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[cimorene]

i now have lesbian-short fingernails again. and (unfortunately) of more immediate use, i have fingernails that won't tear to bits (or that i won't tear to bits).

saw part of a john wayne movie where he (more or less) adopts a protege (the comancheros, i think). if not for the fact that i so genuinely liked the protege's girl, the slashiness was quite convincing. have seen just enough western (two half movies, both while i was reading sherlock holmes) to be convinced the genre's treatment of hispanics and native americans would be so consistently infuriating as to make any further watching worthless.

for some reason, i've abstained from icecream tonight. all of a sudden i'm just flattened by all this stuff, loans and getting a job, even just the dishes i have to do and the phone messages i'm supposed to pass on--it's too much. i don't want to do anything. i never should have read the mail yesterday.

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hey look, masterful writing on my part! HAHAHA

[kwirbx.livejournal.com]

"Wait! June, don't open that door!" John yelled.
"Why not?" she balked impatiently.
"It might be a trap!" he said with a mysterious look on his face.
"Wait!" mocked June.
"What?"
"John! You're an idiot!" Her hand snapped to the doorknob

[johnyboy.livejournal.com]

Yea, westerns are pretty bad. I used to chalk it up to just plain ol' Hollywood typecasting. That was until that fateful day when, while sitting in a high school Spanish class, I learned just what the name of the Lone Ranger's Native American sidekick "Tonto" actually meant.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

they actually present the native americans talking to the people and they're like, 'this is OUR land. you stole it,' blah blah, all of which is PERFECTLY TRUE, but filmed in such a way that i'm relatively sure you're meant to be thinking, 'those goddamned homestead-raiding pussies! what'd they sell it for then?'

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Some comic Westerns (e.g. James Garner in the 1960s) are still tolerable, but yeah, they're mostly pretty pukey.

Do try Blazing Saddles if you've never seen it.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

i've heard that before. maybe i will.