Rabbi Sanzo and the Blue People

[rachelmanija]

I'm back!

There will be a few more catch-up trip posts, as there's tons of stuff I never got a chance to write up. Such as the obsession of many people we met with Cameron's movie Avatar. I swear, every other conversation, someone would mention it. I was beginning to think it would be impossible to escape back to the US without getting dragged to

Comments

[shweta_narayan]

*can't stop giggling at the rabbi and the wonder drug, now*

Apropos of nothing, I think amrit and ambrosia have similar etymologies? There's clearly the negation a- and then something related to death (*mer?)

[lady_ganesh]

Ha!

[telophase]

You know, I wonder if the translation of the elixir in Aabra Ka Daabra as "aphrodisiac" was a result of mixing up that and "ambrosia"?

[spectralbovine]

Was there anything living or perishable on your doorstep?

[meganbmoore]

I remain deeply confused as to why the world seems so obsessed with Avatar. The trailers almost put me to sleep. (It got 2 screens at the single local theater, and I'm totally not bitter about that when Amelia was only here for two weeks and I didn't get to see it. Does the world really want Fern Gully remade with blue catpeople more than it wants avaitrixes?)