https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg ]]> Sunday, March 29, 2026 03:32 PM ]]> Sunday, March 29, 2026 03:32 PM Tuesday, November 10, 2020 05:43 PM
I'm voting for Hillary, but she's going to have big hills to climb. ]]> Friday, October 28, 2016 11:27 PM Thursday, October 2, 2014 09:15 PM Wednesday, October 1, 2014 07:01 PM Monday, July 15, 2013 10:41 AM Monday, July 15, 2013 10:52 AM Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:12 AM
And also, AWFUL. Hang in there!]]> Wednesday, June 5, 2013 08:17 PM Wednesday, May 22, 2013 02:40 PM
I haven't seen the first movie yet; I'll have to check it out.]]> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 02:59 PM
Oddly one of the little things that bothered me was the way he completely over-played the setting and effects in the moon runes sequence. I don't know why but that is the thing that keeps niggling at me.]]> Sunday, December 23, 2012 05:26 PM
I guess it was a little weird to do the moon runes sequence at a crystal plinth on a cliffside by a waterfall - it could have just happened in Elrond's living room or whatever - but that didn't really bother me very much.]]> Sunday, December 23, 2012 05:40 PM Saturday, December 15, 2012 09:12 PM Monday, November 19, 2012 08:37 PM Friday, November 9, 2012 10:00 AM Friday, November 9, 2012 10:50 AM Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:18 PM Wednesday, July 18, 2012 02:40 PM Monday, June 11, 2012 10:53 AM Sunday, June 10, 2012 08:07 PM Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:36 AM Monday, March 12, 2012 06:10 AM Monday, March 12, 2012 08:55 AM Saturday, March 10, 2012 08:42 PM Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:12 AM Thursday, March 8, 2012 09:33 AM
http://www.topplebush.com/boycott_rush.shtml]]> Wednesday, March 7, 2012 04:56 PM Monday, February 27, 2012 08:39 PM ]]> Friday, January 6, 2012 09:56 AM Friday, January 6, 2012 10:25 AM Friday, December 23, 2011 01:06 PM Friday, December 23, 2011 01:18 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2011 05:05 PM Thursday, September 29, 2011 08:42 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2011 02:51 PM Monday, July 25, 2011 08:30 AM Sunday, July 24, 2011 11:44 AM Monday, June 27, 2011 01:31 PM Monday, June 27, 2011 03:48 PM Friday, June 10, 2011 08:44 PM Monday, June 13, 2011 08:27 AM
I feel like he has to show up again, as a harbinger of that future possibly coming true again, if for no other purpose.]]> Monday, May 16, 2011 08:49 AM Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:28 PM Monday, May 2, 2011 01:52 PM Thursday, April 28, 2011 09:12 AM But seriously those two guys have it totally wrong, because the whole point of the story is clearly that the various warring powers of Westeros are going to have to UNITE to defeat the undead hordes.]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2011 08:49 PM Thursday, April 28, 2011 09:16 AM Wednesday, April 27, 2011 09:33 PM Friday, April 15, 2011 10:57 AM Monday, March 21, 2011 09:15 AM Saturday, March 19, 2011 06:56 PM Monday, March 14, 2011 09:04 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2011 08:57 AM
Fun fact: I'm good friends with Cat Valente, the author of the book, and was a groomsman at her wedding. I'm also friends with the awesome Amy Houser, who is the artist on the illustrated version. Actually, Neil and SuperTarzan know her too — we all gamed together.]]> Friday, January 21, 2011 11:13 AM Friday, January 21, 2011 12:02 PM Thursday, January 13, 2011 09:28 AM 140 characters, and therefore cannot be tweeted.]]> Tuesday, January 11, 2011 02:36 PM Tuesday, January 11, 2011 02:39 PM Friday, January 7, 2011 03:44 PM Saturday, January 8, 2011 08:01 AM Friday, December 31, 2010 09:38 AM Friday, December 31, 2010 10:34 AM Monday, December 27, 2010 11:04 AM
Exactly correct. In this way, I've always thought of babies as just like tech support. You just have to troubleshoot down the list until you hit on the right solution.

And sometimes they just need a "restart" — let them cry themselves to sleep and then later they'll wake up happier.]]> Thursday, December 23, 2010 07:15 PM Monday, December 13, 2010 01:22 PM Monday, December 13, 2010 11:52 AM Monday, December 13, 2010 11:42 AM Tuesday, December 7, 2010 12:15 PM Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:20 AM Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:55 AM Friday, November 5, 2010 02:17 PM Monday, November 8, 2010 10:10 AM Monday, October 18, 2010 10:49 AM Monday, October 11, 2010 04:31 PM Tuesday, October 12, 2010 01:18 PM Thursday, September 30, 2010 02:44 PM Wednesday, September 29, 2010 05:00 PM Wednesday, September 29, 2010 07:50 AM Wednesday, September 29, 2010 09:38 PM
And oh man, the political commercials are driving us crazy.]]> Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:45 AM Friday, September 17, 2010 02:39 PM Monday, September 20, 2010 09:44 AM Monday, September 13, 2010 03:19 PM Monday, September 13, 2010 03:50 PM Monday, September 13, 2010 04:34 PM
No, not necessarily. Ron Moore was only the show-runner for Caprica for the first few episodes, and handed over day-to-day control to Jane Espenson (who herself dropped out of the position in order to write more, so they brought in another guy whose name escapes me). I think when Caprica was in development, RDM was still hoping to get Virtuality off the ground, so he never intended to be in charge in a really hands-on fashion.]]> Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:53 AM Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:55 AM Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:56 AM Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:56 AM
Now, I'm not super-optimistic about a second season (and to be honest, I felt like the show fell off after episode five or so), but certainly SyFy clearly _wants_ to pick up the series but hasn't decided whether or not it's a good idea.]]> Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:06 PM Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:17 PM Friday, August 20, 2010 10:07 AM Friday, August 20, 2010 10:17 AM Friday, August 20, 2010 02:15 PM "We saw The Expendables yesterday"
"How was it?"
"I laughed all the way through it"
"It's a comedy?"
"Not intentionally"
]]> Friday, August 20, 2010 06:58 AM Friday, August 20, 2010 09:39 AM Wednesday, August 18, 2010 01:00 PM
Other Skinwich test stores:

* Ekaf, Maine – Colbert Blvd.
* Tihsllub, Oklahoma – Corner of 3rd & Twain.
* Eritas, California – Dense St.
]]> Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:43 PM You mentioned that the story of Gilgamesh seemed a bit "schizophrenic" to you because the story begins by praising him, but then continues on to recount all his failures...
I'm just wondering if you can't see the parallel here... David's life starts out pretty well, but he falls into sin as king over Israel. He has relations with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, she becomes pregnant, and then David goes on to arrange Uriah's death on the battle field...Yet even though David commits this horrendous evil, God still singles him out as "a man after (His) own heart".
You're Jewish from what I know..I believe in having a personal, saving relationship with Jesus Christ. But I don't think either of us, even though our beliefs differ, would describe God as schizophrenic..and yet I see the way God narrates the history of the Jewish people in the Bible as being quite similar to the way the author narrates The Epic of Gilgamesh (based on how you described the book, because I have never personally read it). The story of the Bible starts out with God creating the heavens and the earth..breathing life into humanity..and placing Adam and Eve in a perfect environment...they had the beginnings of a wonderful and noble life, yet, like Gilgamesh, they, like the rest of humanity to follow, are more notable for their failures than for any success they may attain.

Let me know what you think..I'd love to hear your comments! ]]> Wednesday, August 11, 2010 09:17 AM Tuesday, July 27, 2010 09:57 PM
But yeah, one does get the feeling sometimes that Miyazaki isn't very interested in endings. The ending of Howl's Moving Castle is so abrupt it's ridiculous. All the conflicts are suddenly resolved and the credits pop up almost before the last scene is over.]]> Wednesday, July 28, 2010 08:33 AM Thursday, June 10, 2010 08:59 PM Wednesday, June 9, 2010 04:27 PM Monday, June 7, 2010 01:11 PM Monday, June 7, 2010 11:51 AM Friday, June 4, 2010 10:32 AM Friday, June 4, 2010 10:43 AM
Also, is it just me or has it been forever since the last substantive issue of BPRD?]]> Wednesday, June 2, 2010 10:35 AM
As for BPRD, I'm not sure what you mean by "substantive." In the last couple of issues of the most recent storyline, they blew up large portions of the Earth, significantly altered the relationships and powers of various main characters, and changed the nature of the BPRD organization itself.]]> Wednesday, June 2, 2010 10:53 AM
The lab geek (Brandon) did know about parallel universes.
There is a diff. in how Bell, Walter and Newton crossed over. It has been explained properly.

]]> Monday, May 17, 2010 12:04 PM Monday, May 17, 2010 12:08 PM
And okay, there's a difference between the way different people have crossed over, but why are there so many different ways to cross over, and how are they different? It seems like every time somebody does it, it's different. I don't think that's been very well explained.

