Re: Friday's Secret Life: People do this every time one of the characters refers to "Miss Cleo," so--I just want you to know that I'm not trying to hint that you have to call me that. I'm not a TV hotline psychic or the little old lady down the street or anything. Plain "Cleo" is just fine ( Read more... )

Now that I've had a couple of hours to listen to the lulz lamentations of the POTO fans across the land(s), let's get a couple of other things out of the way:

From laerwen: Sir Pterry! (Write Well, Be an Advocate (and a British Citizen) and You Too Could Be Knighted.)

If you'd told me there would be Yeti Field Goals, I would have gone to see this movie. ( Read more... )

HEY! HEY! You know how I posted that thing about the POTO sequel last night? They're basing it on The Phantom of Manhattan, with various comments on the previous entry offering... tantalizing (?) details:Let's just say it involves amusement parks, an precocious boy-child (and I'm not referring to Raoul) and a cameo by Teddy Roosevelt ( Read more... )

Hey! It's a genuine full-service linkspam!

First, because this is important: ‘Phantom of the Opera’ sequel due in 2009. OH HALE NO.

UNHAPPY NEW YEAR! Time Warner Cable To Yank MTV, Nickelodeon & Comedy Central Off The Air In NY, LA, Everywhere:As a result, we are sorry to say that for Time Warner Cable customers our networks will go dark as of 12 ( Read more... )

Aw! An anonymouse sent me virtual milk and cookies. And did I need them today. Today has not been a good day. Although y'all were a life-saver with my POTO question--what I wanted to do for the annotations was take my favorite chapter (the one where Christine sits Raoul down and tells him, in flashback, the scenes that basically make up "Phantom of ( Read more... )

Hey, quick dumb question: does anyone have or know how to get the original French text of Phantom of the Opera ? (I mean, quickly, online, and/or free.) There's a line I'd like the original version of--it's translated in one of my editions as "A sort of bluey light surrounded us," and I would really, really like to know what the original wording ( Read more... )

IT IS SO COLD, YAY! I don't think I've ever pulled out Queen Susan this early in the year. Although that was partly because I forgot that my mother had put my two sweater coats into the cedar closet, and I was tearing up the house in despair looking for them (the blue one is gorgeous! and the black one has a HOOD, y'all) so I would have something ( Read more... )

Re: The weirdly defiant POTO/15M theft: the full text of the You Accusatory Squirrel-Like Person rant got posted (well, it was always public), but now there's a very teal apology up. Bizarre ( Read more... )

Aaaaand the ff.net plagiarizer (who was claiming that her cousin * wrote "Phantom of the Opera in Fifteen Minutes" and gave her "permission" to cannibalize it) has deleted the post. Or ff.net did. Someone. Normally I just drop people a line once in a blue moon and go, "Hey, could you take this down, it's mine," and they comply--I try to take a " ( Read more... )

Arrrrrrrr, tired. (Pirate-tired, apparently.) Did as much on “Cloverfield” and “The Golden Compass” as I could physically do without an internet connection (I felt like searching for links was slowing me down, particularly last night), which is a huge chunk of work. “Van Helsing” is also almost finished. I fear going back to “Hannibal in Fifteen ( Read more... )