Teen Vulcan Too
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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tommyrot - Mar 31, 2009 7:49:33 am PDT #634 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kathy A - Mar 31, 2009 7:53:10 am PDT #635 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Star Trek: The Two Kirks
tommyrot - Mar 31, 2009 7:56:18 am PDT #636 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha' Trek
Ailleann - Mar 31, 2009 7:57:22 am PDT #637 of 30000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
2 Star 2 Trek
tommyrot - Mar 31, 2009 8:01:41 am PDT #638 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Pigs in Space II: The Wrath of Dr. Strangepork
Hayden - Mar 31, 2009 8:31:31 am PDT #639 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Star Trek 2: IN 2-D!
amych - Mar 31, 2009 8:36:09 am PDT #640 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Aliens
tommyrot - Mar 31, 2009 8:46:41 am PDT #641 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And now for something completely different: Hussar Ballad: Soviet Crossdressing Wartime Musical
When she was an infant, her father placed her under the care of a soldier after her abusive mother threw her out of a moving carriage. Growing up, she memorized all the standard marching commands, and her favorite toy was an unloaded gun. A noblewoman by birth, Nadezhda Durova wanted nothing more than to don a uniform and defend Russia against Napoleon. At age 24, she did just that. “With firmness so alien to my young age,” she wrote in her memoirs, “I was wrecking my brain about how to break free from the vicious circle of natural and customary duties assigned to us, women.” In 1807, disguised as a boy, she left home on the back of her favorite mount, Alchides, and enlisted in a Polish uhlan regiment. “At last I am free and independent. I had taken my freedom, this precious, heavenly gift, inherently belonging to every human being!”
Durova’s service in the military earned her distinguished honors, and throughout her career she was, by all accounts, revered by everyone in her chain of command. A few officers knew her secret, but most did not. Tsar Alexander I, aware of her true identity, awarded her a cross for saving a soldier’s life and gave her permission to join the regiment of her choice. He gave her a new male surname, Alexandrov (after his own name). Durova continued crossdressing after retirment from the military. She died at age 83 and was buried dressed as a man, with full military honors.
In 1962, the Soviet Studio MosFilm released a musical called Gusarskaya Balada (”Hussar Ballad”) based on Durova’s life. In what’s certainly a complete misrepresentation of Durova’s complicated existence, the musical paints Durova as a young patriotic woman in love with a male soldier, eager to win him over on her terms, as a fellow fighter. The film is without subtitles, but has enough colorful characters, costumes and music that I think a non-Russian-speaking audience would appreciate the clip above, which showcases Durova’s character first dressed as a woman, then dressed as a man. I love actress Larisa Golubkin’s confident, homoerotic swagger in the second half of the clip.
sumi - Mar 31, 2009 11:21:06 am PDT #642 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Paul Bettany to star in Vampire film (as a vampire hunter.)
Sean K - Mar 31, 2009 1:00:21 pm PDT #643 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Because of John Cho, I can't believe nobody made this joke yet....
Chekov and Sulu go to White Castle