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A kid gets lost at a comics convention and decides to ask for help from the obviously most likely source for it: a couple of superheroes.
Give him a couple of years, of course, and he’s not looking at the Flash. He’s looking at…a couple of other things there, just to the Flash’s right.
(But I wonder if that woman has any acting chops? She looks perfect as Wonder Woman! Cast her now, and write the script later!)
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:: It really is quite amazing what you can do with a group of people who are completely uninterested in the truth, unwilling to believe anything that comes from someone other than Rush or Glenn Beck or an “acceptable” source of information, and who have a vested interest in believing what they want to believe, reality be damned. It is why they can freak out about the stimulus bill as 800 BILLION IN PORK when damned near half of it was tax cuts and another 250 billion of it was simply money to prop up holes in state and local budgets. (I swear to God I’ve never encountered more rank ignorance than I’ve seen in the Teabaggers and their brethren — the ones who never once uttered a single word in opposition to enormously massive deficits as long as a white Republican was in the White House. I recently got into an inadvertent discussion with an individual over the Health Care bill, and he said that he opposes it because it’ll run our health care “the same way that Canada does”. I just said “No it won’t” and changed the subject to football.)
:: “I pity the ninja that tussles with Mr. T! Buy my cereal, kids! And don’t do drugs!”
:: There are a lot of things that piss me off about Google Buzz. (I’m not pissed off about Google Buzz; I just don’t understand why I’d want to use it when I’m already on Facebook and Twitter.)
Hmmmm…more politics than usual. Oh well, that’s how I roll.
I’ve belatedly decided that the visual theme for Byzantium’s Shores this year will be things exploding. This will manifest itself in my periodically replacing the masthead image with a new screengrab from some movie or other in which something explodes. Sometimes it’ll be an exploding spaceship, or maybe an exploding planet, or maybe something here on Earth getting blowed up real good. We’ll see how it goes.
(Ten quatloos, by the way, to the first reader who can identify the explosion in the new masthead!)
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a post about…movie kissing! Mary Robinette Kowal lists ten “most passionate kisses”. It’s a nice idea for a list, but I wasn’t wowed much by her choices — there’s no way those talentless drips from Twilight belong anywhere near such a list. So, in the grand tradition of things, I’ll offer my own list! (She draws from fantasy films, where I’ll be drawing from movies far and wide.)
10. Jack and Rose on the prow of the Titanic, in Titanic.
I still love Titanic, and I think this moment — when Jack shows Rose what it’s like to almost fly above the water — is one of the movie’s very best moments. The kiss is beautifully done: Rose has to twist her head backward to kiss Jack, but the best touch is how, after they’ve been kissing for three or four seconds, she lifts her hand to his neck in a touch of intimacy.
9. Melvin kisses Carol poorly in As Good As It Gets.
It’s a goofy, awkward, uncomfortable kiss…and then, after a few seconds of reflection, Melvin says, “I know I can do better than that!” And does.
8. When Harry and Sally finally kiss in When Harry Met Sally…
I still love this movie…and I’ve just realized that I haven’t watched it in several years. I need to rectify that.
7. Aladdin gets an assist from the Magic Carpet in Aladdin.
Aladdin’s just returned Princess Jasmine to the palace, and he’s not sure how to say goodbye — so the Magic Carpet suddenly rolls upward, pushing Aladdin up so that his lips meet Jasmine’s, and both their eyes shoot open before surrendering to the moment.
6. Any time that Lloyd Dobler kisses Diane Court in Say Anything.
Every one of the kisses in this movie is acted with emotion that matches the scene. This movie is one of the great screen romances, period.
5. Aragorn and Arwen unite at last, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
I know, a lot of folks have a problem with Liv Tyler as Arwen, but I was never one of them. What worked here was the expression of complete befuddlement on Aragorn’s face as he tries to convince himself that Arwen is, in fact, alive and well.
4. John Book and Rachel Lapp can hold it in no longer, in Witness.
This is one of the greatest moments of release of pent-up sexual tension I’ve ever seen.
3. Rick and Ilsa’s last kiss in Paris in Casablanca.
Rick and Ilsa kiss several times in the movie, but the last one during the Paris flashback is utterly haunting, the way Rick is happy, but Ilsa is tormented by (what we’ll soon find out) the knowledge that her husband is not dead after all, and that she must break Rick’s heart. She lets her arm fall to the table, her fist knocking over her glass of champagne; and then, fade to the train station where Rick gets her note.
2. The curtain goes up on the Prime Minister and Natalie in Love Actually.
People who don’t like Love Actually are weirdos.
1. Han kisses Leia farewell in The Empire Strikes Back.
They grab one last kiss before Han is grabbed by the stormtroopers and pulled onto the carbon freezing platform. It’s followed, of course, by one of the best cinematic love exchanges in movie history. Best ad lib ever!
(By the way, my “worst” kiss in a piece of filmed entertainment happened in the old CBS show Beauty and the Beast, when they did a lot of teasing in the media about an upcoming episode that would feature Vincent and Katherine kissing…only to have them freeze-frame, and then have their “souls” come forward out of their bodies and kiss. I thought it an incredible copout.)
Oddities abound!
:: I can’t believe that in all the time I’ve been doing this series of posts, I’ve never yet linked anything containing this guy, to my recollection. Well, it’s time to bring that to an end.
So here he is: Mr. David HASSELHOFF!!!
:: I love animals and all, but I tend to not like PETA very much. I think they tend to be a little too far out there, and their publicity stunts tend to leave me cold. Case in point: this billboard. Now, I’m no fan of the Duggars either, but this just seems awfully rude to me.
:: 14 Romantic Gestures Gone Horribly Wrong. Wow, are those rejected proposals painful to watch…and then there are the Romantic Gestures that Make Yours Look Pathetic. Ouch!
:: One Button Bob is a game you play with just your mouse button. Thing is, it does something different on each screen. More fun than it sounds.
More next week!
Folks, this is the last day I’ll be taking questions for Ask Me Anything! 2010, so head to the post I’ve just linked and leave a question! Any question is welcome — serious questions, silly questions, frivolous questions, and so on. Feel free! Ask Me Anything!
Sometimes I’m in the mood for a small and very uncomplex meal. Here’s one combination I fall back on once in a while:
It’s simply a cut-up apple with some sliced cheddar cheese. I only discovered a few years ago that I do, in fact, like the flavor pairing of apple and cheddar (even though I refuse to extend my interest here to a slice of cheddar on top of apple pie). With a nice-sized apple and eight or nine slices of cheese, this meal can be downright filling. If you haven’t tried apples-and-cheddar, give it a shot.
According to SamuraiFrog, my blog is lovely! And according to the Ancient Rules of Blogistan (set forth by Uggoth the Elder in 13477 BC as he blogged using a charred stick on the walls of his cave), I am to now pass this award on to other bloggers whose blogs I consider lovely. Yippee!
So: Kerry, Steph, Glenn, Nettl, Lynn — you’re all lovely!
We’re on the eve of the Winter Olympics, one of my favorite things in the world (the Salt Lake City Games were in progress when I launched this blog, way back when), so here’s a bit of Olympic history: Brian Boitano’s gold-medal winning free skate in Calgary in 1988.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
