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cleolindaHoroscope of Eerie Aptness: Whatever your luck has been lately, expect it to take a radical new course today. In other words, if you've been on a lucky streak, it's coming to an end today -- so don't take any major risks. However, if you've been stuck with the fuzzy end of the lollipop lately, get ready to enjoy some new sweetness in your life. This type of energy is cyclical, so keep in mind that whatever goes around must come around again -- eventually.
God, I hope this is true. It was a really rough weekend, let's put it that way. Sister Girl and her boyfriend may be breaking up, or not, and it was--rough. And I'm basically chalking 2006 up as an annus horribilis and leaving it at that.
Also, I've been having really long, involved, bizarre nightmares lately. The one I just woke up from involved learning the periodic table for a chemistry class, and I had to know what color each element was, and the whole class was in a tiny library trying to find a book that would tell us what all the colors were because Professor Snape (and this was not at Hogwarts, nor were any of us wizards, I might add) wouldn't tell us. And then the librarian called me into her office and congratulated me on being chosen editor of the school literary magazine, and there would be a meeting during lunch (the next period), and I was panicking because I couldn't go to a meeting instead of lunch because I had to study for my Norwegian language final, and then Snape came in and got mad at me for talking (TO THE LIBRARIAN!) and told me to stay after class, and I'm freaking out because I CAN'T STAY, I HAVE TO STUDY NORWEGIAN.
I did find out that Limbinium is a pale green, though.
Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91; clashes break out after Pinochet's death.
4 dead in Chicago skyscraper shooting; police: gunman angry over invention.
Infant kidnapped at knifepoint in Florida: "A missing month-old boy kidnapped at knifepoint was taken as payment because his parents failed to pay human smugglers, police said Saturday."
Police question Doherty on party death:
`Truthiness' is named Word of the Year.
Eastwood film tops L.A. critics list.
Mel resurrects: 'Apocalypto' earns $14M.
12-year-old Fanning: I want to direct.
Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay.
Nicolas Cage plans to cut back on acting; Cage helps develop Bahamas indie cinema.
Director Woo can't film on Yangtze.
Benjamin, Ferrell to star in 'Semi-Pro.'
Snopes: "Photographs purport to show the interior of a Boeing 737 airliner immediately after a mid-air collision, including one shot which shows a passenger being sucked from the plane." It's not so much that the story's fake, which it is-- it's the "photographs" the hoaxer chose to illustrate his mid-air catastrophe. Guess where they're from. No, guess.
Daily Puppy!
New movie stills: The Brave One (Terrence Howard and Jodie Foster, who must have an evil portrait in her attic); Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer; Hostel: Part II (sigh).
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ladyhawke_wings: "I just heard the most spectacular indie artist I have in a long time! This girl deserves all the pimping she can get - I put my money where my mouth is and started in my own journal. I'd love it if you'd take amoment to check out my plug for her - and if you agree, perhaps add a plug in your linkspam for her - she's terrific!" I haven't had time to listen to any of the clips yet--what do y'all think?
wmetoile: "Could you mention that my friends have an awesome blog about TV, TiFaux, which is up for Best Culture Blog in the 2006 Weblog Awards and it would be really excellent if everyone would go Vote for TiFaux. Voting ends Dec. 15. Thanks so much!"
God, I hope this is true. It was a really rough weekend, let's put it that way. Sister Girl and her boyfriend may be breaking up, or not, and it was--rough. And I'm basically chalking 2006 up as an annus horribilis and leaving it at that.
Also, I've been having really long, involved, bizarre nightmares lately. The one I just woke up from involved learning the periodic table for a chemistry class, and I had to know what color each element was, and the whole class was in a tiny library trying to find a book that would tell us what all the colors were because Professor Snape (and this was not at Hogwarts, nor were any of us wizards, I might add) wouldn't tell us. And then the librarian called me into her office and congratulated me on being chosen editor of the school literary magazine, and there would be a meeting during lunch (the next period), and I was panicking because I couldn't go to a meeting instead of lunch because I had to study for my Norwegian language final, and then Snape came in and got mad at me for talking (TO THE LIBRARIAN!) and told me to stay after class, and I'm freaking out because I CAN'T STAY, I HAVE TO STUDY NORWEGIAN.
I did find out that Limbinium is a pale green, though.
Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91; clashes break out after Pinochet's death.
4 dead in Chicago skyscraper shooting; police: gunman angry over invention.
Infant kidnapped at knifepoint in Florida: "A missing month-old boy kidnapped at knifepoint was taken as payment because his parents failed to pay human smugglers, police said Saturday."
Police question Doherty on party death:
Blanco's sister, Emma, said the family wanted to know why Doherty and others reportedly left the scene before police arrived.Venice's St Mark's Square under water with new 'acqua alta.'"We're finding it very difficult to do any grieving as we're so busy trying to find out the truth," she was quoted as saying by The Independent on Sunday newspaper.
"We want to know what happened that night. This is not about us assigning blame on a pseudo-celebrity. We just want the truth."
`Truthiness' is named Word of the Year.
Colbert, who once derided the folks at Springfield-based Merriam-Webster as the "word police" and a bunch of "wordinistas," was pleased.Tenor walks off stage at La Scala. "Tenor Roberto Alagna marched off the stage at La Scala when the audience booed him during the second performance of Franco Zeffirelli's Aida. He was replaced seconds later by his understudy, who rushed on wearing jeans.""Though I'm no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas, I am a fan of anyone who chooses to honor me," he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
"And what an honor," he said. "Truthiness now joins the lexicographical pantheon with words like 'squash,' 'merry,' 'crumpet,' 'the,' `xylophone,' 'circuitous,' 'others' and others."
Eastwood film tops L.A. critics list.
Mel resurrects: 'Apocalypto' earns $14M.
12-year-old Fanning: I want to direct.
Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay.
Nicolas Cage plans to cut back on acting; Cage helps develop Bahamas indie cinema.
Director Woo can't film on Yangtze.
Benjamin, Ferrell to star in 'Semi-Pro.'
Snopes: "Photographs purport to show the interior of a Boeing 737 airliner immediately after a mid-air collision, including one shot which shows a passenger being sucked from the plane." It's not so much that the story's fake, which it is-- it's the "photographs" the hoaxer chose to illustrate his mid-air catastrophe. Guess where they're from. No, guess.
Daily Puppy!
New movie stills: The Brave One (Terrence Howard and Jodie Foster, who must have an evil portrait in her attic); Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer; Hostel: Part II (sigh).
ladyhawke_wings: "I just heard the most spectacular indie artist I have in a long time! This girl deserves all the pimping she can get - I put my money where my mouth is and started in my own journal. I'd love it if you'd take amoment to check out my plug for her - and if you agree, perhaps add a plug in your linkspam for her - she's terrific!" I haven't had time to listen to any of the clips yet--what do y'all think?wmetoile: "Could you mention that my friends have an awesome blog about TV, TiFaux, which is up for Best Culture Blog in the 2006 Weblog Awards and it would be really excellent if everyone would go Vote for TiFaux. Voting ends Dec. 15. Thanks so much!" 
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Date: 2006-12-11 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-11 02:47 pm (UTC)Nicolas Cage plans to cut back on acting
"Cut back"? (Okay, that was mean. I'll go stand in the corner, now.
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Date: 2006-12-11 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-12-11 03:21 pm (UTC)Props to Stephen Colbert.
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Date: 2006-12-11 09:50 pm (UTC)Is it sad to anyone else that the whole "fact-based agenda" thing made me think (with great disgust) that Colbert was a Bushite, until I realized he's a comedian?
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Date: 2006-12-11 10:26 pm (UTC)(I think Colbert's crowning moment was taking his faux-Bushite schtick to the press correspondents' dinner and roasting Bush to his face.)
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Date: 2006-12-11 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 01:47 am (UTC)"Good evening, godless Solomites."
...
"Stephen, this is about the Barry Manilo thing, isn't it?"
"I could have lost to Wolverine, but not Barry Manilo!"
(Pardon my spelling and non-verbatim quoting.)
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Date: 2006-12-11 03:31 pm (UTC)Create your own U.S. map, World map, etc. (http://www.world66.com/myworld66)
(You click the states/countries you've visited, and it colors them on the map.)
