Lazy Saturday nirvana

[cleolinda]

Not much going on today, except that I think I'm coming down with my mother's snerfy cold, so am resting up with Allegra-D today in hopes of not being too wiped out tomorrow to blog the Oscars.

(Something interesting I noticed: there's a commercial that's been airing for Amazing Grace, a movie I had not even heard of, but yet involves a number of

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[sigma7]

Who Wants To See Bijou Phillips Nude and Beheaded?

That permutation might get a few more bites, I dunno.

Lynn Johnson, well, you kinda have to give her a little proppage for continuing to feed her multigenerational story long after rational people would've given it up for sudoku. And while it sounds like the current plotline is either divorced from reality or a darkly Freudian mirror, will most people who actually open a newspaper and read the comics actually notice?

And I find the blog-nirvana diagram interesting, though I dissent with the implication that blogs should aspire toward the middle -- that's a little silly. The best thing about CuteOverload, for example, is that it knows what it wants to be, and it is that perfectly. Meg does a great job of feeding one aspect of our existence -- there's no need for titillation or indignation among bunnies and ferrets napping together -- and she lets the rest of the Series of Tubes take care of the rest. Maybe if you had to subsist on one blog, an online multivitamin, I can see this

Re: slightly different bait-and-switch in my house

[cleolinda]

Heeeeeee, I would totally go see "Hornblower Frees the Slaves."

Re: slightly different bait-and-switch in my house

[bardintraining]

I'll bring the snacks!
The wigs were what confused it for me, too.
I don't know if playing up the slavery thing is an American hook, because we're getting that angle in Canada as well from what I've seen in the TV spots. Being the end of the underground railroad counts for little, I see.
Or maybe whatever's good for broadcasting in the States will do for the Canucks just as well.
Which it does, really. Most of the time.

[thunderphoenix]

About the Even/Odd Trek Curse, the Odd ones are supposed to be bad, while the Even ones are good. However, I thought 3 was good, and the consensus was that 10 was terrible, so it's not an infalliable curse.

[supermom20]

I thought it was the other way around: odds good, evens bad. Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home anyone?

[thunderphoenix]

Well, that's also saying Wrath of Khan and First Contact are bad. And saying Final Frontier was good. And most people agree that TVH was one of the best.

[kateshort]

ST 1 sucked, II was brilliant, 3 was okay, 4 was palatable and usually pretty funny, 5 SUUUUUUUUUUUKED, and 6 was made of awesomeness.

Thus, evens = good, odds = bleah.

[piratesorka]

Interesting. I have seen the promo for Amazing Grace The idea of it having a Christian adgenda or Revolutionary War didn't even pop into my head. In fact, I thought it might have something to do with slavery due to the slave chains that were being rattled and explained to what looks like Parliment. Lo, behold! It is indeed about slavery. Maybe this ad was changed a bit because I am in Oregon and not Alabama.

Very interesting.

[cleolinda]

I'm telling you, there were no chains in the commercial they played down here, because I saw it three times. It moved very quickly, was very short, allowed for very little dialogue, and had me wondering if Gruffudd was supposed to be Patrick Henry or something.

[piratesorka]

Wow, thats some crazy marketing this movie has going!

[delle]

well, you know, they can't market the anti-slavery portion of the story here in the South.

or something.

also, the same guy wrote the poem Amazing Grace, hence the title and the playing of the hymn (altho he wrote a poem; the music came later).

how did I miss it was Ioan? ::is stupid::

[okaasan59]

At least Scarlett was smart enough to run the other way when Tom Cruise was pursuing her before he got his mitts on that poor gal he's married to now.