Not the best Saturday I have ever had

[cleolinda]

I'm behind on linkspam (again), so I'm just going to throw what I've currently got in Semagic up here:

So Sister Girl comes home and is showing me what she bought on an afternoon out (shoes, mostly), and she pulls out a roll of purple PVC tape. "It only sticks to itself!" she announces. "I thought it might be cute for wrapping presents, but... again, it only sticks to itself. I don't know what I'm going to do with it." "Well, I guess if it sticks to itself, you can tie someone up with it," says I. She smirks and says, "Yeah, I know." "So... basically... you went and bought yourself sex tape." "Well, it was at Spencer's." "Oh, well, duh, of course it's sex tape."

FYI: I just had Lindt's crème brûlée chocolate bar. This may be one of the best things you will ever put in your mouth (har har. Shut up. It has the crunchy burnt sugar in the cream filling!).

The Million Fag March will pay a visit to the Westboro Baptist Church on March 30. Keep in mind that the WBC is the "church" that keeps protesting (or planning to protest) funerals of anyone connected to homosexuality or the armed forces (wait, what?) in any way (see also: Heath Ledger, the female Marine and her baby who were murdered, Matthew Shepard back in the day, and so on). Keep in mind also that their website is specifically called "God Hates Fags," hence the name of the march. It'll be in Kansas, so obviously I won't be there, but they're hoping that both gay and straight people show up.

(Is there any way we can get Anonymous involved here?)

Meanwhile, the next Anonymous/Project Chanonlogy COS protest? March 15, 11 am local times.

From fifteensixty: "The writer of Father Ted saw those ['Down with this sort of thing'] signs too."

Man arrested for destroying S.Korea's top treasure.

Yahoo full coverage: The Northern Illinois University Shooting.

See the Falling Spy Satellite; Wait, why are they shooting it down again?

The Science of Fairy Tales.

Ghost-like white stag spotted.

Violinist: Fall fractures $1M fiddle.

Woman Says Being Declared Dead Ruins Life.

Dark May Be King, but Milk Chocolate Makes a Move. I will love this writer forever for the phrase "midnight-black, bittersweet bars with punishing percentages of cacao," because IT'S TRUE. GAH. I had a bite of an 85% cacao bar once that burned. I can handle "dark milk chocolate," which is actually pretty nifty, but gimme the creamy milky stuff any day. (Irony: I dislike white chocolate and cannot see the point in it.)

Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure. Okay, I love Jimmy "Wikipedia" Wales'.

I am deeply grossed out by this product and yet I feel that I may need a set ASAP. They're gross in the way that a used Biore strip is gross, I guess. Also, the soles of my feet feel all squirmy now. ETA: Aaaaaand it's a scam. I feel marginally less oogy now.

'Spamalot' musical changes Britney lyric "because we don't laugh at sad people."

Something Positive on Alan Moore.

Well... Darwin's been fully revealed by Hasbro. Although I am also enjoying "Clovie" as a nickname. Also: now we know why they didn't reveal the entire monster in the movie. Because... it is not greater than the sum of its parts, let's put it that way. (Also: MOAR HUD. And where are the parasite accessories?)

(Sister Girl, who initially declared that she would totally fork over the cash for one: "Ninety-nine ninety-nine for that? That's ghetto. Make it life-size and we'll talk.")

I drink your Oscar promo--I think I'd already mentioned the There Will Be Blood milkshake press coupons, but here we also find out 1) what the context of the line is (I haven't seen many of the Oscar movies), 2) that the line actually comes from a 1924 Congressional hearing, and 3) Paul Thomas Anderson loves the "There Will Be Milkshakes" video ("It’s completely insane and hilarious. It’s crazy what people latch onto").

Hey, did you notice that there was a really blatant, kind-of-lame shot of an American flag in the Indiana Jones trailer? Well, it wasn't supposed to be there. And a whole bunch of guns were. See the original version of the trailer here. Also, Cate Blanchett is hot for Harrison Ford.

Comments

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

The only time I ever agreed with Michael Moore was when he went after the WBC. He went on a road trip with a group of gay and transgenders, I believe, to peacefully greet the awful "church" members, who were just awful and rude to them in return. It was a brilliant move.

It stuns me how evil people can be.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite part is that Darwin is for ages 4 and up. Oh, I know what my cousin's getting for Christmas!

[msilverstar]

Huh, I thought you meant a kid-oriented version of Origin of the Species, and thought, "I'd get that!" for my seven year old. /geek

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Well. Now we know how to get particle_person's attention.
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I can't believe the FDA is STILL considering letting them eliminate cacao from chocolate.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Ghost-like white stag spotted.

Prongs rides again!

Thanks for the link to that Spamalot news. That's a kind and decent thing to do.

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

Someone says "White Stag" and I still think Narnia, not HP. :D

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

My sister's sex tape

Congratulations, that cut-text actually made my heart stop.

Re: the Million Fag March -- guys, the Phelpses are just trolls who just haven't made it all the way into the information age (they do so love sending their obnoxious/offensive press releases via fax). They feed off attention by attaching any newsworthy event (yes, including the NIU shooting) to their little fetish. They picket anywhere they might get seen, any event that might be well-attended. They cannot be reasoned with.

That said, if you're in Topeka, do yourself a favor and have the chili at Porubsky's (http://cjonline.com/stories/100207/bus_204570705.shtml). It's fantastic.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, that cut-text actually made my heart stop.
Ha, I think that was her intention. I was all, "What??" Not the illustrious Sister Girl!

