Many different things to mention

[cleolinda]

Huzzah! My college roommate (Valkyrie) and her husband (Dr. Typo, for those of y'all who used to read the Daily Digest) had their baby today! Baby Typo is seven pounds or thereabouts and 21 inches long. Also, we all haunted Dr. Typo's Facebook this morning once word got out that they'd gone to the hospital--we sat there refreshing madly while he updated his status from his iPhone, and the Lovely Emily (my other college roommate) can't get Facebook at work, so I relayed all the news to her via email. Of course, he disappeared for long stretches of time, quite reasonably, as he needed to actually be with Valkyrie and not liveblog the whole thing. Ah, modernity.

(While we were waiting, Em and I discussed Breaking Dawn, which she had just read for the first time. Appropriate!)

Petty distress: my face is all red and dry and sensitive and itchy (like a sunburn, actually), and I'm not sure why, except that I used a Bare Minerals "Rev-Upper" moisturizer (um. Twice) that was more than a year old, and it might have made my face angry. (Something similar, but less dire, happened when I used a really old sample of Philosophy's Hope in a Jar.) All I know is, it's really unpleasant, and I'm to the point where I'm trying not to touch or wash or think about it at all, if possible. Just slathering on my regular moisturizer and a little apple cider vinegar/water solution (actually a pretty good natural cleanser).

Interestingly, my complexion's the clearest it's been in a long time. Except for, you know. The burning. I'm this close to raiding the pantry for oatmeal to slap on, quite honestly; the aloe plant on the deck should fear for its life. On the upside, I will never need blush again.

New York Comic Con in 90 Seconds; "Real Book" Writers Play a Part at Comic-Con, Too; 2009 NYCC: Tonner Doll Co. Speaking of NYCC (and dolls), here's foresthouse's recap of her own adventures (with photo gallery), including a pilgrimage to aforesaid Tonner booth. What I love is that three different people (including my sister) took pictures of the Dollens, but only in foresthouse's was The Hair on high alert (fangirls must have been imminent).

More linkspam:

Chris Brown Allegedly Attacks Rihanna, Own Career With 'Deadly Weapon'; Source: Brown bit Rihanna, hit her with fists; Chris Brown Wrigley's gum ads suspended.

There's really no good way to segue from that, is there?

Via my friend David: This Is Why You're Fat, the blog of "deliciously gross food" like the Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, aka The Last Thing You Eat Before You Die.

Wm. Shakespeare's Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me.

Women Continue to Flock to Hollywood’s Female-Hating Chick Flicks; 'Coraline' Rules, 'Push' Survives... And 'Fanboys' Flops.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wins BAFTA best picture; Writers Guild honors 'Slumdog,' 'Milk'; Pixar president accepts first Oscar of ’09.

Images: Juliette Lewis and Orlando Bloom on the set of 'Sympathy for Delicious' (Poll: Is Orlando Bloom a 'Delicious Rocker'?); New stills from Anthony Hopkins' new (old) film 'The City Of Your Final Destination'; First Look: Mary Elizabeth Winstead in 'Scott Pilgrim'; Exclusive: 'Sugar' Poster Premiere; New Batch of Jason Statham Photos from 'Crank 2'; New 'Dragonball' Still; Photos from Heinlein's lost moon movie.

Trailers and clips: Worth Watching: Jan Troell's 'Everlasting Moments' Trailer; Seth Rogen's 'Observe and Report' trailer: Hilariously NSFW; Fred Durst's 'The Education of Charlie Banks' Trailer; Watch This: Two Kids Re-Create a 'Pulp Fiction' Diner Scene.

New 'Watchmen' and 'Monsters vs. Aliens' TV Spots!; 'Watchmen' takes New York Comic Con; what we saw; Ask 'Watchmen' Stars a Question for Unscripted!

Related-to-Harry-Potter news: Dan Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths End Broadway Run of 'Equus'; Rupert Grint takes gritty turn in 'Cherrybomb'; Rupert Grint Attends Premiere of his new film 'Cherrybomb' in Berlin.

Via ravenofthejade: Tantrums and tears at Twilight audition: "Tears and arguments broke out Sunday as hundreds of first nations teenagers from all over North America were turned away from a casting call for New Moon, the sequel to last year’s vampiric blockbuster Twilight." To be clear, it was an audition for first nations (or First Nations? What's the capitalization rule on this?) kids, so it was a matter of turning some of them away, not a whitewash situation like The Last Airbender.

Meanwhile, Twilight Blu-Ray Collection Coming; Robert Pattinson Gets Swarmed By Female Fans Outside London Nightclub on Feb. 7; Robert Pattinson: April's 'GQ' Coverboy? Also, Team Jacob Twilight Onesies are Not Cool. "A Werewolf Imprinted on Me" onesies are worse.

