In which I am sick and puffy and tired

[cleolinda]

I got mistaken for "nineteen or twenty" yesterday. I turn thirty in December. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. You probably want to slap me right now, but--if you're always being mistaken for being a lot younger, it's like you never really feel like you've grown up.

Oh! By the way, if you've told me you're sending something, I haven't received it (unless I came by and told you otherwise). Something weird is going on with our mail, and things either aren't getting to us, or they're taking a really long time. This is disconcerting, to say the least.

(Confidential to the sender of the unexpected t-shirt: I plan on disregarding your instructions and cherishing it forever. : )

Linkspam!

A security patch for Gmail. DO THIS. It requires you checking one box under "Settings" rather than another.

emmileexo: "The government has gotten up to some new form of stupidity and I was hoping you could post it in your next entry. Essentially, they are allowing medical staff and workers to refuse to give a patient an abortion if goes against their conscience, thus meaning that a doctor can refuse to do their job. The wording of the bill is so vague that it can extend to all forms of birth control, so a pharmacist can refuse to give a woman their prescription of the Pill. Even worse, the proposal does not take into account male forms of sterilization, such as condoms or vasectomies. The following link goes to an entry that explains the situation in detail and has links to sites where people can send in emails to protest the proposal. The proposal has a 30 day public comment period, so we only have a month to stop this. The entry: http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/352794.html. Protest can be sent on this page here."

Let me note here that one of the reasons birth control methods like the Pill are so important is because not all of us take them as contraceptives. Some of us actually take them to treat gynocological disorders like PCOS, for example. So even if you're not pro-choice, contraception isn't even the only thing at stake here.

Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson survives plane crash.

Bonham Carter Halts 'Terminator' Filming After Family Crash Horror.

Feisty N.J. puppy scares off 3 bears.

Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch.

Fictional Sports Invade the Real World.

At writing camp, getting tips from legends.

What’s Wrong With Steampunk? [Steampunk Backlash.] NOOOO DON'T HAVE A BACKLASH BEFORE I FINISH MY BOOK.

Are Blogs As Doomed As Newspapers? [Ha Ha, Your Medium Is Dying.] What? The headline made me laugh.

Games review: 'Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner.'

Blanchett To Take 'Streetcar' To U.S.

Virtual actor looks eerily lifelike.

Another 'Lost' Corpse Climbs Out Of The Grave. SPOILER.

How Big A Hoax Was The Moon Landing? The Myth Busters Settle It Once And For All.

‘Spaced’ Gang Disagrees On Whether Series Should Continue As A Film Or TV Series.

Doctor Who — The Movie?

'Gone With The Wind' Tarleton twin dies.

Is Busy Viggo Mortensen First in Line For Oscar Tuxedo Sizing? God, I hope so.

Heath Ledger's final movie a tough sell.

Usain Bolt: 12 Movies Made Better by World's Fastest Man.

Via dduane: Knit Your Own "Python/Holy Grail" Death Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Images: More 'Dorian Gray'; A New Photo of Enik From 'Land of the Lost'; More stills from 'Igor'; Transporter 3; Broken Lines; The Machine Girl - Kataude mashin gâru; 18 unused Dark Knight posters.

Trailers and clips: Worth Watching - Aug 25: International Trailer for Steven Soderbergh's 'Che'; UPDATED: International 'Che' Trailer, Clip and New Cannes Poster, plus stills; 'New York, I Love You' Promo Trailer Online; Trailer for Viggo Mortensen's 'Good'; New 'Frost/Nixon' & 'Transporter 3' Trailers; Watch the Opening Credits to 'RocknRolla'; Check Out Two New 'Ping Pong Playa' Clips; Must Watch: Adrenaline-Fueled 'Fast and Furious' Trailer; Vin Diesel Versus A Rocket With His Name On It [Babylon A.D.] (wait, Michelle Yeoh is playing a "killer nun"?).

trailer_spot: Frost/Nixon, Secret Life of Bees, Coraline, Nights in Rodanthe.

Tomorrow is Twilight Tuesday! BREAKING: ‘Twilight’ Shooting New Scenes This Week.

Is 'Hari Puttar' Too Close to 'Harry Potter'? Warner Bros. Thinks So; Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park Update.

Can we all agree that Cher as Catwoman is total bullshit?

Empire's 'Quantum' Issue: 'The Bloodiest Bond Ever.'

Danny Elfman scoring 'The Wolfman.'

Benson, Keaton Voicing Toy Story 3; 'Toy Story 3' Has a Poster for Its Two-Years-From-Now Release.

Kristen Chenoweth voicing 'Rapunzel.'

What Should A Star Trek Movie Require?; Chris Pine's Kirk Will Make You Forget Shatner, Kevin Smith Promises. Okay, you record a cover of "Common People" and we'll talk, kid.

