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104 comments:
Now that I've had a few drinks, I feel brave enough to ask EE, when the poll is over about your underwear, are you gonna tell us the real answer?
And let you figure out my identity by eliminating all the editors who wear boxers and briefs? Oops.
Why is there a (1) after all the room names?
Poll? Underwear? I gotta keep my eyes open more. OK, I just voted.
Robin, I'm surprised you didn't demand photographic evidence.
Someone must have spiked my Kool Aid...I submitted to the simile contest.
For some strange reason my kids think I should be taking care of them. I'm out until naptime. If Robin starts dancing on the tables, take a picture.
If EE starts dancing on the tables, page me.
EE,if I do what Pete says and demand photopraphic proof, can I have it? Please?
See ya soon, Kiersten!
Even if it's commando?
Especially then!
I'm with bonnie. OH YEAH. Most especially then.
Do you think Commandos actually go commando?
Wait! Do you have, um, other piercings? I think I have to avert my eyes.
I need a drink to even THINK about this.
Things are bad enough with your husband as it is. Do you want him using the V chip to keep you off the blog?
The Commando Commando.
It's a winner. Someone write a query, quick.
Well, all I know EE, honey, is yo got a lot of women right here, waiting. And interested. And I haven't even remotely told my huisband about this party blog.
Also- cute boxers would be a good second choice.
Hey December- I think we should do our OWN poll about the commandos thing. Could be fun!
EE- will you start us off by dressing in fatigues for us?
Or a kilt?
sylvia--yes! This is the perfect fake title to send to EE for the book cover exercise this week.
I think there's a (1) so we don't wander into the wrong bar.
Pete - got any kilt pictures of yourself?
LOL Yes, Pete, I dare you.
You can leave your hat on.
kilt pics? Naw. I'm not Scottish. Though I can do a fair brogue, though that's never really come in handy.
Commando pants, then. Fatigues.
Because I think all you guys are so cute- it would be fun to see you all in one picture with EE all dressed up "commando".
Bring this idea up to my wife. I guarantee you'll seem some kilt pics.
Pictures in which I'm lying kilt on the floor in a pool of blood.
EE, May I ask you what books you read as a kid? Some favorite titles/authors?
Oh my god- you're making me laugh.
Yeah- when my husband asks later on how the party went, i'll say something very vanilla, like, oh yes honey, he was very surprised, and then we played word games and wrote stuff and things. Which is sorta true.
Damn, Chris. You're good.
Good question!
Thanks Robin. I love asking this of people. How about you? Your favorites?
I love Wind in the Willows. It's where I get the title of my writing page "The Merry Bubble and Joy."
I also love anything by Katherine Paterson, Jerry Spinelli, and Roald Dahl.
There are a bunch.
I'm trying to remember. I was an utter and total geek girl. I read all the time.
Everything from Nancy Drew to these Family Treasury of Children's Stories books my parents bought me - they had excerpts from everything from Call of the Wild to James Thurber's The Night the Bed Fell. It was liek a reading smorgasboard. I still have those old books - with my name written on the inside in penmanship that looks like second grade.
The Flash, Green Arrow, Spiderman, Fantastic 4, Justice League of America.
I guess that slowed the conversation down.
Okay. Porn books. What is everyone's favorite porn title?
Feel free to make some up.
:-)
Oh, and Finnegan's Wake.
Oh, EE, so you were a comic book reader, huh? How do you like the movies they made out of so many of them?
Hey- you took the comic books off!
I think everyone's trying to remember what the hell they read as a kid.
I liked Charlotte's Web, The Chronicles of Narnia, and those books about that amateur detective, Trixie. I can't remember the names of the titles, but they were a series.
I love Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James the Giant Peach - read most of 'em. :-)
What is everyone's favorite porn title? Feel free to make some up.
Otay. ;-) How's about:
Maneater, by Buck Naked
Damn - can't think of anything else at the moment.
Need. Caffeine. Now.
I always wanted to be an amateur detective -but there was never anything going on worth detecting - so we made stuff up.
