And for reading matter I strongly, strongly advise against even going near Nevil Shute's On The Beach (never saw the movie so don't know how it compares, but if it's even remotely faithful to the book it too is a big giant AVOID AVOID AVOID) and Roald Dahl's short story "Royal Jelly."
Oh! I agree that
On the Beach
is not comforting pregnancy fare, but I spent most of the book thinking "This is set in Melbourne! Oh, I know that place! That one too!" I probably wasn't supposed to enjoy it as much as I did.
Oh, billytea, you adorable freak.
Speaking of which, Matilda and I saw the prettiest snake ever on Saturday, a rosy boa, all curled up napping under a sun lamp. They're amazingly lovely and they don't bite and they give birth!
The Buffistas really need a word for that moment at a natural history museum or a zoo or a wildlife preserve when you have an overwhelming attack of either, "Oh, I wish billytea was here!" or "Wait till I get home and post about this to billytea!" I had a billy? A billysquee? I bt'd? We need something.
A billysquee?
I think we have a winner.
Can one have a billysquee over a jillifont?
Can one have a billysquee over a jillifont?
Hee. Almost certainly. Incidentally, I do have a fear reaction where spiders are concerned, but they're still incredible creatures. Snakes, on the other hand - zero fear, not even for the hissing tiger snake we almost stepped on. (Bec, OTOH, was seriously phobic about them, and was rather more demonstrative about the tiger snake encounter.) On which note, that's a lovely boa, JZ. That's actually the main point of distinction I think of between pythons and boas, that pythons are oviparous and boas ovoviviparous.
This is great if you've seen the original
Wicker Man.
(I haven't seen the remake, so dunno how this fits with that.)
A Muppet Wicker Man
Oh… um.
Wow. Yeah. So… this exists:
That’s the video preview for a full-length comic book mashup of The Muppet Show and The Wicker Man by Paul O’Connell.
It’s… uh…
Well, words seem to be failing at the moment.
Really, what can one say when confronted with something like this, except:
(Followed by a few awesome panels of the comic.)
Although maybe I just have a sick sense of humor.
The Amazing Spider-Man trailer! Okay, now I'm looking forward to this one.
I was unimpressed with the trailer, aside from the
crashing antenna-thingie
at the end. It didn't seem like we were going to see anything Raimi didn't do, at which point, why bother?
But I've been kind of a negative nabob about a lot of things lately, so take that for what it's worth and go buy a cup of coffee with it.
It didn't get my heart rate or my juices going. Not making it into my "opens this weekend!1!!" calendar, although I will probably see it in theatres, because I do.
No themed T-shirt, though.
