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Posted by Susan in Book Blog Entertainment and Pop Culture.
National Novel Writing Month launches tomorrow. Authors from the world over commit to write 50,000 words from scratch, in just 30 days.
What: Write a 50,000-word novel from scratch in one month’s time.
Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To git her done.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight.
Still confused? Just visit the How NaNoWriMo Works page!
What’s your NaNo-ing strategy?
Am I the only one who cried?
Posted by Kate G. in US Election 2008.
Well, I know I’m not the only one, since my partner (now my FIANCEE!) was sitting next to me, bawling her eyes out along with me.
So let me re-phrase: anyone outside of my apartment cry like a little bitch watching Obama’s 30-minute media blitz?
I don’t know what it was. The fact that I was slighty intoxicated may have aided the flow of tears. But had I been of sound mind and body at the time, I’m pretty sure the message still would have hit me hard. Maybe a tear or two would’ve squeaked out, too.
US Election 2008 | Comments (2)Issue #18, 26 October – 1 November 2008
Posted by AJ in Entertainment and Pop Culture TV Rewind.
This week: TVR suffers because of the World Series (reruns galore!); Don returns home on Mad Men; the title is oh-so-true on My Own Worst Enemy; Raising the Bar’s Judge Kessler puts her bitchiness on the backburner for a week; and Paris wants her best friend to be a stalker on Paris Hilton’s My New BFF.
Entertainment and Pop Culture, TV Rewind | Comment (0)Let’s go Phillies (clap, clap, clapclapclap).
Posted by Sara in Editors.
Let me preface this by saying that I am in no way a baseball fan. I’ve been to a handful of games and really only enjoy them during the 7th inning stretch or if I’m at a minor league game and there’s a t-shirt gun. I understand the basic gist of the game, but I don’t know the in-depth rules or stats. I don’t know players names or what RBI means. And frankly, I don’t really care.
But last night, while my husband, my friend, and I stood outside of Woolly Mammoth’s bar on South Street in Philadelphia, straining to see the widescreen TV over the hundreds fans crammed inside, I held my breath. And when Brad Lidge struck out Eric Hinske and the world around us exploded, I exploded too.
Editors | Comments (3)Sam Mendes does Preacher
Posted by Donnie in Movies.
Has Christmas come early? No, I’m not talking about the Phillies winning the World Series, I’m talking about the director of American Beauty and Road to Perdition adapting the Vertigo/DC comic book series for the big screen.
Preacher was a 75-issue comic book series which ran from 1995-2000, created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Jesse Custer, a small town Texas preacher, becomes possessed by a supernatural creature and kills his entire congregation. He then begins a journey to find God (literally) along with his girlfriend Tulip and his drunkard Irish Vampire friend Cassidy. On their journey they encounter many things including fallen angels, guardians of Jesus’ bloodline, the Angel of Death, serial killers and Jesse’s redneck Cajun family. Quite possibly the most disturbing character is Arseface, a teenager so obsessed with Kurt Cobain that he attempted to kill himself just like his idol, only to end up collapsing the lower half of his face. Needless to say, he slobbers a lot and can only mumble when talking. This series is not for the squeamish; it takes shots at everything from the south to the U.S. government to religion to ….well, it takes lots of shots at the whole culture of religion.
Up until a few months ago, HBO had its sites on turning this into a series with James Marsden (Cyclops from the X-Men trilogy) in the Preacher role. While HBO would have been an absolute perfect fit alongside previous and current series like Carnivale and True Blood, it languished in development hell until dropped and then Sam decides to defrost this ol’ cajun heart. Thanks Sam. Let’s just hope it actually gets made with all it’s brutal darkness and glorious religious obsenity.
Movies | Comment (1)My first campaign donation.
Posted by Lindsay in US Election 2008.
Last night, I busted out my bank card and bought a little piece of the American dream. There are a few reasons for this late-in-the-game gesture, and I’d like to share them with you.
First, I’m a TV junkie. It doesn’t help that one of my very favorite people is AJ, of TV Rewind and Stalking with the Stars. Unfortunately, unlike her, I lack DVR technology. So, last night, my prime time was met with Barack Obama’s 30 minutes of sweet campaign advertisin’. Normally I wouldn’t watch something like this, but I was working on a freelance project and planning to watch the rest of Game 5 anyway.
