Monday night, urg

[cleolinda]

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;

Comments

[robyn_ma]

'What is the first explosion that you see from the rooftop?'

Wasn't that the Tagruato tanker being destroyed?

[cleolinda]

I mean the part on the roof, where debris starts raining down and everyone starts running. Is that the tanker? I thought it had already done whatever.

[robyn_ma]

I dunno, I thought Clovie was awakened by the tanker and whupped it upside the head when he surfaced, hence the explosion/debris. Could be wrong, frequently am.

[wendyzski]

I don't think so.

The tanker was around the first big crash.
They saw on TV that it was a tanker (already half-submurged), and realized they might be able to see it from the roof.
The next splodey thing happens then.

[phanatic]

"Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines," she said.

Riiight, 'cause that's so much worse than deliberately manipulating a 15-year-old in order to sell albums.

Yeesh. This is "topless" nowadays? She's no more topless than any girl who's gone to a high school semiformal in a backless dress. The infantilization of teenagers keeps getting more ridiculous every day.

[swirlingchaos]

SRSLY. I mean, look at the crap kids wear to school these days. The sheet shows less and suggests less than what she probably wears in the freaking show. Its not like shes stripping it off; instead it looks more like she's trying to cover up.

Frankly i find the over-application of makeup in the photo to be more tasteless than the sheet/towel, and the whole issue to be completely retarded. Of course that doesnt make it any less potentially destructive to her career than the Dixie chicks famous anti-Bush comments. The american media needs a good hard kick in the teeth.

[secretnthewings]

"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."

Grrrrr. That kind of stuff really gets me riled. Especially since the publishing company I work for is currently having an issue with someone illegally printing knockoffs of our books in China. Don't they know that piracy is only acceptable when it involves Johnny Depp and pervasive elements of the supernatural? Jeez.

[rectpropagation]

That's the photo people are upset about? BOOO!
They couldn't find anything else to be offended by?

It would have been really awesome if her and her family had said "Boo" too instead of acting all horrified.

That Hong Kong publisher needs a dose of the old public humiliation. When a company fails to help a customer with a product a video smashing said product usually gets some attention. There's got to be an equivalent for when a company steals your stuff.

Dracula

[tacotoes]

de-lurking to inform everyone that yes, Dracula 79 is on Netflix in DVD form, and is currently third in my cue. hope you get yours soon, cleo.
*re-lurking*