Jessica, in Movies:

Aimee, it is a well-known scientific fact that natural disasters in action movies approach at a maxmum speed of 99% of however fast the stars are running away from it.

Discussion in movies about a stupid anti-plot twist article. Fun begins with...

Jessica: No, no, you're missing the point -- plot twists are bad.

Sean K: What, he wants all filmmakers to be Ernest Hemmingway?

"The hero walked down the hall toward the door. He lifted his right hand and turned the handle. He pushed the door open. There were no surprises on the other side of the door."

Jessica: Yeah! Now that's a story I can get emotionally involved in!

JohnSweden: Nice crisp prose, too.

tommyrot: I don't know... I was getting kinda freaked out for a while, wondering if the door would open or if there were any surprises behind the door. The story really should have mentioned the lack of surprises and the opening of the door first.

Thomash: Don't forget the walking part, that was my favorite.

Aimée: Personally, I like how he walked with NO expectations of anything happening.

Damn, that's Fellini-esque film right there.

tommyrot: Kinda like Beckett too.

bon bon: There are no surprises in this post.

hayden: (falling out of chair in shock)

Just to keep it straight though.

Don't forget the walking part, that was my favorite.

Was me.

I was wondering about that. It does sound like something that I might say.

Topic!Cindy

It would be cool if there were a pre-minstrel syndrome (not the ucky blackface kind, the lyric poet/traveling musician kind), you know?

P.M. Marcontell

I performed with a commedia troupe by that name at a ren faire once. (Motto: "We're not quite period.")

Joe Boucher, with the best excuse for losing a CD ever, in the music thread:

I think I'm the CD swap bottleneck. I received a package from erinaceous and was in the process of making a copy for msbelle when the door burst open and two jackbooted thugs--one male, one female--knocked me over and ripped the CD out of my computer. She tasered me while he graffitied my walls: "Dean Olsher sucks" and "The Next Big Thing is for subliterate morons" and "John Wayne's a fag" (the last eliciting a nasal "He is not!" from her, to which he responded, also nasally, "He is too, you boys! I went to Brentwood to install two-way mirrors and he came to the door in a dress." She roared with laughter, tasered me again and they did various scenes from Repo Man for the next fifteen minutes. They especially enjoyed the "What about our relationship?" scene, tasering me whether or not I gave the proper response, namely "Fuck that!"). They were disguised, but there was no mistaking the voices: I had just had my ass kicked by Ira Glass and Sarah Vowell. Who would want to admit to that? And I would have kept it quiet, but since I lost the CD along with my dignity and thereby screwed up the sacred Buffistamix flow I have decided to own up to my shame. Why should I be ashamed of getting caught in the crossfire of internecine PRI squabbling? I shouldn't... but getting one's assed kicked by Sarah Vowell is one thing, getting it kicked by Ira Glass is a whole 'nother level of embarassment.

HA! That is the funniest thing I've read, maybe ever.

Heather Alayne in Music:

Ahhhhhh! Make it stop!!! If you get me earwormed with that, I'll beat you like I was a nationally syndicated public radio show host!

Heather, on a roll in Quotable Angel

Sure. You could give Connie your votes, but I think if you look at her record, you'll see that she's weak on Cordy's tactless quotes, and doesn't have a feel for the nuance of Wesley quotes. I think we need a good Best Angel Quote, a strong Best Angel Quote. And I think, that if you give me your votes, together, we can do that.

Discussing dumbly named holidays in Natter:

bon bon: coming this July... July!

tommyrot: "In a world... where June was over...."