I need... coolness and... hydration

[cleolinda]

Why is the air conditioning not working again? WHYYY?

In other news, wrote 1700 words today on a chapter that really, really needed it. Good times. Still not up to any kind of chapter-a-day standard, though. Also, implemented the new all-in-one Hunger Site button.

A slight antidote to that terrible MySpace story: "This is only tangentially related to Shitty Adults Doing Shitty Things, but since people like stories about my mom...", aka The Time My Mother Made Those Two Teachers Cry.

Linkspam:

From ;dduane: A Five-Year-Old Explains The Writers' Strike To You. Also: Scabby TV Writers Outed By Fake Craigslist Ad!

No charges for 10-year-old fire starter.

Iran hands IAEA nuclear blueprints. Initially I read this as "IKEA" and was terrified.

Diamond-covered Christmas tree on sale in Japan.

The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time.

Heather Mills' Insane Publicist Hits Internet, Goes On Attack. "I love how even the dog seems to be questioning this strategy to get the public on Heather Mills' side."

Steampunk iPod skin, with bonus Boing Boing steampunk links at the end. (Yes, I did see the steampunk laptop that so many people emailed me the link to.)

Oprah picks Ken Follett thriller for book club.

Matt Damon is 2007’s ‘sexiest man alive.’

Who's the Entertainer of the Year? Vote!

‘Golden Compass’ Director Chris Weitz Answers Your Questions: Part I; Golden Compass TV Spots Galore.

Rumor: Viggo Mortensen is Stallone's Edgar Allan Poe. I understand one word in that entire sentence, that word being "is."

Chatwin, Marsters Join 'Dragonball.'

Ludacris and Zoe Bell Join Gerard Butler's 'Game.'

'Made of Honor' Poster is So McDreamy.

Darabont Mulls 451 Remake; King Says He's Mellowed.

LaBute Will Write a Redo of 'The Woman Next Door'; Taylor Hackford, Mr. Helen Mirren, will direct.

Marcus Nispel Gets Ready to Kill Kids at Crystal Lake.

Forget About Seeing More Alex Rider on the Screen. "The film was completed, there was a trailer, Nintendo marketing, and star Alex Pettyfer even dropped out of school.... Stormbreaker only brought in $24 million worldwide, and the Weinsteins decided to not let it loose across the US. [Author Anthony] Horowitz recently told Reuters: 'Harvey Weinstein decided not to distribute it (in the United States). It is one of the most bizarre and annoying things that the film didn't get its shot in America. To this day, I don't know why.' "

Christian Bale: "I like going to hell and back."

Comments

[phantasm-huzzah.livejournal.com]

Matt Damon?! There are sexier men alive. Definitely.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Like Christian Bale. Who does not have that awful Whiff Of The Affleck about him.

[patchie04.livejournal.com]

Matt Damon has been forever ruined by Team America.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Matt Damon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTzyU5MFgM).

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

I just love that Jeffrey Dean Morgan apparently made the Sexiest Men list. Also, the kid who plays the twin brother in Dirty Sexy Money.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Okay, how do you put those links at the bottom for the hungersite and all that? I've been looking around LJ trying to figure it out, and I'm now wondering if it's paid accounts only, so I figured I'll just ask you.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know a l33t LJ way to do it--I just manually paste the code in for each new entry. Since I use Semagic, I just open the previous entry and get it from there.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

the remake of the truffaut film is so wrong, my bitty brain cannot begin to compute how wrong it is. just...no.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Wait....*Stallone's* Edgar Allen Poe? When the heck did that happen? I don't even want to read the article. I'm afeared.

Also, your tiny Hunger Site icon is wonderful, as is your mom, in entirely different ways.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

It's worse: I think Stallone's wanted to make the film for over 20 years. The "Do what now?" factor can't really be conveyed by just the words "Do what now?"

[emisi.livejournal.com]

That steampunk iPod skin rocks. I have it for my iPhone (although it's not nearly as cool, because there's no front part) and it looks awesome.

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

Wow, I read The Pillars of the Earth almost 20 years ago. Can I be smug now, like all those Cormac McCarthy fans were when Oprah started pimping The Road?

