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[cleolinda]

Not much to say on a personal level, except that I think I need to accept that I am, in fact, going through a bout of depression. The annual January-February-possibly-March bout, like clockwork. I know I probably don't seem depressed to y'all, by the tone of most entries, but that's the thing I've noticed: I can perk up for the short term when presented with stimuli. A conversation, a book, a movie, something to snark on: I'm fully capable of reacting. It's the acting that's the hard part--I feel locked in stasis unless something else acts upon me. Sigh.

Cult TV show boosts sales of surreal Irish author: "It was a shot that lasted just a second, but the appearance of Irish novel The Third Policeman on cult television series 'Lost' has thrust one of Ireland's less celebrated authors into the limelight. The surreal comic novel by Flann O'Brien, an early 20th century author heavily influenced by fellow countryman James Joyce, appeared briefly in an episode of 'Lost' screened in Ireland on Monday. It was first aired in the United States in October. After that outing, 10,000 copies of the book -- unpublished during the author's lifetime -- flew off bookshop shelves in just two days."

Defamer: "NBC has posted the pilot episode of the Dick Wolf series Conviction to iTunes Store, where potential viewers can download it for free, then spend the two weeks until the show's premiere telling friends how totally awesome it is, thus making the series a huge hit for the struggling, technology-crazy network." And then, I assume, it will slap iTunes on the wrist for actually making people want to watch their shows.

Tom Cruise may sue magazine over breakup story. Well, I'm surprised, aren't you?

For those of you wondering what the SACRILEGE last night was all about: Torvill and Dean's Bolero.

Roaming motorcyclists stick it to Fred Phelps and his funeral protesters: "Wearing vests covered in military patches, a band of motorcyclists rolls around the country from one soldier's funeral to another, cheering respectfully to overshadow jeers from church protesters. They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals."

Jon Stewart goes a little nuts on the Today Show.

Gawker: Media Freakout: MySpace Also Eats Baby Puppies.

Mary Higgins Clark a plagiarist?

Office Pirates Preview: Time Inc. Wants You to Kill Yourself. Arrrr?

The Pete Doherty Hoax, Resolved, or "The Hoax Is A Hoax."

Wait, Tom Ford did what to Jake Gyllenhaal?

Leaked Guns N' Roses Tracks Give Fans Hope.

Toeless socks?

Over at dailydigestnews: two updates, including a link to Legoback Mountain (which is startlingly accurate, by the way).

Comments

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

And I thought the toe-only socks were bad...

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Completely understand about the depression. Going through that myself. Hang in there, chica. :-) And thanks for posting these snippets--they help.

Depression and Stimulii

[speaks.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going through a fair bit of that right now myself. When I am talking to people or Doing something, no one could tell me from my regularly cheery self

But when I lie down in bed alone, or am sitting in my office quietly, I just feel a terrible dark tearing at my guts.

It's beginning to annoy me. I cant figure out why I'm having these feelings.

[distant-cord.livejournal.com]

Wait...Fred Phelps is holding anti-gay protests at military funerals? Ow, my head hurts. The stupid, it burns!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just on the general principle that a country condoning homosexuality in any way has brought God's wrath down on it, etc. He's also the one who protested at Matthew Shepard's funeral. He's that kind of stand-up guy. *eyeroll*

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen Torvill and Dean's Bolero in forever. DAMN.

NOW I remember why I start laughing uproariously when anyone gets compared to them. Dream on, suckas. YEAH I SAID IT.

[conejita-diabla.livejournal.com]

Oh man...every bit as beautiful as I remembered. And almost more so, somehow - figure skating has become so frustratingly obsessed with jumps that much of the grace, the _musicality_ is just gone in most of the younger skaters. Very sad.

I've actually still got this on videotape somewhere...wonder if I can find it?

