Feeling a little silly

[cleolinda]

Today is my grandmother's birthday, yay! Yesterday we all had a birthday lunch for her with roast beast beef and carrots and potatoes and cake and ice cream and a creamy orange and pineapple congealed salad which is actually really yum, thanks for asking. We're Southern, what can I say. Also, we ended up talking about Britney Spears, and my grandmother was surprisingly up-to-date on the crazy ("That Dr. Phil said he was going to help her! She needs to stop messing with that married man"). It was a good day.

Greatest Journal: the final days.

Alleged Response from Cassie Edwards Issued via MySpace; Edwards plagiarized for author's note and from Britannica. Seriously? Seriously?

"I, seriously, was like the Lindsay Lohan of scrapbooking." Something I found wandering around from those links: a Nancy Drew keepsake box. Which I took as a sign that I should read the Nancy Drew book Valkyrie got for my birthday next.

(I feel kind of ashamed saying this, but... I kind of want to scrapbook now. Like, only with things I have around the house, because I'm cheap. I mean, couldn't it be fun? A page for a movie you saw, for a book you liked, for something you went out and did one night? Except that I don't even know what you scrapbook on. I guess I could do digital scrapbooking with image files and a scanner.)

Lupercalia 2008 scents are up at BPAL (did you hear! Beth's having a baby!), and Earth Rat sounds really good (I like citrus).

More linkspam:

‘Atonement’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’ Win at Globes; America Not Particularly Interested In Billy Bush's Announcement Of Golden Globes Winners On NBC; Robbed Of Their Moment, This Year's Golden Globe Victors Agree That It's Just An Honor To Win; Johnny Depp is a class act; 'Juno,' 'No Country,' 'Blood' among Producers Guild nominees--but not Globe winners Atonement or Sweeney Todd ; No film on fast track after fast-paced Globes; Golden Globes: Who got snubbed?; Tina Fey wins network TV’s only Globe; Ain't No Party Like An Ernest Borgnine Golden Globes Party.

Secret Tom Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video Finally Hits Web; Proves He Is Even Crazier Than We Ever Imagined.

Screenwriter Roger Avary Arrested on DUI / Vehicular Manslaughter.

Dateline reporter weirdly judgmental that Amy Adams once worked at Hooters.

Hip-Hop Star Steroid Scandal Implicates Mary 'Juiced' Blige. I swear I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion for a moment. Musicians use steroids?

Former Holloway suspect tosses wine at reporter.

Bjork attacks photographer in New Zealand.

Clay Aiken: Who's this Monty Python person?; Aiken's Tantrum Over Magazine's Personal Questions. Aiken has just joined the cast of Spamalot as Sir Robin, which is why they suddenly care about him again.

'Flight Of The Conchords' manager offers to manage Oasis.

Vampira Departs Our Galaxy, Aged 86.

Caldecott and Newbery Winners.

German experts crack ‘Mona Lisa’ ID. Result: It's exactly who they always thought it was, Lisa del Giacondo.

Texans see UFO, fear 'end of times,' pilot says.

Invisible window installation; Well MTV, this mah tree; Behbeh "Flocke" the polar bearski (it means "Snowflake," I heard?).

Rumor Alert: Spielberg and a Two Part "Deathly Hallows" Film; Report: WB says No Decision Yet Made on "Deathly Hallows," Kloves Back as Screenwriter. ARRRRGH, I really liked what the new writer did on the last movie (*puts on riot helmet*).

First Look: Disney's Princess of New Orleans, Which Makes Perfect Sense.

New 'interesting' Cloverfield pic at 1-18-08.com; Cloverfield Will Bomb, States NY Post.

Dan Clowes Writing Michel Gondry's Animated Film.

Hanks and Daniels to Join Spielberg's 'Chicago 7'?

Dancy, Ritter in the bag for 'Shopaholic.'

Interview: Alan Rickman--evil becomes him.

