Just a little bit of linkspam

[cleolinda]

Zoos ask, what to do with an aged lemur? Ohhhhhhhhh, what do you do with an aged lemur, what do you do with an aged lemur, what do you do with an aged lemur early in the morning?

[Poll #1208688]
... so early in the morrrrrrrrning!

Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread.

An Eccentric Life: Tasha Tudor 1915-2008.

Money missing from Serenity charity screenings.

Martha Stewart banned from Britain.

Michael Ian Black Takes on David Sedaris [Literary Feuds].

MPAA sez, "We shouldn't have to prove infringement took place before collecting $150k per file in damages."

Create word clouds with wordle.net. I trust you can all think of appropriate mischief to get up to with this. (General hints: Sweet Valley High books? Romance novels? Badfic? Crackfic?)

How to make a Sesame Street Yip Yip costume for Halloween ("There's no denying it's fun to go around freely and anonymously shouting 'yipyipyipyip' to those around you").

Haunting Snow Globes.

30 ridiculous celebrity demands. Someday I want to be obscenely rich and famous so that I, too, can demand toilets full of lilies, a harem of groovy young dudes to peel my grapes, and exactly twelve (12) shrubberies of heights not to exceed three feet but not limited to eighteen inches in width. COUNTERCLOCKWISE! I SAID COUNTERCLOCKWISE, MONKEY!

Images: Wall-E, Hancock, Brideshead Revisited, Mamma Mia!, Bangkok Dangerous; Talking 'Spirit' Posters; New 'Eagle Eye' Movie Stills (okay, I know my second cousin is working on this one); Kevin Spacey on the set of 'Shrink.'

trailer_spot: Mummy 3, Burn After Reading, Expired, Fireflies in the Garden, WALL•E, Punisher: War Zone.

Potter kids get their drink on to celebrate end of HBP filming. Which kids their age can do in Britain. My inner teenager is retroactively jealous.

Nestor Carbonell talks 'Lost' and 'The Dark Knight' (remember, he's Richard Alpert, the Guy Who Never Ages. Also, he mentions that one of the best moments in the trailer--the Joker clapping in his jail cell--was improvised by Heath Ledger).

Will.i.am on His 'Wolverine' Role.

Spider-Man Will Return in 2011! But Do We Want Him To? Which sums it up, I think.

Comments

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

30 ridiculous celebrity demands

Now that I know that Hasselhof "insists on a life sized cut of himself backstage" I kind of totally love him even more

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

What should they do with an aged lemur? Make him hang out with the scratching sloth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqio2G_Ra6g&eurl=http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/06/baby-sloth-scratching-herself.html) of course.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Icon love. Also, Ledger improved that part? I love that part, I have a few screencaps because he looks freaking awesome. In fact, it's the picture on the screen of my phone. In FACT, it's my icon. :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I should note here that the artwork in my icon is from worth1000.com--a "photoshop famous works of art with superheroes" challenge. There were a few really awesome Wonder Woman pieces.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks, I shall definitely take a look. Oh, and have you seen this? (http://stepheniesays.livejournal.com/5065.html) At #12 someone mentions the internetz gossipin' bought Edward as an abusive boyfriend and Meyer responds with something that looks like an answer, but isn't.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's interesting. Because you know what? I don't know that I'd go so far as "abusive," but Bella herself says in the first book that her own feelings towards him are "unhealthy." And then, yes, I would definitely say that he's controlling (in a very paternalistic "I know what's best for you" way) up through about half of Eclipse, at which point he becomes the magical miracle boyfriend and backs off like a saint. At which point then Jacob takes up the slack and is worse than Edward ever was.

And I can understand Meyer saying, "You know, the fact that people are really criticizing this breaks my heart." I'm going to say up front that if I ever get my novel published and people actually care to read it, I will remind myself that I should be able to take what I can dish out. Go! Critique! Criticize! Insult! It's only fair! I'll stay over here and snark on books I read, and you stay over there and snark on mine.

