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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Strindberg and Helium
« on: March 01, 2005, 11:39:59 PM »
That sums it up pretty well, but Strindberg was actually a real person.  He wrote plays apparently without much plot that were dark and foreboding (gee, what a surprise).

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Strindberg and Helium
« on: March 01, 2005, 12:39:54 AM »
Have any of you seen this?  It is really odd.

http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/

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Movies and TV / Re: Chasing archetypes
« on: February 23, 2005, 11:43:49 PM »
What about mystery novels? Some mystery series have a consistent enemy that the hero is constantly hunting. Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty?  Also, it's an idea that Steven Brust deals with in "Gypsy" (trippy book, don't know if I'd recommend it).  The gypsy is a character who seems to come out of folklore.  He is always chasing the fairy queen in order to cast her out of this world and (once that's done) to destroy her in her own realm. As for other myths, that's kind of the idea behind the constellations of Orion and Scorpius. Since the scorpion killed Orion, his constellation goes down when the other comes up. It's also in "Millenium Actress" (great anime) where the girl is forever hunting for this guy, but the pursuit is what is important.

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Movies and TV / Re: House of Flying Daggers
« on: February 22, 2005, 08:39:27 PM »
I don't think this movie is really about plot. To me, it seemed more about beautiful movie making and emotion. I didn't like it as well as Hero or Crouching Tiger, but it was still better than most films out there.

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Everything Else / Re: review: Illuminati Card Game
« on: February 22, 2005, 08:35:52 PM »
Maybe you didn't enjoy it as much because of the people you played it with. I played this with my husband and some friends, and I quite enjoyed it. True, it isn't a huge timewaster, but its enjoyment value is enough for the time spent.

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Movies and TV / Re: The Pirates of Penzance
« on: February 14, 2005, 08:28:54 PM »
I prefer the scene with the policemen or the bit with the singing daffodils.  There just aren't enough singing daffodils in most musicals.

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Everything Else / Re: Spring "Recess"
« on: February 02, 2005, 03:52:00 PM »
You don't realize how truly boring Utah is.  The only things open past ten are 7-11 and Wendy's late night pick up window. And there aren't even that many things open until ten. And our mass transport system is pretty crappy unless you're in Salt Lake, which has light rail, but I think most of the Utah people live in the Provo area, and oh, Provo is a boring place to live. No one goes on vacation to Provo. I just want to make sure you are true and fairly warned before you decide to spend any time here.

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Books / Re: column: EUOLogy #18
« on: January 25, 2005, 05:05:55 PM »
Labels, labels, all is labels.

I had no idea that "Wake me. . ." was being sold as a romance.  None of the stores I've been in have labeled that or HoM's other book that way.  Instead, they've labeled them as Mormon Fiction, a label that has all sorts of connotations that I'm not going to touch at the moment.

I want to talk about romance novels.  I know that bodice-rippers make up a large portion of the genre, but there is also the section of regency romances, which tend to be cleaner than the average romance.  However, they still count as romance because the main object of the book is to tell a love story.  That doesn't mean these books don't tell other stories as well.  I'll cite Georgette Heyer who wrote romance and mysteries.  Her regency romances tend to be light in the way they deal with characters, but she often brings in bits of mystery and comedy as well. My sister mostly reads Mormon romance fiction, and she tried Heyer and couldn't read it because it was too outside of her experience. She didn't understand the regency world and its conventions so the book wasn't enjoyable to her even though it was still technically part of her favorite genre. She loved "You Got Mail" but it didn't prepare her for an author who is one of the "queens" of romance.

What I'm trying to say is (and you know I'm not doing it very well if I have to sum up at the end) romance is not a genre of "read one, you've read them all" just as sf&f isn't like that.  Both groups have large portions of pulp that is very similar, but it isn't all that way.

Also, as for sales of Sf&f dropping, I would guess that that statistic is for adult sf&f. Children's sf&f, while a hugely growing market, tends to be lumped together with children's sales.

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Movies and TV / Re: Willy Wonka
« on: January 11, 2005, 01:06:05 AM »
When I first saw this trailer, I jumped up and down and clapped my hands. I think it looks so wonderfully creepy weird. I don't understand the concerns being brought out; that isn't what I got from the trailer at all. As for Johnny Depp, I think he'll be great in this part, though I disliked Gilbert Grape.

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Movies and TV / Re: Willy Wonka
« on: January 10, 2005, 03:48:03 PM »
Why? Do you miss his 21 Jumpstreet days?

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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles IV
« on: January 06, 2005, 12:23:14 AM »
So I'm crooked.  Does that mean crooked as in working on the wrong side of the law?  Do I bury people who aren't dead and help convicts escape from prison? Hum, that made me think of vampires.  Or am I crooked as in physically bent out of shape?  I'm just wondering.

A show with anyone on this message board has got to be more interesting than Touched By an Angel.  I hated that show, in spite of my mother.

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Everything Else / Re: GWotW # 7 Week of 1/03/05
« on: January 04, 2005, 06:32:18 PM »
Expunierate - the act of removing a spoon from someone's windpipe

Expunierate - when a person explains in too much detail the pun he just used because he thought no one got it because no one laughed, but really, it just wasn't funny

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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #6.5.32 Week of the Great Wordly Depress
« on: January 04, 2005, 06:29:24 PM »
Tourge - the expletive most people manage when they see a giant tsunami coming at them

Tourge - a torrid deluge

There, now someone else has posted and the universe is a better, cleaner place.

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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #5 Week of 12/13/2004
« on: December 21, 2004, 06:44:25 PM »
So do we get any points for this one or was it just for laughs?

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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #6 Week of 12/20/2004
« on: December 21, 2004, 06:43:24 PM »
Infomercians: those monsters in nightmares that chase you and no matter how fast or clever you are, they are always right behind you.

Infomercians: aliens from the planet Infomercia where that knife really will cut pennies into perpetuity and the diamonds are all real.

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