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taratemimaI know a lot more than I did before about gifts, and that made me happy.
I saw Beowulf Sunday. Compared to this review of Beowulf, this will be unfunny. At the risk of spoilers, I am now wondering about the implications of schtupping the ruler, giving birth to some horrid monster, and having that horrid monster killed by some wandering hero or daddy. If I was some she-demon, I would not start a 'Faustian bargain' with the schmuck who killed my son. I'd eat him. However, the whole 'absentee dad' bit was something I guessed about the time the queen glowered about how could she sleep with the king when he laid with her?
But hey, 3D Angelina Jolie in gold paint must make someone happy. The body parts coming right at me freaked me out at times. However, it was faithful enough to what I remember of the poem (up to the 'Grendel's mom as evil hot babe' bit) that I want to read it again and see what got changed.
This also was one of the exceptions to the 'polyamory rule'. Yes, he had a girlfriend and wife, living in the same castle, and who were generally well-meaning if not BFF. He managed the trick of being distant from them both. I mean, really, how do you approach this? "Hey, queen, girlfriend? You know Grendel's mom, the she-demon of the subterranean waters? I didn't actually kill her. We had this little fling, she took that mead-horn. Oh, and despite the fact that my lack of honesty meant I wasn't sleeping well or staying in bed long enough to produce children, I have a kid, who will be a blight on the land. Hey, where are you girls going? I'm taking responsibility for my actions now!"
There was snow in that movie. It snowed today. Was it fate?
I saw Beowulf Sunday. Compared to this review of Beowulf, this will be unfunny. At the risk of spoilers, I am now wondering about the implications of schtupping the ruler, giving birth to some horrid monster, and having that horrid monster killed by some wandering hero or daddy. If I was some she-demon, I would not start a 'Faustian bargain' with the schmuck who killed my son. I'd eat him. However, the whole 'absentee dad' bit was something I guessed about the time the queen glowered about how could she sleep with the king when he laid with her?
But hey, 3D Angelina Jolie in gold paint must make someone happy. The body parts coming right at me freaked me out at times. However, it was faithful enough to what I remember of the poem (up to the 'Grendel's mom as evil hot babe' bit) that I want to read it again and see what got changed.
This also was one of the exceptions to the 'polyamory rule'. Yes, he had a girlfriend and wife, living in the same castle, and who were generally well-meaning if not BFF. He managed the trick of being distant from them both. I mean, really, how do you approach this? "Hey, queen, girlfriend? You know Grendel's mom, the she-demon of the subterranean waters? I didn't actually kill her. We had this little fling, she took that mead-horn. Oh, and despite the fact that my lack of honesty meant I wasn't sleeping well or staying in bed long enough to produce children, I have a kid, who will be a blight on the land. Hey, where are you girls going? I'm taking responsibility for my actions now!"
There was snow in that movie. It snowed today. Was it fate?
