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[fearlesstemp]

There are actually a bunch of things I want to torture you with, including (but not limited to) recent tutoring, my most recent parking ticket, the latest annoying job, how I forgot my wallet today, the generalized self-loathing that accompanies any personal essay, how late my Proactiv is, and my cat's worrying ability to chew on his own collar - but there is not sufficient time for me to ramble on about these things at the moment. I have to go to bed.

I have time for two things!

First, because I am a sucker for memes - Lurkers! Are there lurkers out there? If there are, hi! It would be cool to hear from you, possibly via a comment to this post. Posting anonymously is okay. I swear I'm not scary. I use my cute cat icon to demonstrate my lack of scariness.

[SPEAKING of the cute cat - he totally just crawled into my work bag and sat there for a few minutes, quite content, until it started to tip over veeeeery sloooowly, at which point he did not get out of the bag, but just sat there looking kind of desperate and terrified. I rescued him! Oh, if only I had a digital camera. The cuteness was off the charts. Moving on!]

Second, am I the only person who really disliked Sideways? It has, like, a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I feel like I must have been shown a different cut of the movie than other people. Or maybe I just have pedestrian taste. I am, for example, kind of looking forward to that ABC Family TV movie starring Ryan Reynolds, who starred in one of my favorite mediocre sitcoms of the recent past, Two Guys and a Girl.

And that is all.

Comments

Lurker? Please.

[merryish.livejournal.com]

I prefer to think of myself as standing by with a silent, threatening sense of menace.

[nobodygirl.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who didn't like Sideways! All my friends were like "That movie was so good, it was like a metaphor for life and blah blibbidy blah."

[silentfire.livejournal.com]

hello! one bona fide lurker, reporting in. also, you're very funny and entertaining, and not scary at all.

your cat sounds awesome.

i haven't actually seen sideways, so i have nothing to say about it other than that it never seemed all that interesting, judging from trailers. i don't know what it says about *my* taste, but i adore ryan reynolds, and loved two guys and a girl entirely too much. pete and berg! <3!

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

Was Ryan Reynolds the guy named Berg? Loved Berg. Wasn't there a scary neighbor girl who was hopelessly in love with him? Or was that Pete she was in love with? My memory is going!

[1crowdedhour.livejournal.com]

I have been a fearless temp myself (and will be again, I am sure), and I really like your choice of icons, but mainly I lurk because I find your anecdotes fascinating and hilarious. (How off-putting does that sound?! Sorry.) Anyway, my all-time favorite has to be the time you and your brother watched your dad's booth at the art show.

[(Anonymous)]

I can only post anonymously because I'm a very rich and very famous and very hot movie star, and posting my real name would cause mayhem in your journal. Lurking is my only way of keeping an eye on you until I finalize my plan to kidnap you and whisk you off to my chalet in the south of France forever and ever.

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Hello! I am not so much a lurker, since this is the first post of yours I have read since I friended you yesterday upon the divine kaelie's recommendation.

Also, I co-run a film-review Web site and community (*pimp mode* AboutFilm.com *end pimp mode*), and most of the folks there thought it was a decent--but unremarkable and entirely unworthy of its near-unanimous critical praise--movie. Our main critic labelled it "a giant wank by schlubby writers for schlubby writers about schlubby writers." Which I think pretty well encapsulates it.
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[navia.livejournal.com]

Ryan Reynolds is going to be in a TV movie? Tell me more.

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

Wait! You're getting proactiv. Tell me what you think of it, when you get it, and if it works or if it's just some silly tv thingy. If I'm thinking of the right thing?