cleolinda: (Default)
I'll crosspost from this Tumblr entry:

Okay, so finally I’m topping off my Dreamwidth backup (also the Movies in Fifteen Minutes journal/comm, and can I say I really wish I hadn’t thought I needed to separate that), so most of my #content is safe, probably. If I were to delete the LJ, the big problem is that all my images were also hosted there, so those would be broken, as well as any links within entries. (For, say, recaps, I had built in a sort of previous/next/main mini-infrastructure.) Fortunately, people ought to be able to maneuver the DW using entry tags; I’ll fix what I can as time goes on, but getting off LJ is more pressing than DW housekeeping. 

I’m also nattering on about this on Twitter, but: I’m so mad I didn’t leave the moment LJ sold to a Russian company. At the time, it felt reactionary? “Oh, come on, it’s not the Cold War anymore.” I was afraid it was an unreasonable anti-Russia prejudice. I should have left when we heard years ago how they were oppressing speech, how they were oppressing LGBT people. I REALLY should have left when they moved the servers to Russia. But I had--I think many of us had--an extremely complacent (selfish?) sense that there was a different standard for the U.S. side of things. “It’s fine. We have years of content here, we have communities, is Dreamwidth even going to still be around years from now? Can you really trust ANY service to still be around? If nothing else, LJ has solid longevity and really good blogging/commenting functionality. It’s fine here. It’s fine.” 

I finally grasped that it was not fine when the election and interference therein happened. I knew as of November 9 that I was going to have to leave. I hadn’t posted in months. I hadn’t been posting regularly at all for years. I kept meaning to back everything up and leave. Life happened; depression happened; I didn’t get around to it. 

This is why I’m getting off my ass and leaving. 

I don’t know if I need to straight-up delete everything. I feel a lot of trepidation about even logging in. But there’s pictures I need to save; I  need to post a final entry pointing to where I’m going.

Whenever I’m on a podcast and they say “where can people find you,” I like to say, “I’m Cleolinda everywhere.” You can google “cleolinda” and you will basically get me. (The picture of the blonde girl that comes up for some reason isn’t me.) The last several years, I have been on Twitter regularly, sometimes livetweeting on a secondary account. Obviously I’m here. Ko-fi seems like a good tip jar site. I’m setting up a Patreon, once I can think what to put on it. I have created a Tiny Letter account, if you’d like to keep track of me via email. Here are those links, with the latter two not set up yet:

http://cleolinda.tumblr.com 

https://twitter.com/cleolinda

https://twitter.com/cleolindajones

https://ko-fi.com/cleolinda

https://www.patreon.com/cleolinda/creators

http://tinyletter.com/cleolinda 

In conclusion: Looks like I’m going to be busy rebuilding for a while.

cleolinda: (galadriel helpful)
@LiveJournal: Currently experiencing a DDoS attack for the past two days -- status.livejournal.org

@gildedbat: @LiveJournal pity they're going to have to set that "days without a DDoS attack" sign back to 0. They got all the way over 100.

@LJmysticowl: Russian news confirms, also says that paid accounts will be credited the time they lost due to downtime.

@chez_amanda: There's also this Time article about the attacks that I just read.

ETA: @LiveJournal: Please to say we are up and running again! Thank you, U.S. and Moscow teams, who have worked tirelessly to get things restored! Happy LJing!

So... that's what's up with that, then. I want to stay on LiveJournal, but in order to do that, I'm gonna have to have a LiveJournal to stay on. (This entry is posted on both LJ and DW. As long as I can crosspost, I will.)


As a reminder in case you didn't see it: the Made of Fail podcast with Kevin, sometimes Dayna, Mark, Rinna and me, "Mischief Managed"! If the LJ link doesn't work, this is the direct download (or you can subscribe in iTunes; it's free). You may also want to listen to the first Deathly Hallows review show ("In Conclusion, Alan Rickman" [download] ), which had just Kevin, Mark and me. Or even the Half-Blood Prince show further back that I was on! We have many wizard-based options for your aural entertainment.

