She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.

Willow ,'Help'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

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.


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2007 2:58:19 pm PDT #2339 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2007 2:58:36 pm PDT #2340 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Dr. No took place almost entirely in Jamaica.


DavidS - Sep 23, 2007 2:59:54 pm PDT #2341 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Emmett and Matilda

They love each other.


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2007 3:08:10 pm PDT #2342 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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."


Glamcookie - Sep 23, 2007 3:14:42 pm PDT #2343 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Emmett and Matilda kill me. They are so sweet together!


Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2007 3:21:33 pm PDT #2344 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

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.


Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2007 3:22:16 pm PDT #2345 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

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.


JZ - Sep 23, 2007 3:23:23 pm PDT #2346 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

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!


Susan W. - Sep 23, 2007 3:34:45 pm PDT #2347 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Emmett and Matilda are such adorable siblings!


DavidS - Sep 23, 2007 3:41:52 pm PDT #2348 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Matilda looks calmly at home in that second picture. "This is my Emmett."

"He is a safe place."