Mmm, pralines

[cleolinda]

So Sister Girl called me this afternoon, just for a brief chat, from Savannah. She said they'd probably have dinner at the Pirate's House tonight, and that they spent part of the day on River Street, and did, in fact, swing by River Street Sweets. She said she liked it and that "there was some cool stuff there," although a lot of it did seem kind of tourist-oriented, but they'll definitely go back before they come home and buy some things to bring back. But then:

"Yeah, about the pralines... You know how Mom makes them, and sometimes they crystallize and they're kind of cloudy, instead of shiny? The River Street pralines are like that. They're good, but Mom's are better."

I. Well. Huh. I'm starting to understand why the tins of fudge she used to give to all our teachers at Christmas were legendary in the Jefferson County school system, though.

Guard uses Taser on man holding newborn. What the hell?

Edgar Allan Poe fan takes credit for graveyard legend.

For those of you who missed that golden moment of reality television: "MY OX IS BROKEN! OH MY GOD I HATE YOU!"

BRING ME SOLO AND THE WOOKIEE.

Smart Corporate Moves: MTV Tells Publicity Whores Of 'The Hills' To STFU.

Stewart and Colbert Called To Give Evidence in YouTube Lawsuit. "Stewart and Colbert's programs were previously among the most popular clips on the video site - before the suit, Colbert even encouraged fans to upload his sketches." OOPS.

You too can own the Elder Wand, which bears a reasonable resemblance to the one in the last two HP movies as well.

Katie Holmes in talks to play Wonder Woman? Probably not, but I'll report it as rumor all the same.

Eva Green in the Midnight Poison Dior ad. I do believe that is an absinthe fountain in the last picture!

Clive Owen: "the enigmatic impersonation of restraint." Check the quote from Cate Blanchett in the fourth image as well. Heh. Meanwhile, More R-Rated Shoot 'Em Up Clips.

Julie Delpy Talks ‘Da Vinci Code’ Snub.

McKidd Rumored To Play Thor. Aww, I like him. Anyone who was on Rome pretty much gets a free pass for life from me.

Wiseman Helms Escape from New York , which is still apparently starring Gerard Butler, and is still as pointless as it was the last time we heard about it, but, you know: no more so than Rush Hour 3 or anything.

Kidman: Invasion Still Relevant. So apparently this really is a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- I remember someone complaining that it was a complete rip-off. Well, yes, remakes do tend to be...

Images from Morgan Freeman's 'Feast of Love.'

Cronenberg's 'Eastern Promises' Poster Is Online.

'Enchanted' Poster: Cinematical Exclusive First Look. Aww, and the trailer was really cute, too.

No Hollywood Afterlife Planned For ‘My So-Called Life.’ Between this and the Veronica Mars story the other day, I'm starting to enjoy articles that confirm that things that no one ever thought would happen are still, in fact, not happening. Tomorrow: Uwe Boll still not making decent movies.

(Don't tell him that, though: "your review shows me only that you dont understand anything about movies and that you are a untalented wanna bee filmmaker with no balls and no understanding what POSTAL is. you dont see courage because you are nothing. and no go to your mum and fuck her ...because she cooks for you now since 30 years ..so she deserves it. people like you are the reason that independent movies have no chance anymore. [Email signature:] uwe boll. PS: POSTAL is R RATED . The MPAA understood the satire -- you not -- you dumb fuck.")

Scars That Will Take Time To Heal: Sir Ben On How An Olsen Twin Brought 'Huge Energy' To Making Out With Him. AHHHHHH WHAT.

Heil Kilmer: Val Kilmer Opts Not To Don A Hitler Moustache For 'Hebrew Hammer' Sequel. Yeah... pretty much nothing is going to faze me after the Kingsley thing.

"For no known reason, former L.A. gang girl Leyla Safai has arrived in New York in an ice cream truck named Heartschallenger." Again: nice try, no cigar.

Clay Aiken's bringing 'SexyBack.' Okay, now we're getting somewhere. AUGH.

Comments

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

Ok, the Clay Aiken thing. Oh dear Christ, why?

