Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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 27, 2007 5:35:27 am PDT #3340 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did anyone watch Cane?

Don't let it be said that TV isn't informative. I had no idea until hearing the premise from the show that the US had a sizable sugar cane industry. For some reason I thought it was all about the beet sugar.

bon, have you watched Damages at all? Sparky? Lee? Vortex? They're spending a lot of slow time inside a law firm, and I was wondering how they were handling it. Of course, if you cast Glenn Close you're hardly going to be spending time with fuzzy humanitarianism, but even as an outlier...

Plus Tate Donovan is no longer playing Worst Dad Ever (can't you just see HRG and SpyDaddy hauling him off and beating the snot out of him?).


aurelia - Sep 27, 2007 5:38:23 am PDT #3341 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Shrift, which space is that show in? Is it the one straight ahead from the lobby doors?


Liese S. - Sep 27, 2007 5:39:41 am PDT #3342 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Damn, I don't think I realized that was what Cane was about. My father grew up in Hawaii's cane sugar industry. They used to run around the fields and play in the flumes and chew on the raw sugar cane. From the looks of the pr material, it isn't intended to be a nostalgic romp, but I might have tuned in if I'd paid any attention. Other than Colbert cracking himself up at the ads.


§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 5:41:47 am PDT #3343 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's supposed to be Dallas but with cane instead of oil. I heard things like the family conflict (I suspect Smits is playing JR, but hot) is between sugar and versus production.


aurelia - Sep 27, 2007 5:42:37 am PDT #3344 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I watched Cane. So far, it's feeling a lot like Kingpin without the DEA.


brenda m - Sep 27, 2007 5:43:06 am PDT #3345 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I watched Cane. It's got great actors - I think it should be pretty decent if they can tear themselves away from the Godfather.


Emily - Sep 27, 2007 5:44:33 am PDT #3346 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Using advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis, Chen and his team can find, catalogue and analyze extremist activities online.

Okay, I know this was yesterday and all, but I just wanted to weigh in on this, cause if they can manage Web-based authorship analysis, I want they should TELL ME. Cause that's what my Master's project was about, and I had zero luck with it.


Tom Scola - Sep 27, 2007 5:45:45 am PDT #3347 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I had no idea until hearing the premise from the show that the US had a sizable sugar cane industry.

It's a lot bigger than it deserves to be, because it's heavily subsidized by the government.

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§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 5:48:25 am PDT #3348 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Cause that's what my Master's project was about, and I had zero luck with it.

I had forgotten your topic! Sorry to hear it didn't pan out the way you wanted.

I have had the phrase "degrade gracefully" stuck in my head since yesterday, and I've now worked out both why (my eye makeup degrades gracefully--crying doesn't mess it up, or at least does it with symmetry), and where it's from (HTML). Being a geek can be hard.


shrift - Sep 27, 2007 5:54:11 am PDT #3349 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Shrift, which space is that show in? Is it the one straight ahead from the lobby doors?

Yep. At least, it was at the press opening.