Enjoy the beach, Angela! On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:17 PM, angelababycat <asrobin...@mindspring.com>wrote:
> > > Thanks--work's been kicking my behind. Headed to the beach in the a.m. > thank goodness. > > Re ugly, we don't even have to look as far as that. Watch 2 toddlers fight > over a single piece of candy. Or stare you in the eyes and lie about > spilling thier juice. I never believed behavior like that was innate until I > had a child. She's actually pretty sweet and I run a tight ship, but she's > still capable of some Lord of the Flies type stuff that amazes me. As you > said we are, after all, animals. > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, Martin > Baxter <martinbaxt...@...> wrote: > > > > Ab initio, Angela, great to see your voice again! > > > > I haven't seen it either (also have it up on PPV, but haven't had the > time > > to order it), but I believe, without hesitation, that things WOULD end up > > that way, if not worse. Save for this post and two others, my sojourn > across > > the Internet has showed me, if nothing else, that the human animal is, by > > and large, a very ugly species. > > > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Angela Robinson > > <asrobin...@...>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm sure The Road was discussed when it came out, but I just got around > to > > > seeing it on PPV this weekend. Maybe the most dark and depressing movie > > > I've ever seen (or in the top 5 anyway). Yet the last few minutes > offered a > > > little redeeming hope in a way that was totally unexpected to me. I > thought > > > it was well done and worth checking out if you don't mind feeling awful > for > > > a little while. Some how, more than Survivors, Book of Eli, The Day > After > > > or even Threads, The Road left me sunk in the sofa saying, "God, would > it > > > ever really come to that?" > > > > > > Angela > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody > hell > > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik