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[apocalypsos]

Okay, I'll go with Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, but Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor? *headdesk*

Tortoise adopts baby hippo. Awwwwww.

Watching contestants eat dead rats on NBC's gross-out stunt show "Fear Factor" so disgusted a Cleveland man that he has sued NBC for $2.5 million, saying he could not stomach what he saw. Oh, for crying out loud. As stupid as I think Fear Factor can be, I do have the brains not to turn to friggin' thing on.

Have a miscarriage, go to jail? What. The. FUCK. And the reasoning behind this delegate proposing the bill is just complete and total BS.

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[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

Oh, good to see I'm not the only one who thinks Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor is completely and utterly ridiculous.

[hamadryad.livejournal.com]

"...I do have the brains not to turn to friggin' thing on."

Or to go, like, "EWWW, rats! [click] Ahhh....Bob Saget."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

uhm. we have rat(meat) restaurants. or restaurant. somewhere. i don't want to know the location. but as with locusts and kangaroos, it's very healthy and cheap and yaddayadda

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I see Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor and think Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, except sillier. Which it shouldn't have to be stated is really bad.

*sigh* I need to go read Smallville slash.

h

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

och :( the hippo adopted the tortoise, not the other way round. i was wondering how the tortoise would keep up with the baby

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Your country has stupid legislators. But hippos are cool.

Hey, are you ever going to do those Q&A reviews of Hellboy and X-Men?

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

I am so fucking glad I don't live in VA. ::vomits::

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I wish they'd gone with one of the rumors - Johnny Depp would have made an excellent Lex Luthor...

[cyprinella]

More and more I wish Northern Virginia could seperate. We're sane up here, I swear.

[cornfields.livejournal.com]

Notice that a man initiated that asinine miscarriage law. I loved his justification, too: "OMG! We must protect the "trash can" fetuses!!!!!1!" Dumbass. Virginia already has a law for abandoned babies. Try again.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

*ponders*

I strongly suspect that the right wing only allows stuff like that last one to get media attention in order to soften us up for their equally evil, but milder *sounding* legislation. I mean, who's going to pay attention to pharmacists refusing birth control when OMG the Republicans want to put someone in jail for losing her baby?

I'm not saying the Right wouldn't love to put women in jail for a variety of reasons, but the cunning buggers in charge of political strategy know that if such a law did manage to get passed, it wouldn't stand. It's like Newt Gingrich. Sure, *he* wanted to see poor children put in orphanages, and probably so did a lot of people, but the party itself knew that wasn't really feasible. However, Newt and his ilk serve a very useful purpose, which is making the more practical proposals of the Republican party look positively cuddly.

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Viva la revolution?

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I think Mikey Rosenbaum has spoiled us for a "sexy" Lex Luthor... he really hasn't traditionally been an attractive bad guy in the comics or on TV. The guy who played Lex in Lois & Clark was attractive, right up until the moment the character lost his hair... then he became rather creepy-nutsy, and was meant to be so. Spacey sure ain't gonna be anything that approaches "attractive" in that role.

[fyrdrakken]

The claim at the bottom of the article is that the only law affecting "trashcan babies" is one regarding improper disposal of a human body -- but it's bloody interesting that his phrasing can apply to any fetus, even one of only a few weeks, if his stated intention is the true one and not a bullshit smokescreen.

[cyprinella]

Totally! Townhouses for everyone!

(also, best Tori song EVAH)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I do, though, and just sent him a nicely worded (and polite as I could manage, considering his inherent stupidity) letter telling him to shove his annoying bill in an uncomfortable place. :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Johnny Depp would make an excellent anything. They could hire him to play patio furniture and he'd be the best porch umbrella you've ever seen. :)

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

*giggle* That's true. And what I wouldn't give to have thatporch umbrella... ;)

Re: Tori

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Ironically enough, I have Spark on in the background.

Re: Tori

[cyprinella]

*snerk*

Re: Tori

[cyprinella]

Also, damnit now I wish I had that CD with me!

[hereticorp.livejournal.com]

Join West Virginia :P

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

On Bosworth: I was really pulling for Amy Acker, too, but I'm glad that at the very least the part won't be going to Mischa Barton. No opinion one way or the other on Bosworth. As for Spacey...well, he's a good actor, I'll give him that, but the iconic Lex of our age is *always* going to be Rosenbaum at this point. It's inescapable.

The Virginia legislation: I'd like to leave the Matrix now.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect that the right wing only allows stuff like that last one to get media attention in order to soften us up for their equally evil, but milder *sounding* legislation.

Someone at a miscarriages blog mentioned that as well. Probably right, but at least now people are on their guard about it.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

It's sorta nice to hear I'm not the only one who thinks that way, and that other folks are being alert!

[dorei.livejournal.com]

I did the research -- that's a bill that failed in 2003, about a month after it was proposed.

Apparently someone found it in the old legislative records and wanted to stir the pot. Is the bill stupid? Yes. Obviously, the remainder of the House thought so too.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

See, I know zilch about Bosworth, and have other women I would've prefered to be Lois, but I've really come to like the idea of Spacey as Luthor.

And you say he'll be silly, and then want Johnny "Pirates wear eyeliner!" Depp?? ;)

J

[bumponalog.livejournal.com]

Kevin Spacey would bring a sympathetic element of insanity to Lex I think.
Mind you - he could park his boots under my bed any time!

[vass]

I wouldn't watch that "Fear Factor" show, because I couldn't deal (I have pet rats.) As a kid I had pet guinea pigs, and was distressed to see people eat guinea pigs on a documentary. I have mental health issues that make unpleasant and scary things stick in my mind and haunt me sometimes. And yet somehow I'm able to grasp that this is my issue, not the broadcaster's, and that there are more important things to sue push to reform.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Is it really that bad? Remember Seven? I think he could pull it off, provided he does not do it stupid.