I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Sue - Mar 12, 2006 7:07:28 am PST #3477 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Mmmm, custard and almond tart.

It's so nice out that I'm going to leave the housecleaning I was supposed to do today for tonight and go outside. Got to enjoy the good weather while I can!


Lee - Mar 12, 2006 7:10:17 am PST #3478 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

and then go to The Hump with Colin.

hmph.


kat perez - Mar 12, 2006 7:13:28 am PST #3479 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar

How was Depp's performance, kat?

I actually thought everyone was kinda sleepwalking through the movie except Samantah Morton, who did a lot with a crap part. I felt like Depp didn't really get started until his character went all ugly syphilis(?) man, and then it was capital A ACTING. I'm not a fan of "look at me" acting, so. . .

The dude who played his boyfriend was very pretty and unknown to me, so there was that. And we went to the Angelika and had a fabulous pumpkin cheese bar. That was good.

Also, I would love for my normal sunday breakfast to consist of pancakes and maple syrup. But alas, my stove hasn't been on since my Christmas party.


Jesse - Mar 12, 2006 7:17:09 am PST #3480 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Instead of delightful breakfast foods, I am now eating a greek candy bar.


Scrappy - Mar 12, 2006 7:24:20 am PST #3481 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I felt just as you did, Kat. although I liked Depp a teensy bit more. A horrible mess of a movie, though.


beth b - Mar 12, 2006 7:30:52 am PST #3482 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

y'all have convinced me that I need breakfast. but I think a shower before I decide if breakfast is out or in


Sheryl - Mar 12, 2006 7:34:53 am PST #3483 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Happy Belated Birthday Tommy!


kat perez - Mar 12, 2006 7:36:25 am PST #3484 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar

It wasn't that I disliked Depp, more so that I felt like he was phoning it in. He was relying on the fact that everyone knows that Johnny Depp is an impossibly sexy man, thus we'd think this character was as well without establishing it and selling it through, you know, acting, which is what he's getting paid to do. So sad, because it could've been a fabulous movie.

My girlfriend and I also had weird Big Daddy Kane flashes with the whole "How do you like me now?" moment at the end of the movie, which is not where I think the moviemakers were trying to take us. But there you go.


Jessica - Mar 12, 2006 7:38:25 am PST #3485 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Buh?

The Brooklyn House of Detention, bounded by Atlantic Avenue and the criminal courts building, is apparently headed into a mixed-use future.

Soon, it will house not only inmates and jail cells, but also, in a vision endorsed by the mayor, a 24,000-square-foot strip mall on the street level.

The biggest question may now be which businesses the Department of Correction, the property's landlord, will bring to this increasingly residential section of Boerum Hill.

City and borough officials have publicly suggested a high-end food store, a children's clothing outlet or law offices. But retailing experts, community groups and New York City business owners interviewed Friday had their own ideas.

"There's a tremendous amount of potential to sell what I call the nifty-gifties," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research firm. "You have a captive audience, even with the visitors," he added. Forget boutique stores. "Think of it as more of an upscale airport gift shop."

Because what every jailhouse really needs is an upscale gift shop in the lobby.


DavidS - Mar 12, 2006 7:45:06 am PST #3486 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Heh. Thanks to Betsy's encouragement I'm making JZ watch Flash Gordon (the Queen one) and she's boggled by the satin, Brian Blessed's Big Blessedness, Sam Jones' maple-hard acting, Timothy Dalton's commanding manliness and speculation about how bored Brian May and Freddy Mercury must have been doing the score. ("We're supposed to build the tension here. How about we just hit the last key on the piano incessantly?" "Right!")

Quote of the morning: "You're flying blind on a rocket cycle?"