*flop*

[cleolinda]

I had dinner and then took a hot shower and that was apparently a baaaad idea because I'm about to fall asleep right here at my desk. So, before I pass out:

ipomoea spotted a few original Movies in Fifteen Minutes hardbacks for sale in Austin!

Gabriel García Márquez Denies Rumors; 'Nope! Still Writing', Says Gabriel García Márquez.

Michael Crichton Died with an Entire Spare Novel in Reserve.

Crime writer leaves famed character behind ("Fans of the character Easy Rawlins don't want to hear it, but author Walter Mosley says he has officially moved on").

Female Blogger To Marry Commenter; Men Freaking ("If a male blogger found women to consort with by going into his comments, I think he'd be congratulated").

Franz Ferdinand cover 'Womanizer' on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.

From maramala: If Iorek Byrnison were real: "You have to assume that it was pretty fucking demoralizing to the Germans to see that the Poles had a fucking GIANT GODDAMNED BROWN BEAR fighting on their side."

OMG Sirens! Odysseus's Twitter Feed [The Wine-dark Tweet].

Hugh Jackman Launches Official Twitter.

Nathan Fillion: The EW Pop Culture Personality Test.

Little Ben loves Lost, remains adorable while doing so.

'The Fast and the Bi-Curious' starring Seth Rogen and Andy Samberg.

Emily Blunt's VF photoshoot; Summer Glau is a Ballet Babe.

Mickey Rourke knocks down WWE's Jericho.

Why 3-D Movies Will Always Hurt Your Eyes.

Images: Another Lovably Awesome 'Where the Wild Things Are' Poster; French 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Poster; 'Fame' Teaser Posters.

'Star Trek' promotional machine hits Warp 9; The Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover That Never Was.

Three new 'Terminator Salvation' TV ads are now live; Terminator Salvation's Helena Bonham Carter reveals a few secrets; ‘Terminator Salvation’ Trading Cards Reveal New Images.

EXCLUSIVE: Zack Snyder Reveals Setting For Revolutionary ‘300’ Follow-Up.

(Related to the works of Zack Snyder: Man Commits Suicide While Watching 'Watchmen.')

‘Iron Man 2’ Begins Filming Today, Jon Favreau Posts Photos From Kickoff.

Megan Fox Runs Hot; Michael Bay Kills Off Transformer Just Because He Can.

Will Heath Ledger's last film, 'Dr. Parnassus,' premiere at Cannes?

There's No Business Like Snow Business for Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida; Muggle Students Play Quidditch in Wales.

Related: New Trailer for 'Cherrybomb' Starring Rupert Grint (Updated); Ron Weasley Gets Busy in ‘Cherrybomb’ Promo Trailer; 'Harry Potter' star Rupert Grint has sex, does drugs, and makes me hide under my desk.

Richard Kelly says 'The Box' is finished and ready for October; Richard Kelly Wants You To Push The Button On 'The Box.'

Mike Newell Helming 'Box of Delights' for Brilliant Films.

Story Details On the Remake of Stephen King’s ‘IT’; Writer Promises Stephen King's 'It' Remake Will Be R-Rated.

High School To Host 'New Moon' Shooting; This Is A Refreshing Under-Exposed Twilight Humans Post; Borders Gives Twilight Fans a Thank You (read: discount); THE DVD BITING THING WAS REAL. Fortunately, no one actually wanted to use it.

Related: Online petition won't get Pattinson on ‘SNL’; Robert Pattinson in Exclusive ‘Little Ashes’ Clips: What Do You Think, Twilighters? I think I have a Dali phobia and can't watch them at all, is what I think. the mustache haunts my dreams you guys

Keanu Reeves developing sci-fi 'Passengers' for Morgan Creek.

Cuba Gooding Jr. Joining Method Man For George Lucas WWII Epic ‘Red Tails.’

Christina Ricci Was 'Born to Be a Star.'

Jake Kasdan Helming 'Burt Dickenson' Magician Project.

Terrence Howard to produce, star in tropical take on Macbeth.

Brian Keene's 'Dark Hollow' Headed to the Big Screen.

Warner Brothers Threatens Legal Action Against Hindi-Language Version of 'Benjamin Button.'

'Would You Be Willing to Have Unsimulated Intercourse on Screen?' Oh, Peter Greenaway, you so crazy.

MTV News Writer To Become One Of ‘The Crazies.’

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Dragonball Evolution’ Cast & Crew Explain Differences With Source Material. "Well, first we made it suck," maybe?

Comments

SO EXCITED!!

[unicornluvr.livejournal.com]

I just went and bought one of the copies! Along with, uh, three time-traveling Viking romance novels.

Anything to help with the Thesis-pain, really.

Thanks for writing this fabulous book that I look forward to reading, Ms. Jones!

Re: SO EXCITED!!

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

1) Time-traveling Vikings for the win.
2) I hear you on the Thesis-pain. My discussion section? Needs to be completely rewritten in the next 10 hours.
3) The book's really good. Enjoy!

[kuridee.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I spotted a stack of them in Cleveland! I bought one. I was so excited. :D

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

So this (http://www.cinematical.com/2009/04/06/robert-pattinson-wins-award-for-most-embarassing-on-set-injury/) came up in my RSS feed, and the moment I scrolled to it my boyfriend walked by, saw what was on my screen, and said "I JUST SNAPPED SOMETHING IN MY ASS."



(Sadly, I can't find the appropriate scene on YT, but you probably know what I'm talking about.)

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Reminds me that I so need to get this on DVD.

And it's the first scene on this vid. Hee.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Hugh Jackman Launches Official Twitter.

