Tons o' stuff

[cleolinda]

From joannad: The Russian hackers got someone else. Whatever you do, do not click on the user journal or Shoebox Project links mentioned in the entry. And to secure your own journal, choose a secret question NOW. (ETA: Or not?) Here's what I would advise doing, in terms of setting your question/answer: since we're worried about hackers and not people in our daily lives stealing our journals, I would suggest writing the question and the answer down on a piece of paper, not storing it anywhere on your computer or online, and guarding that paper with your life. Here's why: choose a question, and for the answer, pick something completely unrelated. What was your first pet's name? Hardware store. You see what I'm saying? Something that no one would ever, ever guess, even by combing your journal for clues, because it's a non sequitur in the first place. And that's why you're going to want to write it down, in case you forget your randomly-chosen unrelated thing.

Okay, in less urgent news: If you didn't catch the ETA on the Twi-spam entry, Hot Topic has given up on trying to set line-up times and they're just giving out wristbands for Thursday and Friday in a first come/first serve free-for-all. People who don't hear about this until they show up "early" tomorrow night? Are going to be exquisitely pissed.

In even less urgent news: Sometimes people have to interview writers for school assignments (you know, "Interview a published author"), and because I'm not as scary as people who are actually important, sometimes they ask me. So if you'd like to hear (well, read) me answer questions I am spectacularly unqualified to answer, my most recent interviewer has let me archive some here.

In just really frustrating news: Our dishwasher has officially given up the ghost. Sigh.

Something fun: from t3andcrumpets, pretty, crazy-color eyeshadow that I have been drooling over all week. I'm not saying I'd go full-on rainbow with it (like on the front page), but you can shop by color, if you know what looks good with your eyes. I might just be crazy enough to try Hibiscus or Blaze in the distant future, I don't know.

(Purples are so preeeeettyyyyy.)

MOAR LINKSPAM:

Cedar Rapids Library Seeks Books for Donation.

The Alternate History Theme Park Where Dinosaurs Fought in the Civil War.

YouTube to Sell Ads on Search Pages.

Paula Abdul 'Shocked And Saddened' By Death Of Alleged Idol Contestant near her [Abdul's] house; Paula Goodspeed's suicide: Don't blame 'Idol,' even as we all scrutinize its audition process.

Trump takes in Jennifer Hudson and family.

Rolling Stone's '100 Greatest Singers Of All Time' Is Mainly Male And Full Of Holes [Dude, WTF?].

'Darkhold' Is City of Ember's Climax.

Obama Declines Daughters' 'Hannah Montana' Invite; President Elect Obama Now To Govern Comic Books As Well.

Ricky Gervais asks question on Yahoo Answers.

Estrogen-Deficient 'SNL' Adds Two More Women to Its Cast.

'MADtv' to end its 14-year run at season's end.

NBC extends stay of execution for 'Days of Our Lives.'

Meet J.J. Abrams, And See A Rare Bear From The Dharma Initiative [Lost].

'Dollhouse' Will Be Joss Whedon's Greatest Work Ever. You know, if it ever makes it to air.

'Frost/Nixon': An Oscar lock?

Images: A Full Look at 'The Wolfman'; New 'Coraline' Poster Released; Check This Out: Great Poster for Sean Ellis' 'The Broken.'

Trailers and clips: Trailer Premiere: Roland Emmerich's '2012'; The Trailer for Wayne Kramer's 'Crossing Over'; International 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Trailer; Watch This: Toshiba Timesculpture Commercial ("it shows an evolution of the 'bullet time' technique made famous by The Matrix ").

Quantum of Solace Unscripted. OH MAN I HAVE SO BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! Anyway: 'Quantum of Solace' Premieres In New York; 'Quantum of Solace' - Official Blog Report #34; 'Quantum of Solace': Bond Done Differently; Ex-Bond Wishes Daniel Craig Was More of a 'Lover and a Giggler'; America Is Real Villain In 'Quantum of Solace'; Daniel Craig focuses on James Bond; Daniel Craig Bonds at NYC Benefit; Bond Week: Jay Leno Drives Bond's Aston Martin DBS; 'Quantum of Solace' requires a leap; Not shaken or stirred: My Bond deflowering.

All Six 'Watchmen' Character Posters Now Available in Hi-Res; What Were Alan And Dave Thinking When They Created Watchmen? ['Watching The Watchmen' Review].

52 Hi res pictures of HBP; Super hi-res calendar scans (part 1); Super hi-res calendar scans (part 2); New Hermione & Ron promos; New Hermione & Luna promos; New Photo of McGonagall from 'Half-Blood Prince'; "We Are Wizards" Gets Theatrical NYC Run; Joint "Harry, A History"/WAW Event Friday.

The Dark Knight DVD and Blu-ray Clips; Neil Gaiman Reveals A Little About His Final Batman Story; 'Long Halloween' Artist Thinks Batman and Robin Should Reunite.

