connection in an isolating age

[enthusiastick]

OK, so I mentioned recently that I had forgotten what a hypnotic effect having cable television would have upon my brain? Last night I was flipping through the channels, eating Chinese food and never watching fewer than two shows at a time. Anyway, I stumbled onto this one show and inexplicably watched a couple of minutes of it. And then I watched a couple minutes more, because that little girl from School of Rock turned out to be in the show (her name, apparently, is Miranda Cosgrove.) And I became engaged, and I ended up watching and enjoying the entire episode.

If ever you wanted proof that I am a complete and total goober, look no further. Because the show I found myself watching? That show was Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh.

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Anyway, um... let's talk about something else... uh... Topher Grace is Venom in Spiderman 3, apparently? What the Hell? I mean, I like Topher Grace as much as the next guy. Maybe I even like him considerably more than the next guy. That seems likely. But Venom? I don't see it.

Random recurring thought: it is too bad that talking to strangers on the train means you are a crazy person, because sometimes there are very cute girls on the train.

Is it the end of the day yet?

Comments

[adampb.livejournal.com]

I would take any Venom rumors with a grain of salt or ten, right out of my Big Ol' Shaker of Salt for Movie Rumors of Any Sort. Raimi himself has said several times he has no interest in including Venom in one of the films. He likes the 'classic' villains. I'd say you have nothing to fear here.

My money for Topher Grace is on either Chameleon or Electro.

[theshanakee.livejournal.com]

re: Cute girls on the train - fuck it. Find a way to talk to them. I always did when I was single.

re: Topher Grace as Venom. If they do this, they're trying to do what they did for the last two movies and create a villain who relates to Spiderman on some deep emotional level and creates a foil for the hero's struggle with real life issues, which will be lame when they do this a third time. Topher Grace...yeah, all right. But not as Venom.

Besides, the story looks like it was going in a completely different direction from the Venom, based on the last film. Unless we have the return of the Green Goblin in a 4th film, but that would be kinda lame too.

[pooka-madness.livejournal.com]

(1) You and I are completely different people with completely different confidence levels.

(2) That same rumor says that James Franco will be back to play Harry Osborn as part of a new triumvirate of badguys introduced in this film. Furthermore, say the rumormongers, they are for no good reason messing with the nomenclature and calling him Hobgoblin.

no...your an idiot

[kailunkat.livejournal.com]

Seriously - cute girls on the train are fair game. Unless you grab their ass or something they would probably appreciate the compliment of chatting and psuedo-hitting on. In fact it usually is a great pick me up - you could make someone's day while making your own! See? Win-win. Plus you build confidence, and if it goes badly what are the chances youll keep running into each other - slim.

So in summary...
Life's too short
Hit on women - its good for both of you
No grab assing.

:)

[theshanakee.livejournal.com]

1) Well...er...do it anyway. It'd be good for you.

2) Well, Harry Osborne was the Green Goblin and the Hobgoblin. He was Green Goblin first and then started screwing around with Dr. Strange style dark magic and summoning demons. Were they to put that in, it would be extremely lame, though. They're better off with a Lizard plotline.