Oh gods... *hyperventilates*

Mickey Rourke knocks down WWE's Jericho.

Well, not really. He did knock him around pretty damn good tough. And it was funny. The hubby's a wrestling fan, what can I say.

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

TRUFAX: I cannot see in 3-D. I'm blind in one eye. Every time a 3-D movie comes out, I always feel ripped off and wish monsters were coming out of the screen at me too. :(



FAQ #2: That is not Cloud Of Darkness' nipple in my icon.

[maxiekatt2.livejournal.com]

I have an astigmatism and can't see 3-D either. Or those Magic Eye pictures. I felt so left out in the nineties :(

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

There were about six or seven copies of your book in hardcover at the Half Price Books in Lexington. :D

I don't know where they came from, but I triple-taked when I saw them on the shelf!

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

If anybody spots any copies of M15M in NC, let me know!

I feel like I should be more excited in Hugh Jackman's Twitter, but...I'm just not. If he were doing the whole thing in character as Peter Allen, then I might be interested.

[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

Man, I love Little Ben.

[heroically.livejournal.com]

I work at Half Price Books in Wisconsin and we got a stack of your book in our shipment two weeks ago, meaning that we bought them overstock. I nearly shrieked when I saw them.

[thelocustsing.livejournal.com]

I saw them in WI a few weeks back as well (as a customer, that is), Half Price stocking it seems to be fairly widespread.

[scarletsherlock.livejournal.com]

So do you get the royalties from the books sold at Half-Price books?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know. My theory is that it's worth far more to me, even as a business investment, to get people reading the book, whether they buy it or borrow it or take it out from the library or what.

[wenelda.livejournal.com]

Terrence Howard to produce, star in tropical take on Macbeth.

I should probably read the link before laughing, but...

Bwaahahahahahaaaahahahahaaaa!

It's the 'tropical' part that gets me. Not Terrence Howard, I like him. It's just that now I'm imagining Tropic Thunder only Shakespearean...

[ppyajunebug.livejournal.com]

The Odyssey twitter makes the lit geek in me supremely happy.

I am also entirely amused and gratified by the fact that Nathan Fillion keeps a lightsaber by his front door for protection.

Womanizer, part trois?

[suzeclues12.livejournal.com]

Also, YouTube has "Womanizer" by All American Rejects (Unplugged I think?).
Sorry, I don't have a link....

[mollywobbles867.livejournal.com]

FYI: The Cherrybomb trailer isn't the official one; was a promo for the camera company. Official trailer should be out soon. Really soon.

ICM (http://www.rupert-grint.us/wordpress/2009/04/06/rupert-grint-cherrybomb-official-promo-trailer/comment-page-8/?wpc=dlc#comment-42137)

[trash-addict.livejournal.com]

Why can't my life be Emily Blunt's VF shoot? Stupid reality.

[mudpuppy83.livejournal.com]

I really need to look around my local Half Price Books and see if, by any small miracle, they might have a copy.

And, oh God, I nearly threw up in my mouth a little watching the new trailer/TV spot for Star Trek in that one link. Seriously, heavy metal music in Star Trek trailer?!

And why in the hell is Kirk talking like Christian Slater? Look, I realize that Christian Slater was in Star Trek VI, but he wasn't playing Kirk!

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

I saw an esurance commercial yesterday that featured images of the new Star Trek movie.

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

I... I made it through The Baby of Macon, Prospero's Books, and The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover and that's all the Peter Greenaway I can take for one lifetime.

[melusina-snake.livejournal.com]

Oh cool, Movies in Fifteen Minutes is showing up in the US? According to Mapquest, the nearest Half Price Books is an hour away. If anyone hears about them appearing in the New Jersey store, I might consider going over there. :)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I love the way the badass of the week thing is written up. It cracked me up. Hah.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

I freaking loved that. It made me smile like nothing else has this week.

[outinthestorm.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like your icon, Cleo - I don't think I've seen you use that one before.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's a Trina Schart Hyman illustration of Rapunzel (I think?). I love her work.

[elbales]

That Badass of the Week link about the bear is pretty much the best thing ever.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

My first thought about the Watchmen suicide-viewer was that he'd been holding on long enough to see the film, and once it was done he thought, "Okay, I can die now." I was on my knees sobbing after finishing the LOTR trilogy because fate had allowed me to live long enough to see that, for example. (But I didn't want to kill myself, see.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think he did it halfway through, though? Which made me wonder, morbidly, which scene he did it after.

Breaking News: Len Wein's home burns down.

[ook.livejournal.com]

Wein and his family are fine but he lost his entire collection of original art and his dog.

A brief rundown is here:
http://puppetmaker40.livejournal.com/583548.html

Latest updates can be found at Harlan Ellison's board:
http://harlanellison.com/heboard/unca.htm

[situveuxmoi.livejournal.com]

Nathan Fillion. HILARIOUS.

I've been watching "Castle" since it came out... I look forward to it every week just because it's a great show.

(although every time I watch it makes me think of how he played Captain Hammer. And then I get into a fit of giggles.)


So I have a question. Is your book sold only in the UK and then half-priced in the US? I'm confused to how it works.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's published overseas (pretty much anywhere but North America--long story, and I'm working on that), so if it ends up being sold here, it's been imported by specific retailers. Half Price Books is the only retailer here I've heard of actually importing it store-wide, but it doesn't specifically have to be sold at half price.

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

OH HOLY BATSHOES! A DR. WHO/STAR TREK CROSSOVER?

Be still my beating heart...

That is the best way to start my day. Thank you for that awesome link.