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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

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.

I am a little tired right now.

@cleolinda: I did not sleep at all last night. Just lay there hoping Bad Cat was making That Rustling Sound.

@SuperCricket: @cleolinda and that's how Cleolinda found out she had a heffalump infestation.

Speaking of Twitter: please do not contact me there if you currently are or are pretending to be on hard drugs. Thank you.

@NASA_Hubble: Helium walks into a bar. Bartender says "We don't take kindly to Noble Gasses here." Helium doesn't react.

You know, as Mark gets ever further into Harry Potter, I began to wonder why I never did Order of the Phoenix in Fifteen Minutes. What the hell was going on at the time? So I went back and checked some dates. ( MARK DON'T READ THIS THERE ARE SPOILERS. DON'T READ THE COMMENTS EITHER )

Speaking of which: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Behind the Scenes Photos. ( More linkspam )

Have done a little spring cleaning over on my user profile--when Greatest Journal went down, it took some of my graphics down with it. Revised my user interests a little, added some OMG RECAPS HERE buttons, and as soon as I can think of something for a Cleoland graphic, I'll put one there, too. (My Occupation: Girl banner--and my default user icon--come from some fabulous Marguerite Sauvage artwork that I lost when my previous computer crashed, and she doesn't have those particular pieces on her own site anymore. I would kill to find that older artwork of hers.)

(She did artwork for French Nancy Drew, you guys!)

Hm. So... today's Journal Birthmonth flashback will be... ah! Let's do Cleo Sue.

Meanwhile, I must decide whether to sleep or start working on the third True Blood recap. Decisions, decisions.

P.S. Sookie has a flavor and it's MOON PIES, winning with 40% of the vote.

Ah, Naproxen, my sweet cramp-killing lovah.

Happy October! October may be my favorite month, I'm not sure--December is also pretty awesome, because I like the idea of Christmas as kind of a spooky-magical time, and also: my birthday. My thirtieth, as I keep reminding people, and I have spent so much time mentally slapping myself every time I felt woeful about it that I think the behavior modification has worked and I'm actually looking forward to it. But back to October! It's also The Month in Which My Journal Was Born, and since I feel very nostalgic and self-indulgent, I'm going to link to something or other every day. Today... let's try... The Lost Outlines of Carolyn Keene, how about that?

foresthouse: "For your next linkspam, would you include a link to the speech Terry Pratchett made on care for older people a couple of days ago? It's just an amazing, amazing speech and people should read it."

More linkspam! ( FIGHT! FIGHT! )

Current Mood: cheerful

Trying to get the linkspam out early so I can spend the rest of the night annotating. It's not that I don't want to be doing them or I want to "get them over with," it's just... you know how sometimes you have to work on something for longer than you expected, and there's a point where you just feel like you should be done with it so you can move on with life? It's kind of like that.

( Linkspam )

Current Mood: working

So today it rained not men, but icy slush. I don't think it's going to get quite cold enough this week to snow (and stick), but people are running around screaming and rioting in the grocery stores anyway, which means that I should be fully prepared to see Cloverfield on Friday (huzzah!).

Oh, and I finished Girl Sleuth last night, which was great. I should talk about it--and a ton of other books--more later, but suffice it to say, I want to read both the old-school Nancy Drew pre-rewrite originals and Mildred Wirt's Penny Parker books now.

(Omg roffle.)

Lexicon update: JKR Files Full Request for Injunction of HP Lexicon. The reason might surprise you.

Cassie Edwards update: The Many Faces of Plagiarism, which now include Longfellow. "Hiawatha." Seriously. Also, from

particle_person: "The other ferret researcher (the one who didn't write the Newsweek article) has responded. His take seems to be 'no harm no foul.' Also, apparently this has really helped the black-footed ferrets, particularly Nora Roberts' $5000 matching-grant."

Troubled actor Brad Renfro dies at 25; Brad Renfro, Former Child Movie Actor, Dies at 25 (NYT); Remembering Brad Renfro.

