Still on the Quest

There are times when a * party with * loud music and * loud intoxicated conversations may be almost appropriate.

Three * a.m. on a * work night is NEVER one of them.

Not even if you work nights.

Not unless you * live in the middle of the * Gobi desert.

Which you * don't.


*expletives deleted

The movie comes out tomorrow. They've changed the name to "The Seeker", apparently, and have made even more changes that take it farther away from the books I love. (Check out this community if you want to see the rants.)

Apparently now the Walker isn't in the movie. (And someone did a YouTube video about it!) And there is worse. At this point, the movie is so bad it will probably drive children away from the books out of sheer distaste, and they will never know how badly the filmmakers screwed up the source material.

ETA: Looks like the critics don't care for it much either.

Please, please, please, for the love of decent fantasy films everywhere, don't go see this one. Buy the books instead. Donate them to your local library if you don't want them yourselves. But stay away in droves.

This public service announcement is brought to you by the remains of my brain.

I had a couple of hotmail accounts. Hadn't checked them lately, but today I had time. I've been upgraded to "Live" Hotmail. All of my messages... every single one, from about six years worth of e-mail, are gone. The contacts are there for the second account, but nothing else.

Feh! I say unto thee, feh!

*throws boot at catfight outside window and tries to go back to sleep*

I am absolutely frantic and I have no clue why. Are there any memes running around you want me to do? Spam? Silly things that could serve as distractions?

helpme

my hair hurts...

Spent sixty bucks on an impulse ticket to go see a Chinese New Year production and walked out just after intermission. The opera house was full of families with young children, many of them non-Chinese parents of adopted Chinese children who had brought their children along to help them learn about their heritage I'm sure, and the producers (New Tang Dynasty Television) decided to do a sequence about a modern Falun Gong practitioner being tortured and executed right in the middle of the show. I'm sorry to have missed the Tibetan dancers and the Mongolian bowl dancers and the drums etc., but blast it, torture is not an acceptable topic for young children, even if you are going to show the person "being rewarded" afterwards, and especially not if the audience doesn't know that's what they're in for when they pay for the tickets. I had a cramp in my leg, which helped me decide not to go back for the rest of it, but mostly I was just disappointed. I'm willing to bet that most of the people who watched the rest of it are going to come away with a bad taste in their mouths about Falun Dafa instead of any kind of sympathy for the people who wanted the story told. I know I did. And it's going to take me a bit of reading to keep it from spilling over to Buddhism, too, since several of the other bits and pieces were about Buddhist beliefs, and I know that's completely unfair.

Feh.

two piledrivers...