From Neil Gaiman’s blog:
Mr. G sends the following from his cellphone:
In Taipei airport there were toilets for men, women, enormous telephones, daleks and people feeding giant venus flytraps.
From a blog posted by Nathan Fillian:
I was driving down Ventura Blvd. The air was warm, but if I kept the windows open I could stay cool without using AC. Just another way to try to save on gas until I buy the upcoming Venture Vehicle (check flytheroad.com). My stereo was loud, but not blaring. I was singing along to Jason Mraz when a light stopped me for some pedestrians crossing the street. I abruptly stopped singing when I saw that the giant black dude coming from his gym caught me singing in my car alone. He stood in the intersection and said, “Oh, NO. Don’t you stop for ANYONE. Let it out!” And he was right. I said, “You’re right.” Not only did it continue singing, but he joined me, and loud. It is moments like these that restore my faith in humanity. Thank you, intimidatingly huge black dude. Thank you for reminding me that the world is mine to enjoy, everyday. It is an attitude I took with me to Comicon.
Awesome. I so want to be friends with these men. For now, I shall make due with indulging my voyeruristic tendencies through their writings.
And in other news:
This makes me sad:
BURBANK, CA, August 14, 2008 – Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that it has moved back the release date of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” to Summer 2009. The sixth installment of the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the major international markets on July 17, 2009. The announcement was made by Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros.
In making the announcement, Mr. Horn stated, “Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment. Additionally, like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers’ strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films—changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of. We agreed the best strategy was to move ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer.”
More on the moving of the release here. And I was so ready to sport my Team Edward shirt to opening night and start some fights. :P
EWWWWWW! Manga eyes should be relegated to things like this:
Not real people. (Manga Mandy is so much cuter than I am IRL. Sad.)
I love Twilight enough that I can take a good joke. Key word here: good. Thankfully, this is.
Remaking Rocky Horror is not a good idea.
The 2008 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest were posted earlier this week. This is my favorite:
Dimwitted and flushed, Sgt. John Head was frustrated by his constipated attempts to arrest the so-called “Bathroom Burglar” until, while wiping his brow, he realized that each victim had been robbed in a men’s room, thereby focusing his attention on the janitor, whose cleaning habits clearly established a commodus operandi.
Toilet jokes and literary humor? Oh snap.
This project needs to come to fruition:
Two cute (see what I did there? Nice, huh?):
I <3th Darth (I know, I know. I’m uber behind the times with this one. Deal.)
I love this little dude:
I’ve seen revamped My Little Ponies of Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer, but these are great. It’s a phenomenon. More here.
Driving to Houston on a work trip yesterday, I passed by a church on the side of the highway with a sign outside. The sign was one of those scrolling LCDs, telling passerby, among other things, what time it is in their neck of the woods.
As I passed, it told me the temperature: 100 degrees.
The next two words on the sign? Jesus Christ.
I laughed for miles.
Seriously you guys:
Michael Phelps is either evidence that God plays favorites or some weird branch of human-fish evolution.
3 down, 5 to go.
My title belies energy I am currently in lack of. I think the exclamation marks are due to the coffee. Caffeine=extraneous exclamation marks? You decide.
It is 8.8.08. Will you be watching the Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies tonight or taking advantage of the 8%-off sales around the Internets?
Awesome site of the week: Robotaday!
My faves so far:
(Vamp Bot, Dr. Horrible Bot and Clever Disguise Bot)
The creator, Erin, said she’s make me a Vamp Bot with yellow eyes if I wanted … Oh the temptation!
If I could illustrate, I think I would very much like to do this: Illustration Friday.
The Park Bencher makes me laugh pretty much every day. I wish I could write this well.
Wired says I shouldn’t have bought a stuffed Yoda backpack or the limited edition Snow, Apples, Glass perfume* and (signed!) short story by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Neil Gaiman, respectively, at Comic Con. I should have bought these. (Had I seen these, I would have considered buying 6, 7 and 9.)
Poor T-Rex. And also: I shall now fear that I have had superpowers and never knew it.
I think I shall post this in my closet, to reassure myself when I look around and feel the walls closing in:
Happy weekending!
*It does sort of smell like sexy vampire apples.
Filed under: Projects, Purchases | Tags: Botkier, Crafting, Purses, Target, Twilight
Bought this at Target today:
*shakes head at self*
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In other news, I’ve started up a fourth round of Twilight-related craft swapping at Craftster.org. Now, I don’t know that anyone who reads my blog (or lurks my blog?) would like to join up, but I think it will be fun. I had a great time working on the last one’s projects. :)
From wordle.net
Probably shouldn’t have made a wordle today. It looks like I’m obsessed with Hamlet, which I promise, I am not. Of the tragedies, I much prefer Macbeth.
I feel like poop. So not in the mood for work today.
From McSweeney’s:
Hamlet: The Facebook News Feed Edition
by Sarah Schmelling
Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.
Hamlet thinks it’s annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies.
The king thinks Hamlet’s annoying.
Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better.
Hamlet’s father is now a zombie.
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The king poked the queen.
The queen poked the king back.
Hamlet and the queen are no longer friends.
Marcellus is pretty sure something’s rotten around here.
Hamlet became a fan of daggers.
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Polonius says Hamlet’s crazy … crazy in love!
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.
Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.
Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.
Ophelia removed “moody princes” from her interests.
Hamlet posted an event: A Play That’s Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family
The king commented on Hamlet’s play: “What is wrong with you?”
Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind.
Polonius is no longer online.
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Hamlet added England to the Places I’ve Been application.
The queen is worried about Ophelia.
Ophelia loves flowers. Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers. Oh, look, a river.
Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don’t Float.
Laertes wonders what the hell happened while he was gone.
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The king sent Hamlet a goblet of wine.
The queen likes wine!
The king likes … oh crap.
The queen, the king, Laertes, and Hamlet are now zombies.
Horatio says well that was tragic.
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, says yes, tragic. We’ll take it from here.
Denmark is now Norwegian.
Yesterday, I started my day with little but glowing thoughts about Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. Throughout the day, I read different peoples’ opinions of the book, ranging from loving to scathing and pretty much everywhere in between. I ended the day with the fear that BD wasn’t what I thought it was a first, which was a superb ending to a fantastic series.
Then I read this: www.likesbooks.com/312.html
Thank you Jane Granville. Now I’m much more certain that my initial assumption was correct. I agree with the sentiment behind this review wholeheartedly and it makes me happy to hear that not all Twilighters have turned into naysayers.
I’m of course going to re-read the book to make sure it was as good as I remember, but I will do so with much less of a heavy heart and nitpicky attitude.
