So... in case you missed it, the previous entry was about a crowd of 3000 fans rioting outside a San Francisco mall over wristbands to a Robert Pattinson event tonight. (Number of fans expected: 200-500.) Well, it would have been tonight, except that the mall canceled it after the police showed up. (I told my mother this story, and her response was ( Read more... )

Aw, hell. I've been sneezing a lot lately, and then today I came down with these weird alternating hot and cold spells. I don't know that I'm running an actual fever, but it sucks either way. It's probably allergies. But still--I am determined to not go into the month of October without finishing the annotated Fifteen Minutes thing because I HAVE ( Read more... )

Y'all, I am seriously beginning to think that my productivity is affected by barometric pressure. I spent three rainy days feeling like a slug, and now it's gorgeous outside and I feel great. Or maybe lack of sunlight chagrins my dazzle? I don't know. I'd like my dazzle to be more consistent, though.

(I should note here that the fine people at ( Read more... )

But much linkspam:

From shadefell: "meopta has breast cancer, the kind that usually kills you fast. She made it to remission, although she's still getting treatment. She's got two little girls who are pretty freaked out by OMG THE CANCER. She's one of those people the world needs more of: strong, out spoken, fair, awesome, passionate. She's currently doing a ( Read more... )

Okay, before we start with the linkspam catch-up, I have a musical request. One of my top favorite songs ever, seriously ever, for reasons even I can't fully fathom, is the Divinyls' "Pleasure and Pain." Here is the original, 3:50 in length. Now, I have been looking for a long time for an extended version, which I did find (here's that one, 4:32 in ( Read more... )

Well, holy shit, y'all. Have the howls of outrage started yet?


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God, I have such a headache. Mom really enjoyed the Pride and Prejudice DVD, though. For some reason, her favorite part was... Wickham? She seemed pleased to hear that Keira Knightley snagged that actor for herself in real life. Or jellus. Or both. Also, there were Girl Scout cookies.

Poll: J.K. Rowling: Greatest Living British Writer? I think we ( Read more... )

It's the funniest thing--I walked outside yesterday, and it was spring. Around here, spring usually hits the last week of February or so, so it's not like it wasn't right on time. But it's always funny, how you just look up and go, "Damn. It's spring." The daffodils are out in the yards up and down the street; the jasmine on our back fence has ( Read more... )

So, ice skating. I came out of the final night with an immense respect for both Emily Hughes and Sasha Cohen for continuing to fight and sell even after falling down (Cohen, particularly, because she biffed her first two jumps but it didn't kill her spirit; Hughes, particularly, for having so much spark and showmanship and recovering so quickly at ( Read more... )

The End of the Internet? I linked something similar before, but it's worth reading again. "If Americans are to succeed in designing an equitable digital destiny for themselves, they must mount an intensive opposition similar to the successful challenges to the FCC's media ownership rules in 2003. Without such a public outcry to rein in the GOP's ( Read more... )