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Well the Romulans designed it and they are evil. So evil, in fact, that they feel handrails are too humane and much be done away with.Oh God me too. I hope you weren't kidding because now I admitted my own eternal paranoia and look like a loon. Meh. It's not such big news I guess.I just wheeze laughed picturing Fu Manchu. What in the hell is up with that. Christopher Lee was an awesome Saruman but other than that, what has he ever done with his life? I guess Wicker Man was creepy.I saw Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. I also saw Sharktopus, did they have a hand in that? Transmorphers, oh my Christ that's so hilarious. I couldn't see that it wasn't Transformers for a few seconds and was confused. Well you could always tell people you lost it in a knife fight with a Nazi. I used to tell people the scars on my arm were from being bitten by a rattlesnake; they are actually scars from where my wrist bones poked out through my skin, which I now realize is already is pretty righteous tale which needs no embroidery.
I do not know, but it's an excellent question. Are light bulbs a rarity in the future or something? It's an awful and omnipresent detail. Yes, avoid eye contact like the plague. Not just in homeless shelters but everywhere. Is he supposed to be Japanese?! Nooo waaayy. Hooo man.I had to read the whole thing in a couple weeks for class. It was rough, especially because it's a very depressing book. If you want to read it again I recommend Robert Fagles' translation if you're after readability, Richard Lattimore if you're a big snob about accurate ancient Greek syntax. I think The Odyssey was on telly this weekend. Some Odyssey thing was anyway and it was laughably awful in the tech department. Is The Asylum the place that's responsible for every movie that has ever stunk up the sci fi channel, perchance?Aaaugh please don't cut off a finger. It would be a most upsetting thing for many reasons.
I didn't know aliens could do that. I've only seen the first three, I think. Two or three. Whatever. I mean if they form armies, that's another ballgame.All of the people were barefoot and frozen-looking. It was awful, especially because I went in all jolly and Christmas-y. Replicants]humans in that there film. The replicants have a reason to live; the humans just sit around being douchebags and inventing sentient robo-slaves. There are no memorable human characters.That sounds terrifying to my near-Luddite sensibilities. We're going to have to split all the Greek gods up into two groups and each take one group's responsibilities. I think we should make it as contradictory as possible; for example, one person should take the duties of both Aphrodite and Ares. And Hephaestus and Poseidon. Hhhhaha and Athena and Apollo, they hate each other. I am cracking myself up. Too much Iliad in the last 3 weeks, I guess. All these Greek jokes are hitting home.Oooh, I hope you get promoted to Blowtorch Guy soon. Unless it's not as fun as it sounds. Did you sneak anything home for the dogs or just torment them with your delicious odor?
Oooh. Ohh ho ho Predator. My favorite part is when that guy's arm gets chopped off but keeps shooting its gun. The power of testosterone. Incidentally, who would you bet on in an Alien v Predator fight? I have to say Predator, even though I like Alien better. Invisibility and all that, it's so helpful.I've never been in one. Every year my family donates warm stuff to shelters in the winter and I dropped some stuff off last year and sat in my car crying for ages before I could drive home. It was terribly depressing. You know, I never really cared either way. I'm inclined to say human based on a gut feeling, but evidence is there for both sides. It also depends on which version you watch, kind of. The humanity of the replicants was in their quest for meaning and their ability to feel emotion; Deckard was pretty much numb.Maybe things will pick up later in the century. I sure hope so. Perhaps after the Internet takes over the world and humans have to fight a bloody war against the machine hordes they will remember the value of art and independent thought. Aaah! Yes. Brilliant. You want the sky/earth or the sea/underworld?
Monty P was already kind of a musical. There's nothing one can do it to make it more ridiculous, so I say have at it. Doing Human Centipede strikes me as a hipster-ironic kind of thing.It's hard not to feel sorry for them. They don't have homes. I mean, homes are the best.You mentioned it in passing. I hadn't heard of it but googled it just now and I see that Rutger Hauer is the eponymous hero. This peaks my interest after last quarter's long scholarly grappling with Blade Runner for my sci fi class. I was rooting for Roy way too enthusiastically and people thought I was weird.We're living in a golden age as far as health, wealth, and general condition goes. Unfortunately I fear this well-being has lead to a mental apathy; it's a planet of dumbos and useless bloody idiots. I mean the Middle Ages was literally one big cesspit, but at least they had Chaucer.Right! Also history is written by the victors, as they say, so as long as we crush all opposition we will only be remembered as glorious, fair-minded bringers of peace. Which we will be.
