Eccentric Flower talk:200907/Jupiter Bears Etc
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Oh yeah, there's that. Other than their sausage biscuits there is very little I am willing to ever eat at McDonald's.
I cannot imagine going to a Subway in Montreal.
(Incidentally, I am assuming that for any number of reasons you will not be going to this year's Worldcon. Is this a correct assumption?)
-- 17:15, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Mankind invented shelter, what, a million years ago or so? Indoors: Not Just a Fad.
Subway is good for the quick $5 foot-long meatball and provolone sub. Their cheesesteaks aren't bad, either.
-- 18:47, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Addenda
A Few Questions. I don't know why, but I really liked these. My answers: B, C, B, C, E.
"I know shit about Star Wars, but this little blue man with the white hat and the dead ram is kinda cute." Aaaand that sound you heard was Carrie McLaren getting pigpiled by Star Wars fans. But the softwork is undeniably cute.
-- 19:22, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Aaaaand ...
The official video for "88 Lines About 44 Women."
(As BB says: "NSFW in a 1950s National Geographic sort of way.")
-- 19:27, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Joy:
Camping is fun! Especially after a few days when you get used to the pace. I grew up sailing, which I prefer to camping since you get many of the benefits (away from people, out in nature, fresh air, etc) without the drawbacks (still have plumbing, no dirt, no schlepping gear, and importantly NO BEARS).
-- 19:57, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Oh, I should properly write up My First Camping Trip story someday -- I know I've told Columbina, but the rest of y'all would enjoy it. There were BEARS. (My first camping trip was when I was...hmm. Twenty? Hrrm. No, maybe 21 or 22. And there were bears. I've never been camping since!)
However. HOWEVER. I will be going to Burning Man this year! I am honestly excited about this. There will not be bears, and Rich and I will sleep in his RV, and I think we will split the difference just right between playa and posh. I observe very few societal restraints on my Rose-ness as it is; I just can't resist the call of a place where there will be NONE.
-- 21:01, 27 July 2009 (BST)
oh dear, the poor Dibnys. you know that the point has really been missed when they're being resurrected as part of a zombie horde for this summer's big cash-grab. i'm not in the camp demanding my personal childhood nostalgia regurgitated with better colouring, but there does need to be a middle ground.
i'm stifling the recommendation machine--quick, tell me which comics *you do* enjoy.
-- 21:20, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Chip eats salads at Subway and McDonald's, when he's in a hurry, and says they're not bad. But then he likes camping.
And SOME film critics agreed with you on HP6, Columbine ... or do you not count online film critics as being as valid as print critics? I saw that comment a few entries back.
What amazed me about HP6 was the sheer number of comments on my review from fans who hated the movie passionately because their character was diminished or their favorite scene on page 296 was missing. I can understand that to a certain extent, but the sheer numbers and level of passionate hate was a little surprising.
-- 21:22, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Settsimaksimin: I don't read anything in single-issue form anymore. Life is too short. I wait for arcs/stories to be bound into "graphic novel" or trade format, and buy those.
I am generally willing to risk any title which bears one of the following author's names on its cover: Mike Mignola, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis (although I can't get into Transmetropolitan), Kyle Baker, Jeph Loeb, Daniel Torres.
I will almost always stop to investigate the work of the following artists I love: Tim Sale, Brian Bolland, Michael Kaluta, Charles Vess, Jon J Muth, Rick Veitch, Alex Ross ... and Daniel Torres.
Nearly everything that comes out of Dark Horse or America's Best Comics is worth at least a look to see if it's worth buying. Usually it is.
Apart from that, I generally buy only one-shot, encapsulated Batman stories (I particularly like the weirder alternate-history ones, what DC used to call Elseworlds). I grew up on the angular Jim Aparo Batman, and that's what Batman "looks like" to me. I have several books of Aparo arcs from the eighties.
