Ah, okay. I misread then. I thought the issue was that there was no interpretation or production that corrected the racial issues. The themes, including the Oedipal/Electral issues are still present, though. It was largely reinterpretation, but I found the movie to thematically work really well against the original.

I originally thought that she was speaking Haida, but apparently it was Mohawk? The article I glanced at again said that's what it was, but it couldn't be inaccurate. I recall her being interviewed on the DVD extras about it, but I can't recall if she said it was add libbed or scripted. If it was something add libbed,…

The 2003 was pretty okay with this one, actually. All the Natives in the film were played by Native actors and they didn't give the tribe a silly Victorian racist name. They spoke Mohawk, and not Disney gibberish. Aside from period accurate use of the term "savage" and medicine ritual performed on a teddy bear that…

He's just a boy that claims that Mike was the one. But the kid is not his son.

I was going to say, I wasn't aware that plastic surgery was a genetic condition.

Um, while I will say that Lea does love attention, shopping for a house together is a huge step for a faked relationship. And Lea was a Tony nominee before she landed Glee, so it's not at all fleeting fame.

The idea of it didn't bother me. I figured I like duck and I like eggs. I could just close my eyes and eat it once. But my parents decided it was a great idea to eat half a dozen each in a tiny hotel room we shared on a summer vacation, and when my sister and I came back in, we ran right back out because the smell was…

Being Filipino, I can say that what makes me not want to eat balut: it's the smell. But beef tongue is actually delicious. A little getting used to texture wise, but delicious.

Huh. I don't even smell the chemical much from other people's vape, and I have a pretty sensitive sense of smell. I'm going to guess that it's a difference in the PG/VG ratio and how their e-cig loads.

I'm guessing you've never been around someone that vapes? There's virtually no smell, and because it's vapor it dissipates faster than smoke. The most you'll get it a slight, distant hint of whatever flavor is being vaped, which could be anything from spiced tobacco to vanilla chai. I get a health concern, but again:…

Yeah, I started wondering if that actually could have contributed to it in NYC, 'cause I just vape to keep away from cigarettes. Buuuut, a lot of my co-workers vape weed through a much more complicated e-cig (I have a very basic Boge 510), and they've used it often at the bar.

But largely, I think it's BS and tax…

E-juice actually doesn't always have nicotine in it. I didn't smoke frequently and typically it was a social, so I never got chemically addicted, but I do have an oral fix and I hate chewing gum more often than not. And smoking was starting to get linked to stress, so I didn't want it to keep up, but that want would…

It's not. It's glycerine based. But really, the hazards there to my understanding are the same as a really steamy shower with vegan soap.

I don't mind the vamp/wolf and a human love story trope as long as it's not the whole of the story, and the monsters actually have monstrous tendencies. If the human protagonist in the love story's main pairing has to sacrifice their humanity to be with their lover, I want it to actually be a sacrifice. Otherwise, do…

I left close to two years before it went out, and also was a customer as long as they lasted, but I remember briefly that right before I walked out, there was a third CEO change and that I found myself and others acting as a greeter for my store for some weeks. My store manager realized that this new model from up on…

I hate those books, and I have a right to hate those books, but damn it, that is true. My policy was that I don't stop people from buying crap they like, but I did suggest a lot of books that have similar flavor but better writing when I was a bookseller. I stopped working in sales before 50 Shades, but I remember…

I'm was a huge fan of P.C. Cast's Goddess series, and I kind of want to start the YA series she started with her daughter. I wouldn't even know about her if I didn't clean up the romance section so often when I was a book seller. Yeah, there's some serious crap in there too, but there's serious crap in all the other…

Seriously, if she wanted to tell someone to make some shelf space for other authors, she should have yelled at Patterson and his army of assistant authors. I used to scream over how much his and Nicholas Sparks' books would just fall off the shelves because the didn't sell as quickly as we got them. AND Patterson…

Truth. There were so many things wrong with their business model. The Borders Rewards sank profits, the coupons that replaced it got abused to all hell by both customer and employees trying to up their numbers and customer loyalty, the search system was hell for everyone, and the online sales was too little too late…

I really can't read this as anything more than envy for that exact reason. There are so many other authors taking of obnoxious amounts of shelf space in book stores, and my 19-year-old self's frustrations over Nicolas Spark's books constantly falling over because we had more than we actually sold can be proof of that.