This weekend: SciFi Friday gettogether, Saturday yoga, Sunday CowParade: The Wrath of Kine. Maybe some snaky planes should I find anyone who wants to go to a movie....
Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.
'Serenity'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Theodosia - Aug 18, 2006 12:14:53 pm PDT #3480 of 10001
'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"
Scrappy - Aug 18, 2006 12:15:04 pm PDT #3481 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson, do those reports, so you can come in Monday with one less annoying thing to greet you.
This weekend I'm cleaning, going to the gym, meeting a friend to see the motherfucking snakes, and hopefully skating.
Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2006 12:15:10 pm PDT #3482 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You people had BETTER take lots of pictures at the Zmayhem baby shower!!!
Oh we will, but we'll only share them with people who don't suck.
Hey, Lee, I've been meaning to ask you when you were planning to go and if I could join you.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2006 12:16:16 pm PDT #3483 of 10001
Okay, I have no idea what's come over me.
That's been happening a lot lately....
ok fine, one other time. AND that may have been sartorially induced.
Lee - Aug 18, 2006 12:19:35 pm PDT #3484 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hey, Lee, I've been meaning to ask you when you were planning to go and if I could join you.
I'm probably going to go up a little early, since I will have some of the food with me, and stick around until the end so that I can help clean up. You're welcome to hitch a ride with me, but I'll make you help carry things to the apartment if you do.
Jars - Aug 18, 2006 12:21:03 pm PDT #3485 of 10001
Jars likes a boy! Jars likes a boy!
This is amusing because it's EXACTLY what my friends said when I first told them I had a boyfriend. There was dancing, in many cases.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2006 12:22:32 pm PDT #3486 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There was dancing, in many cases.
I admit, I did shimmy in my chair a wee bit.
Jars - Aug 18, 2006 12:24:00 pm PDT #3487 of 10001
Anything that induces a chair-shimmy has to be good. Basic law of nature right there.
Strix - Aug 18, 2006 12:32:30 pm PDT #3488 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I agree that "emotional kidnapping and psychological rape" are three exits past rational, but what were the school administrators thinking, showing an R-rated movie (any R-rated movie) to 9th graders, without parental consent? An R-rating stands for something like "Restricted" and I think the age tag associated with it is 17 years old. Ninth graders are typically 13 and 14 years old, and maybe 15, in some cases. I'd be pissed if the school showed my ninth graders an R-rated film without my consent.
Cindy, you’re absolutely right. I am rabidly anti-censorship, but we don’t show R-rated movies in class without sending a letter home, detailing our rationale for showing an R-rated movie, detailing the reasons for the R rating, and attaching a permission slip. If a parent denies permission, the kid simply stays out of class those days, doing an alternate assignment.
I have to wonder what dumbass teacher didn’t listen to their teacher’s ed profs.
I showed the movie “Thirteen” to my freshmen girls homeroom class this way last year, and the history teacher did it with “Schindler’s List.” Neither of us had a parent deny permission.
Besides being upset over the school's showing of Donnie Darko to Alexis and other ninth-graders, Tara says she is also outraged that the school required her daughter to read Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., a memoir by former gang member Luis Rodriguez.
I’m teaching this book to my 12th graders. It was taught last year, too. Of course, many of our students have personal experience with gangs and gang violence, but it's a well-written and clearly anti-gang book. There are drug and sex refs, but most of it is like "We smoked some pot, and then. . . " and "They had sex in the back seat. . . " Nothing pornographic or pro-drug.
We always have to order more copies; it seems to be our most "walks off" book.
What do you guys feel about showing a non-R-rated portion of an r-rated movie? When I was an assistant teacher in an acting class, someone had a monologue from "The Jury" and the teacher showed just the portion of the show with the monologue. A couple of parents were very upset, and I do have to say it never occured to me to question her (I was 19, though and the teacher was 50) motives in showing the exerpt.
If the excerpt contained profanity, sexuality or excessive violence, permission slip it. If not, hmmm. Well. I dunno. I guess to be on the safe side, I might...but if it were a really innocuous scene, I might not think of it.
Ginger - Aug 18, 2006 12:37:17 pm PDT #3489 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Now you've earwormed me with one of the many odd bits of songs I grew up with.
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
If I could shimmy like my sister Kate
Shake it like jelly on a plate
My mama wanted to know last night
How sister Kate could do it oh so nice
Now, all the boys in the neighborhood
Knew Kate could shimmy, and it's mighty good
I may be late but I'll be up to date
When I can shimmy like my sister Kate.
I mean, shake it like my sister Kate.