Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Eh. You'd give him a Gentleman's C.

Right -- as paigow is likely to point out, sebby is not a fan of the rare roast beef.

On the plus side, bn'b, he'd surely share his bourbon and blow with you.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Maybe the friend was talking about The a woman sitting in profile as if she were appearing on an 18-wheeler's mudflap.

What's with those, BTW? If you're a trucker, what is the message that you're conveying--that you're on the road a lot, and sleep in a bunk in your truck, and smell like it, so the closest you can get to a hot chick a chromed profile on your mudflap? It's not a confederate battle flag, or an homage to Christ, which I can understand at least as an expression of opinion. But a chick? I like my chicks hot and muddy?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I used to have sex now and then with a young Conservative (that's the name of the party) in law school. We are still friends. We just never talked about politics. He was not that hot but oodles of charisma. Very sexy guy.

Charisma/sexiness to me is a variety of hot. Do you think that the pale, smug slugs pictured in the article might be charismatic and sexy in person? I'm kinda doubting it.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
So she claims. But who hasn't succumbed, perhaps when facing a long flight, or a day at the beach, without a good bock? Or when sitting in a doctor's waiting room for far too long? None of us is above an occasional peek.

Okay, she's a he and I'm assuming.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Charisma/sexiness to me is a variety of hot. Do you think that the pale, smug slugs pictured in the article might be charismatic and sexy in person? I'm kinda doubting it.

I'm doubting it too.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Okay, she's a he and I'm assuming.

Tell him he needs to go over to b'n'b's house, pronto.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I'm doubting it too.

Phew.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Okay, she's a he and I'm assuming.

Oh, well, that explains the comment.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
And if I misspell Hegel, will she discipline me?

Undoubtedly. Spankings all around. She will probably tie you down for it.

In the library stacks.

BR(still turned on by the smell of book mold)C

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Right -- as paigow is likely to point out, sebby is not a fan of the rare roast beef.

On the plus side, bn'b, he'd surely share his bourbon and blow with you.

There was a time when I would have taken the bourbon and blow over oral sex, any day. This is no longer that time.

[notcasesensitive]

Anyone else having trouble accessing it for the past couple of days? It pretends to load and then I have a white screen. Flinty?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think that he probably has a lot of weird and dark fetishes, though, and it probably wouldn't be as much of a romp as fucking Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Batman Begins is the better movie, but Mr. & Mrs. Smith is more fun. There's more development, characterization and emotion in Batman Begins, and my companion--who, as it turns out, is also a comic geek--was blown away at the faithfulness to canon.

It's probably the best Batman movie I've ever seen, and I'm a big fan of the original Tim Burton/Michael Keaton film. This effort is less comic-booky in feel. Tim Burton (and his descendant Joel Schulmacher) stylized their films quite a bit to draw attention to the cartoonish nature of the series. Big, colorful sets and costumes. Over-the-top performances by villians. Lots of monologuing. According to the IMDB's trivia page for Batman Begins, Director Chris Nolan (Momento, Insomnia) made his cast and crew watch Blade Runner before they started filming this Batman movie, and this is a more subdued, bleak, desperate Gotham. Where Burton uses color and texture, Nolan uses darkness and light.

Christian Bale is top notch. He's physically beautiful (so is Cillian Murphy, who I'd never paid much attention to before), and he's captured the manic depressive, fucked up caped crusader quite well. He also pulls off aristocratic entitlement better than any of the other Batmans. His struggle with the duality of his public/masked persona is evident, and he's quite good at maintaining a simmering rage and guilty that drives the character. I was particularly impressed with his ability to act as a younger, pre-Batman Bruce Wayne. (The 8 year old version of Bruce is also very, very good.)

The side characters are also excellent, and they must have an amazing budget. Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldham. All excellent performances, especially Caine, whose Alfred was simultaneously familiar and fresh. Katie Holmes wasn't bad, though the archtype fiesty district attorney bugs me. I've seen it hundreds of times before and she really didn't add much. Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe and Cillian Murphy were excellent as well, and the movie left a lot of room for sequel with this set of characters.

