Glad that got worked out and no lives are threatened, Dana.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
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.
-t - Nov 11, 2009 8:47:38 am PST #18660 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Connie Neil - Nov 11, 2009 8:53:10 am PST #18661 of 30001
brillig
The most annoying book I've ever finished was "Ladis of Missolonghi", wherein the heroine actually uses the "I only have a short time to live" gambit to get the lonely, handsome windower to marry her. I kept waiting for the joke, and there wasn't one.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2009 8:55:15 am PST #18662 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Okay, my mother called an apologized for posting something like that on FB without calling me first. Nothing life-threatening is going on. And hey, now she has my work number in her cellphone.
Good, good.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2009 8:57:22 am PST #18663 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Granted Taming of the Shrew didn't involve a carrot up the butt but still."
I don't know, I feel like the Liz Taylor/Richard Burton version might have....
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2009 9:00:44 am PST #18664 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a relief, Dana.
I have had no urge to go anywhere near Bridges of Madison County, and even though JZ's post looks like a recommendation of the movie, I feel safe in that decision. Plus, I just don't get Clint Eastwood. He's always Clint Eastwood. I don't remember the last time I saw him disappear into a role. For some movies I used to not care, but I get more picky as I get older.
Some guy in a parking lot hit on me this morning. That hasn't happened in an eon. Weird.
Calli - Nov 11, 2009 9:22:06 am PST #18665 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
For those who like data searches (and really, who doesn't?), World Bank public data on things such as CO2 emissions per capita and mortality rates under 5, is now available via google.
Amy - Nov 11, 2009 9:25:59 am PST #18666 of 30001
Because books.
It surprised me how much Bridges the movie was different than the book. I hated them both equally.
The most faithful book-to-movie adaptation I've ever seen is Rosemary's Baby. It was eerie.
Ginger - Nov 11, 2009 9:28:24 am PST #18667 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
it was obvious to them that the movie stopped just short of openly saying, "Hey, Book, FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK."
This is the first review that made me consider watching the movie.
Kiba Rika - Nov 11, 2009 9:29:21 am PST #18668 of 30001
I may have to seize the cat.
I'm reading Greenwitch by Susan Cooper right now (because Jilli said - and because I bought the copy years ago with the intention of giving it to my mom after I finished reading it, since she loves the whole The Dark is Rising series so much, and it's been sitting on my nightstand waiting for that to happen) and just thanking myself over and over for not going to see the movie they based on that series.
Celtic legend loses a lot of its shine when you make one of the Old Ones an American, I bet. But I don't know. Since I haven't seen the movie.
brenda m - Nov 11, 2009 9:48:12 am PST #18669 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I think Bridges was one of the very first books I ever voluntarily got rid of.
Celestine Prophecy was the first one I actually threw out rather than leave somewhere or sell to a used bookstore, on the off-chance someone else might be afflicted by it.