Movie links! They are exceptionally organized tonight, in no small part because I have three days' worth, and this isn't even all of them. Read more... )



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cleolinda: (galadriel helpful)
@LiveJournal: Currently experiencing a DDoS attack for the past two days -- status.livejournal.org

@gildedbat: @LiveJournal  pity they're going to have to set that "days without a DDoS attack" sign back to 0.  They got all the way over 100.

@LJmysticowl: Russian news confirms, also says that paid accounts will be credited the time they lost due to downtime.

@chez_amanda: There's also this Time article about the attacks that I just read.

ETA: @LiveJournal: Please to say we are up and running again! Thank you, U.S. and Moscow teams, who have worked tirelessly to get things restored! Happy LJing!

So... that's what's up with that, then. I want to stay on LiveJournal, but in order to do that, I'm gonna have to have a LiveJournal to stay on. (This entry is posted on both LJ and DW. As long as I can crosspost, I will.)


As a reminder in case you didn't see it: the Made of Fail podcast with Kevin, sometimes Dayna, Mark, Rinna and me, "Mischief Managed"! If the LJ link doesn't work, this is the direct download (or you can subscribe in iTunes; it's free). You may also want to listen to the first Deathly Hallows review show ("In Conclusion, Alan Rickman" [download] ), which had just Kevin, Mark and me. Or even the Half-Blood Prince show further back that I was on! We have many wizard-based options for your aural entertainment.

Movie links! They are exceptionally organized tonight, in no small part because I have three days' worth, and this isn't even all of them. Read more... )



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cleolinda: (wtf)
Breaking news: LJ has Reviewed Your Feedback At Length, and comments on locked entries can no longer be cross-posted regardless. Also, they're aware of the pingback bugs. Meanwhile:

Peoples of the internet, I feel compelled to make you aware of something (this sentence originally contained words much stronger than "something") that I encountered today. In which I make you a promise )


(A WTF chaser: The Offaltine Milkshake, "foie gras + chocolate.")


Linkspam! Master is calling )



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cleolinda: (wtf)
Breaking news: LJ has Reviewed Your Feedback At Length, and comments on locked entries can no longer be cross-posted regardless. Also, they're aware of the pingback bugs. Meanwhile:

Peoples of the internet, I feel compelled to make you aware of something (this sentence originally contained words much stronger than "something") that I encountered today. In which I make you a promise )


(A WTF chaser: The Offaltine Milkshake, "foie gras + chocolate.")


Linkspam! Master is calling )



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cleolinda: (onoz)
So. To recap the last few entries: as you can see in the screencaps, the comment crossposting privacy issues aren't terrible on Twitter, but they are Not of the Good on Facebook. Turning on Facebook Connect posted my full name on my user info page without any warning. Pingbacks have been behaving erratically, but I have personally gotten links to locked entries I wasn't supposed to know about and huge excerpts quoted back at me. People have tried to turn off pingbacks; sometimes it's worked and sometimes it hasn't. Nothing seems to work the same way for any two people. LJ has updated their news entry to say that they're doing... something. I would not expect to hear any news on this front until Monday (which is a holiday in the U.S.) or Tuesday. (ETA: The [livejournal.com profile] news entry is now magically down for maintenance.) (ETA: It seems to be back now.)

Today, short version: I'm staying here, but I'm also mirroring my entries on Dreamwidth for people who choose to leave.

Long version: The new Facebook stalker button, the billion dollar investment fund, and the reason the LJ staff's hands are tied )


ETA: If you've got Dreamwidth codes and want to share them, feel free to do so in the comments.



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cleolinda: (wtf)
Well, this is fantastic.

To recap: I cross-posted test comments to both Twitter and Facebook; screencaps and discussion are over here.

