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Have discovered to my horror that LJ is sending comments straight to my Bulk mail folder, where I've been diligently deleting them without even checking. For fucksake.

Also, my e-mail is wonky; if you're going to be mailing me anytime soon, please use maggiecat@rocketmail.com so it doesn't get lost. Thank you!

you are not ganesh! ganesh is graceful!

fuzkeez has a fantastic interview up here. Dear, wonderful JC! Collaborating with freshly ex-jailbirded ODB on a song about girls who like to tease boys by being fakey lesbians, and yet he somehow manages to sound snooty when he's describing the video! That's the most fantastic thing EVER.

Divali is starting today, and that means no meat for the next few days. I can easily go meatless for stretches of time -- unless I'm supposed to. Then, suddenly, all I want is a steaming parade of cheeseburgers marching straight into my mouth. But I'm fond of Lakshmi and, of course, Ganesh, so I will obediently stick to rice and plenty of vegetables to put on it.

I popped in an LotR DVD the other day and suddenly realized that the only audio commentary I'd listened to was the cast's. This made me feel like a stupid little poser so I instantly selected the "Design Team" commentary, headed up by Richard Taylor and his champagne wishes and caviar dreams voice. Unfortunately, I found that they let the conceptual artists do a lot of the narration, which meant eight-minute rambles from John Howe on the significance of Hobbiton as a romanticized version of the idyllic pastoral England of long-ago that resides only in our collective literary unconsciouszzzzzzzz....

It was too bad, because the first little bit was like this:

RICHARD TAYLOR: And now here's Isildur running to his father, which is a SHAME because when he drops down there you can see the RUBBER ARMOUR bending --
ME: omg wtf?!?! *rewinds DVD five million times and still sees no bending of armour* You're crazy, Richard Taylor!
RICHARD TAYLOR: Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul--
ME: aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!! Don't hurt me PLEASE GOD!!

...okay, that last part didn't happen. But if anybody can see where that armour bends, let me know.