Ellen Page in Drew Barrymore's Whip It ? From the novel Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, by the way.

Comments

[edda.livejournal.com]

You guys cll it congealed salad too? Awesome!

And I was in college before I realized that if you've never had one and known it contained Jell-O, the term "congealed salad" is not all that appetizing, just to hear the words.

(We do a lime and pineapple one. There are chopped pecans. It's very good.)

[edda.livejournal.com]

CALL it congealed salad, sorry.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. Basically, ours is orange jello, chopped pecans, crushed pineapple and its juice, and Cool Whip. My uncle had apparently never noticed it all the other times my mother had made it, because he started raving about it.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

I always want to scrapbook because the little buttons and clips and stamps are so cute, but ultimately, I hate making anything that's not practical (or edible). I think you could scrapbook with stuff you have; heck, call it Found Scrapbooking, and maybe you could be...not Lindsay Lohan...maybe Xtina, she seems to have turned out surprisingly well.

[neveth.livejournal.com]

Noooo! Step away from scrapbooking! Scrapbooking distresses me in ways I cannot quite fathom. But then, I am a Knitter, so maybe it's just too foreign to my string-based ways. I think I'm always afraid I will turn into a soccer mom or something if I get to close to the scrapbooking supplies.

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

WHAT.

Get him out of my Monty Python. *shudder*

[kelcea.livejournal.com]

Scrapbooking is fun; I've done it for years. I scrapbook photos and paper-based souvenirs (ticket stubs, etc), and it doesn't have to be a huge investment. Colourful paper goes a long way.

[princessjessia.livejournal.com]

Except that I don't even know what you scrapbook on

Anything you want, really! If you're not doing it to specifically preserve photos, or create something that will still look the same years from now (rather than age), then you don't necessarily need archival-safe papers and such. 8x11 is still a common format because you can then use binders and regular page protectors (such as in the stationary section of a store, rather than the acid-free ones in the crafts/scrapbooking section) and whatever kind of paper you want - wrapping paper, computer paper, construction paper and other things you might already have in your house. It works really well for situations like you just mentioned because you'd be using a lot of stuff that isn't "archival safe" without preparation, like playbills and movie tickets and photocopies of book covers. Add in ribbon scraps or wrapped present bows or paper clips and colored staples and you can make something really visually appealing pretty darn easily. You can even use regular brown paper bags (such as lunch bags) to make an album (http://scrapbooking.about.com/library/weekly/blpaperbagscrapbooks.htm).

If you're doing it in order to preserve photos so they don't look yellow or distorted in 70 years, anything that comes into direct contact with the photo needs to be acid and lignin (especially important for yellowing issues) free. It'll say so right on the package. This includes the page itself, but cardstock (which is a good base for all scrapbooking pages) is cheap if you get it at a big craft store or an office supply store that happens to carry the acid/lignin-free plain colors in bulk. The biggest part of preservation is just knowing the basics about what paper and metal and fibers will do as they come into contact with each other age - from there, the possibilities for design are pretty much endless.

Now I'll stop yammering. :P

[worldforawhile.livejournal.com]

How do you plagiarize for an author's note? Really, how? Do you lift text from the note of a book you've already plagiarized for your manuscript, or what?

Also, I think scrapbooking is cool! And by that I mean, the non-corporate, DIY kind of scrapbooking like I used to do in high school where I'd take a bunch of concert tickets, magazine spreads and photos of me and my friends in venues and paste it all together, cool-like. Between you, me and the fencepost, I find all this High Drama over Corporate Mainstream Scrapbooking to be doubly funny because: not only is it about scrapbooks, it's about "authenticity" as it relates to Global-Scrapbooking-Industry-produced scrapbooks. It's like arguing whether Soul Decision or 5ive had more street cred.

Apparently, I am like, total Riot Grrl when it comes to this. Who Knew?

I am. . .Doll Parts. . .

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

That Tom Cruise video is so greatly disturbing to me.