However, the single greatest stretch of sustained Batman storytelling and art was Detective Comics #471-476, writer:Steve Englehart pencils:Marshall Rogers inks:Terry Austin, which DC has collected (on inferior paper, alas) in a book called Strange Apparitions. All Batman fans should own that, The Killing Joke, and the first Frank Miller Dark Knight Returns set (the ones he did before he lost his mind).
Other than that I tend to collect older stuff (I can always use more Will Eisner Spirit collections, for example) and material from my childhood which is not quite as good as I remember (the Perez/Wolfman run of Teen Titans, groundbreaking then, reads as Cheese Whiz now, and my thoughts about Trevor von Eeden's Thriller will make an entry one day).
-- 22:58, 27 July 2009 (BST)
Jette: The problem is that I don't include any online film review sites in my regular orbits and probably should, but there's a set of print ones where I essentially see every review they write.
-- 23:02, 27 July 2009 (BST)
So, I'm going to speak again from my vantage of the one person on earth who hasn't read all the Harry Potter books. I found the plot of this movie to be completely impenetrable. I didn't get some of the key plot points until I went back and read a summary on Wikipedia. (For instance, if they explained why Dumbledore's hand is like that, I totally missed it.)
And then some things seemed to be handled so clumsily. I gather that, in the books, Snape's motivations and allegiances are unclear until the end of the series. Here, they're so transparent that I thought it sucked all of the emotional resonance out of the last ten minutes of the film. (It also didn't help that I thought, "Ooh, it's a Journey concert.")
And don't even get me started on teenage romantic comedy.
-- 02:24, 28 July 2009 (BST)
You're not the only one. My brother-in-law has deliberately not read any of the books before seeing the films and he didn't even know the major spoiler on this (how he managed to avoid it, I do not know). He seemed to like it.
Snape's motivations and allegiances, and whether he can be trusted, are more complex than they appear. I didn't think the film overly simplified that (or at least not fatally). Of course Harry has made up his mind, but that's Harry.
The teenage romances were actually the bits I liked best of this film. And that's me saying that. Sorry, I think they're all cute kids and watching them be hormonal and such is entertaining to me.
As for Dumbledore's hand, they did explain it, sorta, but you had to really be looking for it. When he shows Harry the two Horcruxes he has already found and destroyed (well, Harry destroyed the first one), he says something like "Destroying them isn't easy," and he gestures to the ring, then displays his hand prominently. But I agree that's a little too subtle.
Thing of it is, I don't think these films are really aimed at people who haven't read the books. Both of you.
-- 03:46, 28 July 2009 (BST)
I'm the other one. I've only read the first two...
But then, I didn't even notice Dumbledore's hand.
Aaaand, there does not exist a long enough extension cord for me to go camping. I completely agree with your abhorence for pooping in holes, etc. Mrissa has it right. Roughing it is when there's only one TV in the suite. Or no wireless access...
-- 06:14, 28 July 2009 (BST)
Peebles: Dumbledore's hand gets a much fuller exposition in the last book. I remember it being referred to in No. 6, but I don't think it was explained what had happened.
I haven't seen the movie yet (have to find a babysitter one of these days), but Snape's motivations aren't clear up until the end of No. 7.
-- 15:12, 28 July 2009 (BST)
i got sucked into (Tr)Action Park and need boggle support for the concept of a *vertical loop* water slide. my brain refuses to process it even though there's a photograph. ow. ow. ow.
-- 17:06, 28 July 2009 (BST)
Mrissa:
Camping is when you go all the way down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast instead of ordering up. Also, if the hotel pool is outdoors? Camping.
Subway is something I will eat if I am traveling in an emergency and did not pack food and the other alternative is McDonald's. Otherwise no. One of the very few things I miss about Omaha is that it had independent sub shops of pretty good quality.
I hear that Subway's bread is about a million times better in Montreal. I believe this report but still have not felt the urge to check it out, because hey, there I was in Montreal--why on earth would I eat Subway?
-- 17:09, 27 July 2009 (BST)