I'm sunshine, in a bag.
 

Were the Roches ever cool? Because I think I might have listened to one of their records once.

Spirit-Girl
 

The spawn of your spawn and Str8's spawn. Your big dicked granddaughter, while proficient grammatically...forget it.

You really took the fun out of this by mentioning "birth defect".*

*clue a smarmy PLF response...however, like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, any attempt to predict what he will say will unavoidably change his response.

DVDs (and music too)
 

The movie got good reviews. Henry Rollins and Heidi and really liked it. I'll see it eventually, but will wait for the rental. I only pay the big bucks for special effects type movies that require monster screens and stupendous speakers.

DVDs (and music too)
 

I found it annoying until the very end. The wedding is priceless.

Napolean won the MTV movie award for best musical piece (or something like that) for his dance skit.

Spirit-Girl
 

It's hard to laugh through the tears. You wished freakishness on my progeny!

While we're on the subject-- if you are pregnant and somewhat more emotionally sensitive than (even) usual

DO NOT FUCKING WATCH BAMBI.

Spirit-Girl
 

I won't ask why you were watching Bambi.

I distinctly remember watching that movie at the age of six and I brought the subject up with my mum recently. She said, there was no way that I would have taken you to that sadistic movie. Well, somebody did.

Why would the fine folks of Disney create such a vile little flick? Is it anti-gun or something?

Spirit-Girl
 

"Mother? Mother?"

"Your mother won't be with you anymore, son."

Spirit-Girl
 

Shut the fuck up! I have blocked off the sad parts of Bambi from my active brain. You are bringing them up to the surface. QUIT IT.

Spirit-Girl
 

Isn't the motherless child some kind of archtype or something? Like Nemo? and Pinocchio? and Jesus?

The good folks at Disney were just probably thinking along those lines.

Spirit-Girl
 

"He can call me Flower if he wants to."

Spirit-Girl
 

I've never seen Bambi. My mom was so traumatized when she saw it for the first time she had to be escorted from the theater within the first five minutes. I think she was five. Anyhow, she refused to have it air in the house even if she wasn't watching, and for whatever reason, I never saw it at a friend's house, and I can't bring myself to check it out now. I saw the "meet Thumper and Flower" scene on the Wonderful World of Disney when I was a kid, so I think I've hit the most important part.

Spirit-Girl
 

Thanks!! That was a happy part.

Spirit-Girl
 

To say it's anti-gun would be a post hoc justification for it. Sadistic is a good word.

I didn't watch the whole thing -- it was on ABC on Sunday night, I think, and I was channel-surfing while waiting for a craving to be lovingly delivered. I had never seen the movie before, and wouidn't you know it, I happened upon it precisely at the beginning of the dreadful scene. When the ominous music started I should have changed the channel, but I was transfixed -- and I didn't expect it to be so harrowing and eerie and scary and sad. I wasn't just a little verklempt after watching it -- I was bawling. My craving delivery man came into the room and thought that I had just gotten bad news about a loved one. Very much to his credit he comforted me rather than laughed in my face when I cried out "Bambi! It's so sad!"

We then went down the list of fucked up Disney movies with very sad events in them. Jesus, I thought Old Yeller was bad, but at least that was an act of humanity.

And Gwink, yes, the motherless child is a Disney archetype. God knows why -- a cheap ploy to render the main character sympathetic, I guess-- but usually the motherlessness is established, in a non-violent manner, before the movie begins.

Spirit-Girl
 

Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raw Foods
 

Anyone here know much about this lifestyle? I won't call it a diet, because it seems to be more than that to me. I know someone who does it (she's been doing it for over 2 years) and she has dropped considerable weight and gotten a lot more energy since she started. I understand that I cannot do it because it involves (1) no alcohol and (2) no tea (I'm not sure which I would miss more), but the premise behind it all is somewhat intriguing to me*. This website - http://www.living-foods.com/ - has a lot of information about it. Note to Flinty, stick with the bananas:

I'm assuming everyone here thinks the raw foods philosophy is nuts (Nuts!) but I'm curious if there are any differing views.




*I may or may not be turning into some sort of California healthy living freak. Probably not though. I lack the whole willpower thing.

Raw Foods
 

I couldn't give up venison.

Raw Foods
 

I did it for a month or so. I even own a dehydrator and made raw cookies and other snacks. If I ate out, it was at a raw food restaurant. It's very good if you want to clean out your system. I lost weight fast. I couldn't sustain it for more than a month though (and I didn't want to - I just did it on a temporary basis to detox).

Hardcore raw food devotees are generally crazy - although some raw prepared food is really really good - very flavorful, so I like it once in a while. I will go to Bonobos or one of the other raw food restaurants here.

Raw Foods
 

I of course do not think its nuts (no pun!). The idea is that cooking food kills the nutrients. I am the proud non-owner of a microwave for reasons along this line.