But at the same time... you know... I'm not even sure that Meyer in that interview is able to convincingly argue, or even tries to argue, that her critics are wrong. It's just, "I'm hurt that I'm receiving criticism on something I care about."

That said, I do think that Bella gets a bad rap for being "too passive" or "too weak." I think there are a lot of things you can say about Bella--hapless, obsessed, whiny, emo, selfish, ridiculously clumsy, conveniently dense about Edward's feelings, unable to relate to anyone who isn't a vampire--but when she's in danger, she does look for ways to defend herself. In fact, I would almost argue that the problem isn't that she's not proactive; it's that she's proactive in the wrong directions (leading Jacob on, trying to maybe-kill herself, obsessing about Edward, repeatedly trying to seduce him [although the book itself seems to classify this as wrong; I don't]). So I do give Meyer a pass on the "passive" charge.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to me, Edward's annoying, but Jacob makes me feel sick. And to be fair, Edward's not the only one to be manipulative, because after a while Bella starts catching on and doing the same (erm, unhealthy, but equality within it?). I ranted about Jacob in a few places, because he really did kind of scare me, but I'll keep from ranting here.
Her answer though, about readers finding negativity, kind of went too far the way I saw it. Sort of like she's blaming us for not seeing the intentions of her characters' bad actions. Before and after though, she writes that it makes sense in her head, and that it's hard to read. So I understand that it's personal, and that she recognizes she's not the best writer in the world, but she should learn to suck it up. If she doesn't like what is said, then she should do the, "Well, that sucks, but to each their own" and not make it out to seem like her readers are misinterpreting the books. It's just petty to me, her doing that.
Sorry, that turned out to be an angry rant anyway.

[glyphs.livejournal.com]

I wasn't crazy about her rationalization of "well, they had the best of intentions..." I mean, I like the books and am looking forward to Breaking Dawn, but it's obvious that the Bella/Edward relationship is not a healthy one. And just because they love each other and have nothing but good intentions in their actions doesn't make it any less unhealthy. I agree that she could have said something along the lines of "when you're a writer and thousands of people are reading your books, not everyone is going to like them." Saying that she's hurt that people don't see the characters' motives...well, not everyone thinks in the same ways she does so reactions like that should be expected along with the reactions of all the people that love the books.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Yup, and hopefully she doesn't make the mistake again of throwing the blame around. She'll be giving more interviews whether anyone likes it or not, so she's got to work on keeping things like that in mind. She can't make herself the victim so much, or it'll show that she learns nothing from experience and prefers the wounded puppy path. So you know, here's to hoping.

Responding right on "Q":

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

What do you do, with a lemur that's aging?
What is his life going to be?
His jaw's getting funky, a 12th-grade-old monkey,
In need of gerentology,....

His chart merely mentions
The chance of dementia,
But these days just six teeth remainnnnnnnn....

That might seem just fine in
Rural South Carolina,
But in Illinois it's justttt stranggggeeeee.....

Re: Responding right on "Q":

[raynala.livejournal.com]

WIN.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I hearby declare Wordle dangerously addictive. Although I kind of wish it could be possible to de-prioritise a word. The giant wanna (http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/07449/Numb) is a bit distracting. I suppose I could have gone back and deleted a bunch.

Hey Jude (http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/07458/Na-na-na) was predictably fun too.

[missmp.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Wordle. There goes my evening!

Something for your next linkspam, possibly: Search Me (http://www.searchme.com/beta/index.html) It's a visual search engine--you can "flip" through the pages that come up in your search.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. I think I'm on geek overload now.

[kittenkatt.livejournal.com]

The Smoking Gun has a whole slew of Celeb riders/demands posted. (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/) I like how Beck's has all the alcoholic beverages crossed out.

[animejosse.livejournal.com]

A note on the Van Halen "removal of brown M6M" thing can be found here. (http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp) - basically, their prop is so heavy that the M&Ms were a way for them to see if they could just play or prepare for the stage to collapse.

