I agree to an extent, but I think there's also a nostalgia and a sense of baseball as "America's game", as a family game, as something that brings together parents and children.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
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Dana - Jul 05, 2009 10:18:17 am PDT #2889 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Barb - Jul 05, 2009 10:21:55 am PDT #2890 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I agree to an extent, but I think there's also a nostalgia and a sense of baseball as "America's game", as a family game, as something that brings together parents and children.
True, but as I was thinking about it, it occurred to me that one of the other central nostalgic themes is that of the road trip. It could have just as easily revolved around a vintage car and Route 66 and the idealized family vacation.
Which... might make for a neat story. Hmm...
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 3:37:28 pm PDT #2891 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. Rupert Grint is recovering from swine flu.
I wish Aimee were in San Francisco so I could GEEK OUT about seeing the next HP movie with her.
You know what was fun? The winter Tom Scola came to visit SF, and I had the day off and I said, "What do you want to do Thursday?" and he said, "Well...Return of the King is opening..." and I said "Let's go to the first show!"
And we did. And it was awesome.
Sue - Jul 05, 2009 3:45:34 pm PDT #2892 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I always get incredibly excited for the HP movies, even if they never quite live up to the hype. I just finished reading HBP in preparation.
sarameg - Jul 05, 2009 3:49:26 pm PDT #2893 of 30000
I still love my triple play of Year of Living Dangerously, Welcome to Sarajevo and Three Kings. Such a weird choice for a birthday movie night.
Tom Scola - Jul 05, 2009 3:55:04 pm PDT #2894 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And it was awesome.
Yes. Yes, it was.
You even had the good sense to go to the bathroom during the Arwen scene.
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 4:55:37 pm PDT #2895 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You even had the good sense to go to the bathroom during the Arwen scene.
I think connie neil had tipped me. Or it had already reached a status of conventional wisdom or something. But once Arwen had stopped fending off Ring Wraiths with water ponies she got less interesting.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 05, 2009 6:13:49 pm PDT #2896 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
I don't think I minded Arwen quite so much at the time, but in retrospect I think "THIS is who Jackson devoted 20 minutes of loving slow motion close-ups to when he couldn't be bothered to film the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?!?"
Sean K - Jul 05, 2009 6:23:10 pm PDT #2897 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
t sits with Matt
Fay - Jul 05, 2009 8:09:15 pm PDT #2898 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Okay - which is the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?
t /sheepish