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Oct. 11th, 2012 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* There's been over a week of Syria and Turkey exchanging artillery barrages. Syria is the aggressor and Turkey is understandably retaliating. They are reluctant to invade Syria, but building up troops on the border in case Syria escalates, and it's sounding like the Turks are really losing patience. There was another opposition bombing in Damascus of a government compound. People continue to die on a daily basis. It sounds like conditions are pretty terrible in Aleppo.
* An Anti-Semitic terrorist cell based in Paris has been arrested, with one man dead. The leader was killed in a shoot out with police. Twelve others have been arrested.
* Republicans are now attacking the President for the cuts to Embassy Security that Republicans insisted on making as they felt Embassies in places like Libya only really needed a skeleton crew to keep staff safe. The argument is that as the President was against the cuts it's clearly his fault that the Republicans insisted on putting Embassy staff in harms way to spite him. I... don't see the logic, but they say it's so.
* A long list of things Mitt Romney's campaign says Mitt is lying about, paricularly women's health policy:
* I love this ad campaign for the Bill of reproductive Rights. Go Martha Plimpton!:
* The coward and bully who grabbed an unarmed school girl off her bus and shot her in the head is bragging about it, as if it wasn't a shameful thing for a grown man to be doing. Malala Yousafzai is in stable but serious condition in Pakistan tonight. This does a beautiful job of explaining what an amazing person she is and how much will be lost if they have succeeded in silencing her:
* John Stewart takes apart Mitt Romney's nonsensical budget claims:
* Interesting UAE coin find: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/was-ed-dur-ruled-by-a-woman
* "Tomb of Maya queen K’abel discovered in Guatemala:" https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24167.aspx
* Massive Aztec Skull Find: http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58131#.UHTXNVG0KSo
* "The Pain of Reading:" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/the-pain-of-reading.html?_r=0
* "Stacey Blahnik Lee Case Still Open Two Years Later:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/10/stacey-blahnik-lee-case-still-open-two.html
* "Developmental disability is a hand Nature deals some people; *stupid* is a lifestyle choice.:" http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/7579415.html
* This has links and discussion about legal definitions of Native American in the US, pertinent because Scott brown wants Elizabeth Warren's race to be the only campaign issue: http://greenwick.livejournal.com/142019.html?style=mine#
* "Happy National Coming Out Day 2012!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/10/happy-national-coming-out-day-2012.html
* It is still warm enough for a tee shirt an no coat in the afternoon here, but at night it's cooling off. The wee beasties have decided it's cuddle season. This means they are wanting a bit more togetherness than I want when I'm doing things like cooking or changing tanks, but they curl up in pairs or groups of three to sleep and and are terribly cute when they do. I love the cuddle time of the year.
* Squirrel and I both seem to be coming down with something, which makes everything exhausting. Gah.
* I am so glad I did not pay money to see the Fright Night remake. I am not wedded to the original. It was cheesey sort of fun with a snarky sense f humor, but a B movie at best. I haven't seen the original in something like a decade and a half, so again, not a beloved favorate where any change is going to piss me off. My memories are vague as it was something we mostly played in the background while strat gaming.I was a bit bummed out that "Evil" Ed was less fun, but that's the limit of my one to one comparison. I was fine with modernizing the tech and cultural references and substituting a cross between Criss Angel and Russell Brand for a B horror movie presenters as those simply don't exist any more. I mainly wanted to see it for David Tennent (in leather pants *cough*). No insult to Colin Farrell who was clearly trying his hardest with very little material of merit and still managed to turn in a decent performance, but really Mr. Tennent's scenes were the only really interesting ones in the movie. Clearly, he was having a wonderful time and that definitely came across, but alas, most of the movie was slow, boring, and by the numbers. There simple wasn't enough fun mixed in with the same old, same old. Criminal Minds has done the serial killer side waaaaay better and with more sense of real jeopardy and the CGI looked like something out of a mid to late 90's video game. If it had been made twenty years ago, it would have looked cheesey but understandably so. Made this far into the 21st century, it's just embarrassing, especially when you consider they hired acting heavy weights like Toni Collette and Colin Farrell and then proceeded to waste them. Sigh. I'm so glad I was warned by kind people on the internet, and waited for it to turn up at the library.
The saddest thing? The music video in the Special Features was way more effective as a visual short story than the movie was as a film. It had way better pacing, stronger visuals, and vastly more emotional content. While I anticipated the twist, it still pulled a strong emotional response, you know, unlike the movie. I admit, if they had just cut all the Tennent scenes together, with maybe Mr. Farrell's beer scene (well acted) and the scene where he gets them out of the house (legitimately clever), I might be willing to watch that, but the rest? No. Too much boring and slow.
