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Patty's deep into comps and I'm trying to finish some work before running home to pack and head off to the airport. So we're both sort of crazed.

LJ has acknowledged concerns about the Twitter/Facebook cross-posting thing. What the resolution will be remains to be seen. This workaround will remove the cross-posting boxes for all people viewing your entries if you use a custom design in S2. An LJ staffer also apparently wants you to fill out this poll about the cross-posting thing. That's all I've got on that. ETA: oh fuck, it looks like LJ did a deal and it probably can't back out.

BTW, I have no intention of using the cross-posting feature. Sometimes I post links to my LJ on those services, but generally for shit like "hey, here's my Dragon*Con schedule."

Everything you learned on White Collar is true, but less glamorous: Guy claims he lost $1.3 million painting after taking it to a potential buyer while trashed, gets sued; turns out he has art theft past. No shit?

Apple edits out Lady Gaga's pro-gay tweets on sample Ping page.

Hey, people freaking out about Sandman and TV rights and Kripke? I don't watch Supernatural and I know about the problems with it, but folks who write and create for TV get those gigs for a lot of reasons, including ability to structure and adapt and deliver on brutal schedules and run a writer's room. So unless there are indicators elsewhere in Kripke's career, with non-faily source material, this is not the apocalypse, since the fan/creator feedback loop for Sandman is unlikely to bear any resemblance to that of Supernatural's.

Why is Twitter sometimes awesome? Today's answer: Simon Pegg goes on a John Simm mpreg story ramble. This is nerdtasmic.

Friend has involved me in a cracky, cracky awesome project that involves words like "Bollywood," "waltz," "tango" and "more hits than you can possibly imagine." ;) And it has nothing to do with Moulin Rouge. Hahaha.

Comments

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Kripkie: excpt that the Sup fans *are* likely to follow Kripkie around to his other projects -- just like Torchwood fans follow GDL, Barrowman and RTD (and other cast members). GDL, IMO, gets a lot of unpleasant shit due to his T'wood fan following because they treat him like a gay man (ie: like the fantasy Ianto) when he's ... not. Kripkie clearly knows his Sup fandom and has established a pattern of a particular response to them. Plus, the normal pressures of creating work in the big time ... I'm dubious. Also, excited.

Apple: sigh. I love apple computers. I'm really coming to hate Apple the company. I think I'm going to be looking for a different brand of ereader than an Ipad.

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Again, on Sandman -- there's a well-known, well-loved, well-developed source material with a very large, very loud fandom and a very active in many mediums creator. If the source isn't respected, the project will tank.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yup. Like I said, both excited (there are so many things I *love* about Sup but the bad things make it stick in my craw) and dubious -- I've well learned my lesson about not trusting the media production machine.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm ALWAYS dubious, I think, which is why I don't really talk about my dubiousness, it's like a given.

On the other hand, I also don't have a major emotional attachment to most of Sandman. I like it, I think it's great work, I have a significant attachment to one particular story in it, but I'm not emotionally involved in watching this process.

(On the other hand, seriously, I'm a genderqueer ex-dominatrix, why isn't the phone ringing about Desire, RIGHT NOW?)

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

(On the other hand, seriously, I'm a genderqueer ex-dominatrix, why isn't the phone ringing about Desire, RIGHT NOW?)

Because they're going to look for someone who resembles Tilda Swinton?

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I would be very happy with that if it actually happened (Tilda or Tildalike). I have serious fear there.

I'd also love, in a twisted way, if they had multiple different actresses playing Delirium.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I also get the sense that Kripke is very aware of his audience. Anyone who's seen the "Becky" episodes of SPN (I'm not a regular watcher, though many of my friends are pretty deep in the fandom) knows he's aware, and to a debatable degree, respectful.

I can see him being an intelligent choice for a Sandman project, if not the correct one.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yean, there are a lot of things about Sup that are incredibly well done -- particularly cultureally cogent things and that would work really well with Sandman.