| RPatz goes all angsty about his character |
[07 Nov 2009|10:56pm] |
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From the L.A. Times: Robert Pattinson's suicidal shirtless 'New Moon' scene was 'nerve-wracking'
The Dish Rag by Elizabeth Snead
Robert Pattinson describes how he felt when he stripped off his shirt and stepped into the light in "New Moon."
"It was the closest moment I have really felt the emotional attachment to the character," he said at Friday afternoon's "Moon" junket, adding that there were so many emotionally involved extras in the Italian town square that day who had flown there to have roles in that scene.
"Taking that one step into the light. ... That is the one moment since the first Comic-Con that I felt the whole weight of participation and responsibility as well. It was a good moment."
He confesses that it was also "very nerve-wracking. I felt probably the most in-character I have felt in the whole series."
The quote makes it seem like there are a bunch of Twi-hards as extras.
Also, there is a video of RPatz angsting about the scene.
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| I have nothing productive to say, so here's a bikini parade for a good cause. |
[07 Nov 2009|12:24pm] |
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Reuters video on YouTube: Mass bikini parade in South Africa (embedding disabled).
Hundreds of bikini clad women descend on Johannesburg to participate in a bid to break the world record for the largest bikini parade and raise breast cancer awareness.
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| The 501st will be wearing black armbands... |
[06 Nov 2009|06:18pm] |
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Shel Dorf, founder of Comic-Con.
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| Wait, What? |
[06 Nov 2009|05:27pm] |
Not sure if this is on-topic necessarily, but I figured it probably deserved sharing.
So, during NaNo, I usually lurk on the NaNo forums and occasionally post. This is because I have a huge soft spot for people struggling through their 'bad fantasy novel' stage. Hell, I remember when I was that way.
In the Fantasy genre forums, there are like a million threads about vampires. Of course, right?
Well, one poster decided to fill a thread with a 10k+ word epic post that basically amounts to "my vampires are different".
The relevant segment of this post, though?
My most often used reoccurring vamp (the sparkling silver skinned drag queen, seen only in my banned M-Rated adult books, The Twighlight Manor Series; and these books were written in the 1970s through 1980's btw, nearly 30 years before Twilight's sparkling vampires, which has caused some of my fans to point to Twilight and scream plagiarism, seeing how she used so many things out of my books, including the title) is a salamander mermen and thus has row after row after row of sharp piranha like teeth.
Not sure if anything wanky will come from this out-of-the-blue accusation (mostly because I suspect nobody is going to read the entire post...hell, it's longer than my entire NaNo project is right now), and I'm half-convinced she's trolling, but.
I dunno, man.
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| NaNo: not just for wordsmushing any more! |
[07 Nov 2009|01:54am] |
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(As an aside before I begin, marienbadmylove has been AWOL since November 1st. Either he picked up his someone else's ball and went home, or he's finally collapsed under the weight of his ego. Just thought you'd like to know.)
So, there's a new troll on the NaNo block, specifically in the Saskatoon (and sometimes Melbourne) regional forum.
( The batshit began... well, it's hard to say exactly where it all began. )
( But it doesn't end there. It continues in the Saskatoon/Melbourne region war thread. )
( Of course there was a final hoorah. )
TL;DR: Bizarre troll is bizarre. Really, really bizarre.
Sadly (or not) this is AlanHolman's last contribution to NaNoWriMo, as he finally got banned for being a complete knobhead, amongst other things (such as repeated violations of the site rules and the code of conduct). He has threatened to come back under another name to carry on his posting. I respectfully suggest 'ArseHoleman'. It's an accurate description, after all.
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| Harvard Lampoon skewers "Twilight" |
[07 Nov 2009|12:47am] |
Now available: Nightlight: A Parody, by the Harvard Lampoon.
About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.
And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight.
Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events–Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!–Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?
Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.
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[05 Nov 2009|11:15pm] |
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Great. People in my neighbourhood with extremely bad taste in music are having a very loud party. They had to do it tonight...