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Date: 2006-12-11 05:31 pm (UTC)Where's Ben in the Fantastic Four movie still? :-(
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Date: 2006-12-11 06:44 pm (UTC)since it looked awful in the first movie, so they might not be ready to reveal it just yet.no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 02:03 pm (UTC)Good for a smile
Date: 2006-12-11 05:58 pm (UTC)The result? A somewhat iffy representation of this scene (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page428.html?theme=light) in gingerbread (http://danakate.smugmug.com/gallery/2227354/1/116050014). The really awesome part?
OMGWTF MARZIPAN POLAR BEAR (http://danakate.smugmug.com/gallery/2227354/1/116049482)
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Date: 2006-12-11 06:16 pm (UTC)WORD
Date: 2006-12-11 07:36 pm (UTC)evil paintingbeauty and class alone.no subject
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Date: 2006-12-11 06:57 pm (UTC)Man, that Snape is a hardass.
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Date: 2006-12-11 08:23 pm (UTC)I know several people who actually do have Norwegian finals coming up, and they sound oddly similar to the way you did in your dream (luckily, Professor Snape doesn't teach here).
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Date: 2006-12-11 09:02 pm (UTC)Amen to that, sister.
:P
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Date: 2006-12-11 09:30 pm (UTC)And thanks for posting the Skinny White Chick pimp - she's worth it!
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Date: 2006-12-11 11:15 pm (UTC)...I love you.
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Date: 2006-12-11 11:37 pm (UTC)Talking of bands, that reminded me, I thought you might like this (if you've not already come across them)... a gothic/theatrical/cabaret-esque band called Rosin Coven randomly added me on MySpace, usually a bad sign, but actually, turns out they have some really great tunes - I recommend Dybbuk's Dirge, it's flipping mental, I love it. http://www.myspace.com/rosincoven
"Though I'm no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas," Ahahahaha! Brilliant.
The La Scala thing gave me a good chuckle as well, thanks for that. :)
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 12:38 am (UTC)Is that really true? Because that's really cool.
I once had a dream about real things that I didn't actually know, too. I dreamt all about Vince Lombardi, apparently a famous football coach, who I had never heard of before in my life.
I also one time dreamt about my cat have 7 kittens that looke exactly like her, which ended up true, and I dreamt it the night before/of when she had them. My mom pointed out that I may have been having the dream -while the kittens were being born.-
Freaky, I know.
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 08:43 pm (UTC)Such is the sadness of the world...
cheers
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:50 am (UTC)Colbert is my hero.
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Date: 2006-12-12 01:21 am (UTC)Also,
I just heard about this, and it seems like a good thing to post here, so that more people can see. Apparently this man made a 10,000 mile bike trip around the US for children with learning disabilities and dyslexia. He also has something going called 8 Wishes where he is trying to accomplish 8 things, among them to get 100,000,000 views on this video, in thirty days, and all for that cause. It seems like something that should be given a shot. The video is posted below, and a link to his website is on there as well. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwOpX4G28yg
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Date: 2006-12-12 02:20 am (UTC)"Every year, Food Bloggers from all over the world get together for a fundraising campaign. We call it 'Menu for Hope'. Last year, we raised $17,000 to help UNICEF.
This year, Menu for Hope III raises funds to support the UN World Food Programme, which provides hunger relief for needy people worldwide. To us Food Bloggers, food is a joy. On our blogs, we celebrate food as a delight or even an indulgence. Unfortunately, for many others who share our world do not share that privilege. For them, food is a matter of survival. This "Menu for Hope" is our small way to help.
On our Menu this year is a great list of amazing food related prizes. We hope that they will entice you to give whatever you can, and with some luck you can win unique and wonderful food gifts offered up by food bloggers from around the world.
The rule is pretty easy. For every US$10 you donate, you may claim one raffle ticket toward a prize of your choice. The more you give, the better your chance to win. The campaign is scheduled to run from now until Friday 22nd, 6PM PST. So get a move on!"
I think this is an awesome event. Food bloggers are offering everything from a beautiful new Kitchenaid stand mixer to fresh-baked Chilean bread to a weekend getaway in Singapore, and so many more amazing prizes. I'm going to have trouble picking which ones to bid on...
For more information, go here: http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2006/12/menu_for_hope_i.html
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Date: 2006-12-12 04:27 am (UTC)That's easy. Silver-grey. You go down a list of elements, and 99% of 'em start the description with "a silver-grey element..."