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

The Kinoki pads are evidently a scam; they have something in them that turns brown on contact with the skin, making it look like they're working.

I see that damn commercial on Logo so many times in a day. The part that makes me laugh is "ancient Japanese reflexology."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, we were wondering if that was the case. Does this mean I can stop feeling squirmy in the feet now?

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought the US trailer felt a bit strange because of the blatant American flag. It's interesting to seethe difference with the international one.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

It seemed to me to be more of a time-setting thing, as it was a 48 star flag. (I think.) Like "this is back in the olden days, when Hawai'i didn't count and communists were the real enemy!" etc.

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

Clovie just want's a kiss! Give Clovie a kiss! (^3^)

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. CHIBI!DARWIN! That is so cute!

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

They don't have that bar in Canada! Grrr.

*sulks*

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

did the sun just choose the most unflattering photo of blanchett they could find? because that makes her look like a leather-skinned crone.

[camisado.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link explaining the "I drink your milkshake" thing. I read the article in Entertainment Weekly discussing the Internet meme, but EW still didn't explain what the line meant in the movie (I guess maybe they wanted to avoid spoilers? I don't know). This is just one reason why I'm not renewing my EW subscription.. the internet is so much better.

[cosette-esk.livejournal.com]

Is it extremely creepy that I find Darwin adorable? Because I totally, totally do. I want one now.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

He...certainly does look less than impressive in toy form. I think...I think I'll just hold onto my $100, k thnx. >.>

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

He also breaks the square-cube law even more egregiously than most kaiju.

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

ZOMG. PRONGS!

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

Is We Will Rock You going to change their lyrics as well? Because they've got a character named Britney Spears, and make several jokes at her expense (including one about the shave)

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

I love that, according to the Hasbro blurb, Darwin comes with both parasites and a Statue of Liberty head.

Also, reading about the crushed violin made me want to throw up. D: I would cry if my violin broke and it's a piece-of-crap student one. A $1 million violin? Gah.

[pscopathictiger.livejournal.com]

This may be one of the best things you will ever put in your mouth


That's what she said!

I'm sorry, I had to. Yesterday was National That's What She Said Day!

Also, I really want to see There Will Be Blood

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I'm allergic to a lot of things and last Valentine's Day ('07), my dad got me dark, darker and darkest Guylian chocolate squares with nothing I'm allergic to in them. I was having my period at the time I'm telling you that shit is like a freakin' chocolate IV, man. You can feel it flowing through your veins.

Also, word on change the Spamalot lyric, but I don't think the new version is as funny. I imagine it plays better in London, though. They would have had to change it eventually if the show is ever revived in years to come. I'm sure audiences fifty years from now will wonder why on Earth the Lady of the Lake is threatened by some 70-something crazy ex-popstar. I maintain that there will be nothing quite like Sara Ramirez screeching 'BRITNEY SPEARS!' in her beautiful soprano, though.

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

I too can't get enough of dark chocolate when I'm menstruating. I'll eat completely unsweetened baking chocolate and love it, even. I think it must have some mineral or something in it that I'm losing at that time of the month.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Dark milk chocolate is fabulous. I get particularly weak for dark Dove, but that super dark stuff is just bitter and not pleasant at all to eat.
And I like milk chocolate too, but it has to be good milk chocolate. Hershey's is just disgraceful. I tend to go for the European stuff, with Lindt being my absolute favourite. And yes, I will be on the look out for that creme brulee bar mmm.

[greenjeanz.livejournal.com]

One thing I've always noticed with Hershey's is that...well, to be frank, it smells like vomit. Am I the only person who smells this?

[meredith-mae.livejournal.com]

Apparently Fred Phelps hates the army because he thinks the Iraq War and terrorism and whatnot is punishment from God because the US condones homosexuality. Yeah... the US is really accepting of gay people. *sigh*

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Well, we're not stoning them at every turn, so we're too tolerant by his standards.

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

p.s. Go to any 7/11 and get one of those Cadbury Milk Chocolate bars. XO HEAVENLY SMOOTH AND CREAMY.

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

Cadbury Fruit and Nut: possibly the best thing ever.

/British

[theendofallthat.livejournal.com]

I get tired of how much attention people pay to WBC. There aren't that many people in the "church," but all of them happen to be loud, attention seeking media whores, and if the mass media and the bloggers could just get over how annoying they are and stop writing about them, well, they might not go away, but at least we wouldn't have to hear about these morons.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

Your icon has restored my hope in mankind. That is all.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

White chocolate isn't chocolate! I think it tastes like crap regardless.

I can understand that they edited out the guns for the MPAA, but I think it's a bit ridiculous they had to do it in the first place. It's kind of like "look! guns pointed at this car! gun noises! rough-housing Indy! but hey, we're threatening them by aiming them at the ground, right?" I definitely don't like the flag addition, though. At the same time, the trailer is so amazing that I don't care in the least.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

I love all forms of chocolate, but the super-dark ones are just too much for me. 70% is usually my limit, and even that is incredibly bitter and tastes somewhat like dirt. Unfortunately, my dad loves the stuff, so when I visit home it's usually the only type of chocolate we have in the house. Do you know that they make 90% bars?

I can't say I'm impressed with the Darwin toy either. He looks like he needs to spend some more time in the sun.

[eleigh.livejournal.com]

I think I once had something that was like 88% or 90% cacao and from Russia. It's the first time I have ever spit out chocolate. The Russians should just stick to putting alcohol in their chocolate. That they know how to do.