Oh my God, you guys. I just coughed up a doxycycline pill ("the daisy cutter of antibiotics") and ( TMI like whoa )

And as an apology for that little scenic detour, I bring you new POTC3 stills.

Tags: flesh-eating catbitis, health, movies, pirates of the caribbean
Current Mood: sick

So now I'm hearing that the Brook Highland theater is closed--this is now two arthouse theaters we've lost. And they weren't even exclusively arthouse--just the only places, just about, that you could see something like The Fountain at. Meanwhile, my stomach's upset from the antibiotics, the poms' stomachs have been upset from God knows what (probably something they ate in the yard), and it's all kinds of unpleasant. And yes, I'm still eating yogurt. It helps... somewhat. Meanwhile, I've also come down with a snerfy cold that I've been told is a virus, and therefore unaffected by nuclear-grade antibiotics. Woe.

Kerry to bow out of presidential race.

Tiny London apartment on sale for $335K.

Psychologist evaluates 'jungle woman.'

Rome's Palatine Hill shows new treasures.

Coin shortage could turn pennies to nickels.

Film's child assault scene causes stir. Remember this one? Oh, Dakota.

Komodo dragon proud mum (and dad) of five: "Flora, a Komodo dragon who has never mated or even mixed with a male, is the proud mother and father of five baby dragons, scientists said on Wednesday."

The Sun: Tom Cruise the Christ of Scientology. “Tom has been told he is Scientology’s Christ-like figure. Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right.” Source? Uh... someone. Meanwhile, from katesti: Katie Holmes has a new nose. I feel really sad now.

Against Depression: "Soon after that, I watched a BBC sports interviewer interrogate a Belfast footballer about his leave of absence for depression. 'Many people would look at you and say, fabulous success, plenty of money, crowd adulation—in essence, what have you got to cry about?' he asked. He actually said that. I try to imagine the same interviewer asking Lance Armstrong what on earth he had to have testicular cancer about."

The trailer for Black Sheep, which is starting to look exactly like the kind of movie Peter Jackson would have made twenty years ago (Weta and all!). And that's a good thing. "SHOOT IT AGAIN!"

Tags: black sheep, dogs, flesh-eating catbitis, health, movies, scientology
Current Music: Roy Orbison, "I Drove All Night"

Now I've developed a robust cough. Fantastic. Also, I am pleased to hear that my hand should be itching, because it is like whoa. To the cocoa butter, away!

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Tags: animals, awards, flesh-eating catbitis, health, movies, oscars
Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: Chicane, "Locking Down"

So, like I said, I did go to the MedHelp clinic early Friday morning. Since a discussion of health care broke out a couple of entries ago, here's how my visit went: ( Read more... )

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The Blessing of the Pets in Madrid:

Please, Father, bless my retriever.

And my cat!

Can't I be blessed someplace warmer?

WHAT ABOUT US?

But I'm an atheist!

Tags: animals, awards, bad cat, cuteness, flesh-eating catbitis, health, little miss sunshine, narnia
Current Mood: mmmspaghetti
Current Music: Chicane, "Love on the Run"

Quick update, before I go fix a late breakfast: I went to the MedHelp clinic today, and they shot me up with one antibiotic and prescribed two more. More on my adventures later, but, suffice it to say, I'm going to live.

Tags: bad cat, flesh-eating catbitis, health

The hand is bad. Just red inflammation, but it's spreading, and I have an awful feeling that it's cellulitis. I'm going in to a clinic in the morning. More than anything, I'm pissed off that I said on Monday night, "Hey, I think I need to see a doctor about this," but because this has been the week from hell for everyone else (overtime at my mother's work, new classes for my sister, her brakes are out, Sam the pom is having messy stomach problems, my mother's having surgery on her own hand tomorrow...), they've spent the week trying to convince me that it'll go away on its own, even as I have 200 people in the previous two entries going "DOCTOR NOW." We actually had something approaching a fight over it this afternoon--my mother was like, "Are you sure it's not just people on the internet scaring you to death?," to which I ended up shouting, "NO, I'm SCARED TO DEATH because IT'S GETTING WORSE and IT HURTS." So I'm getting a clinic visit squeezed in before her surgery tomorrow morning. What kills me is that everyone's all sorry I got bitten in the first place, and they seem sympathetic to the general problem, to the point where they'll get me all the Advil or Neosporin I want, but it's like they have some mental block as far as the idea that it could actually be dangerous goes. I just can't understand why they won't believe that it's serious, because they can see my hand, and almost the entire back of it is red now. I'm sorry it's inconvenient, but your convenience doesn't really have any bearing on whether my hand falls off or not. TAKE ME TO A CLINIC.

