Angel: Lorne, you're— Lorne: Reliable as a cheap fortune cookie? Angel: I was gonna say a guy with good contacts…
'Shells'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Jessica - Oct 30, 2009 8:00:40 am PDT #16075 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ - Oct 30, 2009 8:06:22 am PDT #16076 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, ugh. Sorry, Gud.
(pssst, hey! Gud's day? You're supposed to be a Friday, not a Monday. Try to keep up, will you?)
My idea is that I should buy a vintage parking meter.
Phooey. I was hoping to see something really vintage (now I'm wondering what an Art Deco parking meter would look like). Still, not completely useless; I've heard of people buying those and using them as headstones and grave markers.
eta: Deco parking meters? Pretty!
smonster - Oct 30, 2009 8:14:24 am PDT #16077 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I'm out on Halloween anyway (seeing a horror movie at a drive-in!)
What movie, Seska?
Gud, that's a bummer. Hope your day improves from here.
tommyrot - Oct 30, 2009 8:16:55 am PDT #16078 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Deco parking meters? Pretty!
Ooh!
tommyrot - Oct 30, 2009 8:59:04 am PDT #16079 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Damn. CBN Scrubs "Witch Candy" Blog Post
The Christian Broadcasting Network has caved in to scoffers and mockers and scrubbed a blog post which explained the dangers of Halloween - specifically, that "most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches", and that this is a time of "sex with demons" and "rape and molestation of adults, children and babies", among much else.
The post was by Kimberly Daniels and taken from Charisma magazine, although much of the sceptical reaction has been at the expense of CBN's president, Pat Robertson. Regarding Halloween as demonic is common among Charismatic and neo-Pentecostal churches (and Evangelicals in general are not very keen on the celebration), and it is no surprise to read that she has links with C. Peter Wager. It is interesting, though, to see elements of conspiracy theory, harking back to do the debunked "Satanic panics" of the 1980s.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 30, 2009 9:02:58 am PDT #16080 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
What movie, Seska?
The Shining. It was that or The Omen, which is a better movie, but we wanted to try the drive-in at night. Afternoon just won't be the same. [link] We're driving miles for this 'world's largest screen' thing. It had better be good!
The parking metres are cool.
smonster - Oct 30, 2009 9:11:10 am PDT #16081 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
The Omen
Man, my fellow band geeks went through a horror movie phase in HS and we watched *all* of The Omen movies, otherwise known as 1001 Freaky Ways to Die. My favorite is the dude in the elevator who gets cut in half by the cable , but I don't remember which one that is. (spoilerfont more for grossness than anything)
I have never seen the Shining.
Have fun!
§ ita § - Oct 30, 2009 9:12:23 am PDT #16082 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I like the sheet of glass. That's stuck with me for a while.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 30, 2009 9:13:10 am PDT #16083 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
otherwise known as 1001 Freaky Ways to Die
Yes! Final Destination comes in a poor, derivative second.
tommyrot - Oct 30, 2009 9:15:32 am PDT #16084 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was a kid? (8? 12?) my mom told me about a movie she and my dad saw. In it, a guy was decapitated, and his headless body was shown writhing and in convulsions. I was all, "Mom, why did you tell me that?" But now I'm curious what it was. She would have told me this in the mid-'70s, but IIRC it was in the late '60s when she saw it.
Maybe I should post this in movies. But I'm afraid no one will know what the movie is, and I'll start to fear my mom was just fucking with me....