Will Cate Blanchett Save 'Nottingham'? God, I hope so. I know she's really too old for a classic Maid Marian, but guess what? I don't care, because I love that character and I love her and this whole thing kind of looks like a trainwreck. At least she'll class up the joint.

Will Thom Yorke Contribute Music To ‘Terminator Salvation’?; Did McG Just Confirm That We'll See Arnold in 'Terminator Salvation'?; McG Talks Bale, Arnold And Why Michael Ironside Is The Real John Connor.

Eyeing Captain Kirk’s Chair, Joshua Jackson Auditioned For ‘Star Trek.’

Eva Green to Star in 'Womb.' (Related: Eva Green: 'I'll Never Google Myself Again.' Damn nipple haters!)

Ralph Fiennes Directing Adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus.'

Herzog/Lynch Pic Gets a Surprising Cast.

Besson, EuropaCorp Eyeing 'Tell No One' Remake.

James Mangold Helming Untitled Legal Thriller.

Arterton, Marsan and Compston Investigate 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed.'

Fourth 'Underworld' Rumblings Begin.

Want to get a first glimpse of Tron 2? Go to San Diego.

Elizabeth Bennet and Her Sisters about to Become Zombie Slayers. Yes, the book's becoming a movie now.

Brett Ratner to Direct Image Comics' 'Youngblood.'

X-Files Director Promises 7-Foot-Tall Penis in New Film. As one does.


And, once again: Death toll in Australian wildfires rises past 170. Please consider donating to the Red Cross.

Comments

[bruinhilda.livejournal.com]

Speaking of The Hair, this may amuse you. I picked up a Japanese TV series recently. As far as I can tell, it originally aired around 2004, though the US didn't get it on DVD until last year.

The Japanese version of The Hair (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/bruinhilda/rotating/suou08.jpg)

From BloodHound: the Vampire Gigolo. I swear, I did not make that up.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Holy Christ. On so many levels.

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

Does he have...fangs? *snicker*

He somewhat looks like the Japanese version of RPattz. Somewhat.

And I'm not sure whose hair is wilder, his or RPattz's.

[exileslament.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link about how to donate to the Australian Red Cross! And just a heads up to people donating from the States - the site's currency is in Australian dollars (understandably) but it's easy to use a currency converter, like XE.com, to translate how much you want to donate.

[eiki.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Bennet and Her Sisters about to Become Zombie Slayers. Yes, the book's becoming a movie now.

*facepalms*

Yes, you may be having a laugh at it now, Lizzie, but wait 'till you have to hitch up your skirt & petticoat and fight zombies.

And those onesies... no words.

[kelcea.livejournal.com]

From the New Moon casting article: "“I like any romance novel, and this one was kind of unique because of the forbidden love thing,” she said."

How many romance novels has this girl read? Honestly.

As stated above, it's First Nations. Although you can always count on the Vancouver Sun for shoddy reporting.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Forbidden love? Unique?

I'm not a romance novel connoiseur, but I did go through a phase where I flipped through looking for the smuttiest parts. And in that time I discovered that many romances were all about noble ladies kidnapped by pirates or bandits or scalawags or *gasp* Native Americans yet they fell in love with their captors despite knowing that their love could Never Be.

[jenni-talula.livejournal.com]

OTOH adult sized werewolf/Jacob onesies would be kind of awesome.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

It would have crossover appeal for the Twilight-loving baby fetishists (those who dress up and act like babies for sexual gratification).

They could then make their own giant felted womb that they could burst out of.

[scarlettfish.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your note about the fires in Victoria. Australia needs all the help we can get right now.

[himhilien.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to your college roommate! ^_^

Those Twilight onesies scare the crap out of me. O_O

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Congrats to Valkyrie and Dr. Typo and the new, baby Val-Typo. :)

Re: your skin, you are probably right that it was just an old product making things bad. But I shall take this chance to recommend the Alba line of beauty products anyway, just in case. They used to be mail-order only but now you can get some of them at CVS. Once you figure out which ones are right for your skin they are FANtastic. I like the Alba Eye Gel and the Renew lotion (green tub).

Re: Comic Con in 90 Seconds: OMG! I missed freakin’ Deadpool (http://www.cinematical.com/photos/2009-new-york-comic-con/1342309/)??? WHUT. I would so have gotten a picture taken with him. Doh! (Although it does kinda make you appreciate how ripped the comic book characters are drawn when you see Real People in head-to-toe spandex. Heh.)

Speaking of Real Writers being there, they were giving away tons of free books – I only happened upon one, but I talked to one dude (a vendor) who had about 12 collected by mid-afternoon. Geez!

