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Argh, LJ has changed its posting layout again. I am getting too old to learn new tricks.
Speaking of Old Dogs, apparently you can get a silly china bulldog for yourself, at only 50 pounds from Royal Doulton.
Yes, even the most touchingly humorous scene in the movie is a product placement.
Obviously they're now out of stock and if you desperately need one for a Christmas gift, they're flying around Ebay at around 5 times the price.
It was very hot 2 nights ago and combined with the anxiety of having to work a 14.5 hour shift the next day, I had one of my classically vivid and mildly disturbing dreams.
It was at a train station: not any station I can recognise at all and appears pretty non-western to me. The open platform was long and dark. The train that drew into the station was very long too, and actually looks quite antique in construction, black metal shell and rounded frame and all.
When the train finally stopped (because it was so long), due to some construction problem, the friction of the wheels and the construction of the wheels makes it prone to catch fire. There's actually a few employees who are there for that purpose, and they go around dogmatically putting out the fires by pouring water down the gap between the train and the platform.
A few minutes the train appears clear, but then one of the workers notice the reflection of orange flames flickering on the belly of a middle carriage. He goes and pours some water down the tracks. The flames subside a little but doesn't extinguish. He pauses, and pours more water down, and suddenly the fire swells up and swallows up the middle section of the train and expands quickly down the length of the platform.
There is immediate panic, and people run to the stairs leading out of the station, but the fire is spreading too quickly and already the heat is unbearable. It's not enough time to get up the stairs. Instead, one of the workers led some of the people at the far end of the platform down the tracks and onto the other side of the train, where they were able to find a safe area about five meters from the burning train to climb over a wall and get out.
And then I woke up. And it was very hot.
Speaking of Old Dogs, apparently you can get a silly china bulldog for yourself, at only 50 pounds from Royal Doulton.
Yes, even the most touchingly humorous scene in the movie is a product placement.
Obviously they're now out of stock and if you desperately need one for a Christmas gift, they're flying around Ebay at around 5 times the price.
It was very hot 2 nights ago and combined with the anxiety of having to work a 14.5 hour shift the next day, I had one of my classically vivid and mildly disturbing dreams.
It was at a train station: not any station I can recognise at all and appears pretty non-western to me. The open platform was long and dark. The train that drew into the station was very long too, and actually looks quite antique in construction, black metal shell and rounded frame and all.
When the train finally stopped (because it was so long), due to some construction problem, the friction of the wheels and the construction of the wheels makes it prone to catch fire. There's actually a few employees who are there for that purpose, and they go around dogmatically putting out the fires by pouring water down the gap between the train and the platform.
A few minutes the train appears clear, but then one of the workers notice the reflection of orange flames flickering on the belly of a middle carriage. He goes and pours some water down the tracks. The flames subside a little but doesn't extinguish. He pauses, and pours more water down, and suddenly the fire swells up and swallows up the middle section of the train and expands quickly down the length of the platform.
There is immediate panic, and people run to the stairs leading out of the station, but the fire is spreading too quickly and already the heat is unbearable. It's not enough time to get up the stairs. Instead, one of the workers led some of the people at the far end of the platform down the tracks and onto the other side of the train, where they were able to find a safe area about five meters from the burning train to climb over a wall and get out.
And then I woke up. And it was very hot.
