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[M]

Any mindless romantic comedy would probably fill the bill. Mindless is the key.

[Christa VG]

Hahaha, thanks M, very......insightful?

[Alexander]

...Dear John. Spent an afternoon watching it a couple of years ago with my (now ex) girlfriend, I was so damn bored! But I'm a guy, I don't especially care for romantics unless I'm living them myself. And even then, it's apparently unthinkable for a guy to be as emotional as I am.

Anyway, my rant's over. Go watch Dear John, cry a little, and then realize the same thing that every girl I know who has watched it says to me after we talk about it.

"Oh my God, that guy is SO sexy/hot/handsome/humperific" (... don't ask, it was a sarcastic guy who said the last one)

You will. I can promise you that much.

[Edward]

Honestly, there is very little variation whatsoever. Just pick one up.

Edit: Except for Nicolas Sparks movies, which aren't like other chick flicks, but aren't very different from each other either.

[M]

Christa, try Somewhere in Time or the Hallmark movie The Love Letters. They’re cheap. They’re clean. And in some ways they’re not very well done. But they’re the ones I liked enough to remember.

[Edward]

The ones that my mum watches that don't give me a head ache include While You Were Sleeping ... uh ... He's Just Not That in to You is ... occassionally good ... I'm sure there were others.

[Guy]

Christa - Ron Paul 2016 wrote: "Speaking of being drunk.....not really :D

Got a question for y'alls. I am a chick who owns no chick flicks. None, zip, zero.....unless you count "The Princess bride". So in a desperate attempt to ..."

Well, I don't mind well done chick flicks, but my tastes are a bit odd. So, at this time I would recommend Lullaby for Pi with Rupert Friend as a sad musician, 28 Days with Sandra Bullock, Bull Durham with Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner, and Must Love Dogs with Diane Lane and John Cusack. I would also recommend three foreign films: My Life as a Dog, Three Colours Red and Tampopo.

[Kymela]

Okay, time for a girl to actually weigh in here. Edward is right about the two he suggested. Also, Valetine's Day, I Hate Valentine's Day, Failure to Launch, 27 Dresses, 50 First Dates, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days...Practiaclly anything with Katherine Heigel. There are plenty more that we own or watch often, but I'm too tired to think of them at the moment. I only watch when our mum puts one on.

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

Did anybody see Made of Honor? Is that one a good suggestion for Christa? It probably isn't because I thought from the trailers the male lead in it looked like he was acting like a dopey yet somehow charming guy. I don't get that either.

[Kymela]

I don't know that one, but it reminded me of another one, Maid In Manhattan.

[Christa VG]

Thank you all for your suggestions. At the store I went to was a movie "The Holiday" with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black, and some other guy I'd never heard of. It was very sweet. I do want to see 50 first dates a lot.

[Kymela]

Oh, yes. I forgot about that one.

[Guy]

Christa, a very pleasant choice. You've not heard of Jude Law before? Give Breaking and Entering a try. It has Robin Wright and the amazing Juliette Binoche as well as Law.

Al, yes, it is. Kind of took away from the movie, which was okay, in a limited way on an off day.

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

Alex (Al) wrote: "Is Made of Honor the one with Patrick Dempsy?"

Yep.

[M]

Did somebody say Juliette Binoche?

[Guy]

Yes! :-)

[Christa VG]

Who is Juliette Binoche? Never mind, I'll look her up on Wikipedia.

[Stephanie]

Christa - Ron Paul 2016 wrote: "Speaking of being drunk.....not really :D

Got a question for y'alls. I am a chick who owns no chick flicks. None, zip, zero.....unless you count "The Princess bride". So in a desperate attempt to ..."

Pride and Prejudice is amazing.... Anything Twilight.

[Christa VG]

The new one? Or one of the older versions?

I am a die hard Twilight hater so I don't think I could watch those :D

[M]

Twilight didn’t do anything for me, either, Christa.

[Stephanie]

I've never seen the older versions of Pride and Prejudice, so I'd have to suggest the newest one.

[Kymela]

NO! Not the one with Kiera Knightly! Seriously, that one sucks. The od one with Colin Firth. It was a miniseries. It's pretty close to the book.

[Stephanie]

I loved the version with Keira Knightly!

[Kymela]

Compared to the other one, it really sucks. They left a ton of stuff out and rushed it. Watch the one from the BBC. You'll see what I mean.

[Edward]

The Keira Knightly version has some very artsy cinematography, but a significant part of the tone of the book is missing.

[Christa VG]

I was unhappy with how the one with Keira Knightly turned out. I don't own it but I've seen it a few times. I do not especially like her anyways, and a lot was left out and it seemed to miss the real meaning of the book. At least for me.

[Stephanie]

Huh, that's interesting....

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

Oh goodness.... I just looked up on the Wikipedia site the new movies that are coming out and I don't know whether to anticipate the movies or just sob at how unoriginal they are:

Coming out this year are the movies Scary Movie 5, an Evil Dead remake, The Hangover Part III, new Superman movie Man of Steel, World War Z (this one might not be so bad), Insidious Chapter 2, another Carrie remake, and Grown Ups 2.

[Edward]

I heard Nolan is supposed to be involved in Man of Steel, so that might be interesting. Iron Man 3 with the Mandarin ...

Yeah, nothing original.

[Kymela]

Nothing original, but I am looking forward to the superhero movies. Except maybe Superman. Only ever been interested in Smaville. Then again Nolan got me interested in Batman...




Would it be possible for someone to look over this bibliography for me? I now number is still unfinished cause that book is driving me nuts.