Because people who do musical theater are soooo funny lol and creative rofl. Lol. Lol. My stepmother loves her. I was pretty Oprah-ambivalent until my dad married my stepmom and now she's everywhere. My stepmom, for the record, hates and is rude to homeless people even though she is rich. I think she might have a channel but I'm not sure.I would rather it be fetishists than normal morons. At least fetishists are... actually fetishists are way worse. I have just reversed my position. I think Saw started it all off, I remember when that came out I was horrified at the decline in humanity in general. Turns out Saw was the tamest one and it was going to get a lot worse. I think torture porn is tapering off now, though. Just think back to times when dead people were piled in the gutter and 9 of your 10 children would drop dead before they hit the double digits. We don't have to see death much these days. Maybe that has something to do with torture porn? Or is that too generous to the genre? Probably.I would be honored to slaughter millions with you for the sake of peace. Pragmatically speaking, if there were fewer people on Earth it might be easier to achieve global harmony.
Speak of the f*cking devil. My sister just sent this to me. Let's combine my two least favorite things: The Human Centipede and musical theater.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gLagIYMHVEI hate the world sometimes.
She is a big horrible tub who eats her emotions. It's not a bad thing but it is a fact. If Oprah died form some weight issue I would be first in line to dance on her grave. She fetishizes money and wealth under the guise of spiritual well-being... this is turning into a rant real fast. Abort. P.S. Curvy. Duh huh huh. I've always liked "curvy." Women are curvy; fat women are fat. PC language is getting tiresome.I think it hits the weak spots of most peoples' constitutions. I've never understood things like Hostel or Human Centipede or torture-porn and what-not. Exploitation I get and can sometimes get a kick out of, but movies where the entire point is really grisly sadistic violence with no sense of humor about it are really screwed up. I think I switched my verb tenses a lot in that sentence.It probably was better than the present. Most time periods were probably better than the present, unless you were some sort of minority. I would never, ever be able to deal with a cavalry charge, but I do think warfare should be personal again. If you want to go to war you should be forced to deal with taking someone's life with your own two hands. A little more thought might go into the process that way; although probably not, because looking back on it there were a hell of a lot of wars in pre-technological times and it didn't slow them down. There goes my silly idealism again. On the other hand though, this is an age when the Western world has been largely shielded from death, so if we were forced to revert to hand-to-hand warfare, we might not be able to stomach it. Again with the ranting. Apologies.How shockingly balanced of you. You should start your own philosophy and then lead a heinous bloody revolution with lots of cavalry charges, just for irony's sake. But protect the horses. I can't bear an animal in pain.
I agree. That's why I didn't have a shit fit and start campaigning like he was going to change the world. But Oprah did, because she is a crappy hypocrite. She also hates fat people even though she is one.I had not heard of that little beauty. Does Human Centipede count as exploitation film? I have no intention of seeing it, I'm just wondering how it should be classified. Have we already mocked Human Centipede? You might even be taken as the husband of a Leanan Sidhe, if you're lucky. Yeats wrote about them, but true to form, he turned them creepy and weird. I used Harry Potter to escape my shitty childhood, so I have kind of an otherworldly aka unhealthy bond with it. Everybody has that one irrational, lifelong obsession that won't leave them alone; mine is Potter. Also read the last three books or you will regret it upon your deathbed.There may or may not have been a raised fist or two on my part. And I may or may not have used my own blood to paint a giant hammer and sickle on the blackboard and gone storming out into the halls rallying the people to rise up against their fetters.
She's a douchebag. She is the ultimate capitalist pig. And she voted for Bush! I mean what the hell, she went on this massive Obama campaign after she voted for Bush?I found it akin to experiencing a 2.5 hour long seizure. So loud. So many over-sung songs. Careful what you wish for. This sounds like a set up for a horror film, one of those crappy ones that are PG 13. Your next step in the plot is to go to a hypnotist to remember this harrowing experience, which will inevitably open up some sort of portal, resulting in either the severe haunting of your home or the possession of your own immortal soul. Tread lightly.I read Douglas Adams as a kid, but no Bernard Cornwell. I've heard his books about King Arthur are fun but haven't read any of them. My childhood was dedicated to LOTR and CS Lewis, until Harry Potter came out of course. Life-changer.Hooho horf. I laughed. Jolly good show. I got a bloody nose in my lit theory class this morning, which was deeply humiliating, especially because I was in the middle of defending Marx. Then the girl next to me panicked and insisted on walking me to the bathroom "to make sure I was okay." I was okay. Really. Escort not necessary.