* Snerk: http://curbed.com/archives/2012/10/10/hitting-below-the-belt.php
* "The Least Appetizing Cake in the World:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/10/9/gross-ickies.html
* An Anti-Semitic terrorist cell based in Paris has been arrested, with one man dead. The leader was killed in a shoot out with police. Twelve others have been arrested.
* Republicans are now attacking the President for the cuts to Embassy Security that Republicans insisted on making as they felt Embassies in places like Libya only really needed a skeleton crew to keep staff safe. The argument is that as the President was against the cuts it's clearly his fault that the Republicans insisted on putting Embassy staff in harms way to spite him. I... don't see the logic, but they say it's so.
* A long list of things Mitt Romney's campaign says Mitt is lying about, paricularly women's health policy:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* I love this ad campaign for the Bill of reproductive Rights. Go Martha Plimpton!:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* The coward and bully who grabbed an unarmed school girl off her bus and shot her in the head is bragging about it, as if it wasn't a shameful thing for a grown man to be doing. Malala Yousafzai is in stable but serious condition in Pakistan tonight. This does a beautiful job of explaining what an amazing person she is and how much will be lost if they have succeeded in silencing her:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* John Stewart takes apart Mitt Romney's nonsensical budget claims:
* Interesting UAE coin find: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/was-ed-dur-ruled-by-a-woman
* "Tomb of Maya queen K’abel discovered in Guatemala:" https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24167.aspx
* Massive Aztec Skull Find: http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58131#.UHTXNVG0KSo
* "The Pain of Reading:" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/the-pain-of-reading.html?_r=0
* "Stacey Blahnik Lee Case Still Open Two Years Later:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/10/stacey-blahnik-lee-case-still-open-two.html
* "Developmental disability is a hand Nature deals some people; *stupid* is a lifestyle choice.:" http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/7579415.html
* This has links and discussion about legal definitions of Native American in the US, pertinent because Scott brown wants Elizabeth Warren's race to be the only campaign issue: http://greenwick.livejournal.com/142019.html?style=mine#
* "Happy National Coming Out Day 2012!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/10/happy-national-coming-out-day-2012.html
* It is still warm enough for a tee shirt an no coat in the afternoon here, but at night it's cooling off. The wee beasties have decided it's cuddle season. This means they are wanting a bit more togetherness than I want when I'm doing things like cooking or changing tanks, but they curl up in pairs or groups of three to sleep and and are terribly cute when they do. I love the cuddle time of the year.
* Squirrel and I both seem to be coming down with something, which makes everything exhausting. Gah.
* I am so glad I did not pay money to see the Fright Night remake. I am not wedded to the original. It was cheesey sort of fun with a snarky sense f humor, but a B movie at best. I haven't seen the original in something like a decade and a half, so again, not a beloved favorate where any change is going to piss me off. My memories are vague as it was something we mostly played in the background while strat gaming.I was a bit bummed out that "Evil" Ed was less fun, but that's the limit of my one to one comparison. I was fine with modernizing the tech and cultural references and substituting a cross between Criss Angel and Russell Brand for a B horror movie presenters as those simply don't exist any more. I mainly wanted to see it for David Tennent (in leather pants *cough*). No insult to Colin Farrell who was clearly trying his hardest with very little material of merit and still managed to turn in a decent performance, but really Mr. Tennent's scenes were the only really interesting ones in the movie. Clearly, he was having a wonderful time and that definitely came across, but alas, most of the movie was slow, boring, and by the numbers. There simple wasn't enough fun mixed in with the same old, same old. Criminal Minds has done the serial killer side waaaaay better and with more sense of real jeopardy and the CGI looked like something out of a mid to late 90's video game. If it had been made twenty years ago, it would have looked cheesey but understandably so. Made this far into the 21st century, it's just embarrassing, especially when you consider they hired acting heavy weights like Toni Collette and Colin Farrell and then proceeded to waste them. Sigh. I'm so glad I was warned by kind people on the internet, and waited for it to turn up at the library.
The saddest thing? The music video in the Special Features was way more effective as a visual short story than the movie was as a film. It had way better pacing, stronger visuals, and vastly more emotional content. While I anticipated the twist, it still pulled a strong emotional response, you know, unlike the movie. I admit, if they had just cut all the Tennent scenes together, with maybe Mr. Farrell's beer scene (well acted) and the scene where he gets them out of the house (legitimately clever), I might be willing to watch that, but the rest? No. Too much boring and slow.
* Snerk: http://curbed.com/archives/2012/10/10/hitting-below-the-belt.php
* "The Least Appetizing Cake in the World:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/10/9/gross-ickies.html
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Date: 2012-10-13 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-14 02:49 am (UTC)I agree that mostly horror/Sf remakes are unjustified and sad, but am willing to admit exceptions. Fright Night wasn't even close to one of those exceptions.