Monday afternoon, a little bleary

[cleolinda]

Whee! I get an hour and a half off from dogsitting! And how am I spending it? With a frozen yogurt sundae and pirate porn. Yeah, this is not how I expected my afternoon to go.

It's slightly disorganized, but I think this takes care of my backlog, after some careful pruning of redundant redundancy.

Comedian Richard Jeni dies in apparent suicide. CNN remembers a few of his best lines ("I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, OK, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future").

Kidnapped newborn found in good condition.

Dems cancel debate over Fox chief's joke.

FEMA kicks Katrina refugees out of trailer park without warning.

New climate report: More bad news. "The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium."

Probe begun after 3 fires, 4 deaths in Chicago.

Mayans to 'cleanse' site visited by Bush.

'Law & Order' star considers real Oval Office role.

Has Ann Coulter hit her tipping point? "She sometimes goes out of her way to push some buttons and tends to generate more heat than light," [Jim Bell, Today show executive producer] said. "We love a lively debate, but we would tend to get people who would generate more light."

France's Chirac poised to end political career.

German man chainsaws house in two in divorce split--and "mak[es] off with his half in a forklift truck."

Accused child molester flees to go on 'Springer.'

Snoop Dogg jailed overnight in Sweden. That... that is not how I expected that sentence to end.

Americans lovingly stuffing pets with pills.

Out: The goldendoodle. In: The toyger.

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella.

The Angelina Jolie Hands-Free Multiple Child Carrier.

Three lost actors rescued. Lost actors, not Lost actors--"The Aspen Ski Patrol had to lead actors Rob Morrow, Chad Lowe and Fisher Stevens to safety after they and other skiers got lost."

'300' Takes In Nearly $30 Million On Friday Alone; 300... and 70 Million Dollars, breaking March box office records.

Scuffle mars Hurley's Indian wedding. Elizabeth Hurley, y'all.

Band to perform Beatles album that never was.

Gyllenhaal in Final Talks To Replace Holmes in Batman sequel.

TV anchor: "I was sexually abused by Catholic priest."

Holloway Criticizes Hawaii Police for Targeting 'Lost' Stars.

King's Dark Tower becoming comic book.

MPAA Wants New Rating For 'Hard R.' Didn't we already go through this once with the whole NC-17 thing?

Speaking of which, Transformers Fought MPAA. I'm kind of imagining Transformers porn now, and I'm not liking it.

New Images of Fred and George Flight to Freedom, Ginny and More.

Speed Racer Moves Up its Release Date to May 9, 2008.

Goran Visnjic rumoured to be next Bond villain.

trailer_spot: Waitress, Paprika, Ten 'til Noon, 300.

James Cromwell: "I Say a Lot of Things I Shouldn't." ("James Cromwell, who plays Jane Austen's father in 'Becoming Jane', didn't get on with its director; nor was he impressed with the writer of his previous film, 'The Queen'. He also finds working with 'dames' awkward, and had 'real problems' with appearing in '24'.")

A couple of new POTC3 posters in the mix at IGN. Hi-res versions here. Meanwhile, Disney Angered Over Comic Pirates Porn. "Filmmakers Disney are reportedly considering legal action against Sinful Comics after they produced a raunchy strip featuring Pirates Of The Caribbean actors. British newspaper The Sun reports Sinful have created a comic strip, which sees movie beauty Keira Knightley being seduced by co-stars Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom at the same time." I regret to say that my first reaction to this item was, "And we can see this where?" (ETA: Oh dear. Seriously, you guys? They're not kidding. Not safe for work or perhaps even life.)

Comments

[malhablada.livejournal.com]

I don't care how many pictures I see, I don't get how that toyger is any different than all other tabby cats in the Humane Societies around the world. It's not even that much stripier than my Scottish fold mongrel cat. I call shenanigans.

[mamomo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get it either. :/

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

Okay, when I read "Gyllenhaal in Final Talks To Replace Holmes in Batman sequel", I was thinking Jake Gyllenhaal (I saw Zodiac last week) and I couldn't... quite... figure it out. Now there's a Batman movie I'd actually want to see.

[erinya.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm not the only one!

[erinya.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction to the pirate porn (having read a number of fics based on the same premise) so thanks for providing the link so I don't have to go hunting in porn shops for the hard copy.

Haven't looked at it yet, though, as I am at work. Am equal parts intrigued and frightened.

Gyllenhaal in Final Talks To Replace Holmes in Batman sequel

I read that as Jake G., not Maggie, and my mind went all kinds of interesting slashy places...

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

Ugh, you know, all the pirate porn at our family video was stolen, because some asshat accidentally(?) stocked it in the general part of the store under PotC1&2 instead of behind the dirty Wild-West-swinging-doors into Pornland.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Both the correct link and the "Holloway Criticizes Hawaii Police for Targeting 'Lost' Stars." go to the anchor abused by priest story.

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

Re the HP pictures: Yay! They cut the Weasley's hair! I love shaggy Gred and Forge as much as the next girl, but no way Molly Weasley would let Ron out with the hair he had in Movie 4. Short'n'sassy cuts FTW.

~tries to think of something else substantive to say~ ... Was it from you that I heard Andrew Lloyd Webber's working on a sequel to Phantom?

[deedop.livejournal.com]

Didn't Rob Morrow learn anything while filming Northern Exposure?