You do have to opt in to cross-post, because if you don't connect your LJ to either of those services, it won't know where to post. People have been seeing banners at the top of their journals mentioning this--but I didn't, maybe because I have a permanent account, and the code is treating the banner like an ad? So I hadn't seen that. But it says that if you've already done the Facebook Connect thing, you're going to have to go back in and reactivate it, which also sounds like an opt-in.

Problem: I connected my Cleolinda Jones account--i.e., a pseudonym with no sensitive personal information, which makes me a better guinea pig than most people. For Science! What LJ did not say anywhere in the FAQs was that it will then announce on your user info page (the page strangers are most likely to see, other than your latest entry), under "External Services," that you, Full Name, are on Facebook. The only reason we even found out was because [livejournal.com profile] maetang just happened to notice.




If I had used my personal Lauren Lastname account, I would have been screwed. If your full name being on the page that Unwelcome People are most likely see is a problem for you, REMOVE FACEBOOK CONNECT NOW.

Guess what? There's also ANOTHER PROBLEM. The pingback thing is automatically turned on, according to that banner. My understanding is that if it's on, it sends you emails that someone has linked to you and emails to someone else that you have linked to them. People link to me a lot. Not unreasonably, they have linked to that last entry with the "Here's what cross-posting looks like" screencaps. So I've gotten a couple dozen in the last twelve hours, as well as--weirdly--two-year-old links to Breaking Dawn recaps and Troy in Fifteen Minutes.

Obviously, it told me who linked to me. But four of them were to locked entries that I wasn't supposed to know existed.

And then it started sending the text of entries to me )



Yeah. You're probably going to want to turn that off.


And you know why I linked to my own recap up there? Because I'm curious to see if it'll send me a pingback to myself. And if it does: how much of this entry will it quote back at me?



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cleolinda: (Default)
Okay, since I was having a hard time visualizing what the hell you would even want to use this for, the worst issues had to be explained to me. There were a couple of good comments explaining how cross-posting comments from LJ to Facebook or Twitter (even accidentally) could end badly.

So I thought, okay. I have accounts on all of these networks under "Cleolinda Jones," which is not my real name (REALLY?), so I'm a good test case--we can look at what shows up on my Facebook without anyone's alternate username or identity being outed. Except that LJ won't let me connect to Facebook--"Bogus form data." Well, to hell with you too. I disabled AdBlock, NoScript, my firewall--nothing. I hope I can't get in because they're monkeying with the cross-posting code, but I doubt we'd be that lucky. So! I did what I could: I connected to Twitter, set up a dummy entry (filtered to only one other person), and set out to comment on it and see what would show up on Twitter, thereby annoying the piss out of my follower list for a good 30 minutes (start from the bottom): You may want to look at this )

But here's the thing: I can't get Facebook to connect so I can try to cross-post there (and neither can a couple of other people who just tried it). I don't know if a Facebook cross-post would give away more information, like the title of the entry or the username of the person who posted it, since it's not limited to 140 characters. It might be even more revealing over there. Has anyone tried it?


ETA: Here's what a Facebook cross-post looks like, including your icon and the original poster's LJ URL. Hope your icon is safe for work/family/life...

ETA 2: It's POLL TIME. "Awful idea" is currently leading with 96.1%, FYI.

Also, Facebook just let me in. Here's what it posted of a comment I left on this entry, to confirm: Two more screencaps )

There you are.

ETA 3: If you do connect to Facebook, it will show your full name as listed there on your info page.




And now you see why I offered to be the guinea pig.




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cleolinda: (onoz)
So, to recap from yesterday's entry plus the ETA, in which Twilight somehow got even creepier: The Clare Quilty Conundrum )

Meanwhile, LiveJournal is up to new shenanigans. Actually, I found one of them really helpful, one of them potentially obnoxious due to inevitable user abuse, and only one of them a little bit shady. Read more... )ETA: Okay--on the other hand, here's a good explanation of how #3 is a problem. I think I'm having a hard time visualizing all the information a cross-post would give away (maybe because I don't pay attention to Facebook, where you have more than 140 characters for a message). Also, why you would ever want to do it in the first place. Like I said, it's a bad idea, regardless.

