Snow day! With squid!

This is my very first snow day EVER. They got up to 8 inches in the Philly suburbs, and all the schools where I teach are closed. How very odd!

Because sineala had today off, as well, we amused ourselves by writing cliche-ridden cop dramas featuring the Hogwarts Giant Squid.

eruthros: Ducks are also fun.
eruthros: So are squid, actually. Squid are, like, inherently funny.
sineala: Hey, they are! Squid! Heh. That's cool.
eruthros: That's why the HP Giant Squid is EXTRA funny.
eruthros: He's a GIANT. SQUID.
eruthros: Squid! Underwater life-saving squid!
sineala: Duuude. You know, that would totally be a good crime drama setup. Well, a funny one, anyway.
eruthros: *g* Word.
eruthros: That could be the theme song. "Squid! Underwater life-saving SQUIIID!"
sineala: It would be even better if it made the Law and Order Noise. And the squid had dramatic expressions. Or dramatic ink-squirting.
eruthros: I was picturing the credits with images of a stern-looking squid in the background, squirting in some direction or another to whip guns out of ... people's? ... hands, or catch falling ... women? ...
sineala: Well, I would certainly be intrigued enough to watch it, anyway.
eruthros: Yes! To see the squid heroically save the day!
sineala: Totally.
eruthros: Or maybe sometimes the squid would FAIL. And then there would be giant-squid ANGST.
sineala: With a sad sad squid.
eruthros: Yes.
eruthros: And maybe sometimes the squid would accidentally have squidall relations with an evil temptress squid.( Oh no! What happens then? )

Sharing a review...

So we have All That Jazz, the Bob Fosse bio-pic-musical-thing, on our netflix queue. And I happened to click on the link to the actual page about the movie today, subsequent to a long discussion about ballet, only to discover this review:

We thought this movie was DISGUSTING...full of nudity, drugs,smoking ....obviously the Title does not portray the plot!!! I thought it would be a great musical...sort of along the Louis Armstrong vein...There were 4 of us watching this DVD...and we couldn't wait for it to end. This is NOT entertaining. A movie not FIT for anyone...to say nothing about the youth of today...this movie is a SICK presentation of entertainment!!!

Okay, so, where to start? I mean, you couldn't wait for it to end, but you didn't turn it off? It's not fit for anyone, but the youth of today aren't included in that anyone? For some inexplicable reason, despite reading the brief description of the movie (hint: it features the phrase "raunchy underbelly of show business" and is rated R), you thought it would be ... full of Louis Armstrongish qualities?

Really, none of those things can stand up to my absolute favorite part of the review: "obviously the Title does not portray the plot!!!" *giggles* Wow. Some people, man.