Linkage!!!
:: Can you blame them? 76 years later, we are still seeking answers when it comes to the question of life on Mars. Curiosity is the latest tool in that scientific quest to see if we are alone in the universe. One can’t help but wonder what our 2011 astronomy textbooks will look like when they’re pulled from a dusty shelf by future generations. (I’m feeling astronomical and science-y lately. I like it when this mood comes!)
:: There are lots of people who consider themselves “old” who yet were born in the age of microwave popcorn. I maintain you can’t really consider yourself old unless you’ve cooked Jiffy Pop on the stove. (I remember Jiffy Pop…and not at all fondly. It’s terrible popcorn.)
:: These characters haven’t just lost their race, their culture, their home, and their age to this adaptation. They’ve lost what made us love them to begin with. They’ve lost their souls. (I suppose I should watch Akira one of these years….)
:: My poor kitty was alone and terrified and dying and I wasn’t there…and now he’s gone. (These posts invariably make me terribly sad. I hate when beloved cats die.)
More next week!
Thanks for reminding me how bad Jiffy Pop is. I actually have a fabulous story involving a The World Scout Jamboree in 77 on the island of PEI where I met Prince Charles and ate a lobster feed with him and his aids while discussion all kinds of topics – just because while visiting other camps, he heard us laughing so hard when we tried to cut the jiffy pop kernals we could save into equal portions.