You know, with all the obsession about vampires out there, has anyone figured out how they defecate? Do they pee? Do they poo? Are they like birds and both kinds of waste at once?
No system is perfectly closed, so there has to be some kind of waste and they're going to have to get rid of it some how. I don't care if vampires have a piece of a demon soul in them, they still have to get rid of the unusable parts.
I've really like the weather in Northern California the past couple of months. We've gotten a storm every 6-10 days with days in between that are sunny or have patchy clouds. It's been nice to have a real variety in weather. I hope it stays this way the rest of the year.
If this is how climate change is going to effect my life, I'm all for it.
I know the stuff is just fan fiction, but is it wrong to get upset inside when I read a story where the author doesn't seem to know the word "than" exists (he only ever writes "then" to mean both "then" and "than") and then read a review praising the author's writing ability as the one of the best out there and even complimenting the grammar as being "spot on"?
Seriously, I don't understand. People out there will pick on writers mixing up "its" with "it's" or "there" with "their" and "they're" or "to" with "two" and "too," but do they not even see the "then"s replacing the "than"s? Maybe they just don't care, but if that's true, why do they pick on other grammatical errors?
I suppose, on the plus side, the author constantly makes this mistake. Consistency is a good thing, right?
For $5 movie Tuesday I went and saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
I had to go see it. I like the books: they make me laugh. I liked the movie: it made me laugh.
The director and writers (two of whom were Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah, which surprised me and made me happy) keep the potty jokes to a minimum and the big one, that I remember, was both well earned and hilarious. (Not that I'm against potty jokes. (Hell I opened this post with a potty joke.) It's that I hate that so many writers and directors out there think it's the only sort of humor that kids like and/or get. Kids ain't that dumb.) The "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" scene was worth the admission price alone, well for me and the mom that brought her son to see it, at least. Also, they animate the art from the book and it's gorgeous.
I just went and checked out the Wikipedia page for the movie and saw the section on the reviews. Rotten Tomatoes says, "Unlike its bestselling source material, Diary of a Wimpy Kid fails to place a likable protagonist at the center of its middle-school humor – and its underlying message is drowned out as a result." Funny thing is, Greg's a jerk in the books, too, it's part of the charm. I found him to be just as likable in the movie as he is in the book. Maybe seeing a real little kid doing the things a cartoon little kid did, not that he does anything horrible.
Bah, I don't need to defend the movie and I don't have to explain myself, but I enjoyed it.
The CDs I bought with the Amazon gift certificates(? Letters? Emails? They're not cards, so what are they exactly?) I got for my birthday got here yesterday. The one I'm most excited about is the cast recording of "Sunday in the Park with George."
Listened to it twice last night.
If only... Right?
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Then V. Than is pre-it(')s the(i/y)r('re/e) in the grammar world. These 'people' should know better.
People should know better then that. Ouch that hurt just to type as a joke. I'm glad I haven't seen this one much, there's already plenty of other ones out there that drive me batty.
As for the vampires, did Anne Rice address that? Seems like a detail she would have included. Maybe their bodies use all parts of the blood to exist? But yeah, even the water has to "go" somewhere.
I don't remember Anne Rice dealing with vampire's peeing, other than having Lestat having to remember how to pee when he took over a human body in The Tale of the Body Thief.
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