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cleolindaI don't have much to say about skating last night, because it was mostly good and not as snarkable. Although Emily Hughes (who was omgsocuteandawesome) does remind me strangely of Movie!Ginny Weasley. Also, Sloot had fireworks on her ass, or very near to it. I salute her for wearing pants, though. I keep hearing that Sasha Cohen looks like That Bitchy Girl You Hated in High School (paging ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snacky...), but she skated with verve (and apparently ended her program, if you read her lips, with "Fuck yeah!") and that's good enough for me. (Come on, you smile like this while pulling your skate over your head and we'll talk.)
As Dick Button Said The Other Night, "Oh, My Socks!"
(Did someone say socks?)
The Dick Button Drinking Game.
Serious news:
Armed Gang Steals $43.5 Million in England.
Bush Unaware of Ports Deal Before Approval. Wait, what? His administration approved it and then told him? And it's Cheney's hand up Kermit's ass there, I suppose?
Eight Neb. Co-Workers Share $365M Jackpot.
"A teenage girl was convicted Wednesday in the killing of a 16-year-old classmate who was choked, beaten and sawed into pieces after an argument over boys." Dude.
Back to frivolous news:
Do not fuck with Potter fans. An interesting bit from the writer's response: "On the other hand, I think the incredible reaction to this is an example of one of the ideas that inspired me to write this piece in the first place – that our culture has reached a place where our entertainment icons matter more to us than anything else. J.K. Rowling's kidnapping (and, I guess, even jokes about that) would inspire more political action than the deaths of so many soldiers and civilians in Iraq have over the last two years."
Dan Radcliffe Buys Black Family Tree in Book Aid Auction. Awwww.
Isaac Mizrahi Justifies His Existence. Apparently Will & Grace made him grope Scarlett. Or something.
Grey's Anatomy: The Blog.
Johnny Weir: still crazy. "He says he's been obsessed with the Holocaust since he was little and considers himself 'a little bit' Jewish, although he isn't, not technically. He says he's had his past lives read and found out that most recently he was a Jewish girl from Poland during World War II."
Donald Trump Continues to Blast Stewart: "Essentially, you made this firing up just as you made up your sell order of ImClone." O SNAP.
The Smoking Gun talks about the Frey bust, and what the staffers were thinking when the Oprah thing went down.
kookaburra1701: "CBS has apparently purchased Voyager and Deep Space Nine, and is offering episodes for download. Google is also offering a number of other shows for download, such as the Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy. It's getting so that I wonder if we'll even have TV in 10 years. Anyways, just some media news I thought you might find interesting."
cimorene111: "you may be amused by this cartoon music video: cheney's got a gun."
MacGyver Tip: Heal warts with duct tape. Huh.
Gawker: 'Life & Style': We Still Say TomKat is Dying, Dammit. "...Peace has reigned in celebmagland. Until today, when Life & Style's new issue defiantly sticks with its TomKat breakup claim, thereby threatening the magopolitical stability we've come to enjoy over these last six days. How will things now play out? Will there be counterattacks and shifting alliances? We have no idea, but we think this is how World War I started."
P.S. Hit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dailydigestnews to find out who might play the villain(s) in the next Batman. Hint: I think you'll be pleased.
And finally: Happy birthday tolaurelin_kit!
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snacky...), but she skated with verve (and apparently ended her program, if you read her lips, with "Fuck yeah!") and that's good enough for me. (Come on, you smile like this while pulling your skate over your head and we'll talk.)As Dick Button Said The Other Night, "Oh, My Socks!"
(Did someone say socks?)
The Dick Button Drinking Game.
Serious news:
Armed Gang Steals $43.5 Million in England.
Lawmakers Undeterred by Bush Veto Threat:
Lawmakers determined to capsize the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates said President Bush's surprise veto threat [direct quote: "They pass a law, I'll deal with it with a veto"] won't deter them.I thought the whole point of this war was freedom and safety and security? But by God, if there's money involved...Bush on Tuesday brushed aside objections by leaders in the Senate and House that the $6.8 billion sale could raise risks of terrorism at American ports. In a forceful defense of his administration's earlier approval of the deal, he pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement. The sale's harshest critics were not appeased. "I will fight harder than ever for this legislation, and if it is vetoed I will fight as hard as I can to override it," said Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. King and Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record) of New York said they will introduce emergency legislation to suspend the ports deal.
Bush Unaware of Ports Deal Before Approval. Wait, what? His administration approved it and then told him? And it's Cheney's hand up Kermit's ass there, I suppose?
Eight Neb. Co-Workers Share $365M Jackpot.
"A teenage girl was convicted Wednesday in the killing of a 16-year-old classmate who was choked, beaten and sawed into pieces after an argument over boys." Dude.
Back to frivolous news:
Do not fuck with Potter fans. An interesting bit from the writer's response: "On the other hand, I think the incredible reaction to this is an example of one of the ideas that inspired me to write this piece in the first place – that our culture has reached a place where our entertainment icons matter more to us than anything else. J.K. Rowling's kidnapping (and, I guess, even jokes about that) would inspire more political action than the deaths of so many soldiers and civilians in Iraq have over the last two years."
Dan Radcliffe Buys Black Family Tree in Book Aid Auction. Awwww.
Isaac Mizrahi Justifies His Existence. Apparently Will & Grace made him grope Scarlett. Or something.
Grey's Anatomy: The Blog.
Johnny Weir: still crazy. "He says he's been obsessed with the Holocaust since he was little and considers himself 'a little bit' Jewish, although he isn't, not technically. He says he's had his past lives read and found out that most recently he was a Jewish girl from Poland during World War II."
Donald Trump Continues to Blast Stewart: "Essentially, you made this firing up just as you made up your sell order of ImClone." O SNAP.
