Debra Garfinkle ([info]dlgarfinkle) wrote,
@ 2008-07-04 11:42:00
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Friday Five-- HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
1. I forgot to blog about the American Library Association conference. It was great.

2. I forgot to blog that I turned in my young adult manuscript. It is great. Er, actually it is great to have it out of my hair and into my agent's hair.

3. I took the kids to see Wall-E. My teen and I loved it. It reminded me of 2001 A Space Odyssey. My boys (11 and 8) thought it was boring. Their complaint about the movie: "There was hardly any action and all they said was 'Wall-E' and 'Eva.'" Strange that this G-rated animated movie seems better suited for teens and adults than kids.

4. We went to a fun neighborhood parade/picnic this morning. Our Orange County, CA neighborhood is almost entirely Christian conservative Caucasian, not that there's anything wrong with that. Today we hung around our cool rabbi and a few other Jewish, liberal neighbors and joked about the Jewification of the neighborhood.

5. We're having a party tonight. Yesterday, I made deviled eggs, cole slaw, tomato-cuke salad, and two kinds of cookies. Today I'll be making pasta salad and will be done with cooking for the rest of the year. Kidding. Sort of.

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[info]pjhoover.blogspot.com
2008-07-04 07:17 pm UTC (link)
Yay for turning in your YA manuscript. And I think we'll hit Wall-E next week (for my 7 and 3 year old). We're hoping to see fireworks from my parent's deck (visiting Virginia).
Happy Fourth!

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[info]dlgarfinkle
2008-07-07 12:11 am UTC (link)
I hope you had a good weekend!

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[info]artistq
2008-07-04 07:27 pm UTC (link)
Yay for you, manuscript finisher!! you are my inspiration!!

I loved both SUPERNATURAL RUBBER CHICKENS!!! : )

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[info]dlgarfinkle
2008-07-07 12:11 am UTC (link)
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

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[info]annemariepace
2008-07-05 12:08 am UTC (link)
I'm glad you had a great time!

I can't believe it's been an entire year since last year's ALA!

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[info]dlgarfinkle
2008-07-07 12:12 am UTC (link)
That was so much fun last year! I'm glad we got to do breakfast and hang out a little.

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[info]aprilhenry
2008-07-05 02:41 pm UTC (link)
That Lars - the talk show host I spent Wednesday with- says Wall-E is liberal propoganda.

And my brand new Teen (so just out of 12-hood) was bored, too.

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[info]dlgarfinkle
2008-07-07 12:13 am UTC (link)
My teen is a year and a half older.

Liberal propaganda? What's he smokin?

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[info]alixwrites
2008-07-05 06:41 pm UTC (link)
My girls (9 and 13) loved Wall-E and agreed with the Miami Herald reviewer that it was Pixar's best movie ever. I liked it, but I'm not sure I preferred it to Toy Story. But I'm pretty sure that any child younger than my younger daughter would hate it. It had a strong "message" which we happen to preach a great deal in our house anyway, so the movie seemed like the summation of years of my yelling at them not to waste tin foil or making them give back Happy Meal toys if they don't think they'll play with it, etc. The next day, I told my daughter not to take too many free pamphlets at the museum "because they'll just end up in the garbage and we'll end up like in Wall-E."

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[info]dlgarfinkle
2008-07-07 12:16 am UTC (link)
It was pretty disturbing to see all that trash piled up. Also, those people so sedentary, staring at their monitors all day, they forgot how to walk. That got personal!

I loved Toy Story too, both of them! And The Indredibles. Pixar is awesome.

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[info]alixwrites
2008-07-07 09:08 am UTC (link)
We saw it at my mom's home a few hours north of us, and we had to drive past two huge landfills to get there. Always makes you think.

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[info]aprilhenry
2008-07-07 12:57 am UTC (link)
Lars said, "It�s propaganda! We�re talking about a movie that foists off on little kids the idea that human beings are bad for planet earth. And that�s not true. Why are human beings bad for planet earth? � If you take your kids to this, understand they�re going to come away with the idea that mommy and daddy are bad for the planet and the planet would be better off without them."

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[info]dlgarfinkle
2008-07-07 01:12 am UTC (link)
I thought the idea was that too much TRASH was bad for the planet Earth. Did you have to bite your tongue in eight different places while he was saying all this?

My kids came away with the idea that a movie without much dialogue and action scenes was boring.

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[info]aprilhenry
2008-07-07 01:36 am UTC (link)
He didn't say it to me. He said it on - hm, on some show on MSNBC.

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