I am incredibly emotional lately (details coming in an upcoming article about my experiences giving up Yaz because it’s too expensive), so aspects of this infomercial/Obamamercial hit me especially hard. I actually found myself tearing up over the older couple in Ohio who can’t afford their prescription drugs. I think it might have been when the man, who has been retired for 10 years, put on his Wal-Mart name tag. The older men working at Wal-Mart have always tugged at my heart strings, especially around here where I know they once upon a time had steel industry or manufacturing jobs. So major points for Obama for getting me all verklempt early on.
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)Race or Sex: Which is the winning card?
Posted by Keanan in US Election 2008.
We are no longer growing closer and closer to the 2008 Presidential Election by the month, week, day; we are growing closer by the hour, minute, second. It’s less than a week away now, and still we are debating and arguing over points that seem less than important to the whole picture.
So what, you ask, will make or break this election for either party? What could and probably will sway this election more than any other factor? No, it’s not that McCain will suddenly come out as a Muslim, or that Obama will admit that he’s actually a socialist - either way those two are arranged, they’re both false…
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)Why I refuse to be an early voter.
Posted by Kate G. in US Election 2008.
I’ve never heard of so many people going to the polls in the weeks before the election. And I think it’s silly.
Here’s why.
For openers, I’m a total procrastinator. Since I started getting homework in first grade, this has been a problem for me. I’m not sure what causes it, but it’s become chronic at this point (thank GOD I’m out of college). I just…can’t do much of anything on time, unless I’m completely in love with it. Then again, I fall out of love with most stuff before I finish it. So, yeah, as a last-minute gal, I won’t be voting until after work on Tuesday. This is probably MOST of my reason. However, there is another.
US Election 2008 | Comments (3)Um…we invaded Syria?
Posted by Kate G. in US Election 2008.
Thanks to Rachel Maddow for pointing out this little fun fact tonight on MSNBC.
What happened to countries having borders? Does that just…not apply to Team America, World Police?
From where I see it, this is happening for one of two reasons.
- Desperate ploy for votes. We all know how much the GOP loves to court your inner fear and “inherent” racism (they’re almost banking on the idea that this is true). In an effort to get more people to vote Republican, Bush and his bonehead buddies are screwing shit up in the Middle East so badly that we’re scared into voting for McCain…instead of trying to convince us that conservative policies will work in this time of crisis in our country. Totally the best idea they have, unfortunately. That whole “policies” thing hasn’t been going so well. (Give us ONE, John. ONE thing you’d do differently from Dubya!) Hm…still don’t think I’d vote for a guy who crashed seven planes and had a problem with authority.
- Bush is a poor sport. Think back to when you were a kid. Weren’t there times when you were losing at “Candy Land” or you were in debt up to your ears to your brother in “Monopoly” that you just wanted to flip the damn board over? Well, I think Bush feels the same way about the Middle East. This whole “invading Syria and taking hostages” thing is his way of saying “I don’t wanna play anymore. YOU clean it up!” But even little kids have sense enough of the world of win-and-lose to know that just because you make a mess doesn’t mean you won.
(Eight-year) Long story short: Bush is a massive, massive tool who has yet again put our country in serious danger. But scaring the crap out of us isn’t going to work this time, guys. “A” for effort, though.
US Election 2008 | Comments (2)The beautiful, beautiful carnage.
Posted by Kate G. in US Election 2008.
I’m not even going to dignify that Ashley Todd bullshit with a response; I’ll leave that to John McCain, if he has any decency left in him after these past few days on the campaign trail trainwreck.
In other news: the Republicans’ carefully-constructed, highly-funded think tanks have unraveled and are making my evening television hour a whole lot more fun.
One thing Republicans have always been good at is uniting behind a candidate. Streamlining their message and making sure everyone is nodding along to the same tune. Now, they can’t even hold it together for 8 days?
It’s just…beautiful. All of this discord from a party that all have the same ideals: stay away from my money. And we, the Democrats– the mongrels of politics, the mixed-bag of minority constituencies, the land of misfits–are united in one resounding chorus of “yes, we can.”
Everything we thought we knew about politics in America has shifted. Democrats outspending Republicans. Republicans arguing amongst themselves. Democrats leading in states like Virginia. Republicans trying to pander to the middle and lower classes!
Our country has been turned upside down, and it’s never looked better.
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)