Mildly entertaining at best.

Yeah, it's not brilliant by any means. And I really disliked the fake love triangle thing.

But I liked the cast, and the cinematography, and it was a nice cozy movie with a feel-good sensibility. Sometimes that's what I'm in the mood for. Some days unchallenging is just fine.

You had me at Alan Rickman, personally.

What Suela fails to note is that Bottle Shock is really predictable drivel!

t raises an eyebrow

Are you taking the piss? I believe you are.

Which is totally fine by me. It is in fact totally predictable, because everyone knows what happens, and no movie with Chris Pine on the cast will end without him getting the girl. (Even Star Trek, because the Enterprise is the girl in that universe.)

But it was still enjoyable. To me.

I don't recall ever having to give a reason for absentee ballot, and my entire pre-Oregon-where-the-whole-state-votes-by-mail life in both VA and CA I always voted by absentee ballot (first because of being a student, then because it was just easier and more convenient.) IIRC, once you sign up for absentee (at last in VA and CA) you can elect then to be permanent absentee voter and they just keep sending you the absentee ballot to whatever address you specified until/unless you ask them to stop or send it somewhere else. I think there was a clause that if you did not return the absentee ballot more than once your absentee status would be revoked, and then you'd have to go wait in line and such. It was super easy to set up.

eta: ok, apparently not all states are as lenient as CA and some do have requirements. is a nice resource

Yeah, I'm permanent absentee in CA. It's great.

I'm not so much taking the piss at you. I really did not like that movie.

Sounds like the movie is best enjoyed with a bottle of wine or two.

Fucking governor of FL - I hope you are fucking ashamed. This is unconscionable. Fucking unconscionable.

I doubt it somehow, that he feels shame I mean. But yeah, he should.

Missed the deadline to absentee vote in Virginia. By one day. Go me. Never mind, I can vote on Election Day, I just didn't wanna wait.

Me, I was reading really adult material and would have be fine at 9, but I was a mutant.

Don't kid yourself, Strix, still a mutant.

I don't really follow the news-- have they said anything about how Sandy is going to effect voting in NYC? Since NYC is so predominately Democrat and so much bigger than upstate and western NY, I don't usually worry about my vote (I was planning on voting for Jill Stein). But if NYC doesn't have a big turn out, it is possible my vote will matter, and I should vote for Obama.

My complete ass-pull opinion is "probably not much". Electricity should be completely (or nearly) in place by then. Some transportation will probably still be sticky, but we're densely populated enough that I'd hazard that just about everybody is within walking distance of their polling place.

You should sue them, Scola, this is New York. Fucking with someone's view is in the criminal code.

IIRC, in NJ you needed a reason to absentee-vote but they never checked up on it and I think there was one for if you might be out of town on that day.

Well, I'm half-German and I don't give a fuck. Or maybe that's the Finn in me.

Go Team (half) Finn! If ou don't mind me asking is there a Yooper connection?