Celebrity gossip

Some more secondhand snark for y'all courtesy of the FameTracker forums:

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Ahh, I love hearing people bitch about celebrities, even ones which I actually like (which include all three of the above). :D

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Ohhh, I'm so bored down here in the other office. It's like being in exile. ;_;

I should be working on one of my two papers that are due before Thanksgiving break starts (i.e., by Wednesday), but instead I've been finding bizarre news articles for your amusement. Is it honest concern for my friendslist, or a pathetic excuse for procrastination? You decide.

Let's Positive Linking!
- This is kinda unsettling - any document printed on a color laser printer or color copier can be tracked to its source easily.
- Target offers anal massage. Not really, it's apparently a DVD, but still funny.
- Romanian mayor tells bored housewives to stop pestering him for sex. XD
- 9000-year-old skeleton named Julia Roberts after her perfect teeth. I'm waiting to see her in a romcom with Piltdown Man.

Edit: A meme from gedrean...

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

"The chief missionary was said to order each convert family to put aside a daughter for his personal pleasure."

Of course, the nearest book is Wehrle's Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900. And the sentence is delightfully out of context. >D

Yes, I AM emotionally retarded - why do you ask?

( ANGST ALERT )

But anyway, no more angsting. I've decided to start my Christmas shopping a bit early this year, and one of the places I've found is The Noble Collection. The only problem is everything I see there I want to buy for ME - seriously, I'm feeling a massive wave of consumer lust. You can buy a levitating pen that looks like Harry Potter's wand, Aragorn's crown, the Green Destiny sword from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, suits of armor, and scads of other HariPo, LotR and Troy merchandise. And their other stuff is really nice, too - gorgeous man-rings and office merchandise, and I want to furnish my eventual house from this place even if they do write about the Lady of "Shallot." XD

I'm also going to pick up some presents for my mom at Alibris.com - they have a lot of used books in good condition, and it's a good place to find that out-of-print book that someone read once and really liked and so has always looked for but never been able to find. So far the best present I ever gave was when I found a copy of Kenneth Roberts' autobiography I Wanted to Write on Alibris and gave it to my mom, who used to check it out every year from the library until their one copy disappeared and had never been able to find it since.

I really like to try to find presents that are unusual and that people will really want - something no one else would think of getting them but that when they open it, it's either "Oh my God, this is something I always wanted!" or "Oh my God, I never knew this existed but if I did I would really want it!"

However, just because I'm finally getting into the Christmas spirit doesn't mean I don't still want to kill the morons who decided "wouldn't it be great if we started playing Christmas carols...wait for it...AT THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER!" It's not even Thanksgiving yet, and if I have to hear "Rudolph" one more time, I'm having braised reindeer for dinner.

>_

Oh my God, I just spent almost $200 on shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, and other sundry personal care products. Now, it's the Original Source stuff that I tried out during my time in England and ADORED, so it's worth it, but still, ouch. (The stuff itself was only around 45 pounds, but they raped me on international shipping to the tune of 50 pounds. *weeps*) Oh well, at least I'm also getting a Christmas present out of the way through it.