giiiiiiiiiiiirly movies

Neither Brother Windows's wife nor her best friend have seen, or had any desire to see, any Batman movies at all. I was shocked! I mean, The Dark Knight's theatre grosses clearly demonstrate that women have been seeing it in droves. It's not a chick flick and the female parts were rather insulting, true, but it's a well-made movie and... it's Batman! Which is maybe the problem - Batman is sort of all-American in my mind, perhaps, and they didn't grow up watching it on tv like I did, although perhaps they would have been the type of poor-spirited girls who didn't even like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

I was going to make a poll, but fandom is obviously a bad sample pool for such matters since it's made up of nerds, geeks, and media addicts.

I mean, okay, it's true that I like action movies and other such movies that most of the guys present have to come to without their girlfriends. But I do still hate the most egregiously stupid frat comedies (except for Dude, Where's My Car?, because that is AWESOME! Even if it is stupid!) and even sometimes action movies if their plots are not good (Shooter, blecch), and I totally loved Mamma Mia and I voluntarily watch chick tv, even if I do mostly hate chick flicks. Unquestionably I am more likely to relate to the other giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirls present than Wax (who ran off for hours in the middle of the night to tromp all over the forested island in the dark with the drunken male guests, step in puddles and make a cameraphone video of a twig-ninja entering a rotten stump).

just gimme the goddamn shoes

I've been trying for about a week to order these boots - a new style of embroidered Docs. They cost more at the German store we've just found, but the single UK source I was able to locate was out of stock. Next after that, there's American companies which'd have to ship to my parents and then I'd have to wait quite a while for my parents to forward them to me (most US sources won't ship internationally and even if they did, they'd be held up in customs if they were marked as commercial goods), and the point was kind of to, you know, wear them when it's cold. Which it totally already is. Well, not cold quite yet, but cool, anyway. It was about 10C/52F today.