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Got some good links tonight--full Public Enemies and Wolverine trailers in there. And I'll have another post up shortly.

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Okay. I know that putting your shit out onto the internet means that you essentially can't control what people do with it, even if YOU DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL THEM TO STOP, BY THE WAY. But "Twilight in Fifteen Minutes" is now floating around on MySpace without my name on it, which I should have expected, quite honestly, but putting in "© 2008 Cleolinda Jones" invisitext is a pain in the ass and it annoys people, so I didn't do it this time. Well, I've gone back and put it in. So if you read Tw/15M now and highlight something and see the invisitext and it annoys you, well, this is why we can't have nice things.

It's also really, really funny when someone copypastes it and runs off all like, "HAI GUYZ I FOUND THIS THING DONT KNO WHERE IT CAME FROM HOPE U LIEK IT" and posts something like this without paying attention:

EDWARD: I AM VAMPIRE. HEAR ME TWINKLE.
© 2008 Cleolinda Jones. Please quote or link back, do not repost. m15m.livejournal.com
BELLA: Oh, wow, I spent like $60 at Sephora trying to get sparkle like that. What is that, Urban Decay?

I've actually seen that with a couple of the Harry Potter 15Ms, in fact.

(You know what makes me mad? Not that they made off with my shit, because that's what people do and it's not really very surprising. It makes me mad because it's like, come on, I know you know better. I've made it abundantly clear that I am politely asking you not to do that. And if you got it from someone else who didn't credit me, well, they should have known better. You wouldn't want someone to do that with your shit, so why would you do it with my shit? I just really have not wrapped my mind around the notion that people on the intertubes do not have any common sense, I guess, and you'd think that after ten years I would have come to terms with that, but no.)

(Oh, and by the way? There was a Creative Commons graphic/license on that thing from the moment I posted it. See how very terribly effective they are?)

(MySpace. Why did it have to be MySpace? Of course it was MySpace.)

Welcome to the big time, baby.

( Stewart sparks up, pie-eating on Tyra, Jacob to be recast? )

And finally, the news (well, speculation) I think y'all really want: Could Twilight’s Success Pave the Way for a New Buffy Movie?

Meanwhile, we're just going with the choicest linkspam of, oh, the last umpteen days I didn't post: ( Regular linkspam )

Okay, you guys, this is super lame but apparently the final Twilight trailer is coming out tonight, and there was a SNEAK PEEK last night that convulsed me with laughter (THE TREE CLIMBING OMG) so I am totally on board with this, and apparently they're going to show it on Entertainment Tonight in full this evening, and then it's going live on THE WIDGET, and an hour later you'll be able to get it in HD on MySpace, and I am sorry, I am not going to goddamn MYSPACE, so here we are with THE WIDGET. Oh my God, this is so lame. Anyway, come back whenever (please refer to countdown on THE WIDGET) to see TEH EXCLOOSIV TRAILAR, which you can only get here on my journal (or anywhere else someone posted THE WIDGET).

( BEHOLD: THE WIDGET )

Also: Y'ALL SOMEBODY SASSED MY MOM AT THE MCDONALD'S EVERYONE IS GONNA DIE. I think you know what this means: it's time to revisit the entry that explains why we can't ever go back to Sonic.


ETA: From annlarimer: How To Be The Perfect Pre-Teen Vampire Pin-Up. "Gaze: menacing, yet seductive. Look, we all know why you're here: to scare girls into puberty."

ETA 2: New ‘Twilight’ Trailer Tonight! Film Your Reactions And You May Wind Up On MTV! MTV: Encouraging psycho fan wank since May 2008.

Kind of blech with the allergies today--mostly did fact-checking with the Cloverfield DVD (see linkspam below for more), and man, do I wish my sister could remember her Netflix password so I could get the '79 Dracula DVD for a day or two, and that's assuming it exists--so I'm just gonna move right on through:

Prince's desert reign at Coachella; Prince plays Coachella, covers Radiohead.

Pointless scandal du jour: A Topless Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise (Full picture); Growing pains for the Miley Cyrus phenom; More Miley from Vanity Fair; Miley Cyrus sorry about Vanity Fair pics; Miley Cyrus Is Not The Innocent Victim That Disney Makes Her Out To Be. Not that it matters, but it seems to me like she was probably fine with the pictures until suddenly everyone and Disney's grandmother flipped out; once Cyrus realized she wasn't going to be lauded for being brave and artistic, she turned on Leibowitz. It may actually have been the bedsheet that pushed the pictures over the edge, or rather, the implied context of a bedsheet--if it had been a beach towel, same pose, there might have actually been less fuss.