@joe: Yeah, that's what bothered me. It's not like they haven't had time to build up to this. It's all they've been doing all season! But for some reason they never took the time in previous episodes to build up this stuff. If there'd been even one scene in a previous episode in the basement of Massive Dynamic where they showed lab techs waking up the other Cortexiphan subjects, I would have been more willing to swallow that whole subplot.]]> Monday, May 17, 2010 12:22 PM Friday, April 30, 2010 10:16 AM Friday, April 30, 2010 12:32 PM Monday, April 26, 2010 03:52 PM
I believe that one of the pleasures of the second volume which you did not mention is the heavy dose of stories featuring Big Red McLane...the lumberjack. Back in 1940 at the dawn of the comic book they eviently thought that stories about a lumberjack were a good idea!

These tales exist primarily as an excuse for Hanks to draw page after page of guys beating the hell out of each other. An obsessive myopic brute, himself, Fletcher Hanks has been described by R. Crumb as, "A twisted dude". He's right.]]> Tuesday, April 20, 2010 07:55 AM
You're right, I didn't talk enough about Big Red McLane! The lumberjack genre has been sadly neglected in modern comics. I was fascinated by how Red's story took an odd new turn in this book, with him gaining a girlfriend and starting in on a boxing career.

If R. Crumb calls you twisted, you've got problems. :)]]> Tuesday, April 20, 2010 09:03 AM Wednesday, April 21, 2010 06:18 AM Wednesday, April 21, 2010 08:19 AM Saturday, April 3, 2010 01:01 PM Thursday, April 1, 2010 08:03 AM
But good to know that it works so well. Streaming from the computer to the tv, while it works, is not optimal. This sounds much better!]]> Tuesday, March 30, 2010 02:10 PM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 03:39 PM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 09:40 PM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:16 AM Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:24 AM Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:49 AM
You are exactly right...sure it's kind of silly what they are able to do. (But maybe did you think it's just because they are so bad ass??) But once you can get past that stuff, the stories are always interesting and inventive, and the character development is probably the best there ever was for a police procedural type show. I feel like I know all of these people.]]> Thursday, March 25, 2010 09:52 AM Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:49 AM
I'm doomed. DOOOOOMED!]]> Friday, March 19, 2010 10:11 AM Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:42 AM Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:55 AM Monday, March 15, 2010 09:38 PM Sunday, March 14, 2010 03:18 PM
We're thinking it's time to start saving up money to do the whole nine yards - a French drain all around the outside walls and a sump pump in the back corner. Sadly I suspect the sump alone wouldn't be much good as the floor is not at all level, or even sloped in one direction; water pools in multiple spots.]]> Tuesday, March 16, 2010 07:50 AM Tuesday, March 16, 2010 09:10 AM
Don't worry, I'm sure there will be many baby pictures available. :)]]> Tuesday, March 16, 2010 09:28 AM Sunday, March 14, 2010 03:20 PM Monday, March 15, 2010 10:58 AM Thursday, March 11, 2010 08:00 AM Wednesday, March 10, 2010 03:54 PM Friday, March 5, 2010 03:49 PM Sunday, March 7, 2010 03:14 PM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 01:10 PM Tuesday, March 2, 2010 12:53 PM Thursday, February 25, 2010 02:14 PM Thursday, February 25, 2010 02:17 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2010 01:18 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2010 01:51 PM Wednesday, February 24, 2010 02:21 PM Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:28 AM Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:33 AM
You're only saying that because he's a brilliant deductive misanthrope whose name starts with H who lives with his doctor friend/hetero(?) lifemate whose name starts with W and whose address used to be 221B. I mean, those could all just be huge coincidences.]]> Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:34 AM Thursday, February 18, 2010 02:01 PM Thursday, February 18, 2010 03:41 PM Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:18 AM Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:39 PM Monday, February 15, 2010 05:19 PM Monday, February 15, 2010 12:16 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:14 AM Tuesday, February 9, 2010 10:16 AM Thursday, February 4, 2010 09:55 PM Thursday, February 4, 2010 09:55 PM Tuesday, February 2, 2010 04:33 PM Tuesday, February 2, 2010 10:51 PM Sunday, January 31, 2010 04:13 PM Sunday, January 31, 2010 09:31 PM
I think what the show probably needed to do was either have a strong through-line that can tie in the major characters (a la "33") or focus on a few of the characters (like the Adamas, or the Graystones) and really establish that dynamic for the audience (a la any number of Lost episodes). As it was, I felt like there were a lot of interesting parts to the episode, but I never really got a handle for what these different parts of the world were like.

(Graystone's a good example of that; it would be nice to have an episode that established the guy's worldview and where he's coming from, because you're right that he seems to have two sharply different sides to him, and it's not clear where the boundaries are there.)

The one aspect of the show that I'm really into right now is the Tauron mafia stuff; it's more familiar than the combination of grief and mad science or the heady AI stuff, and I thought that the scenes between little Bill Adama and his uncle really sold their relationship pretty well. I don't know about the child actor, but the potential pull between Joseph Adama and his brother with Bill in the middle is something that I'd like to see more of.]]> Sunday, January 31, 2010 02:15 PM Sunday, January 31, 2010 03:49 PM Friday, January 29, 2010 01:08 PM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 01:45 PM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:16 PM for Fringe. Like, it was X-Files plausible.]]> Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:17 PM Fringe.]]> Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:28 PM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:02 AM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:49 AM Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:50 PM Wednesday, January 27, 2010 08:41 AM Tuesday, January 26, 2010 07:59 PM
I'm not sure what you mean by Fido. I just know that Peter Jackson produced this film, and I believe the director, Neill Blomkamp, is sort of his protege.]]> Tuesday, January 26, 2010 09:10 PM Friday, January 22, 2010 07:37 PM Saturday, January 23, 2010 05:49 PM Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:15 PM Friday, January 22, 2010 03:24 PM Friday, January 22, 2010 07:24 PM Sunday, January 24, 2010 09:42 PM Friday, January 15, 2010 04:30 PM
I think my friend William said it best: "What a great concept. A road novel with modern versions of ancient gods. Imagine if [the book] had been written by a really good novelist instead of a comic book writer."]]> Friday, January 15, 2010 04:41 PM Mike: Obviously I disagree! In fact, I disliked Good Omens so much, I couldn't even finish it.]]> Friday, January 15, 2010 06:07 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010 03:06 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:48 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:49 PM
That's bizarre.]]> Thursday, January 14, 2010 03:11 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:47 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010 08:47 AM Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:04 PM 2) I hadn't thought about it that way, but yes! My favorite part without a doubt is when Groucho spins around, and Harpo doesn't bother.]]> Saturday, January 9, 2010 08:36 PM Saturday, January 9, 2010 08:44 PM
1) I was reading an interview with the writer Vladimir Nabokov that took place some time in the 1970s, when it somehow got on the subject of that scene in A Night At The Opera, at which point Nabokov recounted the scene exactly, mentioning who came in when and in which order, laughing the entire time. The interviewer asked Nabokov when he had last seen the movie, and VN said, "Oh, forty years ago or so."

2) My favorite part about the mirror gag in Duck Soup is that unlike a lot of those kind of gags (in cartoons or whatever), Groucho isn't really fooled by it, or at least not for very long; but he gets distracted by trying to outsmart Harpo, and eventually I think he just wants to see how long they can keep it going. So it's not the same joke over and over again; the gag actually keeps changing throughout the bit. (This observation is not original to me.)]]> Saturday, January 9, 2010 11:18 AM Saturday, January 9, 2010 11:26 AM Tuesday, January 5, 2010 10:55 AM Friday, January 1, 2010 10:24 PM
10. The Hours: Meh. Streep does nothing for me.

9. Memories of Murder: Really? Well, OK. I mean, if you're going Korean, why not go Oldboy?

8. The Hurt Locker: Agree. Should maybe be higher.

7. A Town Called Panic: Bwuh?

6. Pan's Labyrinth: Yeah, boyee!

5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: OK. Can't argue with that.

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: I know people like this, but... meh.

3. Sunshine: Really?

2. Brick: Hell. Yes. Hell yes. Agree 8,000,000%.

1. The Fountain: Clearly, you are a victim of either mind control or some kind of bizarre heavy metal poisoning. Perhaps you have contracted some kind of tiny worm that eats away at your brain until you start leaking cerebrospinal fluid out of your ears?
]]> Monday, January 4, 2010 02:11 PM Oldboy. It had a great opening and a few other very good scenes, but it was way too long and melodramatic and I didn't care for the ending. Memories of Murder is a much better film.

I can see how people might dislike The Fountain. They'd be wrong, but I could see how they might.]]> Monday, January 4, 2010 02:34 PM Monday, January 4, 2010 04:22 PM Monday, January 4, 2010 04:25 PM Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:19 PM
Have you read House of Mystery? Awesome. My most favoritest comic yet, by far.]]> Tuesday, January 5, 2010 10:57 AM Tuesday, January 5, 2010 11:23 AM Wednesday, December 30, 2009 09:23 AM Thursday, December 24, 2009 02:06 PM Thursday, December 24, 2009 02:11 PM Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:28 AM Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:41 AM Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:29 AM Wednesday, December 23, 2009 02:02 PM Lilo & Stitch? Did you see that? That I think you'd enjoy. Probably also Hukkle.]]> Wednesday, December 23, 2009 03:31 PM Tuesday, December 22, 2009 02:45 PM Tuesday, December 22, 2009 02:50 PM
Wait, Tailor of Panama?]]> Tuesday, December 22, 2009 01:08 PM Tailor of Panama was a bit of a last minute substitution. I'm having a lot of trouble with the latter part of each of these movie lists.]]> Tuesday, December 22, 2009 01:51 PM The Cell than most other people, for whatever reason. And I like silly cartoons.]]> Monday, December 21, 2009 01:00 PM
Diff'rent strokes and all that, I guess, but... The Cell is number two? And the singing llama movie? That really surprises me.]]> Monday, December 21, 2009 12:55 PM Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:14 AM
(The water world is pretty cool too; between that and the exoplanet where rocks rain down from the sky, I'm beginning to think that D&D-style elemental planes might actually exist after all.)]]> Friday, December 18, 2009 02:34 PM Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:11 AM Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:54 AM
But The Name of the Wind is ludicrously overrated; the writer spends the first three quarters of the book making a bunch of promises and the last quarter proving himself unable to keep them. I'm really baffled by people who like it.

