And while I might enjoy a novel about a circus bear detective, I can't imagine the bear would enjoy being shaved hairless.
Not to mention that it would SUCK to have the job of shaving the bear.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Steph L. - Feb 05, 2005 6:27:50 pm PST #7014 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
billytea - Feb 05, 2005 8:47:37 pm PST #7015 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Not to mention that it would SUCK to have the job of shaving the bear.
Note to self: update resume.
erikaj - Feb 06, 2005 6:52:51 am PST #7016 of 10002
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
My mother has not had every bad job.Will have to mention this one, as it embarrassed her when I told her what a "fluffer" was.(I thought she knew already.)
Jesse - Feb 06, 2005 7:40:56 am PST #7017 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just had a flash of memory about a blind guy with a sword cane, but now I think it was someone just pretending to be blind? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
DXMachina - Feb 06, 2005 8:02:10 am PST #7018 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I just had a flash of memory about a blind guy with a sword cane, but now I think it was someone just pretending to be blind? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
There's the movie Blind Fury, where Rutger Hauer played a blind Vietnam vet who trained as a swordfighter. Terry O'Quinn (Locke from Lost) co-starred.
Jim - Feb 06, 2005 10:54:13 pm PST #7019 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Which is a US version of Zatoichi.
sumi - Feb 07, 2005 5:18:34 am PST #7020 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
When we were talking mysteries and disabilities I thought, "Ironsides" -- but didn't mention it because I don't know whether it was ever anything else but a tv show.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 7:32:08 am PST #7021 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When we were talking mysteries and disabilities I thought, "Ironsides" -- but didn't mention it because I don't know whether it was ever anything else but a tv show.
Longstreet was from the same early 70s era. Blind insurance investigator.
Big Hammett article in the Chron today
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2005 7:44:13 am PST #7022 of 10002
brillig
Longstreet was from the same early 70s era.
Bruce Lee was in that teaching Longstreet how to defend himself. That was a cool series. t /showing my age
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 7:46:18 am PST #7023 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
While, we're at it, The Catalog of Cool's Hiply Writ books - including Frankenstein, Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, Heraclitus, Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter and...
INTO THE HEART OF BORNEO- Redmond O'Hanlon (Random House). In 1983, British naturalist O'Hanlon and his poet-journalist buddy James Fenton took off for the world's third-largest island to contend with rivers, tropical jungles, and mountains no Westerners had tackled in 50 years. Into The Heart Of Borneo -- one of the hippest travel books ever -- is O'Hanlon's half-surreal, mostly hilarious report on their crack-brained expedition. Armed with books, medications and liquors and daily doused with anti-fungus powder until their "erogenous zones looked like meat chunks rolled in flour," the pair and their three antic Iban guides meet with nations of pests (leeches, wild-boar ticks, inch-long ants) and dazzlingly rare creatures (fish-eagles, pig-tailed macques, dinosaurlike water monitors) alike. They see 800 weird kinds of trees and have almost as many bizarre jungle-inspired dreams. Though the rumored blowpipe-toting Bornean cannibals never materialize, the explorers are obliged to teach the natives they do encounter the seven-step disco and to improvise war dances for them in raucous -- and bibulous -- tribal jam sessions. The Iban tribesmen, O'Hanlon writes, always lay down when they "know that they are going to laugh for a long time." Definitely the sort of book to take lying down. P.F.