Cleolinda everywhere

To begin, Miss Freddie has posted her interview with director/producer David Slade (pictured here with her business card. Nor is he the only one...). She was, in fact, my date to the Pannibal last night, in the sense that we sat on Skype all night on the other side of the country and laughed our asses off. ppyajunebug was actually there, liveblogging under her "pannibal" tag on Tumblr with a number of pictures and short video clips on Vine, because she is awesome. Herewith, various things I collected over the course of the evening:

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I feel like I should check in, this being Sparklemas. I have spent the entire month being really, severely, physically depressed--I can't remember if this time of year is always like this for me. It feels worse than usual, but then I remember how raw everything feels right around my birthday mid-December, so... it's probably just a seasonal downward spike. It's just so hard to explain, because you're not depressed "about" anything--it's like you've got the flu, influenza of the soul, and someone comes in and goes, "Where's the blood? It's not like anyone stabbed you or anything, walk it off." There's no easily recognized focal point--it's just there, draining you. Specific wounds take time to heal, yes, but you have something to focus on--change the bandages, take out the stitches; a specific event-driven depression, an emotional wound, might be a break-up or a job loss or the death of a loved one. You might not be able to do anything about it, but you have an idea of why you feel so horrible. I don't know--this emotional flu seems to have no real beginning and, you fear, no end. You can't explain it, you don't know what else to do, after the antidepressants and the vitamins and the full-spectrum lamp and everything else you've been recommended. It's just... haunting you.

However, it is also Sparklemas.






Indeed, sir. Indeed.

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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.) ( picture )

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. ( In which things get scary IRL )

More Formspring questions. Posted 3/9/10.


( Is your mom as badass as I think she is? )

Feeling a smidge better. Got a good bit of work done yesterday, even though I was stuck wrangling fussy dogs for eight hours while my parents were on a church orchestra daytrip. (Sam parked himself in front of the door out to the garage once 5 pm rolled around, because that is The Time Mommy and Daddy Come Home, and yet they did not. So he barked at it for two hours.) Today I got up and went straight to work in the den, instead of getting up and faffing around on the computer and/or sleeping on the couch (both also in the den). I'm in there anyway, usually by 7 am, because "I have to keep an eye on the dogs" is a good way to add structure to my day. ANYWAY. I'm starting a new book for my novel research (although, as I noted, there's a point where research is about finding out things, and then there's a point where it's about the fear of not having found out enough, and I've been at that second point for a long, long time now), but I'm also checking Twitter.

@scottEweinberg: This Pattinson kid is on my TV. He looks like a cross between @TheJoeLynch and a Lycan.

O rly?

Ah, the Remember Me publicity circuit has started. I had plenty of time to read my book during commercials, because as American viewers of the Olympics know, NBC is now 85% advertising content.

@cleolinda: Al Roker's outside the Today studio saying Robert Pattinson's name over and over just to hear the girls scream.

@cleolinda: Matt Lauer: "Harry Markopolous!" Herd of fangirls: "... Wooooo?"

( Wonderella refuses to save him; werewolves competed in the Olympics )

ETA: WARNING: Before you run off and buy The Great Big Werewolf Book of Werewolves, I have to warn you--the reviews on Amazon are terrible, and now that I've gotten into the actual encyclopedia-style entries, I'm starting to see why. There's an entire entry about aliens and UFOs, a really sketchy attempt to connect Elizabeth Bathory to lycanthropy (she totes hung out with wizards and vampires and werewolves, you guys!), and the tale of a French guy who was really more of a ghoul than a werewolf, see, but while we're here... And if you can tell me what Charles Manson has to do with lycanthropy, believe me, I'd love to know.

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and tell you about this so you can clear a little time off your schedule. I'm friendly with Melissa at the Leaky Cauldron, and she asked if I had a book I could sign and donate to the HP Alliance Haiti fundraiser ("Helping Haiti Heal"), and I said, well, I'm out of hardcovers, but I've got a box of paperbacks, so most definitely. So: I'm calling it a "podathon," but there's going to be a four-hour livestream webcast on Saturday from 2 to 6 pm EST:

Fans of all kinds will be coming together to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Rooted in the Harry Potter community, and representing many fan communities (including Heroes, Lost, True Blood, The Wire and Firefly), this group of podcasters, musicians, artists and activists will put on a four-hour show that includes entertainment, performance, interviews, news and a lot more. We will laugh, talk and listen while we raise money for Partners in Health, an organization helping those hardest hit by the tragedy.

