I don't know if you've seen The Chronicles of Riddick, but if you haven't, well I can't say it's a valuable use of your time of anything but I saw the Director's Cut. Seriously. Apparently it's much better than the original, but honestly I haven't laughed that hard in a very very very very long time. There's a part where the surface of a cliff is being baked at like you know 3000 degrees Celsius and our hero dumps like two bottles of water on himself and swings to a cave opening across said rock face collapsing into it as his rope is incinerated and then he slowly...stands...up...STEAMING!!! AAAAAHHHHhahahahaha.
H. I. Larious.
In other news, Betty got her latest round of shots yesterday and she cried really hard but I didn't. There's a first time for everything. Betty got hurt and I didn't cry. I hope this is a development in the right direction. I mean you do want Mom to be like all cool in a crisis. It probably wouldn't be any good if she's like got a broken leg and I'm on the phone to 911 wailing and being all inarticulate.
"Yeah *sob* my daughter is like *sob* I dunno. *sob* She's so sweet and I love her and like then she just *sob* and she's like hurt and I dunno *sob* can you guys like come and help us or something *sob*"
Betty has her first cold. She's got it in her eyes as well so she has this little red nose and her eyes are all red and she looks like she's crying all the time because her eyes are all weepy. The killer is that she's all cranky and snotty and sleepy and bleary and she'll like look up and get this little smile on her face like "I love you Mom." It's one of those little things that makes me think I'm just going to die of love. My heart is just going to seize up and stop beating from the sheer magnitude of the love.
On a related note, in order to both increase my baby compassion and stop her from yanking out all my hairs, I have shaved my head.
As I shouted across the room to Paul while he was on the phone with his Lutheran Minister dad, "I look like a big ole Lesbian, George!"
Posted by jlp716 at July 4, 2006 02:00 PMAs in, "The Killing of Sister George"? Because, well. It's about lesbians.
Or is that Paul's dad's name?
Posted by: COMTE at July 5, 2006 09:56 AMPaul's dad's name is George. So is his grandfather's. Hence Betty George. Nothing so literary as an allusion to a play I'm afraid.
Posted by: jtotheP at July 6, 2006 08:10 PMI spent a lot of time in metal shop when I was in high school and one of the things we used to do in metal shop was to melt aluminum and pour it into sandcasts. Liquid aluminum is just too pretty not to want to play with and in the course of playing with it we discovered that you could lick your finger-- get it really wet --and stick it in the aluminum. And most of the time (provided you moved quickly and didn't accidentally leave a dry spot) you'd be fine. I was later told that what was happening was that the evaporating water in our spit was forming a pressure shield around our fingers and that the water vapor would absorb most of the heat from the metal even after it had turned to steam. When you pulled your finger out you basically left the superheated water vapor behind, and your finger was fine.
Long story short-- small quantities of water are much better protection against heat than one might suppose.
But yeah, there's all kinds of foolishness in that movie.
Posted by: Joshua at July 8, 2006 11:45 AM