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have to dance to the original for theatre camp.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm not the sort who watches The Hills. Quite frankly, I stopped watching MTV ages ago. But I have heard the name Spencer in relation to it from the girls at Go Fug Yourself, usually with a lot of mocking about what an asshat he is.

So then I clicked on the link.

OMG THAT IS THE CREEPIEST FUCKING DUDE I'VE SEEN ALL WEEK.

*scrubs eyeballs with bleach*

I mean, maybe that's just a bad picture of him, but that is a baaaaaaaad picture of him.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Going by that picture, he's apparently an android. A really, really sleazy one.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

'Enchanted' Poster: Cinematical Exclusive First Look. Aww, and the trailer was really cute, too.

So .... I've seen OoTP a whole lotta times in the cinema. And could go again when it hits the two-dollar theatre up the street.

Which means I sat through the same 25 minutes of previews Every Single Time.

The one preview my audiences genuinely guffawed at Every Single Time was Enchanted. Me, too. Could be my kind of satire.

I need to keep far away from Fred Claus. ::reminds self::

[despairfaery.livejournal.com]

Clay...EW.

Elder Wand

[fxchip.livejournal.com]

*WARNING: HP SPOILER*

Quoth the link (http://www.alivans.com/custom/cart/edit0.asp?p=96767):

"Elder is written to be among the most powerful of all wand woods. It symbolizes regeneration and it is believed to be a cure all within magical circles...it is also beneficial in times of transformation and change."

Um, when did this happen? And aren't elder wands supposed to be unlucky as hell?

Re: Elder Wand

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

They may be going off the Celtic zodiac interpretation, where elder is December's tree (my birthday, which is why I remember), and because it's the end of the year, it's related to transformation and regeneration, etc.

[editornia.livejournal.com]

Thankyou so much for sharing the "MY OX IS BROKEN!" clip! =D That won't make it onto Aussie TV for a few months (if ever), so now at least I know what Y'all have been talking laughing about... XD Hilarious what a baby a grownup man can be!

[secretnthewings.livejournal.com]

My brain may never, ever recover from the Kingsley/Olsen concept. And that's just from reading the headline.

I imagine that watching the actual scene would produce an effect not unlike when Belloq opens the Ark of the Covenant.

[sternbunny.livejournal.com]

Since I know you like 300, I thought you might like the video at http://sockkpuppett.livejournal.com/2007/08/15/

300 to _Vogue_.

Beth

[lissa-quon.livejournal.com]

That is full of win and awesome.

[msilverstar]

You're the best! I feel like I know pop culture without having to actually read anything :-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. There's a lot I leave out, of course, but it's sort of an editorial stance of omission--no more crap about drug-addicted starlets, for example--or a selectivity that I think will match what folks here are interested in.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

In one of the pictures from that Midnight Poison ad, Eva Green is wearing the same grape cluster bronze and bronze and black striped skirt that Nicole Kidman wore in the "Portrait of a Lady" photoshoot for Vogue in May or June of 1999.

I...can't believe I know that. I feel that I should have been using that piece of my brain for something more useful.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude! I remember that shoot!

This is why I can't do math.

[khaman.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia still says Invasion, while originally meant to be a remake, is not. They're using this article as a cite: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117926842.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1

I suppose it's academic whether it's a remake or a cheap attempt at hashing an original version that looks like a remake to everyone else, a current 13% squishy-badness at rottentomatoes says a lot more.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"For those of you who missed that golden moment of reality television"

I love that moment. It was utterly priceless.

[schmoosey.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, about the pralines... You know how Mom makes them, and sometimes they crystallize and they're kind of cloudy, instead of shiny? The River Street pralines are like that. They're good, but Mom's are better."

If I'm not mistaken which I could be since it's too late for me to call my Mom to check the difference in praline recipes. It's whether it has cream in it. Cream makes it more softer/cloudy praline. I'm from New Orleans and we tend to see the hard/shiny kind. They will sell the other creamy one but you see more of the other. That's also what my Mom and Aunt make and it's the same for the different vendors that they sell in the French Quarter. Some of the best commerical pralines are found in the French Quarter.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Thoughts:

1) That Uwe Boll wank report actually generated more wank than it linked.

2) One does not like to think of the Olsen twins making out, period.

