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[rm]

Patty sent me photos of giant bug art in Cardiff. This is particularly funny in light of the TW virtual season I participated in a bit back.

Yay sleep. Now I have to throw on clothes and go do the ItM stuff.

D&J pledges have reached 1K! That's 16% according to their meter (no decimals). Right now, if you search for us specifically on the site you can find us, but if you do browsing of new projects or location you can't. I'm hoping that's a human just needs to look at things issue and not a "dude it's a musical about dominatrices" issue. I'll follow up with them in a few days if that doesn't seem to have changed on its own.

T. rex's were cannibals.

Photos from a masquerade to celebrate French Vogue's 90th birthday.

This year's hot NYC Halloween costume? Might be a bed bug.

Celebrating Karwa Chauth.

Anyone have any thoughts on Hereafter? Because it's either a movie I will love or loathe. For context, I think Letters from Iwo Jima is the best thing Eastwood has done (and is just one of the best things I've ever seen, period). On the other hand, I actually hated Flags of our Fathers, which while a technical achievement is, among other things, a structural mess.

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[lookingaround17.livejournal.com]

I get such a kick out of haute couture photos. Sure, they're in many sense exploitative, and a gift for anyone who's pro-bosom-display, but I LOVE the fabrics and drape of many of the gowns. Part of me imagines I wear ballgowns all the time, and the other part of me wears teeshirts and similar all the actual time. As an art form and psychology and sociology, it's very interesting to me--

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Flags yet, so I don't a have context for your comments yet. Agree that Letters is Eastwood's best work that I've seen.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I'll see your giant bugs and raise you a giant stained glass crab that is usually at BWI.

Yay for getting over 1K! Woohoo!

[azn-jack-fiend.livejournal.com]

I had to walk out of Letters from Iwo Jima because it was making me cry too much :-( so I've only ever seen the first half.

My dad liked it, though. His father was in the Japanese navy and died in the Pacific. His battleship got sunk. I'm probably more openly sentimental about the subject than my dad is.

[justpat.livejournal.com]

Did they warn you about the Kickstarter U? Donations start out high, then come crashing down to almost nothing, then pick up again at the very end.

[rm.livejournal.com]

No, but I assumed, although we have various strategies for keeping the momentum going (we're rolling out the fundraising to our different groups of contacts gradually).

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Patty sent me photos of giant bug art in Cardiff.

Patty goes to school with J.J.?

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Did that Times article basically read to anyone else like "who made Halloween a celebration of whoredom? The Gayz!" That was one of the worst articles I've ever read on Halloween costumes.

[azurelunatic]

Now I'm seeing "sexy bedbug". This is not a good look.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

HAH! would love to see the giant bug art - that is fantabulous VS ephemera right there

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Patty sent me photos of giant bug art in Cardiff. This is particularly funny in light of the TW virtual season I participated in a bit back.

ROFLMAO! That's awesome!

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Is it still a masquerade if no one is making any real attempt to conceal who they are? I found that fascinating.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Flags of Our Fathers, but having read the book I can't imagine it would have made a good movie. There were too many stories being told that were unconnected in too many places for it to make a good movie. I could see it possibly turning out well as a Ken Burns-style long-form documentary, so long as they didn't actually let Ken Burns direct it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah interesting. I haven't not read the book, but the too many threads thing was one of my big problems with it, and I'm interested that that originated with the source material.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Of the top of my head, I can think of 8 major stories (the life stories of each of the six men in the statue [counting pre- and post- Iwo Jima as one story in each case], the top-level view of the battle, and the authors experiences while finding this information and coming to terms with his father's life), plus a number of major side-stories, such as the War Bonds tour, the creation of the statue, and the story of the photograph on which the statue was based. As a book it worked well, but I just can't see it working as a movie.