[erinya.livejournal.com]

Tom Cruise is terrifying in that video. Especially when he laughs. RUN AWAY. FAR AWAY.

[erinya.livejournal.com]

Do you get the idea that he's actually not terribly intelligent?

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Worse, that he deeply believes in it. That's the terrifying part.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Tom Cruise a few ETs short of a Mother-Ship? Wow- in other news, water is wet *g*

Ernest Borgnine is *still alive*? He really is one of those Galapagos Tortoises, isn't he?!!

[erinya.livejournal.com]

But doesn't understand what he's mouthing deeply enough to be articulate about it.

That's what happens when you pay for spiritual enlightenment...

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

That Nancy Drew cover was always one of my favorites.

Don't be ashamed - I kind of want to scrapbook now, too, and I also have no idea what you do it on. But I do get the feeling doing the actual book thing would be more fun than online scrapbooking. I should ask my bf's sister what she uses; she and my aunts all scrapbook things.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

She stole from Robert Hughes??? Has that woman been on magic mushrooms since 1972?

[thea-scooter.livejournal.com]

The Tom Cruise video is already gone.

But he was all kinds of crazy in it, so maybe some people can be saved from nightmares now?

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

Wow, I thought Tom Cruise was crazy, but that video really just seals the deal. He thinks Scientology can "cure" criminals, drug use, AND bring about world peace? He believes only Scientology can help people? Good lord is he ever deluded. There are millions of people who aren't Scientologists who try to make this world a better place every day.

I guess TC would say they don;t succeed because they don't know the "tech". GAH, he's just NUTS and I am so sorry he has managed to suck in Katie Holmes and Will Smith.

[theonlykow.livejournal.com]

Scrapbooking is a terrifying, slippery slope. I say with no exaggeration that my best friend Mike's sister is addicted to a scary degree. They have a... (hold on, I'm counting in my head, haha) two story, five bedroom, four bathroom house in California, and it's literally full of scrapbooking stuff. She sits perched on about six inches of the end of one spot on their sofa, watching TV and cutting things out. Everything else in the house is full. Everything. Two bedrooms are inaccessible, as is the dining room, living room, garage and back door. We tried to clean out one room when they were out of town, and we couldn't fit the shit we pulled out anywhere else in the house.

...it's scary and upsetting to the point that we can't even make fun of it anymore. It's depressing to go to his house.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

The baby polar bear's cute has impeded my ability to comment on anything else. Eeeeee!

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to go on record saying that I would support a collective action movement to convince Warner Brothers to go with the screenwriter for OOTP and not Steve Kloves. Seriously, I might start a Facebook group about this.

[tonks07.livejournal.com]

bpal love! I am currently testing my way thru the Mad Tea Party set. :)

and I agree with the comment get Akien OUT of Monty Python! He is disturbing.

yea about the Mona Lisa! But I thought they figured that out a long time ago. I must have misread something.

I think 2 part DH might actually be a good idea.Maybe.Except for all the weeks of camping. and you like the writer for movie 5? I think that if I hadn't read the book I would have been totally confused. They barely mantioned anything about the profecy(sp?)and cut Lily out, which sucks for them because she is basically the motivation of the series.Haha on them. That and the everyone flying at the ministry battle kind of screws the last books surprise at Voldie being able to fly.

and while I'm on the topic-I LU Alan Rickman! Good ONTD post.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Lupercalia 2008 scents are up at BPAL (did you hear! Beth's having a baby!), and Earth Rat sounds really good (I like citrus).

I just got a bottle of Earth Rat with my last-minute Yule order. And I got a whole bunch of the love poetry scents in a decant circle. Lit geekery and poetry? I'm sold.

I hadn't heard about the baby! omg! Someone needs to send Beth these booties (http://www.mahardrygoods.com/item.php?item_id=502&page=2&category_id=72).

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

RIP Vampira. The object of my obsession as a morbid 7 year old.

And I am beyond pleased that you put in the Murray/Oasis article.