ETA 2: In the name of science, what a cross-post looks like on Twitter. It won't let me connect to Facebook (?). There are some definite issues.


Linkspam! Including EVEN MORE SHENANIGANRY. )



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cleolinda: (Default)
Okay. Today was also pretty bad, but I think I'm going to be all right. At various points in my hormonal cycle, there are days when I feel like I could lead a revolution... and there are days when I can't deal with a papercut. I think last week had a few of the latter. (Honestly, I should just know by now that any instance of a mental No One Will Ever Love Meeeeee pity party = automatic Papercut Day and and should be disregarded in its entirety as such.) So. Things not going great, but I feel less overwhelmed.

A few interesting things:

"In before copious whining about how LJ operating like a business stifles their freedom," or, LiveJournal will now let you put Google ads (and profit from them) on your own journal. A lot of people have asked if I could do this or encouraged me to do so (back then, I said I was pretty sure you couldn't). I still don't know about it, though. If it pisses people off (and believe me, there are tons of people on the internets who accept sites that always used ads but flip the hell out when other sites start using them, omg hdu sell out, etc.)--losing your readership for a short-term gain is a long-term financial risk, if you look at it that way. How much money do you actually make off these things? Would it even be worth it?

Meanwhile, my New Moon recap has been quoted twice in Twilight and Philosophy (see "search inside this book" and put in "cleolinda"). SUCK IT, WIKIPEDIA, I AM NOTABLE.

(Actually, looking at the page on me, I believe the "Tiny Things, Tiny Minds" review linked at the bottom--is that the one where I was partially blamed for the imminent fall of Western civilization? Because I considered putting that on my resume. For real.)

Speaking of the sparkle,

@cleolinda: Interesting New Moon shots. Fantasy forest sequence what what? http://tinyurl.com/l3sen6

Hey, I nearly bought that bedspread last summer. Decided it kind of clashed with the wolves, though.

@cleolinda: Also, pictures seem to indicate that Taylor Lautner will not be wearing a shirt at any time, at all, ever. He may be allergic, in fact.


Meanwhile, I have another new story idea, but it feels more like a book series and I don't know if I have the mental resources for that right now. Maybe it's one of those that I just end up tucking away (on the "story farm," as I think of it) for later.



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Just a short bit, because I liked the question: I always related a lot to Jo March as a kid, since I was a writer too. So many people identify with Elizabeth Bennet--probably because she's just that well-written a character--but more specifically, I always identified with Elinor Dashwood (my sister is very much a Marianne); I tend to choke a lot of things down. And Jane Eyre and Sara Louise in Jacob Have I Loved appealed to me a lot for that sense of outsider-ness, of not fitting in.

(As a side note, I try to find something I can identify with, or at least understand, in every single character I write. It's a useful way to prevent cardboard villains, for example. You know, what beliefs do they hold, or habits do they have, or what do they really want, and can I identify with wanting that, even if I don't want it for myself?)


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cleolinda: (susan)
Re: Fox picking up Narnia news: Am I really the only person who enjoyed Prince Caspian? I'm not saying either of the two Narnia movies are perfect, but I love them both and didn't find either one of them to be any kind of travesty.

(Although, yeah, Aslan's headgames in the second movie were kind of bullshit.)

(From [livejournal.com profile] annlarimer: Madame Alexander made two Narnia dolls? Hmm. Lucy really works at that size, and the White Witch... really, really doesn't. It's kind of... chibi!Jadis. Needs moar evil.)

[livejournal.com profile] made_of_fail_pc: Episode Twelve: Buckets Of Explosions!

