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[jpskewedthrone]

Here is a conversation between me and pbray tonight (with some slight editing to preserve dignity and to keep all of the secret writer's code . . . well, secret).

pbray [9:59 P.M.]: tasty brain snacks?
jpsorrow [10:00 P.M.]: Bah. Not for the dieting Josh. Although I did just finish watching "I Am Legend". George is off for a meeting.
jpsorrow [10:00 P.M.]: Well, he just returned.
pbray [10:00 P.M.]: ah. i haven't seen that movie yet.
pbray [10:00 P.M.]: well now you have a brain.... go SNACK!
jpsorrow [10:00 P.M.]: It's an OK movie. Not what I was expecting.
pbray [10:01 P.M.]: i'm brain fried.
jpsorrow [10:01 P.M.]: I think there's an alternative ending, which would be interesting, because it ended like it should have.
pbray [10:01 P.M.]: well i might see it, so don't tell mehow it ends
jpsorrow [10:02 P.M.]: I'm brain fried as well. Tired from the con weekend. I shouldn't have stayed up so late on Saturday.
pbray [10:02 P.M.]: un-supervised joshua
jpsorrow [10:02 P.M.]: How was your weekend? Get everything for the bike trip figured out?
jpsorrow [10:02 P.M.]: Yes. Sam wasn't all that good as a supervisor. *grin*
pbray [10:02 P.M.]: :-D
pbray [10:03 P.M.]: weekend was great, bike trip narrowed down to two choices (idaho or south dakota) and then i was slammed at work.
pbray [10:03 P.M.]: got work stuff accomplished by 6 today, but it left me with no brain cells
jpsorrow [10:06 P.M.]: We should have gone to dinner or something. I didn't remember that George had this meeting until he reminded me today.
pbray [10:07 P.M.]: huh i was thinking i could use dinner out tonight but instead came home and ate leftovers...
jpsorrow [10:07 P.M.]: I had leftovers as well. And Triscuits. With hummus.
jpsorrow [10:08 P.M.]: I invited Amy to Friday's soiree, and possible movies this weekend.
pbray [10:08 P.M.]: hmmmm
jpsorrow [10:08 P.M.]: Sam did make certain I'd eaten something on Saturday.
pbray [10:09 P.M.]: good sam!
jpsorrow [10:10 P.M.]: So, how shall I season the fried brains? Salt and pepper? Some lemon zest?
pbray [10:10 P.M.]: balsamic vinegar
jpsorrow [10:10 P.M.]: Mmmm . . . perhaps some Italian dressing.
jpsorrow [10:11 P.M.]: Of course that should have been added before it was fried.
pbray [10:12 P.M.]: true. if they're already fried, you're best off with cheese or a dipping sauce
jpsorrow [10:14 P.M.]: I've heard Hollandaise is good with brains.
pbray [10:15 P.M.]: poached brains, yes. with fried brains i tend to go for a marinara sauce, like zucchini sticks
pbray [10:16 P.M.]: :-P
pbray [10:19 P.M.]: why am i now hungry for imaginary brains? i blame you
jpsorrow [10:20 P.M.]: I'm always at fault. Because I am EEEEEEEvil.
pbray [10:20 P.M.]: eeevilllllllll.
jpsorrow [10:22 P.M.]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wio728lLOh0
pbray [10:24 P.M.]: okay, that's raelly freaky and somewhat painful on the ears
jpsorrow [10:26 P.M.]: One of my students told me to check it out. It's pretty cool. But then, I'm a mathematician.
jpsorrow [10:26 P.M.]: But yes, I turned the sound off eventually.
pbray [10:26 P.M.]: we could hook it up to jennifer_dunne...
jpsorrow [10:27 P.M.]: It would create the image of a porpoise.
jpsorrow [10:27 P.M.]: Or an Escher painting.
pbray [10:27 P.M.]: or an escher painting of a porpoise .. all flippers interconnected
jpsorrow [10:29 P.M.]: Many porpi all entangled together in some kind of tesselation.
pbray [10:29 P.M.]: kinky!
jpsorrow [10:30 P.M.]: I'm going to blog this conversation. *grin*
pbray [10:30 P.M.]: hee!

Comments

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

That sound thing is amazing.

I liked 'I Am Legend' but I only saw it the one time, which with me, says something. I think its strength was his acting, imho.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

The movie was definitely carried by Will Smith, but even then I think it needed some editing and perhaps a little more in the way of plot. I wanted them to develop more about the fact that the "zombies" seemed to be evolving in some sense.

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

They did seem to be evolving and there was a lot of subtext there that could've been developed more, though that may have been deliberate, leaving it as it was. Who knows? I enjoyed it.