[emerybored.livejournal.com]

I SAID COUNTERCLOCKWISE, MONKEY!

Because J.Lo can't have her coffee spinning against the rotation of the Earth. I wonder if when she's filming in the southern hemisphere she has it stirred clockwise.

Edited for misplaced prepositions.

[onyx-noir.livejournal.com]

How about shaving his back with a rusty razor? :)

[vodou-chile.livejournal.com]

What do you do with an aged lemur?

I tried my darndest to work in a Madagascar (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/) joke here.
But I got nothin'.

Lemur joke

[count-01.livejournal.com]

I couldn't come up with a Madagascar joke either, but this one (http://www.lorebrandcomics.com/iwant.html) does involve lemurs. Possibly to a barely quasi-legal extreme. Certainly to an extent that no human being should ever have to imagine, much less witness.

[punzerel.livejournal.com]

Re: the HP kids partying - I keep forgetting that the drinking age in the US is 21, and for a second wondered if they were only 16/17.

(Also, seriously, Mariah Carey? Puppies and kittens?)

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Well OF COURSE I can think of something completely responsible for Wordle:

(http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/07699/Jabberwocky)

[elisa0984.livejournal.com]

But yet is still awesome. (And would look more so on my wall.)

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

In the FAQs, it is clearly stated: you can snag anything on Wordle and do whatever you want with it. I'm thinking I want it on a t-shirt.

[elisa0984.livejournal.com]

I say send him to John Cleese (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/inthewild/cleese.html). They'll have a grand time comparing calcium supplements.

[darreldoomvomit.livejournal.com]

...shave his belly with a rusty razor.

[unheardpublic.livejournal.com]

Icon. LOVE.

And for the record, Christian Bale can make my Starry Night anytime. Rawr.

Z

[off_coloratura]

I believe the "Yip Yips" were called Martians.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

*consults guide book, points at "Yip Yips"*

COW. COW. UH HUH UH HUH UH HUH.

*ahem*

MooooOOOOOOOOOOO. MooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

...

*retreats* Nuh-uh, nuh-uh.

[gannet-guts.livejournal.com]

Hahahahha that first comment on the Nestor Carbonell interview had me laughing. I am ridiculously excited for this movie.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

The plutonium may have been released into the sewer system after two employees "washed plutonium-containing powder off their hands and into a sink" on June 9.

WTH. They really really should've known better. The company my dad works for removes asbestos (and other hazardous materials, such as lead paint) from old buildings, as well as assists in cleaning up chemical spills, and when they finish work, they clean up in a containment cell to avoid that sort of thing happening.

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

Ah man, the legal drinking age in Britain is still just out of my reach. Damned December birthday! And also, we don't want to hear that they behaved themselves, they'll get no column inches at all!

That lemur is the cutest old animal I've ever seen. Aw.

[wumbawoman.livejournal.com]

Am I doing something wrong? I clicked on the link for the Haunting Snow Globes and it took me to Fabulist but I'm trying to see the globes and i just keep getting the little fyi piece on Fabulist. Is there anyway to actually see the globes? I am muy intrigued.

Thanks! =)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

There's a tiny "(link)" at the bottom of the writeup. I hate when blogs do that, but I guess they're afraid you'll just click straight through and not read if they put the link up front.

[emisi.livejournal.com]

Hey Cleo, think you might appreciate this/put this in your next linkspam... Man couldn't get through security in Heathrow because he was wearing a t-shirt with a gun on it. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7431640.stm)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Is that the Transformers shirt? I think I posted about that a while back.

[emisi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the Transformers shirt. Pretty funny, thinking a Transformers gun could hurt someone from a shirt.

[darth-snarky.livejournal.com]

I thought Wordle might do something interesting with repetitive song lyrics, like the Ramones:

(http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/11199/I_wanna_be_sedated)
(Anyway, thanks for linking to the new toy that just ate a huge chunk of my night!)

[fxchip.livejournal.com]

George Carlin has died. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370121,00.html) :(

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know. It's the leading link on the new entry.