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Beverly - Jul 31, 2005 6:47:25 pm PDT #4519 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I kept getting stung repeatedly one year on vacation when I was about 12. Oddly, it only happened when I wore one particular shirt.

Bees will attack a "black bag", which is, appropriately enough, a bag made of black cloth and stuffed with sand or rice or something fairly weighty, that's hung near their hive. They will also attack, somewhat less fiercely, a white bag. Behaviorists speculate that black and white are colors of bee colonies main predators, thus the colors are hardwired into the tiny bee brain as "enemy! attack!" So if your shirt was black or white Fred, this may be why you got stung while wearing it.

Also, wasps and yellowjackets, both members of the hornet family, are attracted to floral prints, because they prey on the insects that eat leaves and drink the nectar.

I have a severe localized allergy to stings, and have done much research to figure out what not to do to keep from getting stung. The next one could cause an anaphylactic reaction...or not. No way of knowing, the doctor said, and I'd really just as soon not find out.

Kat - Jul 31, 2005 6:50:07 pm PDT #4520 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Huh.

I find the acting really flat. The lines are either delivered as heroic homily or with the premonition that it is supposed to be a Big Thing.

I thought some of the CGI was really poorly done.

And it was just too long, bloated and boring.

And, weirdly, what it does do for me is point out how much more enjoyable Batman Begins was, even though it made my ass fall asleep with length.

And I agree with msbelle. I don't want to see Molina shirtless EVER again.

DavidS - Jul 31, 2005 6:51:34 pm PDT #4521 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I thought some of the CGI was really poorly done.

Ten times better than the first one, which got thoroughly slagged for it's poor CGI compared to the competition (like X-2).

§ ita § - Jul 31, 2005 6:58:28 pm PDT #4522 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The idea that Parker has problems with school, money and women at the start, and at the end only has problems with school and money and we're supposed to see it as a victory makes my eyes roll. At least I wanted to see the "I will always have problems with school and money" epiphany. I felt it was all "Got the girl! Happily ever after!"

I also didn't like some of the mechanisms -- the eyesight thing bothered me, and I really hoped the musical montagey thing was a dream sequence. Because it was beyond cheesey.

Kat - Jul 31, 2005 7:04:15 pm PDT #4523 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ha, yeah, there wasn't much of a resolution beyond well, I'm accepting my destiny. And his secret identity, not so secret at all anymore.

As usual, though, I'm enjoying the making of on the DVD. I think that just proves what a NERD I am.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 31, 2005 7:51:57 pm PDT #4524 of 10002
"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

I did really enjoy the bit where Aunt May started swinging her umbrella to kill Dr. Octopus once he'd taken her hostage, rather than shrieking and cowering like most kidnapped elderly ladies in movies. Too bad she didn't get bitten by the radioactive spider, ChicagoNew York would be a crime free city. And clean .

Lee - Jul 31, 2005 8:07:17 pm PDT #4525 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm home.

Mocking SM2 with Kat and Lori earlier was fun. Flying with a bad tooth was not fun.

Cass - Jul 31, 2005 8:09:56 pm PDT #4526 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Ouch! Can you do or take anything to help?

I am reading the SM2 white font through squinty eyes since it is next up on my dvd list. I am powerless in the face of whitefont.

billytea - Jul 31, 2005 8:11:11 pm PDT #4527 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I am reading the SM2 white font through squinty eyes since it is next up on my dvd list. I am powerless in the face of whitefont.

Hey, Cass! Fear me! FEAR ME!! How's it going?

Lee - Jul 31, 2005 8:15:57 pm PDT #4528 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I've had 5 aleve since 9:00 this morning, and I am icing the swelling. Tomorrow will be a trip to a dentist.

Tonight might be a vicadin.

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