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'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 18, 2003 10:59:29 am PST #4683 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras.

I like this part.


Jessica - Feb 18, 2003 10:59:46 am PST #4684 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'd like it if we whitefonted major plot twists at least until the film goes to video.

This could be a year or more, depending on the movie. If we're going to have a movies thread at all, I think it has to be one where current films can be openly discussed.

Maybe a month after wide release, instead of two weeks?


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 18, 2003 11:01:39 am PST #4685 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Lyra, I think yr unclosed HTML is making Am blue.


Burrell - Feb 18, 2003 11:01:54 am PST #4686 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ah ha. Reason #4 why I didn't want a movie thread in the first place. The spoiler policy. Inevitably going to be a source of continuing frustration.


§ ita § - Feb 18, 2003 11:06:03 am PST #4687 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Spoiler fonting definitely can work, but one would need something like there was on WX: a posting of which movies came out each week, and then which ones are currently free to be posted in non-white.


Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 11:09:32 am PST #4688 of 10001
Up with the sun

Are we talking about whitefonting all discussion on new films, or just major plot details/endings? I think whitefonting everything would be incredibly cumbersome -- but OTOH I don't want to open the thread and find out how the film I was going to see this weekend ends, assuming the ending is more twisty than "the cop gets his man" or "they make up and kiss."


justkim - Feb 18, 2003 11:10:58 am PST #4689 of 10001
Another social casualty...

I know that here in Baltimore The WB has been pre-empting Angel for college basketball. They have been showing those episodes on Saturdays or Sundays depending on their schedule.

I just discovered that The WB (WNUV-54) will begin broadcasting some Orioles games, but I don't know yet how that will affect scheduling.

Orioles Broadcast News


Sophia Brooks - Feb 18, 2003 11:11:43 am PST #4690 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I like the rules in Ovies, I think they work. I can't remember them, as I only read the 'Hollywood Gossip" thread, as I see about 2 movies per year, except in the summer, when I have time.


Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 11:12:21 am PST #4691 of 10001
Up with the sun

justkim, could you make that an HTML link? It makes the screen long. Thanks.


Liese S. - Feb 18, 2003 11:14:41 am PST #4692 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Speaking as a tape-delayed Buffista, I've given up on the show threads altogether. So do as you please.