When, exactly, did I turn into a glass half full person?
When you started bogarting the good luck I'd say.
Though honestly, I'm hard pressed to think of someone more deserving of it.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Kat - Nov 10, 2004 6:48:38 pm PST #2888 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Tamara - Nov 10, 2004 8:08:00 pm PST #2889 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Love everything Dune without reservation. IJS
Allyson - Nov 11, 2004 5:08:00 am PST #2890 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
You are a patient woman, Tamara.
aurelia - Nov 11, 2004 5:58:11 am PST #2891 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I thought the movie was fascinating, but I had no idea what was going on. I thought I would re-watch after reading the book, but it's never made it to the top of the list of things to do.
I read 3 of the books and decided I really didn't need to continue. Third cousin (once-removed) of Dune just doesn't have the same punch as the original.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 11, 2004 6:03:02 am PST #2892 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I thought the movie was fascinating, but I had no idea what was going on. I thought I would re-watch after reading the book, but it's never made it to the top of the list of things to do.
Half the problem with the movie is that a lot of characters have about two scenes - their introductory scene, and their death or final scene. So you have all these semi-familiar (or in the case of Patrick Stewart, later very familiar) faces who are gone before you can figure out why they were there: Jurgen Prochnow, Max Von Sydow, Brad Dourif, Freddy Jones, Dean Stockwell, Virginia Madsen, etc.
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2004 7:04:20 am PST #2893 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It can be fun to play Attach the Dune Actor to Later Part in Sci-Fi or Cult TV Series.
That might be just me, and it's probably similar to my joy in Spotting the Canadian Bit Players across shows...
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 11, 2004 9:52:57 am PST #2894 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
ETA: When, exactly, did I turn into a glass half full person?
Could it have anything to do with not having to put up with all the mess of organizing a Caritas party for a while now? 'Cause seriously, the stuff you (and Allyson) had to put up with between that and the auction a couple of years ago would have had me leaving a trail of bodies all across the country.
libkitty - Nov 11, 2004 2:50:02 pm PST #2895 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I read 3 of the books and decided I really didn't need to continue. Third cousin (once-removed) of Dune just doesn't have the same punch as the original.
I think I made it through three or four. I've noticed this with other series as well. I only made it through about half of Mercedes Lackey's books, and ditto for Piers Anthony. I absolutely adored them, and waited anxiously for new ones to come out, but after a while they became the same book over again. For as much as I love Mercedes Lackey, I really think nothing of hers surpassed The Last Herald-Mage trilogy.
Oh, yeah. The topic. Hmmm. Yeah beagles!
Allyson - Nov 11, 2004 4:45:00 pm PST #2896 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
libkitty - Nov 11, 2004 4:47:15 pm PST #2897 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Awwww.