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gwydion* "Refugees Will Die In The Snow This Christmas, David Cameron Is Warned:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/refugees-will-die-in-the-snow-this-christmas-david-cameron-i#.qugKbJ6MQ
* "Movie resurrects George W Bush National Guard service scandal:"
* "Officer who killed unarmed teen Zachary Hammond will not be charged:" http://mashable.com/2015/10/27/no-charges-cop-zachary-hammond/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#K_zG2NvKQ5qR
* They have fired the officer who beat the young girl and tossed her around the room after all, though only for letting go of her during the beating, not for the savagery itself. The Sheriff wants to remind everyone that it was the victim's fault the deputy beat her. *side eye*
* "Nikki's Trans Marriage End Game In Sight:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/10/nikkis-trans-marriage-end-game-in-sight.html
* "TransGriot: Open Letter To My Cis Feminine HS Classmate Colleen:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/10/open-letter-to-my-cis-feminine-hs.html
* Djinni and MrBumblepants were helping with a haunted house up at the community college and arranged for me to go through it. I was in the first batch with three students who were pre-scared and so opted to trail behind me. (As in the woman asked if I could go first, which I prefer anyway, and the young men were very much happy to let me stump on ahead). I love a haunted house, despite not being scareable. For me it's about aesthetics and the joy of the people doing it. They did a lot with what can't have been a large budget and had plenty of actors which really helped. I had fun and still had a bit of leg left for necessary things when I got home.
* My dad loved Science Fiction. The house was full of books and the Master bedroom shelving was all Science Fiction and Fantasy. Whatever movies and TV there was to watch, we watched. I am nearly the same age as star trek as a franchise, having been born in the year of the Moon Landing. I literally can't remember not watching Star Trek (TOS was all there was) when I was little with my Dad (when I was an infant, my mom would find him holding me up to watch Star Trek, monster movies etc. on TV starting when I was a couple of weeks old) and the ToS end music still makes me think of food because it was on just before dinner in syndication once a week for something like the first decade I was alive. Imagine then, the excitement in our house when we heard there was going to be a movie! We were poor, so even the two dollar armpit theater was a big expense, but all four of us went and we even got popcorn. imagine the four of us sitting there waiting for it to get interesting. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Imagine us exchanging looks of horrified disappointment when the lights came up at the end and we tried to unstick our feet from the sticky slurry that coated the floor of the Armpit. (They never washed the floors at the armpit and the rest rooms were dangerous). I have since tried to watch that first movie a number of times, but I don't try anymore, because inevitably, I forget I'm watching it, wander off to do something else, wander back in, discover it still on and no clear indication that anything happened while I was off doing laundry or whatever. (Full disclosure: DS 9 is my favorite of the Star Trek series as an adult, with TNG a distant second. TNG is really uneven, but got better generally after Rodenberry died. Fond as I am of many of the ToS characters, that show was kind of a mess and I came to loathe Shatner both as an actor and a human being some time not long after puberty. My opinion when I was tiny and Star Trek was the only genre thing on TV in colour until things like Mork and Mindy and BSG came out late in the decade, are not my opinions as an adult).
I've seen two and three more times than I can count over the years, but have no interest in seeing them any time soon. However, someone was writing about four recently and I've only seen that twice and it was on TV, so I thought I'd give it a try. Four was pretty much as I remembered it: awkward and a little too obvious in spots (like pretty much anything ToS), watchable, a few good lines. Middle of the road really.
As it turns out, I had literally forgotten five, six, and seven were three separate movies. I hated them when they were new, and my friends and I ripped them to shreds for a few weeks after seeing them, then mostly forgot them. Seriously, my total memory of V, VI, and VII going in was the nonsensical zero gee combat scene in which somehow Klingon marines never had done any zero gee training, kirk being racist, a trial maybe being in there somewhere, and my deep disappointment that Kirk kept coming back after they killed him like some talkative handsy Jason Vorhees when all we really wanted was to see him die once preferably slowly and painfully and then disappear forever. As you can guess, I've only ever seen them once. Five was so bad, it took me three days to watch because I kept needing to watch something not cterrible for a while before continuing. Also, I would periodically forget I was watching it and wander off. The first movie was slooooow, but the bits I remember of it did not make me this kind of angry. With the first movie, I was angry that first time because it was so disappointed. V turns out to be bad in a way that makes me particularly angry. What is this terrible nonsense and why in the world was it greenlit? Who thought any of this was a good idea? I think it was so bad I completely forgot what was in it. I'm dragging myself through VI now, which is annoying in so many ways, but bearable. I am not sanguine for seven.
* I’m not personally taking a side on the obvious thing everyone is talking about. "The Walking Dead, Season Six, Episode Three: Thank You:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/10/the-walking-dead-season-six-episode.html
* Delightful and full of spoilers. "Movie Yelling With Nicole and Mallory: Crimson Peak:" http://the-toast.net/2015/10/22/movie-yelling-with-nicole-and-mallory-crimson-peak/
* "Occult Horror:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/132075982772/gothiccharmschool-thegreenwolf-sarenth
* "Photographer Recreates Famous Portraits With John Malkovich As His Model:" http://www.boredpanda.com/portrait-remakes-malkovich-homage-to-photographic-masters-sandro-miller/
* Next Friday, 4am
* EBAY. 2ish Days: TARANTULA FASCINATOR 2013 (LE, Liliths): (Company says:Done and done: fuzzy cacao-drenched hazelnut with hay absolute, black pepper, and nutmeg, laced with stripes of wild plum and white sandalwood.). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301775349204?
