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I am so tired, and not from working. I ran into a persistent human distraction today and got nothing done. Three pages of blah-blah-blah I can't hear my own thoughts so I'll just repeat vague ideas over and over. I felt so thwarted I want to cry, and in fact felt like that for about three hours. Apparently my time and my aspirations mean nothing, but at least I'm aware of this now and can plan accordingly. And cry.

Also, this kind of sums up my life right now.

John Scalzi also working on deadline now, scaling back blog appropriately.

WGA strike coming to an end? (Actually, I'm hearing that this is an unfounded rumor.) Writers, studios resume talks today; Celebs star in online spots to support strike; Joss Whedon on the strike, again; Sandra Oh Speaks At WGA Rally.

FEMA not the only agency to misrepresent.

Pageant pepper spray prank being probed.

No, there is not going to be a pay-only MySpace 2.

Wonder Woman Gets a New Voice, and It’s Female.

Blake Lewis is ready to catch your panties. What? It made me laugh.

Joaquin Phoenix on the ABCs of vomiting.

Guerrilla clockmakers fix famous Paris clock.

Getting Things the Fuck Done with Henry Rollins. "Henry is a guy who gets things the fuck done. He sings, he writes, he acts, he tours, he hosts TV shows, he goes to war zones, he lifts very heavy things… In fact he NEVER FUCKING STOPS. If there’s ever a Romero style undead uprising then the Rollins zombie will be easy to spot. He’ll be the one making like a Zack Snyder deadite while the rest of us lumber around the wrong way on the escalators.... If your comic mojo outweighs your punk mojo this also works with a picture of Warren Ellis."

'Bad sex' authors list announced. Aww, poor David Thewlis. I'm rooting for the Christopher Rush entry all the way, for what it's worth.

Marge Simpson, "Content Burglar." (Watch Alan Moore's Simpsons appearance. While we're here: Douglas Wolk looks at Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier.)

Journeyman to end?

Does 'Enchanted' Drop An F-Bomb?

I can't remember if I posted these: more Golden Compass stills (omg, I just noticed what Sam Elliott is holding) and suparrrrr hi-res character banners. Also: Daniel Craig Says 'Compass' Not Anti-Religious; The Sun's positive review ('a well-written, beautifully delivered adventure').

Daniel Craig Talks 'Bond 22.' I think this links to something I linked yesterday, but I actually stopped to read the writeup today, and saw this: "As for Craig's controversial mention of adding Roger Moore-style 'humor' to the new Bond, Craig insists he was 'lying.' " 1) Now my mother really hates him. 2) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sweeney Todd: London press day for Depp, Burton, Carter, & Rickman. Also, I spent most of the day watching the Food Network against my will and we saw a trailer for the movie. For Sweeney Todd. On the Food Network.

Dobby’s Voice Weighs In On Character’s Fate

'The Dark Knight' Update: New Joker Pic (Slowly) Arrives!; Your Map to the Gotham City Subway!; 'The Dark Knight' Has Eight Useless Webpages.

Keira Knightley and James McAvoy: Ask 'Atonement' Stars a Question.

Watchmen's New York Backlot Photos. The Gunga Diner!

Crowe Approached for State of Play in the wake of Brad Pitt's exit.

Lauren Ambrose Replaces Michelle Williams in 'Wild Things.'

'Avatar' Alien is Sexy, Day-Glow.

Alison Lohman’s Got Game.

Natalie Portman Says ‘No Thanks’ To More ‘Star Wars’ And ‘Professional.’

Pirates 3 DVD Treasure-Laden.

Hitman poster leaves little to the imagination.

New Whiteout Poster Online. And it's a lot more awesome than the Hapless Snow Bunny poster.

Coppola's Youth Without Youth Trailer.

[livejournal.com profile] trailer_spot: In Bruges, Juno, CJ7, Youth Without Youth, Garage.


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Date: 2007-11-27 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pygmymetal.livejournal.com
Sorry sweetie. :(

Date: 2007-11-27 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenwitch.livejournal.com
I must say, that is a brilliant icon :D

Date: 2007-11-27 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evilbearhunter.livejournal.com
Oh, I totally didn't notice that. Genius.

Date: 2007-11-27 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vampirepig13.livejournal.com
*puffs chest out* I have a WWHRD? t-shirt, and I get things the fuck done!

Date: 2007-11-27 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sound-of-bells.livejournal.com
HESTEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!

I hope the writing goes better. :(

Date: 2007-11-27 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crumpeteer.livejournal.com
Where do people come UP with these disgusting sex scenes? I have never thought sex could be THAT unsexy until I read those passages. What gets INTO writers sometimes.

Date: 2007-11-27 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nekoama.livejournal.com
ARGH this new Batman viral is driving me up with wall with both excitment and frustration. I'm a huge fan of viral marketing and am loving all this build up and play but dammit I have a job and it's hard to work when I keep checking back on the websites every five minutes!
That said, I'm now on a mission to get Joker's socks.

Date: 2007-11-27 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] christwise.livejournal.com
Hey, sorry you're having a crummy day.

I do have some pictures of Golden Compass merchandise on a major scale if you're interested. Here. (http://christwise.livejournal.com/108738.html)

Date: 2007-11-27 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Wanna Pan! And a Hester! And an alethiometer but that goes without saying.

Date: 2007-11-27 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] christwise.livejournal.com
I want a real Pan but I will settle for a fake giant Iorek.

Date: 2007-11-27 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dramedy.livejournal.com
Yes, the brain is a muscle, but if you show it to people it’s usually because part of your skull has been torn off and that doesn’t impress the ladies – unless the ladies are ZOMBIES! Where did this paragraph go?

