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[cleolinda]

So now I'm hearing that the Brook Highland theater is closed--this is now two arthouse theaters we've lost. And they weren't even exclusively arthouse--just the only places, just about, that you could see something like The Fountain at. Meanwhile, my stomach's upset from the antibiotics, the poms' stomachs have been upset from God knows what (probably something they ate in the yard), and it's all kinds of unpleasant. And yes, I'm still eating yogurt. It helps... somewhat. Meanwhile, I've also come down with a snerfy cold that I've been told is a virus, and therefore unaffected by nuclear-grade antibiotics. Woe.

Kerry to bow out of presidential race.

Tiny London apartment on sale for $335K.

Psychologist evaluates 'jungle woman.'

Rome's Palatine Hill shows new treasures.

Coin shortage could turn pennies to nickels.

Film's child assault scene causes stir. Remember this one? Oh, Dakota.

Komodo dragon proud mum (and dad) of five: "Flora, a Komodo dragon who has never mated or even mixed with a male, is the proud mother and father of five baby dragons, scientists said on Wednesday."

The Sun: Tom Cruise the Christ of Scientology. “Tom has been told he is Scientology’s Christ-like figure. Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right.” Source? Uh... someone. Meanwhile, from katesti: Katie Holmes has a new nose. I feel really sad now.

Against Depression: "Soon after that, I watched a BBC sports interviewer interrogate a Belfast footballer about his leave of absence for depression. 'Many people would look at you and say, fabulous success, plenty of money, crowd adulation—in essence, what have you got to cry about?' he asked. He actually said that. I try to imagine the same interviewer asking Lance Armstrong what on earth he had to have testicular cancer about."

The trailer for Black Sheep, which is starting to look exactly like the kind of movie Peter Jackson would have made twenty years ago (Weta and all!). And that's a good thing. "SHOOT IT AGAIN!"

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Cruise is Christ. Okay. I'm actually all right with that.

Nurse, I need a couple of two-by-fours and some nails and a hammer. Stat.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

Nurse, I need a couple of two-by-fours and some nails and a hammer. Stat.

L.M.F.A.O.

I'm with ya on that one.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

Tom has been told he is Scientology’s Christ-like figure. Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views

I am SO sick of hearing about him...can we worry about REAL problems please?? LMAO.

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

The trailer for Black Sheep, which is starting to look exactly like the kind of movie Peter Jackson would have made twenty years ago (Weta and all!). And that's a good thing. "SHOOT IT AGAIN!"

I was actually shocked to NOT see Peter Jackson in the credits for that one.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Its out soon here, dunno about in your nexk of the woods.

I was reading a bio of Jackson and he was fringe involved in it during the same time he made Bad Taste and Braindead, but it got shelved for various reasons.

I bet it makes the movie even more entertaining to go see it at one of our Kiwi theatres, making certain one drives past fields of sheep both before and after...

[kelcea.livejournal.com]

Unrelated: I got your book yesterday, Cleo, and I'm loving it!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, yay!

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

You can't "bow out" of a race you weren't in to begin with, can you?

[emisi.livejournal.com]

Re: apartment selling for $335k

Holy crap! I thought housing prices in DC were outrageous! I mean, it doesn't even have electricity or heat. That is INSANE. The world has gone INSANE.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I'm not really shocked. I have family that lives in Knightsbridge. It's an incredibly expensive place to live. I always feel so incredibly poor when I go visit them, even though I'm not. I feel like if I look at one of the houses wrong, it'll fall down or something due to my not being rich.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Also, that jungle woman story --

With no other evidence supporting their claim, however, others have speculated that the woman may have a history of mental troubles and simply became lost in the jungle much more recently.

Um, DNA testing? It should be pretty easy to establish if she's their daughter.

[jacques-louis.livejournal.com]

BLACK SHEEP LIVES

[kelcea.livejournal.com]

Genius icon.

[jacques-louis.livejournal.com]

grrliz_icons made it. She sort of owns my soul.

[the-lone-jen.livejournal.com]

My roommate came to see what I was cackling so hysterically about, and she didn't want to believe that Black Sheep was a real film. Her response:"That might actually be worse than Snakes on a Plane."

[gracefulfool.livejournal.com]

Black Sheep? I dunno, sort of has a Killer Shrews aura about it...

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Oh Katie. *sadface*

[deire.livejournal.com]

But, but, but...her original nose is better.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Re the Dakota Fanning story: I think it's absurd to say there is an entire TOPIC a film can't discuss, and it seemed the critics were complaining about the existance of the scene rather than its actual contents on the screen or the methods of producing it.

Re Katie Holmes: she looked SO much better before. I think she was aiming for a Kristin Davis nose, but it just doesn't work for her.

[purpleivey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, from what I've been reading, it seems like the people who are protesting the scene haven't seen the movie, and the people who have seen the movie after hearing all the hype said, "Oh... that's all?"

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Wow. Black Sheep actually looks more cracktastic than Snakes on a Plane. I didn't think that was possible. But I am oh so intrigued.