From [livejournal.com profile] foresthouse: Michael Dirda at the Washington Post has a new book discussion group. "The Reading Room is relatively new, so it needs to build up sufficient numbers to keep it open. I'm trying to spread the word. : )"

More linkspam!

Leotard Hitler NEEDS no pants )


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cleolinda: (susan)
New Awesomeness Initiative unresolution: Be less neurotic. I almost think I'm so neurotic (example: being too squeamish to check my own email for an important reply) because I'm accustomed to being neurotic. Like, because I'm used to it, this is a behavioral baseline in my mind. And, well--you know the saying "Fake it till you make it." I'm just going to have to pretend to be someone who has her shit together until maybe I actually do.

Anyway:

The Deathly Hallows of Online Community [LiveJournal], or, Valleywag's poison-pen letter to the "revolting," fanfic-writing LJ userbase and "relentness weirdness that infects the site."

Quick Golden Globes spam )

Regular linkspam )


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cleolinda: (Default)
Re: LiveJournal: Here's the press release about the layoffs.

Back at the ranch, as it were, I got so sucked into this afternoon's rerun of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit when Sister Girl was over doing laundry this afternoon--it was one of those L&O specialties where they started off with one crime and midway through switched to another that they discovered in the course of investigating the first one, which was great and fantastic and all except that I kept screaming "BUT WHAT ABOUT BRIANNA????"

... maybe you had to be there.

Meanwhile, yesterday, I ran around doing housework (you know it's bad when I try to procrastinate by cleaning) until I ended up throwing up all over the bathroom. (Which then, of course, had to be... cleaned.) I have no idea what that was about, except that I'd had a heavy breakfast (well, you know: greasy fast-food biscuit) on a nervous stomach. And then I felt feverish and had chills all day (and a good bit of today as well), so maybe I'm legitimately sick, who knows.

I made Sister Girl take the rest of the Mountain Dews with her, though, so that temptation is at least removed. Also, I think the withdrawal headaches have eased up.

I'm also trying to remind myself that I may be in a hypomanic phase (what with the running around cleaning), so if I suddenly crash and don't feel magically energetic anymore, that's not a moral failing. It just means that if I feel good now, I need to make hay while the sun shines.

Apropos of nothing much, one more thing about Prince Caspian: Read more... )

Oh, by the way, I got an email newsletter/casting call from Universal Pictures, and when I tried to copypaste the info to pass it along, it turned out to be a series of image files. Huh. Therefore, I will present it to you as it was presented to me (click to enlarge): ARE YOU THE NEXT MCLOVIN????? )

Of course, I saw the name "Edward" and ran screaming, but there you are. (Oh, and the MySpace and Facebook links were clickable; at least you don't have to type those in. The latter demands to know whether you are THE NEXT MCLOVIN' OR MICHAEL CERA?!, which should give you an idea of what they're looking for.)

Speaking of Edward, [livejournal.com profile] mistress_gwen has started the comm [livejournal.com profile] sparklpires for lolfans. Enjoy.

Catchup linkspam! )


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Don't panic

Jan. 6th, 2009 08:26 am
cleolinda: (onoz)
Obviously I'm behind from my internet being out last night, but I just have to jump in with this (via my friend David):

The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network.
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

... The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

... The brutal, abrupt cuts suggest something different: That Sup founder Andrew Paulson (above), who paid an estimated $30 million for LiveJournal a little over a year ago, has realized his expensive mistake in buying at the top of the bubble.

I don't think this is the end of the world per se; pulling the plug entirely would just lose them more money. Sure, LJ's "on life support," but it's still here, and you never know what might happen. This could be a weird blessing in disguise, if a company that had no clue what to do with LJ ends up dumping it on someone who does know. (Hint: "We're gonna be the next MySpace!" is not the way to run it.)

That said, it's time once again to look into archiving your journal (try LJBook or LJArchive, the one I use). You know... just to be safe.