From punzerel: "Would you mind posting a link to www.healemru.com? They're trying to spread the word about bone marrow donations and how difficult it can be for people to find a match - especially people in some minority groups. "You can help by registering for your country's bone marrow registry and spreading the word about the need to diversify its database. Registering can help save not only Emru's life, but that of one of the many other patients waiting for a bone marrow transplant." If people have questions they can email info at healemru dot com (which goes to Emru and his sister - she can also be reached throuugh her LJ, kino_kid)."

From entropy_and_me: "Apparently a group of bloggers and artists have had their artwork and interviews stolen by a Hong Kong publisher, and illegally bound into a book. The creators of the material are having a hard time getting ahold of any responsible parties, and are asking for the article to be spread, to prevent people from buying the book."

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1. I fought off several attacks of The Blahs today, but ended up getting a lot done. I'm trying to sort out the first three chapters at this point--rearranging the old material into logical concert with the new, and so on. Let's put it this way: I wanted to finish this by my birthday, December 14. Today is November 13. I'm not going to do the actual math, but we're talking twenty chapters that have to be filled out and whipped into shape in roughly thirty days. When you consider that I won't be able to write every single day (that's just Murphy's Law talking. Also, you've got Thanksgiving, and I know at least one or two days will be given over entirely to midnight-showing Golden Compass squee), and that I'd probably like to have a little time just to revise things on a word-by-word level... we're talking one chapter per day. Some chapters'll probably take an hour's run-through; the last chapter is going to involve a lot of raw drafting. Really, I just want to have it in a complete, readable format so I can show it to some close friends and, hopefully, my agent, with the understanding that I can still polish it at my leisure and double-check some research details for a little while, while it's shopping around. I've been working on it for four years now--I'd like to give it six months in a drawer, but it had a year or two in a drawer, unfinished, as it was.

But it's an arbitrary deadline. I made it up. Why is it such a big deal?

Because I'm going to be twenty-nine, which is almost thirty, and this is what I've wanted to do my entire life--write novels and, with any luck, publish them--and I haven't done it yet. If I don't draw a line at some point, any point, when is it ever going to get done? This point's as good as any other point.

2. Unfortunately I have a headache now, but it comes with the territory.

3. Questions that are not the most helpful to ask a writer: "So... who's the audience?" "Uh... people who like to read this kind of thing?"

4. I'm saying this here so as not to pick on any one person, but: ARGUING IN CLEO'S JOURNAL BAAAAD.

5. In other housekeeping issues, enough people are emailing me about the Free Rice thing (which I linked!) that it sounds y'all want a little graphic at the bottom of the page. I'm worried about reaching a saturation point with the reminder graphics, though, so I'm thinking of combining all the click-a-day sites into one graphic. Would this work for people? There's tabs at the top of the Hunger page to the others.

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ONOZ WHERE DID LJ GO? Via: status.livejournal.org: "LiveJournal is down. There has been a power outage at our data center. We are working as quickly as possible to restore service." Meanwhile, an email from SixApart says that "The Web 2.0 datacenter 365 Main, in the heart of SOMA, just lost power. Sites that are affected include Craigstlist, Technorati, Yelp and all Six Apart properties, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox." Also: Power Outages In San Francisco Bring Down Major Websites.

Meanwhile, I don't even want to get into what happened last night, except that it involved an hour and a half of my mother, my stepfather, and myself beating the bushes out front and cursing at each other. Goddamn cat.

Stop your sobbing! More Potter to come: "J.K. Rowling tells TODAY she will write an 'encyclopedia' on characters" (MAJOR SPOILERS; includes the name of the character who was going to die but got a reprieve). ( Spoilers )

Potterspam: ( spoilers, including casting for HBP )

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EEEEEEEE I WON SOMETHING IN THE BPAL RAFFLE. And I only bought two tickets, is the best part. Turns out I won one of Kythryne's Wearable Sculpture pendants (EEEEEEEE).

(I am a bad person who totally forgot to link to evilbearhunter's BPAL swap/sale last weekend like I promised. She has Tintagel and Sugar Skull! Siren is teh yum [no, really, I've been wearing it all week]! Forgive me!)

V for Vendetta Heroine Addict icons. Not too many, mostly alternate colors/compositions, but still. And there are already V/15M icons over at m15m. As always, take anything you want, credit nice but not a big deal, make your own, have a party.

Speaking of which, a return to linkspam, after a week sort of taken off to write V/15M and deal with that:

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Horoscope of Eerie Accuracy:

Quickie: Step back and analyze a recent conversation -- tiny details offer valuable clues.

Overview: Your head is all a-whirl with grandiose ideas, but force yourself to look at the finer issues as well as the attention-getting ones. Make sure you follow up on all your commitments, large and small. 
 
Don't pinch pennies only to end up blowing dollars. In other words, it's no good brown-bagging it every day for a week if you just blow your savings on a stack of new CDs or yet another pair of black shoes. Watch your cash flow and general spending habits very carefully, especially if your emotions are on high -- you don't want to indulge in retail therapy now. Find other alternatives when it comes to handling stressful situations.