The Smoking Gun talks about the Frey bust, and what the staffers were thinking when the Oprah thing went down.
kookaburra1701: "CBS has apparently purchased Voyager and Deep Space Nine, and is offering episodes for download. Google is also offering a number of other shows for download, such as the Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy. It's getting so that I wonder if we'll even have TV in 10 years. Anyways, just some media news I thought you might find interesting."cimorene111: "you may be amused by this cartoon music video: cheney's got a gun."MacGyver Tip: Heal warts with duct tape. Huh.
Gawker: 'Life & Style': We Still Say TomKat is Dying, Dammit. "...Peace has reigned in celebmagland. Until today, when Life & Style's new issue defiantly sticks with its TomKat breakup claim, thereby threatening the magopolitical stability we've come to enjoy over these last six days. How will things now play out? Will there be counterattacks and shifting alliances? We have no idea, but we think this is how World War I started."
P.S. Hit
dailydigestnews to find out who might play the villain(s) in the next Batman. Hint: I think you'll be pleased.And finally: Happy birthday to
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Date: 2006-02-23 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 04:13 am (UTC)(Edited because I can't read.)
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Date: 2006-02-23 03:53 am (UTC)But I'm pulling for Emily Hughes or Georgian Girl With Unpronounceable Name. Or at the very least, Tall Pretty Girl In Third Who Isn't Cohen Or Slutskaya.
I should probably try to figure out someone's name.
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Date: 2006-02-23 03:53 am (UTC)Hehe @ Dick Button. And our flamboyant little Johnny Weir.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:38 am (UTC)Sasha Cohen looks like Alexis Bledel!! She, like, totally does.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:40 am (UTC)The thing about the ports is that they were already owned by a UK company. So it's not like we're giving control to a foreign entity all of a sudden. And freaking out that now the owners would be Arabs smacks of racism to me. The UAE isn't Syria or Iran.
And yay for Radcakes giving to charity. I bet Jo's happy too.
Thanks for the Grey's blog.
What I find amusing about the TomKat break up story is that the orginal story said that they planned to deny it and stay together until the kid was born. So the magazine sort of covered its ass against denial.
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Date: 2006-02-24 03:28 am (UTC)Melissa's decreasingly massaged ego- yesterday, she was askingher minionsthe readers if anyone had saved it so she could re-upload it. I read it all - I think - when it was posted, and I don't recall anything particularly interesting in the now lost excerpt.I've been accompanying the situation (week off uni! I can afford to sit and watch as wanks unfold online, ok?), and it truly is getting out of hand. While I concede the article wasn't even funny (for meee!) to begin with, it's so. Very. Tame. Compared to the reaction it's been getting. It's comforting to see most recent comments in TLC are on the anti-egomaniac editor bandwagon.
Up until yesterday, I had no problems saying I'm very much a Potter fan
atic, whether online or off. Having second thoughts, now. Want nothing to do with this crowd.no subject
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Date: 2006-02-23 05:54 am (UTC)I don't know if you've seen the "Lost" rhapsody, but it cracked my ass up, and I figured if you haven't seen it... well, you'd appreciate it, lol:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lost
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Date: 2006-02-23 06:31 am (UTC)She reminds me of Julie Cox (http://imdb.com/name/nm0185107/), who played Princess Irulan in Dune (http://imdb.com/title/tt0142032/) and Children of Dune (http://imdb.com/title/tt0287839/) (the miniserieses...miniserii?)
See:
so, like sisters or something)
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Date: 2006-02-23 09:18 am (UTC)"YES! Fuck yeah" is what it looks like to me.
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Date: 2006-02-23 07:03 am (UTC)YES! Now that is a fan. xD
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Date: 2006-02-23 07:06 am (UTC)Johnny Weir is nuckin' futts. 0_o
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Date: 2006-02-23 08:48 am (UTC)I'd like to state that I'm a die-hard HP fan, but honestly? I found the article kinda funny, and I thought the Leaky Cauldron reaction was waaaay over the top. I mean... actually posting an outraged article about it? How old are they, four?
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Date: 2006-02-23 09:18 am (UTC)(Yeah... I'm always a little wary of stuff like the Leaky Cauldron reaction, which was basically, "Freedom of speech is great as long as it's not something that offends us.")
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:17 pm (UTC)She's made up her mind on the self-published book proposed (http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/351443.html) back in December. She's going to do it on a "pay as you go" model, with a chapter coming out every time she gets enough contributions. She's put a full description of how it will work here (http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451).
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 04:47 pm (UTC)btw, been totally adoring your Olympic posts. Awesome!
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Date: 2006-02-23 09:31 pm (UTC)I think it's the reddish hair, but she reminds me of Alyson Hannigan in her Willow days.
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Date: 2006-02-23 10:05 pm (UTC)Well, WOW.
I'm kind of at odds on how to feel about it. Yes, it's wrong to do satire about *anyone* being captured by terrorists because it is horrific and cruel, and yet...it's *satire* for Christ's sake.
I know I've thought about it more than once (As in: "J.K.R. would be someone to target if terrorists wanted a ginormous crowd response.") but it's obvious the guy didn't really wish that on J.K.R. I found the article clever (because I'm just mean like that, I suppose), but I can't say I'm surprised at the negative response he got from it.
You said it best, though. Do not fuck with the Harry Potter fans.
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Date: 2006-02-24 12:35 am (UTC)Harry Potter Just Got Crazier!
Date: 2006-02-24 01:32 am (UTC)As an aside, though, that article was absolutely HILARIOUS. Maybe I have a dark sense of humor, but you ignore that fact that is completely, 100% TRUE. Just look at how people are reacting to a little satire.
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Date: 2006-02-24 07:34 am (UTC)