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Happy Birthday Enolabloodygay – have a good one – and if I know you, a damned good weekend, too. What are  you up to?

Have eye appointment on 16th. Ho hum. Have decided that, wonky eyes or no wonky eyes, I'm going to the M/M Meetup in Ely on 12th September. The train is surprisingly cheap (although you take your life into your own hands travelling on Sunday and I may end up put on a coach and horses half way through) at £14 return (cheaper than driving, which is rather the POINT of public transport, more of that, please) and takes two hours from my local station. So. Now I have to work out how I'm going to lug 20 books and a load of goodies. I think I'm going to have to get one of those grannie bags on wheels.

Yesterday I finally got to watch “I Love You, Phillip Morris” and I have to say, it’s something I think everyone should see. I understand why America didn’t show it countrywide, because of the celebration of gayness, and the huge embarrassment that Stephen Russell was to the prison system but it’s such a heart warming film.

Yes, Russell is a very bad man, but in White Collar that badness and huge intellect and cleverness is being celebrated--just not in an overtly gay way. I would love to meet the man (impossible for just about anyone, as he's serving a 114 year sentence in solitary confinement) as he sounds amazing--and this Guardian article sheds a lot of light on him, and his personality. He's Fleury, I suppose, that's why I really like him. Although he's not got that cold violent streak that sometimes Fleury portrays. Russell is very tall, but not a violent man and yet he managed to get the prison to work for him without getting himself damaged, and the sense you get in the interview of his "oh well, I got caught" is very endearing. What's hugely amusing about the film is that they DOWNPLAY what this man did. For example, he escaped 14 times in order to be with Phillip--and every time he escaped it was Friday 13th. I suppose the film makers thought that was too unbelievable to be included. The chemistry between Carrey and McKewan (however you spell it, and NO, please don't tell me, pedants) is very good. Probably better from McKewan's (sic) side, but then he's a better actor imho. He really comes over as very slightly effeminate but without playing it too soft, vulnerable and heartbreakingly pretty. Anyway - well worth watching.

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[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a nice one. Mine doesn't have the cover or liner thing and it cost me around $40.

Think of it this way, it would be there the next time you went to a convention or needed to tote something heavy in from the car, or on public transport.