I’m sorry, coworker, but when your first message to me in a gchat is “fuckyeahbabyanimals”, it is perfectly reasonable for me to ask if you are, by chance, into beastiality (is it possible to be a pedaphiliac beastialiac* if you have sex with underage animals?) Thankfully, you’ve got a sense of humor. Also, if you’d just sent the actual URL?, I wouldn’t have spent several minutes trying to figure out if you’d come up with a clever way to get me fired. “Check it! He’s surfing animal porn on the clock**!”
Anyway: FYBA. Because unlike some people, cute animals in adorable poses make my heart get all warm and mushy and my eyes damp.
*Is there any actual term for someone who practices beastiality? I mean, besides “farm boy”? Yeah, I wonder what Luke was doing with those womp rats when he wasn’t using them for target practice…
**Silly woman — that’s why I have the internet on my phone. Because I’m smart like that.
Of the films I wish I’d seen in theaters, 2003′s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World tops the list. Based on two of Patrick O’Brien’s Napoleonic War British Navy novels, Russell Crowe played Jack Aubrey, captain of the Frigate Surprise, who, along with his best pal, Dr. Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), and a brave crew, pursue a French warship into the Pacific Ocean to prevent the disruption of Britain’s whaling fleet.
I loved the film — actually, I thought it was perfect — and it inspired me to hunt down O’Brien’s novels on eBay. I’ve got all 20+ of the series, although, admittedly, I can’t read more than three in a row before needing to switch to something different. You can imagine, then, how excited I was to read a clip on DigitalBits that “Actor Russell Crowe is apparently in early negotiations to reprise his role as Captain Jack Aubrey in a sequel to the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.”
The film would be based on the 11th book, The Reverse of the Medal. There’s not much more on the interwebz about the project, aside from this Winnipeg Sun article. I hope Peter Weir returns to the director’s chair.
