Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Not Bob

ncs (left) and Not Bob at the MTV Video Music Awards, 1975.

We'll always have Puerto Vallarta, baby.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Not Bob
The Captain to her Tennille. Etc.


ncs (left) and Not Bob at the MTV Video Music Awards, 1975.

Apropos of, uh, when I was driving to work today I heard the "Celebrity Birthdays" announced on the radio. "The Captain" is 62 today. Tempis fugit.

Perhaps you're channeling, NotBob. (Or maybe I'm channelling NotBob.)

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Edited to delete what turned out to be a very mmmm3587ish post.

I didn't see a single mention of mentors.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Do you have one thought in your head that isn't somehow related to SD or Taxwonk?

TM

Your pencil dick.

Are you telling me you can hear anyone referring to a person as "cat" and don't think of raouaoul?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
POLL: Are you a paper writer or a test-taker?

I hate tests. I've always been a paper writer. I can take tests and have always done quite well, but I think they're almost always stupid. Papers allow you to demonstrate what you know about a topic in your own way (shaped by how you can best spit back the professor's words when need be).

Essay tests. The best of both worlds. No all-nighters, no time consuming interesting but tangential to the paper research* and, if written well, you can always make the answer fit the question.

Anne
*I'm not even gonna try to put the hypens in the right place.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
and all I got was this lousy T-shirt (tm)

2.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen

Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

Phooey. What do scientists know?

The correct answer is Repo Man.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
From an effects standpoint, they keep topping eachother, StarWars, Empire, T2, Matrix. Has an action movie in the last 5 years been released that hasn't borrowed significantly from the effects used in the Matrix?

After screenplay, the most important aspect of a sci-fi movie is its art direction. This being the case, and putting the rather soapy screenplay to one side, Star Wars wins hands down. Instead of presenting the future* as being better, cleaner, and more technological than the present, it was dirty and unreliable. When the Millenium Falcon broke down, you could imagine from the sets and art direction that it wasn't because its basic technology was too complicated (as in 2001, which also had good art direction in its own way), but because it was a busted piece of crap.

Star Wars gave the future the right to be dirty, noisy and chaotic after 2001. It made the art direction of Blade Runner possible.

*Yeah, yeah, I know.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is what I find great about papers. The end product is more you than tests, which are usually looking for specific answers to specific questions.

I always procrastinate when it comes to writing papers. But once I get into it, I tend to explore more of the topic and what I think about it than when I take a test. That's why I think tests are boring and measure few, limited aspects of a person's intelligence.

TM

This is surprising. You like papers better and therefore tests aren't a good measure of intelligence? I never would have guessed that you might feel that way. I will display my superior test-taking intelligence by refusing to debate you on this one.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What are the criteria?

That's a good question. Because ET has to be one of my favorite movies (not the favorite, but top ten). Fuck I love that movie. Don't tell me it's sappy or dated. When his little glowing heart lights up again after you think he's dead, I cannot stop bawling. I don't cry much at movies but I can't stop in that movie.

So if the criteria included best tear-jerker sci-fi movie, ET would be it.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I haven't read the latest Thursday Next book (I've only read the first two, so am I missing one or two?), but I'm looking forward to it. Speaking of Alex Garland, I quite liked the Beach, but I LOVED The Tesseract. Not sure if it was just the mood I was in or what, but it seemed to hit so close to home. I think you'll like it RT.

I've read The Tesseract, and I loved it. That's the reason I'm reading the Beach. So far there are four of the Jasper Fforde novels, so you're two behind. The fourth one just came out, though so I imagine a lot of us are behind on that one.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Star Wars gave the future the right to be dirty, noisy and chaotic after 2001. It made the art direction of Blade Runner possible.

Blade Runner owes more to Soylant Green than Star Wars.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
And Italy is up 1-0 over Iraqin the Men's Soccer bronze medal game.

It's over, what a joke...

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
That's a good question. Because ET has to be one of my favorite movies (not the favorite, but top ten). Fuck I love that movie. Don't tell me it's sappy or dated. When his little glowing heart lights up again after you think he's dead, I cannot stop bawling. I don't cry much at movies but I can't stop in that movie.

So if the criteria included best tear-jerker sci-fi movie, ET would be it.

My name is rp, and I love ET, too.

Especially when Drew Barrymore sees ET for the first time and screams!!!!!!!

Damn if she wasn't the cutest 6-year-old in movie history.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Your pencil dick.

I guess you can call it that since I spend so much time using it to write messages on your face.

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Are you telling me you can hear anyone referring to a person as "cat" and don't think of raouaoul?

Yeah. And whenever I hear the word "donut," I think of you. But I don't insert you in every single post.

TM