scrawls.

scrawls

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24.10.05

i'm sorry, wilma?

where do they get these names from, and are they really not at all multicultural, or are the boring ones just the only ones that hit the mainland US? will there ever be a hurricane LaShonda? hurricane Uday? hurricane Dae-jung? hell, hurricane Apple? (and why don't we hear about hawaii being swamped more often?) and, my Aunt is very nearby Wilma, and i have to call her and see where she's going, because i think they were supposed to evacuate. Which means, holy shit. and also, What's happening to that lovely house with the pool? and, I hope she got to bring the dogs. and, didn't her boyfriend have some faboo boat? um.

and: serenity is about as good a movie as one might assume, and i'm going to have to start using the phrase 'and they went all boogidy over it' more often. The thing i never liked about Buffy (et alia) and joss whedon in general is that he's so shiny. and this even while i like well-filled-out budgets and high production values in my entertainment, in general. but i never wanted to be Miss Trendy Person that actively likes things that other people keep going on about (and i could say 'go all boogidy over,' here, but i'm not sure that's quite the usage i'm hoping for). i think it was all the other people that liked it that made me not. And i'm sticking to that - i don't think i've ever watched an entire episode of any of poor joss's ouevre - but as firefly was cancelled, and nobody liked it at the time, and it is now a cult favorite? Cult favorites i can handle, and call as my own. Mass media slimefest orgies, not so much. anything with Very Special Episodes i'm comfortable with writing off as utter pop trash.

and even so, there are things that one wonders: why do reavers not eat each other, mostly, which is just one of those conceits that every scifi scary movie subscribes to - zombies don't attack zombies - but also how do they reproduce (and if they do not reproduce, could they not be wiped out far more easily?), and if they are so mindless, how can they pilot space ships and be, therefore, actual rocket scientists? i'm picky. i know.

and, i've googled the Best Present Ever for the collective dads, and i cannot find it. i've googled it a dozen different ways and looked on amazon and on ebay and on ebay canada. Nothing. This is gonna be tough. And probably the shipping is gonna cost ten times the actual presents.

scrawled @ 16:50