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[phosfate]

Watched Ice Age last night. Rather like The Prince of Egypt, in that there was a really good movie somewhere in there struggling to get out. Some brilliant bits, though, with the dodos, the various ice mummies, and the cave paintings.

Still, a bit of a slight to the dodos, who in real life were not particularly suicidal and managed to hang on until we came along and killed them all to make hats and dodo tenders.

Mmmmm...dodo tenders.

Then went to the Disney Store for the plushie sale. Presents for two nieces (a Santa Piglet and a Skrump) and a Captain Amelia for me. Upon her arrival home, Amelia took an instant shine to Hagrid. Imagine the children. Making third niece a sketchbook, 'cause she draws an' junk. Fourth isn't coming for Christmas, so tough darts.

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[spinooti.livejournal.com]

I always knew somehow that Hagrid could look beyond funny boobies and into the woman within.

Was Amelia $10 at the store too?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

No, she was $18 (huh?), but the other guys were on sale for $10, so I figure it balanced out okay with the cheap giftage and no shipping. Plus I got to go through the pile-o-Amelias and pick the one with the best face.

I like her very much - she's made more or less in the style of a large UFO catcher. Except that some bastard decided her boots should be ripstop nylon. Since she's mainly velour, this is the textural equivalent of a stray piece of tinfoil in your chewing gum.

[spinooti.livejournal.com]

> the textural equivalent of a stray piece of tinfoil in your chewing gum <

Or being STABBED IN THE EYE WITH A STICK????

EH??????????????????????????

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

No. Strangely, not at all like that.

[spinooti.livejournal.com]

Maybe the two I saw were just really crappily made.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think it's just the strange and wonderful mystery of the stuffie aesthetic.

Also, some of them had faces that were just terrifying, like they'd been made by glueing raisins onto a large kiwi.

[suzyd.livejournal.com]

Stop confusing me! In New Zealand a kiwi is a bird. I did once see an amusing cartoon strip entitled "Preparing a Kiwi" where they chopped bits off the kiwi until it looked like a kiwifruit, sliced it up, then put it on a fruit salad. So I'm a sadist. ;)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

If the kiwi bird hides its head under a wing, the image still works.

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[suzyd.livejournal.com]

But even less attractive, considering the weird sort of feathery/hairy look it has.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Actually these may be Hagrid's first sight of boobies ever, so he's got no problem with 'em.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Eh, dodo tenders had this unpleasant fishiness to them. I won't miss 'em.

Also, this is somewhat belated, but--your drawing of the Gentleman freaked the ever-loving hell out of me. Wuh. *shudder*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Eheheheheheheeee! I hate those bastards so much. The part where Olivia's looking out the window and one of them glides by just... ::hides::

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm. Dodo tenders.

And thank goodness Captain Amelia didn't find Gilderoy Lockhart in your room. We all know how that would turn out! ;)

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

Saw Ice Age in the theater and thought, "So, that's what Monsters, Inc. would have been like if they stretched out the Abominable Snowman bit to ninety minutes and excised all the good jokes." But I'm fussy.

Kewl Gentlemen drawings, BTW. I'm the most lukewarm of Buffy fans and I love that episode.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Very much so. Fortunately we had Happy Meals to get us through it, and the freedom to blow raspberries when the previously disemboweled Diego suddenly turned up alive again.

"Hush" would've been fucking excellent even as an episode of CSI Miami*. Great story.

*And there'd be the added bonus of not having to hear David Caruso talk for an hour.

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[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

"Dear Joss Whedon: Your characters are a lot more interesting and infinitely more tolerable when not spouting off teeth-grindingly cutesey, lead-balloon lampoon-sound-bytes of SoCal youthspeak. Please make a habit of it. Sincerely, Vali. P.S.--Dear *God,* fire that wardrobe team!"

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I like that they dress badly. Most people do.

Except for poor Buffy, who too often looks like a rather bewildered and underpaid ho.

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[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

More black trenchcoats. Every show needs more black trenchcoats.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Not in Southern Californian high schools and UC campuses, they don't - or rather, those who do dress badly do a very different kind of badly. No, there's no excuse for those wardrobe people atall.