Tuesday night, debating whether to put on mascara

[cleolinda]

I know I haven't been so great with the linkspam entries lately, between the Real Life entries and the Cloverfield entries, so I'm going to try to put a little something up now. I'm leaving for midnight Harry Potter at about 11 pm, so I won't be here for a while (significant, because most of my internet usage is at night these days). Exciting!

I'm also gonna go out on a limb here and say that my desktop pwns yours:

God, I hope we get good trailers.


Obama's Alabama stops pull more than $100,000.

China executes ex-food and drug chief.

Antidepressants most prescribed U.S. drugs.

Egypt pissed off about new Seven Wonders of the World contest. ("Voters chose the Great Wall of China; India's Taj Mahal; the centuries-old pink ruins of Petra in Jordan; the Colosseum in Rome; the statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro; the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru; and the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico. Short-listed sites that missed the final cut included the Acropolis in Athens; Paris' Eiffel Tower; the Easter Island statues; Britain's Stonehenge; Cambodia's Angkor Wat temples; New York's Statue of Liberty; and the Alhambra in Spain.")

Miss N.J. receives second blackmail package.

Potential juror says he’s a liar, or, why you don't want to try to get out of jury duty by making up a bunch of biases.

BPAL raises several thousand dollars for Neil Gaiman and the CBLDF.

Many Dead Things has a fantastic "vampire anatomical biological research case" for sale--but eBay won't host it. "it seems i am doomed. I spent a month of my life putting this new project together, and thanks to my slightly anti christian background story for the box on ebay, i somehow violated their policy and got kicked off. So i have probably my best project with no home to go to. If you would like to buy this project, make me an offer." Hell, if I had the money I'd buy it, so if you like the gothic and the weird, head on over there and see if it's up your alley. See also: his previous project, a lycanthropy case.

It was a ginormous year for new words.

Welcome To The Internet: The Truth About Perez Hilton's Traffic.

A puppy with a HEART in his FUR.

Polar bear keeper 'burned out.' NOOOOO THINK OF KNUUUUT!

Thx Jim. And now, da sportz.

I shall call him... Mini Me.

How To Turn A Newspaper Into A Weapon.

Why Can't We Be Friends: The Discomforts Of Friending on Facebook.

Goodbye To All Pratt: 'Jane' Magazine Folds; Unhappy Endings: The Last Frantic Moments Of 'Jane.'

Rowling Kept Potter Film Straight; Potter fans to Rowling: Save Harry; The moment Hermione sees Harry in an all new, leather-clad light.

Full Comic-Con Schedule Online. Keep an eye out for Cloverfield/1-18-08, because things will apparently be dropped for people to pick up. Speaking of which, Mystifying trailer transforms marketing.

More Keira Knightly for Chanel, seen with director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement), who seems to have taken Keira for his Chanel-and-otherwise muse the way Baz Luhrmann did Nicole Kidman.

Fred Claus : Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Spacey, and "Ludacris. As an angry elf."

Simpsons' Springfield Named.

Spidey 4 Update.

Historians Already Sizing Up 'The Golden Age.' Oh, please. Like any of us are there for the accuracy.

Ready to Go Back to 10,000 B.C. ? No. (What? You asked!)

Two viral marketing Watchmen sites? Crudup Up For Watchmen ?

Two-Face AND Riddler in Dark Knight ?

Nimoy, but not Shatner, in next Trek Movie; Shatner pissed.

Wahlberg Ready To Rumble For Aronofsky’s ‘Fighter.’

Beyoncé to Star in Aida Adaptation?

trailer_spot: Spiderwick Chronicles, In the Valley of Elah, Get Smart, Fred Claus, 1-18-08; Gone Baby Gone, Walker, Hallam Foe, No End in Sight, Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.

XXX Tributes: 'Black Snake Moan' Remake Improves Upon Original With Addition Of Actual Boning.

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I'd totally watch a film version of Aida. Heck, I'd also watch film versions of Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel, though perhaps not the musical for the latter.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just wish Beyonce would get over this I Must Win an Oscar business and let someone with actual talent take it on.

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Scarlet Pimpernel movie-musical FTW! With Terrence Mann. Having never seen Jekyll&Hyde, I can't comment.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

I think I'm starting to wear out my '82 Pimpernel DVD already.
I think we're due for another good adaptation of that one. I found the BBC miniseries mediocre and downright weird at times.

heather MUST be aida.

[to-no-avail.livejournal.com]

beyonce's great and all, but heather can sing laps around ms.bootylicious anyday. lol. have fun at HP!!

