Some of these are for self-reference/motivation, and others are just fun. StumbleUpon is a neat little Firefox add-on that is like a little friend in your browser that will show you things to look at when you're bored with the web. Ariana Osborne on how to start a project. Good, simple advice that is universally sound. Twilight Cycles from Brandon Routh (Video) - Brandon Routh stars in a commercial...

I enjoy vampire/werewolf ridiculousness muchly. Mostly I like how we keep trying to use the popularity of a few books and movies to Explain Our Culture, as if it will respond to such fat-fingered analogies. But Cleo's thing about romance and tenderness and eyeporn , like the best of the vamps/weres wank, has actual interesting stuff in it. Is romance about this particular treacly version of tenderness...

In response to cleolinda 's sugestion that the lesson guys should take from the popularity of the Twilight saga is "Try a little tenderness": ktbass : ...it's the idea that Edward is kind of a psycho, but you want someone to be psycho over you sometimes. Ala Heathcliffe, yes he's crazy, but who wouldn't like the idea of someone loving you so passionately they'd hold your dead body...

So, given that the next movie's coming out, thought it might be a good time to finally do a post on the Twilight books. I'll say up front that I've only read the first one. Stressed out at the time, hadn't had time to read in a while and most of the stuff I had on my to-read list was fairly dark, so I didn't even want to get into it. I got through Twilight in a couple of days, and it was a Fluffy...

1) O hai! I'm going to see the ~*Special Preview Omg*~ of New Moon tonight! I feel it's more fair to wait until after opening weekend, though, so if my performance anxiety lets up long enough for me to write anything, it will appear no sooner than Monday. 2) This one's quick and loose (as quick as TWO HOURS AND THIRTY-EIGHT MINUTES can be), hope you enjoy it. 3) STOP REPOSTING MY STUFF, SERIOUSLY...

Speakers on, the theme music adds to the cheesy fun. Oh, all right. The trailer is a parody. It's still got to be better than the movie (which according to cleolinda clocks in at more than two and a half hours. I can't imagine a universe in which that isn't bloated.) And--oh, all right. Oxen and wain ropes would not bring me to this movie anyway. It's not that I mind stuff blowing up...

I overcame my fear of buying online and ordered cleolinda 's Movies in 15 Minutes . I have been reading her LJ and Twitter for a few months now and have been entertained by them. She also has a LJ-community in which she posts other 'Movies in 15 Minutes;, so be sure to check them out! I had seen all the movies she parodied in the book, among them Jurassic Park, Titanic, and the...

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere. From disabledfeminists.com to Asperger Square 8 . And from Asperger Square 8, Aspies For Freedom and NTs Are Weird . And from NTs Are Weird, the Institute For the Study of the Neurologically Typical . Right on...

You guys might be interested in this. cleolinda was interviewed about the flaws in New Moon . If you're familiar with Cleo, you'll know she definitely won't go on about how awesome the books are. Anyway, keep an eye out for the interview, I'm sure it'll be interesting.

SEEKER IS BACK, GUYS! KAHLAN IS SWOOSHING! RICHARD IS LEAPING! ZEDD IS SNAP-FREEZING EVILIES! AND NOW CARA IS BRINGING SEXY BACK TO THE MIDLANDS! OH SHOW!!! *opens .avi* Best transition of all time? Maybe. Best transition into what can only be described as our home, THE SPESHUL HELL? CERTAINLY!! IT'S BRIDGIE'S NO UNDIES WORLD!!@1! I can't help but laugh imagining what it must...