Monday, October 23, 2006
Weekend Round-Up
Sometimes they just stop trying. The folks behind Mary Worth failed to foresee that some people would become obsessive about the Aldo plot. Well, that plot is over, and now they've gotten lazy. Behold:
<-- Mary's reaction to Aldo, back when the story was ripe with the promise of stalking, possible violence, and love.
Mary's reaction yesterday, as she whined that her doctor boyfriend, working in a third-world country, hasn't bothered to phone -->
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Lazy Sunday for us. Laura had to do actual work (ick), so I had the afternoon to myself. I found her old notebook of CDs and decided to add some songs to my iPod. I ended up adding 407 songs! She basically had everything I never bother to buy: Sarah McLaughlin, Tori Amos, Eurythmics, etc. My iPod got a super-dose of estrogen.
I also watched Capricorn One, a movie from 1978.
By the way, the astronauts are played by James Brolin (Mr. Barbra Streisand), Sam Waterston (Law & Order), and O.J. Simpson (Well, you know his story...). It's a good movie, filled with distrust of the government in a post-Nixon era, lots familiar faces (Telly Savalas, baby!), and long extended chases with cars and helicopters, typical of the 1970s. The 1970s were the age of the chase (French Connection, Bullit). The 1980s were the age of blowing stuff up (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon) . The 1990s were the age of CGI (Star Wars, Jurrasic Park). I've pretty much stopped going to movies now, because the 2000s are the age of unnecessary remakes of old movies (Fog, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) or movies made of TV shows (Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Brady Bunch).
<-- Mary's reaction to Aldo, back when the story was ripe with the promise of stalking, possible violence, and love.
Mary's reaction yesterday, as she whined that her doctor boyfriend, working in a third-world country, hasn't bothered to phone -->
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Lazy Sunday for us. Laura had to do actual work (ick), so I had the afternoon to myself. I found her old notebook of CDs and decided to add some songs to my iPod. I ended up adding 407 songs! She basically had everything I never bother to buy: Sarah McLaughlin, Tori Amos, Eurythmics, etc. My iPod got a super-dose of estrogen.
I also watched Capricorn One, a movie from 1978.
Plot Synopsis: Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. It transpires that the space vehicle has a major defect that NASA just daren't admit. At the studio, over a course of months, the astronauts are forced to act out the journey and the landing to trick the world into believing they have made the trip. Meanwhile, a journalist (played by Elliot Gould) is getting suspicious and every clue he uncovers seems to result in an attempt on his life! The astronauts are just about to splashdown when a further twist to the tale occurs, leaving them with no choice but to try and escape....
By the way, the astronauts are played by James Brolin (Mr. Barbra Streisand), Sam Waterston (Law & Order), and O.J. Simpson (Well, you know his story...). It's a good movie, filled with distrust of the government in a post-Nixon era, lots familiar faces (Telly Savalas, baby!), and long extended chases with cars and helicopters, typical of the 1970s. The 1970s were the age of the chase (French Connection, Bullit). The 1980s were the age of blowing stuff up (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon) . The 1990s were the age of CGI (Star Wars, Jurrasic Park). I've pretty much stopped going to movies now, because the 2000s are the age of unnecessary remakes of old movies (Fog, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) or movies made of TV shows (Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Brady Bunch).
# posted by smacky @ 7:58 AM 
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Sheesh! Too lazy to even draw another picture of her, huh?
No, and that's the thing. They apparently only had time to re-color her blouse. They were too busy trying to figure out who else makes for an interesting plot, so they can kill them off, too.
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No, and that's the thing. They apparently only had time to re-color her blouse. They were too busy trying to figure out who else makes for an interesting plot, so they can kill them off, too.
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