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So I'm back from Hitchhiker's Guide, and can I just say how brutally disappointed I was that instead of the Serenity trailer on the big screen, I got The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl? Bite me, movie theater employees. Grrrr.

But then the movie started, and yea, it made me giggle and snerk for two hours. I was horribly tempted to reread the book before I went to see it, since I haven't read it in years, but I decided against it because I had a feeling I'd like it if I just let myself go with it and didn't nitpick. And yay, I loved it. Especially Ford, because Mos Def was just way too cool, and Marvin. (Marvin! *squeals, then hugs the poor, depressed android*) Also, I want a Hitchhiker's Guide ... right now. No, now. Seriously, GIMME.

Then I went to Borders and committed minor acts of commerce. I finally got around to picking up a copy of Lucifer's Hammer, which everybody and their brother has suggested to me, and I picked up the new Lynn Kurland book. Which, okay, they're pretty much all the same, but there's time travel nearly every time, which is my other bulletproof non-sexual kink in stories.

I also have strawberry banana yogurt, so, you know, I've got that going for me.

Oh, and did I mention the dumbass kid at the metro who jumped onto the tracks between trains to pick up some loose change that somebody else must have tossed down there? And then he crawled back onto the platform and showed his findings to somebody else as if they were going to be impressed.

Somebody else's pocket contents: forty-three cents.
A copy of the next volume of "The Darwin Awards" with your name in it to proudly present to your parents: fifteen dollars.
A mop, some soap, and a bucket of water: twenty bucks.
Having to be squeegeed off a metro platform after you've been creamed by a yellow-line train: priceless.

EDIT: *headsmack*

OTHER EDIT: Am watching A Series of Unfortunate Events while I work on editing The Monsters of Moosic. I know it's pretty obvious considering I have two icons on her, but Sunny is SO my favorite. :)

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She's too young to give consent, that should negate the fact that she's TOO YOUNG TO CHOOSE. *headsmacks with you*

Yay for H2G2 :D I wanna see it Nooooooww

Lucifer's Hammer is one of the best end-of-the-world novels I've ever, ever read. I think it was printed in '78 or '79 . . . And yea, because it's end-of-the-world in a big way. No spoilers, but, YAY for runaway comets!

I'm seeing Hitchhiker's Guide tonight!! W00t!

That poor girl. How do these people think she is going to care for this child?? 1) She's friggin 13 and 2) She's bloody homeless you idiots!!

Guh!

Oh, and did I mention the dumbass kid at the metro who jumped onto the tracks between trains to pick up some loose change that somebody else must have tossed down there? And then he crawled back onto the platform and showed his findings to somebody else as if they were going to be impressed.

WTF?????????????????????????????

I know! I was waiting for someone to say, "What the hell is wrong with you, moron?!" But apparently, he hopped down onto the tracks and back again before any of us could say anything. Sheesh. Dumb. ASS.

I think I'd have had a heart attack if I'd have seen that.

And where the hell were all the freaking cops with machine guns that I see in the metro stations all the time?

So she's too young to choose an abortion, but old enough to give birth and either then have to give up her child for adoption or have to look after it when she's still a child (no 13-year-old can give a baby a good start, none), thus ruining her chances of a decent education or job for the next twenty years. What the hell?

Poor fucking kid.

As everyone else has said: she's too young for an abortion but she's old enough to raise a child?

Why is everyone assuming that the state is going to force a homless 13 year old to raise a baby?

In short, everyone (who is assuming) is nuts.

I don't actually think they would force her to raise it. It's the principle of the whole thing. The fact that they'd be forcing a 13 year old to have a baby is bad enough.

Unless there will be medical problems (which seem pretty much inevitable in my untrained opinion), it's not her decision. If she can't decide to drink or drive or join the army or have sex, someone else needs to decide if she can go through with the whole fucked up mess.

But she did decide to have sex... that's what makes it even more fucked up.

Well, either that or she was raped, which makes the not-letting-her-have-an-abortion even MORE fucked up.

I was thinking about that - but don't you think they'd have said it in the article if she'd been raped?

True. Still, either way ... *headshake*

Personally, I don't think they're going to force her to raise a baby. Of course, forcing or anyone to carry a child against her wishes is still revolting, and to do so to a thirteen-year-old is even worse.

Someone has to make the decisions for the 13 year old, she's too young to.

If the baby is going to fuck up the 13 year old's body [1], abort away.

[1] This situation is horribly fucked no matter what happens.