That said, no alochol, no caffeine, no dice. That takes a level of vanity and self preservation I cannot fathom. I once tried to eat a seaweed salad. Nasty.

Spirit-Girl
 

Do I need to include spoiler space for what happens in the first 5 minutes of Finding Nemo? I assume not. Especially now that Anne Elk has informed me that there is some wedding thing at the end of Napoleon Dynamite.

Spirit-Girl
 

Beeg beeg man, make the pregnant women cry.


****


Actually, I don't think I've ever seen Bambi. I will note, though, that there's no Bambi exhibit or ride in Disneyland. Perhaps Anaheim's local codes don't permit shooting ranges inside the city limits.

Spirit-Girl
 

Well, I mean, that was a fish. Fish are not as cute as deer. Even cartoon fish.

(I have actually forgotten what happens there. I don't know if I missed the beginning, or if the trauma of listening to Albert Brooks for the whole movie edged that out in my mind.)

Raw Foods
 

I know that NY rivals LA as an oddball food mecca, but I'm curious -- how did you accomplish this? Are there raw food restaurants scattered across Manhattan, or is this an rarity, like oxygen bars?

Raw Foods
 

And who can argue with logic? It's so logical. It's like if you were to eat nothing but plankton, you could grow about 80 feet long on average and weigh about 120 tons. So stay away from the plankton.

Raw Foods
 

There are about 3 or 4 raw foods restaurants, so yes, kind of oddball - but they deliver!. Also my nearby supermarket has a ginormous raw foods section (actually right now I am munching on Tibetan Gogi Berries (organic and sun-dried!) from said section), so it was not that hard to accomplish. I drank a lot of wheatgrass and juiced vegetables and stuff as well. My skin was in fantastic shape.

Raw Foods
 

but if you can't drink what's the point of looking good?

Raw Foods
 

Are you asking me? I don't know - as I said, I only did it for a month.

Raw Foods
 

80 feet long on average and weigh about 120 tons is okay if that's the body nature intended for you. Why try to spread your cookie cutter Barbie body image? Do you make your daughter cry if she eats some candy?

Raw Foods
 

Were you with the non-bf at this point? This could be hard to pull off in a relationship, especially a nascent one. Unless all you do is stay home, order in from different restaurants and have energetic sex.

Raw Foods
 

No - this was over a year ago.

Raw Foods
 

I can give you my Ayervedic (sp?) cookbook if you want. You can just have the caffeinated tea and alcohol despite its strictures. It's all vegetarian. I'm sure you will be able to find prepared foods that meet its requirements. I made two or three things from it that sounded good but none of them actually were good, so it's just taking up valuable cookbook shelf space, which could be filled with "100 Of The Most Delicious Cakes Known To Modern Man."

ETA the cookbook contains definite views on what should and shouldn't be cooked, and what foods should and shouldn't be eaten. Not entirely unlike the raw food stuff, except you can cook some things.

Raw or Roasted, Tasty Toasted
 

http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/kg.../1204/nuts.jpg

Mmmmm. Nuts!

Raw Foods
 

What did you do as a social life? I have an issue with a friend who is on some weird, time-consuming diet, and suspect another friend soon may be doing the same thing, and then I will be bored off my ass and *my* social life will consist of sex only.

Raw Foods
 

Great googly moogly you may be onto something there! I never said these guys didn't seem like crackpots, just that some of their ideas are interesting (though ultimately unfollowable for me). I probably cut off the quote too soon, because it think he clarified that the reason he turned to the ape family is because they are our closest evolutionary* relatives.



*if you believe in that theory.

Raw Foods
 

I stayed in a lot with my husband. It was boring as hell. The NHL playoffs were on, so I watched a lot of hockey.

Raw Foods
 

Without beer?

Raw Foods
 

hey, at least he was willing and able to give you head.



don't tell me if he wasn't. in the realm of imaginary friends' ex- and soon-to-be ex-husbands, I still have him in the "cool" category.



ETA: apparently if you use the tag [size=small], in actuality size=larger than normal. odd that.

Raw Foods
 

Some might argue that the reason man has evolved fairly quickly into a "smart" species was because they did cook their food. When was the last time you saw a fish using a hibachi and writing poetry? It's just logic.


eta: P.S. I wouldn't want to be in a room with all those Raw Foods devotees. They might argue that their intestinal gases are less foul, but if you've ever been around an elephants, you know that the volume more than makes up for the deadliness. I'm just saying.

Raw Foods
 

Is it raw plankton?

Raw Foods
 

Oh nevermind.

In lieu of original post, I note that the raw foods site lets you cook things at 105 degrees. Or heat them to that temperature. Apparently this is enough to soften things like cauliflower.

Raw Foods
 

I fear I have offended and now must make amends! I purposely left out the more reasonable bit of the crackpot quote you quoted because "It's just logic" was the money bit. And for the record I believe that beer and hamburgers are irrefutable evidence of intelligent design, as anyone who has met me can attest.