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in 2012?

'Hobbit' Talk, 'Lord of the Rings' on Blu-ray and Chat with Del Toro Yourself.

Ridley Scott Locked into Directing a Monopoly Movie; Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go.

'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' TV Commercial, Dudes!; David Fincher Practices His Oscar Speech. WARNING: Unexpected vulgarity. You'll see.

Lauren Shuler Donner Updates 'X-Men Origins: Magneto.'

EW Movie Review: 'Slumdog Millionaire'; Epic 'Slumdog Millionaire' is pricelessly original; Director Boyle: Newcomers perfect for 'Slumdog Millionaire.'

(Danny Boyle On ‘28 Months Later’: It’s Not Called ‘28 Months Later’!)

HBO Greenlights Pilot For George R.R. Martin’s 'Game of Thrones.'

Laura Harris Joins Ron Livingston In Space Relationship Drama 'Defying Gravity.'

Martin Campbell Helming Action Thriller 'Nagasaki Deadline.'

Pulitzer-Winning 'Osage County' Will Be a Movie -- But Will It Be Good?

Penny Marshall’s Negro Leagues Biopic On Hold As Hollywood Shuns Sports Films.

Pegg and Frost Helping 'Paul' Return to Alien Homeworld.

Jerry Garcia Biopic Coming (in a Foul-Smelling Van).

Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and Moby Starring in 'Suck'?!

Luke Goss Compares Superhero Film ‘Magdalena’ To ‘DaVinci Code With Substance.’ O SNAP.

Counting Crows Frontman Adam Duritz and Broken Lizard Team For ‘Freeloaders.’

‘Cloverfield’ Director Matt Reeves Talks Sequel Dilemma.

Those SATC Sequel Rumours.

Ratner Says Conan Announcement Was Premature.

Janney, Rampling and Hilton in Solondz's Next; Paris Hilton to Make Todd Solondz's 'Happiness' Sequel Even Weirder.

Feature: My Year Of Flops Shazamilicious Double Feature: Case Files 120 and 123, 'The Phantom' and 'The Shadow.' "One had powers. The other had tights. What went wrong?"

Comments

[metropolis22786.livejournal.com]

I saw that Shoebox had gone down earlier, but I didn't click it (Because I've just got in from work and feeling lazy.)

LOOK HOW APATHY SAVED MY COMPUTER.

(Edit because I CAN SPEL GUD. RLY.)

Already hiding out in Saugus...

[teepot09.livejournal.com]

I have boards nailed up over windows. If Boston fans take their Twilight as serious as their baseball - okay, not the same fans per se but there's something rooted there - we're in big trouble. BUT:

The crazed Apple store appearance is now available on iTunes for download and because I have a mindless job that lets me listen to endless amounts of internet radio I listened to the entire hour...stop it with the *facepalm* my job is REALLY boring!

Anyways - the best part is RPattz mentioning his favorite book character, or at least one he can relate to, John Self from Martin Amis' "Money"

Stolen from wikipedia.org, the summary describes self as: "an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends too much"

What would all those Twilight fans think of their Edward if they only knew...

AND all of the vanity fair shoot is online (another hour video - hell no) but the first couple skip throughs and I can conclude that this videographer has a job even MORE boring than mine and whoever picked the music for that photo shoot didn't realize the ANGST that should have been brought, to set the appropriate Twilight mood.

Eek! Sorry for the super long comment

Re: Already hiding out in Saugus...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh, no problem. I just wish iTunes didn't hate my computer.

And seriously, take care in Saugus. That's going to be the bad one, since the thing is going to sell out tonight (it is, don't lie, we all know it is. It's probably sold out NOW), and hundreds of people are going to get there "early" tomorrow night and it will get ugly.

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

Wow... Lego!Sayid has some massive cleavage.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I was a little disturbed by that.

[nabii.livejournal.com]

oh fuck! i already clicked, on both the journal and dorkorific's. nothing loaded on the link.

D:
D:

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

What are people running that they're infecting their boxen with keyloggers by clicking on a URL? Windows 98 and IE 5?

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

I have Vista and Firefox 3.0 and I got infected by clicking the link.

Beats me. *spent the day playing with keylogger detector* I'm easily amused!

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

A dinosaur/civil war theme park.

I am insane now, Chuck.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Me, I'm planning a road trip. \o/

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Re: the secret question: OR NOT (http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/534577.html?thread=7951665#t7951665).

Do with that info what you will.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I feel about Game of Thrones being adapted. Honestly I could watch fantasy stuff until the cows come home, but I don't like HBO and their need to be important. I've loved the recent Legend of the Seeker, which has totally bastardized the original Sword of Truth books, but is so enjoyable in its own right. In addition the BBC Merlin has been far above expectations, so I feel that I'm living in sort of a golden era of fantasy and I don't want it ruined.

