Human GhostwriterIf you care about an actor's skin color in a fantasy movie, you're a big, dumb baby.
Nuclear OatmealWho's complaining about what now? Last thing I heard was a ripple over the casting of Snape for that Harry Potter do over.
Right wing shit fit over Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy.
The only acceptable capitulation to those soggy loaves of wet toilet paper would be a director's cut where Jason Mantzoukas plays her instead.
Oh, yeah! I saw that. Had no idea who she was, but the article had photos of her as regular person and made up, and with the made up version, I was like, "Yeah, that'll launch a thousand ships. Maybe three thousand if you brought your coupons in."
Racists gotta race. Probably not going to see it, but mainly because I've already read the story, and a really cool treatment of it by ... um... shit. Gotta look it up.
Found it. _The Firebrand_, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's told mainly from the viewpoint of Kasandra, who's not the crazy prophet type, though she's still cursed by Apollo.
Fucking Apollo.
Anyway, I hope it makes everybody enough money to make them happy, and I hope the racists choke.
That's all.
There's an SMBC strip with two guys arguing about Helen of Troy. One guy says there's no way she was that hot. If there were maybe 500,000 Greeks, odds are she was comparable to the prettiest girl in the middle third of Idaho (and that's not even accounting for disease, malnutrition, and rough living). The other guy notes that you could probably launch a medium-sized modern destroyer to rescue that Middle Idaho girl, and the tonnage is probably about the same as those thousand Greek ships.
Idk, I bet the prettiest girl in the middle third of Idaho has got it going on. I live in a city of 300,000 people, and I am routinely amazed by how beautiful the people in our weird backward provincial burg are. Considering the state of cosmetics technology during the Greek Dark Ages, and the fact that we don't have smallpox anymore, and people don't starve like they used to, I'm guessing a modern American city would confound Homeric political-sexual norms and break their society.
But I'm also of the "every third person is physically beautiful and I can see it for most of the rest of them, too" school of thought. People are nice to look at.
Now that I have slept on this, I want to come back and say that I think people, full stop, are beautiful. They can fuck it up by being bad, wicked sumbitches, but without the baggage that comes with evil, people are really wonderful, beautiful things.