Debbie, I might mind less if it said "You Need a Thneed."
Niall, those "sheds" are tantamount to putting a rock atop your houseplants. After a while--and these things sometimes stay up for a year or more--anything insufficiently hardy that's beneath it dies. A Starbucks will do okay, because it has a steady flow of customers who already know it's there. But a small storefront shop or restaurant, anything that needs potential customers to notice it in order to bring 'em in, may find itself really hurting before long. Furthermore, the space beneath the sheds tends to decay, collecting windblown trash and the detritus of semipermanent homeless encampments, plus puddles of urine in the darker corners. They're charming.
My partner has a theory that NYC has signed an infernal contract with some union or another that mandates a certain linear footage of scaffolding sheds on its streets at any given time. As soon as one comes down, another one tends to go up not far away.
Saints be praised. Now can we burn it?
Patrick, your new "Robert Byrd, hero" link in the sidelights is busted.
John-the-Bassist introduced the band as "two-thirds of Whisperado." I wondered whether that made y'all Sperado? Or maybe Whirado? Or possibly just Whisper? Anyway, fun show. Thanks for the tunes.
Nice to meet you, too, Xopher.
I'll be there, drummer or no. One more work-till-after-7:00 evening and my head would explode, so I'm grateful for the reason to do otherwise.
That's right, Greg. Construct a strong, intelligent argument at the expense of my dignity. It's cool. I don't mind.
Actually, I feel like that Commandant again these days. We knew they were lying, but we couldn't get anybody to listen to our arguments when there were already slick, comfortable lies already in place and dominating the discourse. Whether the lie was "I am never Mafia," or "WMDs! 9/11! Saddam coming to eat your babies!," or "Faggots are going to bring down Western civilization," the counter-arguments were treated as suspect from the get-go. Granted, I'm a crappy debater when I get ruffled, but what kills me is that we couldn't get any traction on the larger scale either.
Surely there must be some way to get on an even conversational footing--or hell, let's aim high, an upper hand--with the Things. Clearly, blogs like this one are a good start, but we really need a bigger, shinier bullhorn.
I love the Shiva-in-the-spaghetti image, Xopher. I guess whether or not to eat it (him) is an easy one...
I think Jackson's problem with the Scouring of the Shire isn't that he doesn't like it—it's that the Scouring requires that you go from your Big Stirring Finish to a completely new storyline, one which would take a good chunk of screen time to tell.
I have trouble imagining this being done in the film without it feeling tacked-on, or without it seriously undercutting the impact of the hard-won resolutions in Gondor and Mordor. So, sorry as I am to see that bit go, I can understand why it had to be done.
As to getting the Palantir from Saruman...you're right, I've been wondering about that bit myself. Note that they're only saying that they've cut the *Death* of Saruman from the film, though, so Merry & Pippin smoking in the ruins may still be in there.
We've only got a few weeks to wait before we know for sure.
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