Odd request - anybody have any decent pictures of me?
I need something to accompany my Oxford American article, and my photobucket is relatively empty.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2007 12:35:08 pm PDT #8575 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Theodosia - Sep 05, 2007 12:35:18 pm PDT #8576 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"
Zen, sounds like a call to the caretaker/apartment owner is in order! It's probably some sort of crossed wire in the wall -- can you get down to the circuit breakers/fuses?
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2007 12:37:59 pm PDT #8577 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Zen, I'm afraid I have no idea.
Top 10 evillest people. I have no intention about debating who deserves what rank. What I think is the saddest thing about every entry is that they spread their influence beyond the reach of their own hands. So all that evil? There were middlemen. That turns my stomach more than the dreams of despoiling of ten men--the hundreds or thousands that for one reason or another carried the actions out.
In cheerier news, I've only seen one of their ten most controversial movies (#2) and it's one of my favourites of all time. Seen it on the big screen a bunch of times. The list was very informative. I mean, I guess I always figured that Birth of a Nation and Deep Throat had plots--I just hadn't paused to wonder what they were.
God, I love lists. I should back away from that site.
Scrappy - Sep 05, 2007 12:38:19 pm PDT #8578 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sounds like you blew a fuse (or tripped a circuit breaker, depending on how new your service is). Call the super and let then figure it out.
beekaytee - Sep 05, 2007 12:45:39 pm PDT #8579 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I've seen 4 of the 10 controversial movies, have read/heard enough about 4 more to feel as IF I'd seen them and own another but have not yet watched it.
Kathy A - Sep 05, 2007 12:51:58 pm PDT #8580 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember going to see The Last Temptation of Christ in downtown Chicago with my sister and mom a few months after it had opened, and there was one lone protester in front of the theater. I felt sorry for him in a way.
beekaytee - Sep 05, 2007 12:54:53 pm PDT #8581 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I remember thinking at the time that Scorcese inviting religious leaders to preview The Last Temptation was a stroke of genius. Much as I love that movie...and I still do...it really would not have been much of a draw without the controversy. Of course, it worked for The Passion in the opposite direction and ensured that I'll never personally lay eyes on it.
Jesse - Sep 05, 2007 12:55:56 pm PDT #8582 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure I saw Last Temptation with my church youth group.
Toddson - Sep 05, 2007 12:58:49 pm PDT #8583 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Which church? Unitarian, by any chance?
Daisy Jane - Sep 05, 2007 1:02:36 pm PDT #8584 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I've seen Natural Born Killers, JFK, F 9/11, Birth of a Nation and Clockwork Orange.
Of those, I only really think NBK and F 9/11 are that controversial. BoaN's message and plot are absolutely abhorrent, but I don't think there's any controversy about that. In school it was introduced as one of those things like Gone With the Wind that are important for whatever scholarly or technical reason, but otherwise pretty crap.