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Currently house-sitting for a family with cable. I miss cable. The parents didn't subscribe to it until I was out at college, so I only have fond memories from a few summer vacations and the occasional holiday.
Anyway, among many other programs, I saw Ellen Degeneres' newest special and "Queen of the Damned."
Ellen Degeneres is who Chloe Sullivan will grow up into. The same hair, the same smile. If there's ever a "Smallville: 20 years later" reunion, that's who needs to play the character.
::sigh::
I miss Chloe. She was really cute, but they just can't seem to give her a decent storyline...or Clark.
Also, remember that movie poster for LotR: FotR? The one with Ethereal!Frodo holding the ring? Well, Stuart Townsend as the Vampire Lestat is Ethereal!Frodo's evil twin. Every single time he was on the screen in moonlight I had to remind myself that Tolkien would _not_ have approved. ;-)
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And finally, I just have to share. Currently on my WWII hit-parade is the book on tape of 'D-Day' by Stephen Ambrose. So you can believe he came up with it originally or not, but:
On the beaches of Normandy, the allies captured four Asians in Nazi uniforms. No one could speak their language. Ultimately, it was discovered that they were Koreans. They'd been impressed into the Japanese army (Korea was something of a Japanese colony at the time), captured by the Russians in Manchuria, impressed into the Russian Army and sent west, captured by the Nazis on the Eastern Front, impressed by the Nazi Army and sent to the Western Front and finally captured by the Allies, who apparently weren't recruiting that day. ;-)
::shakes head::
On one hand, they were incredibly lucky to be able to survive utter defeat not once, not twice, but _three_ times. OTOH, once they were repatriated to their homeland, chances are more than likely that they were re-drafted into either the North or South Korean armies and set to fighting again by 1950.
...what an amazing cross-continental journey that must have been for them. From Korea to Normandy and back again.
Anyway, among many other programs, I saw Ellen Degeneres' newest special and "Queen of the Damned."
Ellen Degeneres is who Chloe Sullivan will grow up into. The same hair, the same smile. If there's ever a "Smallville: 20 years later" reunion, that's who needs to play the character.
::sigh::
I miss Chloe. She was really cute, but they just can't seem to give her a decent storyline...or Clark.
Also, remember that movie poster for LotR: FotR? The one with Ethereal!Frodo holding the ring? Well, Stuart Townsend as the Vampire Lestat is Ethereal!Frodo's evil twin. Every single time he was on the screen in moonlight I had to remind myself that Tolkien would _not_ have approved. ;-)
**********
And finally, I just have to share. Currently on my WWII hit-parade is the book on tape of 'D-Day' by Stephen Ambrose. So you can believe he came up with it originally or not, but:
On the beaches of Normandy, the allies captured four Asians in Nazi uniforms. No one could speak their language. Ultimately, it was discovered that they were Koreans. They'd been impressed into the Japanese army (Korea was something of a Japanese colony at the time), captured by the Russians in Manchuria, impressed into the Russian Army and sent west, captured by the Nazis on the Eastern Front, impressed by the Nazi Army and sent to the Western Front and finally captured by the Allies, who apparently weren't recruiting that day. ;-)
::shakes head::
On one hand, they were incredibly lucky to be able to survive utter defeat not once, not twice, but _three_ times. OTOH, once they were repatriated to their homeland, chances are more than likely that they were re-drafted into either the North or South Korean armies and set to fighting again by 1950.
...what an amazing cross-continental journey that must have been for them. From Korea to Normandy and back again.
