I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.

Oz ,'Him'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

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.


Jessica - Mar 11, 2006 5:42:31 pm PST #3413 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think I just watched Dubya's favorite movie of all time on TCM. It's called Gabriel Over the White House -- in it, a young brash President is elected, and begins his term planning to be a good Party man, when he gets into a car accident and goes into a coma. During his coma, he gets visited by the Angel Gabriel who either takes over his body, or just hangs around giving him advice (the special effects in 1933 were not sufficiently advanced to make this entirely clear). His first act is to fire his entire cabinet. His second is to "cut through the red tape" and declare martial law, which shuts down Congress. (The Supreme Court is conveniently never mentioned at all.) He creates a secret police who go around arresting subtextually gay gangsters and executing them in front of firing squads. Then he brings all the European leaders together on a yacht and demands that they repay their debts to alleviate the Depression, which they agree to do after being guilt-tripped about WWI. He then gets everyone to sign a treaty to the effect of "America's in charge, so we all have to play nice," and dies with the legacy of being the Greatest President Evar.

It's....amazing. Dubya must watch this movie every night before he goes to bed.


dcp - Mar 11, 2006 5:45:34 pm PST #3414 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Second night of T-storms in a row here, third night in the last four. On-site reports of golfball- and baseball-sized hail about six miles south of me. Couple of tornado warnings within twenty miles that sound like they might be real instead of hyperbole.

Spring weather. Such fun.


meara - Mar 11, 2006 5:51:39 pm PST #3415 of 10001

And that's the end of the movie? There's no...moral that maybe declaring martial law might be bad? How chillling! "GOD wants us to be right!"


Jessica - Mar 11, 2006 5:58:18 pm PST #3416 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

No, see, because declaring martial law allowed him to "cut through the red tape" and end poverty! Facism is just so much more efficient that way, you know?

According to IMDB, it was producedby William Randolph Hearst. Not terribly surprising. (More interesting is that the studio apparently deliberately held back its release until 1933, to avoid influencing the election. So the film came out about 2 months into FDR's presidency.)


§ ita § - Mar 11, 2006 6:01:35 pm PST #3417 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I sprained my finger.

And kicked three guys in the nuts, so I count it a win.

Marvellously, miraculously, mysteriously, I haven't had a migraine all day.

I feel very floaty and cloudy and weird, but that's another win.

I'm not sure if this is the additional medicine, since it felt like something snapped in my brain yesterday, and I've been feeling this weightlessness since last night before I took the pill.

Pain free migraine, perhaps. But as long as the pain and the sandpaper and the nausea aren't there...a win.

I had other headaches, but they weren't migraines.

Did I mention I kicked three guys in the nuts?

And sprained my finger.


Pix - Mar 11, 2006 6:03:03 pm PST #3418 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

Sorry about the finger, but yay on the nuts!

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I don't think I've ever typed that sentence before.


Trudy Booth - Mar 11, 2006 6:04:48 pm PST #3419 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

And kicked three guys in the nuts, so I count it a win.

Marvellously, miraculously, mysteriously, I haven't had a migraine all day.

That's a hell of a perscription. Does insurance cover it?


amych - Mar 11, 2006 6:05:06 pm PST #3420 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I don't think I've ever typed that sentence before.

Indeed, I wonder if anyone ever has.


tommyrot - Mar 11, 2006 6:06:39 pm PST #3421 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.

Yay no pain!

ION, I'm semi-drunk on vodka and orange peach mango.

Today's my birthday. Yay me.


amych - Mar 11, 2006 6:08:40 pm PST #3422 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Happy birthday, tommyrot!