OMGWTFB:tVS, Part Two

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...but I'll get to that in a moment.

Earlier, I was reading an article on Dubya's wiretaps. This isn't the interesting part.

Near the end of the article is this:

During the question and answer session, Mr Bush was asked whether he had seen Brokeback Mountain, a gay cowboy love story, starring the Australian Heath Ledger.

Mr Bush feigned ignorance of the film, but said he was interested in cowboys and urged the questioner to go and see cowboys do their work.

"But no, I haven't seen that film, not yet anyway. It's a film about cowboys, you say? Well, we'll see," he said.

- Sydney Morning Herald, 24/01/2006. [link]

Now this, as you may imagine, amused me some. And that set my mind to thinking about just how the results of that might pan out, so...

Not really from http://www.whitehouse.gov

THE PRESIDENT: Recentububbly, a reporter asked me if I'd seen that new cowboy movie. I think it was called 'Bareback Mountin' (laughter) or something like that - y'know, a name that goes with the kind of good, wholesome (laughter) movie where two cowboys train horsies and bond while they're hard at it on the ranch. (Laughter.)

What's y'all laughin about? I love cowboys. (Laughter.)

I... I'm confused. Anyways, he was asking me if I'd seen it yet, to go and watch a good, wholesome retaliationship between two cowboys. (Laughter.) Now, as y'all know, I've got my very own ranch back in Texas, and I've had every chance to get up close and perishable with real cowboys doing what they do best. (Laughter.) They even showed me how they use ropes, and they really make sure I feel like one of them. (Laughter.)

But they were Texas cowboys, so I'm hoping I get to see how Wyomining cowboys do it. (Laughter.) See if they get all mounted up different, see if they do different things with the rope, that kind of thing. (Laughter.)

You people are weird.

Anyway, I applaud this Mr Ang-ry, the directerectoror. (Laughter.) I applaud him for making a movie where you get to see how hard it can get when you're a cowboy. (Laughter.) I thank him for making a movie where you get to see the unbrokable bonds that cowboys form while they're out working. (Laughter.)

I think that the whole cowboy thing is a good and wholesome message, and if we can turn on (laughter) a movie to get away from the evil work of terrorists for a couple of hours, then that's good. And that's why I'm going to go with my close friends Don and Dick. (Laughter.) What? Why is that funny? Anyway, I'm going to go with Don and Dick so that they can see how cowboys do it, because I think that they've got a little bit of cowboy in them somewhere. (Laughter.)

Anyway, we've got a little bit to go before we go to look at cowboys. (Laughter.) Got any questions?

Q Is Ms Rice going? Or Laura?

THE PRESIDENT: Condoleezza didn't think it'd be her kind of movie, and cowboys don't do it for Laura. (Laughter.) Yeah, I think it's funny too, since I have a ranch and all.

Thankyou for asking the question.

Q Mr President, do you know what the movie's about?

THE PRESIDENT: I try not to hear too much about movies before I see them, but lots of people are saying this one's very good. They say the actors really got into their roles (laughter) and that the porfermances are passionassionate. (Laughter.)

Thankyou for asking the question.

Q Followup, Mr President. Do you think that the movie's values should be taught in the country's schools?

THE PRESIDENT: I think they should. I think they're timeless and respectable American values - camarararadererie, fellowship, and working hard. (Laughter.) I think that like other cowboy movies, they give a message of clean living and love for your fellow man. (Laughter.) I think they show us the kind of example that Jesus Christ would like us all to live by. (Laughter.)

And now you're all just getting silly about it, and I've got a movie to go to. God bless America, and God bless cowboys. Thank you very much. (Applause.)

And I laughed at my imagination, and all the other people stared.

Anyway! I had some shopping to see to today - namely, finding a cheaper price for a big box of Buffy, only to be confronted by a new public transport horror...

a barricade of small children, on the bus, in their mammoth off-road vehicles of DOOOOM. They started out waiting  like some kind of under-three Deeping Wall, and then filed on moments before I got to the doors. They shuffled in, parents moving their children about like some weird puzzle lifted straight from The Seventh Guest, and then assembled themselves into a kind of public transport Minas Tirith. Row after row of child walls, before - at the back - steps led to a raised area with vacant seats.

Soon, the children started making loud and unpleasant noises; the public transport Minas Tirith turned - in seconds - into a kind of public transport Minas Morgul. My head still hurts.

*finds ibuprofen and waits to feel better*

And now, the part that I've been waiting for - OMGWTFBtVS, Part Two.

Remember the big box? I've found it for... *drumroll* $260, maybe $255 if I'm in luck.

New. Untouched. Full of Slayer goodness. This week. Their very last copy in stock, and that's because it's being transferred from the other side of town.

So, squeeeeeeeee!

Lastly, if you have a not-IE browser, then go clickity here, and look at the tab the page is in. Or the address bar, or the title bar for the window if you must. And... there's a teensy tiny little Marvin (with his own little miniature bookstore with its own little tiny nano-coffee-bar).

And that's it for today.