3.09.2009

laughed so damn hard

I will warn you that this is all about the Disney movie Aladdin...

So, I'm reading through a forum call "it Just Bugs Me" on tv tropes, laughing at all the ppl whining about the little flaws and logic gaps and plot holes in frikkin disney movies, when I come across a raging debate about whether or not Genie ever granted Aladdin's first wish ("Make me a prince"), the problem being that late in the movie he is exposed as being NOT a prince. Theoretically, Geinie owes Al a wish. Others feel that the wish was sufficiently granted in that all would have been well had Jafar not exposed him. The question of 'well, if he's not a prince, where'd he get that parade?' gets brought up, leading to the thoughts that MAYBE Genie can bring life from nothing, so PERHAPS he created a kingdom for Al to be prince of... all this silliness caps off (for me) in the quote -

Maybe he did. Perhaps there's a kingdom out there somewhere that's sitting around going,"Where the fuck is Ali? He's been gone for AGES!"

3.03.2009

Very Not Cool

My poor neighbor, Sweety* (names changed 'cause I always change the names, you know that), she's young, cute, and just a little thing, and all these ASSHOLES that live around here are giving her crap. She's got people just showing up at her apartment and kinda bullying their way in, people making her nervous on the streets, and NOW some random guy "from the building next door "(he says) just SHOWS UP, and stands outside her door. We don't have peepholes or chains on our doors, just our knob locks and bolt locks. She would look under her door, and see his feet. She could hear him come up, but he didn't even knock or say anything. Now, I gave her pepper spray after the first guy bothered her, and she had that out and called the cops, and they took 20 minutes to show up! (the dispatcher didn't believe her, I think. "You're 19 and you live alone with your son?" she says) Worse, the guy was still there when the cops showed. I think they arrested him for something (unrelated) but damn, that's not cool! I wish she'd called me so I at least knew what was happening, she's literally across the hall from me.