The only really downside was the filming of action sequences, and that's because of comparison to another action film seen recently. Frankly, I think that Doug Liman films some of the best action sequences in the business. The action shots in the Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith are thought through carefully, and each punch has not only a point, but is also very well filmed for maximum effect. I remember watching Bourne Identity in the theater and wincing with every bounce of the head as I watched a motorcycle cop fall off his bike. Mr. & Mrs. Smith's considerable action sequences were equally well executed. Nolan isn't an action director, and though the sequences in Nepal were well done, I've seen better. Darkness hides a lot of what's going on in the action sequences in Gotham, and contextually, it makes sense that you don't know exactly what's going on. The unknown is Batman's primary advantage, and it's not important how Batman fucks someone up, only that he's fucked them up. But as an action fan, you want to see him fuck the guy up.

It's a dark film and a dark character. I think Nolan and Bale did an excellent job of showing how fucked up this guy really is. I'm not a devotee of the comic books (I'm a Marvel girl), but the geeks in the theater last night seemed very, very happy with the outcome.

First, I don't think's it's fair to compare a threesome with batman. You ought to consider batman/you/robin or batman/you/catwoman of your choice as the equivalent.

Second, you tell us nothing about your dreams.

Third and finally, I will spare you my review of Madagascar. I want to see Batman.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Undoubtedly. Spankings all around. She will probably tie you down for it.

In the library stacks.

BR(still turned on by the smell of book mold)C

My one regret from one of the Universities I attended is that I never fucked anyone in the library.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Good god, sometimes I used to lament not having had enough fun in college and grad school. Now I'm glad that the experience was simply pretty good. I used to envy people who talked about college as the best years of their lives and would give anything to go back. but now I realize how paralyzing that would be. Jesus Christ, Sebby, I've had more fun in the past year or so than I did in four years of college, and I'm looking forward to a lot more. Yes, I'd love to recapture that feeling of endless possibility that I had back then, but you can't hold on to that past, say, 25, anyway.

You have to stop living in the past, or comparing everything to the past. Your prism is fucked up, Sebby -- to hear you tell it, nothing will ever measure up to some previous experience. Your life is now and for the next 50 (well, maybe 40) years.

Damn, you just clobbered me, and I have no return.

Haven't you ever needed "the bigger high"? I switch jobs, I switch drinks, cars, houses, hobbies, you name it... Objectively, I am rather happy, and were you to meet me, you'd likely think I had a pretty good gig.

But its never going to be enough. As soon as I get one thing, I need another, and it just doesn't stop. I think I put my finger on it years ago. People aren't wired for routine. I cannot do/be/consume any of one thing for two long without becoming utterly disinterested in it... and it happens fast... Imagine high speed ADD coupled with aninsatiable appetitie to constantly be entertained. It helps in this career because I enjoy learning shit, but for all other aspects of my life, I really want this afflication gone. I watch my neighbor mow his lawn and wave to his wife as she leaves for work and think "Fuck, why is he so happy? That's so boring?" Yet I realize its impossible to live in a casino of constant new pleasures my entire life. There is no job that allows one to just travel the world soaking up as much shit as you can and trying a gazillion things until you die. And thats exactly what I want to do. My "college prism" isn't pining for college so much as pining for some revelatory in the same way college was revelatory, something to grab me by the balls and interest me every day. Something stimulating.

I guess its pretty naive and arrogant to think I should be perpetually entertained and interested in whatever i'm doing, but hey... thets the wiring I have upstairs, and I haven't been able to fix it for over three decades, so I'm fairly sure its permanent. What can I say...

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
First, I don't think's it's fair to compare a threesome with batman. You ought to consider batman/you/robin or batman/you/catwoman of your choice as the equivalent.

I think fucking Batman would take about as much work as fucking Mr. & Mrs. Smith. I stand by the comparision.

Second, you tell us nothing about your dreams.

My big dilemna in the dream was whether or not he should keep the mask on.