tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post1841010433544397076..comments2023-11-02T04:07:36.590-07:00Comments on team small dog: Thanks Coen Brothers!team small doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02980770631350927665noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-8623566182088305102007-12-03T07:39:00.000-08:002007-12-03T07:39:00.000-08:00Allright, then I think we will have to read this b...Allright, then I think we will have to read this book! (At least me and Tash will. We are our own book club.) I read slow because it makes my eyes hurt and I tend to fall asleep real easy if I am sitting still and not typing or making a picture.team small doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980770631350927665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-38585730253961138432007-12-02T19:35:00.000-08:002007-12-02T19:35:00.000-08:00Yeah, the woman at the Desert Aire (trailer park) ...Yeah, the woman at the Desert Aire (trailer park) was perfect. I cut the Coen Bros a lot of slack -- I mean they can have all the slack the ever want just by virtue of the Big Lebowski, but I don't think they did a great job with NCFOM -- they really got Chigurh wrong, for one thing. And they didn't do Tommy Lee Jones justice -- he was, indeed, perfectly cast, but the screenplay didn't let him do as much as he could have. I hated The Road -- basically, apocalypse hokum, but I think NCFOM is actually a great book for two reasons: 1) the style (McCarthy is not only a brilliant stylist, but, man, this book really is a writer's book--in the sense that it basically says fuck you to convention, my style is better, which it is); 2) it's like the very best picture of red state ideology I've come across.<BR/><BR/>It's an extremely fun read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-48636362793081334932007-12-02T19:25:00.000-08:002007-12-02T19:25:00.000-08:00Yes! They (C Bros) could work wonders for the dog...Yes! They (C Bros) could work wonders for the dog agility world (add beer to it as well). But no rescuing "The Road". If AA says it's grim, that's a Hunter saying it's grim. TashAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-72857276946863494272007-12-02T18:17:00.000-08:002007-12-02T18:17:00.000-08:00The Coeh brothers are magic aren't they! Hello Coe...The Coeh brothers are magic aren't they! Hello Coen brothers, come join the world of dog agility! You will love it!team small doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980770631350927665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-33896955169445023392007-12-02T17:19:00.000-08:002007-12-02T17:19:00.000-08:00I loved, loved the opening scene of the movie, and...I loved, loved the opening scene of the movie, and how can you beat the woman in the trailor park who will NOT give Mr.SerialKiller the address?! (I grew up in Wyo and either they cast her perfectly or she's sitting in that trailer park as I type.) I think I might have to read the book since Mary says it's much better. My hubby reports that his latest book "The Road" - is grim. Seriously grim. I don't even think the Coen brothers could work magic on this one. TashAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-69250506507524699142007-12-02T12:42:00.000-08:002007-12-02T12:42:00.000-08:00You will love Fullhouse in CPE! You just run aroun...You will love Fullhouse in CPE! You just run around and get ANY points you want! Is perfect for uncontrolled arm waving pointing at obstacles. But there is no beer. That is the cycloX.<BR/><BR/>Yes, this would be like if someone showed up at my house with a truckload of horses and ponies and kids and ladies and dropped them off across the street. But actually, we are even-it is Sunday, my day off and I had to go to work already today! <BR/><BR/>Having not read the book and loving anything Coen Brothers do and loving Tommy Lee Jones and Texas and a '70's cars, I was very pleased as punch!<BR/><BR/>I am having the Project Runway falling asleep issue! Because we do not have Dirt Nite agility til Jan. and I do not arrive home exactly at the starting time so I am horribly behind on Project Runway! But I do like Elisa better and was very, very sad about Marion.team small doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980770631350927665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21924162.post-9067975687089872122007-12-02T10:41:00.000-08:002007-12-02T10:41:00.000-08:00Whoa! This is a little bit of a nightmare for me, ...Whoa! This is a little bit of a nightmare for me, or maybe it is a waking dream of the nightmare variety. I am right now slogging through hundreds of pieces of student writing, large and small, comprehensible and incomprehensible on, you guessed it, a comparison of the book version of No Country for Old Men (which my classes have been what I like to call "reading" for the last two months) with the film version, which we all went to see last week, but...wishing, wishing, wishing I were outside playing jackpot agility obstacles with Ariel! (That's my own invention: having no course in mind and just running around like crazy pointing at something else and then I all the sudden decide which one is the jackpot because I'm out of breath and ball-throwing happens and dog ecstasy ensues, and if it's the afternoon I get a beer as my jackpot.) Book much better than movie. I confess to have expected better from the Coen Bros :-( Oh, well. I'm over my shock now of opening the Team Small Dog blog to get away from Work, and then work is smack right there. It's ok. It's ok. I'm all right. I'm glad you didn't fall asleep during the movie. (Can we have a Project Runway critique next week, though?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com