In Natter:

PMM:

Eh, I was asking our editors how they got started.

The answers have generally depressed me, because they tend to fall under the "damn, should have done that a decade ago instead of LARPing and watching gay porn" category.

So I'm thinking entry-level bank robbery.

amych:

A sound plan. If you rob one of the other floors, it takes you longer to get back out to your getaway car.

erikaj in Movies:

Hint: The trailer is supposed to make people WANT to go to the movie.

Allyson, expressing a minority opinion in Natter: I feel much the same about Harry Potter as I do about the hairy footed troll people and their godforsaken inblisibility ring.

Nutty (coincidentally encapsulating many of my bookgroup experiences):

Okay, I ended up skipping 1/3 of that novel, and would have skipped more except I stopped to mock.

scrappy, on the comparisons between astrological signs:

Leos don't have egos, darling, we're just realistic about how FABULOUS we are.

Steph L.: I just had the girliest hour I've ever had -- I got my brows waxed, bought black strappy shoes, and got my hair cut.

I think I need a beer. In a can.

Allyson in Natter:

I want to steal Frodo's ring and give it to the local barber in exchange for giving them all haircuts and a good delousing.

Madrigal Costello: Well, there was probably some discovery by the Jedi council that that specific voice worked well for teaching children, so Yoda adopted it for training young Jedi. And then, centuries later, some surviving Jedi on Earth suggested it for Grover so that he could teach through TV - I don't think his alternate identity as Super Grover was just a coincidence.

From Buffista Movies:

erikaj:

Hint: The trailer is supposed to make people WANT to go to the movie.

Calli:

Maybe that's the official purpose. I've found a lot of them to be effective early warning systems, m'self.

Theodosia:

Could we nominate the trailer for The Core for some sort of special Early Warning award?

Matt the Bruins fan:

Yeah, it warned me that the Roman Coliseum was apparently constructed out of highly volatile plastique. Who knew?

Calli:

Those Romans. So technologically innovative. First concrete, now this.

Leigh:

Damnit, Matt. I'd convinced myself I hadn't seen this trailer, but you've gone and twigged my repressed memories. It's odd how the destruction of the entire world always seems to lead to boring movies.

Katie M:

I meant to go see that movie drunk with some geologist friends of mine, but then we didn't. Hmm. We'll have to work something out when it comes out on video.

Matt the Bruins fan:

Oh, I was laughing at that scene so hard. I mean, I get that it was supposed to be the big scary superstorm with far greater intensity than normally seen, but they could have at least halfway suspended my disbelief by having the exploding building be something that was flammable, or at least not solid stone set into a hillside.

Of course, if the interior of the earth can stop rotating for months without any tectonic consequences, who knows what other things could happen. I guess I should be glad the big rescue scheme didn't involve flying pigs.

Happy Phantom, In Firefly:

It's all so good, I'm falling more in love by the second, and I keep freaking out that there's only 6 more episodes, and that I don't want it to end. I want to see these people's stories unfold, I want to be shocked and surprised by them, and I'd really rather like to see most of them end up happily-ever-after. I just have to keep muttering "At least there's a movie, at least there's a movie" over and over!