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Falling Behind.

Still haven't finished this week's column for Chud. Must work on it now. I quit last night when I realized that what I was writing was total bollacks.

Weirdest Broadway Play Ever.

http://www.chud.com/news/july02/july5fearless.php3

Yes, they're making Fearless Vampire Killers (the hysterical but awful Polanksi flick) into a musical. With Michael "I'm so Overrated, you'll beg them to drain my blood" Crawford and Rene Auberjonois (who's a damned good stage actor, even if everyone thinks he's just Odo). I can't figure out if I'll need to see this, or avoid it like the plague.

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According to Box Office Prophets, Attack of the Clones is likely to pass Empire Strikes Back in total gross, leaving Empire as the lowest grossing SW movie. There's something seriously wrong with Empire being the lowest grossing of the five.

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Thanks to one_woman_army for finding this one:





Which Lilo & Stitch Character Are YOU?

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Acts of violence

So, bob_dot_com got me thinking (he always does). Are there acts of violence I could commit, and morally defend to myself after the fact?

I'm not counting already-justifiable acts: Self-defense, immediate defense of loved ones, etc. I'm talking stuff that could end up being prosecuted as 1st or 2nd degree assault. And this is speaking as someone who's got a quick temper, but has never committed an act of violence. And the fact that I'm writing a novel involving major acts of violence by humans and supernatural beings, and a private eye/former cop as the main protagonist, has probably played into this.

So, after thinking real hard, I could come up with two:

1. If anyone hurt Elayna and somehow later got away with it (or didn't get punished enough, in my opinion), I honestly don't think I could rest until they'd suffered. I'm talking about anything ranging from serious to not so serious hurt. I take this as a given for all parents. Not that I'd do so irrationally -- doing something that got me thrown in jail wouldn't do Elayna much good -- but I'd make sure the person paid. I can hold a grudge for a long time, and I can be damned sneaky.

2. If I ever caught any of my girlfriends in the act of cheating, I'm pretty sure I'd treat the partner as if he were a rapist, and react accordingly. I'd actually had discussion about that with Anne, although now I guess shadesong and any exes who would read this know. It seems a given to me -- if I'm not aware of the fact that the relationship had fallen apart, and came across a scene like that, my brain's much more likely to err on the side of the person I love, and place all culpability on the other party (even though he's more likely to be unaware that there's any cheating going on).

3. If I ever came across someone torturing an animal, no question how I'd react (aside -- I'm taking torturing humans as one of those "of course" scenarios that I'm excluding, but since the laws against hurting animals in our society tend to be mild misdemeanors at best, I figure that's another story). No, I'm not talking about animal research or whatnot (why would I ever come across that without going out of my way?), or hunting. I'm talking classic hurting cats and dogs for the sake of it.

4. Um, the thing is, if I could think of three exceptions, I don't know that there wouldn't be a fourth. And that kinda frightens me -- as I've said, I've never committed acts of violence, and it would take a hell of a lot to justify them. What about people who are more prone to violence than me?

Anyway, Damn the Man (Bob) for getting me thinking. And no, no plans on actually committing any violent acts -- Elayna's happy at camp, 'song knows she'd cause me less pain by shooting me than putting me through seeing her cheat, and I have enough faith in humanity to not expect to see anyone debased enough to be torturing animals in our neighborhood.

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John Frankenheimer died today. We'll never have any other movies about hypnotized killers with weird oedipal complexes about Angela Lansbury now. :-(