Choose your own adventure

Would you like the breaking news behind door number 1, or door number 2? Both stories broke within minutes of each other, but it's door number 2 that made it to the breaking news bar on CNN.

This society knows what's important, y'all!

Oh, and: Britney had another boy; Anna Nicole's son Daniel died under suspicious circumstances.

Shammy

In case you didn't already know, Lonelygirl15 isn't real:

The three creators declined to identify the name of the actress Tuesday. But amateur Internet sleuths discovered she is Jessica Rose, a 19-year-old actress from New Zealand who recently moved to Los Angeles."

Everyone was right, I was wrong. Typical. I'm not sure if I'll unsubscribe from her/their videos or not. Probably not.

Something big is on its way

CNN says Apple is about to offer movie downloads.

The iTunes music store page is currently blank when it's normally hopping with music, trailer, and TV show goodness (speculation: because it will now be rebranded to include movies!!).

Currently there are no software updates for iTunes, but ...

I can feel that big announcement coming any moment!


(I could be wrong. I don't mind.)

Update:

*happy clappy hands*




And a bazillion organizations are saying that this is happening. The Apple store is even down. So exciting!



Final update:

Sorry, I was in a meeting when Apple finally finished updating their sites, so this is old news, but TADA!

Dinner and a movie with reflection on the side

Last night I suggested that we have roast beef sandwiches with Jarlsberg cheese (with red onion and horseradish on mine; with tomato from our garden and mayo on his) for dinner.

Hay: “I don't know what made you think to have these for dinner, but it's a great idea!”
Poppy: *ponder* “I guess I just had a craving for them, so that's what I wanted!”
Hay: *stuffing face with sandwich* “numnumnumnumnum”

During dinner we watched Woody Allen's Match Point. I loved it, and distinctly remember thinking, “wow, this is the first Woody Allen movie I have ever loved...” Hay got bored during it and wandered over to the gaming computer. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is a lot like Joaquin Phoenix to me. Same lip region, same eyes, same ears, same jaw line, same chin(-ish), same longing stare into nowhere, same evil aura. If I didn't know better I'd say they were brothers, or even the same person.




Back to the movie: Lots of infidelity, lots of figuring out what to do about said infidelity. It's definitely the first movie I've seen with Scarlett Johansson where I hated her character. That was intentional on Woody's part. Oh, and I love tennis so thoroughly enjoyed the tennis scenes. (Random!)

Photo credits: Joaquin, Jonathan

I have removed yesterday's posts. I appreciate your comments, especially DLil's (she's my girl). I don't appreciate the darkness and despair I feel each year on the eleventh of September, and I certainly don't want to be reminded of it the day after.

Recognize!

Do you recognize this song?



Yah, you do! It's Lady Sovereing (SOV) doing Love Me or Hate Me, which is the song from the Verizon wireless chocolate commercial (see the commercial here). This chick is badassery bottled up! I sent her a message via her myspace page asking when this song will be available for purchase (on an album). If I get an answer I'm hoping it's filled with Cockney profanity goodness. :)

snake skin

My sister-in-law found this snake skin on the pebbles to the side of our porch.

I moved it around a bit to get good photos. Looks like the snake slithered further into the pebbles to get out of its skin, since I found the head end embedded into the pebbles.

Love triangle with extra cheeze, please.

K-Fed is back in my head. Damn you, Trent! How nice of Kevin to give Ellen some of his bling. I'm 100% confident he asked for it back the second they went to commercial.

Britney might have her baby today. Or in two weeks. Gotta love the gossip.

And, too bad that Brit broken Justin's heart, because he was ready to give her his name. I had a bit of a heartbroken moment myself when I read that post.

Cool off cool off, drop

Put your hands UP, it is B day and she truly is fierce in this song.

Thanks, Beyoncé, for getting K-fug outta my head.

Make. it. stop.

Kevin Federline music? Yah, it's stuck in my head. Particularly, “with a little bit of rock 'n roll [piano going dundundun dundun]”. *sigh* I must be receiving punishment for something in my past.

Favorite girl woman lady mom

Stacey Dash, age 40 (Clueless) robs the cradle of Marques Houston, age 25 (Sister, Sister) in this new video titled Favorite Girl:



She is biologically old enough to be his mom, although she definitely doesn't look her age. Marques, on the other hand, is growing a stache just to look legal.

Shitocratic

Hay and I saw a really bad accident this morning. We're waiting to find out if it's someone we know from Hay's work (formerly also my work), who hasn't shown up to work yet and we don't have her contact numbers. My nerves are, as they say, “shot to shit”.

Update: Yes, someone we know. Although, not the person we thought it was. How odd. She's at the hospital now. We'll see.

Update update: The doctors can't find anything wrong with her, other than bruises. They're going to do a chest x-ray then send her on her merry way. You shoulda seen the car. She's very lucky. Got plowed into by a truck. So. Yah.

Suri Cruise makes V even famous-er-er!

