en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/3503264 Comments by MrSueDenim http://hijinksensue.com/comic/you-and-ill-just-use-a-little-patience/#IDComment793723673 Is the Lego movie song the earworm or is it the Frozen movie song? I am drunk and easily befuddled. Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:41:17 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/you-and-ill-just-use-a-little-patience/#IDComment793723673 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/agents-of-staying-hopeful-in-event-of-lackluster-developments/#IDComment726284047 Nope - they've set her up as someone who's big in SHIELD but not in the wider universe, just laying the foundations for a big character arc. Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:57:23 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/agents-of-staying-hopeful-in-event-of-lackluster-developments/#IDComment726284047 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/a-sanguine-response/#IDComment718651961 I'm riddled with anxieties about social situations. (All part of a larger mental-health clusterfuck I deal with.) These days I try to engage as much as possible, but I still have a range of tricks I use to escape those stressful situations. In my youth I would imitate a profound speech impediment (a splisp - half stutter, half lisp) or fake a foreign accent to avoid talking to others. These days, I have an app on my phone that lets me fake a call by having the phone ring and displays one of my contacts as the caller. If that can't buy me an exit, then I go for an Oscar and fake an emotional response: I go glassy eyed & stare off into space for a bit, sigh deeply and mournfully, and then ask them if they wouldn't mind if I stepped out for a bit. Most people are too considerate to say no. (In the event that tears are needed, I like to remind myself that everyone I love will eventually die.) Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:52:31 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/a-sanguine-response/#IDComment718651961 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/who-is-your-daddy-and-what-does-he-do/#IDComment717436246 Adblock disabled! I'm a high school teacher, but when people ask I reply that I am a forensic anthropologist who specialises in embryos. "I poke your babies until they do what I want." Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:31:45 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/who-is-your-daddy-and-what-does-he-do/#IDComment717436246 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/jaeger-bomb/#IDComment677801659 Just saw Pacific Rim. Delightful fun. Robots smash monsters. Now I want Guillermo del Toro to direct a Rufallo Hulk movie. Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:17:52 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/jaeger-bomb/#IDComment677801659 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/jaeger-bomb/#IDComment677517286 Upvoted for Avatar; wanted to downvote for Aliens. Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:13:47 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/jaeger-bomb/#IDComment677517286 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/jaeger-bomb/#IDComment677516814 John Carter. I'm the only person I know who saw it in theatres and everyone I know who saw it later loved it. Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:12:49 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/jaeger-bomb/#IDComment677516814 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/mostly-true-convention-stories-ive-just-made-a-huge-mistake/#IDComment652666046 Excellent advice. Make sure that you watch them in order to savour the funny. I just finished episode 15 and found it was impressively good how each episode connected with each other. Season 5/The Movie can't come out fast enough though. </frustrated-impotent-fanboy-whinge> Thu, 30 May 2013 11:52:39 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/mostly-true-convention-stories-ive-just-made-a-huge-mistake/#IDComment652666046 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/avert-your-eyes/#IDComment647842339 I bought a super fancy pass for the last con I went to and it included tickets for the after party. Which, silly me, I thought was just for the pass holders. I realised my mistake when a hand dropped on my shoulder while I was at the bar and it was David Hasselhoff trying to get passed me. I stepped aside to another con goer to freak out only to be face to face (or chin to eyes with) Eliza Dushku. Turns out the party was just for the 40 of with us with fancy bastard tickets and all the celebrity guests. Highlights of that night included chatting over cocktails with Alex Kingston (who is the most amazing woman I have ever met), and bumming a smoke off Tonks which Atreyu (FALCOR!) then lit. After 5 minutes speaking with Alex (ohmygod thisisriversong you'retotallytalkingtoMrstheDoctor) I got so nervous I had to run to the toilets and vomit. Not my finest hour, but certainly my favourite night involving celebrities. Wed, 22 May 2013 10:43:56 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/avert-your-eyes/#IDComment647842339 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/into-dickness/#IDComment647837786 And I just realised that there's a chance Wil Wheaton may read what I wrote. I can't handle that level of meta. I'm not sure if I should perform an act of penance now or wait until instructed. Suggestions for acts of penance anybody? Wed, 22 May 2013 10:34:18 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/into-dickness/#IDComment647837786 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/into-dickness/#IDComment647836277 I only saw Wrath of Khan