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Movie resurrects George W Bush National Guard service scandal:"
* "Officer who killed unarmed teen Zachary Hammond will not be charged:" http://mashable.com/2015/10/27/no-charges-cop-zachary-hammond/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#K_zG2NvKQ5qR
* They have fired the officer who beat the young girl and tossed her around the room after all, though only for letting go of her during the beating, not for the savagery itself. The Sheriff wants to remind everyone that it was the victim's fault the deputy beat her. *side eye*
* "Nikki's Trans Marriage End Game In Sight:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/10/nikkis-trans-marriage-end-game-in-sight.html
* "TransGriot: Open Letter To My Cis Feminine HS Classmate Colleen:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/10/open-letter-to-my-cis-feminine-hs.html
* Djinni and MrBumblepants were helping with a haunted house up at the community college and arranged for me to go through it. I was in the first batch with three students who were pre-scared and so opted to trail behind me. (As in the woman asked if I could go first, which I prefer anyway, and the young men were very much happy to let me stump on ahead). I love a haunted house, despite not being scareable. For me it's about aesthetics and the joy of the people doing it. They did a lot with what can't have been a large budget and had plenty of actors which really helped. I had fun and still had a bit of leg left for necessary things when I got home.
* My dad loved Science Fiction. The house was full of books and the Master bedroom shelving was all Science Fiction and Fantasy. Whatever movies and TV there was to watch, we watched. I am nearly the same age as star trek as a franchise, having been born in the year of the Moon Landing. I literally can't remember not watching Star Trek (TOS was all there was) when I was little with my Dad (when I was an infant, my mom would find him holding me up to watch Star Trek, monster movies etc. on TV starting when I was a couple of weeks old) and the ToS end music still makes me think of food because it was on just before dinner in syndication once a week for something like the first decade I was alive. Imagine then, the excitement in our house when we heard there was going to be a movie! We were poor, so even the two dollar armpit theater was a big expense, but all four of us went and we even got popcorn. imagine the four of us sitting there waiting for it to get interesting. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Imagine us exchanging looks of horrified disappointment when the lights came up at the end and we tried to unstick our feet from the sticky slurry that coated the floor of the Armpit. (They never washed the floors at the armpit and the rest rooms were dangerous). I have since tried to watch that first movie a number of times, but I don't try anymore, because inevitably, I forget I'm watching it, wander off to do something else, wander back in, discover it still on and no clear indication that anything happened while I was off doing laundry or whatever. (Full disclosure: DS 9 is my favorite of the Star Trek series as an adult, with TNG a distant second. TNG is really uneven, but got better generally after Rodenberry died. Fond as I am of many of the ToS characters, that show was kind of a mess and I came to loathe Shatner both as an actor and a human being some time not long after puberty. My opinion when I was tiny and Star Trek was the only genre thing on TV in colour until things like Mork and Mindy and BSG came out late in the decade, are not my opinions as an adult).
I've seen two and three more times than I can count over the years, but have no interest in seeing them any time soon. However, someone was writing about four recently and I've only seen that twice and it was on TV, so I thought I'd give it a try. Four was pretty much as I remembered it: awkward and a little too obvious in spots (like pretty much anything ToS), watchable, a few good lines. Middle of the road really.
As it turns out, I had literally forgotten five, six, and seven were three separate movies. I hated them when they were new, and my friends and I ripped them to shreds for a few weeks after seeing them, then mostly forgot them. Seriously, my total memory of V, VI, and VII going in was the nonsensical zero gee combat scene in which somehow Klingon marines never had done any zero gee training, kirk being racist, a trial maybe being in there somewhere, and my deep disappointment that Kirk kept coming back after they killed him like some talkative handsy Jason Vorhees when all we really wanted was to see him die once preferably slowly and painfully and then disappear forever. As you can guess, I've only ever seen them once. Five was so bad, it took me three days to watch because I kept needing to watch something not cterrible for a while before continuing. Also, I would periodically forget I was watching it and wander off. The first movie was slooooow, but the bits I remember of it did not make me this kind of angry. With the first movie, I was angry that first time because it was so disappointed. V turns out to be bad in a way that makes me particularly angry. What is this terrible nonsense and why in the world was it greenlit? Who thought any of this was a good idea? I think it was so bad I completely forgot what was in it. I'm dragging myself through VI now, which is annoying in so many ways, but bearable. I am not sanguine for seven.
* I’m not personally taking a side on the obvious thing everyone is talking about. "The Walking Dead, Season Six, Episode Three: Thank You:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/10/the-walking-dead-season-six-episode.html
* Delightful and full of spoilers. "Movie Yelling With Nicole and Mallory: Crimson Peak:" http://the-toast.net/2015/10/22/movie-yelling-with-nicole-and-mallory-crimson-peak/
* "Occult Horror:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/132075982772/gothiccharmschool-thegreenwolf-sarenth
* "Photographer Recreates Famous Portraits With John Malkovich As His Model:" http://www.boredpanda.com/portrait-remakes-malkovich-homage-to-photographic-masters-sandro-miller/
* Next Friday, 4am
* EBAY. 2ish Days: TARANTULA FASCINATOR 2013 (LE, Liliths): (Company says:Done and done: fuzzy cacao-drenched hazelnut with hay absolute, black pepper, and nutmeg, laced with stripes of wild plum and white sandalwood.). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301775349204?
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
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