Hey! We just got an email saying that we're getting a food truck that sells fish tacos here at lunch.
What else can I wish for?
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Lee - Aug 05, 2011 8:13:03 am PDT #19473 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kat - Aug 05, 2011 8:17:52 am PDT #19474 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Perkins, you could wish for the ice cream CoolHaus truck to be with them?
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2011 8:20:59 am PDT #19475 of 30001
brillig
to see Cowboys & Aliens, otherwise known as "Daniel Craig in Cowboy Clothes Yes Indeed I Will Take a Big Helping Of That."
AKA "Harrison Ford is doing another Western, woot!" I so hope it doesn't suck. Or that it's at least entertaining suck. But Olivia Wilde is there as Obligatory Sex/Love Object/Female Distraction, so I'm leery. (Anymore, I'm all "What is that female doing there? Get her out of the way and let the guys snark at each other!")
Kathy A - Aug 05, 2011 8:25:17 am PDT #19476 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Children's picture books that I always get for new parents:
Tuesday by David Weisner
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf (actually, Jon Sciezka)
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2011 8:39:16 am PDT #19477 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Neil deGrasse Tyson to host a sequel series to Cosmos. Produced by Seth McFarland, to air on Fox.
So much YAY! and WTF!? in one place.
Seth McFarland? Really?
...is it possible to work rape jokes into astrophysics?
(No, really. I HATE Seth McFarland with the white-hot fury I reserve for things like Magnolia and John Boehner.)
Gudanov - Aug 05, 2011 8:57:46 am PDT #19478 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
But Olivia Wilde is there as Obligatory Sex/Love Object/Female Distraction, so I'm leery.
Maybe she'll talk to another named female character about something other than men.
Calli - Aug 05, 2011 9:17:32 am PDT #19479 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Thank you, Kathy.
§ ita § - Aug 05, 2011 9:30:04 am PDT #19480 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"What is that female doing there? Get her out of the way and let the guys snark at each other!"
Wow, that's harsh. I don't even like Olivia Wilde and I think she had a perfectly reasonable place in the movie. Regardless of her gender.
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2011 9:33:35 am PDT #19481 of 30001
brillig
I always admired Schwarzenegger's resistance to having anything sexual happen between his character and the woman in the first "Predator" movie. As I recall, it was something like, "There's something actively hunting them and trying to kill them, this isn't actually the time for sex!"
And I was sorry that "Doom" didn't get better play, because I was very pleased that the girl turned out to be the hero's sister, ie, instant believable interaction/backstory without trying to shoehorn some stupid relationship into it.
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2011 9:35:23 am PDT #19482 of 30001
brillig
Wow, that's harsh. I don't even like Olivia Wilde and I think she had a perfectly reasonable place in the movie. Regardless of her gender.
I also didn't say it was about her and I haven't seen the movie yet, it was a general statement of my wanting to see guys interacting without what feels like "Oh, we ought to put a chick in this, or women won't watch it."