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.
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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.
-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
§ 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.
Vortex - Oct 15, 2007 8:40:08 pm PDT #6835 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
well, it does, in a roundabout way. More book sales generates more interest for sequels.
Hil R. - Oct 15, 2007 8:58:50 pm PDT #6836 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Noah is adorable.
They used to show us videos of Shalom Sesame on rainy days at summer camp. I've got some vague memories of the actual shows, but no specifics. I think they were an English-language series that the show had done -- they had some American Sesame Street characters and some characters that were from the Israeli show. I think the Oscar the Grouch type character was named Moshe?
lori - Oct 15, 2007 9:04:19 pm PDT #6837 of 10001
Go Rockies! Best fan-made sign seen at the Rockies-Diamondbacks game tonight: Snakes on a Plane
Cass - Oct 15, 2007 9:09:36 pm PDT #6838 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Snakes on a PlaneThat's hysterical.
Susan W. - Oct 15, 2007 9:50:26 pm PDT #6839 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, Dennis Kucinich just made me laugh and laugh.
And that's a sentence I never expected to type.
Jars - Oct 16, 2007 12:16:03 am PDT #6840 of 10001
I got thirty-one states. But I'm quite proud, as DH tested me on them a while ago and I got forty, but it took about six hours.
There were a few I should definitely have gotten though, like New Hampshire. The ones I didn't get other than that were all in the middle bit. The middle bit is hard.
Tom Scola - Oct 16, 2007 2:11:32 am PDT #6841 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Theodosia - Oct 16, 2007 2:25:13 am PDT #6842 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sometimes the Onion so very captures the American zeitgeist, it's like they're following me and taking notes.