It's still in the process of being pulled together, so the list of participants and donations is growing as we speak, but my understanding is that they're going to have a raffle setup where you get entered for various levels of prizes based on how much you donate. You're eligible for this/that at $20, you're eligible for this/that and more at $50, I don't know, they can explain it better than I can. So, again, what I'm providing is a copy (or three, or five, or whatever, I don't know how many they want yet) of the paperback edition, which you cannot get in North America, forget if it's signed or not. But it will be! For Haiti! But not signed to Haiti, because Haiti's a land mass and it can't read. Woe.




The paperback does have a different cover from the hardback edition, and the title has been tweaked, but they are the same text. I just want you to know what you're raffling for. I don't know exactly how this is going to work, but a copy would probably be mailed straight to the winner from me, so I don't see why I couldn't personalize it. AND ALSO they're going to be giving away various items, generally signed where applicable, including books from Lilith Saintcrow, Rosemary Clement-Moore, Lisa Mantchev, and Heather and Jessica from Go Fug Yourself, and other things that have been added to the scrolly widget while I was in the process of writing this. I think I saw a $200 replica lightsaber in there somewhere.

OH AND ALSO  

      Five lots of one signed and DEDICATED copy of UNSEEN ACADEMICALS by Sir Terry Pratchett (VERY RARE!)

      donated by Sir Terry Pratchett

GET EXCITED.

There's at least a couple of other donations in the works that will be equally exciting, if not more so, if that is even possible, but I am not at liberty to reveal them at this time.


In conclusion: Does George Clooney give you awesome stuff? No, he does not. I mean, thank God that his show is on Friday and the HP one is on Saturday. I'm just saying.

JESUS CHRIST Salon linked to my Twilight page GET IN THE CAR.

( Sparklemas approaches, to the chagrin of King Solomon )


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

NOOOOO NO NO NO NO NO NO DON'T DO THIS OH GOD PLEASE NO

Twilight Movie Barbie Doll Assortment Case.

YOU KNOW I CAN'T NOT OWN THESE* BUT YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE A TRAINWRECK, DID YOU SEE THEIR ARAGORN? THEY BASICALLY JUST PUT KEN DOLLS IN MOVIE OUTFITS OH GOD WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO ME

OH GOD YOU GUYS THERE ARE TWO EDWARDS. WHY WOULD THEY NEED TO MAKE TWO EDWARDS. YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS. THINK CAREFULLY.




NOOOOOOOOO


Meanwhile, for spectators of the Russet Noon kerfuffle, I feel that you should be aware that Peter David is running a round-robin "Potato Noon" parody ficathon on Friday. Also: Rifftrax Twilight Makes Vampire Angst Easier To Bite Into; 'Breaking Dawn': Not so fast ("As far as I know, Stephenie was still having meetings asking, 'Can we really make this into a movie?'").


* Yeah, I thought about it. I can totally live with not owning these, even for the lulz. It's too late to save my dignity, but probably not my wallet.

... which could probably change on a dime.

First off--had a couple of requests to talk about saving the show Chuck: library_of_sex says, "There's the usual letter-writing campaign and voting at E!Online's Save One Show, but there's also the Finale and Footlong, involving Subway, a big sponsor of the show," and foresthouse has more ideas here.

Oh, by the way: super cute charm necklaces. I have the Love Letter (wearing it right now, actually) and the Chat Noir.

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Early linkspam so I can go take some pictures for something I'm a bit behind on posting. Cough.

Re: the previous post: Okay, you know me. I love me some Tonners. That is not a factory fresh "original" Tonner Jacob. Now that I've gotten a good look at it, you can't convince me that it is. I know for a fact that the other two are repaints, because I know what the originals look like. That is just not a Tonner paint job, and you cannot tell me otherwise. ETA: Aha! Solved.

The new Made of Fail podcast is up, for real this time.

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