NaNoWriMore

[cleolinda]

Cranked out 3000-something words today, and I was impressed that I cranked out anything two days in a row without the aid of a hypomanic episode, quite frankly. I picked yet another death scene--more of a finding-the-body scene--to write today, and ended up just metaphorically throwing up my hands and typing in brackets, "This makes no sense. Logic it out later. Make it work." I'm having a hard time settling on what music to listen to, though.

Having Tim Gunn check in on me periodically would be completely awesome, by the way.

Also, I seem to have had a sudden influx of new readers--where are y'all coming from?

Administration: Detainees have no rights. They're just not even trying to hide the fascism anymore, are they?

CNN: "Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has taken the first step in a 2008 presidential bid, filing papers to create an exploratory committee, Republican sources tell CNN."

From kestrel127: "Borat beaten up, rescued by House." This is still not as good as the original headline, which was "Borat spanked by angry Yank."

"Well, there go the last lingering threads of my heterosexuality": Scarlett Johansson dominating Dita von Teese.

Billy Idol has a Christmas album.

From Wilhelmina on Snarkfest: Kiwi, an animator's master thesis project. Pixar needs to snap this one up sofast. Warning: Sad.

Also, responses to the Flying Spaghetti Monster link I posted in the previous entry made me realize that not everyone knows the glories of Pastafarianism. Behold, and be touched by His Noodly Appendage.

Comments

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i'm always wishing Tim Gunn would pop into my daily life and just tell me how he thinks i'm doing. or knock on my door in the morning to tell me to make it work.

and WOW, does the Bush Administration just not learn? it's been shit like that that got the Democrates back in power.

[brittastic14.livejournal.com]

LOL

[akathorne.livejournal.com]

Scarlett Johansson dominating Dita von Teese.

Guh. That just broke my brain in the best way possible.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I wanted to post it on the board somewhere, but 1) I couldn't think which thread and 2) I realized I would regret it once the responses started rolling in.

Awwwww, Kiwi!

[twilight-echo.livejournal.com]

That Kiwi thing made me cry. He's so cute, and all he wanted to do was fly.

[jeeperstseepers.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Kiwi video is just heartbreaking. It actually made me tear up.

[xlearntoflyx.livejournal.com]

3000 words today? You're making progress. I must say, I was a bit concerned, but I believe you really are making it work. Carry on.

There you go, a little Tim Gunn to spur you on.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, at first I was like, "You were concerned? Huh..." Hee.

[christwise.livejournal.com]

My mood, she is ruined. Kiwi may possibly be the cutest most saddest thing I have ever seen. Ever! Or at least since the Bunny short on Ice Age.

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

*waves* atpolittlebit pointed me towards your Lost recaps. I liked them, and thought I'd stick around for a while.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Just as I fell behind on the last three, of course. Bless.

[somewhatmoot.livejournal.com]

Pastafarian is good fun, but I prefer the Church of the SubGenius


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Genius

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, Kiwi made me blubber like a little baby.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

... dominating Dita von Teese.

I only heard of DvT a few minutes ago, while reading the current Travel + Leisure issue,'when polled about what she airline onboard comfort. She says never a corset, never! but garter belts and spike heels, yes. I'm trying to imagine the welts on my legs if I wore a garter belt for a ten hour transatlantic flight.

In other comments: "Makie it work, Cleo!" /Tim-light

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think who gave her a fashion spread recently--it was either Vogue or Vanity Fair, and I'm almost leaning more towards VF for some reason, even though that's the less photo-laden of the two. She does a really good job of incarnating that paradoxically chaste burlesque queen--the one who's all taste and glamour instead of vulgarity. Also, I think she recently married Marilyn Manson.

[brittastic14.livejournal.com]

I think that everyone should have Tim Gunn check in on their lives, I know I could use his awesomeness one in a while.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Also, I seem to have had a sudden influx of new readers--where are y'all coming from?

I was linked to your writer's block post by wolflady26, and decided to stick around a while.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, cool.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

The Kiwi broke my heart. That was so sad.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

It's funny you should mention death scenes, because I just got home from watching Stranger Than Fiction, where Emma Thompson's character had some very...entertaining ways of researching ways to kill off characters.

