Randomness before the weekend
Fri, Apr. 7th, 2006 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarlettinaFirst, let me thank everyone kind enough to send me compliments via meme. I love you all in a serious way.
Next: Links posted everywhere but that I want in my journal, too:
The Gospel of Judas has been discovered, translated and will be the subject of a National Geographic special Sunday night (opposite West Wing, dammit!). Extremely cool.
And while we're on the subject of things Biblical, how about we talk about walking on water?
Some Hollywood type decided that Exodus would look better on Dougray Scott and Naveen Andrews (who plays a character nowhere in either the original film or in the Torah, near as I can remember) than it does on Charlton Heston and Yul Bryner. Time will tell, but me, I'll take Bryner's swagger and Edward G. Robinson's corny menace over Hollywood pretty boys any day of the week. (That doesn't mean I don't appreciate either Scott or Andrews—I do, but, gee, talk about The Most Unnecessary Remake of All Time! Only a remake of Gone with the Wind would surpass it.)
In other news, more in line with science, a possible missing link has been discovered.
And lastly, I should note that I was $10.00 worth of bad today. I bought myself a new capo and strap for my guitar. My old capo disappeared years go, but I had a pretty, pink-embroidered strap that I adored and I don't know what happened to it. Its loss is kind of a heartbreaker—I've had it since i was 16—but I found a pretty black, blue and purple one for $5.00 that will do nicely as a substitute until Pinky turns up again. Fingers crossed.
Next: Links posted everywhere but that I want in my journal, too:
The Gospel of Judas has been discovered, translated and will be the subject of a National Geographic special Sunday night (opposite West Wing, dammit!). Extremely cool.
And while we're on the subject of things Biblical, how about we talk about walking on water?
Some Hollywood type decided that Exodus would look better on Dougray Scott and Naveen Andrews (who plays a character nowhere in either the original film or in the Torah, near as I can remember) than it does on Charlton Heston and Yul Bryner. Time will tell, but me, I'll take Bryner's swagger and Edward G. Robinson's corny menace over Hollywood pretty boys any day of the week. (That doesn't mean I don't appreciate either Scott or Andrews—I do, but, gee, talk about The Most Unnecessary Remake of All Time! Only a remake of Gone with the Wind would surpass it.)
In other news, more in line with science, a possible missing link has been discovered.
And lastly, I should note that I was $10.00 worth of bad today. I bought myself a new capo and strap for my guitar. My old capo disappeared years go, but I had a pretty, pink-embroidered strap that I adored and I don't know what happened to it. Its loss is kind of a heartbreaker—I've had it since i was 16—but I found a pretty black, blue and purple one for $5.00 that will do nicely as a substitute until Pinky turns up again. Fingers crossed.
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Date: Fri, Apr. 7th, 2006 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Fri, Apr. 7th, 2006 10:55 pm (UTC)Tragically, it was an April Fool's Day joke.
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Date: Mon, Apr. 10th, 2006 02:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Fri, Apr. 7th, 2006 11:40 pm (UTC)The professor at the top of the second page of the Times article about the Gospel of Judas taught at Oxy my junior and senior years.
And how can they resist re-making Ten Commandments when everyone's wailing about how valueless Hollywood is on the one hand, and they've got all this CGI laying around on the other.
But you're right - this looks almost as goofy as Empire was (Moses' Egyptian brother-in-law? Oh well, at last Naveen isn't a heavy again - though he'd probably have made a good Ramses).
And Remember - have fun this weekend!
Psst - time to vote on state quarters!
Date: Sat, Apr. 8th, 2006 04:39 pm (UTC)When I voted the nice, simple Orca design was out ahead, with over 50%.
Re: Psst - time to vote on state quarters!
Date: Sun, Apr. 9th, 2006 01:00 am (UTC)