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[cleolinda]

So... yeah. I didn't get anything done today.

Political/entertainment news (and no, this is not going to become a regular feature):

I forget who had the Newseum link, but it is AWESOME. (Hey! There's my newspaper!)

Determined Texas woman, 92, votes in ambulance.

The A.V. Club at the Barack Obama election-night rally in Chicago.

Stewart, Colbert parody election in real-time; Did Stephen Colbert shed some secret liberal tears? He totally did, y'all, because I noticed it at the time. Also: I cannot believe that I first heard that Barack Obama would be our next president on the Daily Show.

Tina Fey says she's retiring Sarah Palin impersonation.

Maya Angelou On Barack Obama: "We All Rise." [Clips]

Stars React to Obama's Historic Win; Does President Obama Mean Will Smith Is Still Game For Biopic?; Barack Obama: The EW Q&A.

First Things First: What Kind Of Dog Should The First Puppy Be?

CNN Can't Stop Pimping Its Election-Night Holographic Toy; How CNN’s Hologram Interview System Works; Election's Biggest Losers: TV News; The Hater: Election 2008: Race To Unneccessary Graphics. This is not even to speak of the multiplicity of constantly shifting NBC graphics, which were making me seasick.

Madonna Concert Breaks Out at Massive Political Rally.

Defeated Al Franken Wishing He Had Just Shaken 571 More Hands.

With Fifty-Two Percent of Vote, Prop 8 Passes; Changed America Still Hates the Gays. (Related: Gus Van Sant's 'Milk' Has Just Become So Much More Relevant; It's Rally Time in a New Clip from 'Milk.')

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Twilight linkspam:

Robert Pattinson Takes Over Planet Hollywood; from bella_stella78: Honor Turns To Shame For Robert Pattinson when cement dries too fast.

Robert Pattinson interview on Z100 in NY (ONTD: HoboRadio); Another behind the scenes video of Twilight; RPattz wishes he could have been Bella.

'Twilight' Countdown: Catherine Hardwicke talks about the meadow and making Robert Pattinson 'dazzle.' Okay, people, "dazzling" is a completely separate phenomenon from "sparkling." Let's get these things right.

("I was just begging and begging, 'I’ve got to shoot a meadow. Something that looks like a meadow. Or people are going to stone me in the streets.' " You think Hardwicke's exaggerating and she's so incredibly not.)

Get Your Pre-Teen Vampire Twilight Tickets Now, Plus Sexy New Clips.

Yet another media outlet is too lazy to think of its own interview questions. (To be fair: if I had to interview pretty much anyone, I'd run screaming to y'all for help. On the other hand: I AM NOT A TRAINED JOURNALIST.)

Stephenie Meyer: 12 inspirations for 'Twilight' (Can Iron Man really count as an inspiration if it came out just two months before her last book?).

(I laughed when I got to the X-Men part.)

Fans Rally for Blood Drives (ah, taking a page from the Moonlight playbook, I see); Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium Update.

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Regular linkspam:

Remembering Michael Crichton; Michael Crichton: A Tireless Craftsman.

Scientists Decode Set of Cancer Genes.

Google drops Yahoo advertising partnership.

McDreamy McAngry About the 'Grey's Anatomy' Gay Firing.

Brand New Trailer For Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse.'

Oscar Update: Doubt in 'Doubt', Eastwood's First Acting Oscar and Winslet's Works.

Images: Megan Fox Isn't Wonder Woman; First still of Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel; Keira Knightley Continues To Look Lugubrious On Set Of 'Last Night'; New Batch of Photos from Frank Miller's 'The Spirit'; Noir Posters Capture the Pulpy Joy of Superhero Movies (pictured: 'Watchmen,' 'Spider-Man,' 'The Dark Knight').

Trailers and clips: Final Trailer for Kate DiCamillo's 'The Tale of Despereaux.'

'Quantum of Solace' - Official Blog Report #33; EW Review: 'Quantum of Solace'; Who's your favorite Bond villain?; Sir Ken Adams Guides You Through The Greatest Evil Lairs From James Bond.

Chris Morgan Confirms He’s Writing ‘Wanted 2,’ Hints At Sequel Going 'Global.'

Shyamalan Eager To Transform Image With ‘Last Airbender’ Franchise.

Is Grant Morrison Writing The Fastest Movie Alive? [The Flash]

‘Bourne’ Beauty Franke Potente Aims To Survive Deadly ‘Wave’; Franka Potente Starves on the High Seas.

Simon Pegg Demands A Return To Traditional "Zombie Values."