[potatofishy.livejournal.com]

Icon love.
<3.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

I'm having a hard time settling on what music to listen to, though.

Not sure what you're looking for, but I've been listening to this alot as I've been writing mine.

"Lullaby for Cain" by Sinead O'Conner (http://download.yousendit.com/D41579CE37C0A6AE/)

Creepy piano driven song. Good luck with your novel!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[notemily.livejournal.com]

I saw the Kiwi thing yesterday and it made me sad for pretty much the entire day. it took many hours of puppy time to make me feel better again.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Administration: Detainees have no rights. They're just not even trying to hide the fascism anymore, are they?

Another article on the story, blunter headline:

US: Immigrants may be held indefinitely (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainees_lawsuits_4)

Well, speaking as a permanent resident: fuck you too US. I knew about the law already, but seeing it written out like it was in the articles just...I can barely even see straight right now.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

kiwi!

Ahwwwah. it was adorable. and depressing.

[girlalmighty]

Nice work with the NaNo! Have you seen timgunn? He doesn't make personal entries, but if you friend him he leaves comments in your journal, apparently. He makes posts at my_slate from time to time (it's the character development community for a roleplay called The Blank Slate) and tells us which of our characters need to make it work.

And damn. Our country isn't just going to hell in a handbasket, it's going to special hell in a handbasket.

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

The best part of the Borat article (other than the Yank-spankin' title) was the very last line: 'A one-armed resident said: "It’s disgusting"'

But the fully-armed residents were pleased?

Good luck with NaNo. Don't know if it'll help, but my favourite painting music is either Metric or Van Morrison - I should poll people about this on my journal actually, I could use some inspiration!

[colean.livejournal.com]

Wasn't sure if you'd seen this or not. I cant remember if I read a link here or not, but just in case: Office Space trailer recut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGNs7QMeV7E)
Pretty amusing :P

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

Okay, I heard that Sacha Baron Cohen tried to Borat some random passerby and got slugged, but I missed the part where he was rescued by Hugh Laurie. That's... kind of awesome.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I had no idea they were friends--this explains why he turned up on Laurie's episode of SNL the other week.

[obigrrl.livejournal.com]

just wondered if you were aware of this (http://community.livejournal.com/paidmembers/18838.html)?

apparently, for everyone who had a paid account last week during the outage, LJ is extending everyone's paid accounts by one week

there's a link in the entry to claim the extension

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm going to post the claim link to make sure everyone knows.

(Hee, your icon.)

Random thoughts

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Well Cleo- on all your new witnesses to creativity and suffering; you're obviously doing something right because as you scroll through your fandoms comments, the quality, humor, intelligence, etc of the avatars is just AMAZING! Talk about good taste- too many good ones to count!
I mean- your jounal and websites serve as a fantastic place for people with the same interests to gather and giggle over our own versions of internet-inside jokes. I'm so glad that I'm surrounded by such good company in my loving of Project Runway (yay Tim), Amazing Race (Yay Phil's pants), Lost, Borat, platonic or otherwise attraction to awesome people, Movies, Snark, Dr. Who, Harry Potter, Star Wars (shhh), Britishness, Cowboys, Pirates, Space, Battlestar Galactic, TWOP... etc.

Teh Internets just make me feel like the Geek really did inherit the Earth.

Re: Random thoughts

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. The best part is, y'all are so well-behaved 99.9% of the time. I think I only had two problem commenters, and that was before I turned off anon commenting. I never have to regulate on anyone; it's always peaceful and intelligent. Which is why I'm not sure why people have told me that they fear The Wrath of Cleo, because I'm not sure I've ever had to break it out.

[celtic-songster.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, I love Rudy Giuliani! That would be a tough vote if he was in the running.

The only thing I have to say to the Scarlett/Dita thing is a head cock. Scarlett looks good. I like the one of her alone in the pants.
Dita just looks...off to me. As in awkward in the photo, not anything else.