Maybe I'm still slightly-freaked by today's Salon story about the right-wing people who want to turn the US into a theocracy....
How funny is it that the site pass is an ad for Revelations?
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Wolfram - Apr 11, 2005 1:02:32 pm PDT #4743 of 10001
Visilurking
tommyrot - Apr 11, 2005 1:03:35 pm PDT #4744 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How funny is it that the site pass is an ad for Revelations?
Pretty darn funny....
Allyson - Apr 11, 2005 1:05:32 pm PDT #4745 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
Gah I'm sleepy. Someone smack me around and get my adrenaline back up.
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2005 1:05:54 pm PDT #4746 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
One of the executive producers of Revelations is a friend of mine. I'll probably not bring it up unless I get around to watching it.
Wolfram - Apr 11, 2005 1:08:09 pm PDT #4747 of 10001
Visilurking
That's a sobering article, Tommy. But not particularly surprising.
DawnK - Apr 11, 2005 1:15:00 pm PDT #4748 of 10001
giraffe mode
I read a review of Revelations (in People or TV Guide) and it specifically said it wasn't like the Left Behind books but more creepy and lots less preachy. The actual review was pretty positive.
Lee - Apr 11, 2005 1:16:46 pm PDT #4749 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hi Dawn!
Steph L. - Apr 11, 2005 1:22:56 pm PDT #4750 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Everyone who knew them both was convinced that they had had an affair, and everyone was also convinced that it ended after just a couple of months. But Lewis couldn't allow himself to walk away from the mess: he'd promised his friend to take care of his mother, and the fact that he'd subsequently slept with that mother and she'd turned out to be mentally unbalanced didn't free him from that promise; in fact, in his mind, he was now more responsible for her than ever. She was unwell, widowed, without a son, and now fixated on him because he'd sexually used her, so clearly the only thing that could make it all worse than it already was would be to abandon her. So he stayed. He supported her and her daughter financially, said "How high?" every time she told him to jump, and made a conscious decision not to get involved with any other woman while she was alive because, having been such a selfish sex-obsessed bastard, the least he could do was spare her that pain. (And this was even before his conversion; he was a furious atheist at the time, but no less a rigid moralist.)
Damn, *this* is the movie that needs to be made, not Shadowlands.
Susan W. - Apr 11, 2005 1:27:56 pm PDT #4751 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh, but I loved Shadowlands!
Which is not to say that I don't see half a dozen plot bunnies hopping around in that particular episode of Lewis's early life.
Steph L. - Apr 11, 2005 1:32:10 pm PDT #4752 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Fair point; I really enjoyed Shadowlands, too. However, I think the Jossverse has forever warped me into wanting the dark and complex side of things, now.
So I amend; *in addition to* Shadowlands, I'd also like to see a movie of The Mixed-Up Highly Inappropriate and Entangled Misadventures of C.S. Lewis' Early Life.