After reading PAtterson's flying kids book I didn't think there would be anything worse. But then he wrote a sequel.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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askye - Apr 21, 2005 6:38:38 am PDT #2086 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Dana - Apr 21, 2005 6:39:15 am PDT #2087 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
After reading PAtterson's flying kids book
YES. That was the book.
t shudder
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2005 7:17:56 am PDT #2088 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damned shame -- I've enjoyed Patterson's work, but the flying kids -- inexcusable. He has written worse, however. They're publishing his old stuff, the stuff he couldn't get published before he got famous.
Aims - Apr 21, 2005 7:21:35 am PDT #2089 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Watched Ray.
Still staring at screen.
Day-UM!
erikaj - Apr 21, 2005 7:34:08 am PDT #2090 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Aims - Apr 21, 2005 7:37:37 am PDT #2091 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I had total disconnect, unless I really thought about it, that it wasn't Ray Charles on that screen. I mean....Damn. And his mother? Wow. And Poor George. And Margie and Bea and just, oh my god.
I've been listening to "Genius Loves Company" a lot, but now? I need the soundtrack.
sumi - Apr 21, 2005 7:38:23 am PDT #2092 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The Rock is going to be in Southland Tales with Seann William Scott and SMG.
Kate P. - Apr 21, 2005 7:56:46 am PDT #2093 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh my god, Calli, that link...
Yes, Alaric is a vampire. And he shapeshifts into a wolf. Alaric is also an Elf. It also turns out that Elves are aliens from the planet Telvron, where there are also sentient trees and unicorns. And he's telepathic too, because he talks to his brother Marti'el that way. So that makes Alaric an alien vampire werewolf psychic writer. Got that? Good. That way you won't get confuzzled when he becomes a pirate.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2005 8:05:29 am PDT #2094 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That way you won't get confuzzled when he becomes a pirate.
Hee!
JZ - Apr 21, 2005 8:11:50 am PDT #2095 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Gods, Calli, that Elven Vampire thing is hideous. Out of morbid curiosity I just went and tracked it to its source, and found that the author has (1) self-published a sequel, and (2) yanked the original out of circulation, with a sulky note to MY STALKERS about how all of the problems with the book have been fixed but nobody will ever see it again anyhow because she has regained her rights, and anyone who isn't a stalker but happens to find a copy please let her know ASAP.
And, um, swinging back around to the actual topic: paradoxically, I loved the film version of Bridges, both because Meryl Streep rocked the house as per usual and because the screenwriter, the fabulous Richard LaGravenese, directly challenged the various smug self-aggrandizing adultery-glorifying smarminesses of the book, and mostly trampled them into the dirt.