3) Goto 1).

[ever-more.livejournal.com]

1) That Uwe Boll wank report actually generated more wank than it linked.

Iknorite! I went to read the fandom_wank report on Boll getting pissy at critics and was like "The wank's way better in the comments!"

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

...there are pralines that aren't cloudy? How is that even possible?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know--ours don't use cream, I think is part of it.

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

I want to see Enchanted, but I know that she's going to fall in love with McDreamy. Which makes me sad for James Marsden because he gets killed in X3, no one in Hairspray, and now this? James, there are a lot of willing and eager people wanting to see you shag someone and win their heart. Please to be obliging?

Still, Susan Sarandon is going to be a BRILLIANT villianess.

[notemily.livejournal.com]

don't forget the time he was not the real father of lois lane's baby. and the time he wasn't as awesome as ryan gosling in the notebook. james marsden has made a career out of not getting the girl.

[elbales]

The Taser thing? What the fuck. That is so not on.

The victim was a complete idiot to make that threatening phone call. He just flushed his only chance at winning a lawsuit down the toilet. I mean, this is Texas.

[apocalyptically.livejournal.com]

Got back from seeing Stardust tonight! It's not one of my favourite Gaiman books, but the movie made me happy. (Wish I could say the nachos at the movie theatre were just as feelgood.) Peter O'Toole cracked me up. Apparently he's going to play the Pope (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/14513331.html) in S2 of The Tudors... I totally missed this.

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm a little sad to see that Invasion is apparently terrible (11% on Rotten Tomatoes! alas!), because I adore not only the film but the very CONCEPT of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and want to see ALL VERSIONS OF IT EVER MADE especially those with Nicole Kidman in them because I love her.

Also, I'm kind of looking forward to Enchanted, because I've seen the preview for it several times now and it keeps looking adorable and hilarious.

But my real reason for commenting was: everyone in my family makes the cloudy pralines, and I have to admit, I've never much liked them. It's partly because I'm not actually that keen on pecans (bad Texan! bad!), but I'm intrigued to see that there's this other kind of pralines. I should try to find some and see if I like them better.

[neveth.livejournal.com]

As another Texan I offer support in not liking pecans. I myself don't like any kind of nut (I refuse to eat my own kind). But yes, I've never seen not-cloudy pralines.... How interesting!

[edda.livejournal.com]

An Elder Wand shounds like it should be able to summon Cthulhu.

Just sayin'.

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

My husband just called the elder wand the "Anal Bead Wand." I can't say I disagree.

The taser thing happened in April. Who the hell tasers a guy holding a baby?

I don't watch TV so I thought the ox thing was going to be from simple life, but it is FUNNY. HAHA she finds it with her FEET!

The Olsen twins kissed THAT? Kee-ry-uhst that's icky.

It should not be legal for people to talk about sweet confections pregnant women cannot obtain immediately in the vicinity of said pregnant women. Damn you, Cleo, I've never even HAD a praline & now I want one.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

I've never had a praline either and now I want one.

Like...now.

[redbeardjim.livejournal.com]

BRING ME SOLO AND THE WOOKIEE.

HOO HOO HOO (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/14/jabba/)

[aki.livejournal.com]

Following a few links of Gawker articles, I came across this and thought I'd point it out to you - Lindsay Lohan kitten: http://gawker.com/news/issues-of-the-day/does-this-kitten-look-like-lindsay-lohan-285653.php#poll_=AjM3MTM . The resemblence is mostly in the eyes, but it's worth reading the coments for the lulz. "Invizible dignatee" is the take away quote, I'd say.

[wmetoile.livejournal.com]

In my past life, when I was an interesting person, I got to visit the set of Invasion (back when it was called The Visiting, before Daniel Craig was Bond but when he was still teh sexxx, so, like, the modern era) and I have to say, it doesn't look like (from the trailers) the finished movie is going to be anything like what they shot waay back in the fall of 2005. Not that that's a bad thing, maybe. Also Nicole Kidman really is that pretty.

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

OMG THEY'RE MAKING ANOTHER HEBREW HAMMER MOVIE. Hottest. superhero. ever! I... have a thing for Jewish men.