azurelunatic | Movietime is Painless

Spaceballs: The Animated Series! ...Fear. (I e-mailed Darkside with immediacy, letting him know. He's not always the most up-to-date on current events in the geek world.)

Oooo, hairsticks. If anyone's looking to spoil me, this would probably be how to do that.

WTF. The passport that I had as a kid is long since expired. I've never been out of the country. I really have little need for a passport in my daily life. $85 is at least two weeks' worth of groceries.

The old huge machine I rescued has a motherboard, two hard drives, a CD drive, a floppy, a working power supply, no USB ports at all and only one ps/2 port, and Red Hat stickers all over the case. I'm going to need a PS/2 keyboard.

hcolleen made me watch M*A*S*H. The movie. It was decent. I couldn't help but think that if Mrs. Moon (high school Health teacher -- I miss you!) had needed to teach a unit on harassment and workplace misconduct, she would have broken out this video. (She taught the mental health unit using What About Bob?)

I will probably need to see the series at some point. But the small screen is not the place for it. (I was watching it on

hcolleen's portable DVD player, and it was far too dark to come out properly.) If Darkside, or Darkside's old man, should want to sit me down and show it to me, I would have no objections...

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There is a great deal of voter fraud, though. I do know that some of the local - NON-CITIZEN immigrants are all up in arms because they were not allowed to vote.

I know others who DID vote, because they had a driver's license.

Simple solution to the fee - if they want to make it required to vote, then they need to eliminate the cost. *shrug*

I think that's the first rational position I've heard on this.

Ooh, hairsticks.... If only they had amber. On the other hand, good quality is a pain to come by. Ooh, wait, they do amber for the heart-shaped barrette!

Fry's should have PS/2 keyboards for under $10, I think.

And yes, the voting thing is very much of the crack. On top of the cost, can you imagine what it might do to the passport system? It's not set up for that kind of sudden load.

They do have an "other", as well. And maybe the person could dig up some amber.

I'm in favor of requiring ID for voting, but not that way. Requiring a form of ID that costs $85 to obtain and takes weeks to get is a poll tax, and poll taxes are illegal. The allowed forms of ID have to include things that everyone can easily get.

Citizenship is something that should be proven when people register to vote, not at the polls. ID at the polls should just be for the purpose of preventing people from easily pretending to be someone else.

No kidding.

If this one gets rammed through, it'll be a very interesting Supreme Court case, I think.

The restrictions for U.S. citizens travelling through Canada will also be tightened (cannot find if the legislation has been passed already or is still on the table).

This will require a U.S. citizen to show a passport upon entering U.S. territory from Canada.

Imagine what this means for Alaskans who regularly travel through Whitehorse or up/down the Al-Can? Imagine what this means for the tourism industry (such as cruises) which is a huge part of Alaska's revenue.

Oddly enough, the discussion of passports and cruises came up at my work a few days ago. Last year a co-worker and her husband took one of those Alaskan cruises and they were required to have passports.

Thats because virtually all of the Alaskan Cruises are based out of Vancouver BC. Seattle isn't used because WA pushed though legislation ages ago that essentialy forbids one way trips...you'd have to start and finish the cruise in Seattle, rather than start in Seattle and end in Seward or Whittier or the like.

Oh, yeah, that's going to go over really well. Oi!

To be fair, though, it's not really unreasonable to require a passport to enter a foreign country. Up until now the US/Canada border control has just been really, really lax.

Warning on M*A*S*H the series; if you really liked the movie, the series may not be as much to your taste, especially the earlier seasons. Alan Alda as Hawkeye and the writing staff made many changes to emphasize the silly and tone down the "horrors of war", so the series has a lot different "feel" from the movie.

I was a big fan of the series, not so much of the movie or books.

The movie was all right. It's not in my keepers pile, though. The roommate and

samurai_ko insisted that I needed to watch it for cultural reasons.

M*A*S*H was on my mother's list of "Quick turn the channel before the theme music ends" TV shows. She thought (probably quite accurately) that it was not appropriate viewing for children, and she especially hated the theme song ("Suicide is Beautiful"), which was quite popular for a while ... at least all the kids at my school learned to play it during piano lessons. On the few occasions when I saw re-runs as an adult, they were on my "Unh" list -- nothing spectacular here.

Bryan, however, is a big fan of the show. He watched it all the time, growing up, and he will watch the 2 hours of re-runs that occur between getting-home time and putting-baby-to-bed time, and still stay up to watch the same reruns over again when they play at midnight! {For sanity's sake, I have not told him they also play the same reruns around 11AM-ish. LOL)

I must admit, the show has definitely grown on me. I will find myself quoting the next line from episodes I have already seen. And the big tip-off that we've all caught the bug ... the baby gets a HUGE grin on her face when the theme music plays, and will immediately drop everything (even her blocks!), rush over to the television, and smile raptly at the screen, trying to get Alan Alda to smile back at her (yes, she's a BIG flirt!) While she does tend to flirt with the TV quite a lot (she's a social little thing, and it is the only other thing at home to talk to besides the boring old mommy and daddy!), the only other person to rate the sheer power of that smile is Alton Brown on "Good Eats". (I swear, if we could bottle that smile, we would never have to pay an electric bill again. We're talking WATTAGE!)

I agree with the previous comment ... the movie is a lot darker than the series. The hard edge to the humor that was in the movie is not present in the series. The series is all about the one-liners, and Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce has a terrific smile. (The baby sure knows how to pick 'em ... he was definitely a looker!)

In one of last night's episodes, a farmer has his two daughters out in a field checking for landmines because he does not want to risk endangering his ox. And of course, one of the daughters sets off a landmine. You know it's good old-fashioned TV when there is absolutely no blood and no missing body parts following such an occurrence! Nowadays, they would gore it up as much as the budget would allow, I think.

One-liners are love. One-liners are so much love.

And one-liners backed up with a great smile? ... It's a great show. Make some popcorn and watch some re-runs.

The characters are very endearingly human, and the "bad guys" (Frank Burns and Charles Winchester III) are bad only in so far as they are party-poopers and disapprove of the main characters' antics. [I suppose in a much subtler way, the war is the REAL "bad guy", but you see a whole lot less of it! ...]

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