The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[Rev. Powell]

Hmm, girl who contacted me on a dating site is into BDSM. That's a first. Funny thing is, I told her I'm not interested in participating in that lifestyle---but I still kind of want to go on a date with her because I like the rest of her profile and I find the fact that she's into it fascinating. We'll see if she responds.

[Leah]

Send those digits my then please, for kinky reasons. >.>

[ER]

Sunday January 7, 1996

Made Dad promise not to burn our tree. We'll take it to the woods at Grandpa's and I'll go back and say hi to it once in a while and think of good times, even in the middle of summer.

Still snowing! It has snowed all evening and all night and all morning, and all afternoon and evening, without stopping or letting up, and the world is a big silent snow globe, about fifty feet wide. That's all you can see. I tried to read Dad John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound but he doesn't get into poetry. Or fiction either. He said if I get cabin fever to please eat the dog first. I said sorry but she has first dibs on him.

No Mass today, all churches were closed, even the cathedral, which famously stayed open during the great 1937 flood even. The airport is closed, the expressways are closed, stores, restaurants, nothing is open anywhere. It is dead silent outside. No jets in the sky, no cars on the roads, no people on the sidewalks. Silence. An inside day, watching this miracle of the elements transpire.

[AoTFan]

Sunday January 7, 1996

Made Dad promise not to burn our tree.

And once again, you make me feel like I'm walking in on the middle of part three of a five part series....

[ER]

Sunday January 7, 1996

Made Dad promise not to burn our tree.

And once again, you make me feel like I'm walking in on the middle of part three of a five part series....

Our Christmas tree. LOL. We had a cut one that year and it was dropping needles and giving up the ghost.

[ER]

Post I started to make: One time Mary Shelley and I were in the Central African Republic selling black market Russian babies to deserving families there, and she said to me, " _________ " which is about the conversation you'd expect from a dead woman.

Post I decided to make, so ignore what's above: Fun fact: Do you know when she was sixteen Mary lost her virginity to her future husband Percy Shelley (they had to wait til his first wife killed herself to tie the knot) atop the grave of her own mother?

Atop the grave of her own mother.

This was an intense chick, man. People act like Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) fell out the sky and landed on her lap, but noooo, this was a girl already primed for weirdness.

I'm glad my mother is alive, don't get me wrong, I love the woman dearly, may she live long years yet (I got a feeling she'll survive me, she's only eighteen years older than I am and much less of a risk-taker) but if she had, say, kicked off back in the day, damn, I could have really gone for something like that.

Scene from a hypothetical past....

Me: "Dude, let's hop a plane for County Galway."

Him: "Why?"

Me: "Trust me, I am going to make this worth your while."

Him: "Oh....okay..."

Compared to Mary's my life is so painfully mundane.

Next time: Lady Caroline Lamb, so crazy she bit a hunk out of a wine glass when Lord Byron flirted with another woman in front of her, and why she is my hero.

[indianasmith]

You know some very interesting things . . .

[Flangepart]

You know some very interesting things . . .

Interesting as in 'the Chinese curse?' Sometimes, kiddo...sometimes...

[Leah]

According to the comic Plan 9 from Outer Space: 30 Years Later, George H W Bush is an alien and that Trump is a robot. Why does a comic from the 90's explain so much?

[AoTFan]

Post I decided to make, so ignore what's above: Fun fact: Do you know when she was sixteen Mary lost her virginity to her future husband Percy Shelley (they had to wait til his first wife killed herself to tie the knot) atop the grave of her own mother?

Atop the grave of her own mother.

This was an intense chick, man. People act like Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) fell out the sky and landed on her lap, but noooo, this was a girl already primed for weirdness.

Wow... can you just imagine if she were alive today on the Internet?

(Course, then again, if you've been to Suicide Girls, you probably don't have to imagine.)

But to be that way back in the 1800s....

[ER]

Among other types in life, there are complainers and there are achievers. Achievers see something they don't like and they lead from the front to change it. Complainers wallow in self-created negativity. It's much easier to be a complainer, and more noble to be an achiever.

[ER]

That's it, I'm done with Doctor Who. It's sucked for four years anyway, being about statements rather than storytelling. Give me the classic episodes, this is a travesty.

[Newt]

I think Dr Who is screwed.  
If they start writing it for a woman, it's screwed.  
If they write it for a woman-acting-like-a-man it's screwed.  
The whole point of gender not mattering is gender not mattering.  

The Doctor is simply the Doctor.  Not a woman playing the Doctor.  Not a woman playing a man's soul in a woman's body.  Just a decent person trying to be reasonable and helpful and principled and kind (insert excerpts of the Doctor's speech to the Master here).  I think the level of writing ability they have displayed in the last year or so is definitely not up to that.  Not at all.  Not even close.  They'll have the Doctor acting like a stereotypical woman and alternately acting like a mannish woman, as fits the plot-du-jour.  Anything else is too subtle for them to pull off in terms of script and direction.   I pity the actress.

[Alex]

I've not watched much of Dr Who since it came back. I dislike the meet and defeat the bad guys in one episode type stories they are doing compared to the long story arc's I remember from the 80's. Maybe its time for the series to be rested again for a few years. Then again, maybe it will be great and fantastic, but to me you need a real stand out eccentric to play that role and as much as she was ok in Attack The Block I am not convinced she is the person for that role, regardless of being male or female.

[Trevor]

I think Dr Who is screwed.  
If they start writing it for a woman, it's screwed.  
If they write it for a woman-acting-like-a-man it's screwed.  
The whole point of gender not mattering is gender not mattering.  

The Doctor is simply the Doctor.  Not a woman playing the Doctor.  Not a woman playing a man's soul in a woman's body.  Just a decent person trying to be reasonable and helpful and principled and kind (insert excerpts of the Doctor's speech to the Master here).  I think the level of writing ability they have displayed in the last year or so is definitely not up to that.  Not at all.  Not even close.  They'll have the Doctor acting like a stereotypical woman and alternately acting like a mannish woman, as fits the plot-du-jour.  Anything else is too subtle for them to pull off in terms of script and direction.   I pity the actress.

I actually thought you were joking, Sister Newt and then I saw you weren't. I don't actually know what to say about the fact that Dr Who 13 is a woman and I'm the son of a feminist.