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| so wanky it's illegal! |
[06 Nov 2009|04:37am] |
Lime Crime Makeup is a line of eyeshadow and lipstick by fashion blogger Doe Deere (Xenia), mainly known for its strong and unusual pigments.
Recently Lime Crime's come under fire for allegedly repackaging pigments by other companies such as Beauty of the Earth and TKB Trading. As more and more blogs post their own comparisons, others pop up to speak about past customer service experiences, including a post from Lillian who claims that Xenia called her mother an "asshole" for buying a dress of hers that was hemmed with duct/gaffer tape.
There is apparently a long history of Xenia's shenanigans, sparked by comments on an article on Lime Crime in the Examiner. The comments haven't all been positive (a lot of them have been deleted), but most damning is a comment allegedly by Xenia calling her customers stupid for choosing her overpriced products.
This saga inspires Lipsticks and Lightsabers to start be part of the Mineral Makeup Mutiny (edit: this comment by ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) peonypavilion explains more) which highlights and supports companies that make their own mineral makeup. Meanwhile, there's been some investigation into her lipsticks, with Xenia's post on making lipstick (as well as the later one on making eyeshadows) attracting strong skepticism.
Yesterday, Xenia posted a video speaking out against the "haters", which rubs Lilian the wrong way as she feels she's unfairly being considered a liar. Xenia's response to her was (to Lilian's surprise) civil and composed; however, the same can't be said of Doe Deere commentor Mary, who thinks Lilian's only got a grudge because she's fat and that Lilian's on a power trip. (edit: Lillian's video about her issues with Xenia.)
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Xenia's entry with her video is closed to comments! (The ones already posted are still there though.)
eyeshadowsluts' posts about Lime Crime, as mentioned by eleutheria.
Blasts from the past via meanestbastard: The duct tape dress (Xenia's comments have been deleted), Where has the raffle money gone?, "violation of copyright", the mystery raffle winner, her journal's gone friends-only, relisting things that didn't sell. Oh and also Internet & copyright law fail.
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An insider's look at LBG drama. (The post itself is drama-free but does give some background.)
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A lone objective voice about this whole shabang-a-bang.
I'm somewhat surprised Xenia hasn't found this yet and threatened to take me down! does ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) otf_wank do anon comments?
Edit 4:
I posted a non-wanky version of this on MetaFilter (mainly to highlight the video of Miss K/Aromaleigh making eyeshadow) and they call shenanigans:
( cut for length )
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[05 Nov 2009|09:56am] |
Vorpal Blade is keeping it real, yo:
women should lose their own identity when they marry and become a part of the man and his family
When I got married I became my husband's spleen. I wanted to be his appendix, but I was afraid I'd get inflamed and have to be removed.
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| In Which Dumbledore Is Supposedly Omnipotent and Self-Aggrandizing... |
[04 Nov 2009|09:09pm] |
I give you The Dog that Didn’t Get Exonerated in the Night in which the usual Manip!Dumbledore paradigm is once again trotted out for display. For bonus lulz, marionros got good and wound up and blasted a few screeds about how that horrible fucktard Harry Potter is NEVER WRONG AT ALL NO SIR THE BOOKS NEVER SHOWED THIS (never mind that, uh, we do indeed read that in the "big reveal" scenes at the end of the books, that the gaps in Harry's (and therefore our) knowledge are filled in); she also doesn't seem to grasp the concept of a POV character who introduces us to the world in which he or she inhabits.
As seems to be par for the course, trying to find ways to prove that the Death Eaters weren't really all THAT bad and such, we get this bald-faced assertion:
So Grindlewald was the Dark Lord of his time, and Voldemort did a bid to the title a couple of decades later. Bagged it too (although I still don't get why everybody was so afraid of him. All that talk of 'he did great things.. Terrible, but great' and what do we get? A few murders of muggles and old women! A two-bit muggle crook can do better than that! The DE's would faint at seeing 'Silence of the Lambs'!).
