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Jun. 5th, 2003 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyThis'll be a pretty scattershot post: there are a lot of little things rattling around in my head.
D and I saw "Finding Nemo" last night, and it was, um, okay. Visually beautiful, some great supporting characters, the dynamic between Marlin and Dory was at time a scary parallel to the one D and I have...but somehow, after "Monsters, Inc." it seemed a bit flat and disappointing. I can see three reasons for this:
1) "Monsters, Inc" was a work of comic genius;
2) As someone with no kids, no interest in having kids, and in fact a desire to NOT have kids, two hours of watching a parent freak out about a missing child wasn't really on my wavelength;
3) Albert Brooks just isn't my comedic cup of tea. He's not only painfully unfunny to me, he's like a comedic black hole sucking all the funny out of any scene he's in.
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Two fun bits of internet culture were on my monitor this morning. First, I got a Nigerian prisoner swindle-spam letter! This is a direct descendent of the "Spanish prisoner" letters which date back to the Spanish-American war and probably even further--only the proper nouns have been changed (and, sadly, the detail of the beautiful daughter has been dropped). I feel like I've touched a part of history. And deleted it.
Second, Boston Craigslist gets stranger and stranger. I look at the 'activities partners' board, and have noticed someone putting up frequent ads--almost daily--saying that he's looking for women to massage. Turns out I've only been seeing the tip of the iceberg--he's also been posting over in 'Men Looking for Women', and over there more and more women are now writing ads of their own to warn others off--"bitter", "bizarre", "freaky", "creep" and "stalker" are some of the nicer terms being used about him. That's finally spilled over to the AP board, and probably 18 others. Sheesh.
D and I saw "Finding Nemo" last night, and it was, um, okay. Visually beautiful, some great supporting characters, the dynamic between Marlin and Dory was at time a scary parallel to the one D and I have...but somehow, after "Monsters, Inc." it seemed a bit flat and disappointing. I can see three reasons for this:
1) "Monsters, Inc" was a work of comic genius;
2) As someone with no kids, no interest in having kids, and in fact a desire to NOT have kids, two hours of watching a parent freak out about a missing child wasn't really on my wavelength;
3) Albert Brooks just isn't my comedic cup of tea. He's not only painfully unfunny to me, he's like a comedic black hole sucking all the funny out of any scene he's in.
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Two fun bits of internet culture were on my monitor this morning. First, I got a Nigerian prisoner swindle-spam letter! This is a direct descendent of the "Spanish prisoner" letters which date back to the Spanish-American war and probably even further--only the proper nouns have been changed (and, sadly, the detail of the beautiful daughter has been dropped). I feel like I've touched a part of history. And deleted it.
Second, Boston Craigslist gets stranger and stranger. I look at the 'activities partners' board, and have noticed someone putting up frequent ads--almost daily--saying that he's looking for women to massage. Turns out I've only been seeing the tip of the iceberg--he's also been posting over in 'Men Looking for Women', and over there more and more women are now writing ads of their own to warn others off--"bitter", "bizarre", "freaky", "creep" and "stalker" are some of the nicer terms being used about him. That's finally spilled over to the AP board, and probably 18 others. Sheesh.
