… that short chicks are so demanding. I’m married to one.
So, to make LC Aggie Sith happy (Cruel Wife, who is like 5’1″, doesn’t care either way in this instance) I have updated the seal currency so the gosh-darned thing isn’t green anymore.
Heaven forbid if we should have green seals barking it up all over the place.
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How in the world would a zombie’s orientation have any bearing on the fact that all he/she wants do do is eat braaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnnsssss?
I find it interesting that movie directors and writers at these film festivals tend to always gravitate (well, mostly) to sexuality (amounting to child porn, gay porn, hetero deviant porn), or disturbing topics, or even so far as taboos.
Yet they can’t seem to make a quality “mainstream” movie with good plot, choreography, good dialogue, and great filming practices. It’s like PETA – one trick ponies (and the trick is oh-so-old by now) and they keep hashing the same thing over, thinking that if they bump up the shock value a little more each time they’ll get their groupies, fanboys, admirers, fame, whatever. They are looking for fart-sniffer validation.
Surely we haven’t exhausted stories of the type written by H.G. Wells, Frederick Pohl, Asimov, Dan Simmons, or Neal Stephenson? (Threw that last one in for fun – I’d love to see someone do it though.)
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The only thing lower than this is someone who would break a baby’s fingers to get the candy. Man uses crucifixes to open church poor boxes. I’d say he’s as useful as a syphilitic rat, but that’s pretty damned offensive to rats.
Waaay better!
I didn’t want to admit it before, but – what is that thingy to the right of the seal under the denomination? A Rhino? Wild boar?
I like the Pis too.
I thought you guessed it perfectly the first time! A black rhino!
That would be “Pi’s”
Pi is for irrationality.
MOI??? DEMANDING???
I did no such thing! I merely suggested it.
HA!!
However, never let it be said I am not gracious. You have vastly improved the currency, especially with a brighter “splatter”. The black rhinoceros is a great touch, too.
And thanks for tagging this under “short women” 😛
You are short if memory serves. Big on energy, low on vertical scaffolding…?
Cruel Wife elbows me in the ribs whenever I use the top of her head as an armrest.
Every now and then I walk up to her and it hits me again “DAMN are you short!!” I’ve got probably 10″ on her.
Tote bags, change-this-change-that, do-this-do-that… yes, demanding (rolls eyes in a martyr-fashion)
Damn, I keep forgetting the cockroach tote. Damn.
I am 5’2″, so yes, I am….vertically challenged, or as I prefer to say, a “Pocket Venus” 😀
I still stand by my assertion I only suggested, not demanded 😛
How about emphatically suggested that approval would be forthcoming with changes that fit your world view more closely?
Easy killer. Just flickin’ you sh… stuff.
Pocket Venus – I must tell CW of that one.
Fits her to a “T” 😀
Next time, I’ll be sure to demand in the only way a short spic can 😛
rhymes with… 😀
I thought white seals got green anyway from algae? Or is that only polar bears when they are in zoos?
Oh well. Whatevs. I like both versions. When you get what you consider a complete set, you should put them on a poster or something on Zazzle. Along with a cockroach tote… 🙂
YES!! The roach totes!!! And the Steampunk corset poster!!!
Lemur King,
yeah, I hear you about making quality movies. There are so many outstanding sci-fi stories and novels that would make great movies, in my opinion.
Books I would like to see made into movies:
Timescape, by Gregory Benford
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Blood Music, by Greg Bear, either the novel or the original short story….each would work well, but would make vastly different movies.
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, and probably the original short story adapted into a movie. I like the book just as much, but I think I enjoy the feel of the short story more.
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. yes I know they made a movie, but it was so abysmally bad I don’t count it. I would really like to see someone take the time and do a good job of adapting it into a film.
Hell, I can’t believe I didn’t mention Ringworld by Larry Niven to start with. I’d love to see a quality film made of that one.
Lots of others that would make outstanding movies, but that will do for a start, lol.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymion.
Snow Crash.
