Lizabeth's Journal

11/02/2007 22:22 #41949

Buffalo on the big screen
Category: movies

Hey, did anyone here hear about a Laura Linney/Philip Seymour Hoffman film that was shooting in Buffalo like, last winter or so?

I just saw the film tonight at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

(at which I have been volunteering for the past week or so). It's called The Savages, and here it is on the IMDB:

It's set mostly in Buffalo in the winter, and the city looks suitably grey and depressing. Is there really a place called the Valley View Rehabilitation Center? Is it really a nursing home?

Anyway, parts of the movie are brutally depressing and hard to watch (it's about these kids who have to put their estranged father in a nursing home, so yeah), but it's got a hopeful and satisfying (but still realistic) ending. It's also got a fantastic portrayal of a particular family dynamic that's not often explored on screen. LL and PSH are great, as usual.

tinypliny - 11/03/07 02:18
The Buffalo winter was also on prominent display in the recent Téa Leoni and Ben Kingsley "mob" movie - "You kill me". Suffice to say, I am not particularly looking forward to the winter here. :/

10/26/2007 17:41 #41824

heyyy...
Category: question

I've been wondering this for a while: why's it still showing that I'm posting from Syracuse, NY, if I changed my zip code in my profile to show that I'm in Florida now? Is there somewhere else I'm supposed to change my zip?

Also, hi! I'm back from my trip to California. It was fun. But now I've got a houseful of crap to clean/put away, and tons of other stuff to do. So blogging will have to wait.

lizabeth - 11/01/07 05:12
Aww, Sens, nothing - you know my real favorite teams are the Leafs, Lightning, and the Hurricanes! I would be so popular on the Buffalo hockey scene. Heck, I am so popular on the South Florida hockey scene - I cheer for every division rival except the Thrashers!

So, no one knows how to change the zip code thing? Paul? Bueller?

joshua - 10/26/07 17:55
Don't forget to throw out that Sens propaganda! =D

09/15/2007 14:55 #41117

kicking ass on wheels
Category: roller derby

I mentioned to (e:jbeatty) a few days ago that I had news I wanted to post... but I was trying to leave a little space for people to find my post inviting y'all to our fantasy hockey league on Yahoo - (e:lizabeth,41048) - as of now, no one has taken me up on that invitation... (what? No one at all on this site wants to play fake hockey with us? :( ) But I digress.

My news is this:

I've joined a roller derby league. Yes, like (e:dragonlady7) (whom I will need to hit up for tips, if/when I ever see her on this site again).

We're called the Broward County Derby Grrls, and since we're a new league just starting up, we don't even have teams established yet (though the proposed teams will be called the Ft. Lauderdale Beach Bruisers and the Hollywood Harlots). Here's our myspace page:

I am simultaneously excited and nauseated. I'm an ok skater, but I am a total wuss!! I am going to get my ass beat!!! I will probably break half the bones in my body! I am too old and in too bad shape to do this... yet I'm doing it anyway. Because at least half the people are older and/or worse skaters than I am. And because so far, every other girl I've met who has signed up for this has been really, truly awesome. A couple of them are knitters, too, and they invited me to meetings of their knitting group

, so I finally have people to knit with here, too! It's like a billion things all happening at once, and I'm so not ready for them... I'm just riding the wave and trying to hang on.

Did I mention I signed up to volunteer for the film festival

, too? And we just found out which (real) hockey games are included in the half-season ticket package we bought. And there's that little issue of our big, cross-country road trip out to CA for K's wedding in early/mid-October... My life has suddenly gotten very, very busy.

Anyway, if anyone has suggestions for a derby name for me (right now my name is Spite Sprite, which is my username on, like, everything but estrip), fire away! Something punny using the word spite would be ideal... and it has to be something that's not already taken on this list:

I obviously have no ideas, so suggestions are welcome.

museumchick - 09/20/07 08:50
^joining

museumchick - 09/20/07 08:47
Happy Birthday, (e:lizabeth)! That's very cool about joinging the roller derby league.

lizabeth - 09/18/07 04:33
Whoo, responses!

@ (e:metalpeter) - in fantasy hockey, you can set your daily rosters days, weeks, even months in advance. I usually do it weekly - set it on Sunday and check it again at the end of the week. Easy. Oh, and I do question the wisdom of derby-naming myself after a soda.

@ (e:lauren) - I am a pansy, too. I really am going to get my ass beat doing this.

@ (e:carolinian) - I bet I know why you think girls' roller derby is so cool. ;) Thank you for pointing me to (e:dragonlady7)'s post about Fleshette - it was sobering, but not entirely deterring. Anyway, I have already told the girls that if I can't take the violence, I'm willing to ref or something. I totally left the door open to wuss out. As for names... I get no say in the team names, but I still need some help with my own derby name... another post forthcoming.

carolinian - 09/16/07 13:39
Girls roller derby is cool.

As far as the names goes, I think that "Ft. Lauderdale Breakers" has a better ring to it. Spitesprite is okay, but I'm in favor of something with a more humorous overtone. "Williamso the conqueror ", "spudgun", "ike rushyurhed". The more campy, the more better.

And finally, just make sure your undertstanding what you're getting into. Be sure to read (e:dragonlady7)'s posts about the queen city roller girl named "flechette" who had an accident on the rink that was so bad it caused her not to be able to skate ever again. These girls do what they love in spite of the danger, and that's why they rock, but know the stakes.

Good luck with your derby endeavor.

lauren - 09/16/07 11:27
Wow, thats awesome. I have a secret interest in doing the same, but I am a pansy. Good luck and have a great time doing it and you will rock!

metalpeter - 09/15/07 19:01
I do like hockey and was thinking about doing a fantasy hockey. The only problem with it is that in hockey since they play everyday (not weekly) I assume that to get the most points possible when one of your players isn't playing that day you have to put in someone who is (if I'm wrong correct me) playing that day. That is the same reason I didn't sign up for fantasy hockey before.

I wish you luck on the roller derby. In terms of names there are a lot of factors. Do you want to go with a sexy name, or a funny name or part of your personality. The other factor is can you make a costume or outfit to fit that name. For example if you where called spite Sprite as I think you said would you have flatend bottles of sprite worked into your uniform.

jbeatty - 09/15/07 16:01
Dude! you are nuts! I totally have to see this when I come down!

09/11/2007 18:06 #41053

this is for Lauren...
Category: haute cuisine

...and any other Sonic-lovin' peeps.

Ok, that last pic is probably one of the worst pics of me of all time, but you get the idea.

I went to Sonic about 4 times in the space of a week and a half on my recent trip home. I only ate there once - every other time, it was all about the strawberry limeades. The last time I went, I got the glutton-sized one, because who knows how long it will be before I am back in Sonic country?

(Actually, we'll be driving through Texas next month, so I guess I'll get more chances to stop at Sonic then. :D )

lizabeth - 09/13/07 13:02
Heheh... I'm not entirely sure why, but that kind of ice always makes me think of tater tots.

Tater ice?

Anyway, it does make the most satisfying crunching sound when you jab it with your straw.

lauren - 09/12/07 17:00
Strawberry limeaids are AHMAZING!! And yes, it really is, in my humble opinion, all about the ice!

fellyconnelly - 09/12/07 15:24
oh man.... she is whining in the corner about the round little ice or something...

09/11/2007 11:44 #41048

fantasy hockey, anyone?
Category: fake hockey

It's that time of year again... (e:john) and (e:jbeatty) and some other folks and I have a fantasy hockey league on Yahoo. Our league name is Lake Effect. :)

If any of you are interested in joining us this year, we'd love to have you. Just send me a message and I'll give you the league ID # and password.