Anyway, you haven't read American Gods? That's kind of surprising.]]> Friday, December 11, 2009 01:58 PM
Yeah, I'm a little confused as to why I haven't read American Gods yet myself. In fact, believe it or not, I have never read any of Gaiman's novels - only his graphic novels and comics. I have to get on that.]]> Friday, December 11, 2009 02:07 PM Friday, December 11, 2009 02:14 PM Thursday, December 10, 2009 06:42 PM Thursday, December 10, 2009 07:59 PM Tuesday, December 8, 2009 02:43 PM Tuesday, December 8, 2009 04:14 PM Monday, December 7, 2009 09:44 PM Monday, December 7, 2009 02:07 PM Monday, December 7, 2009 02:24 PM Thursday, December 10, 2009 02:20 PM Thursday, December 10, 2009 02:25 PM
It was great. Ultraman would randomly annihilate people from his satellite with his heat vision. Owlman and Super Woman were conducting an affair behind Ultraman's back that he knew about but couldn't prove. I highly recommend picking up the various trades.

The "heroes" of the world included Alexander Luthor, The Jokester and Three Face.]]> Wednesday, December 9, 2009 10:58 PM Friday, December 4, 2009 04:28 PM Monday, November 30, 2009 01:22 PM Monday, November 30, 2009 08:22 AM Monday, November 30, 2009 09:27 AM Sunday, November 29, 2009 09:13 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 03:56 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 04:41 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 05:18 PM Ninja III: The Domination, but I'm definitely looking forward to this.]]> Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:55 AM Tuesday, November 24, 2009 01:52 PM Tuesday, November 24, 2009 02:10 PM Friday, November 13, 2009 02:16 PM Friday, November 13, 2009 02:37 PM Thursday, November 12, 2009 08:56 PM Monopoly is going to look like.]]> Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:39 PM Thursday, November 12, 2009 03:16 PM Wednesday, November 11, 2009 01:30 PM Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:11 PM Tuesday, November 3, 2009 08:35 PM
Best of luck!

-d-]]> Monday, November 2, 2009 03:23 PM Monday, November 2, 2009 10:02 PM Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:28 AM
I confess... the mental picture of you & young Griffin reading HP together made me tear up a little. :) ]]> Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:05 AM Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:06 AM Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:27 AM Monday, October 26, 2009 05:09 PM Monday, October 26, 2009 01:00 PM Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:26 PM
XO,
Cheryl]]> Sunday, October 25, 2009 01:08 PM Sunday, October 25, 2009 04:47 PM Thursday, October 22, 2009 08:37 AM Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:50 AM Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:54 AM
Angela: Cool! I'm not sure if I've heard about these names, no.]]> Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:32 AM Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:44 AM Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:01 PM
Also, it's totally cool that the ultrasound didn't reveal his superpower-indicating horns & tail... he will have other superpowers.

ALSO, hooray for a growing, squirming, healthy little dude!! Much love to him. And you guys too. :)]]> Wednesday, October 21, 2009 09:24 PM Thanks! Despite his lack of horns, I'm sure he will be \m/
Also, he will have mind powers.]]> Wednesday, October 21, 2009 09:29 PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009 09:47 PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:26 PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:24 PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:42 PM Tuesday, October 20, 2009 07:24 PM Tuesday, October 20, 2009 09:01 PM Friday, October 16, 2009 12:13 AM and
olly!!!!!!!]]> Thursday, October 15, 2009 09:06 PM Tuesday, October 20, 2009 07:59 PM Thursday, October 15, 2009 01:04 PM Thursday, October 15, 2009 01:05 PM Sunday, October 11, 2009 08:10 PM
Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever been to Suburban Station, but that did look surprisingly clean and bright...]]> Saturday, October 10, 2009 11:41 AM
BTW, I was catching up on last week's episode as well, and it seemed to me that if I were an unassuming and enigmatic mystical healer, it would be very hard to resist the urge to get my patients to do shit for me under the guise of healing. ("You must do my laundry. And then fold it. Only THEN will you understand the fullness of things.")

Also, the eeriest thing about season two is the scene in "Suburban Station" that looks absolutely nothing like the real Suburban Station.]]> Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:51 AM Friday, October 9, 2009 07:41 PM Friday, October 9, 2009 09:02 AM
Have no fear: I will try everything in my power to convert the baby into a die-hard Trekker.]]> Thursday, October 8, 2009 09:17 AM
PS. I hope Floyd handles the news well. I know he's sensitive. ]]> Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:36 AM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:11 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:26 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:33 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 02:41 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:01 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:03 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:04 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:28 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:54 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 07:48 PM
And if you're taking suggestions about what you should raise the baby to love, please raise the baby to love Star Trek: TNG.]]> Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:33 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:20 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 07:52 PM Thursday, October 8, 2009 09:18 AM
But what if we could?]]> Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:41 PM Tuesday, October 6, 2009 02:40 PM Tuesday, October 6, 2009 03:11 PM Monday, October 5, 2009 09:39 PM
I LOVED the ending to the series. I was so impressed how along the way they kept bringing people back and referencing things that had happened before. The Fire-Island Players was the perfect capstone to that. :)

I talked to Neil right after I saw the end and said that I was so amazed a "kid's series" had dealt with such a 'big' issue at the end. He asked what I meant and I said the final question of the series was: "If you don't believe in killing, in violence — what do you do when it seems it's become necessary to kill/harm to save what you love?" He kind of blinked at that and said — "Yeah, that's kind of big."

I think they kind of skipped out on actually trying to ANSWER it, but hey — it's a kid's series. :)

I didn't think too much about Zuko's "missing" mother at the end. It might have been a lie, really, or not. I didn't think the series suffered for not answering it.

Glad you ended up liking it as much as I did. :)

-d-]]> Monday, October 5, 2009 04:41 PM
But yes, it was very smart and really quite complex and powerful for a kids' cartoon, and I really, really enjoyed it.]]> Monday, October 5, 2009 06:51 PM Monday, October 5, 2009 09:40 PM
I love the contrast between Harry and Neville, and don't think it's at all coincidence, in light of the prophecy, that in a concrete way it is Neville who actually allows Voldemort to be truly defeated in the end.

Setting up Snape to kill Dumbledore becomes fully clear at the very end, but I actually never had a problem with it. I was in the Trust Snape camp from the beginning, for the simple reason that if Dumbledore had truly thought Snape was not fully on his side he never, ever, would have said "Please."]]> Sunday, October 4, 2009 12:24 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 01:29 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 01:35 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 02:07 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 02:19 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 12:33 PM Friday, October 2, 2009 12:38 PM Thursday, October 1, 2009 10:06 PM Thursday, October 1, 2009 04:20 PM Thursday, October 1, 2009 06:47 PM Monday, September 28, 2009 01:58 PM Monday, September 28, 2009 02:10 PM Saturday, September 26, 2009 04:09 PM Saturday, September 26, 2009 06:40 AM Saturday, September 26, 2009 10:21 AM Wednesday, September 23, 2009 09:47 PM Friday, September 18, 2009 01:20 PM Friday, September 18, 2009 01:27 PM Friday, September 18, 2009 02:01 PM Friday, September 18, 2009 11:37 PM Wednesday, September 23, 2009 09:52 PM Friday, September 18, 2009 06:11 AM Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:14 PM Thursday, September 17, 2009 07:50 PM Thursday, September 17, 2009 07:52 PM Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:07 PM Tuesday, September 15, 2009 08:11 AM
I'd be playing it if I weren't so sucked into Metroid Prime Trilogy, which is, also, teh bomb.

