Pride and Pressure

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person in possession of a sound mind must be in search of this site. Enjoy your stay here, gentle reader. (And do please be gentle, reader, because if you break it, you buy it.)

Saturday, July 30, 2005

WTF???

I feel honor-bound, given the name of this site, to comment on the upcoming remake of Pride and Prejudice set to come out (in the US) on November 18. My comment is: I don't think so.

They've made even Keira Knightley look funny with a strange brownish color of hair. She's gorgeous, and they made her look funny. The hair color wasn't necessary since Jane Austen almost never described her main character's appearance. Keira could have stayed blonde. Really guys, she could have.

My other major problem is the entire movie seems to have been cast by someone who was armed only with a vague concept of the age and sex of all the characters. Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet? I don't think so. I like Donald Sutherland. You can all immediately go out and rent Big Shot's Funeral, but Mr. Bennet he is not.

I'll probably see it, but I can't bring myself to stop thinking, why fix something that was never broken? Who could top the 1995 mini-series? Hell, this doesn't look like it will top the 1940s version (which screenplay was, oddly enough, written by Aldous Huxley).

Thursday, July 28, 2005

I have somewhere to live (knock on wood)

I get a lease faxed to me tomorrow and send a wire transfer and then I have an apartment. Conveniently, I also have some pictures to post. Which I will do tomorrow maybe because I have to go to sleep. Garage sale tomorrow.

Just thought I would let interested parties know. Hopefully, I don't jinx it.

Monday, July 25, 2005

It's Official . . . Again

No takebacksies now, MU. You sent me my diploma.

On a related note, I'm never defending the post office again. The envelope clearly said "Don't Bend," and yet theyfelt the need to bend my diploma. It has wrinkles now. Fuck that.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Look to the Left

Got some new ads that are now posted to the left. Let me know what you think . . .

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Actually, that wasn't all . . .

. . . but I wanted to also make a clever reference to Family Guy.

I'm only about six pages in at this point, but I'm thinking that maybe Tony Blair should play himself when this movie comes out. It would be brilliant. Then the Labour Party could run ads accusing the Conservative Party of ignoring the problems of the wizarding world because they don't believe in wizards.

Chrissy said that Hugh Grant would work as well, since he played the Prime Minister in Love Actually. I guess that's pretty much the same.

Harry Potter 6

Harry Potter. HARRY potter. HaRrY pOtTeR. harry potter. harry POTTER. HArrY PotTEr. h a r r y p o t t e r . HARRY POTTER. Harry Potter.

That is all. Thank you.

Right, no spoilers

I really, really loved Wedding Crashers. It was a great, strange romantic comedy. I have to say that some of what you see in the previews gives you some mistaken impressions of where the movie is headed.

The only thing even near a spoiler that I'm going to put in here is that I appreciate this movie being one of the first to not only show, but also point out just how big of a guy Vince Vaughn is. He's 6'5".

Five out of five stars. Also five out of five for hot(tttt)ness. I'm going to have to own this movie.

Wow, don't I feel like a jackass

So, I keep going to the new Cold Stone Creamery in my home town (Yeah, we pretty much just got every chain there is minus Pannera, Olive Garden,
Barnes and Noble, and Hot Topic). I've been bitching pretty much constantly every time I go because they didn't have my cake batter ice cream.

Little did I know (Chrissy, you're really going to enjoy this, but try not to taunt Tiffany), that their cake batter ice cream had given 14 people salmonella. That would explain why they were "out" of cake batter ice cream every time I went in.

AdFreak alerted me to this fact with this article which predictably notes the effect of the salmonella on a (relatively) long running campaign.

Friday, July 15, 2005

Chrissy/anyone reading this, I have pictures of pretty boys for you

Owen Wilson is so freaking hilarious. Check out this article, and go see Wedding Crashers. Also, tell me how it is.

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Adopt a Demon

I readopted my demons. Some of you will remember that their names are Chester and Lester.

Does anyone have any extra souls that they don't want lying around? Because they're hungry.






