Odds and ends

[cleolinda]

More pictures of Alice Dollen! She is, in fact, wearing slippers, since someone asked. And the date on her card says only "2009," woe.

(OMG YOU GUYS! THE YELLOW BARBIE CORVETTE I HAD AS A KID! omg. We gave all our Barbie stuff away when I was in college and my sister was in her early teens. If I went out and bought another one for Alice, no matter how cheap, thereby bringing MOAR CLUTTER into the house, my mother would kill me.)

Linkspam!

Jay-Z on Rihanna: Imagine She's Your Sister or Mom; Chris Brown: Sorry 'for what transpired.' Okay, look. I'm "sorry for what transpired" in Australia. You, Chris Brown, beat on Rihanna. And you beating on Rihanna didn't just happen to blow through like an act of nature. There's a difference.

Georgetown Harrassed By Serial Cuddler. "A full two thirds of the most recent Georgetown University Public Safety Reports have involved an unknown male entering someone’s home and hovering in or around the resident’s bed until being 'asked' to leave." Edward...? Is that you?

Related to Yes, Twilight Would So Be Creepy in Real Life: Though Many Are Stalked, Few Report It.

The Fling Candy Bar: A Pink Sparkly Marketing Mess. I'm sensing a theme today.

(Snack Deathmatch! CUPCAKES VS. BROWNIES.)

Microsoft exec denies knowledge of My Phone rhyming with iPhone.

Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Information.

The Genesis of All Tweets.

Michael Jackson Auction Update: Need Some Scissorhands or a Peter Pan Golf Cart? With... pictures. Wow.

We're actually gonna find out what the smoke monster on Lost is!

Editors, Cinematographers and Audio Society All Love ‘Slumdog Millionaire’; Slumdog, Dark Knight & Button Triumph At Arts Design Awards; Stephen Colbert Predicts This Year's Oscars - Do You Agree?

The Reader Is 'Worst Holocaust Film Ever Made'; Kate Winslet's Oscar chances hit by 'The Reader' Nazi accusation.

Images: 'Franklyn' pics; Final Poster for Universal's 'Fast and Furious'; New High Res Photos from Imagi's 'Astro Boy'; 'Haunting,' 'Horsemen' Hi-Res Pics; Closer Look at the Bad Guys from 'G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra'; First Look: Jon Foo as Jin Kazama in 'Tekken' Movie.

trailer_spot: Transformers 2, Observe and Report, We Live in Public, Education of Charlie Banks.

First X-Men Origins: Wolverine TV Spot: Outcasts.

UPDATE: Hasbro Unveils G.I. Joe , Transformers & Wolverine Toys.

Fenrir Greyback, the Action Figure; Hagrid's Hut at Harry Potter Theme Park to be "Unoccupied Prop Structure."

Wow - Another Stunning Watchmen TV Spot!; The Watchmen Merchandising Wave Cometh; Fan Made: Watchmen Cupcakes. But are they better than Watchmen brownies?

‘Star Trek’ is Coming to Blu-ray in a Big Way; Star Trek's "Red Shirt" Fragrance Wants You To Smell Like Dead Away Teams.

New viral sites for 2012, Terminator, Dollhouse. (Related: Dollhouse premiere ratings even worse than expected.)

Branagh's Thor Will Be Faithful, Successful, Claims Marvel Chief.

Rumor: Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson for Jonny Quest?

Does Diablo Cody Believe in 'Breathers'?

The Black Goo of Venus Is Eating a Cosmonaut [Found Footage].

Comments

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

*reads in stunned horror*

I've never passed out drunk/cracked out, but I have been known to sleep through the proverbial earthquake. You could dance a group mambo (and yes, cuddle up with me, individually or as a group *cringe*) in my room for all I care. I don't think I even have a point here, as those girls were probably something other than fast asleep, so... different situations. Still... *bleaches brain*

To be fair, though, I don't think Edward would, er, cuddle. He acts like he's in a less extreme rape fantasy (ie., he'll do nothing beyond Bella's comfort zone). A virtual stranger actually breaking into your room to watch you sleep would creep out even the fangirls. Because it's a fantasy, though, Bella knows (as do we) that he'll never harm her. Also, watching your loved one sleeping is usually seen as a romantic notion, so you have a someone who needs to see you so much he'll break into your room, but no further, won't even wake you up because he doesn't want his romantic urge to upset you (or your sleep). Disregarding the issues of trust, privacy, realism, etc.? HOT. It's why Edward is a 100+ high schooler falling for a teen. Literally read, it's creepy beyond creepy. On the surface, he's the best of both worlds: a gentlemanly (as only victorians are) guy who'll harmlessly show his uncontrollable passion for you time and again, who also looks really young and good, and is the ultimate cool guy: a vampire (even if he acts nothing like any vampire ever).

Quite like those M&B novels where - TO THIS DAY - the bazillionaire kidnaps/blackmails the helpless girl, and she loves it, not because of Stockholm Syndrome, but because it's just his anti-social way of showing he loves her, and he'd never dream of abusing his position (realistic minds, of course, would argue that he abused it at kidnapping/blackmail).

I've no desire to have any Edward inflicted on me, mind you, but I can see where SMeyer and her fans come from. If Edward got down on that bed and cuddled, before Bella even knew him properly though, I think even they would be horrified.

... I hope so, at any rate.

*long-winded. Sorryyyy...*

[katchin.livejournal.com]

Through all the books, I thought Edward was kinda creepy. In Midnight Sun, I was pretty horrified with exactly how creepy he was. Like bringing oil so her window wouldn't creak, watching her sleep, planning his "surveillence"...I'm glad I didn't read Midnight Sun before the other books or else I'd have a whole different take on them. I was especially freaked out when he grabbed her jacket while she walked away because he wasn't done with her yet. Um, that is super scary and predictive of violent behavior. I would hope a tennaged girl would know to run away from a guy like that and not think it is romantic or that "he must really love me".

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Long, maybe, but absolutely right (IMO).

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, I can sleep through a lot, too, and have--a slept through a lightning storm, and an earthquake, and I've even sleep-walked outside and I didn't wake up, but you even lightly touch me and I flip out. I once (accidentally) back-handed my mother because she tried to wake me up by shaking my shoulder. So, I guess what I'm saying is, I don't really get how someone can not wake up to that, but wake up to a condom opening--and, I think, another girl woke up to the door closing. And I don't really know what the girls alcohol consumption was, either; they were mostly sorority girls, so I assume that they were drunk, but I suppose I could be wrong.

And, I agree about Edward. I don't think he'd go so far as to touch Bella without her permission, though that in no way excuses the creepiness of watching her sleep without her knowing.