And you might want to linkspam this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_us/sex_offender_ruse

A sex offender went unnoticed attending middle school by pretending to be 12 years old.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

I work at a bank and a few months ago a customer started to get rolls and rolls of pennies and nickels. When I asked him why, he told me about the valuation thing. Huh.

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that article on depression...I've linked to that from my journal - so much of it rang true for me, and I so deeply agree with the writer: I wish more people could shuck that hollow shell.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Katie's new nose makes me feel like I can't breathe..

[supermom20.livejournal.com]

It looks to me like she got cheek implants too.

But, hey! Marry Tom, get a free nose job.

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

Black Sheep.

SO THERE. Hee hee hee...

[vaguelyweird.livejournal.com]

i am very unhappy about the nose.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Oh, Katie.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

Dakota Fanning is not 12, she's actually a 37 year old woman stuck in a 10 year olds body. She calls herself 12 to compromise.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

Hey, not to be obvious, but are you eating something other than the yougurt?

I don't know if its related but I get really nauseus (i know I spelled that wrong) if I don't eat anything when I'm on antibiotics. Could be related to to the killing good bacteria, but its just a thought. Try eating a real meal before taking your next dose.

I know awhile back you said you were quitting Mountain Dew (and major props to you for that, that stuff it my drug of choice and I'm pretty much like House and Vicodin with it.) I don't know if you quit caffeine all together, but if you havent, taking it easy on that may help too.

Hope I helped, from a chronically ill Lj-er.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, I'm definitely eating other food; the yogurt's more of an afterthought, but if I forget it, I regret it later. And yeah, I've been off Mountain Dew for three or four months now; when I go out to a movie (which is not all that often), I tend to get a frozen Coke, but that's about it.

[queenthesixth.livejournal.com]

Cleo, have you tried acidophillus? I swear by it, it's brilliant for taking if you're on antibiotics or if you have have an unsettled stomach. Most of the times you just take the capsule after. You can get it in health food shops, there's kirkman labs brand or that Dr Udo's brand as well.
(Sorry if this has been mentioned in comments elsewhere. I checked but didn't see it)

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

Is that really Katie? It looks like she's had her lips and eyes done too. In fact, it could be someone else, someone who just looks like Katie. I think the real Katie is locked up in a Scientology dungeon somewhere, getting her thetans reduced, because she said it might be nice to go clubbing or talk to her family without Tom listening in on the extension.

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this one - that doesn't look like her at ALL! The shape of the face is totally wrong, although the eyes and ears almost do fit. If that is Katie Holmes - and I have my doubts - then she has had a LOT more than her nose done!

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. It has to be a look alike. That person seems a lot older than Katie and more than just the nose is different - the lips, the eyes, even the hairline on her forehead. Please let that not be Katie Holmes. Kids age people, but Suri is still an infant!!

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

Here's another crazy lookalike... Chris Klein's new girlfriend! (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2007/01/fug_pie_an_imag.html)

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

She looks more like Katie than the other photos do - perhaps Chris has done a daring rescue and retrieved Katie from Tom's lair, so he's having to squire this poorly reconstituted fake!Katie around town instead. Good on you, chris! Finally, the Free Katie campaign is successful!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

OMGWTF Immaculate Komodo Conception? o_O This is making me paranoid, now.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

I try to imagine the same interviewer asking Lance Armstrong what on earth he had to have testicular cancer about.

EXACTLY. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'd rather be saddled with my anxiety disorders than with cancer any day. But it's high time people tried to wrap their heads around the idea that mental illness is NOT SOMETHING YOU DO ON PURPOSE.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

At least Jesus had a secondary skill to fall back on, he could build things while not fighting evil. What does Tom have? Nothing.

Wait a second...carpentry...fighting evil...Xander Harris is Jesus!

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

I almost didn't recognize Katie Holmes.
Is she prettier now? No.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Antibiotics can be airsickness in capsule form. It doesn't help that the damned things float when you try to wash them down. I find that sometimes 7Up (or Diet 7Up) helps. If you don't mind burps that taste like antibiotics.

Also, depression blows goats. (At least Zoloft is available as a generic now, so I can enjoy my illness and big savings!)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm taking generic Zoloft too. Have you been having any problems with it? I keep worrying that I'm going to react differently to it (Sertraline).

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I only took my first pills last night, so I haven't had time to argle bark bark bark GOD THE ITCHING vododeo. Much bigger than actual Zoloft, though the same dosage. I asked Dr Coffman about it, and he said that the main thing to watch for wasn't the drug itself, but whether the individual maker added a coating or filler that I didn't get along with. Sort of like the way some people get bad heartburn from One-A-Day Vitamins' red coating. And of course the usual eye bleeding and distended egg sac.

[irishmastermind.livejournal.com]

So does that mean we can start taking Cruise's name in vain? Stuff like "Thomas H. Cruise!" and such?

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

That depression article was FANTASTIC. Yes, yes, and amen.