Twilight

We saw Twilight last night. It wasn't terrible. Honestly I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Although I did find the pacing to be a bit slow. And the superspeed vampire running special effects weren't very special; very much of a Hercules/Xena quality. Oh, and the scenes of the evil vampires killing their victims were, well, they weren't... they always cut away well before any violence took place. Didn't sell me on how the bad guys operated very well, so the confrontation at the end sort of came out of nowhere and relied heavily on exposition. But I am keeping in mind that it's a movie marketed to teenaged girls so massive gore and violence are right out. Also keep in mind that I'm from a generation that grew up watching Kiefer Sutherland flay punk rockers' skulls so my expectations for a vampire attack will always be skewed.

But if you don't mind all that, Twilight was actually a pretty good movie. Haven't read the book so I don't have any comparisons there. But yep, enjoyable film. And blue. Why was everything blue?

Writer's Block: Bird by Bird

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Since I don't know if there's a bumper sticker for this, I'll just guess the bumper stickers the person who wrote this is most likely to have:

RESPECT OUR MOTHER! (w/ picture of the Earth)
"COEXIST" (written with religious symbols in place of letters)
KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY!
YOU CAN'T HUG YOUR CHILDREN WITH NUCLEAR ARMS!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - END WAR!

And a "W" with a slash through it. There did I miss any?

In case you haven't figured it out, no I don't think keeping birds or any other kind of pet is inherently cruel. As far as I know, birds like other pets are bred in captivity and that's the life they know. You may as well say that it's cruel to make humans dependant on electricity and indoor heating and grocery stores when we were meant to live in caves and grow our own food. Sure our pets are captives; just as captive as we are.

It gets hungry up here on the soapbox. Anybody want to split a bucket of KFC?