Odd dream

I worked for some kind of military testing firm. Diane Keaton worked there too. Daniel and the actor Dylan Baker were in the main building with me when a test of a plane started. They were both dressed in military uniforms. As we watched the monitors the plane suddenly malfunctioned and took a nosedive into the building where we were. We were really calm as we watched it come down nose first on the monitor. I wasn’t sure where it was landing. It crashed through the ceiling very near us and people began fleeing the building. We all took off running.

Note to self on Peter Pan

Passages from the end of the book:

Next year he did not come to her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet; but he never came. “Perhaps he is ill,” Michael said “You know he is never ill.” Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, “Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!” and Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.'

Peter Pan

Today finds me in a much better mood and that’s due to some late movie catch-up. I saw Bad Santa and Peter Pan today. Enjoyed both. More on Bad Santa later…

I grew up watching the J.M. Barrie derived “Peter Pan and the Pirates” on Fox. Tim Curry was firmly implanted in my head as the best Captain Hook. What was great was the balance they brought to the story of Peter Pan. The fact that Hook and Pan are two sides of the same coin was an important rule that the series followed. It also had some of the best dialogue of any show on television. At times it could hold it’s own against today’s cop dramas with the amount of jargon and colloquialisms the pirates and the lost boys bandied about. The show succeeded in creating a new world and following the rules of that world. A trait that has not always been appreciated in other Peter Pan adaptations. I was cautiously thrilled when I heard P.J. Hogan was making a new Peter Pan movie, hoping it wouldn’t be more Hook dreck.

Javascript Genocide

I hate livejournal’s genocidal tendencies towards javascript. I made a fun little entry with a cute little photo album embedded in it. That didn’t work. So I got really clever and came up with ways around using