{"id":80769,"date":"2010-03-16T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?p=80769"},"modified":"2012-08-21T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:44:29","slug":"lucky-showest-folks-see-toy-story-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2010\/03\/lucky-showest-folks-see-toy-story-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Showest folks see <i>Toy Story 3<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Are you looking forward to <em>Toy Story 3<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/zz308591be.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"466\"><\/p>\n<p>I learned a long time ago not to let the trailer for a Pixar movie influence my expectations: The films almost always surpass high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>So I was surprised to read some grumbling about the latest trailer. Haven\u2019t other people learned the same lesson?<\/p>\n<p>Then came today: And the lucky folks who got to see <em><strong>Toy Story 3<\/strong><\/em> at Showest are Tweeting up a storm. Here are some of the early reports:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>@slashfilm: Toy Story 3 was great, last 30 minutes were pure brillance.<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@elguapo1 Toy Story 3 was fantastic. People were crying at the end.<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@BenHeckenkamp: Toy Story 3. Wow. Simply beautiful. Amazing.<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@firstshowing: Toy Story 3 was wonderful, so much fun and heartwarming, too! Totoro is in it a few times as well. Pixar at their best as always.<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@screencrave Just saw Toy Story 3. How is it ALWAYS so good?<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@EDouglasWW: Just saw Toy Story 3 at Showest\u2026 Brilliant job<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@Da7e Looks like Toy Story 3 just ended it\u2019s screening at Showest and KILLED in the best possible way.<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>@colliderfrosty: Toy story 3 continues pixars streak of brilliance. Last 20 or 30 minutes wrecked me.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So\u2026 there you go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATE 1: <\/strong>And now\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/showestnews.php?id=64267\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">there\u2019s this report from ComingSoon.net.<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<h3>And speaking of exciting developments in storytelling\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Come join me this Thursday night, at Seattle\u2019s Third Place Books, for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thirdplacebooks.com\/event\/raven%E2%80%99s-ladder-jeffrey-overstreet\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Raven\u2019s Ladder<\/em> Reading and Release Party<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The fun starts at 7 p.m., and after the reading you can hang out with me in the food court to go on celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to talk about all three books in <strong>The Auralia Thread<\/strong> series, and share a few thoughts on <em>Avatar<\/em> and more popular cultural mythology. And I\u2019ll take questions, and scribble some ink in your copy of <em>Raven\u2019s Ladder<\/em>, if you like. <em>Raven\u2019s Ladder<\/em> postcards and bookmarks will be available as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RAVENSLADDER-OFFICIALsm.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75439\" title=\"RAVEN'SLADDER-OFFICIALsm\" src=\"https:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RAVENSLADDER-OFFICIALsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"538\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking forward to Toy Story 3? I learned a long time ago not to let the trailer for a Pixar movie influence my expectations: The films almost always surpass high expectations. So I was surprised to read some grumbling about the latest trailer. Haven\u2019t other people learned the same lesson? 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