Fans of the series will recognize that one of those is a female. Those unfamiliar with the series may ask, "Only one?"
It seems that my git snafu a few weeks ago broke RSS as well. It should be fixed, now.
Despite my best efforts, I wound up having a rather fun Halloween weekend. Friday afternoon, Erickson rounded up a motley crew whose names I regretfully misremember, and we hit the thrift stores in town for costume ideas. Well, two thrift stores and Dandelion, which is like a thrift store in that it has old clothes, but is unlike a thrift store in that they charge normal prices. They also have what may be the largest collection of out-of-style sunglasses in the state. At Goodwill, I bought a deep fryer without a power cord for $3, and at the Salvation Army, Erickson and I seriously pondered a $400 projection HDTV that upon further research, turned out to be a lemon.
That night, Alex, Andrea, and I went to a Halloween party thrown by my former roommate Lauren. Campy and creepy movies were played in the garage, and we watched Sleepaway Camp and the original Nosferatu. Sleepaway Camp was hilariously bad. Alex and I were cracking jokes MST3K-style throughout the whole thing. Nosferatu was brilliantly done for a silent movie from 1922, and I recommend it as an example of pioneering filmmaking.
Saturday, I went with a large group of Atmos folks and associated friends to the Dutch Kitchen in Arcola. If you somehow wind up in Amish Illinois, it's a great place to get a home-cooked meal and a slice of shoo-fly pie.
I just got done watching The Postman, a feel-good movie about the end of the world. Things I have learned from this movie:
- Performing Shakespeare for children will get you nothing but trouble.
- Real Men like The Sound of Music.
- If you're starving and desperate, lying will solve all your problems.
- Corollary: Almost everyone believes Kevin Costner even if he is lying.
- If a married woman solicits you for sex, run away.
- Some lies, when told to morally upstanding people, will actually make the world a better place.
- ... but not before they cause entire towns to be annihilated.
- When a pregnant woman decides to leave an encampment, it is normal for them to burn it to the ground.
- In post-apocalyptic America, aging rock stars will become city officials.
- Deep philosophical differences between armies can be solved by a fistfight between their leaders.
- After you win the fistfight, people will lay down their arms if you just ask politely. A peaceful, democratic society will naturally follow.
Alex and I agreed that the movie had a number of good scenes and ideas, but lost itself somewhere along the way. He is now committed to writing a better version which can then be made in Bollywood for less than $1000.
Is everyone ready to vote? :)