I REMEMBERED. The unplaceable scene that was bothering me was actually from a King Arthur flick. ( The situation, for posterity )

( This year, I learned: )

A snippet of a scene from a movie is bothering me.

Sidekick: Why didn't you kill him?
Evil woman: Because that's what he wanted me to do.

Can't remember who these people are, or why the hero wanted to die, or what happened next. Very, very annoying.

I want to know the name for the sideways sliding feeling when you could do A, and would rather like to do A, and yet because there's also B through Z and because the obstacle of starting A is so just-slightly-above-your-head, you really end up not doing A. There's no reason to do A, except that it would probably make you happy; but you're happy ( Read more... )

Finished watching The Secret Garden, and wondered whether the movie preserves the alternate literary model the book works on--unlike most stories, the Secret Garden's about slow growth, not about a climax. The book ends with the revelation that Colin can walk, but that's after pretty much all of the action has taken place. The movie throws in ( Read more... )

I. Have. Tony's. !!! =)

Standing orders: Sweeney Todd is not to be let inside the house.

Christmas was good. I spent the morning in Baltimore and got to Salem just in time for dinner, thus missing out on all the manual labor--and I didn't really mind. The weather's 50 and damp, like April paying December a social call, so I've gone running, walking at Cowtown, and hopefully riding this afternoon. Orion needs a workout, unless my ( Read more... )

Why has it been so long since I heard anything about Cookie Monster? It used to be people would be bringing him up all the time, making jokes about him, sharing the latest news. I randomly thought of him just now because...well, there are two cookies left that I don't want to eat or drag with me, but which will be stale by the time I come back. ( Read more... )

Tried to clean my room last night. Will all these objects actually fit in places that are neither the floor nor my bed? Stay tuned ( Read more... )