The time has come, the walrus said
Aug. 25th, 2010 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I am waiting for a professional do you like me yes/no/maybe check one answer right now, and I am not doing a very good job of not driving my friends and family crazy with my Eeyore stoicism and nervous upset stomach. I have also broken out with strange rosacea-like blargh across my cheeks, because my body likes to think of new and interesting ways to rebel every time I intellectually compartmentalize anxiety and pretend it's not there, but this is still better than that GIGANTIC HEINOUS FEVER BLISTER I got on my lip when Mom went into surgery. (Anxiety I calmly refuse to acknowledge has, over the years, also chosen to express itself as dizzy spells, blood pressure spikes, severe fatigue, nausea, facial blemishes, and, on occasion, boils. I am hoping none of the other plagues of Egypt show up.)
Meanwhile! As I am waiting! We have many things to discuss.
My sister has a new cat, and his name is Jackson. (ETA: My sister does not have a new cat here.)

There is a new Made of Fail episode up.
Also, a Help Pakistan fandom auction (I heard something to the effect that 20% of the country is underwater?).
Mark is now three chapters into Order of the Phoenix.
Stephen Fry is... on his way to Mobile, Alabama? I don't even know.
Entertainment linkspam! Man, it's nice when I can keep reasonably on top of this stuff and not spam you with a Wall o' Text.
'Avatar' DVD and Blu-ray to Include an Even Longer Cut of the Film. Nine minutes longer. O THE HUMANITY.
Trailer for Danny Boyle's '127 Hours' Starring James Franco. ... I don't think I'm going to be able to watch this.
Neil Gaiman On His 'Doctor Who' Episode And Deleted Scene.
Scream 4 Attracts Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell. Speaking of whom! 'True Blood' Stars Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Are Married! AWWWW.
Could Weta Make 'Panzer 88' the Next Big Thing?
Why the Lost Epilogue Doesn't Ruin the Show.
'Breaking Dawn' May Ditch Shooting in Rio After Hostage Crisis. YES. I THINK MAYBE WE SHOULD DO THAT.
(Side note: in addition to thirty-five people taken hostage and one person killed, Brazil is unusually... intense... with the Twilight fannishness, as I understand it. I would kind of maybe strenuously suggest the production not go there.)
Speaking of Really Scary Real-Life Things: 100 Reasons David Fincher Might Have Made the Wrong Facebook Movie, or, The 100-Name Facebook Hit List Terrifying a Colombian Town, which has already resulted in three teenagers dead. Don't go there either.
'Inside Job' Trailer: In Case You Didn't Realize Wall St. Effed Everyone.
And finally, not intended as the Uwe Boll Slot: Imagining Scott Pilgrim's Gruesome Alternate Ending.

Meanwhile! As I am waiting! We have many things to discuss.
My sister has a new cat, and his name is Jackson. (ETA: My sister does not have a new cat here.)

There is a new Made of Fail episode up.
Also, a Help Pakistan fandom auction (I heard something to the effect that 20% of the country is underwater?).
Mark is now three chapters into Order of the Phoenix.
Stephen Fry is... on his way to Mobile, Alabama? I don't even know.
Entertainment linkspam! Man, it's nice when I can keep reasonably on top of this stuff and not spam you with a Wall o' Text.
'Avatar' DVD and Blu-ray to Include an Even Longer Cut of the Film. Nine minutes longer. O THE HUMANITY.
Trailer for Danny Boyle's '127 Hours' Starring James Franco. ... I don't think I'm going to be able to watch this.
Neil Gaiman On His 'Doctor Who' Episode And Deleted Scene.
Scream 4 Attracts Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell. Speaking of whom! 'True Blood' Stars Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Are Married! AWWWW.
Could Weta Make 'Panzer 88' the Next Big Thing?
Why the Lost Epilogue Doesn't Ruin the Show.
'Breaking Dawn' May Ditch Shooting in Rio After Hostage Crisis. YES. I THINK MAYBE WE SHOULD DO THAT.
(Side note: in addition to thirty-five people taken hostage and one person killed, Brazil is unusually... intense... with the Twilight fannishness, as I understand it. I would kind of maybe strenuously suggest the production not go there.)
Speaking of Really Scary Real-Life Things: 100 Reasons David Fincher Might Have Made the Wrong Facebook Movie, or, The 100-Name Facebook Hit List Terrifying a Colombian Town, which has already resulted in three teenagers dead. Don't go there either.
'Inside Job' Trailer: In Case You Didn't Realize Wall St. Effed Everyone.
And finally, not intended as the Uwe Boll Slot: Imagining Scott Pilgrim's Gruesome Alternate Ending.