I heard he's writing a sequel, I wonder if there wasn't some payola involved. Not that Oprah really needs more money. (And maybe she's an unimpeachable pillar of integrity; I'm not interested in her and know very little about her.)

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

"And maybe [Oprah]'s an unimpeachable pillar of integrity."

*snort*

[firei.livejournal.com]

Can I just tell you that I love stories about your mom? Okay, then, I love stories about your mom! :)

Cute *and* charitable!

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Cleo - if you look at this and find it suitable, it may be something you'd wish to mention:

One Laptop Per Child (http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php) is a program designed around producing tough, simple, and cheap laptops for poor children worldwide (and I have to say the design of these things is awesome). In general, the project is to supply laptops in bulk to schools, etc, but from now until November 26, folks in the US and Canada can do Give One Get One - for about $400, get your own, and have one donated to a participating organization. It may not be your bag, but it's a cool idea, and a neat looking kid's laptop, and I just wanted to mention it!

[outinthestorm.livejournal.com]

Okay, you've seen the steampunk laptop, but have you seen The typewriter? (http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/?p=213) Or the most awesome steampunk watches ever? (http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/en/news-14321-Steampunk+watches%2C+will+you+dare%3F.html)

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

"BREAKING NEWS: CHEETAH WOMAN IS WINNING THE READING CONTEST"

amazing.

[tonks07.livejournal.com]

Steampunk love!!

and Viggo as Poe is...interesting.

and those experiments are really bizarre and kind of disturbing.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

See, I'll take Matt Damon as the sexiest man alive, just 'cause he is so incredibly nice and let me cut him in line for coffee. He's got my heart forever.

[elbales]

Wait, what?

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

1) I can think of several men sexier than Matt Damon, but his letter for the article is cute.

2) mmm, Christian Bale.

3) this Poe film is the bane of my existence. I am glad that Poe is starting to get cool in Hollywood because i LOVE him, but gah. A "reimagining" of the Tell Tale Heart and a Stallone film are not what i've been craving. WOE.

[marcusisabadass.livejournal.com]

heh. not to be a dick, but seeing your comment about your AC...yeah, uh, we had our first flurry last week. and it's about 40 outside right now. The long cold slide into winter begins now. By 60 degrees, see you in late April.

Wanna trade?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ironically, we're back to 40 degrees (or thereabouts) today. We had hail last night, so I think the weird heat wave was related to storms coming in. But yeah, y'all's weather is so much more hardcore than ours is.

[elbales]

Matt Damon is 2007’s 'sexiest man alive'! No one is surprised!

Srsly.

[khaman.livejournal.com]

I needed that story about your mom. Have been passing around the Myspace horror story, and if people could band together their minds and hate people to death, there would have been some heads exploding by now.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I'm comfortable having this link here--as much as I'd like them to get theirs, well... there's a minor involved, this that and the other. Sigh.

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

hee there's finally going to be a DBZ movie. And Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) is producing. This will be cracktastic.

AND SPIKE IS PICCOLO YAY!

sorry, I just had to squee.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

I second the squee.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the story about the time your mom made the two teachers cry. It really did provide a bit of an antidote for that horrible MySpace thing.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

It would be fine if IKEA got the bomb, because no-one would be able to assemble it correctly *g*

Matt Damon?! I mean he's nice, but he's no Chris Evans/James Marsden/Seann William Scott/Casper Van Dien/Insert your own favourite here...

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Iran hands IAEA nuclear blueprints. Initially I read this as "IKEA" and was terrified.

Count your washers before beginning assembly of the bomb, and DON'T DROP THE ALLEN WRENCH!


(In other IKEA news, suddenly I'm craving meatballs and lingonberries. mmm, lingonberries.)

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

I'm more amused that Rainn Wilson, Masi Oka and Zachary Levy all made the list.

The geeks are out to rule you.

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

That first Golden Compass TV spot - "Legend tells of the last golden compass; whoever can read it has the power to rule the universe." Wha??? There's either going to be some mightily disappointed book lovers or some very confused moviegoers out there.

I don't ask that they get it right...Gods know that's just too much to ask of Hollywood these days. But if they got it somewhere in the same general vicinity of the first continent somewhere off to the left of them getting it right? Surely they could manage that much!

The second clip isn't quite as upsetting. Now maybe I can sit through the rest of them without having a meltdown.