Ooh, another capybara photo! ~saves it to her Hex~ Thankee! The world needs more capybaras :-)
The holiday suggestions were more in the way of making you smile and perhaps inspiring you along those lines, heh.
Ooooo! For some reason we'd got it into our heads that the current two-parter was the end of SJA s2. Yayyayyay for there being another set to go! As for the current one, I LOVE it that they've brought the Trickster back - IMO that's one of the genuinely classy Scary Monsters of modern telly, along with the Gentlemen (Buffy) and the Wraith (SGA). Also, 'Victoria and David Beckham' ahahahahaha! And isn't Rani excellent? - she's well on her way to becoming Sarah Jane Smith: the next Generation when she grows up. As for missing Chrissie, I detested Chrissie right up to the moment when I, um, stopped detesting her, because her character finally evolved from an irritating cliche into a believable person...but Rani's Mum is so Chrissie-like that the same purpose is being served, don'cha think?
Love the cartoon. You would have been fascinated to be at Skeptics with us last Monday; the guest speaker was a bright, articulate and rather hot thirtyish lady called Kylie who teaches evolution in one of the most insanely fundie and backward RC schools in Melbourne and gets away with it! All the crusty old-school socks-and-sandals Skeppies were trying to bait her during question time (i.e. suggesting that she's letting the side down by not just trampling all over her charges' ~spits~ "faith"); I OTOH raised my hand and then thanked her for having the patience and bravery to gradually let a little light into young minds that had been brought up so closed and empty - which got a thunderous round of applause for her, as I'd intended it to - and then followed it up with saying 'Remember, sometimes it's better to light a candle than to carpet-bomb the Vatican' - which got a thunderous round of laughs. Apart from more capybaras, the world also needs more awesome schoolteachers :D
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The holiday suggestions were more in the way of making you smile and perhaps inspiring you along those lines, heh.
Ooooo! For some reason we'd got it into our heads that the current two-parter was the end of SJA s2. Yayyayyay for there being another set to go! As for the current one, I LOVE it that they've brought the Trickster back - IMO that's one of the genuinely classy Scary Monsters of modern telly, along with the Gentlemen (Buffy) and the Wraith (SGA). Also, 'Victoria and David Beckham' ahahahahaha! And isn't Rani excellent? - she's well on her way to becoming Sarah Jane Smith: the next Generation when she grows up. As for missing Chrissie, I detested Chrissie right up to the moment when I, um, stopped detesting her, because her character finally evolved from an irritating cliche into a believable person...but Rani's Mum is so Chrissie-like that the same purpose is being served, don'cha think?
Love the cartoon. You would have been fascinated to be at Skeptics with us last Monday; the guest speaker was a bright, articulate and rather hot thirtyish lady called Kylie who teaches evolution in one of the most insanely fundie and backward RC schools in Melbourne and gets away with it! All the crusty old-school socks-and-sandals Skeppies were trying to bait her during question time (i.e. suggesting that she's letting the side down by not just trampling all over her charges' ~spits~ "faith"); I OTOH raised my hand and then thanked her for having the patience and bravery to gradually let a little light into young minds that had been brought up so closed and empty - which got a thunderous round of applause for her, as I'd intended it to - and then followed it up with saying 'Remember, sometimes it's better to light a candle than to carpet-bomb the Vatican' - which got a thunderous round of laughs. Apart from more capybaras, the world also needs more awesome schoolteachers :D