Random thoughts
Mar. 9th, 2004 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritWell, talk radio is full of all kinds of interesting things today. I guess I'll take them one at a time, in no particular order.
Some California State Senator has decided it would be a good idea to amend California's State Constitution to allow children as young as fourteen to vote--although their vote would only count as a quarter of a vote until they were sixteen, when it would count as half a vote.
Now, I run in different circles than Sen. John Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara). I see the fangirls on a sugar high, writing half-literate stories about their favorite fanfiction characters, and throwing a hissy fit when someone mildly suggests that perhaps a spell-check might be in order.
I can just see them, squeeing over Arnold Schwarzenegger and fainting at how "hott" he is, voting on the basis of which candidate is cuter.
I don't think I want them voting. Thankyouverymuch.
Anti-smoking groups are yammering for any movie that portrays smoking to have an R rating. They say that children who see smoking in a movie are more likely to emulate that behavior, and cite the movie "Holes" and the prison guard smoking in it, as some sort of evidence.
Now, I think smoking is a silly thing to do, and I would never encourage children to do it. However, citing this example weakens their argument...because the prison guards in "Holes" (which was a great movie) were bad guys. No one seeing that movie will want to emulate any behavior that they engaged in.
Pick a better example. Morons.
ABC showed a movie called "Judas" last night. I saw the previews for it and decided to pass on it. And my instincts were apparently correct. So, Mel Gibson makes a movie about Jesus, and ABC makes a movie about His betrayer--yanking it out of a vault where it's been gathering dust for three years and attempting to ride the popularity of "The Passion."
Somehow, I'm not surprised by this.
The Jazz beat the Lakers last night. YAY!!! Since my two favorite basketball teams are the Utah Jazz and whoever's playing the Los Angeles Lakers, the victory was doubly sweet. Benedict Malone sat the game out, still recovering from some injury or other, as did Kobe. And Shaq got tossed out on two technical fouls. Ha.
I decided that a short prologue was in order for the "Pottage" monster, and incorporated![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jerib_78's suggestion that I put Spike in there somehow. Thanks, sweetie! And I solved the question of how to make the timeline apparent by the simple expedient of calling it "Prologue--Seven Months Ago."
Simple solutions are best, I suppose.
Some California State Senator has decided it would be a good idea to amend California's State Constitution to allow children as young as fourteen to vote--although their vote would only count as a quarter of a vote until they were sixteen, when it would count as half a vote.
Now, I run in different circles than Sen. John Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara). I see the fangirls on a sugar high, writing half-literate stories about their favorite fanfiction characters, and throwing a hissy fit when someone mildly suggests that perhaps a spell-check might be in order.
I can just see them, squeeing over Arnold Schwarzenegger and fainting at how "hott" he is, voting on the basis of which candidate is cuter.
I don't think I want them voting. Thankyouverymuch.
Anti-smoking groups are yammering for any movie that portrays smoking to have an R rating. They say that children who see smoking in a movie are more likely to emulate that behavior, and cite the movie "Holes" and the prison guard smoking in it, as some sort of evidence.
Now, I think smoking is a silly thing to do, and I would never encourage children to do it. However, citing this example weakens their argument...because the prison guards in "Holes" (which was a great movie) were bad guys. No one seeing that movie will want to emulate any behavior that they engaged in.
Pick a better example. Morons.
ABC showed a movie called "Judas" last night. I saw the previews for it and decided to pass on it. And my instincts were apparently correct. So, Mel Gibson makes a movie about Jesus, and ABC makes a movie about His betrayer--yanking it out of a vault where it's been gathering dust for three years and attempting to ride the popularity of "The Passion."
Somehow, I'm not surprised by this.
The Jazz beat the Lakers last night. YAY!!! Since my two favorite basketball teams are the Utah Jazz and whoever's playing the Los Angeles Lakers, the victory was doubly sweet. Benedict Malone sat the game out, still recovering from some injury or other, as did Kobe. And Shaq got tossed out on two technical fouls. Ha.
I decided that a short prologue was in order for the "Pottage" monster, and incorporated
jerib_78's suggestion that I put Spike in there somehow. Thanks, sweetie! And I solved the question of how to make the timeline apparent by the simple expedient of calling it "Prologue--Seven Months Ago." Simple solutions are best, I suppose.