According to Florida state law, as per that article, she doesn't have to consult anybody about whether to abort. Minors in Florida don't have to seek parental permission. You may think she's too young to make that decision, as the judge in this case obviously does (I think she's too young for this entire situation, but that isn't the point), but legally, she isn't.

So, assuming that the judge here has his way and gets to dictate to this girl whether or not she will bear the child, will he stop his involvement there? Or will he then decide what ought to be done with the child itself, since she's obviously too young to make that decision?

Someone has to make the decisions for the 13 year old, she's too young to.

This is a thing I have issues with in our culture, that children's ability to make their own choices is often completely withheld until they reach 18 and then suddenly foisted on them with no practice in considering serious consequences or their own futures. Which is why so many college kids kind of go nuts, away from parental authority for the first time in their lives and with no practice in being treated like an adult or someone genuinely approaching adulthood. And I see a lot of adolescent problems that are caused by their parents or other authority figures around them treating them as not just incompetent to make their own decisions but unfit to have a say in the decisions that are made for them.

Granted, I've seen some teenagers (and, frankly, some people in their 20s) making horribly immature decisions. (It's a chicken-and-egg question how much irresponsible behavior is reinforced and encouraged by the refusal to allow adolescents to accept responsibility until it is foisted upon them with their legal majority, or how much it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that "Kids that age can't make their own decisions" when they aren't allowed to make any more serious decisions than what clothes to wear to school -- and not even that any more in some districts.)

The fact that this girl is pregnant at that age proves that she hasn't exactly been a model of clear thinking and careful evaluation of potential consequences. But I have some issues with flat, "She's too young to make decisions," statements largely because they exemplify the harmful mindset that treats children as property rather than as sentient beings.

That being said, I take comfort from reading that the injunction is only temporary and for the stated purpose of psychological evaluation to assess the girl's state of mind and capacity to decide upon this procedure. She isn't being flatly forbidden (yet), people are just looking into the matter to see if enough thought is being put into this.

Re the abortion thing:
NO NO NO OH MY GOD NO. I literally squealed. Some days I just want to say screw my CND-type principles and screw all the nice people over there, we need to wipe out America and we need to do it right now, before it spreads.

I want a Hitchhiker's Guide too. Partly so I can work out the best way to get off this horrible planet and where to go when I do.

Half of our problems as a nation could be solved by sinking Florida into the sea, seriously.

Florida: We've Got Ourselves A Fark Category!

One of the first things I wanted coming out of that movie last night was a Think Deep t-shirt. ;)

Also: Florida. WTF? o.O

But really, Shark Boy and Lava Girl is going to be in 3-D! Did you also get that stupid Jumanji in space type movie preview? I just sat there with my friend and said, "We didn't end up in a children's movie, right?"

I didn't get Serenity either. Dammit.

I could understand all of the previews for children's movies, considering how many kids I saw in the audience. From the look of it, there isn't anything remotely approaching a children's movie in the movie theaters other than this (which was PG) and Robots.

But it just goes to prove that there aren't any good kids's movies coming out anytime soon. Blech.

Well, to be fair, Zarathusa (or whatever it's called) is based off a kids' book by the same guy who wrote Jumanji.

But yeah, it's definitely a representative from the Redundant Department of Redundancy.

1) I keep calling it The Adventures of Shark Boy and Coma Girl.

2) Did you get the kick-ass preview for Chicken Little?

3) I. LOVE. the opening song for HGttG!

4) Lucifer's Hammer is seriously one of my favorite books. I've read it at least 6 times and my poor dog-eared copy is held together with clear packing tape.

On a Serenity/Firefly note: Did you know that Tom from Desperate Housewives (Doug Savant that is) was in an episode of Firefly? Take another look at the Alliance captain in 1x03 - Bushwhacked.

My brain tried to turn itself inside out reconciling those two characters.

I noticed. I watched that episode this weekend and couldn't help but giggle. Ha! That's Tom's big secret! :)

He has a secret life moonlighting as a captain for an oppressive planetary alliance? That could be very funny.

Bye bye Tom! Have fun at the funny farm! Say hi to the Youngs for us!

I too got the suckass trailers. Two movies I went to and the only decent trailers were Kingdom of Heaven, War of the Worlds, and, uh, I think there was one more I liked but I forget. My mother was impressed when I told her that it was worth seeing and she's finally gotten around to starting again to try to read the huge hardcover complete five-book-trilogy that she borrowed from a friend years ago.

And when I saw Deep Impact I remember sitting there in the theater going, "Are these scriptwriters ripping off Lucifer's Hammer, or what?" Been years since I either reread the book or resaw the movie, so I can't say how much the comparison does or doesn't hold up.

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