He's got radioactive blood.

[ericadawn16]

I thought this was really cool.

80% of contributions to Obama are $35 or less. I wonder what it's like for Romney.

Also, I may have underestimated how much my mom is into Marvel now...

She just gave me a countdown that in 12 hours, we will be watching The Amazing Spider-Man and that she expects me to be ready in 11 hours...

First, she's the one to suggest hitting up a comic book store, now this...

I think her training is complete. Short of actually reading a comic, there is no more I can do for her.

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[cruel-fortuna.livejournal.com]

Man, you're mom is A-Level Nerd Awesome!
& Here I'm over here still trying to convince my mother of the flawlessness of Tom Hiddleston.

;---;
I will prevail though - I've gotten her to stan Benedict Cumberbatch - Tom is next!

( Also - just got her to start reading 'The Hobbit' so I can be 'surprise! Benedict's in this too! )

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

She's not really into Benedict Cumberbatch. She no longer asks me who he is but he's just Sherlock to her.

Yeah, my mom read all that years before I did. I was the one begging her to tell me whether Gandalf came back when we first saw FOTR in the theatre. She refused and said I had to read them.

Martin Freeman is still "that guy from Hitchhiker's" to her although I've taken to referring to him as Bilbo...no offense to Ian Holm who is also awesome and in Chariots of Fire so we've treasured him for years.

[cruel-fortuna.livejournal.com]

I think my mom just takes great pleasure in saying his name. But she's also come to respect him as an actor.

I read the books before I saw the movies; I was a voracious reader even at a young age. I still remember finishing the last Harry Potter book right as we were about to go on vacation to Hawaii. I remember my dad saying "take a break, you'll have nothing to read on the plane." Little did he know I had opted not to sleep in order to finish that book in 6 hrs. flat.

So I went into all the LoTR movies already knowing what was going to happen but even now - I kind of prefer the movies because I dearly love Elijah as Frodo.

I've never seen Chariots of Fire, ... what's that?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I was a voracious reader...read Jurassic Park at age ten...but I was very, very picky. I tended to stick with licensed properties: Buffy, Star Wars, Goosebumps.

I didn't branch out until I started reading Harry Potter in 1999.

Well, my favorite Tolkien books are actually The Silmarillion and Roverandom...

It's a movie about two runners in the Olympics. It compares and contrasts them...one is the son of Christian missionaries. The other is Jewish in a time that not everyone was kind to them...this would be between the World Wars.

Ultimately, it's a feel good movie about believing in yourself and your beliefs but allowing some leeway for great things to happen. It has an awesome, awesome cast. I'm named after the Christian, Eric Liddell.
Also, it's like 80% true.

Here's a trailer:


There's even a scene or two where Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were all extras in the background.

[cp.livejournal.com]

I think I read some stats on that recently, lemme see.. here's a bit about the May totals: http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2012/jun/08/explainer-did-obama-or-romney-raise-more-money-small-donors/

"Here’s where it gets weird: Obama was out-raised despite having over 250,000 more donors than Romney. And while Obama got $30 million out of over 11,000 people donating more than $250, Romney got almost $65 million from over 22,000 people donating more than $250. That’s twice as much money from twice as many deep pockets.

Here’s where it gets weirder: the average small donation to the Obama campaign was $54.94, while the average small donation to Romney was about $40.

In other words, there appears to be less of a “middle class” of Romney donors. The average Romney small donor is giving less than the average Obama small donor; a large donor is twice as likely to have given to Romney than to Obama. The rich give richer; the not-as-rich, not as much.

Using figures provided by each campaign, the average of all donations to Obama appears to be around $104. For Mitt Romney, the average is $240."

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for those figures.

[viomisehunt.livejournal.com]

80% percent of Obama's contributors are probably the working middle class, you know we teachers, police officer, fire fighters, and public health workers Romney doesn't think the nation needs.

I wonder if your Mum is my age--I grew up with Marvel when Marvel cartoons, (and Mattel toys) began to take over the Saturday Morning Looney toons spots.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

hehe

My mom was 12 when Barbie came out, 15 when the first issue of The Avengers was published and remembers when ALL tv was black and white. She grew up on Archie comics.

However, you do sound like you are probably closer to my brothers' ages. They were just 3 and 4 when they first saw Star Wars in the theatre and that's when they had Super Friends and stuff. At six months, I was too young to see ROTJ when it was released but I played with all their toys.

[viomisehunt.livejournal.com]

I wasn't an Avenger Fan but I was 14 and in High School when Star Trek the original aired, and graduated high school a month before the Moon shot. We didn't get a color television until the year before I graduated. I was shocked to discover that the second Peter Cushing movie was in color because I watched in black and white on Canadian television.

I was in college when Jaws debuted, and I took my kids to see Star Wars.
But I recall Spider man on television whe I was in high school.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Ah okay, that Spider-Man series. The way you talked about Saturday morning being taken over by Marvel and such, it made it sound like the late 70s, early 80s.

My mom was born a few months before the Roswell incident and graduated around the time of the first Space Walk so she's about four years or so older than you.

[i-llbedammned.livejournal.com]

Heh. Good that your mom is into Marvel!