I watched The Second Coming yesterday. It was alright. I think the ending redeemed a lot of the rest of the movie, which was saturated with "God is bad" imagery and anecdotes. I don't think God is bad, which is probably why I don't really like the movie so much. I think religion is bad. There's a difference. I felt as though most of the movie ignored the difference, particularly the second half. I don't know. At least the ending left it open about whether what was done was the right thing.

I've been wandering around LJ this morning, clicking on friends of friends of friends. This is one of my favorite procrastination activities.

I remain continually amused by 15 year olds that think it's the end of the world because Something Happened, and how their life is Worst Ever, but they're popping onto the internets to share it with everyone. I'm amused because I was a 15 year old like that. I didn't learn the word privilege until I was in college.

I also - and these are my favorite blogging stereotypes - love love love the pretentious people who can't write but think they can. Writing a lot, using a lot of commas, shifting into obscure tenses, and using fancy words does not make you a good writer if your sentence structure is so out of whack that sometimes people have to read your sentences twice to make sense of them. Also, passive voice makes me want to cry. It has its uses from time to time, but for the love of all that is grammarly, please don't start sentences with "being".

And, to be honest, though people with poor writing skills in general bother me, because I'm a dork, I can usually handle them so long as they're not traipsing around the internets going:

"Being as I am a better writer than you," points to Pretentious for using than, at least, "and will one day have/already have a degree in Something," usually something that involves writing, which just makes me shake my head more in wonder, "I should sit in judgment about you, snicker amongst my worldy friends, all of whom will one day have a degree in Something," really, this is great because I've already got two degrees in Something and that means I'm really s-m-r-t, "and will now conclude my statement with a short sentence that is totally irrelevant, because I have been taught always to conclude. That is all."

Well, I've gone off on a bit more of a rant than I had expected to. Lunch time!

Oh my God, Christopher Eccleston is in The Dark is Rising.

Please please please let him be Merriman.

(I was reading the interview with him at herosite.net and he mentioned it as what he's off to do next. The article is here, but has spoilers.)