- The Black Dot Queen will post a notice for a library crier to cry the benefits of school libraries to all and sundry
- The Black Dot Queen will post a notice for a full time library technology wizard to deal with the imps that live inside the technology. Inside sources claim that this position is intended for Silver. However, some of Silver's friends are not sure. "You know that Silver does not believe technology works before 10 am" said one. "Silver does not believe in anything before 10 am" her friend retorted.
- The Duchy will replace Folly with Destiny. (If you take up Folly, Destiny with surely follow.)
- Dotland is forever.
- Silver is back.
The D1 Summit will continue this week. Dotland is expected to be involved in the talks later this week.
Reviews
Ella Enchanted, 2004, is a Fractured Fairy Tale, the story of Ella whose gift from the flaky and vindictive Fairy Godmother Lucinda, played by Viveca A. Fox, was to do everything she is told. Anne Hathaway is the always obedient Ella and Hugh Dancy is Prince Char, a big hit at medieval mall openings. Fans of the book, Ella Enchanted by Gail Levine, aren't happy with the plot liberties taken by the movie, such as the addition of Sir Edgar's slimy sidekick, Heston, the snake. Until seeing this movie I had never realized quite how green and scaly GoG is. There are some good bits of dialogue...Sir Edgar proclaiming to Prince Char "Image is everything". Sound familiar? I think this movie qualifies as High Concept with the universal fairy tale theme and lots of references to fairy tale and movie conventions including the obligatory fight scene a la Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The brief appearance of the three ogres in the final big dance scene had to be a direct reference, overalls and all, to the Soggy Bottom boys dancing to "I'm in the jailhouse now" in O Brother, where art thou. Ella Enchanted is not a great movie, but it is a cute movie worth seeing.
2 comments:
Repeat after me!
SIL VER,SIL VER,SIL VER!
We peasants don't care if she doesn't work until after 10:00AM...she can do more in 4 hours than a newbie could ever do in 8! We especially need her if our destiny is DESTINY!
And she answers ALL e-mails, unlike the Back Queen that doesn't think they are important enough to waste her time.
A lowly peasant
I must admit, this begs a question. When the Dots were helping Libraryland with its coins and books, things ran rather smoothly. Papers came in, papers went out, money came in, money went out, books came in, books went out. And Silver kept Folly in line, cracking her whip over the heads of the imps that caused the problems. Everything ran smoothly. It wasn't broken. Then the Black Dot Queen decided she couldn't have that. She had her Smooshy Money Committee send all the money to the libraries where the dotless ones would be doing the dots' chores. And now it's all in a mess. The peasants have more work; the dotless ones have more work; nobody is saving any money. Well, maybe they are since nobody has been able to spend anything yet. Someone needs to get it through to the Black Dot Queen:
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!!!!
Purple Dot
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