ETA: Only 13 employees laid off? (Thanks, [livejournal.com profile] jdotmi.)


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cleolinda: (eowyn)
I think seasonal affective disorder is starting to set in--it's funny, because I go through this every year (by definition, actually), so you'd think I'd have the warning signs down to a science by now. For some reason I'd gotten it down to "January and February are increasingly bad," but I hadn't ever really noticed December. Maybe because December is shiny and full of cake? I don't know. But it's suddenly occurred to me that, in terms of weather, November is cold (well, sometimes down here) but sunny, and December is just crap on a stick. And, as previously discussed, I think I may be a reverse vampire solar-powered.

So I'm not feeling so good right now. The good news is, it's not really an emotional depression; that lifted after I got through my birthday. It's just a sludgy Let's Curl Up on the Couch and Watch DVDs Instead of Doing Fuck-All depression. Which, I mean, that's great, but when you're dumb intrepid enough to try writing for a living, you don't get paid if you don't produce. So I suck, is what I'm saying. Seasonally.

(To digress, a nifty trick I have discovered: if you add your own Livejournal to Google Reader, and then you create a particular tag for it ["livejournal," let's say], you can then search any term in that tag. And the full text of your entries will be included. So basically, you've got your own personal LJ search engine. Hell, you could add anyone else and search them, too. Problem: It won't show any friends-locked or privatized entries. But since the majority of my entries are public anyway, it's extremely useful for tracking down That One Time I Mentioned Something; it took me two seconds, maybe, to find the "I am solar-powered" entry.)

Hmm. Let's have some Twi-spam. I can't believe Twimania's still marching on at this rate (well... actually, I can), but it is, and it's crazier than ever:

If you ignore me again, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE )

THINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TWILIGHT:

All 26 Coraline alphabet posters! (Scroll down for the rest.)

SAG nominations: Who got snubbed?

49 Songs Queue for 2008 Oscar. I have four words for you: "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus."

Eddie Murphy won’t be playing The Riddler; Alan Horn Clears Up Dark Knight Sequel Rumors. Everybody breathe, okay?

Is Baz Luhrmann Actually Going To Make a Great Gatsby Movie? This is Sister Girl's favorite book, Luhrmann. Don't screw this up, or I'm going to get another long, angry phone call from her like the one I got after she saw the Benjamin Button trailer (also based on a Fitzgerald story).

Fuck You, Penguin ("A blog where I tell cute animals what's what").

Oh, and also--the Young Wizards forums have been spiffed up.



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cleolinda: (Default)
Late again today, because there was MOAR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. Which was fun, so I had that going for me.

Important: I got an email the other day from someone who said that reading The Gift of Fear hours before she attended a seminar helped her realize that the seminar was Bad News; she was able to run away, literally, out of the building, before they got their hooks into her (they immediately started telling people to ignore gut instincts, interestingly enough). Turns out the seminar was the cult Lifespring under a new name--please be aware that variations operate under the names "Mastery In Transformational Training" and "Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness," according to Wikipedia. So basically, I wanted to alert everyone to that before anyone else got sucked in, and also, READ THE GIFT OF FEAR, SERIOUSLY, IT IS ON SALE RIGHT NOW, I AM NOT KIDDING.

Also: in the interest of slimming down the linkspam entries, I've looked into using FriendFeed for the less crucial stuff. Basically, anything I post on Livejournal or Twitter will show up there, and anything I "share" from Google Reader will as well. I won't hit share on anything I intend to use on the linkspam posts--the good and/or movie stuff--so at least that way you're not getting it twice, but if it's just something randomly kind of interesting, I'll throw it up there anyway. (And you'll also see the kind of stuff I initially flag and then don't use.) And you can then add the RSS feed of that to Google Reader if that's what you use. It's a whole recursive tangle of feeds, but you know, whatever. It gives people options. I'll try it for a while, see if it works for people.

