Still on a mild hypomanic high

[cleolinda]

By request: a folder full of Prince icons because, as I always like to say, it didn't happen unless someone made an icon about it. Don't forget, downloads of the Prince mp3 rips are in the previous entry, and downloads of the video clips are here. ETA: txvoodoo has also provided a full-length video (avi) download here. Thanks!

(Speaking of Prince--yes, again--I love this: he brought his dancers to the press conference.)


Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt. "An astronaut drove from Houston to Florida, donned a disguise and confronted a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot she was in love with, police said." Oh, honey, nobody's worth that.

Firms to pay $2M in Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare.

Standoff ends at Ala. medical center.

MIT prof begins hunger strike over tenure.

Mo. suspect charged with molesting boys.

New mollusk species found in Philippines.

S.F. mayor seeks alcohol counseling.

Body parts found in Acapulco as killings continue.

Child soldiers still recruited 10 years after pact.

"Chewbacca" arrested for head-butting in Hollywood.

Apple and Beatles settle trademark squabble.

Philadelphia could get rubber sidewalks.

Actor claims self-defense after arrest.

Warm weather prompts Corpse Flower to bloom early.

World's oldest newspaper goes digital.

Ghost Rider stills.

Snow leopard cub!

particle_person: "I've been seeing this MapLoco thing all over the place on my flist. It plots the locations of visitors to your blog on a map. It occurred to me that it would be seriously cool to see what happens if you were to try it. *puppydog eyes*"

Predictions for the Potterdämmerung. Note: spoilers are false and for entertainment purposes only. Please do not start the Potterdämmerung early; I haven't finished stocking my bunker yet.

(Note on that last link: the wiki is still in progress, but... that's kind of what a wiki is. So there are lots of broken links and empty placeholder pages. Now I just have the "don't credit me, credit dragonscholar!" page I wanted. I did, however, go through and put in annotations for three or four "Movies in Fifteen Minutes" for fun, though.)

Comments

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Rubber...sidewalks.

I swear, I may just lock myself inside with a stockpile of liquor if that becomes an issue in the upcoming mayoral election.

[riadsala.livejournal.com]

Maybe the mayor will set them on fire?

[revenantrose.livejournal.com]

Huh. I wonder if they're putting rubber in whatever mix they're paving parking lots with around here lately? 'Cause the new stuff they're using has an ungodly stench that is very rotten rubber-like, and it lasts months after they've finished.

[daemonnoire.livejournal.com]

I'm going to preface with this comment with "If I recall correctly" because I'm too lazy this morning to go look up the actual details.

The answer to that is yes and no. Lots of places are starting to put ground up tires in parking lots. And the sidewalks use ground up tires as well, but they're processed differently. The benefit to using rubber sidewalks is that they don't break as easily, lay down quicker, and can be replaced with greater ease when they do finally wear out or need to be moved. It's like having a modular sidewalk.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Download also in an avi here:

RIGHT-CLICK, SAVE AS (http://www.wikiupload.com/file_store/upload_1/59351478045c7f7d4d7a34.avi)

[riadsala.livejournal.com]

Well, they need to repave the sidewalks with something, is all I'm saying.

[arden-ranger.livejournal.com]

OMG...Sam Elliot! Yay! I love that man.

Prince icon folder very populr. Took 3 tries to get the page to load. :)

[edda.livejournal.com]

BATGIRL! THE REAL BATGIRL!!

*orgasmic icon love*

[gwynevere1.livejournal.com]

I can already see that I'm going to be wasting several hours of my life clicking through your Wiki (and then making a Sue of my very own).

I also just thought of another term you may want to include is "Phake Phantom"--because that never gets old.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to urinate, authorities said...During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said.

New NASA motto: Faster, better, cheaper, and batshit crazy.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

.....as I always like to say, it didn't happen unless someone made an icon about it.

Getcher commemorative icon, right here!

It's hard to explain LJ culture to non-Journalers.

[maliekai.livejournal.com]

BABYSNOWLEOPARDAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

No, that's all.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Cleo, I think you missed what I was trying to say. I wanted you to try out MapLoco, not pimp the link! Hee.

[jazzchang.livejournal.com]

OMG I use that Calc book. I recognize the ski...thingies. *is such a nerd*

[edda.livejournal.com]

That astronaut...Oh, Jesus. You just know she's going to set women in the field back by like, twenty years. "Y'see, fellas...women are too emotional for space travel. Does funny things to their ovaries, and then they drive to Florida wearin' diapers and carryin' lead pipes. We oughta just let 'em cook and clean up after the men."

