Writer's Block: Streaming

[Error: unknown template qotd]I like www.pandora.com , and use it more often, but www.last.fm has more selection. (I only listen to Pandora at the library computers, though that may change when the memory gets upgraded on this 'puter!)

Confusion

Okay, still confused about something in the "Horton Hears A Who" movie. I've heard that some people use the line "A person's a person no matter how small" to claim that Dr. Seuss was against abortion. And though it's Horton who says that, I wonder if the kangaroo lady was meant to poke gentle fun at the fundies. She was described as being one of those self-appointed arbiter of proper behavior or some such, and though she didn't believe Horton and kept saying "if you can't see it or hear it, it doesn't exist," her character was basically that of a fundie. Because by golly, you're wrong and she's right and woe betide anyone who disagrees with her!

So I'm not sure if they were trying to say something, and if they were, no idea what it was they were trying to say. Or I could be reading things between the lines, things that aren't there. Hence the confusion.

Horton Hears A Who

I saw the movie "Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears A Who" today! It's an awesome movie, very very funny. I think my favorite character of all (aside from Horton) was Katie. She was sooooo weird! We didn't get to see enough of her. And my *least* favorite character was the adult kangaroo. (A kangaroo in the jungle with elephants and monkeys? Must've escaped from a zoo.) She didn't believe Horton, and wasn't content to leave him alone. She wanted to destroy the clover the speck was on. Classic lines for her include "He's teaching the kids to use their imaginations!" like it's a bad thing. I'm not quite sure what position she was supposed to represent, aside from the skeptic. Maybe I was seeing subtext that wasn't really there. Anyway, she came around in the end.
All in all, an awesome movie. Three thumbs up!

Oh, the DVD had an animated short as well! "Surviving Sid," with characters from the Ice Age cartoons. That was pretty awesome too!