This week, we talk about sex until William almost dies! Also, ornithology! And future predictions about past TV shows! And who doesn’t love parades? William, that’s who!
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Discussion of the controversy surrounding some of the DC reboots has spawned this interesting essay, and this followup.
Also, this is the only good sex help book I can think of.
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I’m not 100% sure but I believe sparrow and swallow tattoos have both been associated with the same two meanings in the past. The first of these was to indicate the individual was a sailor, the second that the person had done some jail time. In both cases I think the tattoo was meant to represent freedom, of the sea and being out of jail respectively.
Right, Originally sailors used to get a sparrow tattoo for every 5,000 nautical miles they traveled. See, I’m no Homophobe, Tony’s just a paranoid Homophobaphob.
From Wikipedia
The swallow tattoo was a symbol used historically by sailors to show off their sailing experience. Of British origin in the early days of sailing, it was the image of a Barn Swallow, usually tattooed on the chest, hands or neck. According to one legend, a sailor with one swallow had travelled over 5,000 nautical miles (9,000 km); a sailor with two swallows had travelled 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km).[1][2] Travelling these great distances was extremely difficult and dangerous in the early days of sailing, so one or more swallow tattoos denoted a very experienced and valuable sailor. It is also legend that if the sailor drowns, the swallows will carry their soul to heaven, representing freedom and hope.
Also, you can say that my name is Michelle
Yeah, Game of Thrones was great but… Not quite as awesome as need to make your head explode. They came up with a term called “sexposition” where if there’s a scene where somebody had to give some exposition there had to be people having sex at the time. There were some changes I disagreed with but aside from that I think it was good. And jus to be clear, I have not read the books.
Funny, I was thinking of watching The Tudors on Netflix. The husband and I really enjoyed Game of Thrones; however, while some of the sex in it served to further the plot, a lot of it was just plain distracting to the point that it really was porn in period costumes. Neither one of us has read the books by George R.R. Martin, since right now we’re trying to race through the Harry Potter series (books and movies). The up side of waiting so long to do so is that we get instant gratification after finishing one, instead of waiting for years between books and/or movies.
Watching Metropolis is interesting from a nerdy/historical perspective but it’s not that good of a movie. Though the Englert performance with a live music group accompanying it could make it considerably more interesting than watching it on DVD. Though in some ways, watching it is like watching Star Wars as “new” footage keeps getting added in as they find different cuts of the film in different countries.
Shellfish, nom, nom, blargh.
When I get around to reading more of the Dresden files, I will be reading them in order.
Fireworks = awesome. Parades = meh. Though I did kind of like Coralville’s 4th of July parade when I used to live there, as it went around my old apartment complex and it was so easy to attend.
Threshers sounds like a better title than Eclipse.
Being chased by rabid packs of strippers turned “little Willy” off sex? That seems kind of backwards to me….
Tony: A swallow tattoo on a man’s chest makes you think of Looney Tunes? I would have thought you’d mentally leap to Austin Powers.
Game of Thrones (books) didn’t work for me. Any characters I liked died or changed quick enough into something I didn’t like that I ended up strongly disliking the books. I’ve only seen a single episode of GoT (TV) and have to say that one episode worked so much better for me than the books did that I might actually try watching a second episode.
The Harry Potter movies are uneven in how good they did the transition from book to movie. Example HP3: Prisoner of Azkaban was absolute shit vs. Hp5: Order of the Phoenix which removed enough of Harry internal monologue that it wasn’t terrible.
I’m pretty sure I read that the web host has to be setup to interpret a request for a website, if you don’t include “www”. You could have several subdomains on that domain (news.bbc.co.uk, sport.bbc.co.uk) and www is just another one of those. I’m almost certain dropping the www will cause some sites to fail to load.
I’m half way through season 1 of the Tudors. It’s interesting in a sense that I learnt all this stuff at high school, but (assuming a vague amount of historical accuracy) from a really high level. It also helps to have it all visualised. Anyway, sounds like it’s going to turn into Friday night Channel 5 porn at some point, which is great.
For what it’s worth, I’ve read quite a few books which have film counterparts. First was Contact, which I read years before it was realised as a film. The rest are Harry Potter, from about the 5th film onward. I think you have to watch the film with the mindset that a book, faithfully followed, could translate into hours and hours of film, which isn’t practical. I therefore don’t quite understand some of the criticism leveled at the Potter films. The later books were massive, and even splitting the last book into 2 films didn’t cover all the material. Still, as adaptations go, they’re pretty good. I followed the first few well enough, and ironically it’s what caused me to go out and buy the entire set of books. The biggest shame is that certain material was cut out in early films, which meant they definitely couldn’t be included later on. Except, in some instances, they did include it! (as an example, look at all the characters who suddenly appear in film 6, despite featuring throughout all the books).
Whilst we’re on HP, why on earth did they drop John Williams for the music in 6 and 7? The HP theme tune is iconic, and the films sound odd because of it.