Thursday afternoon, wondering what the pups are up to

[cleolinda]

Huh. It's my half-birthday. Only eighteen months to go before I'm thirty and a complete failure (she said with a wink)! And congratulations to molliewollie and Hamburger Touchdown, whose day of birth literally is today!

Hey! I already have a Facebook! I had no idea! I really am senile!

And thus, I have used up my entire year's quota of exclamation points.

Also, tonight's Sister Girl's graduation buffet. This sounds kind of tedious until you remember that Sister Girl is graduating from cooking school. Basically, all the students have their friends and family come and stand around and eat their handiwork. Also, probably the only place you will find "minty rumballs." "I mean, the downside is that they'll have a lot of things I don't want to eat," she said--she's a pastry chef, keep in mind, and neither of us are all that het up about duck or veal, for example. "On the other, there's a whole room full of desserts." "On the other-other hand," I said, "minty rumbaaaaaaaaalls."

To that end, you get your linkspam early today.

Blog Like It's the End Of the World. I just can't get into it, sadly, even though there are zombies. I think my head's too deep in Black Ribbon at this point, and I probably need to stay there.

From newsong: Public donates to UW scientist to fund backward-in-time research.

From qwertytigger: "The Kitchen Madonna is a very nice lady who makes and sells these adorable retro syle aprons so that she can stay home with her handcapped son. They're just too cute! And Console Classix is a legal way to play the old video games that you played when you were a kid. If you miss your old Atari 2600, Nintendo Etertainment System, SEGA Genesis, or Gameboy games, go there and wallow in nostalgia..."

Colgate warns of fake toothpaste in U.S.

Judge orders man not to have girlfriend. But... hookers? One night stands? Can he have those? "Justice Rhys Morgan said Cranley 'cannot form a romantic relationship of an intimate nature with a female person.' " Oh. "Cranley, who has been diagnosed with a dependent personality disorder, attacked his girlfriend in an argument after their breakup. He tried to prevent her from phoning the police by cutting her phone cord and punched and kicked her. He finally stabbed himself with a butcher knife when police did arrive, puncturing his aorta." Oh.

Police chief shot dead in his car.

Iran moves to execute porn stars.

'Cute Knut' raking in cash at Berlin Zoo.

Loved the video? Then read the book. Initially I thought this was going to be about some new hardcover novelization of SexyBack, but it turns out to be the reverse: "Wiggins is one of 40 writers featured on a video site launched Thursday by Simon & Schuster that includes clips of Wiggins, Zane, Jeannette Walls and Sandra Brown. The publisher expects to add videos for books by former President Carter, Vince Flynn and Jodi Picoult, among others." And this isn't even including all those commercials I see on--TNT?--for Dean Koontz books.

Mountain Dew gets back to its hillbilly roots.

Radiohead Tunes Used In Ballet.

Today's Funnies: An alternate 'Sopranos' ending.

'Lost' producers: We won't end like 'Sopranos.'

Producer Carlton Cuse: LOST’s Nikki & Paulo & Bad Twin Were ‘Missteps.’

J.K. Rowling on U.S. book tour.

MY PANTONE COLORS. LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.

They got me. I iz cheezburglr.

It's a mystery Cute Animal!

Projectionist pans movie at AICN, loses job.

Baby Pirates: Johnny Depp Smiles And Nods Way Through Inscrutable Japanese Talk Show Ritual.

Pirates Tops $500M Overseas in Record Time.

Kevin Spacey done with "personal acting career"?

Bruce Willis: ''If I hadn't done 'Die Hard,' I'd rip it off.''

Perlman/Hershey will Vacuum the Cat.

Will Constantine 2 Ever Happen? More to the point, does it need to?

Evan Almighty Helmer Built Real Ark.

Premiere.com Looks at Movies in Development Hell. Number one with a bullet: Wonder Woman.

David Goyer to Help Hollywood Suck Its Own Ass. "David Goyer has signed on to write and direct a new version of The Invisible Man. ... Well I'm here to tell you that it's going to suck. It's a stupid idea to make another one. This version won't be any better than any of the others, there's no Santa Claus and you're just going to rot after you die. Now leave me alone, Daddy has a hangover."

Comments

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Huh. It's my half-birthday. Only eighteen months to go before I'm thirty and a complete failure (she said with a wink)!

Ha, I just did a post about that same thing last night.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

For real. I think that's why a fire's suddenly lit under my ass re: Black Ribbon, because OMG THIRTY. JESUS CHRIST IT'S MY MORTALITY, GET IN THE CAR!

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

FIRST COMMENT!!!

Sorry, it's sort of a momentous occasion. Never had the first one before.

On a more germane note, that buffet sounds like the SHIT. Hope you have fun!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Sorry, it's sort of a momentous occasion. Never had the first one before.

This is probably not the time to break the bad news, then...

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

May we friend you on Facebook? Since you linked it and it's not under your name IRL, I thought you wouldn't mind, but seems best to ask first.
Hm, Hillbilly mascots are not what I associate with carbonated beverages. I guess since I'm trying to quit Mountain Dew, this might help turn my attention elsewhere.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course! It's my official writerly Facebook, so that's definitely what it's there for.