Sad to say, I never read comics as a kid, except for those in the newspaper.
Even when I first moved to Chicago, I wasn't a convert. My roomie, on the way to breakfast one day, tried to convince me that comics are just as good as novels. I rolled my eyes and said something like, "Ya, right." Then he showed me Sandman. Instant love!
We did, too! : )
I don't have any personal porn favorites, but I had a roommate once who worked for a video store who used to tell us names of porn titles that came in. Poke a Hot Ass was one, but I can't remember any of the others.
I worked at Major Video on Sahara Ave in Las Vegas one summer (graveyard shift) when I was in college. Good times. As the only employee anywhere near 21 (which I wasn't), I usually was given the task of restocking the porn room. I think they gave me that task because that actually had the most restocking needed every single night and was therefore actual work.
I don't remember any of the titles from the boxes, though I remember having my eyes opened by a few of the pictures. An unintended education, I think. Anyway, my favorite title: Muffy the Vampire Layer. No, I never saw the film.
And you do meet some interesting people working a graveyard shift in Vegas. Once a limo drove up and out popped these two luscious looking beauties with legs like you wouldn't believe, towing two drunk slobs behind them. The beauties came right up to the counter. "Where's your adult room?" They couldn't pick a movie and get out of there quick enough.
EE: About those (1)s after the room names in the sidebar. The blog moderator was lazy and used Labels to automatically populate that list. Blogger appends the item with the number of posts with that label.
Children's Books: The Boxcar Children, Stuart Little, and my teacher recommended my parents buy me books for presents and that got me started on The Hardy Boys.
Boxcar will always be my first love.
I read the same books over and over - drove my mother insane. Black Stallion, Lord of the Rings, Charlotte's Web, Then Again Maybe I Won't ... all of these I remember falling to pieces and my mother having to buy them again, resenting the fact that she'd rather have spent the money on new books.
When I was 12, she did an American Contemporary Lit class of some sort and I read along all the titles - the Fan Man is the one that really sticks in my head, but I'm not sure if I reread that one so often because I liked it or because it turned me on. (see, I managed to get porn into it too)
Quick! Someone go down to the Writer's Office. EE's got something interesting that needs, um, some help.
For me, it was anything about animals (Black Beauty, Lassie, Black Stallion, etc.) up until I was 9. Then I read 2001 and graduated to science fiction and superhero comic books. Still in love with Daredevil.
Before the days of Google translator, some male friends of mine asked me to watch a single scene from a German porn flick - they didn't much care about the words but for some reason this line was bugging them, it was something funny about the way the woman said it.
Well, there was a lot funny about the woman, bouncing up and down on some skinny guy and glaring at him at the same time. I have no idea what the plot of the film was supposed to be, but I can tell you what she said translated as "You fuck like a civil servant."
No, I don't know what she meant, either.
Oh, yeah, I loved animal stories, too, except they always seemed to end sadly and make me cry. What was that Steinbeck Book, the Red Pony?
Is that right?
Early reading?
Pokey Little Puppy.
It occurs to me that I may have gone too far back.
Oh! How could I forget Watership Down?
Hmmm. I've never tried a civil servant- are they that different?
Initial reading material was Matt the Rat. And I find it quite bizarre that I remember that.
Hey Ulysses - I just checked your "about me" - love that fight against writing about yourself in the third person!
So Phoenix, did you like Ben Affleck as DD? Or do you think he should've been castrated and hung upside down from a yardarm for the damage he did?
I'm back for a while.
Nice banana canapes, by the way. Looks like I found the last one. Were they done on a George Foreman grill?
Shame I missed the conflab about comic books.
Just going to see if Blogless has polished off all the grub in the kitchen yet.
WO,
But, but, we doesn't know what blogless likes.
Me guessed soylent green.
Going over to kitchey to see if any fissssh there...
Hi Nancy. For a moment I thought everyone had buggered off to play Hunt The Tumbleweed...