Apple Officially Announces Their Movie Rental Plan; iTunes to offer movie rentals. ( Read more... )

Current Mood: sleepy

Today is my grandmother's birthday, yay! Yesterday we all had a birthday lunch for her with roast ~~beast~~ beef and carrots and potatoes and cake and ice cream and a creamy orange and pineapple congealed salad which is actually really yum, thanks for asking. We're Southern, what can I say. Also, we ended up talking about Britney Spears, and my grandmother was surprisingly up-to-date on the crazy ("That Dr. Phil said he was going to help her! She needs to stop messing with that married man"). It was a good day.

Greatest Journal: the final days.

Alleged Response from Cassie Edwards Issued via MySpace; Edwards plagiarized for author's note and from Britannica. Seriously? Seriously?

"I, seriously, was like the Lindsay Lohan of scrapbooking." Something I found wandering around from those links: a Nancy Drew keepsake box. Which I took as a sign that I should read the Nancy Drew book Valkyrie got for my birthday next.

(I feel kind of ashamed saying this, but... I kind of want to scrapbook now. Like, only with things I have around the house, because I'm cheap. I mean, couldn't it be fun? A page for a movie you saw, for a book you liked, for something you went out and did one night? Except that I don't even know what you scrapbook on. I guess I could do digital scrapbooking with image files and a scanner.)

Lupercalia 2008 scents are up at BPAL (did you hear! Beth's having a baby!), and Earth Rat sounds really good (I like citrus).

More linkspam: ( Read more... )

Current Mood: sleepy

Reading Virginia Rounding's Grandes Horizontales and feeling kinda oogy. May be just because I took my meds late today, but I also have a little congestion and can't taste much, so who knows. (And what's with this crick in my wrist?) Still ought to put up a little linkspam, though.

( A post-holiday excellence of linkspam )

Current Mood: wow, I just suddenly felt really dizzy

Oh my God, I'm so stiff. I hardly drank anything at all last night--a tiny glass of Riesling, a Bacardi mixer in the same glass (hey, it's recycling!), a plastic cup of champagne, and then two or three cups of Coke, and a frozen Coke at the theater--over ten hours. I didn't have enough water to drink the whole day ("I know! I'll drink a Mountain Dew!"), I don't think, and my evening started at 4 pm with Sweeney Todd and didn't end until 2 am when I got home. And then I didn't get to sleep until 4:30 am, because of all the caffeine I'd had, damn. Valkyrie ended up with my swap present, Dirty Minds (what's a four-letter word for a woman that ends in U-N-T? Aunt), and gave me Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (YAY!) for my birthday, while I ended up with David and Karen's Dirty Hippie Soaps (soap, salts, balm, lip balm) in Rosemary's Stretch myself.

Sweeney Todd was awesome, by the way, but I don't know that I have the strength to really get into a proper discussion of it--I've been sleeping most of the day, with intermittent trips downstairs for food and water. Mmm, ~~lazy~~ decadent. I'll just say that I thought ( Read more... )

Huh. I guess I discussed the movie anyway. I have to go wrap presents now, so any linkspam will have to be for later.

Today is kind of a Cinderella day, and I think it's going to be a Cinderella weekend--it's my mother's birthday on Sunday, so there's a lot of cleaning to do (in part because family's coming over, but a lot of the cleaning is upstairs, just because I think that would make her happy). I've got wood floors to shine, tile floors to mop, laundry to wash, trash to take out, dogs to walk (as always), boxes to go through (with an eye towards forcing myself to throw their contents out. O, my papers and clippings!), and a bathroom to scrub. Also, muffins to bake, because I'm hungry. And that's not even counting tomorrow, which is going to involve birthday shopping with my sister.

By the way, if you're wondering why the linkspam has suddenly improved, it's because I've finally gotten unlazy enough to check my Google Reader RSS blog feeds again.( Read more... )

You guys, I think I have distilled Nancy Drew books down to their essential formula. I was taking notes for the purpose of outlining my own YA mystery, and... this kind of happened.

