I dunno cs, if LP replaced Popper and Foucault and the missy higgins lesbian thread with gratuitous references to Maureen Dowd, we could crank up the google ratings such that she may wander over next time she does a vanity search at which time you may strike the pose and see if you are able to ensnare her.

However, as your self-appointed spiritual advisor (yes I still live in hope that you will get yourself a bath one day you woad inscribed heathen) I need to warn you that this woman may be able to turn a phrase but is probably more famous for her life time achievement in inexcorably bad judgment when it comes to men – be it not being able to disintinguish an Aussie from a Pommie or dating the flabby-arsed womanizing Michael Douglas and then I believe, letting him dump her to eventually resort to baby-sitting the silicone-infested C-Z-J.

Now if that is not enough to convince you that sin doesn’t just make you blind, it makes you stupid, and those who cleave to you are likely to be considered just as stupid, then I don’t think you need me to tell you of all the tortured baggage that comes with a collapsed Catholic – LP should be have trained you enough for that. Can you carry that burdern? Surely if you want to remain faithful to your pagan roots, then you can’t possibly settle for a woman who engages in primal scream therapy and inexplicably disinfects and exfoliates herself after each sweaty embrace? Are you able to light your own post-coital cigarettes?

Still, if you insist on continuing your wicked ways, why even wait for Google? This woman is apparently suprisingly easy to get.

*Ron Howard? Retro helix?*

My what wonderful woad.

*grin*

Well, she would say that, wouldn’t she.

I’ve been trying to stay neutral about Dowd, particularly as she is so intelligent and incisive on all issues but those of sex and gender — but about those, she is, alas, clearly barking. Surely a woman who self-describes as ’sassy’ has no business holding forth on the subject of feminism.

Or, maybe you could get her number off Tony Jones and interview her for that fine and widely read Australian blog, LP!

It was full of very predictable setpieces, plot twists utterly familiar to anyone who’s watched a lot of Westerns and SF films and hordes of hoary old movie archetypes but it was all delivered with great gusto, wit, charm and some classic screwball comedy lines. Plus excellent casting from the world-weary roguish captain to the beautifully underplayed bad guy to the cheerfully gung-ho ship’s meathead.

And yeah the dames were pretty damn hot, throwing punchlines, pouts and punches with mucho elan.

It was sorta like what Stars Wars set out to do before Lucas started communicating with everyone else by laser pointer. However the funniest line in the film is not in the film. It’s in the outakes/deleted scenes when the Captain ad libs a line while ordering them to fake Serenity up as a reiver ship. I won’t give it away but it was so good even the corpses were corpsing.

An interesting exercise would be to compare and contrast Serenity with Ang Lee’s ‘Ride With The Devil’, which was all about the wild young men on the losing side of the American Civil War.

Didn’t it just? That Joss Whedon sure does like his women beautiful and with the ability to kill.