The time has come, the walrus said

[cleolinda]

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. 

Comments

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

um. Yes, please, lets talk about how "this would be a great movie omg!" rather than how Facebook is facilitating serial murder.

WTF indeed.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

Eh, if it wasn't facebook it would be Craigslist or something. Not that making light of it isn't tacky.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Craigslist has- the Boston Craigs List Killer killed himself last week.

[hazakaza.livejournal.com]

All I am thinking about right now is how your anxiety could produce frogs.

[sevenmarie.livejournal.com]

i literally LOLed

[lupegarou.livejournal.com]

ohhh. only as long as it's the species that was just discovered. it's nearly microscopic and they live in pitcher plants. super cute.

[hazakaza.livejournal.com]

I dunno, that almost sounds worse to me--I'd take one bullfrog clambering its way out of my navel than a swarm of little ones.

[smadronia.livejournal.com]

I second this.

[lupegarou.livejournal.com]

ewwww. that one bullfrog would probably be a lot more painful than the swarm of little ones though....

[boompsy.livejournal.com]

I third this. After they crawl out, little ones can crawl into your other orifices.

[hazakaza.livejournal.com]

D:

That's so much worse than anything else I was imagining.

[boompsy.livejournal.com]

I meant nose and ears! Nose and ears!!!

D:

Let's talk about happy things now.

[jackofice.livejournal.com]

I lol'd.

Then I cringed.

Then I starting mentally screaming as the above information hit me.

I need one of my stress meds now D:

[boompsy.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to wish you good luck with your possible opportunity :) I think you're to be congratulated on getting to this point since many don't even get to go this far!! Congrats!!

[a-mae-zing.livejournal.com]

Sorry cannot make it past the adorable picture of the KITTY <3

Where'd you guys get him, if you don't mind my asking?

[aranel13.livejournal.com]

And how is Bad Cat liking it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

She and Jackson are living elsewhere; Bad Cat hasn't met him.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

She got him at a shelter around here, I don't know.

[cmattg.livejournal.com]

Well, if the tobacco crop is eaten by locusts, we'll know who to blame.

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you linked Mark here--I was following his Twilight liveblogs back in the day, but these are so much better. It's nice seeing him all squeeful and happy.

"Old Archie, bringing down the patriarchy one flowery nightgown at a time!"

[vivian-lake.livejournal.com]

Your sister's cat is pretty.
(No commenting about Serious Business of unfunny character, because I'm in a wrong condition for that.)

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

Awww! Your sister's kitty is so cute. He looks like my brother's cat, Tucker, only Tucker has a dark smudge on his chin that looks like a goatee.

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.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Did you see the episode of Criminal Minds where this happened? Only not with the hit list, just with the stalking and murdering.

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

Yes! If Facebook's privacy issues hadn't prevented me from getting a page, that episode certainly would have. /paranoia

[meleth.livejournal.com]

I just went through and, in addition to turning off Places, set loads of things to friends or myself only.

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to get my mom and brother to reset a bunch of their privacy settings. I even gave my mother the Time issue that had Facebook/privacy concerns...and nothing. Maybe I'll email her the hit list article...

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

D'awww, that cat is adorable. He looks far less sad than Edward Cat, anyway.

DUDE, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY STALK STEPHEN FRY. Maybe you can even learn an Alabaman accent for him. ...Oh, wait. >____>

[eight-demands.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's stalking her - who can resist an Alabaman accent?

[jackofice.livejournal.com]

ICON LOVE. YES, COVERT AFFAIRS <3

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

ZOMG YES. Zero to madly in love in literally less than a week. That's a record for me.

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

Pretty cat!

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.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jackson and Bad Cat aren't even in the same house.

[badipew.livejournal.com]

About the Rio thing, I'm equal parts "Go away, do NOT want you here" and "OMG please come we could use the insanely huge exposition eventough we're not prepared to receive huge amounts of people".
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.

[jackofice.livejournal.com]

No!! If they're allowed to take roots, the Twihards will NEVER leave! Its like a weed infestation, pull them out and throw them across the fence BEFORE the root system takes hold.

[lupegarou.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i'm in love with Jackson's little pink nose and lips. adorable!

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Aw, hi, cute kitty!

Re: Twilight -- is there even such a thing as "unusually intense" where Twilight is concerned? :-) It's more like ALL INTENSE ALL THE TIME.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

My devil cat's name is Jackson! May your sister's cat not enjoy gnawing on her ears.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

IS IT SHORT FOR "ACTION JACKSON" BECAUSE I THINK IT SHOULD BE

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's short for Michael Jackson.

Yes, really.

[gaiamyles.livejournal.com]

I have to commend your sister on choice! My similarly patterned grey and white kitten is also named Jackson!

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

I am hoping none of the other plagues of Egypt show up.

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.

KITTEH

[elbales]

He is mighty cute, yes.


WTF is going on in Brazil and Colombia?

On second thought, don't answer that. :(

[bienegold.livejournal.com]

The new Mark Reads HP is up, and he's discovered CAPSLOCK HARRY. I expect this shall lead to hilarity.

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

The cat is adorable!

linkspam!

[starnightmuse.livejournal.com]

your lolEdward cullen Cat icons will never cease to make me lol.

"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!!!

[janisbueller.livejournal.com]

Many things:
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.

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

"(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.)"

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...

[elbales]

I'm quoting another Cleo!reader here when I say:

I -- I don't -- WHY IS SHE SO POPULAR?

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

Especially when one considers THE FREAKING INTERNET! It's not like this sort of stuff is so hard to find out! I just popped it into Google and zoink! There it all is! Really now, what the heck? >_<

(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!)