[moustache theatre] episode two: YOU ATE MY BIRD

If someone has to know only one thing about me, it's usually the fact that I love sharks. I'm ridiculous about it and if someone is even remotely my friend, then they are well-equipped with this knowledge.

I extend this love of sharks to love of shark movies, and thus- love of BAD shark movies. At an exceptionally young and tender age, I was scarred by Jaws the movie (and the hand-me-down Jaws toy I had inherited from my brothers that I carried around with me everywhere I went). *

I'll give most shark movies a fighting chance, though I am frequently disappointed.
Raging Sharks was pitifully weak on actual sharks,
Shark Swarm is over two and a half hours long of Darryl Hannah, Armand Assante, and the guys from Dukes of Hazzard over-emoting, and
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon is overrated because it's turned into fangirl stroke material because the guy from Torchwood is in it.

That being said, there a number of movies that have not disappointed me. Jaws itself, obviously. And:

( DEEP BLUE SEA )

Next up? Possibly Return of the Living Dead, because that's another of our go-to movies to watch when we're bored. We can't decide and it's always so spur of the moment when we decide to play. tony_s is coming over this weekend coming up, so maybe we'll get him to pick a movie, since he's the whole reason why we started doing this.

Well. That, and the fact that we are both nine-year-old nerdy kids at heart.

[work] Dr. Hern

The Director of Patient Support Services where I work posts articles on a bulletin board in our lunch room once in awhile that she thinks are good for the staff to read. The most recent one is about Dr. Hern in Boulder, CO. He's the last doctor in the United States who will perform late trimester abortions since the murder of Dr. George Tiller.

It's an extremely eye-opening article, which may be found here.

I didn't say much online in response to Dr. Tiller's murder. In meatspace, I wouldn't shut the hell up about it, but online- I just couldn't muster the energy. It was extremely close to home for me and I was saddened, sickened, and a host of other emotions. I wrote something up in a community in response to some abortion!wank, but that's about it.

For those who care, what I wrote is behind the cut.

( Dr. George Tiller )