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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by dtb

Ha - that's almost exactly what I said to her one time. Something like, "I'm sure it was a very difficult decision for her to move away -- and she probably doesn't even know all the reasons. I'm sure it was hardest for her to leave you."

I also told her (the stepdaughter) that she should ask her mom about it one day. But nobody talks to her about it. They change the subject or mumble some platitude. It's so weird. Poor thing sees and feels that her mother is gone, and everyone around her acts like it's the most normal thing in the world, and my SD knows and feels that it isn't. Honestly, I think she appreciates the reality check from me (the tempered reality). That I acknowledge that it's a difficult and strange thing that her mother did (walking out with no explanation -- the differing reasons for "why" don't change that cold fact) at least affirms for her what she's already feeling, instead of pretending that everything is normal. It isn't.

Given what you say here, the problem is not what you are or aren't telling her, it's what everyone is doing and saying, and it sounds like the best thing you can do is to keep doing what you're doing.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Legend was OK, not my favorite movie. Will Smith had to carry nearly all the movie by himself with just a dog and random rampaging zombie attacks.

How did it compare to Herzog or Murneau?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

umm, she had the baby and she loves her, so this line is moot. it's like me Pm'ing RT that leagl should never have made Ty a mod.

In your defense, I'm sure it's easy to confuse leagl and Slave.

[robustpuppy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The situation worries me.

Make it work!

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

some people bear their problems on their own backs, and never admit them at all, suffering through the internal pain as best they can- without troubling others or admitting weakness.

so I drink too much, and flower closes the door the moment he gets to his office and masturbates the day away hallucinating that he is actually receiving fellatio.

who is to say which is the best approach?

Based solely on your respective posts, Flower's approach is clearly superior.

CDF

[robustpuppy]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Legend was OK, not my favorite movie. Will Smith had to carry nearly all the movie by himself with just a dog and random rampaging zombie attacks.

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by robustpuppy

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

But I could believe that Tiger Woods is really a vampire.

Imagine some vampire washed ashore in Scotland during the plague year, spending hundreds of years pining away in a Highland castle, practicing his golf swing, nailing the local au pairs, and sucking their blood.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by robustpuppy

Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

Agree. Particularly when they're in the foursome ahead of me and refuse to pick up.

CDF

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by cheval de frise

Based solely on your respective posts, Flower's approach is clearly superior.

CDF

ahh-haaa, cheval likes flower's posts. Ha, that's on you flower. Hey cheval, what're the last 5 books you read, and 5 favorite movies.

this is so fucking cool.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Thank you. I will not see that. That is silly.

My tortured point is that we can see in the shift over 50 years in the presentation of one novel in three movies, and I would argue throughout our society, that our perception of what constitutes a monster has been shifting. Zombies have become our monsters of choice. (Excluding the romantic allure of Twilight and True Blood, which are not "monster" movies/shows.)

We are focused, it appears, on what happens when society falls apart, rather than on an outsider society operating within our own and feeding upon us, Nosferatu aside.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by robustpuppy

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

I see the confusion -- he was in two movies with "Legend" in the title.

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" is about golf.

"I Am Legend" is about the sole survivor in NYC of a plague that killed most people and turned the rest into monsters (zombies).

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Fugee

I see the confusion -- he was in two movies with "Legend" in the title.

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" is about golf.

"I Am Legend" is about the sole survivor in NYC of a plague that killed most people and turned the rest into monsters (zombies).

Careful, you will rival Hank for "most helpful."

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by robustpuppy

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

Sure they do. You are thinking about the Legend of Tiger Woods, starring Will Smith and featuring a rampaging blonde brandishing a golf club. They made her undead for the movie for more zest.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Adder

Careful, you will rival Hank for "most helpful."

That's the meanest thing you've ever said!!!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by evenodds

My tortured point is that we can see in the shift over 50 years in the presentation of one novel in three movies, and I would argue throughout our society, that our perception of what constitutes a monster has been shifting. Zombies have become our monsters of choice. (Excluding the romantic allure of Twilight and True Blood, which are not "monster" movies/shows.)

We are focused, it appears, on what happens when society falls apart, rather than on an outsider society operating within our own and feeding upon us, Nosferatu aside.

But then someone comes along and makes "Let the Right One In..." and blows your theory to bits.

I don't like Zombies. Never have. I think they are just too facile and uninteresting a monster.

If you have to go simple, what's wrong with Mothra?