:)

-d-]]> Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:52 AM Metroid Prime 3...]]> Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:09 AM superpowers lasers VELOCIRAPTORS.'"]]> Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:57 AM Monday, September 14, 2009 02:28 PM
Hulk appreciate this chance to explain Hulkself.]]> Monday, September 14, 2009 02:31 PM Monday, September 14, 2009 06:50 PM Monday, September 14, 2009 10:43 PM
Also, I like how you troll the interwebs so I don't have to.]]> Monday, September 14, 2009 07:00 PM Monday, September 14, 2009 08:23 PM Monday, September 14, 2009 09:12 PM
s: Yeah, I was surprised to hear he lost after I watched that video.]]> Monday, September 14, 2009 10:44 PM Thursday, September 10, 2009 07:15 AM Thursday, September 10, 2009 08:46 AM Saturday, September 5, 2009 01:31 AM Friday, September 4, 2009 06:03 PM Friday, September 4, 2009 10:07 AM Thursday, September 3, 2009 09:02 PM Monday, August 31, 2009 04:46 PM
I'm a little skeptical of the new Alice In Chains coming out next month, too. Believe it or not, Elton John plays piano on one of the tracks.]]> Saturday, August 22, 2009 10:59 PM
Elton John + Alice in Chains??? Crazy.]]> Sunday, August 23, 2009 08:39 PM Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:14 AM
p.s. I few days ago I wrote a long comment on your "Random Thoughts" post with my thoughts on each of the bullet points. After completing it I hit "preview" instead of "speak"...it wouldn't let me get any further to go ahead and actually post it and it got lost. I forget exactly what I wrote but I'm sure it was full of gems of wisdom. ]]> Friday, August 21, 2009 10:19 AM Friday, August 21, 2009 10:22 AM Friday, August 21, 2009 10:29 AM Friday, August 21, 2009 10:35 AM
Point 2: Television is magic! But for me, even crazier is airplane travel. As you know I fly a lot for work and every single time I'm hurtling through the sky in that big metal tube, I get sort of freaked out (in a good way) in utter amazement that it's even happening. Especially during takeoff...I just stare out the window, fascinated that the plane is leaving the Earth's surface.

Point 3: Also awful are those free credit report commercials...totally scammy. It's general common knowledge that everyone is entitled to one free credit report per year, but a lot of people don't know that the proper way to do it is to go to the websites of one of the three major credit reporting companies and follow the links from there. Those commmercials cash in on that and get people (usually people with not a lot of money knowledge in the first place) hooked into their paid services. Yuck.

Point 2: ]]> Friday, August 21, 2009 10:41 AM 2: Agreed. Reminds me of that Louis CK routine: "You're sitting in a chair in the sky!"
3: Agreed again. Although I do love the FreeCreditReport.com songs. :)]]> Friday, August 21, 2009 10:56 AM Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:34 AM Wednesday, August 12, 2009 06:22 PM Wednesday, August 5, 2009 03:08 PM
Here's the link to just the Hulk posts.
Here's the link to the Hulk RSS feed.]]> Wednesday, August 5, 2009 03:11 PM Monday, August 3, 2009 04:56 PM Monday, August 3, 2009 08:27 PM
:)

I just watched the ending of Season 3 recently and I can tell you the darn thing is Good To the Last Episode — unlike some recent things I've seen BSG!.

The last set of stories present a really interesting question to the characters — very grown-up stuff, really. I was telling Neil about it and he was surprised stuff like that was showing up in a "kid's show".

All in all I was incredibly impressed with Avatar. :) I can't wait to hear what you think of it when it's over.

-d-]]> Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:02 AM
In other news, it's good to hear from you! Seems like it's been forever. We should get together again soon!]]> Wednesday, August 5, 2009 12:41 PM Friday, July 31, 2009 01:12 AM Friday, July 31, 2009 10:28 AM
Mr. Crowley, what went down in your head
(Oh) Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead
Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all those people with magic
(Yeah)You waited on Satan's call

Mr. Charming, did you think you were pure
Mr. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred, manifest on this earth
(Oh)Conceived in the eye of a secret
Yeah, they scattered the afterbirth

Solo

Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse?
Mr. Crowley, it's symbolic of course
Approaching a time that is classic
I hear that maidens call
Approaching a time that is drastic
Standing with their backs to the wall

(Solo)

Was it polemically sent?
I wanna know what you meant
I wanna know
I wanna know what you meant, yeah!

(Solo)
]]> Thursday, July 30, 2009 02:33 PM Thursday, July 30, 2009 03:16 PM Thursday, July 30, 2009 09:55 AM Ahem. I do not roll my eyes at you. At least, not seriously. ]]> Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:04 AM Source: Wikipedia).

I think when I was originally reading them, I also gave up after 6 or 7. My major complaint with the last book I read was that even with a length of some 1,000 pages it had managed to not move the main plot forward whatsoever. But now that there's an end in sight, I figure I might give it another shot.]]> Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:09 AM Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:11 AM Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:44 AM
If I ever win the lottery, I play to buy myself one for my very own. :)]]> Wednesday, July 22, 2009 03:33 PM Wednesday, July 22, 2009 04:01 PM Friday, July 17, 2009 09:25 AM ]]> Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:05 PM Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:57 PM Friday, July 10, 2009 09:23 PM Sunday, July 12, 2009 02:47 PM Monday, June 29, 2009 04:02 PM Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:25 AM Tuesday, June 16, 2009 08:37 PM Tuesday, June 16, 2009 09:50 PM Thursday, June 11, 2009 08:20 AM Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:10 PM Friday, June 5, 2009 08:26 AM Thursday, June 4, 2009 04:28 PM Wednesday, June 10, 2009 09:53 AM Thursday, June 4, 2009 03:20 PM Tuesday, June 2, 2009 09:25 PM Monday, June 1, 2009 11:33 PM Tuesday, June 2, 2009 09:27 PM Friday, May 29, 2009 07:06 PM Friday, May 29, 2009 02:04 AM V: :) Thanks!]]> Friday, May 29, 2009 10:03 PM Friday, May 29, 2009 11:34 AM Friday, May 29, 2009 07:14 PM Thursday, May 28, 2009 05:37 AM Thursday, May 28, 2009 06:27 PM Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:00 AM Wednesday, May 27, 2009 07:14 PM Thursday, May 28, 2009 09:36 PM Tuesday, May 26, 2009 07:09 PM Tuesday, May 26, 2009 07:52 PM Friday, May 22, 2009 07:33 PM
All you had to do is watch some videos? Hmmm... you should probably check their accreditation.]]> Sunday, May 24, 2009 08:10 PM
...wait a minute. Are you a Kingon?!]]> Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:55 AM Friday, May 22, 2009 07:34 PM Friday, May 22, 2009 07:34 PM Friday, May 22, 2009 08:54 AM Thursday, May 21, 2009 09:35 PM Wednesday, May 20, 2009 02:50 PM Friday, May 22, 2009 07:36 PM Friday, May 15, 2009 07:22 AM Thursday, May 14, 2009 01:22 PM Thursday, May 14, 2009 01:28 PM Thursday, May 14, 2009 08:27 AM Thursday, May 14, 2009 09:17 AM Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:18 AM Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:37 PM Wednesday, May 13, 2009 03:14 PM Wednesday, May 13, 2009 04:49 AM Monday, May 11, 2009 11:06 PM Monday, May 11, 2009 11:41 PM Tuesday, May 12, 2009 01:25 AM Tuesday, May 12, 2009 01:32 PM
I was also caught unawares that Dr. Saunders was actually Whiskey! Crazytown! And, didn't see it coming that Ballard chose to let Mellie/November go early; even when he was with "Mellie" he was too focused on Caroline to really enjoy "Mellie."

Hmm. I wonder how they'd recycle Victor? Perhaps as a handler? Or maybe DeWitt would want the lonelyhearts profile resurrected? And, are there other prisoners acting as Dolls? If so, they better send those dolls to the attic; Alpha's underlying craziness aggravated by the whole composite effect & some dolls (Victor, Sierra, Echo, & that other dude) needing "closure" for the remnants of their original selves should reinforce for the Dollhouse staff that the Ballard's notion of "soul" never really leaves completely. If they don't purge the potentially dangerous dolls, they're going to wind up with an army of Alphas.]]> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 08:58 AM
V: I was wondering about what would happen to Victor now, too. It was heartbreaking to see him so unhappy about no longer being his best. They should probably make him an active devoted entirely to helping Ballard hunt down Alpha.

Also, good point: they definitely need to do some serious background checking when bringing in new actives!]]> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 09:30 AM Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:20 AM
BTW, isn't it interesting that it was Whiskey's idea to give the actives closure in "Needs"? Makes me think that she probably understood instinctively that she needed closure as well.]]> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:46 AM
Anyway, I'd bet that they wrote the season finale as if it were a series finale, just in case it didn't get picked up again. I bet they'll resolve all the immediate conflict & set the stage for a return to "normalcy" within the LA Dollhouse, which would serve equally well for a second season (new chaos! new drama!) or an end.]]> Monday, May 4, 2009 05:01 PM Monday, May 4, 2009 10:20 AM
I love Alan Tudyk. I'm so pleased he's back on TV being crazy. For at least two episodes of a show, anyway.]]> Monday, May 4, 2009 11:02 AM Monday, May 4, 2009 11:05 AM
Here's hoping the show somehow gets renewed and we get to see that second season!]]> Tuesday, May 5, 2009 09:03 AM Triton, Karnak, Gorgon.
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Also I think they should explore more the possibility of life after death at the Dollhouse. Boyd may not like it, but a _lot_ of clients would, and Rossum would have a hard time saying no.]]> Tuesday, April 28, 2009 01:30 PM Tuesday, April 28, 2009 02:36 PM Tuesday, April 21, 2009 01:37 PM Tuesday, April 21, 2009 02:02 PM Tuesday, April 21, 2009 07:27 PM Friday, April 17, 2009 07:01 AM Friday, April 17, 2009 08:52 AM
ST: Hmm... you could be right. Good point.]]> Thursday, April 16, 2009 08:57 PM Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:06 AM Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:53 AM Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:11 AM Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:07 AM Woman: "Good morning. We're having banana pancakes for breakfast today."
Doll: "I like pancakes."
Victor: "We're all gonna die."

