cat with her head in a bag

[calimac]

Well, that should teach Pandora not to keep sniffing around B's purse and such: she got the handle of a plastic shopping bag around her neck, and (this will not surprise anyone who ever taped a string to a cat's tail *ahem*) went tearing off around the house, eventually fetching up in Pippin's Last Resort Corner, the one he hides in when the cleaners come.

There she growled and hissed at all comers while the bag rode up around her face like an oversized bib. Ears as flat as Kansas. I put on my gardening gloves, my Protection of Last Resort when dealing with an Angry Pandora, and only sustained two puncture wounds before getting the bag off her neck.

Yes, we were plenty damn concerned about a suffocating cat, but y'know this bag had had stuff in it before Pandora took it away. She's all recovered and placid now.

If Pandora keeps having adventures like this, we'll have to get her her own LJ.

The film we were watching which was interrupted by this adventure was Ringers, the documentary on *ahem* Lord of the Rings fans. Surprisingly good; only the last third was ga-ga ra-ra movie fandom; the only really repulsive fans were the one who wanted to pose her PJ action figures on Tolkien's grave and the guy who compared standing in line for the movie to having a B.M. (I didn't quite follow this line of reasoning, if it can be called that, either.) The opening half hour was a surprisingly well-researched and really entertainingly presented history of Tolkien's reception, with little angels in the form of C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden floating in to shout down the anti-Tolkien Literary Snobs (Toynbee, Wilson, and Bloom). And there was a short documentary visit to that "beyond charming" - as the narration puts it - diorama site Hobbiton U.S.A. At last, I have evidence beyond a few brochures that the place really exists. We've been there, but when we describe it nobody believes us. The films' actors, called upon to explain Tolkien's staying power, do not make fools of themselves.

And a few people I know or at least have met show up. Cliff Broadway, co-author of the film (and undoubtably responsible for that good research), Peter Beagle, Jane Chance, a couple Tolkien Society folks, Jymn Magon (haven't seen him in a few decades), and is that Michael Underwood in an uncredited cameo?

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[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Never heard of this movie -- is it playing anywhere, or do I need to track down the video?

If Pandora gets her own LJ, she'd certainly be in good company. And she's a live animal, which IMO puts her ahead of the stuffed Cthulhu (not to disrespect any Old Ones).

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

DVD was just released on Tuesday.

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

The movie, which I think was direct to DVD, was advertised in the pages of various Marvel comics. They've been running the ad for some weeks now. That's the only place I've seen it and that's how Calimac found out. (I was reading a comic and showed him the ad.)

Cliff Broadway!

[karenb2.livejournal.com]

Thanks to IMDb, I now know that he's the same guy I worked with back around 1990. Last I'd heard, he'd moved to LA to break into show biz, writing for a proposed TV series (which according to IMDb didn't happen). I'm so glad that he's doing well; he was a hoot to work with in the office, smart and funny. Yay.

Re: Cliff Broadway!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

He's been active on www.theonering.net, where he goes by the name Quickbeam. (His collected essays are here. We met at Mythcon four years ago, where we both served on a "what will Peter Jackson's Tolkien films be like?" panel. We disagreed on a lot of this, but I've been impressed with the writing of him and his fellows on Tolkien. They know what they're talking about, and as so many amateur Tolkienists don't, that's a high compliment.

[mithriltabby]

Cleo managed to do a similar thing once with a small paper bag (with handles) in which I had placed all the things that turned up when cleaning out my car... including over $10 in quarters from the change tray. We were finding quarters in odd parts of the house for a week afterward.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Only a week?