One of my favorite celebrity bloggers, Vera from I'm Not Obsessed, was featured on CBS News ShowBuzz for posting the first photos of Suri Cruise after they appeared on the news program this evening which also happened to be Katie Couric's first day! Congratulations, V! And Katie. And the other Katie. And Tom. ... .

Suri is the spitting image of Tom and Katie (Holmes, not Couric) put together, so I'm really doubting the alien / adoption stories.

I'm not posting a photo, but if you click on V's links above you'll get to see her.

I thought it would be fun to sign up for an * number so that you all could waste company time and resources sending me silly stuff, so here's my number: 1 .... 602 .. 916..... . . . 0885.

Dunno what you should send me, but: Enjoy! :) No nekkidness or dead/injured people, please. Oh, and if you send me something bad to do with animals I'll most likely report you to a national agency, so I don't recommend doing that. (I know, I know, I'm no fun...)

What I don't get is that the country was running out of area codes several years ago, but now we have , etc. and cell phones eating up the numbers, so I'm not sure how sustainable it is to keep handing out phone numbers like cookies and pie.



*For those one or two people who don't know about , you send me a document using your and I receive it as an attachment to my email account.

Breaking news (for real): Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has died!

I just woke up, and I think I'm gonna cry. Say it isn't so. :( :( :(

'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin killed by stingray

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Steve Irwin, the TV presenter known as the "Crocodile Hunter," has died after being stung [pierced through the heart] by a stingray in a marine accident off Australia's north coast.

Media reports say Irwin was diving in waters off Port Douglas, north of Cairns, when the incident happened on Monday morning.

Irwin, 44 was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest, according to Cairns police sources. Irwin was filming an underwater documentary at the time.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality Monday morning off Port Douglas, according to Australian media.

Queensland Police Services also confirmed Irwin's death and said his family had been notified. Irwin was director of the Australian Zoo in Queensland.

He is survived by his American-born wife Terri and their two children, Bindi Sue, born 1998, and Robert (Bob), born December 2003.

Irwin became a popular figure on Australian and international television through Irwin's close handling of wildlife, most notably the capture and relocation of crocodiles.

Irwin's enthusiastic approach to nature conservation and the environment won him a global following. He was known for his exuberance and use of the catch phrase "Crikey!"

[Paragraph omitted because it's rude to include in a tribute story, fucking CNN!]

In a statement released to Australian media, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer expressed his sorrow and said that he was fond of Irwin and was very appreciative of all the work he had done in promoting Australia overseas.

In 2003, Irwin spoke to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Australian Story television program about how he was perceived in his home country.

"When I see what's happened all over the world, they're looking at me as this very popular, wildlife warrior Australian bloke," he said, the ABC reported.

"And yet back here in my own country, some people find me a little bit embarrassing. "You know, there's this... they kind of cringe, you know, 'cause I'm coming out with 'Crikey' and 'Look at this beauty.'" (CNN)

In Poppyland you are well respected. You will be sorely missed, my friend.

Que la freakando F?! Perez broke the story to me in a PS about Kelly Osbourne. How freakin' cruel is that? AND, Michael Douglas just got stung by a jellyfish and his kid peed on him to save his life, but a true global treasure has to die from a stingray?! Doubly cruel, world!

State (of af)fairs

Kyra Phillips

Just in case the person from Google Canada returns to find this, here's the video of CNN's Kyra Phillips doing the top 10 on Letterman. And, in case you are just passing by or a regular but don't know what the hell this is about, here's why Kyra was on Dave's show:



Shit happens. That's all I've got to say on the matter. :)

The oddest thing about the above search is that I had just been learning about this entire debacle earlier in the day when I was surfing through YouTube for stuff to watch. Coincidences evoke an emotion in me that cannot be explained by the English language.

Wishies

Have I ever mentioned that I love pigeons?

I am in love.

Hay, step aside for one moment:



That boy is FINE.

Okay, Hay - I'm back to you. :)

Pink fan*

I've actually been feverishly refreshing my blog and reading my Yahoo mail for comments on the post below this one. Somehow it makes me happy that I'm so guessable. I hope you'll continue guessing until all 10 are striked out. But, please don't just go to IMDb and start listing off all the characters for CB and SotD (PS - No, not the zombies, DLil!), or visiting the originating site for PfB, because that's cheating! Also, there is actually a tie for my favorite character for Beetlejuice, so anyone want to guess who that other character is?

Work has been really weird. I think it might have slowed down, but I'm not exactly sure. Please don't ask me to explain, as I'm not sure I understand it well enough to explain.

One of my favorite shows, The Biggest Loser, is back on Wednesday, 9/20 at 9pm on NBC. I love that show, it was so inspirational to me while I was losing weight last winter. Although, I'm sad that Jillian is not returning. :( She's my favorite.

Speaking of not returning, yesterday's news is that Carolyn from The Apprentice no longer works for The Donald, so now daughter Ivanka and son (um, Donald Jr?) will be his sidekicks on the show.

*The title has nothing to do with anything other than the pink fan my daddy gave me for my birthday a while back which sits proudly on my desk at work and cools me off when it's a billion degrees in the office.