That’s so weird that in the other Dollen pic The Hair is so smooth. I got to the booth around probably 2:00 on Friday and The Hair was totally in panic mode. Perhaps it had had one too many fangirls touching it by then.

...You know, I continue to feel rather bad for RPattz when I see these news stories wherein he is engulfed by crazed fans. It just can’t be healthy!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

But I shall take this chance to recommend the Alba line of beauty products anyway, just in case. They used to be mail-order only but now you can get some of them at CVS.

Yes! I'd forgotten them, but I used to love their pineapple face wash. And I definitely need some kind of eye cream/gel--I'm not trying to get rid of anything (lines or wrinkles) so much as prevent damage.

[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting the link to the Red Cross.

I'm absolutely amazed by the generosity that's been shown - they've had $30.4 million donated in the past two days. It's never happened before.

Word is the toll will surpass 200, and I'm not surprised. It's jumped so much since Sunday.

[highlystrung.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to your roommates of old on the birth.

And also I would just like to add my heartfelt thanks for highlighting the Red Cross donations link. I don't live in Victoria myself, and thank god I don't have family or friends down there, but we're all just in tears about it. It's so visceral.

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting the link to the Red Cross donations page. There's a lot of help needed down here.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to Valkyrie and Dr. Typo!

[fiducia.livejournal.com]

Complexion problems suck. I'm right there with you since I suffer adult ance rosacia. I've tried Bare Minerals and Philosophy but right now I'm rocking Clinique's acne line and Mario Badescu's Drying Lotion is WONDERFUL at managing acne that has just cropped up.
http://www.mariobadescu.com/productDetail.asp?ProductID=151

Good luck!

[mogumogu.livejournal.com]

;_; I thought you said there'd be a Morpheus doll and I didn't see one and now I am sad...

The thing that got me is the little kid shirts that say "stupid lamb." Why on earth would you give a kid a shirt that says "Stupid?!" That kid's gonna have enough torment from just existing, and now you give the other kids material?

(Well, you know, regarding Chick Flicks, does art imitate life or the other way around? It's hard to say. I don't like that sort of image, but I'm pretty much a reject of the sex anyway, so I don't have much clout, myself. Of course, maybe that's what's stopping us from rejecting them all together-Objectors either are or feel they are the exception to the rule, or maybe the rule really is the exception and we all wear it as armor? It's so hard to tell...)

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

WHY did I click those onesie links?

WTF??? Who....what...WHY did someone come up with those?

There's no word to describe my thoughts on that. No words in the English language. Just...wow.

[belsum.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. None of my friends had better get me one of those werewolf onesies, not even for the LULZ. This is mama's ridiculous snark addiction, not baby girl's.

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

As someone experiencing chemical burn of her own, I feel you. I put on some generic moisturizer and it seems to have helped.

On the subject of possible facial skin irritants, LUSH's Temptation seems to be responsible for my mock-beard today. Everywhere else is fine, but given that their Lip Squeak balm (containing similar ingredients, I think) screwed my lips up for a week, I should have known better.

And that P&P with zombies is something I can't miss. Maybe I'll take Dad along, if he can stand seeing his favorite book turned into that.

[niiicko.livejournal.com]

So many things to comment on! XD

"I always wanted to carry around a crazy spy notebook like Harriet"

Ahahaha, I did that for a little while, but I didn't find to many things to write about in it either. x_x

"Also, Team Jacob Twilight Onesies are Not Cool. "A Werewolf Imprinted on Me" onesies are worse."

omg...

"I know she's really too old for a classic Maid Marian, but guess what? I don't care, because I love that character and I love her and this whole thing kind of looks like a trainwreck. At least she'll class up the joint."

I agree 110%.

"Elizabeth Bennet and Her Sisters about to Become Zombie Slayers."

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I don't think these two of my favorite things can be put together. Especially not with the whole Mr. Darcy teaching them ninja skillz. Although, if anyone could have ninja skillz it would be him.

[its-ambiguous.livejournal.com]

Bill Shakespeare's five and twenty inspired me to do Edward's 25 (http://its-ambiguous.livejournal.com/):
1. I just installed Google Latitude on Bella's Blackberry so that I will always know where she is.

[ofshoesandships.livejournal.com]

One of my profs took Monday off for his wife to deliver their baby....

[mudpuppy83.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know how I completely missed this post. No wonder I thought you hadn't reported on the Pride & Prejudice & Zombies movie story.

Also, there are people who don't like Eva Green's nipples?

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Robert Pattinson Gets Swarmed By Female Fans Outside London Nightclub on Feb. 7

thus my saying your linkspam the other day confounded me ;)