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[amberdulen]

Happy Jingoism Day, y'all. For a girl who won thousands of dollars in patriotic speeches in high school, I never get very excited about national holidays. Either it's my tendency to refuse to feel what I'm expected to feel, or my flaw (+4) Devil's Advocacy, but having a day where everyone goes "Yay America" all at once seems a little, idunno, 1984

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[roadkillroy]

Yay Two Minute HATE!!

[mbs_bookworm]

Well, when it comes to Jingoism, I fail miserably. I marked the day by attending a Capitol Steps performance.

[scionofgrace]

See, now, I get all cynical about Christmas 'cause it's been hijacked by Hallmark and Wal-Mart and network television. ::stabs Christmas consumerism::

So I took the opportunity to slack like a...slacking thing
Maybe you should do like Amy, and say "like a banshee" in such situations. Her most common phrase is "I have to use the bathroom like a banshee." Even if we don't care to guess what that actually means.

"I've got this whole God thing figured out--listen to me and you too can be a sensibly-groomed fifty-year-old with an upper-middle-class businessman husband and two well-behaved teenagers in private collages."
::gags:: I'm so glad the old people at my church are more interested in harrassing each other--in a friendly way, of course.

Also watched Nausicaa.
Is it just me, or do most Asian movies have weird endings? The bugs were awesome. Seen any more Miyazaki?

[amberdulen]

Oh my gosh. "Like a banshee." I'm going to have to start using that.

As for weird endings? Basically...yeah. I'm pretty much resigned to never completely understanding any form of media that comes out of Japan. The bugs were indeed awesome. And, at risk of spoilering up the comments--I am willing to believe that they can heal people. Possibly that they can raise people from the dead. But changing the color of a dress? That just does not compute. (I saw Spirited Away, and loved it, and that one actually did more or less make sense--so double points!)

[rooks]

Now that I have witnessed the naked nationalism of Spanish football fans, I feel much better about the Fourth of July.