( None of the following is made up )

GUESS WHO STILL HAS A LEAK IN THE ROOF? Yeah, this is after our roof was tarped three times over, or so the contractor claims. Anyhoo, I ended up putting a tupperware bowl (inside a garbage bag [inside a box lid] ) under the leak to make sure that all the scattershot dripping would be caught and not end up, you know, in another box of Nancy Drew books, and that seems to have worked pretty well.

Meanwhile, I spent the morning being unusually productive--not writing-wise, sadly, but in terms of random errands. Much of the morning was given over to decanting my BPAL oils into vials to resell, which means that I'm now sitting in an atmospheric miasma of oils I didn't like enough to keep in the first place--man-musk and pine needles and cinnamon wheat and angry pastry. I did discover, however, that a simple blank mailing label makes an excellent self-adhesive imp label. And I promise this time that the oils can go out much faster, because 1) I know what I'm doing this time and 2) I actually have the padded envelopes on hand.

Current Nancy Drew: Well, I just finished The Clue of the Leaning Chimney last night and I'm about to start on The Secret of the Wooden Lady; I haven't done any reading today so far.

Tomorrow, I'm going out to lunch with my grandmother and... I'm doing something else. I forget what else.

Beautiful weather, by the way, and we got a bit of the fresh March chill back.

Current Music: Madonna, "La Isla Bonita"

Arrrrgh, tornadoes. Well, that at least explains why it was EIGHTY DEGREES the other day. In fact, things are just going from bad to worse--the entire roof has to be replaced now (which, fortunately, we can have done for $500 total, what with insurance), and the pool liner very likely will have to be replaced as well. Oh, and the air conditioning switch, whatever precisely that is, will also cost $500. We discovered this when the downstairs AC went dead over the weekend, prompting my mother to invoke the service contract. On a Sunday, no less. So they came out that day, and fixed it free of charge--it's just that replacement parts aren't included in that. There's probably some other calamity I've (blessedly) forgotten, as well. Sigh.

And this won't mean anything to anyone but the BPALers, but I have now started wearing High John the Conqueror for reasons that will be apparent if you're familiar with it at all.

And for those of you worried about the linkspam, it--and dailydigestnews--is coming back. I've just got such a pileup at this point that I'm going to have to sit down and actually sort it out, and I have some pressing things I have to take care of before I can do that.

Current Nancy Drew: The Clue/Mystery/Secret of the Tolling Bell. It's on my bed and I can't see the title from here. Pick one.

So I've spent the weekend reading the original Nancy Drew books, and I'm maybe halfway through Mom's old collection (except for the books missing here and there, which we think are in a second box somewhere. Thirteen books into the series, I'm just brainwashed enough to wonder if I should go explore the attic for "clues"). Highlights so far include ( Skin-diving? )

Also, current house catastrophe: the air conditioner died. Fortunately, we were able to have Evans come out--yes, on a Sunday--and fix it tout de suite, no charge. "The sweetest words in the English language," said Mom, "are service contract." ("Really? I thought it was refund." "That too.")

Meanwhile, I would appreciate it if someone could explain to my sister that seventy degrees is NOT "cold." And I can't even go sleep down in the rec room where it's actually tolerable, because we seem to be a spring break youth hostel now.

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A nice night to curl up somewhere warm
Feeling a little silly
Wednesday night--wait, it's Wednesday already?
Sunday, arghhh
So it's probably not good that I'm sleepy
The lost outlines of "Carolyn" "Keene"
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Classy dame, sparkle consultant, gothic enthusiast, sporadic recapper.

Entries tagged with nancy drew

What this is all about

Hello, peoples of the internet

A little night posting

I get to use my spooky icons now!

Monday, doing pretty well

A nice night to curl up somewhere warm

Feeling a little silly

Wednesday night--wait, it's Wednesday already?

Sunday, arghhh

So it's probably not good that I'm sleepy

The lost outlines of "Carolyn" "Keene"

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