Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

'Objects In Space'


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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.


Gadget_Girl - Feb 25, 2008 2:16:05 pm PST #1548 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

Zellweiger always looks like she's been pounding lemons. Also, is she capable of opening her eyes? It's a bit like a defective cupie doll or a Betty Boop knock off.


bon bon - Feb 25, 2008 2:20:42 pm PST #1549 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Jeez you guys. Some people are just squinty.


JZ - Feb 25, 2008 2:29:03 pm PST #1550 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.

I'm going to have to go on record as stating that I like Renee Zellweger, a lot. I'm not keen on her scrunch-faced squintiness (though she's probably gotten hassled about it rather a bit by various industry peeps, so I do kind of like that she's just living with the squinty face and trying to make it work instead of going under the knife to "fix" it), but I've never seen her give a bad performance. She did give a profoundly unlikable one in that film where she was the overachieving daughter of Dying Meryl Streep, but that was more a combination of miscasting + unpleasantly written character than pure badness on her part.

By and large, I just like and admire her: she sings, she dances, she gives good regional accent, she has generally good taste in scripts, the tiny handful of gossip I've ever heard about her has been along the lines of, "Hey, Random Chick ran into her in Random Location and she did some unexpected Random Nice Thing for Random Chick!" I can't bring myself to like the squint, but it's the only thing in her negatives column for me.


§ ita § - Feb 25, 2008 2:41:45 pm PST #1551 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Some people are just squinty.

But she's squinty and evil.

To be honest, I also don't like her voice and she's done very little I've liked watching, so the squinty stuff is just shorthand for the disdain.

Ever find exactly the product you want on the web but don't want to buy it because the web site is hideous? Yikes. Which reminds me--what's the name of that office plant that seems to grow in just plain water--a vine that you can just pick a bit off of to start your own offshoot?

I just stole the one from the cube next to me and am thinking of getting it a nice gel home, an upgrade to the Aquafina bottle where it currently lives.


Laga - Feb 25, 2008 2:41:50 pm PST #1552 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I just watched Cold Mountain and Zellweger was fantastic.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 25, 2008 2:43:30 pm PST #1553 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I recall some mildly negative weight-based things about her from years back, but I've never heard of her being out-of-control towards people or plagued by rampant divadom.


Gadget_Girl - Feb 25, 2008 2:44:06 pm PST #1554 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

That website is indeed hideous. The green background and waving flag should come with a warning!


Laga - Feb 25, 2008 2:44:12 pm PST #1555 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

the web site is hideous

so wait, the sale is in honor of the freedom our troops bring us?

office plant

Spider plant?

edit: (after scrolling down) nsfw! I love how you can't even google "spider plant" without finding porn.


amych - Feb 25, 2008 2:44:34 pm PST #1556 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Ever find exactly the product you want on the web but don't want to buy it because the web site is hideous?

All the time, but I'm a shameless snob about these things. That one had me making choking noises at the minty-green background even before the waving animated flag finished its inexcusably slow load.


§ ita § - Feb 25, 2008 2:50:17 pm PST #1557 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My god, there's porn on the spider plant search page #1. But that's not the plant, though it has the same magic powers. I'm thinking of one with broader and shorter leaves.