What the hell are they thinking at Amazon???

I got an email today that said your Amazon order has been shipped. I'm not really good with days, I think it's the 9th. I thought that they might have theoretically shipped my new Harry Potter today so that it would arrive on the 16th. I was so excited, but no. No, they emailed me to tell me that they had, a month after I ordered my 2 books, decided to split the order for faster service. So I'm getting East of Ealing before Harry Potter.

Don't get me wrong, I'm massively excited to get East of Ealing. I'm becoming a huge Robert Rankin fan. But still, they knew they were raising and then dashing my hopes. And they did it quite expertly.

Resume

I'm gonna post a link to my resume on the left. If anyone's got a spare second, would you check it out and say what you think? This is a design issue and a content issue. I redesigned it, and I think it looks pretty damn cool, but it's all about me, so I'm pretty much destined to love it, aren't I?

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Check it out

I posted an article online at MyMissourian. I mention this mainly for anyone who wanted to post an article. They are looking for people who are in some way connected to London.

Long time no Post (and I don't mean the cereal)

So in between this and my last post (before the London one, which I felt needed to stay on its own), Chrissy's made like 80 posts. Still, I got home on the 29th, and since then I've been lazing.

So to bring you up to the minute, here's a rundown on what I've been up to:

1. I am an underachiever and apparently now it can't be remedied. I didn't do the 33 Things You Should Do Before You're 10. I count 14 that I did (and that's stretching things a bit). That's less than half, and the gods probably won't change space and time just so I can go back. On the other hand, why would I ever want to make a mini-assault course in my garden? And what is Pooh Sticks??

2. I hate Wal-Mart. A lot. I know everyone knows this already so I won't go into all the old reasons, but I'll hit the new ones. I hate it because there are always a million people wandering around with their heads so far up their ass that their body is a hat. I can be dialing my phone, pushing my cart with one hand, and weaving, but I'm still paying more attention than they are.

I also hate this whole, "You can make meth with suphedrine, so we'll have to lock it all up" idea. Most of you will know that I hate Wal-Mart's moral stance on the Morning After Pill and the magazine FHM, specifically that they won't sell them). Now, I don't do drugs. I have never done drugs. I've never even had a single puff off a cigarette, but damn it, if I want to make meth, leave it to the drug task force to make it difficult for me. Because by making it difficult to buy Sudafed, you're really just picking on people with allergies. I just don't like the fact that an international corporation that pays its employees minimum wage and fires their butchers when they try to unionize tries to take the moral high ground in what it chooses to sell. They're running other stores and companies out of business by demanding cut rate prices on bulk orders, but it would just be wrong of them to leave Sudafed out where anyone with allergies could pick it up. Fucking Wal-Mart.

3. I'm making a bow ponchette, which I'm kind of making up a pattern for. I found it in the free patterns pile at Wal-Mart (see above). However, it was a knit pattern, which I realized after I had it at home. It's basically a long straight piece joined in a circle with a smaller piece joined around it so that the whole thing looks like a bow. Maybe I'll put a picture up since that didn't make sense at all. Should be cute though.

4. Speaking of pictures, I'll have to get a pic of the fabulous painting Ali did that I get to keep now. It's a city scene with a checkerboard sky. Awesome.

5. And finally, I saw Jimmy from The Lone Gunmen on She Spies a few nights ago. It's good to see he's still doing quality TV. Does anyone want to tell me that She Spies isn't quality TV? 'Cause you'll get a beat down for that.

London

It was really weird to hear about the attacks in London. My first thought was where?. American media did not follow that line of thinking. They reported on what steps were being taken in the US and who was responsible for the attacks. Which makes sense if you think about it. It's all about your audience, but I was trying to think about what lines everyone at Emap took to work, and I wanted to know what stations had been attacked (when I looked at it, no one that I worked with should have been in those stations, by the way). I know I'm in good company when I say that I hope the people who did this are caught and that I'm proud of Londoners for being badasses and going on with their lives. Londoners are pretty awesome.