That's probably my favorite exchange in Dollhouse so far.]]> Wednesday, April 15, 2009 09:53 PM
Hurry up!! :P~]]> Tuesday, April 14, 2009 01:45 PM Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:52 AM Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:02 PM
But I like the Ellyn-Sol thing; I think it was the separation that originally put all the strain on their relationship. As you said, putting them together only means they claw at each other - and not just in a sexual way - but that's the way they are. They're dysfunctional.]]> Friday, April 3, 2009 03:31 PM Saturday, April 4, 2009 03:40 PM Monday, March 30, 2009 09:05 AM Sita because you couldn't make the other one, but Val and I are actually going on Sunday if you wanted to join us then.]]> Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:29 PM Thursday, March 26, 2009 01:04 PM
]]> Thursday, March 26, 2009 09:04 PM
Sarcasmom: Thanks! The only tricky part is, it would involve lots of 3D graphics. One of these days I really am going to have to learn Flash...]]> Thursday, March 26, 2009 09:38 PM Tuesday, March 24, 2009 07:00 PM Tuesday, March 24, 2009 07:12 PM
I think DeWitt's duplicitous.

Also, I'm still loving this show.]]> Tuesday, March 24, 2009 01:24 PM
But yeah, I still don't quite follow why they're keeping Ballard alive. Maybe it will make more sense in time.]]> Tuesday, March 24, 2009 01:59 PM
That drunken Irish lawyer guy's been on a lot of stuff recently; he was also leader of a group of bank robbers in an episode of Burn Notice, and a whole bunch of episodes of Leverage, and an episode of NCIS.

And I think that Echo's personality actually was tampered with like she says to Ballard. (Specifically, I think it's Topher's intern, the Asian lady with the line, "I live to serve lunch.") I read an interview with Joss Whedon recently, and while he didn't speak directly to this point, he did say that the premise would theoretically allow them to pull the rug out of the audience pretty much constantly, and that they wanted to keep that to a minimum to keep the audience from becoming frustrated and allow them to take a lot of things on face value.]]> Tuesday, March 24, 2009 08:18 AM
I also suspected Topher's intern of being the one who did the tampering, if tampering was done.

That's interesting about Joss' comments. Hmm...]]> Tuesday, March 24, 2009 09:10 AM
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/telefile/2009/03/whedon-need-no-stinkin-dollhou.php]]> Tuesday, March 24, 2009 09:49 AM Tuesday, March 24, 2009 09:57 AM Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:27 AM Monday, March 16, 2009 08:40 AM Monday, March 16, 2009 10:08 AM Monday, March 16, 2009 11:48 AM Sunday, March 15, 2009 09:21 PM
That and the Xerox machine from Mad Men, which has a surprisingly HAL 9000-like twitter feed.]]> Saturday, March 14, 2009 08:21 AM Sunday, March 15, 2009 07:48 AM
Never occurred to me that Ballard's neighbor might be an active. Clever idea!]]> Thursday, March 12, 2009 03:16 PM Buffy, and it's not Firefly.

And thanks, but I'd actually be slightly disappointed if my idea turned out to be true. We'd have to start wondering who isn't an active!]]> Thursday, March 12, 2009 06:37 PM Friday, March 13, 2009 06:25 AM Friday, March 13, 2009 08:51 AM
:D]]> Thursday, March 12, 2009 09:57 PM Hunger, Revanche, The Brothers Bloom, The Hurt Locker, and Julia.

And not, to my surprise, Sita Sings The Blues, which I expected you to be interested in.]]> Monday, March 9, 2009 08:03 AM Sita Sings the Blues was on my schedule, but I took it off because I just couldn't make it work. Besides, I understand you can watch the entire thing online for free.]]> Monday, March 9, 2009 08:28 AM The Brothers Bloom as well.]]> Monday, March 9, 2009 08:32 AM The Brothers Bloom, but there's no way I could pass up a chance to see another movie by the guy who made Brick.]]> Monday, March 9, 2009 08:43 AM Monday, March 9, 2009 08:30 AM Sunday, March 8, 2009 09:44 PM Thursday, March 5, 2009 08:34 AM
Good work, then. Keep smashing things.]]> Thursday, March 5, 2009 09:57 AM Wednesday, March 4, 2009 03:52 PM Thursday, March 5, 2009 08:31 AM Wednesday, March 4, 2009 09:19 PM Friday, February 27, 2009 04:25 PM Friday, February 27, 2009 08:18 PM Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:32 AM Tuesday, February 24, 2009 09:12 AM
I like how the space ship was reminiscent of the ships that worked the Skynet camps in the future. very surreal. ]]> Saturday, February 21, 2009 01:44 PM
I was also noticing how the spaceship looks like sort of a primitive hunter-killer! It always pleases me when I see the people who make this show taking the time to be true to the continuity like that.]]> Saturday, February 21, 2009 03:21 PM Terminator! I really hope the show can stay alive somehow, because it's so excellent.]]> Saturday, February 21, 2009 03:24 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 08:11 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 05:48 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 06:01 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 01:01 PM
In any case, well spotted!]]> Saturday, February 21, 2009 01:05 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 01:38 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 03:22 PM Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:50 AM
One thing I disagree with you on: I don't think the Beldam is a demon. If you spell it "Belle Dame" it might give you a better clue of who/what she might really be... :)

Thanks for the review!

-d-]]> Monday, February 23, 2009 09:38 AM
You're totally right about Wybie, btw. I saw a behind-the-scenes video wherein it was explained that he was added to give Coraline someone to say all the things she had just thought about in the book.]]> Monday, February 23, 2009 10:53 AM
2) Oh, wow. Yeah, I can definitely see that happening.]]> Saturday, February 14, 2009 03:33 PM
2) Val and I agree that they've got to eventually do the episode where the client wants to spend a few days with the personalities of his dead wife (or son, or husband, or whatever), and Echo takes on that personality.]]> Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:28 PM Friday, February 13, 2009 11:34 AM Friday, February 13, 2009 12:15 PM Friday, February 13, 2009 08:22 AM Friday, February 13, 2009 09:27 AM
But, it's for when I only have to feed myself & don't have to care about other people in my household who happen to energetically hate hot tuna & cream of mushroom soup. :P~]]> Friday, February 13, 2009 11:36 AM Friday, February 13, 2009 12:16 PM Friday, February 6, 2009 09:31 AM Friday, February 6, 2009 11:03 AM Tuesday, February 3, 2009 03:55 PM
But yes, I certainly shall write it up! In fact, I'm sort of obligated to. :)]]> Tuesday, February 3, 2009 08:02 PM
Well, I have to hand it to Ed for having the much easier name to spell.]]> Thursday, February 5, 2009 09:12 AM Wednesday, February 4, 2009 08:56 PM Monday, February 2, 2009 07:58 PM
Goober! You know we fed you brunch & chocolate cake & even blessed you remotely when you sneezed. :D]]> Monday, February 2, 2009 09:47 AM Monday, February 2, 2009 09:49 AM
And yes, there is a Puppy Bowl! This year was Puppy Bowl V. You can even get it on DVD!]]> Monday, February 2, 2009 12:24 PM Tuesday, February 3, 2009 09:48 AM Wednesday, January 28, 2009 01:34 PM Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:37 AM Tuesday, January 20, 2009 07:52 PM Tuesday, January 20, 2009 09:02 PM
Wow...not even death can get them away from each other. THAT'S hell.]]> Tuesday, January 20, 2009 04:17 PM Hancock, oddly enough.]]> Wednesday, January 21, 2009 08:21 AM Monday, January 19, 2009 10:41 AM Monday, January 19, 2009 11:40 AM Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:01 AM Thursday, January 15, 2009 02:31 PM Thursday, January 15, 2009 02:32 PM Thursday, January 15, 2009 03:21 PM Friday, January 16, 2009 07:20 PM Friday, January 16, 2009 09:32 AM
I warned Poppy, this is social terrorism – If you two can't hold out I fear there me be no hope for the rest of us.]]> Wednesday, January 14, 2009 03:08 PM Wednesday, January 14, 2009 03:44 PM Tuesday, January 13, 2009 01:43 PM Tuesday, January 13, 2009 02:04 PM A Chorus of Stones has a brilliant assessment of Himmler that is just as discomfiting, and just as important in thinking about the Nazis.

That being said, don't know that I could watch a whole two hours of Nazis, even if they were in tutus doing the can-can pre-Holocaust.]]> Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:13 AM Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:26 AM
Anybody want to contribute their own lyrics? I'd love to read them...]]> Tuesday, January 13, 2009 02:40 PM Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:14 AM Friday, January 9, 2009 10:48 AM Friday, January 9, 2009 10:58 AM Friday, January 9, 2009 08:25 AM Friday, January 9, 2009 09:20 AM Monday, December 29, 2008 07:55 PM Tuesday, December 30, 2008 08:19 AM
I have never encountered an atmosphere like it. An aching loneliness that gets under the ribs. Stifling remoteness.

