geekin out

1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, "Wait... where
the hell is Harry Potter?"

2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: "YOU SHALL NOT
PASS!" - After the movie, say "Lucas could have done it better."

3. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: "The Ring."

4. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.

5. Ask everyone around you if they think Gandalf went to Hogwarts.

6. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."

7. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, "And I did it.... MY way...!"

8. Talk like Gollum all through the movie.
At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.

9. Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep" Monty Python style.

10. When Denethor lights the fire, shout "Barbecue!"

11. In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout "RUN FOREST, RUN!"

12. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: "That's what I'm Tolkien about!"
See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre.

13. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, "Where's Waldo?"

14. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of
a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie.

15. Start an Orc sing-a-long.

16. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused.

17. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for tense moment and shout, "I see dead people!"

18. Imitate what you think a conversation between Gollum, Dobby and Yoda would be like.

19. Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.

20. Wonder out loud if Aragorn is going to run for governor of California.

21. When Shelob comes on, exclaim, "Man! Charlotte's really let herself go!"

ok
now bar

Vegas stuff more stuff

anyone know any hot ass azn biznatches in vegas?
i need to set up a shoot with another girl.
yea. it's paid.

no dentist for me this AM.
of course they called me at 8:30 and woke my ass up.
i was up so late last nite too since i couldnt sleep for some reason.
maybe it was the JD.

i just stayed up to watch awful news coverage that talked only of michael jackson
there was a small interuption to talk about the bombing of the British Embassy in Istanbul though.
but then, back to Jacko
then a teeny bit of anti bush stuff and protests in the UK.

tho i must wonder...
i questioned the anti war protesters that clogged up streets here inthe U.S. a while ago and cost the governments of our various cities millions of dollars in police and other necessary services to prevent the complete shutdown of the city.
not sure what it's really like over there, but i still question many protestors in general. i find it amusing when i see the really young shown on the monitors though. i mean here, many marched and ran amok cuz they could. not cuz they really did know what the hell was happening besides what they media would blantantly point out repeatedly and what their friends would say. there's no historical background research into what has gone on and how we got into the mess in the first place. there are people like that everywhere i suppose that are really great at bolstering up negative sentiment about someone or something. too bad bush is so easy. too bad he's so backwards. anyways, every year tests are given and most of the students in schools cant even fucking find the pacific ocean, much less be able to know where the hell the cradle of civilization is. so i wonder how much do they really know?

so a few years ago, saddam begin to refer to bush as hulagu khan. but i wonder how many people actually caught and understood the implication of that name? it's not like he was giving mr bush a compliment. bah.

*think genghis khan, then kublai kahn, then hulagu. in 1258 he invaded and then sacked bagdhad and removed the last abbasid caliph from the throne - ok well he just killed everyone actually.

but hey. i suppose we can look at it from a positive point of view. at least people begin to learn more and more about geography whenever a war breaks out somewhere.
and protests annoy the shit outta me. but at least this means bush is not here and we can focus our attention on the other freak in the news

bah. grrr
ok must go write final questions for vietnam class. grrr

VW essay questions.

ok
maybe this wont be so difficult after all...
ah yes. take home is good
just a page o writing needed for each question... ack.

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xtra reading:

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh tells of the Vietnam conflict from the other (North Vietnamese) side. How valuable is an account like this to an American reader? Why? Were you surprised by what the author wrote? What surprised you? Did he change any of your earlier thoughts about the nature and cause and result of the conflict?

What was the controversy over the structure of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington all about? What do you think it was about Maya Lin or the Maya Lin plans that upset people? What is the secret or the key to the power of the memorial?

Hugh Thompson had great difficulty explaining the My Lai massacre to the Vietnamese school children. How would you go about explaining it to them? How might you explain it to American high school students? Would you tell them tha justice was served? What would you define as justice? Would you say that it probably will never happen again? If not, why?

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Why was TET the turning point in the Vietnam War? How important was it - what as its result - on the field of battle and in American politics at home?

What went wrong with Lyndon Johnson's plan to fight and win the war in Vietnam? Was the credibililty gap central to his ill-fated plans? If not the credibilty gap, then what?

Why did it take Nixon and Kissinger 4 years to get a peace agreement ending the war in Vietnam? How responsible and wise or misguided were they in their quest for a just and honorable peace? How did they finally acheive an agreement?

How critical was American air power in Vietnam? Explain. Use examples. How well was it used or how was it misused? Could it have been more effective?

Did the Paris Agreement of 1973 doom South Vietnam? If not, why did the South fall two years after the agreement?

Where did France go astray in fighting her Indochina War? What should America have learned from the French experience and fail to learn from it?

How did John Kennedy see the war in Vietnman and how did he fight it? Do you think had he lived that Kennedy would have withdrawn American troops and cut our losses after his reelection in 1964?

What would you say is the primary legacy of the Vietnam War for America? Is there a parallel between Veitnam and Iraq? If so or if not, explain.

Why did we first go into Vietnam? Were the reasons for our aid intervention and aid good? What might have happened... would we and Indochina an dthe world be different if the U.S. had merely sidestepped the Indochina entanglement in the 1950's?

How did General William Westmoreland attempt to defeat the enemy in Vietnam? Give examples. Why did he make this decision? Was it changed? Was it wise? Was it a key to the American failure there?

Stanley Karnow calls Vietnam "the war that nobody won". Yet it seems also to be a war that America lost. How can this be? Explain.

What were we fighting against in Vietnam? What were we fighting for? examples. Were our leaders wise in their assessment? Was Vietnam a cause wroth fighting for? Worth dying for (as an American)?

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