Yes, Still love Joss Whedon.

I'm sorry your writing's not going as well as you'd've hope, dear. I hope things get better. :)

Date: 2007-11-27 03:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] londonsparrow.livejournal.com
Aw. Bad days suck. Eventually good ones come back, though!

Okay, that picture of Sam Elliott and the bunny is so cute I cannot even stand it. Hee~

Date: 2007-11-27 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cygnus.livejournal.com
Hang in there, Cleo. *hug*

I spent a good portion of last night laughing so damn hard at a few M15Ms that I'd missed, and thought I'd thank you (again) for sharing your incredible talent with us. Even on shitty days, you're golden.

Date: 2007-11-27 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elisa0984.livejournal.com
Oh my, if grad school doesn't work out I must become a member of UT. Need to start learning French asap.

Sorry you had a crummy day Cleo.

Date: 2007-11-27 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kismeteve.livejournal.com
Yeah, you can kind of tell they're wrapping things up on Journeyman. Too bad, too. It was starting to get really good.

Date: 2007-11-27 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitedula.livejournal.com
I'm rooting for the Christopher Rush entry all the way, for what it's worth.

Hee, "rooting".

Date: 2007-11-27 05:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cosette-esk.livejournal.com
Ahahaha! Go Natalie Portman! Keep them from making more craptastic Star Wars prequels! Also, your icon is fabricated entirely out of win.

Date: 2007-11-27 05:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foresthouse.livejournal.com
*hugs you*

The writing is important and you can do it! Rah!

Date: 2007-11-27 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eruvadhril.livejournal.com
Lee has a bunny! *giggles*
Your icon = epic win.

Date: 2007-11-27 06:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lylassandra.livejournal.com
Cleo,

I would tell you that it can't get any worse tomorrow, but I've been chased by too many zombies.

Bad Sex in Literary Fiction nominees

Date: 2007-11-27 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ter369.livejournal.com
I don't feel bad for Mr. Thewlis at all. His novel's bad sex (more than once) propels the downward spiral of events, creeptastic as some of it is. It's character-(bad choices)-driven and not purple prose that went too far. Sort of on the level of John Irving at his most extreme, but then, hey, maybe he got nominated for this award for The Hotel New Hampshire or The Cider House Rules.

Your day and your aspirations: when I was pushing for the re-write on my first novel, and the agent who prompted that was waiting to read it, my mother professed to be supportive and then interrupted me constantly. I would stay up 'til 3:30 or 4:00 AM, just to focus on writing, and then drag myself awake around 7:30 AM only to receive commentary on how I should get up earlier. So whenever I see people accepting an award where they thank everyone who helped them, those of us watching should remember that speech means "thanks for leaving me the heck alone while I did whatever garnered this award" or "see, I told all you guys I was working on something".

And your icon is fantastico.

Date: 2007-11-27 07:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spectralbovine.livejournal.com
Lauren Ambrose Replaces Michelle Williams in 'Wild Things.'
Oh my God. I just mainlined SFU a few weeks ago, and it did not occur to me that Lauren Ambrose was that redhead in Can't Hardly Wait. Holy crap.

Date: 2007-11-27 12:35 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-11-27 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cindyg.livejournal.com
::squeak::

More Star Wars?? Nyuuuu! Leave well enough alone!

Date: 2007-11-27 01:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com
Poor dear. That sounds like a bit of a nightmare.

(On a lighter note, I should know better than to read the examples at the "bad sex" links, but THEN I DO IT ANYWAY. My libido is now broken.)

Watch Alan Moore's Simpsons appearance.

Date: 2007-11-27 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xander77.livejournal.com
Dead, but this works, at the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoM0yBHyqn4

Date: 2007-11-27 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xander77.livejournal.com
Also:
http://www.positivethinkers.net/images/choochoo002.gif

Date: 2007-11-27 03:32 pm (UTC)
ext_6373: A swan and a ballerina from an old children's book about ballet, captioned SWAN! (Hot Fuzz jesus christ by gabbieicons)
From: [identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com
Hester? Hester???

Date: 2007-11-27 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lily-handmaiden.livejournal.com
Sorry you had such a bad day, but don't ever think your time and aspiratiosn mean nothing. Wait for the soul-sucking self-doubt to pass, and then keep plugging away. You have what it takes.

Date: 2007-11-27 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Well, I meant "mean nothing to this person," but I couldn't really say that. But thanks. : )

Date: 2007-11-27 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] farasha.livejournal.com
Haha, in some of the subway stations in Queens (I think specifically at Jamaica), people had drawn bright red circles around the crotch bulge on the Hitman posters. So it was kind of hard for me to NOT notice :p

Date: 2007-11-27 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yarha.livejournal.com
Bummers. When *I* feel like that, it's usually the result of a sugar low. Are you eating ok?

Yarha, Needs a Cookie? Nom, Nom, Nom...

Date: 2007-11-27 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Yeah, I've actually been trying to eat more protein and less sugar to keep from having ups and downs like that. I think mostly I'm just anxious about the writing in general, so anything adverse that happens makes me more upset than usual.

Date: 2007-11-27 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purpleivey.livejournal.com
"For Sweeney Todd. On the Food Network. " There is no way that could be accidental : D Oh, now I'm gonna have to watch Food Network with my mom...

*snicker* Paula Deen was makin finger sandwiches today *snicker*

Date: 2007-11-29 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zrath.livejournal.com


Ikon Kooooooombat!!!
Round 1 fight!!

Feel better, Mamzel Cléo.


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