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Movie Quotes – Day 337

I do seem to remember a process where you people ask me questions and I give you answers, and then I ask you questions and you give me answers, and that’s the way we find out things. I think I read that in a manual somewhere. — 2010

There has to be a dialogue, and it has to be a two-way conversation.  If the other side is refusing to talk to you, you are wasting your breath.  If all you’re doing is talking at them, you’re doing the same thing.  If you’re both blasting the other with rhetoric, histrionics, or just plain anger, then both of you need to go to a neutral corner for a while.

Movie Quotes – Day 336

Therefore, you will… NARFTLE THE GARTHOK! — Coneheads

My least liked thing to hear at work is “You have an opportunity to excel.”  This is followed closely by “Do you have a few moments?”.  Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a challenge, and it means something that I’m asked to take on more and more challenging work.  But just once, I’d like for these opportunities to not happen on a Friday afternoon.

Movie Quotes – Day 335

A man should be what he can do. — From Here to Eternity

At some point, I went from saying “I’m in the Army” to saying “I’m a soldier.”  At some point, I stopped saying “We have kids” to saying “We’re parents.”  Once you internalize what you do to the point that it’s a part of what you are, you’ve truly bought into it, and you start to become truly adept at it.

Musings

  • Telling the kids and dogs to “Make a hole and make it wide” so that Irish Woman could get through the dining room might not have been the smartest thing I’ve ever done as a husband.
  • Saying “Baby, you got the whole stack of Marshalls” when your darling wife is singing “I Got That Bass” might not come across as a compliment, no matter how you meant it.
  • I watched the trailer for the new Star Wars movie this weekend.
    • Meh.
    • Maybe I’m jaded, or maybe I’m just not unhooking my brain enough, but did it occur to anyone else how fantastically wrong it is to have a tramp space freighter like the Millennium Falcon taking part in a dogfight in a planet’s atmosphere.
    • I made the mistake in reading some of the reaction to the trailer, and apparently there are a few people who have some heartburn about a black actor in a storm trooper uniform.  Then I made the mistake of reading the comments of those who reacted to those with heartburn, then the counter-reaction, then the counter-counter-reaction, then I remembered why I pretty much left Star Trek/Star Wars/Battlestar Galactica/Firefly/Whatever fandom in the first place.
  • Christmas hymns are always better in the original German.
  • Girlie Bear read from the book of Isaiah in German at a special service tonight.  She did better than I could have at that age.
  • Note to self – Do research about the culture and history of the place you’re basing your fictional story upon before you start writing.  Nothing like having to go back and rewrite everything because you weren’t even close.
  • Every so often, I have one of those days where I’m not fit for human consumption.  Today, the devil himself would have barred the door and called the police if I’d come knocking.

Movie Quotes – Day 334

I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble. — The Maltese Falcon

Life doesn’t have to be easy, it just has to be possible.  Hard work does not frighten me, but pointless labor is infuriating.  Asking me to do things that facilitate getting things done is reasonable, but I can become quite unreasonable when bureaucratic crap is thrown at me.

Movie Quotes – Day 333

Thetis: So many women, and all these transformations and disguises he invents in order to seduce them. Sometimes a shower of gold, sometimes a bull or a swan. Why, once he even tried to ravish me disguised as a cuttlefish.
Hera: Did he succeed?
Thetis: Certainly not.
Athena: What did you do?
Thetis: Beat him at his own game. I simply turned myself into a shark.
— Clash of the Titans

Women will rarely be able to resist a man on his terms.  Fair fights are for tournaments and boxing rings.  Fight dirty, and fight hard.  Use whatever tools you have at your disposal, but never give up the fight.

Musings

  • This morning, as I ate a cookie one of our friends, who is of Lebanese descent, made for us, I told Irish Woman that I would give her a girl child if she got the recipe, and that shewas authorized to offer Boo in exchange for it.
    • I will get this recipe, and if I’m allowed, I’ll post the recipe.
  • My turkey turned out to be very juicy, and my gravy was highly praised.  I’ll call that a win.
  • I consider it a good meal if everyone eats in silence because talking would take away from the food.
  • It would appear that Bluegrass and Moonshine have accepted Derby.  I was woken this morning by Moonie and Derby practicing their kung-fu in the hallway.  Derby can hold her own with Moonshine, but Bluegrass only let her play for a moment before showing her teeth and reminding her who was the head female in this particular pack.  Of course, 20 minutes later, all three were in a pile taking a nap in a sunbeam.
  • Boo is definitely my son.  I had to drag him back in the house to put on socks, shoes, and a jacket heavier than a sweatshirt this morning.
  • I didn’t think I’d be doing any scripting tonight, but as fate would have it, I got to resurrect something I wrote in 2009, polish it a bit, and reuse it.
    • I was forced to do something I’ve never done before, which caused me to learn something tonight. Can’t let that continue.  Next thing you know, I’ll be learning, and improving, and growing, and we can’t have that.

Movie Quotes – Day 332

Are you a good witch, or a bad witch? — The Wizard of Oz

Pick a side.  You are either on the side of freedom, or you serve the side of tyranny.  Either way, the time to show your colors is long past.

Heads Up

Brigid is donating all proceeds she makes from her book, “The Book of Barkley” to animal rescue organizations, and she’s found a really good one:

Please take a moment and click on these words:   Peanut’s Promise.

This group, up in the Windy City, not far from where we live, is doing incredible things, their latest project–rescuing Labrador Retrievers who have lived solely to breed purebred puppies, with bad food, harsh elements outside 24/7, little, if any  medical care, and no love or affection. Some had no more than a depression on the ground to sleep in. When they get sick, or old, or barren, they are discarded. In this case the breeder is giving them up, a blessing for them, but a lot of work for the volunteers with that many dogs, all neglected, coming in at once.  I am just one tiny little part of that effort, but I wanted to help and spread the word.

Because it broke my heart to see it.

Because every Lab should have a home where he’s a family member, as loved as the two-legged ones.

She’s put TBOB on special until Christmas, so if you haven’t read it, now’s a good time to get a good book and do some good work.

Thought for the Day