Oh dear!!!!!! Pippa has officially turned to the DARK SIDE it would seem.... that is very sad, the poor thing.... but thanks muchly for the post sage - this has heightened my excitement a good deal (like that was needed, hehe!)
Just random bits from Libba's recent LJ posts:
"Rumor control dept:
Someone asked if it's true that Rachel Hurd-Wood has been cast as Gemma. (It's "rumored" on imdb.) The last time I spoke with my film agent, there wasn't even a finished script, and now that the WGA is on strike (Go, Writers!) there won't be a finished script until that is resolved. So, take any rumors with a grain (or a whole shaker) of salt. I promise I'll keep you in the loop as much as I am kept in the loop. "
- i'll try not to get my hopes up too high then...
"Has anyone seen the Sweeney Todd trailer online? O.M.G. I cannot WAIT for this movie! My favorite musical! Johnny Depp! Stephen Sondheim! Tim Burton! Heaven. "
- NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not heaven - they've gone and murdered it, i tell you!!!!!!!! I am SO mad at Mr Burton.....
and her Thanksgiving post
"Here is a list of things I am thankful for:
My family and friends, who are kind to put up with me
My freakish cat, who is probably plotting against me
The way my kid makes me laugh with pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth
The way the Russian ladies at my favorite pedicure place call me "Luba" which is Russian for love and which makes me feel sort of loved when they say it so that I never correct them
My favorite time-wasting website:
www.icanhascheezburger.com Guacamole
Birthdays
Really awesome, life-changing books
Really fun, not-trying-to-change-your-life books
Pants-wettingly funny books
Really awful books that make me feel better about my own crappy prose (Just being honest here...)
Coffee!
The Dallas Cowboys having a good year
Monty Python reruns
All the cool people I've been lucky to meet this year, including many of you. Live long and prosper
Livejournal
The people who leave me wonderful music suggestions on LJ. My iPod now boasts Tilly and the Wall, Sigur Ros, Goldfrapp, and countless other new tunes, thanks to you
iTunes
Finishing The Sweet Far Thing without completely losing my mind and my hair!
That starred review in Publishers Weekly for TSFT
Writing
Dr. Who (though not thankful I have to wait for the new season)
My health (corny, but true)
My favorite reality show: "Librarians: The Amazing Race Against the Patriot Act!" (Okay, that's not really a reality show, but it IS a reality. They fight the good fight. Please see previous reference to Hugging Your Librarian.)
My favorite secret t-shirt, the one I rarely get to wear but enjoy owning, which says, in small lettering: READ A F**KING BOOK
Laughing till your stomach aches
People you can be totally goofy with
Fart jokes
The way the light looks as it's waking up, all pink and new and full of possibility
The way the sky looks when a storm is coming in, all gray and heavy and threatening and exciting
That I'm not as screwed up as I was when I was twenty, but that I have all new screw-ups to experience. Being Fully Human 101
That, as it turns out, everybody's sorta screwed up
Snow days
Drinking out of a garden hose on a hot day
Long walks past autumn-glazed leaves
Dogs
Teenagers (they keep us all honest)
People who are comfortable with themselves
Really good socks
Dark movie theatres, a flickering screen, sharing the cathartic experience with strangers, all with popcorn and a Coke
Brooklyn (fuhgeddaboutit!)
Faure's Requiem, particularly the Sanctus part
The Widor Toccata, played on a really amazing, really loud organ
Blade Runner
That my job wardrobe consists of jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers
Crazy news stories like the one I just read on cnn.com about the woman who had been eating her hair for years and ended up with a giant, ten-pound hairball in her intestines. You cannot make this stuff up.
Anything that makes me think, that changes my perspective, so that it's like going to the eye doctor and having her slip new lenses before your eyes, "Better here...or here?" so that you finally see that the letter you thought was an F is, in fact, a V, and now you are grateful that you can see the V.
Snuggling
People with accents, doesn't matter what kind
Art
The almost-spiritual beauty of physics
Truth-tellers
Whistle-blowers
Aid-givers
Civil rights-demanders
Compassion
Love
Peace--still a good idea"
- i'm SO with her on cats, snuggling, Python and Dr Who!