[lysariala.livejournal.com]

i'm a knitting nerd.. therefore i <3 the pseudo tabi socks pattern :) my husband yells at me for running to the store for just milk in flip flops and toe socks. not liek i'm really GOING anywhere.. :P

toeless socks however, are retarded. i can understand toeless hose, for work sandals, btu toeless socks have no purpose, save MAYBE wearing to keep lotion on your feet while getting a pedicure.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

The Third Policeman is one of the best novels, ever (and it is about someone stuck in hell without realising it). An O'Brien's Irish language novel 'The Poor Mouth' is welcome relief for anyone who ever suffered through Irish in Ireland's secondary schools.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Do you think it might be SAD in addition to your usual depressive tendencies? I know a lot of people who are in the "I don't move unless prodded" state, and I'm kind of feeling that way myself. This is unfortunate, because I have a shitload of work to do and I keep staring off into space.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it's totally SAD related. I notice that it doesn't really hit until after New Year's, like the lack of sunlight has finally caught up with me.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the Bolero video. It still makes me cry every time I watch it. Just amazing.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i get the same way with depression, especially around this time of the year. i can get into things when things are happening around me(sometimes i can't even do that, though) but i can't make things happen. it took all the energy i had yesterday to call this woman back about a week long job starting this coming Monday. it's the worst when you lose initiative.

[stargal62889.livejournal.com]

I love Pete regardless of how real he is.

But I knew he was real all along :)

[tifaria.livejournal.com]

I really want to learn to ride a motorcycle and join the Patriot Guard. I may not agree with the war, but a soldier's funeral is no place for Phelps's actions. He and his insane "church" stopped by here in my hometown to stand outside my high school a couple of years ago and protest the formation of a gay-straight support group for high school kids and.. ugh. I'm normally all for the right of every human to live, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

[princessmandys.livejournal.com]

my mother told me to tell you: "Thank you so much for finding the Bolero video. I was trying to explain to my daughter why everyone was judging and comparing to the old Bolero. Now she understands, don't you?"

I: *nod dutifully*. yeah that was amazing. can I say two things though? 1) I think people need to stop with the comparing and start looking at the performance the pair did last night without suddenly going all deja vu meets Chucky, and 2) 6.0s are so much freaking easier to understand. COME BACK 6.0S!!!!! thank you.

:-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, y'all are welcome. My mom was quite excited that I'd found it as well.

[kaytethinks.livejournal.com]

Bolero is so beautiful, I watched it twice.

I know you saw the pictures, but did you see Evgeni Plushenko's muscle suit performance? Sex bomb, sex bomb! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8vXfS6YLHw) It's hilarious and possibly the only time I've ever seen him smile.

[nasus221.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy. LMAO!

[notemily.livejournal.com]

sock dreams has been selling toeless socks (http://www.sock-dreams.com/_shop/pages/socks_detail_ProductID_452.php) for awhile. I think they're adorable and I'd buy some if I owned more cute open-toed shoes (:

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

Toeless socks are extra funny when they are also heelless socks. I'm like... "You want me to give you $3.50 for a tube of sock material?"

Anyway. I have a present for you. Be on the lookout.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eeee!

(Your enabling was successful--I ordered Angels and Imperialis for myself, now that Angels is back in stock. It's not so much that it cleared up my skin--it's that my skin went bad again when I ran out.)

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

"You shouldn't mess with me or any Israeli," she told me from Tel Aviv. "We have to be tough, because life is tough here."

The article was fine until that was thrown in. It almost seems like it's going to turn Higgins Clark into an anti-Israeli if she tries to refute any of these charges. (I'm not saying HC has much of a case, because--really.) But I don't think nationality ought to have any bearing in making one's case. Anyone of any nationality with any ounce of self-worth and respect would do as much as this woman is doing to stand up for herself.

Re: Teh Blahs of Depression

[silversmoke.livejournal.com]

If you're hitting depression around a certain time of the year, there's a good chance it is SAD related -- but since I'm not your doctor, I can't say for sure. For that matter, you should point and laugh at anyone who says they know without a doubt what the culprit is.

What I can suggest is that you pick up a bottle of Omega 3-6 or Omega 3-6-9 from your local drugstore. I've worked with a lot of folks who say that although the O36s don't make them feel like frolicking around the room, they do feel more focused and less prone to the "eh, why bothers" of the season.

You can do a web search on Omega Oil supplements online, and you're going to hit a lot of sites that tell you to go straight for the simple Omega 3 tablets. IGNORE those pages. Almost all of them have latched on to one or two studies that are several years old, and were incomplete. Your body needs to balance Omega 3 with Omega 6 (both are found all over the place, mostly in fish and some seeds), or else you'll stop processing one or the other to a large degree -- rendering the whole thing pointless. It's not a risk if you're just, say, chowing down on fish sandwiches every day; but one you start taking concentrated supplements, you need to be aware of what you're really putting into your body. Also, if you have fish allergies, You should ask a doctor before you start taking any omega 3 or 6 oils.

