Pfft. You're not even a cub, much less a cougar. Besides, you need to look...tawnier.

Dude, I think that kid was born after I hit puberty. Ergo? Cougar country.

Anyhow, I own bronzer.

Yeah, I kinda figured that was your Bulletproof Narrative Kink. Mine, of course, is the undead (vampires preferred, but zombies are okay too), which is why I felt CHEATED. Cheated, I tell you!

Even if Young Master Shia makes me feel like a dirty fuckin' cougar from hell.

Yeah, I get that. He was pretty decorative.

He's not SUPPOSED TO BE DECORATIVE!

HE'S THE GOOFY KID FROM HOLES, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!

Ahem. I mean, it seriously feels like JUST yesterday I was watching him in kids movies with the nephew.

I mean, I have OTHER bulletproof narrative kinks. But somehow, I don't see the Indy franchise as giving me rentboys.

So, Jilli, on that note, have you seen Fido (starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, and Dylan Baker)? I just watched it. It's very amusing. It's set in an alternate '50s post-zombie apocalypse where zombies have collars to keep them from eating people. Except Timmy's zombie's collar malfunctions.

It's sort of like Pleasantville meets Shaun of the Dead.

Re: cougars, I had to define the term for my mother recently. I went with "sexually rapacious middle-aged woman" and then we had to have an argument over what middle-aged is. I said 35-50 (making me middle-aged) and my mother was deeply offended (she is 58) and said middle-aged is 45-60. What say you all? In my mind, a cougar is, like, 42. Isn't Samantha on Sex and the City the archetype?

I thought Mrs. Robinson was the archetype. The original one, anyway.

It's going to be a while before Shia LeBoef is *not* that kid from Holes for me.

I think Shia LaBoeuf is quite talented and has done a good job getting out from under the Disney umbrella. (Plus he's very cute, and I'm young enough that I don't have to feel that dirty for saying that.)

I think I've figured out why I had such a poor reaction to Indy... this movie is like Indy fanfic, and Indy's not my fandom.

1. Shia La Boeuf isn't actually that young. I look at him and I see late 20s and the scrawniness is a permanent feature, not a bug of adolescence. Wasn't there a bit of a scandale about it back when he was on Disney, because his IMDB listing had him as like 15 when he was actually considerably older? It appears that age-fuzziness persists, because he's theoretically 21 right now, which I'm pretty sure is a lie.

2. You're not a cougar unless you (a) could reasonably -- not just theoretically -- have given birth to the target in question; (b) have a tiger-print themed bedroom; (c) don't know what appropriate cleavage would be for an ordinary trip to the grocery store; and (d) actually make rawr noises, not for the funny of it, in public.

I like Nutty's definition of cougar, if only because I can hide behind the tiger-print requirement forever.

I thought Shia was all wrong for HJIII. HJIII should be lankier.

IJS.

I saw Ironman at a matinee and then Indy in the afternoon and I think Indy suffered by comparison. I wish that they hadn't gone with the space aliens. Also, jilli weren't there undead protectors? I mean, who were those people who were skeletons and then flesh and were lurking in the gravesites, if not undead protectors ?

I have to say seeing Cate Blanchett playing a psychic communicator brought a strange twisted Galadriel vibe to it.