Interesting books encountered: The law of death and disposal of the dead, Legal almanac series no. 57
First Law of the Dead: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Buffy ,'Selfless'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Narrator - Dec 12, 2005 6:20:16 am PST #1266 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Nutty - Dec 12, 2005 6:31:23 am PST #1267 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Did you know electricians have voice mail? Somehow, I was surprised to discover that an electrician would have voice mail.
No reason he wouldn't, I guess. Still, I would really like to talk to him now rather than later.
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2005 6:33:35 am PST #1268 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
'King Kong,' 'Lost' among AFI honorees
The official selections of AFI Awards 2005 for top films and TV programs were announced Sunday after two days of deliberations by two juries that selected the year's best in film and television.
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In addition to "Mountain," "Kong" and "Virgin," the movies chosen are "Capote," "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "A History of Violence," "Munich," "The Squid and the Whale" and "Syriana."
The 10 TV programs are: "24," "Battlestar Galactica," "Deadwood," "Grey's Anatomy," "House," "Lost," "Rescue Me," "Sleeper Cell," "Sometimes in April" and "Veronica Mars."
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2005 6:42:59 am PST #1269 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who in Nutty!World gets to have voicemail and who doesn't?
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2005 6:44:29 am PST #1270 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Which is amazing, when you think how much of the human brain is devoted to processing visual information, and how much of it is devoted to face recognition.
brenda m - Dec 12, 2005 6:44:33 am PST #1271 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The never said "viscous." They said "viscious."
And yet, I read it wrong every time.
Nutty - Dec 12, 2005 6:48:56 am PST #1272 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Who in Nutty!World gets to have voicemail and who doesn't?
People who run businesses have receptionists, I guess. Dispatchers, like that. Unless, as is probably the case with this Eric fellow, he is a business of one.
Probably this Eric has a cell phone and a van and some tools, and doesn't even have an office. Ah, modern life.
Volans - Dec 12, 2005 6:53:54 am PST #1273 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Jeez, one little spelling mistake. msbelle knew what I meant! In any case, the aluminium wasn't vicious, the tree was. And everyone knows you can have vicious trees.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2005 6:54:00 am PST #1274 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Somewhere about a year ago I read that governess-style clothing was going to be in fashion on 2005. We're almost out of year, and I've seen no evidence of this. Which makes me sad, because I was looking forward to easily accessible high necked blouses and long skirts.
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2005 6:56:19 am PST #1275 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh.
TV Writers Must Sell, Sell, Sell
TV networks are turning to product placements to fight back against ad-skipping technologies like TiVo, but now some writers are putting up a fight, demanding more pay in exchange for scripting product plugs into their shows.
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It's no small issue. The use of product placements has increased 84 percent on television in the last year, according to the WGA's call for regulations. "There is no clear line separating a TV show from an advertisement anymore," said Carrie McLaren, editor of Stay Free magazine.
In a recent episode of the NBC series Medium, writers had to work the movie Memoirs of a Geisha into the dialogue three times because of a deal the network made with Sony earlier in the season. They even had the characters go on a date to an early screening of the movie and bump into friends who had just viewed Geisha to tell them how good it was.
Another product placement intruded a touching scene on ABC's soap opera, All My Children, when writers were forced to incorporate a line about a new Wal-Mart perfume into the dialogue as a character, Greenlee, sat at the bedside of her husband who was suffering from a fatal gunshot wound.
::kicks capitalism::