MILES to GO || before I sleep

(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. )

Ah, sometimes Scott has excellent ideas. After discovering that my precious rec room is infested with ants (going across all 14 or so feet of the entire ceiling, no less) and spiders (!!!!!!!!) Scott pulled me away and took me to Borders for an hour and a half or so. It was good. I grabbed the volumes of Boys Over Flowers/Hana Yori Dango that I was missing (8, 9, 11) -- but sadly, they're lacking in the Hot Gimmick (7, 9) department. Guess I'll have to order those online. I also looked for the Harry Potter books 1-4 boxed set... out-of-print! I was going to get 1-5 and just give Book 5 to Mom, since she OWNS 1-4, but not 5... but alas! It was not in store, despite the catalog saying it was. So anyway, I bought 4 differently-sized copies of 1-4, and I think I saved money.

I also caught sight of the new Entertainment Weekly and...
(1) "Superman Returns" looks like it's going to be terrible. Sorry, but Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane? I don't see it. That and, despite "not being a sequel," it takes place after the events of Chris Reeve's Superman 2, which means people that WERE NOT alive and part of the fandom when said movie came out will probably have to rewatch it for it to make any sense. This is NOT a good way to start out a franchise with so much possibility and weight on it. The guy playing Clark/Superman looks okay, but... Well, he's no Chris Reeves, and he sure as hell isn't Dean Cain. Tom Welling wasn't even asked to play the role, because they would have had to cancel "Smallville" for him to do it. Oh, and did you know that the 'S' on Superman's chest is really made out of thousands of little crystals with S's on them! Supe's a pimp loaded with bling-bling!

(2) CILLIAN MURPHY! Okay, it's just a one-paragraph blurb, but a pretty hot pic of him, and shadow_reality, I thought you'd wanna know. ^_~

(3) Ralph Fiennes = Voldemort!? o_O... Uh, yeah, this is the guy that went after J.Lo in "The Wedding Planner," right? And now he's the epitome of all evil? Hmm.....

Harry Potter die-hard fans have way too much time on their hands. I wish I had that kind of time on my hands. I mean, I looked at all these unofficial guides and things, and they bring up so many points I never even thought of! I mean, I might have thought of them once or twice while reading the books and making my usual faces, but these people turned them into full-fledged discussions. Once I re-read the series, I might be able to chat with the best of them.

Seattle's Best coffee really has the best... hot cocoa. This delish little thing called the Cocoa Trio. It was yummy last winter in Seattle, and it's yummy now in summer in Los Angeles. Really, I love it. It made my night.

I've gotten a lot of (mixed) reviews for all the oneshots I posted to FFnet, but because most of them were ficlets/drabbles, I used lots of ellipses (...) in them... and QuickEdit (the bane of my existence) liked to edit them out, and make me into some female e.e. cummings with my own sense of grammar. Sorry, no, I'm not that quite sure of myself just yet... I fixed "Silhouette" and "Miss Match," but I don't know if any of the others have screwed up the appearance of my fics royally. I'm going through all the reviews and trying to make sure. Let me know if I don't fix an error within the week!

Note: One of my loyal reviewers, Amazoness Archer, has requested I do a Yami x Anzu fic. Someone better hold me to it. Better yet, be more specific and write a theme/challenge element for me to follow. I seem to be good at doing those lately.

ChibiChib said (of "This Is All Your Fault") -- "I don't get it." o_O Well, she's not the only one making that face. What's not to get? *shrug* Do you really have to know about the Kaibaman card (the one created by Konami, and a legit Duel Monsters card) to understand the fic? I don't think so... Other people seemed to get it, and they said it was funny. Is there anything in there that doesn't make sense?

Any votes for lengthening "First Impression" into a miniseries? Yeah, one so far-- okay, two if you count atlantian_magic's original vote. Anyone else think so? But I need a direction to go-- obviously one of them (Seto or Anzu) would start to remember their REAL first meeting... but how, when, and why? Which one of them? Would the other person need a "push" to remember? If so, from who?

Re: "The Darkness Within" -- remember, it's a Kaiba introspective fic. He thinks if he got too close to Anzu, she'd become like him, dark and rotted and not the person he cares for. This might not be true, but it's what Kaiba thinks, and Kaiba never doubts himself.

Not so many reviews for "World Champion," even though that one is pure fluff (more so than "S'More" I think) -- and the one review I got for "One Of These Days" was someone demanding to know whether it was Kaiba. My answer: Sore wa hi-mi-tsu desu! (It is a sec-ret!) And for S'More-- one person thought Kaiba was being a "stuck-up jackass" ... eh!? He was!? ^^;

I got the wrong idea from this review: At first I thought it was Seto because he always has to be on the top but I guess Anzu is sort of like that too.

This reminds me of a line from Lois and Clark: "You like to be on top. Got it." *snickers* Though Kaiba = Clark Kent... NO WAY!

I've also been contemplating more of WDKY-- sadly, I had no time to work on it tonight, but I got an idea for a relatively plot-sized revision involing You-Know-Who and the rest of the You-Know-Whats. And if you don't know, sorry, I won't tell you until Chapter 22 or thereabouts-- you oughta know by now! ^_~ I don't foreshadow for nothing, you know!

Oh yeah, seeshellirun, I watched "Confessions of a White Collar Cop." It's... o_O <-- my face. It's funny but weird, sometimes shocking, but still acceptable (to watch-- I mean everyone's got lines they draw for various genres; this was never too stupid or too violent for me to click away). But which one were you? The ninja? The clown? Someone else? The confessions were pretty freakin' funny, though. *smirk*