I'm back...is it safe?

[WillParkinson]

Well it's been a month.

It was a nice breather. I'm refreshed, rejuvenated, and energized.

Have I missed anything? Is it safe to come back into the pool?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Here's a recap.

Jack, Kate, et al decide that they have to return to the island because Ben says that everyone else will die if they don't.


:hide:


Welcome back. Happy New Year!

[WillParkinson]

4. Um...who? What? Huh?

I'm so confused.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. LOST.

Restarted this past Wednesday. I thought EVERYONE watched LOST.

:rofl:

:hi:

[WillParkinson]

7. Nope...

Never saw it. Guess I'd better turn in my gay license.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Thankfully, it's not a gay show.

:hide:

It's really pretty good. Apparently, all the pieces of the past five seasons are going to be put into place starting this season. I really like it. But then, I have very odd television taste.

[WillParkinson]

11. I'll stick with Avatar: The Last Airbender...

I've really been getting into that show. And one of the characters just cracks me up.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Is that anime? I see a lot of cartoon characters here like that.

I don't get it. Probably all those years I was forced to watch Power Rangers with my son. :eyes:

[WillParkinson]

13. Anime? Possibly yes...possibly no

The debate over Avatar being considered an anime is a controversial one; more than one review has commented that "Avatar blurs the line between anime and (US) domestic cartoons until it becomes irrelevant."<36> Avatar has many features of anime, such as having a different color palette from other animated shows.<37>

Avatar creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino confirmed a particular anime influence in a magazine interview:

The best anime balances great action sequences with humor and emotion, something we try to do on Avatar. We love all the films of Hayao Miyazaki, especially Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. Both movies deal with spirituality and the environment in an entertaining way. Also, there's a lot of great animation."<2>

According to an interview with the artists of Avatar, Appa's design was based on the Catbus in My Neighbor Totoro, due to the peculiar task of creating a mammal with six legs.<38>

Avatar draws inspiration from Shinichiro Watanabe's Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, as well as FLCL (Fooly Cooly) of Gainax.<39> Other various studios from which inspiration was drawn include Studio 4°C, Production I.G, and Studio Ghibli.<40> Bryan has commented that some of his most cherished Watanabe fight scenes were the fight between Bebop's Spike Spiegel and a drug smuggler in "Asteroid Blues," as well as the duel between Mugen and a blind female Jojutsu-user in the Champloo episode "Elegy of Entrapment (Verse 2)." Avatar director Giancarlo Volpe also claims the staff "were all ordered to buy FLCL and watch every single episode of it."<32>

[Chovexani]

25. Too bad they are making everyone white for the live action movie

I wish I was joking. :(

[Iggo]

32. WHAT!?!?!?!

:mad:

[bluedawg12]

16. You have a Gay License? Kewl! I still just have a permit.

A few more Gay lessons and I too will have a license. ;)

[WillParkinson]

20. The...um...oral exam is a killer....

Just so ya know. ;-)

[bluedawg12]

27. Ba-da-bing.

Ya' makee the gay funneee.

Hey it's Friday---partaaay! :rofl:

[Marrah_G]

22. Don't pay any attention- We voted Midlo off the island.

[grannie4peace]

2. .

:hi:

[meegbear]

3. Some douchebags are gone ...

the others changed their usernames and are posting here, but "gay friendly", as if the past couple of months of non-stop bitchslapping never happened.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Which douchebags?

Who is pushing up daisies?

[meegbear]

9. Midlo, you've been here ...

no names are necessary.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Honestly, I can't remember.

I took a break for a while over the holidays when I was in NYC.


PM me?

*smooch*

[Vanje]

29. Rhymes with Larch

nt

[Vanje]

18. But sadly, some very nice people are gone as well

Quite a few regular GLBT posters took all they could take, and left DU.

[meegbear]

19. Yes, you are correct ...

hopefully they'll be around.

[WillParkinson]

21. I am hopeful...

That they will come to miss the friends they do have here and return when the time is right for them. When I left I thought hard about never coming back, but I also know that there are several people on DU who I regard highly and would miss that in my life.

[donco6]

14. Is it safe? Maybe . . .

But I kept hearing funny music last night - just a duet of notes strummed back and forth on a cello. Weird. And something touched my leg.

[WillParkinson]

15. Um...that might have been me...

Just sayin'....

[bluedawg12]

17. No, it was my cat. he's a Pablo Cassals devotee.

[Jamastiene]

24. Are you sure it wasn't banjos?

I really shouldn't insult the people from the movie, Deliverance, that way. They are probably more positive about gay issues than many "progressives" claim to be.

[Zuiderelle]

23. Apparently not.

:(

[mitchtv]

26. Once Epdemic

Now Pandemic . A guy can't even go troll trawling anymore

[NMMNG]

28. Compared to swimming with open wounds in a piranha tank it's relatively safe.

:evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

30. Are you sure?

It feels EXACTLY like the nipping of a thousand piranhas to me.

[bluedawg12]

33. ...with pork chops tied around your neck.

it's that safe. :rofl:

[Iggo]

31. The pool's a little warm over in that corner there.

But yeah, it's safe.

[Sub Atomic]

34. Sorry about that.

I had to pee and didn't want to get out.

:blush:

[Iggo]

35. You ratted yourself out!

I was gonna blame Midlo.