A few things

[cleolinda]

I discovered yesterday that Sam has been moonlighting as a superhero fighting crime. And that his masked alter ego is... Red Panda.

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[coneycat]

I adore Sam's secret identity. Fighting crime with the power of cute!

[laughingacademy]

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA PAN-DAAAAAAA!

CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL MOVIE YAY - I just finished reading that book this past weekend! This could be an awesome movie. I can hear the pitch: "The Prestige with a happy ending!" Ooh, and imagine the street team campaign: Carter Is Everywhere posters with She never died scribbled across them.

[quitesometime]

I was the one who tweeted you about living in downtown LA during the Lakers riots, and dear god I am glad to be out of there this week. My friend is at the apartment now, and I'm getting updates from her as it happens. Plus I'm making her take pictures - it looks so ridiculous.

[cleolinda]

It's like... I'm surprised that I was surprised at first. These are the people who camped out at malls for the Hot Topic appearances before the first movie came out.

[quitesometime]

Yeah, I saw them camping at Comic-Con last year, but this hits more close to home for me, I think. Like, I was just there on Sunday night for LAFF and now it's been overrun by Twihards.

[chulacabra]

I live two miles from the theater and I'm gobsmacked that anyone would willingly sleep there for three nights. It's not the safest neighborhood to be hanging out in at 3 am. Yeah, there's theater security but still, I'm guessing that protecting silly Twihards isn't high on their list. And judging from the photos, a lot of those women look to be in their 30s and 40s. Do they not have jobs? Kids? Husbands? How can they just take off for three days to sleep on sidewalks stained with homeless pee and dog turds?

[lolleeroberts]

Okay, is it sad that when I read about a Conan reboot I immediately thought that Ronon from Stargate:Atlantis would make a great Conan? Then I click on the link and it's Jason Momoa, but people are saying he's not ripped enough. What?? Dudes, did these guys seriously ever watch SGA?

[eregyrn]

Well, who could possibly be as ripped as 80s Arnold? Jason Momoa isn't *as* ripped as that... and to my mind, that's a good thing. Arnold's level of ripped freaks me out. Momoa's is "just right", to my mind.

(I remember when I first heard this news having a conversation with someone about differing body standards. I thought that Momoa was a pretty good representation of what a modern ripped guy ought to be... but I don't know, maybe I'm on crack. Arnold certainly looked like he had stepped out of a Vallejo painting, you have to give him that.)

[sethrak]

Actually, I think Jason Momoa, while perfectly capable as Conan, would have made a better Prince of Persia lead than Gyllenhall. But then, I'm biased, as I will always and forever think of Gyllenhall as Homer Hickam.

(It was very traumatizing when I encountered a shirtless Lego figuirine of him, atop a wee Lego ostrich - with little ab muscle lines painted on his torso. Do Not Want. SO Do Not Want.)

[eregyrn]

Yeah, the Lego figurines sometimes disturb me as well.

I agree that Momoa could have been cast in Prince of Persia and would have made so much more sense than Gyllenhall. But then, I was one of those disappointed that they could not apparently cast someone at least in the *ballpark* of "Persia" for the role. (Which, bless him, Momoa wouldn't have been either.)

[glenvorian]

Any thoughts on the fact the Hobbit has no director, you guys?

[cleolinda]

I'm hearing they might get Neil Blomkamp to do it.

[glenvorian]

I can't blame PJ for not wanting to do it.