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Something in the water?
Jun. 7th, 2006 04:44 pmIs there something in the water today? People completely unrelated to each other on my LJ friendslist and random mailing lists have spontaneously broken out in discussion of LeGuin's Tehanu and the show and movie of Wild Wild West.*
Oh, and while I'm working on art show stuff, the Travel Channel is on, running a story on catacombs of the world and the narrator is mispronouncing it as "cata cooooms" EVERY SINGLE TIME, which is driving me crazy.
* In one case, resurrecting a years-old argument about the movie, which runs more-or-less thusly:
"I can't accept Will Smith as West, because a black man would not have been employed as a Pinkerton (Secret Service agent/whatever he was) in that day and age."
"So ... you can't accept a black man as Agent West because it's historically inaccurate, but you can accept GIANT MECHANICAL FIREBALL-THROWING SPIDERS?"
Oh, and while I'm working on art show stuff, the Travel Channel is on, running a story on catacombs of the world and the narrator is mispronouncing it as "cata cooooms" EVERY SINGLE TIME, which is driving me crazy.
* In one case, resurrecting a years-old argument about the movie, which runs more-or-less thusly:
"I can't accept Will Smith as West, because a black man would not have been employed as a Pinkerton (Secret Service agent/whatever he was) in that day and age."
"So ... you can't accept a black man as Agent West because it's historically inaccurate, but you can accept GIANT MECHANICAL FIREBALL-THROWING SPIDERS?"