[firei.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Stephen King story, I hadn't read that one yet. I also wanted to say that Dark Tower comic (at least the first one) is absolutely gorgeous. I recommend it, but, then again, I'm a Dark Tower and Stephen King fangirl like woah. :)

[it-grrl.livejournal.com]

I just got the second issue today and consumed it in all of ten minutes. Good stuff.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Maggie Gyllenhaal is cute, but she's no Katie Holmes.

Then again ... lately Katie Holmes is no Katie Holmes either. :(

[shusu.livejournal.com]

Oh, did you need links to Transformers p--

Ah. Never mind. ;D ;D ;D

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I am so excited for Waitress, it's not even funny.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

I read the trailer_spot bit as a news headline. And spent the last 5 minutes trying to decipher what on earth it was reporting. "Paprika at Ten 'til Noon? WTF?"

I be real smart.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Wow. That right there...most definitely pirate porn. Now where did I leave my brain bleach?

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean Elizabeth and Will, maybe, but Elizabeth and Davy Jones? EWWWW.

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that pirate porn was definitely porn... like dirty old man porn, not girls on the internet porn, either. I feel squicky now.

Cleo (and friends of Cleo,) quick question about The Prestige. I swear to God that when I saw the film in the theater, you saw Christian Bale do the whole Transported Man trick the first time it is introduced. Watching my new dvd the other night, the scene only showed Michael Caine's reaction to the trick and showed the whole trick later in the film, when CB's life flashed before his eyes. Am I misremembering, or did they edit this part of the film for the switch to DVD?

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

No, they didn't edit it. I thought it was odd when I saw it in theaters too and kept convincing myself that you saw the trick earlier on.

[morgan-c-hoax.livejournal.com]

I was really confused about the Batman headline at first, because my first thought was Jake Gyllenhaal. Heh.

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

...Is it really perverse of me to have looked at the pirate porn and thought, that's really not all that hot at all?

...And also that when I saw "pirate porn" I got really excited because I thought someone could finally tell me where to get the X-rated version of Pirates (http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-R-Rated-Version-Jesse-Jane/dp/B000FMGTNU/ref=sr_1_9/102-0908116-4817754?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1173733673&sr=1-9)? Yo, if anyone knows where to find that, give me a holla.

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Well, in my area you can get it at the Adult Video Megaplex, which is actually a very upscale, sanitary sort of establishment.

And I really reccomend it. It's like they took a pretty funny Pirate movie and a Pirate porn and just kinda smushed them into one awesome movie.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Gyllenhaal in Final Talks To Replace Holmes in Batman sequel.

I was very confused until I realized, oh, Maggie.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Eh, good Transformers porn is enjoyable and usually quite creative with them being machines that turn into other things. And bad Transformers porn is much like other kinds of bad porn. It just sometimes gives them penes and breasts under the armor.

/says the Transformers smut writer

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Gyllenhaal in Final Talks To Replace Holmes in Batman sequel

YES

[halona.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping that Umbridge made the Weasley boys cut their hair when she took over the school. The twins look so horrible now.

[thatlizgirl.livejournal.com]

I think I'm the only one with a huge enough crush on Maggie that I thought of her right away. ^_^

P.S. Toygers = beautiful, the Jolie thing = sort of tasteless (Not your fault, but yeah.) And: "Hard R"? As opposed to... "Flaccid, Unexcited R"?

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I *do* kind of wish they'd start distinguishing between "R for sex" and "R for violent content". I don't care if my (hypothetical) kids see nekkid people or swearing, but I do worry about the glamorization of casual violence when it's marketed to young kids.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

Can't they start doing something different with Ginny's hair?? She's supposed to be the cute love interest coming up soon, and her hair is still looking like Mama did it for 5th grade class photos.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

Not safe for work or perhaps even life.

Oh, this describes SO MUCH of the Interwebs.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Update on the Sorority of Asshattery (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/education/13sorority.html?ex=1331438400&en=2c43a1a3a363ac3d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink)

After Evicting Members, Sorority Is Itself Evicted

DePauw University severed ties yesterday with a national sorority that evicted two-thirds of the university’s chapter members last year in what the sorority called an effort to improve its image for recruitment, but which the evicted women described as a purge of the unattractive or the uncool.
...
In an interview, Dr. Bottoms said that beginning this fall Delta Zeta would no longer be permitted to house students in its Greek-columned residence on the DePauw campus in Greencastle, Ind. Only a handful of undergraduates are currently living in the Delta Zeta house, and four of them are seniors, Dr. Bottoms said, adding that the university would help any women who had been planning to live in the residence next year to find alternative housing.
...
In a message posted on its Web site this month, the sorority said: “Delta Zeta National apologizes to any of our women at DePauw who felt personally hurt by our actions. It was never our intention to disparage or hurt any of our members during this chapter reorganization process.”
...
In addition to the apology, the sorority posted on its Web site statements critical of the women forced out of the DePauw chapter and of faculty members who supported them. In the letter sent to Delta Zeta yesterday, Dr. Bottoms cited the sorority’s decision to publicize that criticism as contributing to his decision.

(Italics are mine.)

[chocolat-violet.livejournal.com]

Not safe for work or perhaps even life.

MINE EYES BURN.

T_T

Does anybody else's eyes burn?!

[erinya.livejournal.com]

I'm bothered by Elizabeth's expression in those frames. Or lack thereof.