This book must be read all at once, preferably in one day, otherwise the cloaking atmosphere is easily lost. A break in the rhythm is disastrous.

What a mind Mervyn Peake must have had. His imagination was seemingly limitless. He was an intensely lonely individual. Utter isolation inside his own head. That loneliness seems to have found its way inside of this book. There is a desolation here that is painful like claws.

Boy In Darkness is Mervyn Peake's exploration of the horror of being alone. Of the terror of the animal taking over the human. Of the fear of being hidden away in some vast, bleak, silent land, where a monster of silence awaits to crush out your life.

This is an existential novel of the finest purity. By the time you finish reading it, you will have been somewhere else entirely. Not in your world. If find such abstraction beautiful. Like cold mathematics in words. And the the language of it all is imaculate. Mervyn Peake's icy prose in all its glory in the shadows.

What an achievement. ]]> Monday, March 21, 2011 03:28 AM
:))]]> Wednesday, December 24, 2008 01:27 AM Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:32 PM Friday, December 12, 2008 07:29 PM Saturday, December 13, 2008 03:20 PM Saturday, December 13, 2008 03:20 PM Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:42 PM Friday, December 12, 2008 01:48 PM
I'm 3/4 of the way through Season 2 (there are 2 1/2 seasons — the third is only like 10 episodes) and it just gets better and better. Incredible writing for a "kid's" show, really. :)

I'll be curious to see what you think of it as it goes on.

-d-]]> Thursday, December 11, 2008 08:52 PM Thursday, December 4, 2008 08:16 AM Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:27 PM Friday, November 28, 2008 08:25 AM Thursday, November 27, 2008 06:00 PM Friday, November 28, 2008 10:02 AM Thursday, November 27, 2008 09:38 AM But Mom is so exhausted she keeps nodding off and the daughter has to wake her up (which is kind of weird. Is she high or what?).

Yeah, this is not uncommon in our house. Four years of not sleeping through the night, and I regularly nod off anytime I sit down for more than five minutes. So, no, it's not weird, and she is probably not high.

And now I am going to become one of "those" parents and tell my friend with a fair amount of glee- just wait and see when you have kids:)
]]> Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:52 PM Sunday, November 23, 2008 09:27 AM Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:26 PM
You can't trust the iPod to last forever, so I definitely want to back it up often so all that music is still in one place somewhere and can be easily copied back off onto that iPod, or a new iPod. I back up the iPod onto an external hard drive.]]> Sunday, November 23, 2008 09:31 AM Friday, November 21, 2008 03:02 PM Friday, November 21, 2008 03:57 PM Monday, November 10, 2008 06:22 PM Thursday, November 13, 2008 02:39 PM Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:57 AM Tuesday, November 11, 2008 08:21 AM Tuesday, November 11, 2008 02:02 PM Tuesday, November 11, 2008 03:48 PM
Heather: Thanks!]]> Wednesday, November 12, 2008 08:52 AM hard-assed enough for PEO.]]> Friday, November 7, 2008 08:14 AM
poppy: The stories about the missing finger and the fish are pretty bad-ass...]]> Friday, November 7, 2008 12:10 PM Thursday, November 6, 2008 03:04 PM Thursday, November 6, 2008 08:49 AM knew you were supposed to close your eyes...]]> Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:27 PM Wednesday, November 5, 2008 05:59 PM Wednesday, November 5, 2008 09:17 PM Wednesday, November 5, 2008 03:38 PM Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:22 PM
But I agree. It's funny that we've had to put up with so much campaigning, but some people still have no idea where "their" candidate stands on important issues. ]]> Tuesday, November 4, 2008 03:18 PM Thursday, October 30, 2008 03:14 PM Wednesday, October 29, 2008 08:55 PM Monday, October 27, 2008 06:32 AM Sunday, October 26, 2008 03:02 PM Thursday, October 23, 2008 09:39 AM Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:06 AM your designs??]]> Monday, October 20, 2008 09:59 AM Monday, October 20, 2008 11:06 AM Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:58 PM
...

I like cake.]]> Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:39 PM Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:39 AM i look forward to seeing that one at some point]]> Saturday, October 4, 2008 08:17 PM Monday, September 29, 2008 09:02 PM Tuesday, September 30, 2008 09:24 AM Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:47 PM Friday, September 19, 2008 08:19 PM Friday, September 26, 2008 10:52 AM Monday, September 22, 2008 08:16 AM Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:46 AM Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:43 PM Monday, September 15, 2008 02:56 PM Monday, September 15, 2008 10:44 AM Monday, September 15, 2008 02:56 PM But, in the long run, probably better for your life.
Yes, the desire fades after a day or so out of contact.
]]> Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:23 PM Monday, September 15, 2008 02:56 PM Monday, September 15, 2008 08:51 PM Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:20 PM Tuesday, September 9, 2008 10:38 AM Hulk want to know why no entries for two weeks.
Hulk miss Puny Human Jim''s funny HToftheD.

P.S. Hulk plans to SMASH election - see URL.
http://www.komar.org/hulk/president/]]> Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:35 PM Friday, August 29, 2008 01:14 PM Friday, August 29, 2008 09:51 AM ]]> Thursday, August 28, 2008 04:07 PM http://lolbamas.com
]]> Monday, September 1, 2008 10:22 PM Tuesday, September 2, 2008 08:42 AM Friday, August 22, 2008 04:55 PM Saturday, August 23, 2008 09:11 AM
although, now that i think of it, an Obama title could have possibilities...and he'd get on the cover of every issue!]]> Friday, August 22, 2008 09:48 PM Saturday, August 23, 2008 09:00 AM Wednesday, August 20, 2008 03:39 PM Friday, August 8, 2008 08:24 AM
Yes, we did try Vonage. We were a little disappointed with the quality and reliability, and with the fact that it would just crap out when the power went out. But if Verizon isn't like that, it's all good.

Yes, we should definitely see you next weekend! Hooray!]]> Friday, August 8, 2008 09:50 AM
Tim: Wow! Thanks very much for all the information! I'm a little disappointed about the VoIP thing, as poppy and I had that for a while and didn't care for it. But I think I'm probably going to call up today or tomorrow and schedule our installation. I've complained about Comcast long enough. (And in fact, I have another new complaint about Comcast: for the past few days our internet has been down intermittently.) Hopefully Verizon will be more reliable.]]> Thursday, August 7, 2008 09:37 AM
the big minus for me is giving any more money to verizon, whom i hate with a glowing passion. they have severely under-staffed their repair department and, as you have heard me say before, absolutely suck at providing service if something ever goes wrong. they've sunk a lot of money into fios though so they might be more prompt in dealing with fios issues than in old-fashioned landlines.]]> Wednesday, August 6, 2008 09:33 PM Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:31 PM Saturday, August 2, 2008 07:12 PM Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:40 AM Friday, July 25, 2008 09:30 AM this video? I think you should. It's thought-provoking.]]> Wednesday, July 23, 2008 09:01 AM Friday, July 25, 2008 09:32 AM Thursday, July 24, 2008 03:23 PM Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:14 AM
...except Iron Man. But you're not like Iron Man, are you?]]> Wednesday, June 18, 2008 04:11 PM Kung Fu Panda as well; my experience in trying to sell others on it is that generally people have not really paid attention to the previews or reviews and thus tend to be skeptical of the "cartoon animals use kung fu to boost their self-esteem" movie even though it's really good.]]> Monday, June 16, 2008 02:37 PM Tuesday, June 17, 2008 08:19 PM
just sayin.]]> Tuesday, June 17, 2008 09:31 PM Wednesday, June 18, 2008 07:50 AM Monday, June 16, 2008 09:50 AM Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:42 AM Tuesday, June 10, 2008 09:07 AM Wednesday, June 11, 2008 03:34 PM Monday, June 9, 2008 09:56 AM I couldn't disagree more.]]> Monday, June 9, 2008 10:13 AM Tuesday, June 10, 2008 09:10 AM IHasAHotDog would be a good remedy, too.]]> Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:29 PM Thursday, June 5, 2008 10:35 AM Wednesday, June 4, 2008 09:42 PM Thursday, May 29, 2008 02:43 PM Thursday, May 29, 2008 07:08 PM Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:38 PM Thursday, May 29, 2008 03:21 PM Thursday, May 29, 2008 02:41 PM Thursday, May 29, 2008 07:03 PM
BUY IT! Buy it for the Wii! You must buy it!