She's also the devil. I hate Oprah. She isn't a psychologist and should therefore not give anyone "advice" about their problems. I have no idea. It's some grainy weird old movie with lots of can-can scenes. Like an olde tyme Moulin Rouge, which was itself a heinous film.Ooooh good one. That's bloody eerie. It gets double points for involving a closet AND a creepy little kid. "Young adult" is a problematic term because of late, adults have been reading the shit that comes out of that section. It should just be called "dumb predictable simplistic fiction" and be done with it. Intended audience really has nothing to do with it anymore.I think you gave whatever you had to me via internet. I have a total fever and can't sleep so I'm wasting my life on the internet. Alternate hot and cold flashes. Chills. Flu. Yay paycheck! I just got my paycheck, too. It's not really a paycheck, it's actually just a significant deepening of my debt. But it's mine. Well, for now. I don't want to think about my loans.
Agreed. That's why I hate Oprah so much. She rich but so so boring. Well one of the reasons, anyway. F*ck Oprah.Nor I. It boggles the mind. He's also terrifying to behold; looks like he should be in that ghastly movie about a French whorehouse. You know the one.I love him. Everyone should have a grandfather like that. Aliens for sure. I was just discussing that with my sister, actually. Everyone has seen a ghost or an alien or Bigfoot, but most people don't talk about it. Well I saw an alien, damn it, and I'm not ashamed of it!Sturgeon's Law, now those are words to live by. It's heartening to think that someone else in the world is startled by the sheer volume of crap in the literary world. Walking through a bookstore is an exercise in masochism sometimes.Oh ughh. Could be strep throat maybe. I hope not, it's a total shitter of an illness. I would say go to the doctor, but you already have. Get it? The doctor. Hhhhhhheh. Hheheheh. Feel better and don't smoke while you're ill.
Yeahhh, that's still quite bad. She was also boring, which is entirely her own fault.I dunno, I should look it up. It's interesting that people are still dumb enough to be racist, especially in public. Ooooh it's bad! http://www.popeater.com/2011/03/01/john-galliano-fired/I felt awful for her grandfather, too. Bummer town.Nope. Two lights appeared out of nowhere and shot off so very, very fast. I don't know what to make of it. It was either some kind of horrible new government drone plane thing or aliens. Both are awful.I could certainly get used to a future like that. There are too many bad books around these days, I would thoroughly enjoy telling the authors they have less than zero talent and that if I ever hear that they are trying to write again, I will come to their homes and kill them in the night.
Unless it's my 18th Century British lit professor, who I can guarantee is unmarried and whose class I just dropped. Psychobitch.Indeed. The fastest way to do it is probably to become part of the fashion industry. Some designer for Chanel or Dior or something just got fired for being an antisemite, you could take his spot.It was a pretty huge downer when they erased Donna's memory. Depressing. I would have just killed her, it's kinder than letting her go back to being a clueless idiot.I bet NASA is just like the X files. I think I saw a UFO on West Cliff one time. It was terrible.Yes, I was thinking of a little boat. Working on a big one wouldn't be so bad, although the phrase "processing crabs" made me fairly queasy. That is a valid thing to wonder; I wonder it myself often. I have no idea what I'll do with it. Editor, publisher, and literary agent are the only jobs I can think of off the spot, so perhaps one of those. It wouldn't be so bad to get paid to be a grammar nazi.
At least Catherine was a woman. The universal sisterhood and all that.I think makeup could be useful, but only if one was really excellent at it. Like a master of disguise deal.I hated him vehemently for that very reason until his season actually aired. Then I was forced to admit he had a pretty good Doctor personality; I also like Amy way more than Donna, I thought she sucked. I loved David Tennant, but I think after Rose left they paired him with really shitty partners. Donna was so loud all the time, and Martha was too indignant about things. You can just take my word for it. It's a crushing insult, I assure you.Nobody in my family died via piano, but my great-uncle got his eyebrows torched off by a rocket ship. He worked on fuel injectors for NASA. That one gets a giggle out of me whenever I think of it.Isn't that the most dangerous job of all time, ever? Hey, you can become a vigilante for real! If you see any overfishing or killing of nice sea life, you can drown the perpetrator. Hhha. Suckers. To be honest if I wasn't so close to finishing my degree I would probably quit. I'm getting tired of the ivory tower. I loved it until recently, I guess I'm burning out. Oh and we had to do humiliating introductions in my Homeric epic class. I panicked and said "I'm Rebecca and I think I'm having an asthma attack."A documentary, you say? This pleases me greatly.