I expect my golden age to come to its downfall at the hands of Twilight. It survived Eragon, but I don't know if it can handle the sparkling vampires.

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

My take on the "Don't blame Idol!" article- saying "It's not their fault because she was crazy anyway." is incredibly callous. Yes, it's possible- probable even- that other people would have made fun of her, and that her mental illness needed to be treated. But that doesn't excuse the role that being mocked on national television played in her problems. If this leads to more people expressing concern over the culture of reality shows like "What Not to Wear" and "American Idol", I'm all for it. It's about time we started to wonder why so many people tune in to watch people being taunted and humiliated every night.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Man, when did Twilight become this year's Cabbage Patch dolls?

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I just hope to God that there's a Tickle Me Edward doll out this Christmas.

It would be amazing.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Ok, when I saw the link about the Civil War and the dinosaurs, I was afraid it was some new exhibit in the Creationist Museum. Phew.

And that Rolling Stone list? WTF, indeed.

Also, I want those eyeshadows. Blaze is indeed awesome; that looks like a great color for green eyes.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

I was excited about Dollhouse already and then I watched the trailer. OMG. "You can erase a memory...but can you erase a soul?" WHAT AN AWESOME PREMISE. Please, FOX, please don't kill this because if anyone can pull such off such a lofty, philosophical sci-fi thriller, it is Joss Whedon.

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

I stopped taking Rolling Stone seriously when they decided to put the cast of The Hills on the cover. :-/

[t3andcrumpets.livejournal.com]

*eyes glaze over at the linkspam*

Unexpected shiny color! (http://www.aromaleigh.com/neellueyco.html) One of my favorite colors is Abyss, and I never would've chosen it for myself. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

HOSHIT I JUST NOTICED THEY SELL SAMPLES. I are smrt.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

My best friend and I once did a power-afternoon of bad movie mania: King Author, Van Helsing, The Shadow, AND The Phantom all in one sitting.
I agree that The Shadow gets all the little things right while missing the mark entirely. I mean, Tim Curry? And Sir Ian? Together? Also: the villain (and I am not making this up) is the descendant of a Mongolian, comes from Tibet, threatens to blow up America with 'ancient' Chinese technology...so multi-cultural of it!
The Phantom? PUUUUUUURE CHEEEEEESE. It is like the last ten minutes of Van Helsing but it goes on forever and you see Billy Zane's ass. And his horse talks to his wolf. His WOOOOOOOOOLF.

[sugarcages.livejournal.com]

Not MAD Tv! I love them more than SNL, to be honest.

[wicked-jade.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Aromaleigh is fantastic! I get most of my makeup there now, actually. So many pretty eyeshadows, so little money. Though they do sell samples and have weekly sales, and the shipping on sample-only orders is free. My favorite shadows are the Gothic Lolita shades. The Rocks colors are fun, too.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

Um, just a question - Sam said that Macs are apparently safe from the keycode copy stuff the hackers use - is this true?

Thanks!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm hearing, but I honestly have no idea.

[wontgetadayjob.livejournal.com]

oh dear god.
Please do not let shoebox get deleted.
it is amazing.
it contained the best confession of love scene i have read in my life.
whyyyyyy

[kilted.livejournal.com]

Um, what might happen if you, say, saw the hacked page and honestly accidentally clicked one of those links (and then got freaked out and changed your password)?

*is way worried*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eeek! I don't know--maybe go read up a bit more at copperbadge's journal? It happened to him, too, the hacking; there may be info in the comments at the entry I linked about anti-keyscrambler software.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in 2012?

And now you know why the Mayan calendar stops in 2012. They lost the will to live.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I looked up that eyeshadow I love. Revlon's Illuminance Creme Shadow, in Skinlights or Not Just Nudes, both work pretty well for me - good brown tones, and sooo easy to apply - i.e. just use your finger. :)

OK, now I realllly want that Watchmen book...although I'm also reeeeeally glad they put Rorschach in his trenchcoat and pants and all. That whole-body outfit is O_o.

And...OMG. Song of Ice and Fire on HBO? I cannot WAIT.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THOSE! I have five of them--the peach ones (Skinlights?), the browns, the purples (Orchids?), the pinks, and the "Shell" colors (don't like them so much).

[yenesi.livejournal.com]

I have a love/hate relationship with Rolling Stone Magazine. Mainly hate D:

Vincent D’Onofrio would be so awesome as Jerry Garcia.

[goonie-freak.livejournal.com]

There is a Geek Web comic that I read that just did a comic about Twilight! It is magical!

http://hijinksensue.com/2008/11/12/30-days-of-twilight/

Just thought you would enjoy it!

[sweetsyren.livejournal.com]

Pretty colours! I love those purples and reddy colours. I could spend a fortune on that site but they are so weird about international shipping... *sad face*