Even though I was thinking about race as I read, I guess I just focused on knowing that the better off ones were privileged because they appeared to be well fed and healthy and so I didn't really read deeper meaning into the descriptions of people's coloring. I'll have to reread!
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
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lisah - Mar 18, 2011 8:42:54 am PDT #13649 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 9:12:06 am PDT #13650 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Matt,
right? The ads for this movie are so out of hand. Constant. with Kanye music. Just constant.
re: Hunger Games
I feel like I need to re-read too!
I refuse to re-read the 3rd book. I was pretty put off.
sumi - Mar 18, 2011 9:18:12 am PDT #13651 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Kevin Costner cast as Jonathan Kent in the Superman reboot.
Tom Scola - Mar 18, 2011 9:25:05 am PDT #13652 of 30000
hwæt
That Superman film is really going to suck, isn't it?
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2011 9:29:27 am PDT #13653 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whoa. That article is written by a guy I know from McGill. The world is fucking tiny, and it seems to revolve around Colin.
Atropa - Mar 18, 2011 9:30:39 am PDT #13654 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh look what somebody just left lying around - a link to an mp4 download of the never-released-on-DVD Dark Shadows theatrical feature, "House of Dark Shadows" from 1970.
You posted that just for me, and I thank you for it. Now to wait for it to finish downloading!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2011 9:42:53 am PDT #13655 of 30000
"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
With the Costner news, the only hope is that the movie is actually about Baseball.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 9:59:49 am PDT #13656 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You posted that just for me
I did! And you're welcome.
le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 10:23:40 am PDT #13657 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2011 9:30:45 pm PDT #13658 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Basically, my biggest problem with that statement is the joke. If he'd just defended casting white, and left it at that, I'd probably have shrugged.
But making a condescending joke about hair color, which is disingenuous (does he really think we don't know you can dye an actor's hair? that anyone was arguing that?) to defer attention from the question about race is pissy to me. It's dismissive and, I feel, ultimately disrespectful.
But. I am a) not actually a reader of the book in question and b) probably disproportionately likely to get my dander up at the moment. So I probably should shut it.