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[cleolinda]

My mother, as you may or may not have noticed, loves monster, alien and disaster movies. Cloverfield, therefore, is a natural for her, and somehow, she actually proposed that we go tomorrow for the main 7 pm showing. On opening night. After dinner. I don't understand it either, but nor am I going to question it

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[firei]

I was going to go to the midnight showing tonight, but, I have an 8:30 tomorrow, and I can't miss it because it's only the first week of classes...but I really wanted to go!!! :(

[ter369]

Your icon is a thing of beauty.

[evewithanapple]

Is your icon gankable?

[firei]

I don't know who made it, so I suppose you can feel free.

[redcoast]

I feel ya on the snow thing. Conditions like a light dusting of snow and a little ice on the roads can get almost deadly around here.

[pinstripe_bindi]

Wait, so XF2 is going to be a Monster of the Week movie? Squee! I always loved those so much more than the boring, CONFUSING AS HELL mytharc eps.

[chris_walsh]

The Associated Press has already begun preparing Britney Spears' obituary.

I'd heard about that practice a long time ago. John Cleese, after college and before Monty Python, got a job with Newsweek's international edition. He wasn't a very good journalist (he admitted later) and got bumped to ever-crappier jobs. He knew he should quit when he got assigned to write obits for people who hadn't died yet.

That said, doing so for someone so young... *shudder*. Please don't let this be another Anna Nicole-type situation...

[kvschwartz]

I was just about to comment that it's probably fairly routine for a newspaper to have an obituary ready for any sufficiently famous person.

Presumably almost all these potential-obits have to *revised* periodically: an obituary written for some child starlet-let would no longer make sense if published when she died at the ripe old age of one hundred three.

NEW WRITING "PROMPT" CHALLENGE:

Write an obituary for each of your friends. Update as needed.

[thunderphoenix]

It says on Snopes somewhere that someone found Dick Cheney's obituary on CNN's website, all ready for when he kicked the bucket from his artificial heart.

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[ter369]

Cleo, do you have a snow shovel? (Dust pans will work in a pinch, as I found during Colorado's first blizzard in 2006.) De-icer? Sand or cat litter? Groceries? Underground power lines?

::worries::

Y'all're probably good at nesting.

Re: weather

[cleolinda]

Well, the thing about snow here is that it tends not to stick. But if it is going down to 19F again (and it did a couple of weeks ago), I guess it could. We definitely have kitty litter and a dustpan; we're doing the week's grocery run early tomorrow morning. The power lines are more reliable than at the old house, where they went out if a squirrel sneezed in Canada. We do have a gas fireplace, and my mother's been meaning to get a gas range (like we had at the old house, and pretty much had to have, what with the power going out). I actually don't think we've ever been snowed in at this house, although I have definite childhood memories of a couple of bad storms--like, power out for days, the entire family in sleeping bags by the (actual wood-burning) fireplace, snow so thick the entire neighborhood went tobogganing... actually, that would be fun here, because I live on both a hill and a cul-de-sac. Anyhoo, we don't really have experience holing up in *this* house, and it is bigger than the old one (which is actually a liability in

Re: weather

[chaos_slave]

I want it to snow so bad in Birmingham but I also cringe because we live next the curve and bridge of doom that no everyone crashes at when it rains so heaven only know what these moron drivers will do with ice and snow.