https://intertext.dreamwidth.org/ intertext - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:35:02 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios intertext personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/27909/54035 https://intertext.dreamwidth.org/ 100 97 https://intertext.dreamwidth.org/343589.html Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:35:02 GMT https://intertext.dreamwidth.org/343589.html Apparently there's a story going around about Dick Van Dyke (yes, THAT Dick Van Dyke, and yes, I too was surprised to hear he's still alive). He fell asleep on his surf board, drifted out to sea, and then was rescued by a pod of porpoises. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/susanorlean/2010/11/afloat.html">Susan Orlean</a> writes about it in her blog. Personally, I think he's been reading too many Greek myths, and perhaps drinking too many margueritas... The Guardian <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/11/dick-van-dyke-porpoises-rescue">writes</a> "The porpoises were unavailable for comment." Hee.<br /><br />And on the opposite scale, here's a <a href="http://www.petapixel.com/2010/08/12/surfer-films-great-white-shark-circling-below-with-a-ten-foot-pole/">guy who definitely needs a bigger boat</a>. Yikes.<br /><br />And in totally other news, much as I love Mike Leigh, I don't think I'm going to be going to see <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/09/another-year-mike-leigh-women">his latest film</a>. Can I just say that, as a happy, single-by-(mostly)-choice middle aged woman I am so effing sick of middle-aged spinsters being portrayed as needy, neurotic and desperate? I would have expected better.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=intertext&ditemid=343589" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://intertext.dreamwidth.org/343589.html grrr porpoises mike leigh sharks dick van dyke spinsters idiots public 0