Would Catherine the Great really be so difficult a leap? Or at least Lenin, if you're going to go for the obvious Pinko comparison.I never learned, really. My parents got divorced when I was 8 and I was stuck with my crappy dad all the time so I never learned anything feminine. I think it's why I still dunno how to do eyeliner. That and my eye-poking phobia.So you're saying that the dumb, stupid, dumbo masses all flock to Star Wars because it's simple. I approve. I like Star Wars a lot, but Star Trek and Doctor Who are just cooler. New Who starts April 23. I drew a Tardis on my calendar; I wish I was kidding.That there is comedy gold. You could mock Cristiano Ronaldo's girlish appearance and his habit of cheating like a little shitter. He's their golden boy, it would be deliciously below the belt.The piano bit sounds familiar; it must have been you who told me that, who else's aunt died in such a way? I couldn't think of an adjective for the way she died so I just left it off. I mean Jesus. A piano. Carrying one. What can I say to that? She's amazing.Too short. Two midterms, three 15 pagers and a final in 2.5 months is murder. Eegah is on TV. Not the MST3K version. I want to kill myself. Oh I watched Troll 2 over spring break, apparently it's famously bad. It was fairly amazing.
Winston! Congratulations! I, due in part to my ridiculous Russocentricity in high school, got landed with Stalin for a nickname. It's my cross to bear.I can't even be bothered to cook for myself and I am one of them. I need a wife. I don't know which is worst in that hierarchy. I recently had a lengthy conversation with a friend of mine about the discrimination against Trekkies in the mainstream media. It's perfectly okay to love the shit out of Star Wars, but Trek is a pariah. Well I will proudly wear my hand-made Cpt Kirk shirt as often as I bloody please, thank you very much.All I know is that the language sounds like the love child of Spanish and French. Can we somehow make that funny? Uuh they were also overly cautious during the last World Cup, in my opinion. Too much defense.To hell with them! Yes! That made me happy.Short girls are beloved. They are cute and delicate and can be easily picked up and whirled about. Hmm.I start a new quarter tomorrow. Quarter system = Satan. I miss semesters.
Yeah those crazy emotional lunatics with their hormones and baby mania. Have you seen the Doctor Who where there is a creepy circus and a weird clown/mime guy runs around doing stuff? I think it may have been the 7th doctor but I can't remember. I haven't seen it since I was a kid. My uncle is the biggest Who nerd in history. He built a TARDIS and it now lives in the back yard. His wife knitted him a Tom Baker scarf. You two should talk sometime.I'm sure there's a Portuguese mafia, there are all kinds. If you represented Portugal we could use it to stun people before we beat them up. "He's Portuguese. Yeah, really." They're already be knocked silly before we touched 'em.Ugh what a creep. People are so weird. I want to parade around in heels this summer and see how many people call me tall. Then I could call a human rights group and complain; you're not allowed to go up to midgets and say "Christ you're short... I mean Jesus, how short are you? Are your parents short?" My brother in law is short and he's the best person alive; his sister is also short and is the devil. You never can tell.
I know. I'm a boring, reasonable, rational snooze, what can I say?Weep no more, Zimbabwe. We will soon come to free your Who-stash from the greedy hands of your moste unfriendlye dictatore. Ere the break of day you shall have your fill of wobbling sets, falling-apart villains, and flubbed dialogue! That sounds quite fun. Maybe I'll do that this summer. I am also thinking of starting a mafia. We won't do anything hurtful, just dress in black and talk in accents. It will be international; I shall be Russia, of course. Drawn-on Sharpie tattoos ahoy.Missed connections, oy. The desperation is palpable. People should be taught at a young age that eye contact does not equal a missed connection. Wow, what a giant bastard. Sneaky weasel, I hope he fell down some stairs on the way home.Oh no, you mustn't think that way. He probably had feet like grapes. Or canoes. They would never have fit you. You lost nothing. I love shoes, but have very bad feet and don't often wear heels. Plus there's the height thing.
I'm all for lively debate. I have very little patience for people who are pushy, rude, or who think they know everything, however. I think I'm kind of caught in the middle, and therefore get severely irritated by both sides of the debate. I'm not an atheist but I'm not religious. Anybody who speaks in absolutes immediately marks themselves as ignorant to me. Except for Catholicism. I loathe it. Loooathe. Be as absolutist as you like about it. They hide art and literature from the world, even the non-catholic world. Hhh...hhhwhat? This is Earth-shattering news. I did not know of these Lost Episodes. Well old friend, time to assemble the knights. Looks like we have a quest. There may be danger, some of us may die, but by the BBC we won't stop until we have secured these Episodes. For King and country! 108! That is so many!They are such twerps. I mean if I had to identify with Juliet or Richard I guess I would go with Richard, but that's just by default. And I am also paranoid and distrustful, I guess. Distrustful or mistrustful? Both, probably. I, on the other hand, hear analytical, hours-long dissections of every aspect of interaction between Girl A and Boy A. Some stereotypes are true. "And when he gave me my change he touched my hand, I think it was on purpose, I mean that totally means something, it's sooo possible not to touch someone when you hand them money so it had to be on purpose. Why didn't he get my number?"I must say it would be strange if you didn't love boots, particularly those. I love that color. Do you own said shoes?
