Wow, I don't have anything to write about

[trinityvixen]

For once, I can't muster the righteous indignation about being slighted at work (still don't have last week's check, but what else is new?) or about the behavior of the GOP at the DNC in NYC (I'm madder than hell, but I can't work up the kind of fury that I usually do in political posts).

The best I got is this:
"As I was saying, I'm woman and can't be taken for granted. Life's a bitch. Now, so am I."

Semi-inspired by kent_allard_jr, I would like to write a mini-review of a movie. Or, well, a character from a movie. Michelle Pfeiffer as Selena Kyle/Catwoman from Batman Returns is possibly one of the best characters ever. She got the lynx-like ease of motion and sway of the joints, the sultry purr without quite going there (not Eartha Kitt purrrrrfect purrs, but the soft, thick voice edging into a low rumbling hum...does that make sense?), and, best of all, the bipolarity of a cat. Seriously, that last one is tough to master. Anyone who has cats knows they are fickle and they have more mood swings than a pregnant woman. Michelle Pfeiffer was perfect in this respect. She'd go from the smile that hides the eaten canary to a disinterested, dismissive, "Meow," as the building blows up, to kicking Batman's ass, to smirking and preening about it, to attacking unexpected.

Best of all, the laughs brought about by the jarringly unexpected. Like when Catwoman is in Schreck's department store whipping the heads off the dummies, then, purring, she grabs the end of the killer whip and jump ropes in those statuesque high heels...only to stop and smash glass cases with it....then, to the security guards, "You're overpaid! Hit the road!" and wraps her whip around herself. Everything about that character was well done. And the quote mentioned above has been in my head all day for no reason I can fathom (no, despite all signs to the contrary, I'm not planning on going split-personality psycho on people here).

And that's all she wrote

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

See, I am so out of the political frame of mind, I even screwed up my clever use of acronyms. You are quite right, it is in fact the RNC. But trust me when I say the Democrats didn't sneak in--you might have noticed the hundreds of thousands of protestors this past weekend. That's not exactly sneaky.

What do you mean "sneak in?"

[teneda.livejournal.com]

NYC is the bluest city in the bluest state of the union. We Democrats were here first. It's the Republicans that decided to come here and exploit dubya's luck on the whole 9/11 issue. Doncha just hate party crashers?

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad. I'm so dense that I thought "Wait, the protestors were Democrats? I thought they were just normal people..."

Work sucks the brain out of me!