Mel Gibson's a lunatic, Lindsay Lohan's a mama's girl, and Superman Returns was surprisingly good.

(1) You know, I *liked* Mel Gibson. I liked "The Patriot" and the "Lethal Weapon" series, and tons of other movies. And then he had to suddenly decide he had enough power and influence to be a director and "send a message" --so he did "The Passion of the Christ" (okay, no biggie. It's been done before. But all in Aramaic?). After that though, he seems to have changed. He seems MORE gung-ho Catholic than he was before. And apparently it's not just about sending a one-time message and then going to practice your religion/faith (as Mel Gibson's is apparently an off-shoot of the Catholic church, except taken to a bigger extreme... this church was "founded" by Mel's father) in peace. But noooooo loony Mel's got to be Anti-Semetic. His dad's got to claim the Holocaust never happened.

...I believed Bill Clinton was innocent of his "crimes" too, and even when I wised up, I decided it wasn't such a bad thing. Okay, he's an ass for technically cheating on his wife, but seriously? It could have been worse. Getting head is hardly a reason to impeach a President. BC probably wasn't even the first President to do that: he was just the first one to get caught!

And at least he's doing something productive with his time and energy now. Mel Gibson's off getting drunk and spouting hateful things about Jews. Sure, I'm not a practicing Jew, but much of my family is, and I have a great respect for their beliefs. And HELLO, Jesus was a Jew, you big ninny! :P

(2) Baba thinks Lindsay Lohan should act her age and not her shoe size; apparently Lohan cried to "Mommy" that she wasn't feeling well, so her Mom had to take her to the hospital rather than of-legal-age-and-mindset Lohan doing it herself. My thoughts? I don't really care. I think Lohan's cute, a decent enough singer (I liked her songs from "Freaky Friday" and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"), and I bet her boobs are completely natural. :}

(3) I spent much of the weekend with Jill (my cousin)'s family-- mainly my second (and third, twice removed) cousins, Nikki, James, Nina, and Alexis. We had a scrapbooking party that was pretty successful, and we also saw "Superman Returns" yesterday afternoon at the Winnetka 21. It was surprisingly good, but as predicted, I didn't like Kate Bosworth's "Lois." Brandon Routh, on the other hand, was a surprisingly good Clark *AND* Superman.

( Stuff to like and dislike... spoilers, of course. )

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Did you know I have a few fics that are still LJ-only? One I posted... I think last Christmas (or maybe the Christmas before that?) for yuugiouxmasfic never made it to FFnet. *impish smile* But it is under "Azurite's Fanfiction" in my memories. And I still REALLY want to finish my claim for 30kisses, because I have so many "large" fragments of them (i.e. for "Girls' Club" and "Kaiba the Virgin Sacrifice", but gosh darn it, WDKY is priority! ;_; Won't anyone help me beta? Do I have to start calling in favors?)

Also found two new, rather interesting fics for Azureshippers by way of FFnet C2: silentshadow1's "Second Side," and Shinja-chan's "I am Kaiba Anzu." Like many other fics I've found via FFnet in some size, shape, or form, I'll be adding them to the BEA database eventually. I think I'm going to change the colors of the layout for Autumn, though. :}