Miscellany: dogs and Depp

[lederhosen]

The other night, a section of our back fence fell down in high winds. reynardo discovered this when Dog-Or showed up at our front door at 2:30 am (behind our yard is a lane that leads back to the street). In the morning we shut him inside and fixed the fence. When we let him back into the yard, he ran straight for the spot, looking back at us as if to say "There was a MAGIC DOOR here! You gotta believe me!" You probably had to be there, but it was tremendously cute.

Exercised to The Ninth Gate last night. (Yeah, I've been slack this last week, but I did get the mowing done. 20 km yesterday, 5 the other day, total 118 km/71 mi puts me just past the Buckleberry Ferry.) It was a reasonable movie, and Johnny Depp put in a solid performance, but nothing spectacular.

The bit I had the most trouble with was the book abuse. The number of people who smoked while examining a valuable 300-year-old book, even blithely dropping ash on it, had me wincing. I almost wept when Depp's character - who is supposed to be an expert on old books - squooshed said book into a hotel photocopier. I don't care if it is an evil book written by Lucifer himself, you just don't do that. (Granted, he had a pretty good reason for making copies at that point... but given the nature of his errand, it would've made far more sense to do it on specialised equipment before setting out.)

Edit: I want some of this stuff. Yes I do. But the company doesn't ship outside the USA :-(

Edit the second: But these guys do. Hmm....

Comments

[drzero.livejournal.com]

Can understand Dog-Or's cuteness. Sophie and Ruby both have a cute relationship with our back door. Sophie has figured out she can open the fly-screen door by running up and pushing with front paws. She gives us a mean look whenever it doesn't work though (we recently installed latches to stop them getting out at night). The look is one of "Why do you torture me so?"

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Freckle used to open the sliding backdoor (screendoor, and then solid, once the gap she created with her toes was large enough) with her nose. And then stay outside, for that is what good dogs did... Just stand, half in and half out, part of the family.

[drzero.livejournal.com]

*laugh* That sounds somewhat like a cat behaviour, though for different reasons... . o O (Now, which side of this door do I prefer to be on? Hmmm)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Freckle was... special.

By the time we put her down, she was blind, deaf, arthritic, and subject to fits at random intervals. Up until the last bout of bronchitis she had, though, she was still an escape artist, who liked nothing better than wandering off to find the nearest group of people and introducing herself. No matter what we did, she still found ways to get out.

The cafe at the junction of our street and a main road formed the habit, as she got older, of waylaying her as she went past and bringing her back when they had a slow moment. Freckle, of course, thought this was maaaaarvelous.

And we never told the kids at the kindy over the back fence that the name on her collar was ours, not hers.

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

Didn't the movie make you want to collect rare books, in order to put yourself at serious risk of bodily harm and then have sex with the devil?

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm with you on the book abuse. Asagwe had to put up with ranting about the treatment of supposedly priceless/irreplaceable texts at regular intervals when we watched that one.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

*laughs*Glad to see I was not the only one wincing at the way he treated it :)

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Lemme know if you decide to get it from the place that doesn't ship to outside the USA. I can get it for you and perform some technology transferin'.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-) It looks as if the second site is cheaper and provides nice regular shapes, so I'll probably go with them, but I'll keep that as Plan B.

I'm toying with the idea of using them in modelling, to create something like a 'flying mage on fog' figure. I wonder how easily the stuff cuts?