It struck entirely too close to home.
But that's its charm!
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
P.M. Marc - Apr 24, 2006 9:25:23 pm PDT #9622 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
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2006 9:29:36 pm PDT #9623 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the license plate game? I have a license plate game, which is to work out exactly when California plates moved from writing the word California in all caps to writing it with cursive. So far, 3FIK seems to be the highest plate with asscaps.
I have a long commute.
Tamara - Apr 24, 2006 9:30:15 pm PDT #9624 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
But that's its charm!
Yes that, but my heart belongs to the Columbine line.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 25, 2006 3:36:31 am PDT #9625 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Even after watching Arrested Development and Adult Swim shows and various other boundary pushing efforts, I still watched Action and kept thinking, "They aren't really going to go there are they? They did!"
You're still waiting for a Domincan Face-hat, aren't you?
JenP - Apr 25, 2006 4:04:22 am PDT #9626 of 10001
What's the license plate game?
I've heard tell it's about spotting license plates from different states. So, she who finds the most states wins, I imagine. We never played games on long road trips (and rarely made them), because my one sister and I were too busy hating each other furiously and guarding the invisible line down the middle of the back seat for unauthorized encroachment. This may be why we didn't take many long road trips.
Oh, and we get a long great now.
Nilly! Great to see you, too. I think I posted and ran yesterday.
Ginger - Apr 25, 2006 4:20:24 am PDT #9627 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
We went on a lot of long trips when I was a kid. Once, in an undertaking perfectly appropriate to Minearverse, we drove from central Florida to Montreal and back. Even my sister and I can only fight for so long, so we did the license plate game, something which makes you think there can't be anyone left in Ohio, and the animals game, which is counting the number of cows, horses and so on that you see.
Betsy HP - Apr 25, 2006 5:08:32 am PDT #9628 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Huh. We tried to find license plates from states beginning with a particular letter, working our way through the alphabet.
You have no idea how grateful we were for "Quebec", which showed up reasonably often in the Midwest.
There's also "I spy with my little eye".
Strega - Apr 25, 2006 5:33:06 am PDT #9629 of 10001
We tried to find license plates from states beginning with a particular letter, working our way through the alphabet.
We did that with signs, but license plates only counted when we were really desperate. And at that point we would probably switch to Password or something.
My dad and my brother spent a while during one drive in a game where they tried to spot the next mile marker first. It took my brother quite a while to realize that my dad had the odometer in front of him.
Ooo, there should be an episode of Drive that's all about travel games.
tommyrot - Apr 25, 2006 6:00:51 am PDT #9630 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.
Kids these days, with their DVD players in their cars....
I would have killed as a child to be able to watch movies during trips. Instead of playing the license plate game and fighting over who had to sit on the vomit side.
Jessica - Apr 25, 2006 6:05:09 am PDT #9631 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Pfft. My family drove 18 hours to Canada (and back) every year, and we had no need for these new-fangled "DVDs." We had The World's Greatest Travel Game, and that was enough.