Friday TeaRoom 7/25/08 Favorite book/movie combo?

[Victoria]

a tea shop near him, New Century Tea Gallery.

Which I will be visiting in one week, YAY!

So jealous. AGAIN!

Sweet kitty.

[auggy]

Bubba contemplates the meaning of tea. Conclusion: Yawn.

Is your kitty really named Bubba? Because, if so, I totally love you.

[Geekgirl]

Is your kitty really named Bubba? Because, if so, I totally love you.

Yup. When we got him from the shelter his name was "Ebony," but he has this really deep, raspy voice and he's bowlegged and walks a little like Sylvester Stallone. He's also just a wee bit demanding. We started calling him "bubba" as in Beelzebubba. It stuck like glue. When we say "Bubba" he says "meh meh."

[geeber1]

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one that feels that way. He drives me nuts.

Have you ever noticed that he (Nicolas Cage) runs like a girl? Plus he named his kid Kal-El, like Superman ... weird.

[henley]

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one that feels that way. He drives me nuts.

Have you ever noticed that he (Nicolas Cage) runs like a girl? Plus he named his kid Kal-El, like Superman ... weird.

Add me to the list of Nicholas Gage non-fans, too!

Geeber1, I want to know about your avatar. Is the little girl someone special or a random image you found?

[auggy]

Is your kitty really named Bubba? Because, if so, I totally love you.

Yup. When we got him from the shelter his name was "Ebony," but he has this really deep, raspy voice and he's bowlegged and walks a little like Sylvester Stallone. He's also just a wee bit demanding. We started calling him "bubba" as in Beelzebubba. It stuck like glue. When we say "Bubba" he says "meh meh."

Yay for kitties with personality! My second fattest kitty was our fattest for a while - we started calling her "Land Whale" (which evolved from the SNL Land Shark skit). So now we say "Land Whale" and she chirps at us and asks to be picked up.

[auggy]

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one that feels that way. He drives me nuts.

Have you ever noticed that he (Nicolas Cage) runs like a girl? Plus he named his kid Kal-El, like Superman ... weird.

Really? That is weird. Wonder what he was thinking.... His forehead/eyebrows bother me. And he seems like he'd be a really good bad used car salesman.

[geeber1]

henley,

I got the photo from a clip art service that we use here at my workplace. I thought the little girl was so cute, I just had to use her!

[keelyn]

I like this topic, though I needed time to think of my reply. Book-to-movie adaptations seem very hit or miss. Here's my two cents:

The good adaptations:
LOTR
Fight Club
Jurassic Park
Andromeda Strain
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick) - I loved the animation style they used for this. It is also probably the truest book to movie adaptation I've ever seen.

The bad:
I Am Legend - though a decent movie, the Will Smith version completely changed its meaning. They screened an alternate ending that was closer to the book, but scrapped it in favor of a happier ending.
Timeline (Michael Crichton) - They somehow managed to make this time-traveling adventure story involving particle physics and feudal England mindlessly boring.

[Victoria]

Sorry, love Nicolas Cage.
Love Moonstruck.
Love all his movies.

[henley]

henley,I got the photo from a clip art service that we use here at my workplace. I thought the little girl was so cute, I just had to use her!

It is an adorable pic! I have a one of my dtr when she was 2.5 playing teaparty w/a teddy bear. The photographer did a great job setting up the shot. It's one of my favorites & lives on the mantle.

[Geekgirl]

Sorry, love Nicolas Cage.
Love Moonstruck.
Love all his movies.

Cybertwin. I even loved Con-Air.

[Geekgirl]

Timeline (Michael Crichton) - They somehow managed to make this time-traveling adventure story involving particle physics and feudal England mindlessly boring.

OMG, HATED the book. This book was supposed to have all the good stuff: time travel, knights, castles, fighting, suspense. But the characters don't ever really make it off the page. The bad guys are so one-dimensional, they are hard to hate.

The ending: it all seemed like it was just tacked on because some editor said: "Okay, you have to wrap this up in the next 40 pages, or it won't make a good movie script!" They're all in this inextricable mess, but suddenly the tide turns completely in their favor for the "good guys" who repair the device at the last second, make it running, send the bad guys back to die horribly, and the two sympathetic couples live happily ever after with babies? Ha!

...which is another thing that pissed me off. It seemed like Crichton was writing this just because it had been too long since he wrote a book that would "make a great movie!"

Don't you remember the days of amazing novels by Crichton?

[Beidao]

When we got him from the shelter

Sorry if we love you to pieces tonight, but: If you have a shelter cat, I totally love you. I've been working at a cat shelter for two years and I've seen so many cats needing a good home, so few getting one. My "kitty" (he would kill me if I called him that) is angry now because I've climbed over a couple of carports and fences to fetch him when he were fighting with his most beloved enemy. Though I oddly enough find the medicine-giving to be one of the funniest parts of my job, I don't appreciate it at home - so no cat fights mister

Damn it. I shouldn't have started thinking about cats. One of my "clients" had to be put to sleep today, heart failure. He should've gotten a better ending to his life.

Tea cannot awake the dead, but I'm going to make some anyway. Immediately.

[Chip]

Excuse me, could someone tell me where the male teaday topic is located? What was the pollster thinking when he created this one?

Bubba...should have been BubbaGump shrimp..."run BubbaGump Shrimp, run...!!!"

About to brew my first crack at Super Premo Sencha a la hibiki-an...wish me luck. like I need luck...