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[cleolinda]

Had to dogsit Pete the puppy today--Sister Girl has to close at Panera tonight, so he would have been alone for ten hours straight, and her boyfriend couldn't watch him because... he's at Comic-Con on business (the comic book buyer, remember?). So... I had fun with Pete, but didn't get a damn thing done today. Sigh. And I spent all yesterday

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[crumpeteer]

The Cowboy Bebop news alternately terrifies and thrills me. They're starting to screw with anime I like now, so it's getting a bit personal.

Meanwhile, is it okay that I sort of totally approve of Bale defending his wife if that's what it was about? I mean if that's the case, while I know I should morally be on my "anger never solves anything" pulpit, I would completely be thinking in the back of my mind "aw, that's kinda sweet in a twisted, Russell Crowe-esque manner".

[cleolinda]

I don't want to trust the tabloid version of the story, because it feeds very much into what I want to believe, but it's kind of sounding like his mother, from whom he has been somewhat estranged since she made him choose between her and his father (he chose his father and they moved to LA? Some article was saying this today?), started shit-talking his wife, and he reacted as a man under a lot of stress will react when someone shit-talks his wife: shit-talking back. I think the current version of the story is that he "lightly pushed" or "brushed" his mother, and then later she and the sister went to a police station and complained. Again, it's tempting to view him as a hero here when he really might not be, but... the family is not coming off very well in the current version of the story.

[anne_jumps]

Yeah.
I hadn't realized his stepmother (since 2000; his dad passed in 2003) is Gloria Steinem until I was looking at the Wiki page on him a few weeks ago. Plus Jenny Bale was a part-time circus clown and that will probably fuck a few things up.

[crumpeteer]

I've been keeping up with it on ONTD (which has seriously set feminism back like 50 years through all of this, and that's a conservative estimate) and everything is so fishy and weird about all of this that I really want to give Bale the benefit of the doubt so bad. I've always loved him and always loved his wife and while he may have come across intense or cranky some times, he also came across blessedly human. I think that's why so much of me wants to believe this version as his reaction is also blessedly human.

[greyduck]

I thought the series was fantastic, but even the anime CowBe movie wasn't that great. I can only imagine the pain that an Americanized live-action rendition will bring. Ugh.

We can't just leave things well enough alone, however, so the pain will come whether I will it or not. See also: Shamallamadingdong's Avatar movie.