'300' Gets Luxurious New DVD Release ("I'm personally holding out for the set that comes with an actual Spartan from the film").

Exclusive: 'Traitor' Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff.

Simon Pegg Blogs About Alienation.

Rebecca Hall chats about being Vicky in 'Barcelona.'

Roberto Orci's Answers to 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Questions; LaBeouf Spotted on Transformers Sequel Set.

Babylon A.D.'s Mathieu Kassovitz Opens Up About Fox Negatively.

Vin Diesel Promises Two More 'Riddick' Sequels.

Isn't It Too Early for a Superman Restart?; How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again; Meet The Superman You Almost Knew.

Kristen Bell Lands Lead in 'Astro Boy.'

Sean Astin to Be 'Demoted' with Vartan, Cross, and Sara Foster.

Leo & Kate Recreate Famous 'Titanic' Moment.

First Script Review of 'The Road' ("If this is the script that gets filmed, then 'The Road' will not only be the most important post-apocalyptic film ever made but it will profoundly affect the cinema going world"). Y'all, I dread this movie because I know I'm going to have to see it, and yet it sounds like the most unpleasant "important" film since Schindler's List.

Early reviews from AICN: Harold Ramis's Biblical comedy 'The Year One'; 'RocknRolla'; 'Revolutionary Road.'

Michael Stahl-David: Behind the Star ("The mockumentary follows Stahl-David in his quest to become an A-list movie star, following his leading role in the movie 'Cloverfield').

Rumor Patrol: Fox Will NOT Scrap Live-Action 'Dragonball.'

Dark Castle Preps 'All Cheerleaders Die' and a 'Haunted Hill' Prequel.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

A backlash just means it's getting popular enough to notice. ;) Also, if I had a nickel for every time someone said cyberpunk or urban fantasy was dead, I'd be buying a house in the Bay Area. (Um, in nickels. Yeah.) And steampunk hasn't even gotten to the level of popularity of those two yet, so I think you've got PLENTY of time.

[tamaragrey.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean-- up until recently I got carded every time I went to by liquor. A few months ago people mostly stopped. I'm 37... sometimes you just want to go get your booze and be done with it. :-)

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

If that's you in your icon, I would've pegged you to be about my age (23).

[spiritofcrows.livejournal.com]

I am so ready for 'The Road' Oscar gold. I totally loved the book (it was bleak and depressing and hardcore but wow) and I'm ready to see Viggo win an Oscar.

[tripletoe.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. My whole life, I've been called young and baby-faced. I turned 30 in June. I get ID'd for cigarettes, clubs, alcohol... you name it all the time. My friends always tell me to take the compliment, but *they* haven't been fishing their ID out of their wallet for the last 12 years straight. Not once or twice.

Every. Single. Time.

So yes, I feel your pain.

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I got mistaken for "nineteen or twenty" yesterday. I turn thirty in December. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. You probably want to slap me right now, but--if you're always being mistaken for being a lot younger, it's like you never really feel like you've grown up.

I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I often get mistaken for being at least ten years younger than I am (I'm in my late 30s) and recently someone carded me. When I showed him my DL he actually thought it was fake until I showed him another ID - he said he thought I was 20! O__o I used to be carded all the time but that was the first time it had happened in about four or five years.

I certainly don't think I look that young and it was nice to hear (it always is) but ... I always feel weird about it at the same time. (And constantly reminded that I'm nowhere near where I thought I would be at this age ... )


Forgot to add: thanks for that link about the Tarleton Twins! I met him once ages ago when I was little. Way too young to appreciate that I was talking to someone who had been a part of cinema history. But I remember him being very kind to me and my sister.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

I'll be 25 in October...I got asked for ID when buying my hubby a pack of cigarettes. *headdesk*

And btw..,U2 totally rocks. Great song from an even greater album.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Can we all agree that Cher as Catwoman is total bullshit?
Ha, exactly!! That article also "confirmed" Johnny Depp as the Riddler and the title as The Caped Crusader, which have all been floating around as speculation.

Vin Diesel Promises Two More 'Riddick' Sequels.
Promises...or threatens?

Kristen Bell Lands Lead in 'Astro Boy.'
Cool! And...uncool, ComingSoon.net, for having a spoilery headline in your sidebar. Now I know that Lost spoiler you were just warning me about! I...have no idea how that will work, and I don't want to know. Guess I'll find out next year.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

...Wait, wasn't All Cheerleaders Die already a movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360348/)? Unless Dark Castle is talking about finally distributing a seven-year-old film.

...Nope: 'Dark Castle have plans for yet another return to the Haunted Hill franchise, as well as a brand-new film called All Cheerleaders Die, no relation to the early Lucky McKee/Chris Sivertson film of the same name.'