1. Chamberlain, Sara. "Techno Foods." Editorial. New Internationalist n.d.: n. pag. New Internationalist. New Internationalist Magazine. Web. 05 Feb. 2013.
In “Techno Foods,” Chamberlain explains how genetically modified goods can cause allergies and superbugs. She questions if the benefits claimed by corporations are worth the risks found by third party scientists. Chamberlain tells her audience “They are being sold in your food shops and grocery stores right now, and their health risks are almost entirely unknown.” Monsanto is pushing their genetically modified seeds into different countries including the US and EU countries. “But who really benefits from these developments, and what risks are involved?” she questions.

2. Key, Suzie, Julie K-C Ma, and Pascal MW Drake. "Genetically Modified Plants and Human Health." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (n.d.): n. pag. PubMed Central. 01 June 2008. Web. 06 February 2013.
“Genetically Modified Plants and Human Health” looks at the effects of genetically modified food on human health and other uses scientists are testing. It explains how tightly genetically modified foods are regulated by governments, “In the USA, the Food and Drug Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are all involved in the regulatory process for GM crop approval.” The “Golden Rice Project” is an attempt to add nutrients that are otherwise not found in regular rice to help undernourished countries that rely on this one crop. “...plant tissue in a processed form expressing a pharmaceutical could potentially be consumed as an ‘edible vaccine’,” is an idea that is also being currently studied.

3. Whitman, Deborah B. "Genetically Modified Foods: Harmful or Helpful?" ProQuest. ProQuest, Apr. 2000. Web. 05 Feb. 2013.
Whitman explains the many benefits of genetically modified foods and some of the risks they can have on health and the environment. “GM foods promise to meet this need in a number of ways,” she says as she goes on to describe eight different benefits scientists are working on including pest and cold resistance and better nutrition. Unlike many others who accept and write about genetically modified foods, Whitman accepts that there are problems other than allergencity that we cannot yet fix: “Unfortunately, B.t. toxins kill many species of insect larvae indiscriminately; it is not possible to design a B.t. toxin that would only kill crop-damaging pests and remain harmless to all other insects.”

4. Ronald, Pamela C., and Raoul W. Adamchak. Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.
In Tomorrow’s Table, an organic farmer and a plant geneticist try to reconcile organic farming and genetically modified foods. Ronald uses examples of ways genetically modified can help organic farmers fight pests using fewer pesticides. The demand for organic food is increasing

5. Pence, Gregory E. Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Print.
Pence covers a wide range on the topics of genetically modified foods in Designer Food. He uses examples of contaminated foods that made the news to demonise organic farming. “In these cases, ‘genetically engineered’ food is really ‘genetically purified’ food,” Pence says about genetically modified growth hormones versus naturally derived ones in cows. He is optimistic about ending world starvation. On the environment he has this to say, “Any introduction of change in the environment has the potential for disaster.”

[Edward]

I just found out that there's a term for my (and others') frequent typo of adding unnecessary things to words (which, in my case, usually ends up with the wrong tense word). It's call a finger macro.

The things I learn when I'm not wasting time at work ...

[M]

In the days before computers, they called it a boo-boo.

[Edward]

Did it really hurt that much?

I'm reading a list of common mistakes. The only one I didn't already know so far is "calendar" versus "calender." I can't wait to play off of that.

[Edward]

Note: Two hours of sleep, an empty stomach, a hot room, and three hours standing right next to freshly laid paint adds up to one weird state of mind.

[M]

That’s a good time to write a story!

[Stephanie]

Lol. It might be....

[Paula Tohline]

Good time to write one. Horrible time to read one.


hi gang! I just found this little discussion and had to chime in before running off to write. . .

[Christa VG]

Hope you had a good writing session Paula. What did you write about?

Today I was reading through some of my works, poems and stories and after the first half hour or so I noticed a pattern emerging. Sure enough by the time I quite I realized I have written all of my poems from the first person and all of my stories from third. How did this happen?

[Edward]

Makes sense to me.

[M]

I don’t mind first person, but a narrative written in present tense rubs me the wrong way. I usually read a few sentences, then go on to something else.

[Stephanie]

That was me for a long time, M. That changed after I read The Hunger Games though. I had to give it a second try though because the present tense stopped me from getting past the third page the first time.

[Edward]

*resists commenting on the Hunger Games*

[Stephanie]

Haha

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

I don't know why but I only rarely write in first person. When it is in third person I usually limit events to just around the main character so looking back that doesn't really make sense.

Really? There are books in "present tense?" I didn't know people could do that.

[Caitlan]

Yeah, I've read a few of them. Can't remember most of them now, but the one that always stands out is Hunger Games.

....was Divergent written in first person present? I don't remember now. I think it was as well.

Haha, it's not like writing in present tense is banned from the world XD

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

It's probably distracting though to read in first person present tense. I guess. lol

[Stephanie]

At first maybe but only because you usually don't read books written like that.

[Edward]

That, and since it obviously isn't a journal-style, with the character recounting events with their head on straight, the narrative tends towards disjointed. And, if it isn't disjointed, then you're wondering why the character is being so dramatic while all this dramatic stuff is happening, instead of generally freaking out.

[Kymela]

There was a place we went to today that Edward said M would love to photograph. Remind me to add thm later, cause I cant do it from my phone. I thought it was a pretty cool scene as well.

I had typed something earlier, but was trying to get out of a very cramped minivan an my phone got screwed up and I lost what I said...I hate that stupid app, too...

[M]

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