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't think it's that bad. There's a lot of political pressure to keep the space program equal-handed. They can't afford to regress when they're in the public eye the way they are.

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

Ghost Rider looks as if it could be silly fun or horribly bad, I am undecided.

Chewbacca-headbutts are killers.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Take heed. It looks as if it has the character called 'Caretaker' in it.

I hope this is true.

In the comics, Caretaker's idea of fun is taking uneeded detours past dead bodies in order to scared the newbies. How in the hell can you not just love a guy that that?

[thunderhowl.livejournal.com]

A coworker and I ordered copies of your book from Amazon.uk and they arrived yesterday. Frenzied reading commenced. No one was dissapointed. Well played madam....well played indeed.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww, yay!

[machi-neko.livejournal.com]

1) Took a Prince icon. :D

2) I'd be nervous about using that MapLoco. :/

3) Snow Leopard awww!!!

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Is it cool to modify the icons? Like add text and stuff? One of those really gave me a funny idea that needs iconning, like soon.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, go for it! Usually I just make glorified bases anyway.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt.

For a moment there, I thought you were going to tell us she'd kidnapped someone with the space shuttle. ("Snakes on a Plane II: Snakes in Space!")

OMG YAY!

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

My coworker and I were trying to mine the underlying jokes out of that story, but you my friend have succeeded marvelously!

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Regarding the SF mayor:

"my problems with alcohol are not an excuse for my personal lapses in judgment,"

Well at least he's not using the ol' "the liquor made me do it" excuse that everyone seems so fond of these days.

w00t

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

OMG! I absoultely agree with you. Addiction is a serious problem for millions of people, so I definitely appreciate people getting treatment for their addictions and problems. That being said, I think lots of people in Hollywood are trying to pull a "It's not what you do, it's what you're seen doing". Picking your AA or Rehab locations based on their proximity to your favorite nightclub is not going to work. Also- AA and Rehab are unlikely to cure you of being a fame whore or a biggot, so that's out too. "I'm getting treatment" should not be a catch-all/mend-all for the general lack of character that celebrities, politicians, church leaders, and role models have been so proud to flaunt in recent years. It really burns my bisquits, if you know what I mean. And now I sound like some CRAAAAAAAAZY moralist.

[heartstillatwar.livejournal.com]

I don't really comment that often (or ever, actually) but making your own wiki is one of the best ideas I've ever heard. I wish there were more things to explain about my life so I could make my own as well.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there is a Wiki for personal histories out there. Somewhere. Hell, it's possible, so I'm pretty sure it has to exist.

Prince loves you

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

The icons are awesome!

Re: Prince loves you

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks. Then again, I think Prince loves everyone. (Cough.)

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

"An astronaut drove from Houston to Florida, donned a disguise and confronted a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot she was in love with, police said."

...Okay, first read-through? Completely missed the word "pilot", thus making this story that much more interesting.

[xander77.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:

The Prince icons are faboo!

That snowleopard is so ky00te and FUZZY!!

Still looking forward to "Ghost Rider". It should be FUN!


The astronaut story made me think of this exchange from "Dr. Strangelove":

President Merkin Muffley: "General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring!"
General "Buck" Turgidson: "Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir."

I think NASA should take a new look at its astronaut program. :)


So my brother needs me to order a book from Amazon.fr, a French book he needs for research
for the novels he is writing. (Yes, novels, with an "s"!)
And you know, by golly, it seems Amazon.fr just happens to sell books in English too.
So it looks like, possibly, I might be ordering YOUR book at the same time.
HEE!!

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

My favorite part is that Chewbacca actually said "no one tells this Wookie what to do".

Also, we all knew Elmo must have been busted for SOMETHING along the way.

For your next linkspam, if you so wish

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Ted Haggard declared "completely heterosexual" after counseling:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070206/ap_on_re_us/haggard_sex_allegations

Re: For your next linkspam, if you so wish

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, I already grabbed that link. Seriously, the most ridiculous thing I've heard--well, in a long time.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Did someone fucking up the Half-Time show?

Purple one under attack!

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

http://entertainment.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=250451&affid=100055&


I am literally ANGRY WITH RAGE!

Re: Purple one under attack!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, I saw that. I like how the Rolling Stone guy was basically like, "Well, duh."