Saw Lilo and Stitch at Jenn's recently.

I didn't have a livejournal when it came out, but I love that movie, so you'll have to take my thoughts now.

1. What's up with Lilo's books? Oyster Farming, Fire Eating for Fun and Profit, Road Maps of Iowa... Hm. What's up with Lilo? She's got that obsession with Elvis, not to mention all those photos of hers, and she obviously can't tell who is and isn't her friend.... Poor kid. *hugs*

2. What year is this? I'd say the Elvis suggests an earlier era, but then again, Lilo could just be a Weird Kid. But we've got black and white televisions, and older-looking clothes on the people at the beach... and cell phones. Mr. Bubbles was at Roswell in the 70s, but that'd make him at least 50 if this were set now. Is it? Is he in his 50s?

3. At the end of the movie, Lilo's family grows by leaps and bounds - Stitch, David (is that his name?), Evil Scientist, Plinkly (or whatever his name was), Mr. Bubbles - all these people seem to have joined the family. What's Stitch's role? Is he Lilo's brother? Is he going to school with her? In one picture, he is, in another, he's sending her off to school. Why is everybody so accepting of this strange looking brother of hers (or really weird dog)? Wait, this is Disney. People are never ever prejudiced against the unusual unless they're mindless bigots.

4. Why exactly did Commander Gantu hate Stitch so much? Don't you think his anger was a little extreme?

5. Come to think of it, what sort of galaxy is this? You can be exiled when all you appear to have done is say a few dirty words. Planets can be gassed to deal with one minor criminal, who can't escape the planet anyway (and even if he could, couldn't people just wait for him to leave?). It's a waste of galactic resources to return a child to her family. There's apparently no appeal for council decisions, unless they need you to catch a cute and fluffy monster of doom. You can be exiled simply for being incompetent. The galaxy is full of diversity, but be born in an unconventional manner and all of a sudden you're an abomination, and deserve to be hated.

Congratulations to all my friends who have finished school.

Even the ones who will never see this because I don't have their emails. Sorry, guys :(

In the spirt of the occasion, I'm going to post a news article. This is something rare, of course, so enjoy it!

*giggles*

Seriously, it's an article on commencement speeches, so it seems appropriate-like.

http://nytimes.com/2004/06/06/education/06commence.html

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Because that's the argument that pisses me off the most.

xiggaroo has to do a presentation for school.

Trying to convine 60% of her class (I say a good bribe never goes amiss...) of some controversial subject. She gets a better grade if she tries to convince them of something she disagrees with. So, naturally, she's trying to convince them that ABA is wonderful and necessary and I'm not sure if she means in general or the way it's done today, but...

I'm not too thrilled with this myself, but eh. Does anybody have any references that compliment ABA that she might not have gotten? Or, can anybody mention the good things about it in a simple list?

Let's review the difference between what people say and what you THINK they've said

Basically, we're reviewing the difference between words and not-words, but that's not common parlance. ( Read more... )

I don't watch the Simpsons nearly enough.

Ah. But caught this week's. Yay.

NOT QUITE A SPOILER ALERT!

I loved how Matt Groening "creator of Futurama" was there. Still bitter, eh?