Just watched Aidan. Holy sweet crap on a crutch. Gut punch after gut punch after gut punch. And Hem's Cradle Song at the end? Never, ever, has a song been more perfect.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[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.
Jars - Sep 09, 2005 4:57:38 am PDT #3659 of 10001
Tim Minear - Sep 09, 2005 2:11:32 pm PDT #3660 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"
Thanks, Jars. And that Hem song? My editor had it in there in the temp cut and I was like, "we must get that song, it is the only one that will do." It gets me every single time.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 09, 2005 2:32:23 pm PDT #3661 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
Hey there Kills-Beloved-Characters. How's the weekend shaping up?
JZ - Sep 09, 2005 3:01:08 pm PDT #3662 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Apropos of nothing, I've been writing cranky/pleading/wheedling letters to various bureaucratic functionaries about Hurricane Katrina for many, many days, so my letter-writing motor is running. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'll be happy to dial it down a bit and write a gently cranky/pleading/wheedling letter about the need for Inside DVDs.
Apropos of even more nothing, our new neighbor just moved into the apartment across the hall. A tall, slender, lovely, shy-looking 20-something woman named Rebecca Lock (it looks wrong without the "e," but that's how she spells it -- incognito, I suppose). I squeed out loud the first time I saw her name on the mailbox. I love knowing that Rebecca Lock lives next door, but it makes me even more bitter on show nights.
Allyson - Sep 09, 2005 4:04:52 pm PDT #3663 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
Day three that Minear has DVDs and I do not.
I'm going on strike.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 4:06:25 pm PDT #3664 of 10001
What is even happening?
Friends don't get to go on strike.
But, I bet, if you hit fandom just right, you could raise funds to take out a smear ad in the Hollywood reporter.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 4:08:30 pm PDT #3665 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Damn. That would be cool. Then she could embezzle it and spend it all on... I dunno, something. Help me out here.
Zenkitty - Sep 09, 2005 4:24:59 pm PDT #3666 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
A pony.
sumi - Sep 09, 2005 4:25:50 pm PDT #3667 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Allyson! In a piece about pets that got rescued and were now in Chicago looking for new homes -- I saw a beagle.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 11:06:12 am PDT #3668 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
And Gus, c'mon. "Moon" is at least a little about libertarian ideas, ain't it?
Dang! Wander off for a month or so to have a depression, and miss a direct-address from The Tim Reaper.
Yes, "Moon" is all about libertarian ideas. It enamored me greatly of that philosophy, in my youth. Later, things occurred to me, though. For example, what would be the libertarian take on the Katrina governmental cluster-fuck?
Government failed. Plus-mark for libertarianism. Individual effort was hampered by lack of resources. Minus-mark for libertarianism.
Heinlein explored this (in Cat Who Walks Through Walls ), in a sequence in which two entrepreneurial Search and Rescue companies climbed all over each other in an effort to be the first surcrease in an emergency. The message being that market forces will bring agile, effective forces to those in need.
It breaks down here: People who cannot offer payment for rescue are fux0red. People who cannot afford to flee the danger are fux0red.
I am forced to think that, until everyone is equally wealthy, libertarianism is a pipe-dream.