Okay...

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

That Jersey dog story made me laugh. Wasn't that cat who chased a bear up a tree also from Jersey?

"Haha, your medium is dying" is one of my favorite recent Simpsons quotes.

And thanks for that gmail tip!

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, if you enable SSL in your gmail account AND you use the gmail notifier, you'll need to download an additional patch (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=9429) in order to continue receiving notifications.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I'm 32 and still regularly get mistaken for a teenager or college student. I get people come to the door and ask if my parents are home. When I'm out with my husband, people ask if I'm his daughter, or now that my hair is so short, his son (he's only nine years older than me!). Very annoying.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I get carded more for cigarettes than alcohol.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Did you see any of the Olympic closing ceremonies? If you missed them, you might want to check NBC, because they were crack such as we usually identify with the Academy Awards. There were the Highly Gay Men of the Tower of Babel, the infamous Glowing Power Rangers, and the Double Decker Bus That's More Than Meets The Eye.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I saw most of the Beijing ceremonies; I didn't see anything in London. I've been really tired lately--I'm starting to wonder if I'm coming down with something.

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

I had/have the opposite problem- when I was in my early teens and out shopping with my Dad, some people (with no eyes -_-) assumed that we were married. Part of the reason was that my Mum wasn't with us- I guess they saw what they wanted to see.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

That happened to me once, too. I was in the car with my dad on the way to go camping, when we stopped at a stoplight next to another car. The woman in the car asked us if we were going camping, and when we said yes she replied that she remembered going camping as a newlywed, too.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

ooh, yep, i'm 21 and people think i'm still in high school all the time. it gets obnoxious.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

I'm twenty and I look exactly like I did when I was fourteen. My seventh grade picture looks just like the ones I have now.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

That happens to me a lot. I'm 32 and I actually got carded at a wedding last year. It makes me feels kinda immortal.

Besides, one is only as young as they feel. I feel about 23.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel about 23, too. Mostly in the sense that I haven't accomplished any more in my life than you'd expect your average 23-year-old to have accomplished. Maybe less, in fact.

[noizangel.livejournal.com]

I tend to get carded more when I'm dressed up then when I'm off to the beer store on the weekend. Weird. Last time, the clerk was like 'Wow, you're older than me!'

...

Thanks.

I'm 33 and it appears to be happening less.

[learningtoread.livejournal.com]

I'll be 30 in December, too. And whenever I'm out working at a cafe, people are like, "How's your homework coming along?"

Ehheh.

I get excited when I -don't- get carded.

I totally know what you mean about not feeling like you're grown up. For a few months, I tried dressing in business casual when I went out to work, not just jeans and a T-shirt.

Didn't help a bit.

I always think of Jude Law when I think of Dorian Gray.

But I guess he's getting old? Le sigh.

Steampunk is love. Steampunk is good. Keep writing that book.

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Somewhere there's a painting of Jude Law that's growing excessive hair?

[bomburjo.livejournal.com]

I'm reading The Road right now, and it's amazing.

[spiritofcrows.livejournal.com]

such a good book!

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Someone mistook me for a high school kid this summer. Of course... he obviously had no clue as to age, so I shouldn't take that into consideration. I know how you feel,though.

Also:

Vin Diesel Promises Two More 'Riddick' Sequels.

Dude, let it go. He already wrecked/killed the best character. Doe he really need to do further damage?

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm really impressed by that digital Emily. Sure, it's a bit close to the Uncanny Valley, but it's still extremely impressive from a technological point of view.

The technology is imperfect, but we're getting close to the point where animation will be completely artistically pointless because it won't be any different. XD


Also, that dog is super hardcore.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

As a woman who has to take the pill because of low hormone levels, WORD. I already left my note on the Planned Parenthood petition and even donated $10.

Also, [score geek mode]Danny Elfman + The Wolfman = SO MUCH WIN. That is a fine match. I was already dying to see the movie, now I'll now I'll have to buy the soundtrack as well. [/score geek mode]

[rhodynne.livejournal.com]

I'm less than a year away from that number which statistically denotes a woman as half dead. :-)
All of my life I've been mistaken for much older, the weekend I turned 13 I went downstairs in a restaurant to the bar...both guards ignored me.
My Mom got carded looking for me. :-D

So now with this history, when I am often mistaken for younger, I automatically assume its because I'm acting immature.
Talk about a mind fuck.
:-D

[ilanalynn.livejournal.com]

I totally know what you mean about the age thing. I will also be 30 in December (we have the same birthday!) and my age is guessed to be anywhere from 21 to 25. This sort of thing has been going on at least since I was 20, and a couple years ago I got carded for fireworks, the legal age for which is 16! I am told that I'll appreciate it when I'm 40, but I want to appreciate things NOW.