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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.
I didn't nap--I instead called home and yelled at my father, conspired with my sister, and kept my mother calm. Fair deal.
Now I have to go google Live and Let Die, but first--Robin Wright Penn continues to be a genetic anomaly. She's just lovely. Buttercup still, indeed.
Aha! Here's a bit from the IMDB goof page from the movie that gels with my memory:
There are alligators and crocodiles living together in the Louisiana Bayou. Only alligators live in the fresh water of the Bayou. The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles meet in the wild is in the Everglades of Florida, where salt and fresh water meet in estuaries.
Somewhere I have pictures of our trip to the farm. Looks like the bad guy got named after the owner of the farm because the name (Kananga) was that cool.
Dr. No took place almost entirely in Jamaica.
Dr. No took place almost entirely in Jamaica.
Ayup, it was set there. I was giving the Jamaica Tourist Board speech (ita version) the other night while I was in the ER to calm myself down and distract myself from the pain--brief Bond recap: Ian Fleming owned property in Jamaica, and James Bond is the name of an ornithologist who'd written a book on Jamaican birds. Dr. No is set in Jamaica (filmed in Ocho Rios), and some of the short stories (Octopussy comes first to mind) are also set there.
Anything else you want to know will have to wait for extreme pain and you taking me to the ER. Those seem to be the ingredients.
Matilda looks calmly at home in that second picture. "This is my Emmett."
Emmett and Matilda kill me. They are so sweet together!
You can call me any time you want me to take you to the ER. I live 3,000 miles away and I don't have a car, though.
Anything else you want to know will have to wait for extreme pain and...
If that is a required ingredient I hope we all wait forever.
They are so madly in sibling love it's just... it kills you ded, being in its presence. It'll be very interesting, when Emmett is a bit older, to ask him about his only childhood and his dread of her and how her arrival broke him wide open. For her, he'll have always been there, part of the landscape of her family and her heart; he'll have a before and after that he can remember and maybe even talk about.
Requisite adorkably cute story: Hec recently played Harry Belafonte's "Matilda", which various adults have been singing snippets of to her for ages, for Emmett.
Emmett was completely, earnestly and utterly horrified. She's a terrible role model! She's a thief! She takes all his money and runs away to Venezuela! Matilda must never, never hear that song!
Emmett and Matilda are such adorable siblings!
