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Jocelyn

Hey peeps,

If you’re checking in for Live-Blog Lost, I’m going to skip tonight.  I didn’t get a great night’s sleep last night, and I’m tired of looking at this dang computer.  I’m going to go get my jammies on and watch Lost the way God intended… on my DVR, so I can fast forward the commercials.

Enjoy! And we’ll discuss later!

Jocelyn

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately about the amount of ads on the site, and the GumGum ads that appear on some of my pictures.  Well, bottom line is – the site has felt the effects of our recession.  My advertising has been cut in half (maybe more), and I need that income to keep the site running.  The site is not cheap to run.  Every picture you see I have to pay for, and everytime you click on a thumbnail, I have to pay for that as well.  There are huge expenses on keeping the site going -and the only way for me to do that is to keep all these annoying ads.

I don’t want you to think that I don’t get your emails. I do – and I respond to a lot of them… but instead of emailing you all separately, I’m doing it here.

GumGum has found a way for me to still use all of the pictures, only now I don’t have to pay for them.  The little ad you see on the picture – pays for the picture itself.  You wouldn’t believe how much it costs to buy pictures!  If the ads are annoying you on the pictures -you can close them.  There is an (x) on each picture that will allow you to remove the ad.

Anyway, I’m sorry for the inconvenience.  Trust me, I’m not using all these ads to get rich.  I’m simply doing it so I can still afford to run the site.  If it weren’t for those ads, I’d have to sell this baby – and someone else would have to run it!

Jocelyn

I know this isn’t celebrity news…but it was still shocking, had to share!

This is the Yves Saint Laurent chair that stunned the auction world when it sold for $28.3 million USD – more than seven times its pre-sale estimate of $3.8 million USD. The piece, designed by Eileen Gray and dubbed ‘The Dragons’, sat in the designer’s sitting room. It was sold by auction house Christie’s in Paris on Tuesday [Feb 24]. The chair was made in 1917, or slightly later, by Gray, an Irish architect and furniture designer, for her first commission as an interior decorator. The sale came on the second day of Christie’s three-day auction of the late Yves Saint Laurent’s 733-piece collection, held at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Let me start by saying that I read this book, and I loved it.  It was funny and smart, and kept you interested.   I was so looking forward to seeing this movie (especially since I had heard from friends that it was good!).

But Lord Almighty, I hated Confessions of a Shopoholic.  I hated it SO much.  I go and see these kinds of movies for a good laugh, a break from the realities of everyday life.  I found this movie so stupid – it was insulting.  I can only compare this to The Devil Wears Prada, and I loved that movie.  In TDWP, the clothes were fun to watch, the writing was smart and original.  In Shopoholic the clothes were bright – sure – but ugly as all hell. I mean look at the coat above.  How many muppets were killed in the making of that horrible coat!

The writing was so desperate.  I swear I’ve heard half the lines in this movie about a dozen times in other – better movies. And there was absolutely ZERO chemistry between Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy.  The final scene of the movie is them kissing, and it’s just awkward to watch.  They obviously had no chemistry, and it was uncomfortable to look at. I love both of them, and they’re capable of SO much more.  I want to believe that the movie isn’t terrible because of them.  It’s not their fault the whole movie is a train wreck.

It was so full of cliche’s – and not even good cliche’s.  The talking mannequins were beyond stupid.  I can’t believe that Isla Fisher made this terrible movie. When the first mannequin talked in the beginning movie, I should have gotten up and gotten my money back.  The movie went from bad to worse at that point.

I feel like I should reimburse my sister and my cousin, because I picked the movie.  My sister, who only gets out to the movies about twice a year, was hating me when the credits rolled.  Before we had even left our seats, all three of us were going off on how terrible the movie was.  I hate it when I pay $9.00 (plus popcorn) for a crappy movie!

I now turn to USA Today, who puts this movie into words better than I could.

Confessions of a Shopaholic is like a sale item that catches your eye simply because of its garish color, atrocious style and startling uselessness.

Not only is it an unfunny movie shrilly told, it probably is the most ill-timed and appallingly insulting movie in recent memory.

How could any studio be so out of touch as to release a movie glorifying the compulsive shopping habits of an air-headed spendthrift during this dismal state in the global economy?

Besides its insensitivity, it bombards us, like a too-cluttered closet, with a clueless heroine, laugh-repellant slapstick shtick and an unconvincing by-the-numbers romance.

Where The Devil Wears Prada, with its flurry of couture, might have filled fashionistas with longing, Shopaholic makes you want to renounce every item in your wardrobe. Perhaps it is actually director P.J. Hogan’s subversively clever ploy to make spending look revolting and turn even the most die-hard shoppers into ascetics.

This brainless chick flick reinforces the worst female stereotypes. Trying to disguise itself as a cautionary tale on the perils of conspicuous consumption, it fixates so much on materialistic cravings that it ends up doing just the opposite.

Bottom Line: Save your money, and go rent The Devil Wears Prada.  It’s much better, and cheaper!  If you go see Shopoholic, don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

Was a huge success!  Last night’s live-blogging was SO much fun! And it was a huge success!  In all – we had 450 in the chat, and it was a blast.  I couldn’t keep up with all your comments!  Thanks for coming out!

If you didn’t already know, I live-blog every Wednesday for Lost, so you’ll have to come back then!

Thanks for making the Oscars such a fun experience!

Jocelyn