Ray Winstone, Ray Liotta Play Russian Roulette With 50 Cent, Jason Statham In ‘13.’

EXCL: Brightman and Hilton on 'Repo! The Genetic Opera'; Sarah Brightman Flashes Her Holographic Eyes, Belts Out New 'Repo!' Song.

Paramount Adapting Paul Pope's 'Battling Boy' Graphic Novel.

'Bend it Like Beckham' Director Heads for the Land of Serial Killers.

Jack Black sets a course for 'Gulliver's Travels.'

Confirmed: '30 Days of Night' Getting a Sequel!

Hideo Nakata Helming 'Chatroom'; Are You Ready for 'Chatroom: The Movie'?

Schneider, Dewan and Davis Join 'Virgin on Bourbon Street'; Rob Schneider is Still Starring in Movies.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Universal Soldier 3’ Moves Forward With Jean-Claude Van Damme, But No Dolph Lundgren? SACRILEGE.

Comments

[ofshoesandships.livejournal.com]

Also: I cannot believe that I first heard that Barack Obama would be our next president on the Daily Show.

Me either lol

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Me three. ;D

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

The Newseum site is awesome.

[ofshoesandships.livejournal.com]

Stephenie Meyer: 12 inspirations for 'Twilight'

Baby Mama? Really? That list needs to be halved. After awhile she's just babbling.

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

My husband is of the opinion that Count Chocula is a major influence.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Wow. Watching that video, I kind of have a McCrush on McDreamy. ('Scuse me, I have to go shower away the ick now.) I haven't watched Grey's Anatomy in I don't know how long, but I remember when Dr. Hahn first appeared on the show, and I thought she kicked ass and that they should keep her. If they'd done that earlier, before the show became completely unbearable, I might still be watching it. Brooke Smith is an amazing actress, and she deserves much better.

Also, shouldn't the director of the Twilight movie know the difference between the dazzling and the sparkling?

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Also: I cannot believe that I first heard that Barack Obama would be our next president on the Daily Show.

That's the way I got it, and I couldn't be anymore happier that I heard the news from Jon Stewart. I love that man.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

Me too. It's like getting good news from a friend, even better than usual.

[hypocriticalme.livejournal.com]

She's not wearing black and refusing to come out of her room and yelling at the people she loves. She is completely containing it inside herself.

Okay, I'll give her the "she's not wearing black" part, but the rest? AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

By the way, her mention of the X-Men reminded me of a comment you made once that went along the lines of "What is this, the X-Men? Where they gave Dazzler the power of disco or some shit?" INTERESTING. (Hee.) I guess her influence isn't so subtle.

Also, I've never watched Grey's Anatomy, but... wow. Good looks and being vocal against Executive Meddling? Helloooo McDreamy.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeee, I'd forgotten about that. The first link in that sentence up top was actually a link to the Breaking Dawn recap where I said something like, "And none of the other X-Men had to deploy their powers."

[maxineofarc.livejournal.com]

(ah, taking a page from the Moonlight playbook, I see

The vampire LARPers were very big into organizing blood drives ten years ago when I was on the fringes of it, so that def did not originate with the Moonlight crowd. I'd say they need to come up with something new, but hey, blood drives are good.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured neither of them would be the first vampire fandom to ever think of a blood drive. Just a flip comment I made, I guess.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Awww, Michael Crichton. Dangit, 2008...

I continue to fall for Robert Pattinson with every witticism he comes up with...

GREY'S ANATOMY: *More* Homophobia? Isiaah Washington didn't become one of the producers of the show, did he?

[escap1974.livejournal.com]

I am so, so sad and disappointed that Prop 8 passed. Same for the measures that passed in Arizona and Florida. The thing that really makes me want to cry is the Arizona Initiative 1. As proud as I am of our country, I'm just as equally pissed over this.

[azzinita.livejournal.com]

It hasn't passed yet! It's winning by 400,000 votes with 4 million still to be counted. We ain't calling it until all the votes are in!

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe that I first heard that Barack Obama would be our next president on the Daily Show.

My mom said the exact same thing. I suppose, in the end, it's a good representation of the 21st century news cycle.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Way to ruin the end of the Anne of Green Gables series for me, Stephanie! ;-)

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20234559_20234565_20237747_1,00.html

Some of those weren't really Twilight influences. I call cheating! ;-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

For real. I don't know what was sadder--that the article/feature thing just devolved into "Shit I Like," or that she couldn't come up with twelve actual influences.