(I want to buy it for the Wii, too.)]]> Tuesday, May 27, 2008 03:30 PM Wednesday, May 28, 2008 08:19 AM Friday, May 16, 2008 10:36 AM Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:09 PM Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:57 PM Thursday, May 15, 2008 09:57 PM Vis MajorProfessor X.]]> Thursday, July 23, 2009 03:28 PM
Dammit!]]> Wednesday, May 14, 2008 01:56 PM Wednesday, May 14, 2008 08:32 PM Friday, May 9, 2008 01:06 PM Thursday, May 8, 2008 03:17 PM Saturday, May 3, 2008 11:40 AM Tuesday, May 6, 2008 05:24 PM Tuesday, May 6, 2008 09:08 AM Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:25 AM Saturday, May 3, 2008 05:31 PM Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:23 AM Friday, April 25, 2008 06:45 PM Sunday, April 27, 2008 09:22 AM
Heather: No wonder! I always sucked at chemistry.]]> Monday, April 21, 2008 01:27 PM Monday, April 21, 2008 08:57 AM Monday, April 21, 2008 09:40 AM
"Mountain Dew! I'll take a crab juice."]]> Monday, April 21, 2008 09:41 AM Friday, April 4, 2008 07:30 PM supposed to taste like that.]]> Monday, April 7, 2008 02:43 PM Monday, April 14, 2008 01:04 PM Monday, April 7, 2008 02:44 PM Saturday, April 5, 2008 12:49 PM Fight Club is a great movie, though.]]> Wednesday, April 2, 2008 03:20 PM Wednesday, April 2, 2008 10:46 AM
http://www.fametracker.com/fame_audit/norton_edward.php]]> Wednesday, April 2, 2008 10:50 AM Friday, April 4, 2008 09:48 AM Wednesday, April 2, 2008 10:42 AM Monday, March 24, 2008 12:03 PM Monday, March 24, 2008 12:54 PM think it's wrong.
Hoover: Okay Lisa, I respect your moral objection.
[Presses the "Independent Thought Alarm" button under her
desk.]
]]> Tuesday, March 25, 2008 01:34 PM Monday, August 4, 2008 09:50 AM Titus Awakes were you reading? My version, the Tusk edition from 1992, begins on page 355 and concludes on page 363 (nine pages). It has the single chapter and the list that you mention, plus an introduction and a preadventure that you do not.]]> Saturday, August 2, 2008 03:57 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2011 03:53 PM
I've just finished reading Titus Alone myself (my review here: http://tinyurl.com/6cpqxq8) and have mixed feelings about it. Certainly it's a departure from the first two works in the series. ]]> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 09:41 AM Friday, March 21, 2008 01:10 PM Friday, March 21, 2008 10:18 AM Monday, March 24, 2008 08:54 AM Friday, March 21, 2008 01:10 PM Friday, March 21, 2008 10:18 AM Monday, March 17, 2008 08:40 AM Friday, March 7, 2008 02:00 PM Friday, March 7, 2008 02:49 PM Friday, March 7, 2008 04:06 PM Monday, March 3, 2008 12:26 PM Tuesday, February 26, 2008 02:11 PM Tuesday, February 26, 2008 02:14 PM Has Loeb ever written any comics that you like?
Not that I know of, no. I've pretty much decided to avoid anything he's written from here on out.

Also, what do you have against Zatanna?
She goes around in a goofy magician's outfit, and all her spells are just regular sentences spoken backwards. She just seems really lame to me. Of course, it's quite possible I just haven't read the right comic about her yet. I don't think I've come across her character very often, and when I have, she may have been written by somebody I don't like (I'm feeling like it's probably Marv Wolfman's fault). So who knows, maybe she'll win me over at some point in the future.]]> Tuesday, February 26, 2008 03:16 PM Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:06 AM
And now you know!]]> Wednesday, February 20, 2008 02:08 PM Wednesday, February 20, 2008 04:03 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:37 PM Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:07 AM Wednesday, February 20, 2008 09:04 AM Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:08 AM
Brilliant.]]> Friday, February 8, 2008 01:04 PM The Tick by changing his name to The Mad Obamer What Obamas At Midnight.]]> Friday, February 8, 2008 12:22 PM Friday, February 8, 2008 11:04 AM Monday, February 11, 2008 05:08 PM Thursday, February 7, 2008 02:46 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2008 08:51 AM Saturday, February 2, 2008 01:24 PM Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:14 AM Saturday, February 2, 2008 06:04 AM Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:29 AM Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30 AM Wednesday, January 30, 2008 02:44 PM clever bloody bastard. ]]> Wednesday, January 30, 2008 04:00 PM Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:03 AM The Road is the one they're turning into a movie with Viggo Mortensen in it.]]> Tuesday, January 29, 2008 03:10 PM Now I need to see this movie, since it'll probably win Best Pic.]]> Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:06 AM Monday, January 28, 2008 02:18 PM Monday, January 28, 2008 02:22 PM Monday, January 28, 2008 02:23 PM Tuesday, January 22, 2008 01:07 PM Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:27 AM
But yes, Hulk smash Obama, because Obama Hulk's enemy. All other candidates are Hulk's enemies. Hulk smash them all!!!]]> Friday, January 18, 2008 02:06 PM
Curiously, also the current slogan for the Obama campaign.]]> Friday, January 18, 2008 08:29 AM Friday, January 18, 2008 11:10 AM Friday, January 18, 2008 11:27 AM Thursday, January 17, 2008 03:53 PM Friday, January 18, 2008 08:26 AM
Also, Hulk making new campaign promise: all puny humans that vote for Tony Stark will be smashed.]]> Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:16 AM Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:19 AM Friday, January 18, 2008 08:27 AM Monday, January 14, 2008 01:48 PM Monday, January 14, 2008 01:57 PM Monday, January 14, 2008 11:11 AM
Our most recent go-round with them was me calling to see if I could get their cheaper Triple Play pricing since we have all the services of Triple Play but on an a-la-carte system (we signed up for each thing about a year apart). Dude said no, that was only for new customers - which seems like total crap, but whatever. I didn't want to lose our internet or cable or phone, so I just thanked him for his time & hung up.

About 2 weeks go by (around the time their billing cycle changed) and our internet goes out. Tony spends 2 hours getting it straightened out, where it turns out that someone had screwed up our account as if we hadn't been paying our bill (which flummoxed the lady, as she repeatedly told Tony "But I don't understand - your account clearly shows you've always paid your bill.").

About 4 days later, the phone goes out. We can make calls but not receive them. It was my turn to call, so I did. I got really lucky and got a smart dude right off the bat. He had me do all this troubleshooting, I had him check our account first (because of the other thing), and yet he couldn't figure it out. He asks if he could call back on my mobile after he had a chance to research so I wouldn't be on hold forever (!!). I say sure, so dude calls back about 30 minutes later.

Turns out some person/process at Comcast had set our phone to forward all our calls away from our house, but hadn't entered a forwarding number. Dude told me it was one of the dumbest things he'd ever seen, but there's no way it was a user error because users can't even access that particular functionality in the way it was broken.

I never want to change anything with them ever again.]]> Monday, January 14, 2008 04:19 PM
It really is amazing. It seems like everybody who's ever had Comcast has at least one ridiculous story like this. I guess they get away with it because in most cases there really is no other choice - if you want cable, you have to get Comcast. So they have no real incentive to have good service, because they know you're going to remain their customer and keep paying them regardless of how poorly they treat you. But it's still really unacceptable. Don't we have laws against monopolies or something like that?]]> Monday, January 14, 2008 07:08 PM Monday, January 14, 2008 03:31 PM Wikipedia has a pretty good definition, but the short version is: retroactive continuity. It means when somebody goes back and rewrites the past, usually in a comic book. It used to be that they just did it without any explanation; if they didn't like a superhero's origin, they just wrote a new one and pretended it had always been that way. But in the modern age they feel it's necessary to come up with some crazy explanation, like somebody made a deal with the devil, or somebody shattered the multiverse and it had to be rebuilt from the ground up.]]> Monday, January 14, 2008 07:12 PM Saturday, January 12, 2008 01:05 PM Saturday, January 12, 2008 01:11 PM Saturday, January 12, 2008 05:08 PM Saturday, January 12, 2008 05:11 PM Friday, January 11, 2008 01:42 PM Friday, January 11, 2008 11:49 AM Friday, January 11, 2008 01:13 PM
How the Heather human read Hulk's mind?!]]> Friday, January 11, 2008 01:43 PM Thursday, January 10, 2008 03:43 PM another movie about Hulk? Hulk hope this one not so touchy-feely. And that he get some royalties this time.]]> Thursday, January 10, 2008 05:59 PM Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:37 AM Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:55 AM Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:19 PM Friday, January 11, 2008 01:15 PM Friday, January 11, 2008 01:44 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 01:18 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 03:00 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 03:48 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 04:53 PM and anti-science! Hulk hate Banner and all Banner's puny human friends! GRAAHH! HULK SMASH!!!

Next question.]]> Wednesday, January 9, 2008 09:39 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:43 AM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:50 AM ]]> Wednesday, January 9, 2008 11:14 AM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 10:28 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 12:07 PM Tuesday, January 8, 2008 10:43 AM Tuesday, January 8, 2008 11:55 AM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 01:51 AM Wednesday, January 9, 2008 08:06 AM Back in the Village

It's actually the second one they did. The first is better, IMO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tb8Jo11uGo]]> Monday, January 7, 2008 04:53 PM Monday, January 7, 2008 04:54 PM Tuesday, January 8, 2008 08:15 AM Monday, January 7, 2008 04:10 PM Monday, January 7, 2008 06:29 PM Thursday, January 3, 2008 09:01 AM Thursday, January 3, 2008 09:23 AM Monday, December 31, 2007 02:44 AM Monday, December 31, 2007 10:02 AM Friday, December 28, 2007 06:41 PM Saturday, December 29, 2007 03:42 PM Saturday, December 29, 2007 09:16 AM like the Looney Toons, wink wink, nudge nude). But taken all together, the preponderance of evidence starts to shift and, well, I just don't want to have to have an intervention down the road, OK?]]> Friday, December 28, 2007 08:44 AM
Now I am both excited and frightened to see Yongary.

