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[greygirlbeast]

Today is mine and Spooky's 6th anniversary. And we both forgot until this ayem, when I remembered. We met, face to face, while I was MCing Convergence 5 in New Orleans in 1999 (ah, goth love), and thereafter we began spending a lot of time together. But we didn't really hook up until this date in 2002. That's the date from which we count the

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[ex_kaz_maho]

Happy Anniversary to you both!!

[girfan]

Happy anniversary!

[blu_muse]

Happy Aniversary! Ahh..and to think I was there at C5 when it all began... Spooky too shy to say hello to you and I dragged her across the dance floor. I think we sat on the stage at your feet, if I recall...

Sorry about "disappearing" last night...I crashed and figured it was as good a place as any to stop for the night. Cer's a bit lost and loopy and wandering the streets stuck between different realities. However, it was good to be back and will indeed tempt me to do more.

[greygirlbeast]

Spooky too shy to say hello to you and I dragged her across the dance floor. I think we sat on the stage at your feet, if I recall...

Yep.

Sorry about "disappearing" last night...I crashed and figured it was as good a place as any to stop for the night. Cer's a bit lost and loopy and wandering the streets stuck between different realities.

Good call.

However, it was good to be back and will indeed tempt me to do more.

Yes, please! Labyrinth needs you!

[chris_walsh]

As someone who likes hearing how good couples hook up, I want to thank you for sharing the Convergence (in more ways than one!) story. So that's how it happened. I hope we'll get to hear from humglum about how Cait and Spooky got together; that would be nice.

Happy anniversary, Caitlin and Kathryn.

[cucumberseed]

Happy Anniversary!

[robyn_ma]

I will say only that, to me, the message was that deviation from the path is always possible. Whether it's being a flabby fuck in thrall to consumerism, or being a lonely trash-compacting robot, or being a robot fixated solely on the directive, or fucking up the planet. You see the 'deviate from the path' thread everywhere in the film, most obviously in M-O, the little cleaning robot that has to literally break from the path in order to clean up after WALL•E.

It seems to be about hope, and faith in one's ability to improve oneself and one's world. In short, it's very much an Obama-era film.

Offered not in argument but in clarification of my own take on it. I respect yours.

[greygirlbeast]

I will say only that, to me, the message was that deviation from the path is always possible. Whether it's being a flabby fuck in thrall to consumerism, or being a lonely trash-compacting robot, or being a robot fixated solely on the directive, or fucking up the planet. You see the 'deviate from the path' thread everywhere in the film, most obviously in M-O, the little cleaning robot that has to literally break from the path in order to clean up after WALL•E.

Interesting. Thank you.

[robyn_ma]

I should also add that, unlike the throngs who bombarded Brian Orndorf with hate mail after his negative review of WALL•E, I'm not inclined to freak out over a dissenting opinion. The movie, I think, is so dense and gives rise to so much interpretation that your take is perfectly valid - you're not necessarily a 'jaded old fuck' for responding to it in that specific way. Many people agree with you that the film takes a dip once the robots go to the Axiom. Personally, I was so enthralled and verklempt over WALL•E and EVE that the second half could've been competitive farting and it probably wouldn't have ruined it for me.

Since we're not arguing over the film's relative merits, one other thing I took away from the film was its actual distrust of technology. Technology was supposed to save us within five years after we ruined the planet; instead all the WALL•Es broke down except one, and 700 years later there are still towers of trash. Meanwhile, the computers programmed by the government/corporation have kept humans bloated and