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cleolindaHuh. I had no idea I hadn't posted in more than a week.
1) So... here's Tonner Jasper. Or rather, the page seems to have gone up too early and is now down. (I think the Toy Fair 2011 reveal is supposed to be on Monday.) Too bad I'd left the "click for larger image" tab open! MOO HA HA.
What? Someone on Facebook posted pictures of it on display at IDEX last week. It's already out in the wild!
2) I am feeling a lot better, although still busy and kind of winter-sluggish.
@cleolinda: After three days of fresh fruit intake, I feel much better. Maybe this whole time the Death Blarg was scurvy...?
@cleolinda: Yarrrr, we be at snow for three months, unable to reach the produce aisle. Two days ago, the salty dogs raided a Super Bowl parrrrty.
@cleolinda: Strangely, no one missed the fruit plate. Arrrrrrrr.
What I have been doing with my Feel-Bad Down-Time, besides feeling snerfy and/or lying in a quasi-tubercular cold-medicine coma, is reading. (Mostly research, a few classics, a new YA.) Writing is also going slowly but well. I was drafting a big "let's discuss all these books" post, but then I realized I ought to dole it out a couple of books at a time. And also, we need some more Varney.
3) I also saw True Grit on Sunday, but didn't mention it because--well, the Super Bowl. Which I spent curled up in my room reading Victorian vampire stories, but I figured no one else would be around. Feel free to discuss here if you want; I didn't really know what to say afterwards. The last fifteen minutes or so take the movie beyond what I had expected, and it stuck with me for a couple of days afterwards. I don't know. Oh, except that I officially endorse Hailee Steinfeld for Katniss in The Hunger Games.
4) Also, this:
1) So... here's Tonner Jasper. Or rather, the page seems to have gone up too early and is now down. (I think the Toy Fair 2011 reveal is supposed to be on Monday.) Too bad I'd left the "click for larger image" tab open! MOO HA HA.
What? Someone on Facebook posted pictures of it on display at IDEX last week. It's already out in the wild!
2) I am feeling a lot better, although still busy and kind of winter-sluggish.
@cleolinda: After three days of fresh fruit intake, I feel much better. Maybe this whole time the Death Blarg was scurvy...?
@cleolinda: Yarrrr, we be at snow for three months, unable to reach the produce aisle. Two days ago, the salty dogs raided a Super Bowl parrrrty.
@cleolinda: Strangely, no one missed the fruit plate. Arrrrrrrr.
What I have been doing with my Feel-Bad Down-Time, besides feeling snerfy and/or lying in a quasi-tubercular cold-medicine coma, is reading. (Mostly research, a few classics, a new YA.) Writing is also going slowly but well. I was drafting a big "let's discuss all these books" post, but then I realized I ought to dole it out a couple of books at a time. And also, we need some more Varney.
3) I also saw True Grit on Sunday, but didn't mention it because--well, the Super Bowl. Which I spent curled up in my room reading Victorian vampire stories, but I figured no one else would be around. Feel free to discuss here if you want; I didn't really know what to say afterwards. The last fifteen minutes or so take the movie beyond what I had expected, and it stuck with me for a couple of days afterwards. I don't know. Oh, except that I officially endorse Hailee Steinfeld for Katniss in The Hunger Games.
4) Also, this:
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Date: 2011-02-09 11:02 pm (UTC)I MUCH PREFERRED the update. Everyone does a FABULOUS job and Mattie is truly the star, not simply some overgrown priss that you really want to gag and chuck down a well. I didn't think the overall plot of the two movies was really so different and I think this particular ending made MUCH. MORE. SENSE.
Oddly, I think the part that made me bawl hardest was the last scene with Little Blackie. ;; I know it was the kindest thing, given the circumstances, BUT STILL. Geeze. Life was rough back in ye day. xx;
Also, HYMNS. As a Presbyterian I get bawly whenever I hear olde classics like that. I will most likely be picking up the soundtrack in the near future. ^^
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Date: 2011-02-09 11:26 pm (UTC)