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Still hoping to encourage some of you to join therealljidol, so you can vote for my and other stories this round (and try out the comm and see what it's like). My story is really lagging in the votes, and we're losing the bottom 2 of 8 people this round, so every vote counts.
Biking today: I run into a variety of smells on the bike path. Some are bad ( ( Read more... )
Biking today: I run into a variety of smells on the bike path. Some are bad ( ( Read more... )
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I have Paranorman on my list of movies to watch, but had sort of forgotten about it. Now I am interested in seeing it again.
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Paranorman had slipped down my list too, but then I saw a blurb on it at some media source and I moved it up.
I'm usually way more about the story than the animation in a movie like that, but some of the animation caught my eye for how it supported the story. Norman's mother has kind of a lumpy, chinless face with bags under her eyes, and there's an abstract, gone-to-seed realism about her appearance that you practically never see. We also laughed out loud at things like the depiction of the teenage "Yeah, right" lip curl, and a bashful zombie. You don't expect either of those, but they were conveyed unmistakably.
It's not movie gold, but it's definitely worth seeing. I wish I'd seen it sooner, but Frankenweenie got more hype and the other just fell right out of my memory space. :)
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In re the smells, that is one of the things I enjoy the most about being on a bike - the total immersion in what is happening at the time and place - the smells, the sounds, the feeling. No other mode of transport does the same for me.
There's something special about rolling / pootling / hurtling along, listening to the tyres singing, the wildlife doing its thing, the colours of the flora and fauna, the colour of the light, and the olfactory aspect adding a another complete dimension of richness to the sensation, and knowing that what you experience at that given moment is unique in all of time and creation.
One of the rare things that makes me glad to be alive.
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The Green Room postings and discussion tend to be entertaining, too, plus many great stories each week. You could be writing stories about cycling or obnoxious customers in Season 9!
the total immersion in what is happening at the time and place - the smells, the sounds, the feeling. No other mode of transport does the same for me.Oh, I agree. You can't get the same feeling in a car or bus, and can't cover as much ground by walking! I'm never even tempted to listen to music while biking (which doesn't seem very safe anyway). There's so much going on, even if it's just ground squirrels shrieking out territorial declarations every 15 seconds as you go past ( ... )
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