[lauthe.livejournal.com]

The "Iran executing porn stars" link goes to the "Policeman shot in car" link, FYI.

...What a weird sentence.

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

The Iran link is incorrect. (Goes to policeman shot dead.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Fixed!

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

I turned thirty in April. In some ways, it was more ansgt-making than I could ever have imagined, and in other ways, it was like, Wow, this is really not the big crisis that I thought it would be.

This may be in part because when I was about twenty-eight, I made a sort of a deal with myself that I wouldn't freak out about being a failure till I was thirty-FIVE. ;)

I understand about the big 3-0 lighting fires under asses though, because in the past couple months I've had more of a "time to treat this would-be writing career like SERIOUS BUSINESS" attitude than ever in my life before.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

I made a sort of a deal with myself that I wouldn't freak out about being a failure till I was thirty-FIVE.

*sigh* I freak out about it once or twice a year, and have since I was twenty-five. Now... I'm 35.

Again: *sigh*

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Methuselah used to say that turning 930 was the worst.

[karintheswede]

The mystery animal is just too cute for words.

[dorothy1901]

The Bruce Willis link goes to the Kevin Spacey page.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Here's the real link (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20035285_20035331_20042575_4,00.html).

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

I am a bit confused about the "no girlfriend for three years" thing. Is that the actual SENTENCE? If so, and he has the money to appeal ... I really don't think that would stand up to appeal. And even if he has no money, I can imagine a lawyer taking that up pro bono just for the civil liberties issues it raises.

Do I have a right to have a girlfriend? No, of course not -- no more than I have a right to happiness (just the pursuit of happiness). But does the *government* have a right to PREVENT me from having a girlfriend? "Ish don't think so."

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering how they're going to enforce it, unless his probation officer is hand-cuffed to him.

[girlsetsfire345.livejournal.com]

Friended you on Facebooooook.
Because one form of inter-net communication, quite frankly, isn't enough.
I'll try not to poke you too many times.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

My best friend only recently discovered that I get an email every time I get poked.

He has since ceased his "poke E every time I log in" policy, for the sake of my inbox ;0)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Public donates to UW scientist to fund backward-in-time research.

And in "there are only 50 people in the world, no really" news, the scientist in the story, John Cramer, is Making Light contributor Kathryn Cramer (http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2006/09/retrocausality.html)'s father.

Also, that link is broken. Good link:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/319367_timeguy12.html

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow is my 1/25th birthday.

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

The Mountain Dew and Sopranos funnies links didn't work for me.

parsing

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

'' Justice Rhys Morgan said Cranley "cannot form a romantic relationship of an intimate nature with a female person." ''

I presume the intended words were "may not" rather than "cannot." Otherwise, it's not an order; it's just a statement.

"form" -- so something pre-existing is OK?
"romantic" -- so if it's non-romantic (a financial transaction, say) it's OK?
"intimate nature" -- does this mean kissing on the cheek is OK?
"female" -- so he's allowed to have boyfriends?
"person" -- or relationships with farm animals?

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Hap birt!

(you'll get the other half in six months.)

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Producer Carlton Cuse: LOST’s Nikki & Paulo & Bad Twin Were ‘Missteps.’

Yeah. Because they were BAD with a captial BAD. *sigh* There's two days I'll never get back (re. reading Bad Twin).

[elbales]

I love your icon with a deep burning geeky love.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

It turns out the projectionist isn't so much fired as he's not going to get any more chances to run the projector at preview screenings, which actually suppliment his income to a level he can live at. I don't feel bad for the projectionist--he has a child to support and he's been risking his job to play AICN Spy. Is it really worth it risking his job and his family's welfare to announce that a movie sucks to an audience that's pretty much going to see it anyways?Jason Jeffery Wigand he's not.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Remember, you're only as old as you are.

So what? I'm a failure at 44: I haven't made a million, yet! What's up with that? Being young, and 30 is young, is an excellent time to fail so you can get it out of the way quickly. :p

In re: sister's banquet - two words: doggy. bag.

Yarha, Trying to Get All the Failures Over at Once from the Checklist

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

Not sure what to think about Lost mobisodes, actually. Mostly because I won't know how to get my hands on them. Yeah well, the internet can be trusted with that, I suppose.

Spacey done acting?? WTF, nooo!

I am gonna add you on Facebook then, I suppose, although I am already pissed your picture shows books and not you :P
*is not obsessed with looks*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, but it's a security measure. It's one of those things where no one really cares what I look like now, but if I should ever actually get a stalker, it would be too late.

[carnotite.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to Sister Girl! You'll never lack desserts!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

I don't celebrate half birthdays anymore. I tried to have a tiny party for mine when I turned ten and a half, but that was the day I sat on my glasses and broke them, thus proving my total failure at life.

[fryboy.livejournal.com]

A facebook!
YOU HAS ONE

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

A bit more background about the "backward-in-time" stuff:

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

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

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

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

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

Iranian porn star

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this link. I'm e-mailing Amnesty International (http://web.amnesty.org/contacts/contact_us/eng-000) right now on it.