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[rymenhild]

I am safely in a comfortable flat in north London, with a packet of chocolate digestive biscuits and some decent tea. I have visited the Gower Street Waterstone's, which is probably my favorite bookstore in the world. I have taken a walk in the pouring rain and soaked my shoes. I have begun changing my time zone. Clearly, I am actually in London now. This is good.

Confidential to gramarye1971 and anyone else for whom it may not be too late: Do not click on the casting call for the Dark is Rising movie. It is likely to induce suicidal and homicidal thoughts and is otherwise hazardous to your mental health. I say this from painful experience. (I am not providing a link. If you do want to read it, I am sure you can find it without me putting temptation in your path.)

Comments

[emidala.livejournal.com]

there is a dark is rising movie?!? why did I not know this?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You don't want to know this. Trust me, the information released so far is enough to make it clear that the filmmakers do not understand the spirit of the books.

[skygiants]

But laughter is good for the soul!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Laughter moderately eases the pain of the great wounds caused by forbidden knowledge.

[skygiants]

. . . . fair.

[alemara.livejournal.com]

My eyes! The casting call, it burns.



BURNS.

[agonistes]

I am oddly comforted by the complete lack of Merriman.

They can do whatever they want to the rest of the book. If they mess with Merriman, I will KILL.

Also, yay London!

[jothra]

...I haven't looked yet. How can they even make the movie without Merriman??

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Let's just say that "How can they make the movie without..." does not appear to be the kind of thought process the filmmakers are going through.

[silveraspen]

Too late. Sweeney and I saw Becca's post first.

I am considering trying to turn tea into both eyedrops and brainwash.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

*snugs* Yay London! Comfortable flat + tea + bookstore = yes.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

*has found via your friendslist*

*blinks*

Wanna see it on video so we can throw tomatoes at the tv at appropriate moments?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I ... 'm not sure I can, really. There are a few things in this world I can't bear to see ruined.

[nuqotw.livejournal.com]

What is a chocolate digestive biscuit? Is this like a cookie? Why isn't it a cookie? It sounds like a nutritious cover for junkfood.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

What is a chocolate digestive biscuit?

I was wondering the same thing.

[gramarye1971]

Think of a graham cracker covered in chocolate. Only better. That's a near-enough approximation, I should think. ^_^

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Is it meant to aid in digestion, or does it have its own digestive functions?

[gramarye1971]

I believe the original intent was to be an aid to digestion, being a slightly sweet wheat-flour biscuit that contained baking soda (or rather, sodium bicarbonate). Roughage and an antacid, essentially, all in convenient biscuit form.

Nowadays, I don't think digestives contain baking soda. But they're still good for the digestion, like graham crackers are supposed to be.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

That is exactly what it is. I think it may possibly be a whole-wheat cookie, and therefore a way of adding fiber to one's diet -- but it's a very tasty cookie, yes.

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

No worries, Rym!

I have created a MUCH better version. See?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I clicked in fear, but that is better. How do you do it?

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I've never read The Dark is Rising. Terri keeps recommending it. I guess I won't be able to watch the movie and then discuss the story with her, huh?

I still think it's hard to top what Hollywood did to Asimov's I, Robot. Not ruined so much as completely unidentifiable as connected to the book, once you got past the characters' names and the theme of robots that have to follow rules.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I recommend the books highly -- they're near the top of the list of My Favorite Books Ever, actually -- so if you want to discuss the story with Terri, I'd just suggest that you read them!

I refused to see I, Robot, because Will Smith is just poorly cast as Susan Calvin.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

You get two points and a cookie.

[gramarye1971]

I haven't read the casting call, but I've been reading other people's descriptions of the information therein.

At least now I don't feel the tiniest bit guilty about avoiding the movie.

With any luck, it will be released on the same opening weekend as some other marginally better film and totally bomb. And by marginally better film, I mean anything up to and including a sequel to the movie White Chicks. Or something starring Tom Cruise.

[nigita.livejournal.com]

Why did "do not click on the casting call" warning immediately send me scurrying after said link? I suppose I deserve what I got. I can't imagine Ms. Cooper would have sold them the rights if she had any idea they'd eviscerate her masterwork like this.

[flintknappy.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you are safely and well settled. Sounds like a good time so far. :)

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

I grew up in north London, which part are you staying in? I watched Narnia with ghost_of_a_flea yesterday and collapsed in laughter when it was revealed that the prophecy-fulfilling children were from...Finchley. ladyvivien is in Enfield if you happen to know her. I don't visit London very often and I just did in October, but if you're there long enough I might turn up. Of course, if you ever nip up to Edinburgh I'd be delighted to meet you.

The thread discussing the mystery of chocolate digestive biscuits is hilarious. I just Googled Graham crackers (for some reason I'd thought they were the same as water crackers) and discovered that both they and digestive biscuits have Wikipedia entries. "Cookie" is American for "biscuit", though sometimes "cookie" is used in Britain, mainly for oversized ones and/or American brands.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Finsbury Park, and I'll be here through February. Afraid I'm not going to Edinburgh this trip, though.

[oneechan19.livejournal.com]

And of course, Becca showed up on my flist before you did, so I have already read the pain. X|