for the first time a year or so ago and it wasn't that great. That is - it wasn't that great as 'a film'. As 'a Star Trek film' it was brilliant, but that's because there are so many bad Trek films and so few good ones. I saw Into Darkness with a group of friends of varying orders of geekitude. Of the 5 of us I was the 3rd most geeky. The 2 major nerds were torn throughout the film between enjoying seeing something bright and shiny involving Cumberbatch and Star Trek and apoplexy about the lack of Roddenberry-esque soul. That said, we all loved the film. I wanted more Karl Urban - for science reasons - but it was a fun movie. It aint art, but none of the Trek movies are. Few movies are. And art movies aren't necessarily enjoyable movies (cough*TreeOfLife*Cough). What shits on my whiskers is when people argue that brand X is better because its more philosophical. More philosophy doesn't make something better, especially if its piss poor philosophy. When I watched Khan it was because my friends wouldn't shut up about how deep and thought provoking it was. "Its like a meditation on man's place in the cosmos and the nature of friendship as a catalyst for change." Sure, it is. Here's some first-year Aristotle; read that and then we'll talk philosophy. Khan is the finest of original Trek, but nostalgia is what makes it taste so good. Anyway, I'm hoping Nu-Trek III just fucks with everyone by introducing a transgendered French cyborg time-traveller named Jean-Lucy Picard... Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:51 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/into-dickness/#IDComment647836277 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/everybody-wants-prosthetic-foreheads-on-their-real-heads/#IDComment637779674 I was in uni during the prequels. Two months before Clones came out, a guy in class did a presentation and his background music was the unreleased (at that point) soundtrack. To make matters worse, he emailed everyone in class a copy of the script. This is 2 months before the movie came out. God I was furious. How he got those things, I have no idea. Wed, 8 May 2013 12:46:17 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/everybody-wants-prosthetic-foreheads-on-their-real-heads/#IDComment637779674 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/a-house-is-not-a-home-box-office/#IDComment603708921 Oh dear God, I LOVED Battleship! From that opening scene (she wants a burrito) to Rihanna "acting" - everything about Battleship is hilarious. Saw it at the movies and shelled out for it on DVD/BluRay/Digital so I can watch it everywhere! Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:52:00 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/a-house-is-not-a-home-box-office/#IDComment603708921 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/the-unsearchable-ones/#IDComment552795884 Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. Or, failing that, they light power cables on fire and exchange them for brand new ones. Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:18 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/the-unsearchable-ones/#IDComment552795884 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/the-unsearchable-ones/#IDComment552794622 A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away. Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:58:26 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/the-unsearchable-ones/#IDComment552794622 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/drenched-in-dench/#IDComment505590878 My new theory is that Skyfall is a tribute to all Bond movies. Everything in it honors some element of previous Bond-iness. The opening sequence is the balls-out Daniel Craig parkour bond, the ultra-violence is the Dalton Bond on a cocaine-induced rage, the OTT villain and every shade of camp is distilled from the leavings of Roger Moore, Bond casually sleeping with a sex-traffick survivor is Connery-era semi-drunk machismo, and the Lazenby Bond is where the "its kind of a good movie, but I still don't like it" comes from. And that means that all the suck in the movie is just repackaged from Pierce Brosnan. Fucking Remington Steele. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:55:00 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/drenched-in-dench/#IDComment505590878 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/bridge-collapse/#IDComment505583519 I laughed so hard at your Bohemian Rhapsody that I think a little bit of my soul came back to life. Kudos. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:44:47 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/bridge-collapse/#IDComment505583519 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/drenched-in-dench/#IDComment503263610 Skyfall is two thirds of a great film followed quickly by an abortion. I think they took the wrong lessons from the Dark Knight and just pasted two unfinished movies together. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:20:08 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/drenched-in-dench/#IDComment503263610 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/form-1040ezomgwtf/#IDComment458974811 I'll tell you what I am later. Tue, 9 Oct 2012 10:24:25 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/form-1040ezomgwtf/#IDComment458974811 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/taken-it-2-the-streets/#IDComment389679362 My street in Melbourne is named after him :) Surprisingly, no-one ever steals the street sign. Don't want to anger the Batman, I guess. Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:00:55 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/taken-it-2-the-streets/#IDComment389679362