The Anne of Green Gables thing I was expecting, because she actually has Bella mention Anne in the third book. The X-Men thing CRACKED MY SHIT UP SO BAD, though, because I wasn't expecting her to actually come out and admit it. I think I'd called her on it at least twice already.

[numbedtoe.livejournal.com]

Also: I cannot believe that I first heard that Barack Obama would be our next president on the Daily Show.

Me too.

[lesaubergines.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adore your journal, so I hope it's okay that I added you as a friend.
Your reviews of Twilight are brilliant too.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Of course! Welcome aboard. : )

[artemis-archer.livejournal.com]

CNN's hologram thing was so funny. I kept waiting for the person being zapped in to say, "Help me Anderson Kenobi, you're my only hope"

Aw I hadn't seen the Stewart and Colbert clip yet, that reaction was priceless :')

[labonnefille.livejournal.com]

OME, Me too (haha, ome).

I was really hoping *someone* who was hologrammed in would make the reference. Hopefully SNL will pick it up and run with it?

[unicornhime.livejournal.com]

("I was just begging and begging, 'I’ve got to shoot a meadow. Something that looks like a meadow. Or people are going to stone me in the streets.' " You think Hardwicke's exaggerating and she's so incredibly not.)


No. No she's not. And it's still SO FUNNY.

[thea-scooter.livejournal.com]

My grandma found out on the Daily Show which is too adorable. Just like Biden's mother. And the puppy. And the entire Obama family....

Prop 8 was really depressing but rumor has it (and by rumor, I mean the San Francisco gov't) that it's unconstitutional as the legislature isn't involved. Here's hoping.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Michelle Obama has announced that the new First Dog will be adopted from a shelter. It's got to be something that the kids allergies can handle, which limits things somewhat.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's good.

[ravenofthejade.livejournal.com]

Has Pushing Daisies been cancelled? I can't find it on the schedule. D=

[elirrina.livejournal.com]

I looked on imdb.com and it looks like it's not showing again until November 19th!

[aestasbeyond.livejournal.com]

Ugh, gag me with a spoon, Stephenie Meyer. Charlotte Bronte is rolling over in her grave.

Hahah when I saw Stephen Colbert cry, I knew it wasn't a joke. I switched to CNN immediately. I still can't believe it.

It's really depressing though, that on the same night that we as a country have made such a monumental step, we've also for the first time in my lifetime anyway actually taken away the rights of a group of individuals. :/

And sad day about Michael Crichton. :(

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

I love when Stephenie says that without Linkin Park the action scenes in the series would have been "a lot more sedate". YEAH, because the EPIC FINAL BATTLE WAS SO EPIC! I STILL HAVEN'T RECOVERED FROM ALL THAT INTENSE ~ACTION~!

Also, Robert Downey Jr? She wishes she had a male character that was that awesome! (no matter if he DID do that movie about the most sexist superhero of all times)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand what Iron Man--or Baby Mama, for that matter--had to do with anything.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Jane Eyre? Stephenie Meyer thinks Bella is similar to Jane motherfucking Eyre? *gnashes teeth* Look, Jane Eyre is a fantastic character -- she's got flaws and everything. Bella? Bella is a one-dimensional biscuit person. She looks all solid on the outside, but then you bite into her and she's flaky.

When Jane's Edward got all weird and the weird stuff he pulled on her was revealed (Edward "Secret Crazy" Rochester vs. Edward "im in ur room, watchin u sleep" Cullen), Jane got the hell out of there. And then Jane encounters The Perfect Victorian Gentleman^TM and she realizes she can't love him. Edward Cullen is a super-creepy St. John. Edward Cullen is not Edward Rochester.

Oh, god. I feel like a fantastic book has been raped.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I may have shouted "OH WHATEVER" when I hit that first page. That was my favorite book EVER for YEARS, and Jane may be meek and modest and all, but she has got an iron damn will. AUGH.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

And, of course, it turned out that Bella saved everyone all by herself and none of the X-Men even had to deploy their powers.

Change "Bella" to Wolverine and it's not that far off ...

[venusad.livejournal.com]

Well, if we look at Jubilee in the old cartoon...
Useless, irritating, and short. Sounds about right.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart make my life better. ;)

Um, okay. 30 Days of Night was horrific. And not in the scary way, but in the "I can't believe how awful this is" way. That is one of those few movies that I feel was basically utter trash. Am I alone in this? It's getting a sequel?!?!

DOLLHOUSE!

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

California WHAT THE HELL with Prop 8? You're killing my Yay Obama buzz here.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Madonna Concert Breaks Out at Massive Political Rally.

This sounds like a hockey joke. =P