That way you won't get confuzzled when he becomes a pirate.
Hee!
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
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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.
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.
DXMachina - Apr 21, 2005 8:12:00 am PDT #2096 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
See also: James Patterson, current holder of my "world's worst book" title.
So odd. They've been advertising his latest "we have wings" book on Dodger radio broadcasts. First time I'd ever heard of him, so I looked up the book. It sounds really dreadful. Also, it's supposed to be for young adults? That makes the ads for it during baseball games even more puzzling.
Scrappy - Apr 21, 2005 8:13:29 am PDT #2097 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
JZ is totally me with regard to Bridges, except with curlier hair and a cuter wardrobe.
JZ - Apr 21, 2005 8:16:08 am PDT #2098 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.
Or, Robin is me, only in a sunnier neighborhood with a spiffy new free car every other week.
(eta: And the hair, not so curly anymore. So sad.)
Scrappy - Apr 21, 2005 8:17:13 am PDT #2099 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
beaming with love at JZ
Steph L. - Apr 21, 2005 8:37:24 am PDT #2100 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
After reading PAtterson's flying kids book
YES. That was the book.
I'm sensing a theme. Why, you ask? My Dad LOVES the flying-kids book. No, really. He told me all about it, and I thought he made it up.
And he's the one trying to get me to read Angels & Demons and the DaVinci Code.
At least his taste is consistent.
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2005 8:46:47 am PDT #2101 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Patterson's nursery-rhymed books are interesting (Kiss The Girls, Along Came A Spider, etc). And then there's crack.
erikaj - Apr 21, 2005 9:04:38 am PDT #2102 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
ita is me, here. They aren't good, but hard to stay away from. And you can make Morgan Freeman say the dumbest crap in the world and make it make sense.(Don't tell George Lucas. He'll make Freeman not so free and cage him at Skywalker Ranch.)
Jars - Apr 21, 2005 11:06:28 am PDT #2103 of 10002
Have people been watching the production diaries at kongisking.net? Because the newest one is cracking my shit up.