Meanwhile, the Twilight sequel trainwreck has gotten EVEN WORSE. Hey, can you be in Vancouver on Monday? )

More linkspam )


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Welcome, MSNBC readers! This is the kind of entry I wrote--still do, obviously--before Twilight ate my brain. I also post the occasional movie parody at [livejournal.com profile] m15m and put out a book of them overseas a couple of years ago. (Yes, I have promised to write "Twilight in Fifteen Minutes" or die trying.) Feel free to friend the journal, comment or lurk as you please, and enjoy your stay!

(Uh, y'all? I went back and looked at one of my old entries, and... the userpic wasn't mine. I'm not even sure who was in the picture. It seems to have eaten my favorite Reiko Shimizu icon--I think I've heard about this kind of glitch before? I'm just saying... if you see an icon that looks out of the ordinary for my style... that's why. It's a glitch. I don't usually have guys in my icons, for example.)

(It might have been Jackson Rathbone? Even Livejournal glitches know that I write about Twilight? I'm kind of scared now?)

I keep meaning to post variations on this story and forget, so: Ancient Vampire Killing Kit Sells For 15K. (How is the garlic still fresh?) For those of y'all who remember the Black Ribbon novel I'm still working on--man, I would love one of those.

Linkspam! Actress mauled by stuffed animal )


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cleolinda: (marie sleep)
I feel kind of... weirdly relaxed. Would you know what I meant if I said I didn't have any good tension? Like--you know how you can't play a violin unless the strings are taut? That kind of tension. Right now I just feel kind of... boneless. I mean, it's nice. It's just not helping me get anything done.

(No I did not take any drugs.)

(No, not even legal ones.)

(NOT EVEN A DRINK, I AM SERIOUS.)

Repeat of important note: LJ's going out tomorrow for a physical server move. Just in case, you might want to back up your journals with ljArchive. If you need to get hold of me for some kind of OMG LOOK AT THIS! reason, I'm on Twitter and Facebook (see sidebar), and you can get me at my Yahoo email (dailydigest @). I'm not going to assume that the cleolinda at livejournal.com email will work.

Hmm. "Another Way to Die" is growing on me. My policy of not listening to a Bond theme song until I actually hear it over the credits in the theater seems to be working well for me. Although I was not terribly impressed by the sandy ladies. Of course, I ran off to Vegas and quickie-married "You Know My Name" when the other movie came out, so I'm probably unpleasable at this point, in terms of Bond songs.

(What is it with me? Lately it's like I don't like anything until I've heard it four or five times, and then suddenly I'm like, I MUST NEVER STOP LISTENING TO THIS. I mean, I tend to listen to things on repeat so this works out for me okay, but it used to not take me quite so long to realize I liked something.)

(I can't think of a segue to this, so I'll simply say that Sister Girl whipped out her iPhone the other day and said, "You know that song 'Personal Jesus'?" "Um, I'm a child of the '80s?" "Well, Hilary Duff..." "OH GOD!" Fortunately, it's more of an extended sample called "Reach Out," in which one is exhorted to reach out and touch her instead of faith. The video is... interesting. Kind of like a Vogue photoshoot gone horribly wrong. We both love that huge ring she's got on in the closeups, though.)

Anyway. Another Twi-spam may go up tonight, I'm not sure. Depends on whether we get riots and/or sparkling.

(Watch The Twilight Premiere Live! HEY YOU GUYS IT'S ANOTHER WIDGET! Of course, I just like saying "widget" over and over again. It's such a fun word to say. "Iiiiiiiit's a WIDGET!")

(I personally find this to be related: DiCaprio: 'Titanic Nearly Ruined Me.')

Re: Mad Hatter pic: I'm not the only one concerned it might be a fake. Also, since a number of people sent me this link--Alice in Wonderland set pics. These are the same or similar pictures to the ones I posted a while back, though--there's Baby Bonham-Burton in her red riding hood and everything.

Moar linkspam )


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