When the ads for 300 started coming out I wasn't aware it was based on a non-historic book so I was sitting there going WTF and accumulating anachronisms. Then I found out what the source was and sort of handwaved the whole thing (didn't go see it, but didn't get outraged at the inaccuracies). (And didn't they get a rhinocerous over there as well?)

And Raq, that's a lovely house (drools).

Apparently epic battle scenes filled with mostly naked men crack me up.

Heh.

Yeah, well ... I think it was the over-the-top, We Are Manly Men! GRrrrrr! aspect that kept triggering my giggling.

I was sad that my shoe posts had to end (until I get to wear boots!) so I started a new set for all my toys! Here are my Mr. Sushi Rice plushes, which I love so much: [link]

Jilli, I tried sending you info about sources for short black jackets - not sure it got through.

I liked block teaching, despite the fact that I taught in several classrooms, so I was always worried I'd go to the wrong room. I don't think I could go back to 45 minutes.

Although I'd like to go back to teaching.

Mal seemed excited about his first day of school, and got to feel like an old pro with all the new kids showing up and sobbing and wailing for their mommies. Hopefully this trend will continue.

300 was giggle-icious. Seeing it in Greece was fun for a lot of reasons, mostly for the audience completely cracking up during the scene where Xerxes is behind Leonidas with both hand on L's shoulders.

I've been debating going as an Immortal from it for Halloween, mostly because I am too fat for any of the other costume ideas I like.

Jilli, I tried sending you info about sources for short black jackets - not sure it got through.

Hmmm, I didn't see anything. If you still have the info, would you please try sending it to gothiccharmschool (at) gmail? My webmail for the GCS site is not happy with my corporate firewall at the mo'.

This 300 talk reminds me about the vid Matt posted a link to in the movie thread after my comments about being overwhelmed by the testosterone funk of the movie: Matt the Bruins fan "Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape" Aug 26, 2007 10:31:21 am PDT

It is hilarious.

I don't think I could go back to 45 minutes.

Exactly how I felt. Honestly, it was a major con on my list when I was struggling with whether or not to change schools the year before last. Everything else about the school--for the most part--I love. But the schedule sucks donkey balls. Yeah, I said it.

t is defiant

300 was so far removed from reality it was hard to even link it to Thermopylae...but it was removed from reality across the board. The men were airbrushed and CGId into unrealistic proportions, Xerxes was about 9 feet tall, and somehow the Persians got elephants onto their skinny warships. And a cave troll.

I know, I know. I just can't get past my disappointment that somebody made a movie about Thermopylae, and it wasn't anything like the Thermopylae in my head, you know? It's not that I'm opposed to playing with history or inserting fantastical elements into reality--my WIP is a Napoleonic Era alternate history, and I can hardly wait for the next volume in Naomi Novik's Napoleonic-Wars-with-dragons series. But for whatever reason I couldn't bring myself to buy into 300's departures from reality.

Jilli, insent.