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[cleolinda]

Minor addendum to Monday's entry: I did go and see Prince Caspian again, and while I still think it's a bit top-heavy with Telmarine political drama and a little too much wandering around looking for each other, I liked it a lot better this time. You know, particularly since I could actually see it this time. Of course, I also liked it the first

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[stepliana]

I've seen Narnia three times now, and I think I like it more each time as well. You can notice the little things, like the apple orchard in Cair Paravel, or the way Peter shakes his head slightly as he walks up to the statue of his older self. I love it.

Also, could you do me a huge favor? Would you mind linking to a blog my friend started about neuroses, I Am Neurotic, where people can post their neuroses (anonymously, of course) and read about all the neuroses other people have? It's pretty therapeutic, at least I think so.

[cleolinda]

Sure thing. : )

[koritsimou]

Did that teacher actually do that?

I mean, like, actually? She was that cruel?

[cleolinda]

Well, this is the second news link I've seen about it, so it appears to be so.

After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher said they were going to take a vote, Barton said.

By a 14 to 2 margin, the class voted him out of the class.

[...]

Barton said after the vote, Alex's teacher asked him how he felt.

"He said, 'I feel sad,'" she said.

Alex left the classroom and spent the rest of the day in the nurse's office, she said.

[koritsimou]

Oh my God. That poor kid. I'm so ashamed of the human race.

[cleolinda]

Yeah. It's actually worse than I made it sound, isn't it? I just... I just can't figure out what was going through that woman's mind.

[crumpeteer]

A true measure of a movie for me is if I can watch it twice in a theater and not look at my watch. I was as enthralled by Prince Caspian the second time I saw it as I was the first, so that to me makes it a good watch.

Sadly, even though I liked it, I caught myself watch glancing in Indiana Jones during the part where they were going through the Peruvian prison.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, there was a lot of watch-glancing for me in Indiana Jones. I think I glanced at my watch once during Caspian (the first time), partly because I thought the movie was going to end shortly after the single combat (it's been a long time since I've read that particular book).

[robyn_ma]

Much as I despise coming to Rachael Ray's defense regarding, well, anything, I despise Michelle Malkin tons more. IT'S A SCARF.

Also, the Sharon Stone foofarah seems overblown. It was rhetorical musing aloud, in the form of a question, not a pronouncement. Collective guilt isn't a cool theory, but the concept of karma wasn't designed to be comforting either. In certain Buddhist views, a society's collective karma may open the door for suffering - not because it's 'deserved' but simply because, as Zen teaches, we all suffer and die. There are various subtleties involved, and screaming headlines about Sharon Stone's latest batshit quote don't really deal with the thinking behind what she said.

[dachelle]

I have a scarf like that Rachael Ray scarf! Well, not exactly like that. Mine is red-and-white checked. But it's the same style! I bought it in Camden because Peter Doherty and Carl Barat wore scarves like those. I thought it just made me a tragically obsessive indie fangirl, but apparently I'm a terrorist sympathizer now as well. Huzzah!

[bookwoman84]

I have one of those scarves as well! Although, mine was actually purcased in Saudi Arabia, so maybe that makes it more terroristic. I guess I'll need to be watching for signs of scarf jihad or something.