(Sorry if I hit ranty -- I really hate it when some new supplement hits the market, and folks crow all about it without even looking to see what they're taking.)

Anyway, just a suggestion -- it might help in the short term.

[penelopeblack.livejournal.com]

God, I hate Fred Phelps. >_< I live like half an hour away from Topeka, so I see stuff about him a lot. Also, his protesters are always at all of the plays I go to. :P

socks around the world

[kaeruneko.livejournal.com]

Japan is full of speciality stores selling weird versions of socks, from toe-less socks to toe-only socks to foot hankerchiefs (I'm not sure how they work, except I think you're supposed to tie them around your heel/ankle area). Some socks are meant to be worn together, in layers, with the colors and fabric textures showing in different places--white lace beneath fine knit, for example, so your toes are framed by multiple colors. School girls wear oversized socks and keep them on by gluing them to their legs using special paste. It's a world of socks I never knew about when I lived in the States.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

I don't give a damn about the melodrama (almost wrote 'melodarma' in a fit of Freudian dyslexia) that is the modern Olympics, but THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting the link to Torvill and Dean's Bolero. Of all the events in my life, that performance is the prime motivator in my becoming a dancer.

I..uh..cried. Bah.

Yarha, Going to (Many, Small) Pieces

[sweetdaddydavid.livejournal.com]

Hey if you're depressed, I'll take you to a strip club and we'll listen to Stained Class by Judas Priest. Guaranteed to cheer you up. Sammy's or Al's Crossroads West?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, I knew a kid in high school who was very proud of his father managing Sammy's. His name was Skeet. He stole my homework a lot.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Not entirely sure if this is something for your regular linkspam, or dailydigestnews, came across it via one of shanmonster's linksdumps and thought it was amusing enough to recommend: Seremuppety (http://walkerboh.deviantart.com/) (follow the links on the right) - Serenity as told by the Muppets.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

I am sitting in a college computer lab trying not to shriek out loud. I haven't even clicked the link, but the sheer existence of such a thing brings joy to my otherwise bleak day.
Muppets make everything better.

[basslikesitruff.livejournal.com]

Ah Seasonal Affective Disorder. Just realized I had it this year...thus the decision was made for us to move out of Missouri to a sunnier, warmer state in a couple of years. And I have to say that I'd never read anyone desribe it so well before. The stuff you wrote about the ability to be perked up for temporary stimuli but not otherwise hit home. Now I better get not wanting to be bothered going anywhere or seeing anyone. And yep, it's such a specific timeframe...now at least I'll know to prepare.

As far as the gay thing...uh, yeah. I've been particularly freaked out by his actions at funerals for quite a while. (I've been in a same-sex relationship for like 4 years now). The guys is particularly unhinged, and it's unsettling his ability to suck others into that mentailty, even if it is just his family and friends.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The stuff you wrote about the ability to be perked up for temporary stimuli but not otherwise hit home. Now I better get not wanting to be bothered going anywhere or seeing anyone.

And that's what's so dangerous about it--my family had no idea I was so depressed a few years ago, because I didn't act "depressed" around them. Of course not: when you're with people, you go into Interaction Autopilot. You make pleasantries and conversation, not plans to kill yourself right in front of them.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to thank you, Cleo for posting that video of Torvill and Dean's performance. My mom and I both love them and the Bolero is, in our opinion, the Ice Dancing performance. Period. I still find myself moved whenever I see it.

[kira002.livejournal.com]

It's funny you should mention Phelps - at the very moment you posted this entry, he and his "church" were demonstrating 4 blocks from my house. See, the university had this guy (http://www.emporia.edu/bonner/) in to give a lecture. Obviously, he must be stopped from spreading his anti-American message of justice for all, and Phelps is the only person up to the task. The security on campus was on par with when Bob Dole came and gave a lecture. Craziness.

Fred Phelps and The Wizard of Oz - sometimes I'm ashamed of being from Kansas.

[basslikesitruff.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. Just read Dees' agenda and it was all civil rights and ant-racial, international justice type work. WTF would Phelps (aka raging homocidal lunatic) want to picket about this guy? What a frightening creature.