Tammy Tammy Tammy!
Embarrassingly, I led us into the Tenderloin where we were harrassed and witnessed a random act of violence. We were half a block from Market! In broad daylight! I really should have realized that it was a bad idea to go past the chess players. Because, you know, there are always chess players right where it gets hard. (So sorry, guys! *shamefaced*)
Anyway, it was a really fun weekend, just hanging out and talking and laughing. :D Oh yes, and I feel I have to point out that 1) I got Tammy in my bed and 2) she fondled my boobs. (My fake boobs, in case you're wondering.)
Movies and books
I watched Hero and Maria Full of Grace. I loved Hero. It's such a beautiful movie with so many beautiful locations. They went all over China for that one. I had this weird moment in the movie where I thought, "Whoa, my ancestors came from this country." Because before I thought that China was a sweltering hot concrete jungle like Singapore, of course.
I really, really liked that there was that impossible "flying" obviously done with wires in the fight scenes. It was that cool combination of the more traditional Hong Kong movies with Western influences like the telling the story in flashback and Greek chorus-like army thing. But at the same time it also made no sense, except in a very Chinese way. Confused yet? Heh.
I liked Maria Full of Grace for how real it felt. They didn't do the usual thing where they introduce way too many dramatic events and coincidences and everyone is weeping and wailing at the end. The story is powerful enough. At the end of it, I felt very lucky to be in the US. And how lucky everyone else is too. To be in this country (legally, heh) is to at least have the opportunity to live a decent life and that counts for a lot. That gets forgotten a lot in those endless movies that wax poetic about how horrible and boring and aimless life is, blah blah blah.
Read Waiting for the Galactic Bus by Parke Godwin last night. it was recommended to me by
Here's the premise: Imagine two brothers off on an intergalatic Spring Break. When their friends leave them behind on Earth, they've got a few millenia to kill before they'll manage to get back to school. So, as an experiment, mind you, they decide to give evolution a bit of a nudge... And that's when all hell breaks loose... a little more literally than either of them planned...
Alex explains why the elves in LotR are gay
Both Alex and I thought that the LotR elves are gay, and his gf asked us to explain why. I started babbling about how they're kind of delicate and graceful and have slight builds which are thought of as feminine traits, and that makes them seem gay.
Alex's answer was that they live two thousand years, which gives them a lot of time to experiment.
Everyone agreed that the hobbits are undeniably gay.