BT: Did you ever see the director's cut of that movie? It's a completely different movie -- one that's actually pretty good. It's the studio heads that need castrating.
Not so much into the soylent green, Nancy. Processed food's bad for you.
Robin: Ulysses thanks you.
It doesn't matter how many bars I find myself in, I can never find a drink that'll sober me up.
Phoenix, really? Damn. I'll check it out. But now I'm torn. On the one hand, I'd like to see a good DD movie, but on the other I'd like to see Ben Affleck castrated and hung from a yardarm. I'll watch the director's cut first, then decide.
"Hurt the tumbleweed" that's as sensible as playing "Spank the Cactus."
By the way - Sex with European Civil Servants ...
I Europe, especially former communist countries, civil servants were not the "wonderful, well-rounded, helpful and bright" people we employ as civil servants in the USA. They were party hacks and generally considered stupid, oafish dolts. Hence to "F" like a civil servant had pejorative connotations.
As far as Daredevil goes, I tend not to blame the actors for much more than bad contract choices. It's the directors and script writers who are often guilty of willfully perpetrating crimes.
I side with John LeCarre: "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into boullion cubes."
Do you watch films made of books you've read? I don't, unless it's really really highly recommended and even then I usually hate the film (Handmaid's Tale comes to mind).
Whirl, is Hunt The Tumbleweed like an RPG?
Dave, but that just begs the question why was she f'ing him!
Yes, I know, I shouldn't expect logic from a porn film.
Hey, WO - lovin' the sox thing you've got going there.
The problem with a lot of superhero movies is that the world has moved on in ways that render some of the 'origin' stories obsolete.
Be interesting to see what they do with Iron Man.
Maybe he flies round the world sparing housewives the tedium of pressing shirts.
Porn, sock worship and European civil servants?
I defy any bar in the world to be more of a happnin' hangout right now...
I agree for the most part Ulysses, except in the case of Ben Affleck. Did anyone read and see Gone Baby Gone? And if so, what were your thoughts?
Maybe he flies round the world sparing housewives the tedium of pressing shirts.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"Excuse me ma'am, but that collar could use more starch. Allow me."
"Get lost, tin man. I'm waiting for a 1st class Mjolnir Press from Thor!"
Iron Man already has a gaggle of nerds ready to praise whatever it is.
And it has a great rock song as its theme, big explosions, lots of mayhem - it's an unqualified success, based on the teen boy audience.
I didn't see Gone Babay gone- I was afraid they's screw up my book.
Although I did like No Coountry for Old Men. My husband hated it.
Not seen No Country For Old men but it looked OK - despite Men In Black whatsisface geezer. Tommy someone.
I watch films made from books I've read, but I go into them expecting to see only a few tangential points of similarity. The movie's a different species and should be evaluated on its own merits (or lack thereof).
I have no desire to see Ben Affleck castrated. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, I'm just saying I don't want to be a witness.
Wait... I thought Ben Affleck was already castrated. ???
I only know Ben Affleck from that viral youtube thing about the woman sleeping with him (or was it the husband) - I really should actually see something with him in it so that I know who people are talking about.
Trans-media shenanigans are always going to be problematic.
Even if you assume Absolute Control a la Rowling, you can't grow the child actors to order.
Oh- I like Tommy Lee Jones. He made for a good Texas sheriff.
By the way, you all - all of the contests need more 'blood'. When you get a chance, pop over and give them a shot for fun, OK?
With a name like 'Affleck', there's got to be something wrong with him.
That makes Jennifer Garner's claim that he's the father of their child kind of. . . dubious, doesn't it?
. . . And I know for a fact that I'm not responsible. She and I were ancient history by then. . .
Wait a minute! Of course! E.E. is responsible for Affleck's spawn!
I should have known. Garner starred in "Alias," E.E. uses a nom-de-web. . . it all fits.
The movie's a different species and should be evaluated on its own merits
I agree, Ulysses. I'm just building a case against Ben Affleck.
