Update

[emmagrant01]

1. I woke up really early this morning (jet lag) and spent some time updating my web site. I now have 43 HP fics listed there! I had no idea I'd written that much fic.

2. My not-so-trusty laptop has been making me crazy for months, and I've decided to break down and buy a new one. Despite the cost, I'm really looking forward to getting it. This one is many years old, anyway, and I've been having a lot of trouble running Dreamweaver on it, as well as multimedia software. *pets it* Time to put this one out to pasture, I think.

3. On an unrelated WTF-ish note, I've seen video clips on both CNN and NBC this morning (though I can't seem to find a link) of a model wearing the latest fashion trend: a jewel-encrusted live cockroach on a leash. Apparently you let it crawl around on you while you look aloof and hold its little silver leash. Because really, nothing says beautiful like cockroaches crawling all over you, hmm?

ETA: Thanks to twilight_nyx for the link to the cockroach video and to tavi_b for this link to the story. It may have been featured on America's Top Model, but this is actually for real! *shudders*

Comments

[puppydifranco.livejournal.com]

a jewel-encrusted live coackroach on a leash..... WTF!?!

if I didnt think fashion was completely cracktarded before... that settles it.

[xcarex.livejournal.com]

I don't care how many jewels they're encrusted with-- Cockroaches. Are. Disgusting. Yet more proof that the fashionistas of the world are out of their coke-addled brains.

[luthienpotter.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that also popular in the 50's and then again in the 70's? My mom remembers that trend...it was beetles mostly, including cockroaches. I can't believe they would actually revive that trend. *shudders*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction, pretty much. :-P

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

And they weren't even small ones -- they were huge! Blech.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's not even original? :-P

[nimroddess.livejournal.com]

2. My laptop has been driving me crazy and I'm currently debating whether to spend the money on a new one.

3. EW GROSS YUCK!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

2. It's a lot of money, but oh, the shiny! The new ones with the dual processors are so fast! *waits impatiently for new laptop to arrive*

3. Yep. I wish I could find a link, because this really needs to be seen to be believed.

[aviss.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that model, but there isn't enough money in the world to pay me for wearing *that*. So imagine paying for it.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

She did look a little tense. *shudders*

[sesptwd.livejournal.com]

43 fics? I have some catching up to do. I hardly have any reading time these days... it sucks.

the cockroach is just messed up.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Um, I actually saw this in a seventies porn film ... the bug was crawling over a woman's nipple. not sexy!

[ex-ella-bane358.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I really don't understand "high" fashion.

[rubymiene.livejournal.com]

which one did you get?

[slayra.livejournal.com]

Erm... eww? I can't stand coackroaches. *shivers* They might not hurt a fly, but still. How weird can you get? What next? Sewer rats as pets? *shudder* That is weird.

[shanna-souzou.livejournal.com]

The jeweled-cockroach thing was probably from last night's episode of "America's Next Top Model." The girls were taught how to runway walk and then as a challenge were supposed to pull it off with a cockroach leashed to their clothes.

The show is totally better than it sounds.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

This one (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_e1505?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs). :-D

[belleweather.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I will now be having nightmares for weeks about the roaches. So, so, so wrong.

[tipgardner.livejournal.com]

Blimey! Everything is shiny today, yeah?

[rachfrank.livejournal.com]

The cockroach thing was probably from last nights America's Next Top Model. The models had to walk the runway with cockroaches attached to them. I think it was more of an attempt to freak out the contestants than a serious fashion statement.

[ladybelz.livejournal.com]

Cockroaches on a leash crawling all over you? Makes me want to run screaming into the night.

What's next? Spiders as hair decorations??

*Shudders*

[valkyrie17.livejournal.com]

Jewel-encrusted cockroaches?!!! (Sounds worse than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear)...most unnatural and shudder inducing. Blech!

Sometimes I think the world's gone mad...other times, I'm sure of it.

[corsiva.livejournal.com]

No, no, this was in a store. They had the roaches in a dish-like thing and one was munching on what looked like an apple. The model standing there covered in said jewel-encrusted roaches didn't look too happy. It was disgusting.

[penknife.livejournal.com]

a jewel-encrusted live cockroach on a leash

A WORLD OF EWW. *shudders*

[tavi-b.livejournal.com]

http://www.abc4.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=3502F420-D813-485C-B5DA-69226910E639

Something like that?
Sorry, not sure how to insert links.