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Shatner recalled, "There's a Star Trek movie and I called Leonard. I said, 'Leonard, have you heard?' He said, 'Yes, I have.' I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I've read the script.' I said, 'Is it a good script?' He says, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Am I in it?' And there was a pause. He said no and then he began to laugh. I went through the phone as I grabbed him by the throat. He's in it. I'm not in it."

Heh, I'm charmed.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Ok, following the link from the Elizabeth review, WTF is this woman smoking? (http://historymedren.about.com/b/a/257956.htm)

But the writers and producers of The Tudors have really done their homework. I kept looking for mistakes and misrepresentations, but each time I thought I'd caught them out, my biography of Henry (by J. J. Scarisbrick; University of California Press, 1968) backed them up all the way.

I want to read this book now and see just how wrong it is, because how could it possibly be backing the show up? I mean, I love it and all, but I have as much fun picking out the wrong bits.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

While 'ginormous' is a good word, I like to take it a step further, with 'gigantinormous.' Its more fun.

[msilverstar]

great links, as always!

[grnarmadillo.livejournal.com]

Somehow, Massachusetts has managed to royally screw up the whole jury duty thing.

Here in Boston, they will have summoned every single eligible resident (18+ years old citizen non-felons, who haven't served in the last three years) in the county before the end of the year, and are talking about changing the law to allow them to re-call people who have served more frequently. The thing that's absurd about this is that the reporting rate is 22%, meaning that 78% of the people who get called to jury duty don't show up. Now some of those may be out of state students or other people who have legitimately moved (some of whom the state may be too incompetent to find), but even if you call that a third of the no-shows that still means that two people shirk for every one that shows up. Now, when I got called I was pretty concerned about what the impact on my lab work would be if I got stuck on a monthlong trial, but by god I showed up anyway. I don't understand why, if there's a juror shortage, they don't start enforcing the penalties for not showing up before they start telling people who served they have to come back.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Your desktop does indeed pwn mine. And possibly everything else.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I'm going soon too!

*BOUNCEBOUNCEBOUNCE*

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm back, and my thoughts are over here (http://snarkphoenix.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=247&view=findpost&p=103709). Awesome movie. I think this is my favorite, even more than POA. Good crowd, too. I spotted one Dementor in the audience.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

You know you're out of the loop when you look at "Aida adaptation" and think "But Beyonce can't do opera..."

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

Neither could Emmy Rossum.
Thank God she didn't have to. :P

[at-the-stars.livejournal.com]

you can't go wrong with mascara.

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

My desktop is Stonehenge. Hey, didja ever notice that Bellatrix looks like she shops at Hot Topic?

I actually feel really sorry for the HP stars. I'd hate to be hounded by cameras everywhere I go. That cement thing looked fun, though.

Hope you enjoy the movie. Don't forget the Kleenex. A friend of mine already saw it, says it's the best yet.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

Completely off-topic, but I love you for your icon.

[galaxianomiko.livejournal.com]

I should have known that Egypt link was going to lead to Zahi Hawass complaining again. *thud*

[cosette-esk.livejournal.com]

Oh. my. GAWD! Do you know how disturbing it is to see the kid you knew as Harry Potter from age 9 in fetish-wear and a chocolate milk mustache? Words cannot explain my utter revulsion. Give it up Radcakes, your not cut out to be a stripper.

[vampirepig13.livejournal.com]

Bellatrix Lestrange is ten pounds of crazy in a five pound bag and I want your desktop so badly.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, that's accomplished easily enough. : )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/cleoicons/harrypotter/desktopbellatrix.jpg

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

I'm a little disappointed that the Banaue Rice Terraces (long touted as a "wonder of the world"), wasn't mentioned as even being on the short list. That it's even still existing - and still producing crops - not to mention having been made totally by hand up and down most of a mountain range? I would have thought that might have counted for something.

On the other hand, there sure were a lot of interesting candidates for the short list. Them's the breaks, I guess.

^__^

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I love your taste in Harry Potter films and I have just stolen your desktop. What're you gonna do about it, huh?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Did you steal the good version I posted in the comments? Because I can fish it up again if you didn't.

[daemonnoire.livejournal.com]

Miss N.J. receives second blackmail package: My money's on the first runner up's mom. Mostly because it would make an awesome Law and Order episode.

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

Okay, so did you know about The Dark Is Rising movie? Because I'm trying to figure out how it slipped under my radar.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I even have a tag for it over there on the sidebar.

[notashamed.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've seen/heard about this? 1_18_08