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A sad event in the internet community, as reported on Fandom Lounge: "I just wanted to inform people here on JF that Kielle passed away Thursday night. kielle, also known as _redpanda_ on LJ and JF, was an incredibly highly influential person on online fandom. Her founding of CFAN, the archive of archives for comics fandom, was only the beginning. In her LOTR-fan-mode, she was a founder or influential in the creation of many journal-based RPGs, most notably MESPT*. And of course, on LJ, she was the creator of metaquotes, marysues, iconaddicts, and dozens more communities that I can't even begin to list. She will be greatly missed."

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Random notes:

>> Have felt like crap the last few days--muscle aches all over, which may be some illness going around or... not, I totally don't know. I need to go back to the doctor about the whole polycystic whatever thing, so that may be involved as well. It's not a hangover, though, because it's been going on too long for that, but I did go out last night, and it was actually rather a busy night, what with Gold Nugget the Lovely Emily picking out her new cell number at the Cingular store (and I do mean pick out; she ended up behind the guy's desk debating which number would be easier to remember. I talked her out of something-something-444, because previously she had had something-something-666, which used to freak my shit out, but really, after ###-#666, ###-#444 is just a comedown. It's only the Neighbor Two Doors Down of the Beast, or something), and then us grabbing dinner at Moe's, and then going to see Junebug (which was... interesting, for sure. But if you live in the South, you will recognize everyone and everything in this movie, which is the freaky part), and then going out with some friends to a bar with "Tavern" in the name, and the sad thing is that "Tavern in the name" doesn't even narrow it down for that particular shopping center, and we did, in fact, end up at Tavern on the Wrong initially. The good news is that we had the Happiest Bartender on Earth. Seriously, this guy was jazzed. This guy was the Disneyland of bartenders. He even put two cherries in my second whiskey sour, at which point I endeavored to practice my stem-tying skills, and I'll be damned if I hadn't managed a rudimentary knot by the time we were in the parking lot. Grey Goose drinks are only $5 on Thursdays, so we'll probably be back.

>> Oh! That reminds me! The Lovely Emily wants to start a dirty verbal revolution. ( Read more... )

>> Lily Rose, who is AWESOME, sold me her imp of Glitter, which, as you will recall, 1) is currently discontinued and 2) smells like bubblegum and My Little Ponies. MMMMMMM.

>> Okay, I initially posted this elsewhere, but I'm still agog at the whole thing, so I'm just going to repost it here. My sister, who's never cleaned a thing in her entire life because she's germ-phobic (which, oddly, translates to "I never clean, because there are germs" instead of "I must clean, because there are germs"), got it into her head to scour the entire hall bathroom tonight while I was out with friends. Seriously, I came home and was nearly blinded by white tile when I turned on the bathroom light. The old bathtub, which I had despaired of ever getting really clean, had been scrubbed bone-white. This was totally awesome, particularly since we share the bathroom despite the fact that she's got a bathroom inside her own room and shouldn't actually crowd me out of a second bathroom, but DOES ANYWAY, and then never cleans after herself to boot.

Here's what's not so awesome: ( Read more... )

>> Wait--Bryan Ferry wants to be my friend on MySpace?

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Linkspamorama:

Roger Ebert brings the snark again: This movie is an affront to cheese. Also to breasts.

The Book Spoiler needs help with... well, full-length book spoilers.

Hilarious answers from British school exams:

3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients.Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."

"Hustle" Star [Taryn Manning] Survives JetBlue Scare.

Snopes on Katrina crime: A carjacker/rapist shot dead at the scene of a crime is real. Only thing is... it happened in Georgia, with native Georgians. No bloodthirsty evacuees, in other words. Also, the "4500 unregistered sex offenders set free from prison" isn't exactly true, either:

What the Louisiana Department of Corrections reported was that nearly 4,500 registered sex offenders lived in the 14 parishes hit by Hurricane Katrina — these were not criminals who were simply let out of prison after the storm hit, but persons convicted of sex-related crimes who had already served their sentences or were on probation and were therefore required to maintain their current addresses in the state's database of sex offenders.

Unlike other states such as Florida, Louisiana has no policy requiring the jailing of some registered sex offenders during storms or evacuations, so many of those listed in the state's sex offender database likely ended up in shelters or other communities throughout Louisiana, or possibly in other states.

We remain puzzled about how the anonymous author of this piece could claim to have heard about the "4,500 sex offenders that were let out of prison" on a national news program while simultaneously maintaining that "You won't hear this on the news as the media will not let this out."

Refineries See Some Damage, Dodge Bullet.

Brian Williams blogs from "the hot zone."

A link I ran across while there at MSNBC, and must be included for total awesomeness: Aussie punches attacking shark.


I leave you now to seek out sustenance.