I was just reading about the new Hong Kong Disneyland, and this struck me as cool:
Don Robinson, who started as a dishwasher in 1972 at Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Fla., and now runs Hong Kong Disneyland
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Natter .38 Special
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.
Volans - Sep 06, 2005 11:46:24 pm PDT #5144 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Theodosia - Sep 07, 2005 2:05:33 am PDT #5145 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm not sure if "Unicyclists, Nuclear" or "Voldemort" made me laugh harder.
I loved Stewart's expression after the clip of Bush telling Brown he was doing "a heck of a job."
Anne W. - Sep 07, 2005 2:25:21 am PDT #5146 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'll definitely have to catch TDS when it re-runs this evening.
Sheryl - Sep 07, 2005 3:22:50 am PDT #5147 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
We no longer have a boxspring in our dining room! We ordered a split foundation boxspring for our bed, and they took the other one away. (Of course, now we don't have an excuse for not cleaning the dining room)
le nubian - Sep 07, 2005 3:27:40 am PDT #5148 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Looks like people will now be forced to leave:
10:53 P.M. - (AP): As flood waters slowly receded by the inch Tuesday, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin authorized law enforcement officers and the U.S. military to force the evacuation of all residents who refuse to heed orders to leave the dark, dangerous city.
Kat - Sep 07, 2005 3:47:05 am PDT #5149 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jessica, ITA with your assessment. I'm also irked at the lack of subtlety. Everyone is drawn with the broadest strokes imagineale as Good Guy or Bad Guy. I also can't get past that the prison guard looks like William Shatner which is a somewhat damning offense. I can't decide if I want to keep watching.
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2005 3:54:05 am PDT #5150 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aside from the pretty, I'm drawn to Prison Break because it seemed easy, and now isn't, an in a Jack Bauerish way, I want to see how he pulls out from his meticulous type A plan and improvises his way out of prison.
I also don't think that good and bad are clearly painted. Sure, there are cartoon villains, but his cellmate isn't one or the other, nor is the leader of the black guys.
Kat - Sep 07, 2005 3:56:13 am PDT #5151 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
His cellmate is also the character that I like the most at this point precisely because he is the only one I can recall as not being all bad/all good.
The shows stretches my plausibility meter in ways I don't like.
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2005 4:02:44 am PDT #5152 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My plausibility meter is pretty much broken by Fox. I don't work so much on evaluating the likelihood of events so much as of reactions.
Theodosia - Sep 07, 2005 4:12:42 am PDT #5153 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
So I walked out of my house this morning and my car wasn't there. A couple quick calls revealed that it wasn't towed by the City of Somerville, but the helpful lady saw that the plates had been run by Boston early this morning, because it had been towed... in Dorchester. Ergo, my car has been stolen.
(Which is annoying because my car is a standard, and a beat-up old 11yo Civic, so if you're going to grab a car, you would think it would be a better one, no?)
Now I have to get on the phone and start things up with the insurance company and find out what shape the car is actually in, and so on. Aaaargh.