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Date: 2010-08-25 04:34 pm (UTC)WTF indeed.
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:14 pm (UTC)That's so much worse than anything else I was imagining.
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:27 pm (UTC)D:
Let's talk about happy things now.
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Date: 2010-08-26 05:19 pm (UTC)Then I cringed.
Then I starting mentally screaming as the above information hit me.
I need one of my stress meds now D:
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 04:49 pm (UTC)Where'd you guys get him, if you don't mind my asking?
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:54 pm (UTC)"Old Archie, bringing down the patriarchy one flowery nightgown at a time!"
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:08 pm (UTC)(No commenting about Serious Business of unfunny character, because I'm in a wrong condition for that.)
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Facebook: As if I need another reason to hate Facebook beyond its privacy issues. And honestly (and I know it sounds terrible) it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:39 pm (UTC)DUDE, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY STALK STEPHEN FRY. Maybe you can even learn an Alabaman accent for him. ...Oh, wait. >____>
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:39 pm (UTC)I hope Bad Cat hasn't tried to kill him.
Every now and then I'll think, "The Twilight fandom can't get any worse." And then it does. Woe.
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Date: 2010-08-25 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 06:06 pm (UTC)Also, the city is (very) violent but hostage situations do not happen often (this the only situation I can remember that affected turists), and the wealthier parts of town (where Bella and Edward would be, obviously) are mostly safe - it's the people who take buses and trains who suffer the most. The biggest risk would really and truly be the fangirls who would rent helicopters or whatever to get close to RPattz and KStew.
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:19 pm (UTC)Re: Twilight -- is there even such a thing as "unusually intense" where Twilight is concerned? :-) It's more like ALL INTENSE ALL THE TIME.
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Date: 2010-08-25 09:38 pm (UTC)Yes, really.
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Date: 2010-08-25 07:09 pm (UTC)Don't worry. I think you're safe for the time being. The rest of the plagues of Egypt are busy infesting the downstairs receiving area at my place of work. We've got flies. Lots and lots of flies. I'm expecting the locusts any day now.
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Date: 2010-08-25 09:32 pm (UTC)WTF is going on in Brazil and Colombia?
On second thought, don't answer that. :(
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Date: 2010-08-25 10:12 pm (UTC)linkspam!
Date: 2010-08-25 10:41 pm (UTC)"mark is now on chapter 3 of Ootp"
... oh God.
on one part i'm glad he didn't went "die in a fire!" at capslock harry and understood what harry was comming from even if rightly point out he was being a jerk to his friends.
on the other side he really loves sirius and i cant help but feel awful already in anticipationg to when he reaches the end of book 5.
moving on...
TOTAL WIN! for the Gaiman dr. who episode!!!!! I cannot wait for it!!!
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Date: 2010-08-26 12:50 am (UTC)My anxiety also will manifest itself in freakish physical ways. Usually my mind can handle all the stress and whatnot, but my body cannot. And it revolts.
Mark Reads Harry Potter may be my new obsession. I just can't wait for him to find out things, like, oh... Snape's Worst Memory? :D
And your sister's cat is absoultely adorable. Just saying.
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:50 am (UTC)There's also the fact that Meyer chose their folklore during one of her bouts of Epic Research Fail. Specifically, Breaking Dawn has the Superstitious Cleaning Lady calling Edward a liboshomen. Not only are there no such things as libishomen (it's "lobisomem"), those aren't even vampires! They're Brazilian werewolves that look like hairy man-apes (so even if they were vampires, Edward looks nothing like one). So yeah...
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:52 am (UTC)I -- I don't -- WHY IS SHE SO POPULAR?
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Date: 2010-08-26 03:24 am (UTC)(Incidentally, similar research failure occurs in the first book, when Bella looks up the various vampires there. It's doubly stupid, since if a person types "vampires" into Google, WIKIPEDIA IS THEIR FIRST ENTRY!)