Impressive. I don't think I could name all fifty states in Australia.
Yeah, the hard part is that over half of the states are just synonyms for 'inebriation'.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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.
billytea - Oct 15, 2007 6:28:35 pm PDT #6825 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Trudy Booth - Oct 15, 2007 6:31:09 pm PDT #6826 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm totally new south walesed?
Cashmere - Oct 15, 2007 7:00:45 pm PDT #6827 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
billytea, I met an Australian guy in the teeniest airport in the world (Central Wisconsin). His charming accent reminded me of you. We had a chat while waiting for the security line to open up.
Kat, what size jeans is Noah in? He's such a cutiehead cowboy!
paperdol, I hope you feel better soon.
ita, I went to a program orientation that's based out of your university. I felt all cool knowing someone who went there. Good luck with the drugs.
BigDuluth - Oct 15, 2007 7:19:51 pm PDT #6828 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
I'm totally new south walesed?
Now whenever I'm short of a term to explain how drunk I am...
Burrell - Oct 15, 2007 7:46:07 pm PDT #6829 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
That Noah is so cute! And his clothes! Why don't they make grown up clothes in that onesie pattern?
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2007 7:49:14 pm PDT #6830 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why don't they make grown up clothes in that onesie pattern?
Mention it to erinaceous...
I know I came past some atheism will kill your kids talk getting to the end of the thread. I thouight of it when I saw this:
Two months before the scheduled release of New Line Cinema's The Golden Compass, the Catholic League has launched an all-out assault on the fantasy film. The League, the largest Catholic lay organization in the U.S., has produced a 25-page pamphlet, titled "The Golden Compass: Unmasked," that it is selling on its website for $5.00 per copy, which damns the film as a pernicious effort to indoctrinate children into atheistic beliefs. Acknowledging that the film itself is unlikely to contain offensive material, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a statement, "If unsuspecting Christian parents take their children to see the movie, they may very well find it engaging and then buy Pullman's books for Christmas. That's the problem. We are fighting a deceitful stealth campaign on the part of the film's producers." Pullman has acknowledged his anti-religious stance but critics have said that his books present little that is likely to offend believers.
Hmm. I found the anti-religion irritating, and I'm not a believer.
-t - Oct 15, 2007 7:54:03 pm PDT #6831 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I thought the Gnostic basis of Pullman's books was interesting. I was a little annoyed at the pronouncement that he was portraying "our" reality, but I'm not sure how he could have gotten around it.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2007 8:01:55 pm PDT #6832 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, so this last new power on Heroes is the coolest ever, and I need to have it right now.
I found Pullman's tone got high-handed and derisive and it just sat poorly with me.
-t - Oct 15, 2007 8:09:47 pm PDT #6833 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't get that, but I can see where you could.
I feel bad for Nicole Kidman. She pre-emptively defended the movie as not being anti-Catholic and now this guy is saying that that's just a ploy to trick people into reading the books. Seems unfair.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2007 8:25:35 pm PDT #6834 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, I think the guy cited is a wackjob, no doubt. Some great big atheist plot to whitewash children's brains into hateful godlessness? Or whatever. A little more faith in your faith, please!
I wonder how much the movie producers care about book sales, unless it turns right around into more tickets.