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telepresent got in touch with me today about a project he's doing--about "digitalism" (nice way of putting it) instead of postmodernism in theater--for his master's. "I'm signing up to several of these sites (all as Telepresent - Myspace, YouTube, Facebook and LiveJournal) basically as part of my research and search for stimuli. I want to see how people respond to the idea of this project, how they'll interact with me. I want to see how and why people spend their time on these sites. I'm going to be keeping blogs and vlogs on the progress of our piece, so please feel free to talk to me (or yell at me or flame me or outright ignore me), it'll all help me out, and might well end up being used in the performance." Personally, I feel like this ties into the Blood and Chocolate link from the other day--I think there are two separate components to the way people use journal and social sites. There's the mass communication element, in which interesting and particularized social mores develop (friending etiquette, the social consequences of plagiarism, the way people who've never met in real life bond over fandom), but then there's also individual innovation, the creative ways people find to use these sites: viral marketing, role-playing games, online novels, unfiction, the Dracula-reposted-in-real-time community, and so on.

Speaking of Dracula, something bizarrely awesome I found while Wiki-hopping today: You remember Mary Badham, the Alabama native who played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird? I was looking her up because an episode of The Twilight Zone that she was in, "The Bewitchin' Pool," ran during the New Year's marathon on Sci-Fi, and it became increasingly obvious that her voice was badly dubbed over for some reason for about half the episode. Not only did she sound like Rocky the squirrel in all the outdoors scenes, it turns out that June Foray actually did the dubbing. So, you know: interesting. Then I found out that she has a brother: John Badham, who was born in the UK before the family moved to Alabama. Now, how you're sitting there in the UK and you suddenly go, "You know what? ALABAMA," I can't begin to imagine, but there you go. And it turns out that John Badham is actually a director I knew of in his own right--he did Saturday Night Fever, WarGames, Short Circuit, Stakeout, Nick of Time, and... the 1979 Dracula. Duuude.


ETA: POTC3 concept art from AICN, mostly awesome, but including the most ridiculous cleavage ever. "They painted it on" can't touch this. Caution: mild spoilers.

Tags: awards, bad cat, deaths, dolls, dracula, fan service, flesh-eating catbitis, harry potter, health, movies, oscars, pirates of the caribbean
Current Mood: sore

Quick update on my hand (deep cat bite, for those of you just now joining us): ( Read more... )

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Unique Blood and Chocolate advertising on Livejournal. I think it's a great idea. Livejournal had announced a while back that they wanted to do corporated-sponsored communities), but they wanted companies to find a way to be creative about it. So the B&C studio approached them:

So instead I said: hey, why don't we do it this way. Let's make the community be the LJ entries of Vivian, the main character, during the early parts of the movie. Getting behind the scenes on her thoughts and fears, that kind of thing. That's nothing new; hell, the official website has a few pages of Vivian's "journal" on it. Nothing revolutionary. So, where's the uniquely LJ "feel" to that? Or, as Joy (our sales manager) asked, "Where's the community interaction?" (Which is what the entire point of a sponsored comm on LJ is.) "Easy," I said. "We'll let people play along. Comment as though they're talking to her, like it's any LJ account ever -- and she'll comment back."

See, I love this kind of thing. It's that whole alternate-reality gaming/unfiction thing that we saw with the A.I. Cloudmakers game and the Dionaea House story. I would absolutely love to do this kind of thing, but I haven't been able to come up with a story, and planned out far enough in advance, that would work. (I don't want to use the Black Ribbon world because it's not published yet; I'd rather get something like that going with the cooperation of a publisher.) I'm at a point where I'd even love to contribute to someone else's ARG, although at this point I'd like to get paid for it if it's going to advertise something; God knows I could use some gainful employment (Will Pretend for Food). And I did go and check out the comm, and it's very thoroughly up front about being an advertisement for Blood and Chocolate--almost more so than I would like; there's no real mystery to it. It's more of an RPG than unfiction, which at least has that is it/isn't it gloss over it. But perhaps that transparency is more important to preserve LJ users' trust. Anyway, if this works, I expect you could see more--and bigger--movie marketing teams getting in on it.

Tags: asshaberdashery, bad cat, children of men, flesh-eating catbitis, health, movies, unfiction

Friday: Dandelions on the lawn. Tuesday: Siberian tundra. It was actually 46 degrees this morning, and now it's 34. It's actually gotten colder as the day progressed, rather than warming up with the sun. Damn.

("Feels Like: 25°." WHAT THE HELL.)

Also, and I am asking y'all's advice on this, Bad Cat bit me early Monday morning. S/he got a good mouthful of the side of the hand, so now I have two deep punctures--one kind of where my thumb joins my wrist, and one on the back of my hand at the wrist. The thumbish one hurts, and it's a teensy bit red, but it's okay. The back of my hand has a giant inflamed patch around the puncture. Like, larger than a fifty-cent piece. And it hurts. Is it just because the cat-mouth-bacteria is spreading out over the back of my hand, or do I need to see a doctor about this? It's my right hand, and I kind of don't want to lose it.

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Tags: awards, bad cat, dolls, elizabeth, flesh-eating catbitis, golden globes, lord of the rings, movies, narnia, pirates of the caribbean, rants