For me, if I see the movie first, the differences don't bother me as much. Most of the good books are way too complex for film anyway. If they can keep the "spirit" of the book intact while changing characters and plot, that sometimes works even better. L.A. Confidential was one I thought worked even though most of the plot was chopped.
Now if we can just find the connection to Suri Cruise, and why Angelina Jolie is adopting every child who's not nailed down, we'll have uncovered the reason the Illuminati are using Hollywood to bankroll the Yankees.
Wow, and just yesterday someone was complaining that there was no good Hollywood gossip anymore!
I'm off to make dinner. I'll check the competitions later to see what you all posted!
A case against Ben Affleck?
Gigli.
Case closed.
"The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta sworn as a votive, not in vain." (That's from V for Vendetta, a movie based on a graphic novel which departed from the source material in a number of ways, but still managed to be good on its own).
Yes, v was good. Because they cast Elrond, not Ben Affleck.
The Maltese Falcon is a movie that's not much different from the book. Possibly that's why it's one of the top 5 mystery movies ever.
Oh, I gotta share this:
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
Hey, guys! Popping back in for a few minutes. Looks like the party is in full-swing now :)
What a time to say "I gotta go" but — I gotta go.
Bangers and mash beckons — a poor second to talk of shrunken peni, I know, but I haven't eaten since 11.
Hi Ashley!
Yeah to the Maltese thing. I see BT's point about the feel of the book - but maybe it's just that some books lend themselves to straight plot-following. Or then again, maybe some directors make poor decisions.
As for films made from books - HELLBOY the movie contained parts from about five of the graphic novels.
I just saw "VANTAGE POINT" which is a Harrison Ford movie. It's a fascinating study in POV used to advance the story. And it is an exciting story. But it requires the audience to watch the same story for details and not be spoon-fed the story.
Buy, whirl- see ya later on!
Um, I haven't seen ANY of these movies :(
They can't remake great detective movies like The Maltese Falcon or (to take a later example - CHINATOWN.
The reason for that is that the plots of successful movies are copied and the audience demands ever more complex plots or a new viewpoint or a unique twist. Something that makes the movie new.
Maltese Falcon is a wonderful film. Most film adaptations, though, somehow manage to extract everything that was wonderful about the book, and then put the rest on screen.
Dave F: Penis shrinking? Good lord. I wonder how they gathered the evidence? I mean, sheesh, mine changes size so many times during the day that. . . nevermind.
I mean, I could see noticing if it vanished altogether. My wife would be able to get a good night's sleep for a change. But a size change?
I can see the police interviewing the significant others of the alleged victims: "Was it bigger before the attack?"
"Yes! Yes, I swear it was! Much, much bigger! And you must find a way to restore it to its original dimensions!"
Well, I'm back from doing nothing and thought I'd cheer my self with a beverage (and chat) suitable for the afternoon hours.
When I was 12, my entire personal "library:" was basically composed (I almost made a typo there -- consort-- a much better word than I was going for, but lacking the correct meaning) of "novelizations" of movies or novels that had been made into movies and now had a full-color picture on the cover and scenes from the actual movie. Sounds hokey, I know, but I actually read The Great Gatsby that way!!!
OH, EE, I need to know where "MAD" magazine falls in your youthful literary endeavors:)
Robin, my scotch is pretty stiff(no ice)and I'm hungry so, "Got any cheeries?"
ME
HELLBOY actually asks for the viewer to make serious judgments about good and evil.
VANTAGE POINT suddenly "rewinds" and returns to the beginning of the movie to see a political assassination happen through different characters POV.
CHINATOWN is a murder mystery about water rights in LA, misbegotten children, and is a true tragedy in the Shakespearean sense.
Hi ME, honey!
I'm gonna be on for a few more minutes- then running errands with my 15 year old- unfortunately - it's time for her driving permit.
I'll be in therapy soon, I'm guessing.
I'll be back in a few hours to visit. You guys have fun!!!
PS- Don't forget the contests, please!
Time for Round 3, guys.
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