Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe comes out December 9th, and the trailer is available at that link. I've been waiting for this for many months now, as I found out through IMDB's James McAvoy listing, that he was playing Mr. Tumnus. For those who don't recognize the name, he's a Scottish actor, about my age who played Leto II in Children of Dune, and well, he's certainly won my loins heart. Beyond that, the trailer gives me goosebumps, and I'm decided: I'll be reading the first book to Ana before the movie comes out. I'm trying to do that with many of the great books, reading to her the novels before she sees the movies, so she can get the literary beauty first, and be able to use her imagination more fully. When Charlotte's Web is finished, I'll be reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to her before we see what Burton has done to the classic--some of the trailers have me worried.

( And Now For Something Totally Unrelated: Geek Love )

An Experiment

Craigslist.org has plans to bundle up their various postings over the years and blast them into space in the effort to communicate with aliens. They have a more coherent version of their plans on their web site, but let's just say, I'm always a bit interested in the concept of making new friends outside of the human race. (Of course, I don't believe we'll be meeting anyone within my lifetime, but it doesn't hurt to wave to the heavens.)

So, I decided to post something in the platonic personals that would someday be broadcast into space for aliens to decode, if they're bored on a rainy Sunday (I could see these becoming as popular as crosswords in the U.S. or logic puzzles in the U.K.: "I got it, Blurg! It's an ad for 'kinky sex.' What's kinky sex?" Or "What's a lawnmower, Gork?") The problem with wanting to do this is, when you sit down and type, unless you already had something to say, you may find yourself stumped about what you would want to say to an alien. I found myself in this very same predicament, and rather than leave it alone for a while to ponder what I would really want to say, I just pulled something inane out of my ass.

( The Inanity - OR - Oh, How Cliche! )

Now, I didn't expect to get responses from humans, though I suppose I should have. Actually, I'd expected the "WTF? You're such a loser. Wanna do me?" type of responses, but already I have received a number of comments, all of them quite different, and yet ... not. How alike we all are; I feel so average right now.

( The Responses )

NOTE: No, I've not written back to any of these yet, and no, I won't be snide to them in person/via email, promise. I'm just being a brat. :)