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quote:Originally posted by Exnihil: 5. an amateur internet 'porn star’
yes, sadly, this is the answer ... a mutual friend had been trying to track her down the past few years only to come across an email address that led to a "BBW" ("Big Beautiful Women") porn site ... she's quite popular (and surprisingly agile, given her size) on several "BBW" websites ... not the career path I would have expected sitting in "Introduction to Elementary Education" with her back in the day ...
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Confession time: although I rarely cry about "real life" things (honestly, even at funerals I just have a sad face - but no tears), I inexplicably am a complete patsy for fictional sorrow.
Perhaps it's because the author or artist has intentionally set out to evoke just that emotion and my tears are a credit to his or craft... or perhaps I'm just a nut-job... but tearjerkers get me every time.
Which of the following has not at one point made me cry:
1. An Alan Moore comic 2. A Grant Morrison comic 3. A Neil Gaiman comic 4. A Batman comic 5. A Michael Keaton movie 6. A Robin Williams movie 7. A Bruce Willis movie 8. An Animated movie 9. A Charles Dickens novel 10. An. F. Scott Fitzgerald novel 11. An Elton John song 12. A Nina Simone song 13. A Sinead O'Connor song 14. An episode of Lost 15. An episode of Scrubs
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Power Boy's choice, a Grant Morrison comic, ironically, is perhaps the fictional work that has historically made me cry the most. I'm a huge animal lover, and there is no way that I can get through "WE3" without the waterworks firing up. Even thinking about it now sort of wells me up. "Bad Dog. Bad Dog." <shiver>
Novelty said a Bruce Willis movie and, though it's a bit embarrassing to admit, climax of "Armageddon" actually got to me. That moment when Liv Tyler puts her hand to the screen and shouts, "Daddy, No!"
Sharkie doubted that Sinead could get to me, but that, too, is incorrect. Summer of 1990, I was exchange student in Germany and had a wonderful summer romance with a German girl. On the plane ride home listening to The Last Day of Our Acquaintance, I have to admit I shed a few tears for the one left behind.
So, if not those, which of the remaining works does not have the power to move me?
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No to Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is one of my all-time favorite novels, likely because how much it affected me the first time I read it at 16. It wasn't the end that got me (no spoilers), but rather the early scene where Daisy realizes just how long Gatsby has loved her - the scene where she starts crying at "such beautiful shirts". Nobody understands the idea of "obsessive tumultuous love" as much as a 16 year old
...and no to Alan Moore. As with Morrison, it was again the dog that got me. Without spoiling it, I'll just say I definitely cried at Krypto's scene in "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow," especially the aftermath as he howls. Sheesh, these comic writers need to stop writing poignant dog scenes!
So, of the remainder, at which work did I remain dry-eyed?
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quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: 12. A Nina Simone song
Once again, no. About three years ago I spent about six months working abroad, shuttling back and forth between England and Spain. Although it was fantastic, living a high life off the company dollar, it required that I only see my wife for about three days a month. One night, alone in a hotel room in Madrid, having put away half a bottle of wine, I made the mistake of listening to Nina Simone's Sinnerman. As thoughts of my wife half a world away came flooding in, so too did the tears.
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