman's Cottage...

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

But the school is probably freezing. I remember wearing long sleeve shirts in the summer and tanktops in the winter so that the classrooms would be comfortable. My father never understood it.

Casino Royale poster

[oya-yansa.livejournal.com]

Maybe the pics from CR that I've seen aren't entirely indicative, but I'm starting to think that the attempt to make Bond grittier is limited to giving him really bad posture. I dunno, when I see a dude wearing a tuxedo, slouching like crazy, and looking vaguely irritable, I think "hungover groomsman", not Bond. But I wanted Colin Salmon, so there's a little bias present.

Re: Casino Royale poster

[christwise.livejournal.com]

Naw, Colin should be playing Kingsley Shaklebolt but apparently everyone in Hollywood hates him.

[christwise.livejournal.com]

Oh my god! I am moving to Oregon. Can I put a down payment on one of those houses? I've got like five bucks but that is the coolest place on earth (for a dork like me).

I don't have a LotR icon! This is unseemly.

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

Central Oregon is a beautiful place, but if you like to travel outside of the shire at all, I hope you love sagebrush, juniper, and pine trees. From experience of one who has lived there, it's quite easy to become allergic to the surrounding area. That's the high-desert for you.

cheers heres' to the lovely Central Oregon!

[marciamarcia.livejournal.com]

Where is all that news on the Bend Shire thing coming from? I've had like five people send it to me in the past day.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman's journal, apparently. I had at least two, maybe three people tell me they saw it there.

[pistolharris.livejournal.com]

In reference to the Casino Royale poster, I offer you this Zoolander quote:

'My god, Magnum!' 'It's beautiful!'

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

Hee! I felt the exact same way about Paris in Wonderland as Sistergirl did, and that is a genius way of explaining it.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I'm the opposite of sister girl- it can be 40 degrees outside and I'll want the Air conditioner on high.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Same here. Which has a lot to do with why we have Thermostat Wars.

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Nancy Grace drove a woman to suicide.

I feel sorry for the family.

But really, every time I hear that woman on the radio, my ears want to jump off a cliff.

[kittenkatt.livejournal.com]

Living in Orlando, the Duckett story has been everywhere down here.

To be fair, it wasn't just the one journalist. That poor young woman was fried by every local reporter and radio station host who could get ahold of her. She was offered to call in to a Wacky Morning Radio show to plead for her son's return... and it ended up with the DJ screaming at her to either take a polygraph test or produce the kid stat. Even her lawyer calling to say that she was the one who advised against the polygraph as it's inadmissible did nothing. Then the Monday after she shot herself the same station did nothing but go on and on about how it was implied guilt.

The media was entirely unfair to her all around.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, my instinct was to just say, "Nancy Grace drove this woman to suicide," but I wanted to put in the benefit of the doubt that maybe she was involved--almost more to be fair to Grace than anything, not that she deserves it. I had no idea everyone else was dogging her, though.

[elyim.livejournal.com]

That Shire looks hellish.

Re: Shire

[dives.livejournal.com]

I swear, my first thought was "But it's Bend." It's hella far away from everything...and then I realized if you're trying to live in the Shire, you're probably not a city-lover.

Re: Shire

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

Yes, Central Oregon may as well be Middle Earth Huh? Middle of nowhere anyway. Though, I didn't see too many junipers in LOTR.

cheers

[handlet.livejournal.com]

Hee, The Shire is in my hometown. And I really wasn't all that surprised about it, considering how development-crazy Bend has become. The next time I visit my parents I'm going to insist we drive over to it and gawk. :D

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

Woot a Central Oregonian! (I'm sorta from Prineville, *scuffles feet in mock embarrassment*)

I would actually live in the Shire if I could afford it, I love Central Oregon that much.

cheers

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

Huh. My grandmother and stepgrandpa run the Shilo Inn in Bend. I should go visit.

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

Question: Are English speakers aware that the word Schadenfreude comes from my pretty language? :P
And: Can I really use that with each English speaker and expect them to know what I mean?

It always strikes me as odd when words from German show up in other languages so untranslated, which makes it hard for me to use them somehow, that's why I am asking...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, schadenfreude's used pretty commonly as a borrowed word--kind of like deja vu from French. I think the first time I heard it was on Dennis Miller's HBO show in the mid-'90s.

[cosmorific.livejournal.com]

Betcha no one would have laid a finger on Dog if the kid had been some Joe Schmo with no inheritance.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Or if he hadn't pissed off the FBI by finding the guy when they couldn't lay their hands on him.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

The Shire homes look tiny, and I think it would feel like living in a theme park. And the idea of shire and cottage is destroyed with cars in driveways ...

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

That costume website is so...pretty. So many things I want to snatch off those pages and put in my closet...

*continues looking at dresses from Sleepy Hollow*

[yarha.livejournal.com]

"Survivor" can rot in heck, as 'twere.

Yarha, When Those Cotton Fields Get Rotten..

[yarha.livejournal.com]

PS: There's something about the word 'schadenfreude' that reminds me..of something. Or Something.

Yarha, Perhaps 'Shitzenfaced'?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I know little about the case or Ms. Grace, but she was on GoddamnGood Morning America while I was brushing my teeth, and her graceless, accusatory, shields-up demeanor certainly made me want to kill myself.

[edda.livejournal.com]

You and Sister Girl are cracking my shit up.

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

Is it me, or does Bond's head look rilly rilly pastede on in that poster?

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. I'm glad I'm not the only one who see the pastede on yay-ness of his head. I much prefer the previous poster.

[orangebaroness.livejournal.com]

I agree with your comment on "The Shire". It's a neat idea, I mean, I'd love to check it out, but no rounded doors? Come on guys. =/

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

For your next link spam, and your mom:

The Colbert Nation overwhelms the nation of Hungary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AVahESSC1s

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

OMG he actually won! That was hilarious. :D

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

You and I should exchange families. Maybe it's just the born-and-bred-in-Florida-ness in me, but as soon as the temperature dips below 70, I break out the long sleeves and jackets. I usually wear a blanket around the house, too. My family thinks I'm crazy - my parents are NEVER cold, ever, so we're constantly fighting the Thermostat Wars.

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

I found this amusing; thought you might like it, too: Preacher advises couples to have wild sex. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13834042/) My favorite bit is where he tells the men how to make their semen taste better.