Cryptonomicon.
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.
Signal to Noise. A Signal Shattered.
Please, Lord, if you’re up there listening…please don’t ever let them make a movie of Snow Crash.
They cannot. Possibly. Get it right. Who’s going to listen to all that conjecture about ancient Sumerian gods as the original hackers?
I mean, besides me.
…that being said…I’d vote Chiwetel Ejiofor as Hiro.
Yes, handling the deep programming concepts would either be brilliant or done so badly that the movie ends up like Queen of the Damned – a movie that they should disinvent.
I’m trying to think who I’d cast in the roles of M. Severn and Raul Endymion – and Lamia and Aenea, too – in order to hang Hyperion together. The Consul? Easy, that’d be Anthony Hopkins.
Martin Silenus – Malcolm McDowell, perhaps.
Chiwetel Ejiofor would be an excellent choice to play Hiro Protagonist.
I think they could do a good job with Cryptonomicon.
I can totally see Adam Baldwin as Bobby Shaftoe.
I hear Ender’s Game is already in the works, though I’m really more interested in the Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide storyline.
Neuromancer is already in production for 2011. Hayden Christensen is slated to play Case. So much for that idea. Maybe they could do a better job with Virtual Light.
curtelfriar,
Add Way Station, Methuselah’s Children, Glory Road, Songmaster, Al Flesh Is Grass, A Wrinkle In Time, The Stainless Steel Rat, Bill: Galactic Hero, and the DeathWorld trilogy.
I would literally die from laughter if they would do Stainless Steel Rat or Deathworld. Harry Harrison can be unbelievably hilarious – even when he’s serious!
I’d also pay big bucks to see a decent film version of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal.
Again – I’d die laughing.
McGoo,
have you read “Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett?
Please, it’s a “video art zombie film”, not “gay zombie porn” Lemur King. Stop being so close-minded and judgemental.
Oh, and do stop messing with those millipedes. That’s disgusting!
That’s what they called it, man.
Nobody walks out to make a hetero zombie porn movie is all I’m sayin’. So why make a point of it going the other way?
The only thing I rub all over my body is pork rinds. Not millipedes.
And that Ripley’s link? Where the guy marries his cat? What is it with people who have the name Uwe, anyway?
You should try bacon 😀
WTF do gay zombies want with sex??
I do question that a zombie, whether GLBT or hetero would be interested in sex in the first place. Brrraaaaaaaiinnnnnssss are far more important to the average zombie.
EXACTLY!!!
Nope, cf, but I’m familiar with Pratchett. Funny writer!
“Along with rifling the candle box.”
Maybe the dude just wanted to light a candle in his mother’s memory. What? The Twinkie defense worked.
A Kafka movie, “The Metamorphosis.” It works on many levels, a Hollywood producer wakes up as a cockroach and decides to do a documentary on his life making films as a roach.
Have your people call my people.
The Metamorphosis was disturbing, too (well, the story anyway).
Yeah, ok, candle… check… poor departed mother who still lives six blocks away… check… Member-of-the-Asshole Club Card… check…
Leastwise he’s not like the guy that burst into flames when the cops tazed him because he was huffing gold paint and had solvents all over him.
I don’t have “people”… perhaps my sending of an e:mail will do? 🙂
When I was interviewing LQ Jones in ’79 for a friend’s film project–mostly bullshitting about Sam Peckinpah, we got to talking about Sci Fi flicks–he had directed “A Dog and his Boy–and he mentioned he wanted to do Zelazny’s “Jack of Shadows.”
I said I thought the center-of-the-earth-machinery scenes, among others, might be cost prohibitive. A few years later I heard he scrapped the project for just that reason. It’s probably doable now though.
Oh, and L.Q. uttered the best critique ever when asked how Peckinpah was as a director…
“He couldn’t direct me to the bathroom!”
A Boy and his Dog – as in with Don Johnson?
Jack of Shadows, hmmm? Now I’m intensely curious. Not easy to do. Thanks for the tip.