Posted by JaxTJ at 65.114.160.90 on November 12, 2002 at 22:47:23:
In Reply to: Well, at least you got this out there. posted by pixies chick on November 12, 2002 at 22:38:15:
it had me a little defensive that it was sort of made to look like the company I work for is a huge corporate machine that only buildss bombs, rockets, and fighter jets. I take exception to that because we also build some of the best naval warfare systems. Beyond the jokes, I'm proud of my company's community involvement, and the non-military products that we produce. I agreed with much of what was said< but there were parts I thought were a little over-simplified to the point of being pretentious.
before I erase this whole thing again... -TJ
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: : Shit I just typed this whole long paragraph on Bowling for Colombine which I just finished seeing. I broke it all down and tried to get funky and figure out how to insert a line break and killed everything I wrote (for a third time) While I would love to share my views and find out what others thought of this flick, i don't think even Job was that patient. Stupid hotel WebTV crap.
: I haven't seen the finished product, but I saw some scenes when he was hear to speak last winter - loved it. He can make some highbrow topics highly entertaining.
: (He was very nice - I told him about Kevin's arena article (the morbid obesity one), and he became very concerned. I asked him to take care of himself, seeing as I have a thing about paunchy Catholic indy filmmakers, and he signed my book "promise to lose 50 lbs by Christmas" or something like that. Sweet guy.