*coughBULLSHITcough*
Voldemort did a hell of a lot more than "A few murders of muggles and old women", Ms Ros. He founded a terrorist organization devoted to overthrowing the lawfully constituted government of his nation. He counselled the commission of murder, torture, vandalism and property destruction by the members of his organization. Every action proved that power for its own sake no matter how convoluted the pathway was his basic justification. Else why greedily snatch at all elements of immortality? Even though he had his Horcruxes he wanted a Philosopher's Stone and had no compunction about drinking Unicorn blood.
But hey, why let the books speak for themselves when you can make stuff up? Example by means of this detour:
Sirius loathes Snape and calls him 'Greasy Git'. Harry loathes Snape and calls him 'Greasy Git'. We might assume that Neville also loathes Snape, but as far as I know, he never referred to him as 'Greasy Git'. Just because Neville loathes Snape but doesn't call him Greasy Git doesn't mean that those who do call him Greasy Git don't loathe him.
It's amazing how these fen can make it all about Snape amid meta about Dumbledore. The making stuff up is that the words 'greasy' and 'git' never occur together once in the books. Chew on that, Ms Ros, and quit substituting fanon for logical analysis.
Then The Corruption of the House System in which terri_testing takes a little sideswipe or three at James by insinuating he didn't respect his mother, and then goes on to basically portray Dumbledore in a manipulative light again. The actual logistical underpinnings of her assertions seem quite weak. How would, as she claims, a mass Obliviate work on twenty some thousand people? (Since that is, in effect, what she's proposing as the reason why nobody remembers what House Dumbledore happened to be in; she says (paraphrased) 'the spell works on books and memories')
My spork is in storage at the moment so I can't do more than take a few feeble stabs at these meta-pieces which probably have grains of truth, but which seem to be built on a helluva lot of speculation and more than a bit of fanon.
ETA:
Oh for chrissakes mary_j_59 came along and managed to bring in some of that ridiculous Four Elements of Nature theory as well as demonstrate just how badly she excels at Missing The Point.
Her comment is here and I'll be over in my corner of the universe, karate headdesking at the ridiculousness of her ability to ignore what the Sorting Hat and Dumbledore both said about Slytherin traits.
Son of ETA: I noticed a segment of the LJ comments over there segued into some very revealing comments made by the Snapefen. My JournalFen entry regarding what I saw is linked.
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[04 Nov 2009|06:11pm] |
Just in time for Christmas, Blizzard has started selling World of Warcraft in-game items for real world money! That's right, you can get a Pandaren pet or mini version of the the terrible Kel'Thuzad. In addition to being adorable, they cost $10, and do absolutely nothing useful in game.
$5 from the sale of the Pandaren goes to charity, at least.
I know at least five people who have already bought them and I am ashamed for every one.
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| Rifftrax |
[04 Nov 2009|10:32am] |
The next live Rifftrax show will be December 16, with an encore on the 17th. This time the theme is Christmas shorts! Tickets are already on sale at some theaters, but I guess the 13th is when they will be widely available.
...I love shorts! Also, this reminds me that I need to find my copy of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which is required Christmas viewing at my house now.
More here
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| Aerial View of Ares I-X Flight Test |
[03 Nov 2009|07:43pm] |
For those who don't know, the Space Shuttle is being retired next year and NASA is going back to rockets. This was filmed on a Cessna with some kind of high res/super-duper steady-cam technology from 10 miles away.
I wish I worked for NASA, they do such COOL things.
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| Cookbook recs? |
[02 Nov 2009|06:59pm] |
I'm in the midst of updating my Amazon Wish List (since Christmas is a comin'), and I'm thinking of adding some cookbooks. Any suggestions? I'm mainly interested in vegetarian and lunch/bento books, but any good cookbooks are welcome.
Books I currently have: The Betty Crocker Cookbook, 365 Ways to Wok. Thanks in advance!
ETA: Your suggestions are all great so far :D Thanks again, and keep 'em coming!
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