For all you Deadwood fans (never seen it myself), the origin of the word hooplehead. I got to thinking about old comics and a Major Hoople from "Our Boarding House" and I wondered if there was a connection.

As a set/costume/prop geek, Titanic was amazing for me to watch (up until people started drowning). A friend gave me the "Making Of Titanic" book, which is verra pretty.

Yep, this. Which is why we actually own the DVD. I have been known to have it playing as background eye candy, which promptly gets turned off when the iceberg happens.

For all you Deadwood fans (never seen it myself), the origin of the word hooplehead. I got to thinking about old comics and a Major Hoople from "Our Boarding House" and I wondered if there was a connection.

Which makes me wonder, has there ever been someone Al's been dismissive about by the name of "Mott"? 'Cause there really oughta be.

Since this is slowly evolving into the Movies+Westerns thread, may I interrupt to say that I can't believe Hec went and got me hooked on Lonesome Dove? He's off writing and I'm watching it alone, 20 minutes into the fourth episode and getting more and more wrought up. It's all literate and heartfelt and horribly dark and full of Reavers and Larry McMurtry is showing a positively Jossian propensity for killing off absolutely anyone, anyone at all, if they happen to be in just the wrong (or right) place when the narrative calls for it. Hec wanted me to turn it off and watch something else or nap until he gets home, but I don't think I can stop. If Deadwood is even darker and deathier than this, I don't think I could bear it.

Darker, maybe. Considering, nsm with the carnage. You'd love Jane. And Trixie.(I think she and the Doc are my favorites. Calamity is my mom's favorite.) And sometimes you'd love Sweargin and sometimes you'd love to hate him. Mrs. Ellsworth reminds me of you, just a little. But not the laudanum thing...something about the way she talks.

[delayed comprehension slaps me around]

Oh. Now that I've read Bureau.... my comment about proselytizing was maybe 1% annoyance and 99% teasing. I apologize, because I think it sounded like the percentages were the other way around. I like reading the discussions here, even if (sometimes particularly if) they're about things I haven't seen. That's more likely to intrigue me than insisting -- but my mulishness is my own problem, obviously.

And for fear of dragging things off-topic again, I'll just say thanks, Gris & P-C.

Ok, did anyone know you can go to the SoaP website and send personalized, talking emails and phone calls from Samuel L Jackson to people? It's Funny As Shit.

Yes. I love it.

"Snakes on a Plane may very well be the BEST MOVIE EVER MADE. It's that good."

Extremely late to the party but it only opened here a couple of weeks ago and, well... I saw Pirates 2 last night, and I think I have a definitive answer to the question Hec posed way back when about why Jack returns to the Pearl at the end:

He wants his hat back .

Heh. Fair point, Fiona.