'Dirty Girls'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I'm guessing you meant to post that somewhere else...
Oops, sorry. I was sure I was posting to the Angel thread last night. In fact, this thread isn't even among my subscriptions, so I'm not quite sure how I managed the mistake.
I hope my work computer doesn't get a crush on me or start telling co-workers to electrocute me in the bathroom.
Who's Uncle Buck?
Wossname, John Candy. Big goofy uncle to a brood of children, does things like make grilled cheese sandwiches using a clothes iron and generally allows children to run riot due to genial cluelessness and slovenliness. The movie came out, when? middle 80s. And IIRC was Macauley Culkin's debut.
Uncle Buck was the main character in an eponymous film starring John Candy, which I have never seen.
Oh, that sounds gross.
Though I've now recast HP with Candy as Hagrid. It's interesting.
Who's Uncle Buck?
(1989)
"You've got a lot of hair in your nose."
"Thanks for noticing."
"That's my job, I'm a kid."
Worthless loser uncle connects with disaffected niece in dysfunctional family. Candy was great and elevated the movie out of mediocre for me.
He was in that rich run of form that lasted until his untimely death. Planes, trains and automobiles (1987) is probably my favourite Candy movie.
make grilled cheese sandwiches using a clothes iron
This actually works, as long as you wrap the sandwich in aluminum foil first. I have done it my own self and can attest to its efficacy AND yumminess.
This actually works, as long as you wrap the sandwich in aluminum foil first.
When I was temping at MSO, this method was being used by one of the Christmas party caterers to make chocolate sandwiches. So it's good enough for Martha Stewart, anyway.
Sam was Frodo's gardener because Gaffer Gamgee was Bilbo's gardener--Gamgees pretty much come with the property.
Sam's a house-elf!
I see Hagrid as a Jane Goodall, focused on a microcosm, that while not panoramic, is still an important part of the whole, and possibly even a key to perceiving the whole.
I never would have thought of this, but it's an interesting take on Hagrid. I don't know that much about Goodall, but is she as inept when away from chimps? It seems like she must have more people skills to be such an effective advocate and fundraiser. Having said this, I like Hagrid. He has a good soul, and he's nice, if sometimes clueless. I agree that he too often needs to be saved by children, and I don't like that aspect of HP, but I do like his character, both in the books and movies.
Sam's a house-elf!
With clothes. Please be clear about the clothes thing.
I finished reading Paths Of The Dead on holiday -- I can't believe I let it slide so long. Was this supposed to be the one rife with in-jokes or something? I really liked it, much more than the previous Paarfi-penned stories. A large contributor to that, disproportionately perhaps, was the fact that the gods don't talk with that looping locution. It just made the device more palatable for me, somehow, seeing it applied and eschewed.
My dad took my copy, because he needed something to read on his 6 hour bus trip. I wonder how far he got before his eyes strangled him.