Things I'm Thankful For:

I'm thankful to have been born when I was. Any sooner and I may have been eaten by a dinosaur, and any later and I could have been enslaved by an alien race.

Also, I'm thankful for science fiction movies.

I hope that guy who did the voiceover for "congratulations! you've just won two free ipods!" gets those very same popups nonstop on his computer and rues the day of the birth.

Do you think Kermit feels more at home on Sesame Street or on the Muppet Show? As far as I know, he's the only child of Hensen who lives in more than one puppet universe. He's kind of a big deal among the Muppets, but Kermit's not the type I would picture hogging the spotlight so I don't think the attention matters too much to him. I appreciate his message about self acceptance with "It's Not Easy Being Green", and he had an ok reoccurring skit as a reporter on Sesame Street. He was always a lot funnier on the Muppets, but I think he would have been a lot better off without Miss Piggy around. That girl is like gangrene eating away slowly at Kermit's soul.

No one really feels bad when the Beast throws Gaston off the roof at the end of the movie, but I do. What if Gaston had just arrived a little sooner, like when Belle or her father were still in the prison? Then his actions would have made him the hero of the movie. Even at the end of the movie after the Beast has discovered his humanity again, Gaston's aggressions are fueled by his love for Belle and in defense of his pride, nevermind the fact he's trying to protect the village- all noble causes to fight for. Plus, the Beast was a jerk at the beginning of the movie, all the way from the prologue to when he let Belle leave. He changed only after continued exposure to Belle, an opportunity Gaston was never given. The Beast and Gaston are similar in that they both used Moris' potential captivity to manipulate Belle into staying with them- the Beast only did so sooner. Perhaps if Gaston had been the quicker of the two to resort to abduction Belle could have soften his masculine edges and taught him an appreciation for literacy as well.

All I'm saying in Gaston wasn't such a bad guy.

BYU Review 11.02.2009

Why is every website on the internet user friendly with a competent layout with the exception of BYU's library? Trying to find a pertinent article on that thing is like trying to breath underwater in outer space. You can't do it.


The site with the desktop backgrounds:
http://afremov.com/shop.php?start=150&user_id=100001&parent_id=0&keywords_search=&order_field=a.end_time&order_type=DESC