No, not a furry. Unless anybody who likes stories starring animals is a furry. Which would mean fans of Looney Tunes and Watership Down would be in trouble.

ST: Quiet, you!]]> Friday, December 28, 2007 12:08 AM Thursday, December 27, 2007 03:20 PM
Re. Mr. Beer: Why would you want to take the science out of it? Why would you want to take the science out of anything?

Re. Yongary: Stay alert for the utterly confusing dance sequence. I'm not sure, but I think that there might even be two.

Re. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: I did not previously know that this existed, but now I will have to come to your house in the night as you sleep and take this. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Re. Mouse Guard: I think... I think you're now officially a furry. I'm so very sorry for you.]]> Thursday, December 27, 2007 03:25 PM Poppy demanded that I play it last night while she watched...

*snickers* Dirty!]]> Thursday, December 27, 2007 04:55 PM Thursday, December 27, 2007 03:19 PM Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:35 PM


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Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz canon s5 is

]]> Wednesday, December 26, 2007 05:13 PM Thursday, December 20, 2007 02:47 PM Thursday, December 20, 2007 03:03 PM Wednesday, December 19, 2007 05:18 PM Wednesday, December 19, 2007 08:13 PM Wednesday, December 19, 2007 08:14 PM Monday, September 29, 2008 09:54 AM Sunday, September 28, 2008 07:06 PM Wednesday, December 19, 2007 04:03 PM Disease fight!!!

That character was actually a one-line throwaway gag that Alan Moore came up with back in the mid-80s. Nice to see him (her? it?) getting some time in the spotlight.

Anyway, consider this: If your ultimate plan involves an army of Zombie Lanterns, what better way to build your army than to have the Green Lanterns kill a bunch of unstable supervillains?]]> Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:14 PM Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:10 PM Check this out for examples.]]> Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:33 PM Friday, December 7, 2007 11:55 AM Tuesday, December 11, 2007 03:24 PM Monday, December 3, 2007 08:55 PM Monday, December 3, 2007 09:19 PM Wednesday, November 28, 2007 03:58 PM here.]]> Wednesday, November 28, 2007 04:04 PM Planet Hulk. Interesing stuff.
2) I will, as long as I can do it for free. Maybe it'll show up at the library one of these days...
3) Well, you could pick pretty much anybody in comics and find a group of rabid fans for him/her somewhere, right? I guess Dini's probably got more than most, though. Guy's got an interesting Wikipedia entry, that's for sure. I thought I remembered that he was connected with cartoons, and I see I was right. I like a lot of the stuff he did for those series, but the guy's definitely not perfect.]]> Tuesday, November 27, 2007 01:30 PM 2) You ought to give Ultimates 2 a try. I really believe that.
3) I know people that would tie you down and torture you with cheese graters for saying anything even remotely negative about Paul Dini. I'm not one of them, thankfully, but I'm just sayin' — there ain't no fan like a Dini fan, so be advised.]]> Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:52 AM Tuesday, November 27, 2007 01:31 PM Tuesday, November 27, 2007 08:43 AM Wednesday, November 21, 2007 01:48 PM
So since they can't use the name Changeling anymore, he became Morph when they brought him into the TV cartoon continuity as a major recurring character. That made him popular, so he's appeared in a bunch of alternate continuities in the comics. I know he's a major character in Exiles.

I think maybe at one point he was supposed to be Mystique's son? I don't know if that was ever official continuity or a red herring or a What If or what, though.]]> Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:46 AM
It still amuses me that DC can't put the name "Captain Marvel" into the title of any of their books or movies about Captain Marvel because of a similar rights issue.]]> Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:26 PM Monday, November 19, 2007 03:37 PM
Actually, no, not intentionally. Although now I wish I had.]]> Tuesday, November 20, 2007 08:54 AM Sunday, December 2, 2007 01:55 AM Wednesday, November 14, 2007 01:37 PM Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:35 AM
That was my biggest gripe with it - I knew what I was getting, but I harumphed at the price... I still think it was too much money. If they'd have released it for $10 or $15 less, I'd be OK with it.

Of course, no one forced me to buy it or anything, so I suppose I could quit my proverbial bitchin' but where's the fun in that? :)

(Also, you're quite welcome for the loan. And let me know when you might want to play ONLINE AGAINST EACH OTHER for the Wii, because that'll be kinda neat.)]]> Monday, November 12, 2007 03:59 PM Wednesday, November 14, 2007 09:13 AM Star Trek. Besides, they do use money. Sort of. I think. Ok, their economy is a bit of a mystery...]]> Sunday, November 11, 2007 09:11 AM
I hate Star Trek so much.]]> Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:17 AM Friday, November 9, 2007 07:42 AM Thursday, November 8, 2007 04:04 PM Thursday, November 8, 2007 07:54 PM Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:27 AM Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:49 PM Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:49 PM Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:57 PM Wednesday, November 7, 2007 03:14 PM
]]> Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:54 AM Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:49 PM Ender's Shadow does indeed sound intriguing...]]> Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:58 PM Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:55 PM Wednesday, November 7, 2007 09:53 AM
Heh heh heh. Best line in the first collection.]]> Monday, October 29, 2007 01:17 PM Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:24 AM Dude. That's so fucking metal it hurts.

I love it. With hate.]]> Friday, October 26, 2007 04:02 PM Monday, October 29, 2007 11:03 AM Friday, October 26, 2007 02:45 PM Friday, October 26, 2007 02:51 PM Friday, October 26, 2007 10:53 AM Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:33 PM Monday, October 22, 2007 09:06 PM
Btw, I lied; I already have a Soundgarden album. It's called Louder Than Love, and it's pretty good, too.]]> Tuesday, October 23, 2007 01:53 PM Me at 9 seconds remaining: #$%^! At least they are predictably craptacular.]]> Monday, October 22, 2007 03:03 PM Monday, October 22, 2007 09:36 AM Monday, October 22, 2007 11:11 AM Monday, October 15, 2007 11:44 AM Friday, October 12, 2007 03:38 PM Friday, October 12, 2007 03:55 PM Friday, October 12, 2007 09:53 PM
2. I wish they would have released it on cd so us non digital folk could hear it. ]]> Thursday, October 11, 2007 03:58 PM Thursday, October 11, 2007 03:59 PM Thursday, October 11, 2007 04:20 PM Friday, October 12, 2007 10:37 AM Monday, October 15, 2007 12:52 PM Thursday, October 11, 2007 09:56 AM Wednesday, October 10, 2007 05:22 PM Friday, October 12, 2007 10:37 AM Thursday, October 11, 2007 09:19 AM Thursday, October 11, 2007 09:57 AM nothing ever happens.]]> Wednesday, September 26, 2007 01:02 PM Also, it will totally piss off everybody around you who's 30 or older.

I like how that's a selling point.

BTW, I'd completely forgotten about it, but happy birthday! Many happy returns, &c.]]> Tuesday, September 25, 2007 01:01 PM Tuesday, September 25, 2007 02:08 PM Tuesday, September 25, 2007 07:44 PM
Your 29th is a harbinger of mine, sadly. December 11.....]]> Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:40 AM
Just keep saying to yourself, "At least I'm not 30 yet... At least I'm not 30 yet..." It might make you feel better. Also, it will totally piss off everybody around you who's 30 or older.]]> Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:33 PM Wednesday, September 26, 2007 08:19 AM
Heh. Embryo.]]> Wednesday, September 26, 2007 09:13 AM Friday, September 21, 2007 08:52 AM Thursday, September 20, 2007 09:13 PM Thursday, September 20, 2007 07:57 PM Thursday, September 20, 2007 09:36 PM Thursday, September 20, 2007 09:18 AM Thursday, September 20, 2007 09:19 AM
And yes, you are correct, there was no doubt that we would be there, although happily no selling of organs was necessary.]]> Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:08 AM
That's hilarious about the Elton John show. I think there's a Philadelphia in Florida - maybe they were confused.]]> Wednesday, September 26, 2007 01:55 PM
But that's not really what I wanted to comment upon. Actually, the sitting and standing at concerts has always fascinated me. For example, I once saw Elton John in Miami. People generally sat politely through Candle in the Wind... Crocodile Rock... and a really high percentage of his more popular tunes. What caused the whole place to erupt? Philadelphia Freedom. Not that it's a bad song. And if I were in Philadelphia, I'd get it. But in Miami? Everyone sat through Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (on a Saturday night, no less)... but the first notes of Philadelphia Freedom and BAM! The whole place leaps collectively to their feet. Mystifying.

I have seen similar things at other shows. I think it's aliens.]]> Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:18 AM What other superhero team has a gay couple in it?

Many would argue that the JLA has at least two...]]> Tuesday, September 18, 2007 01:01 PM JLA; are there actual real, stated gay couples in the team now?]]> Tuesday, September 18, 2007 01:23 PM
And Apollo and Midnighter aren't strongly implied so much as... stated. And shown.]]> Tuesday, September 18, 2007 01:28 PM
Well, they're not really stated yet, at least not as far as I've read. But yeah, it is pretty clear, what with all the hugging and the "Get a room" stuff.]]> Tuesday, September 18, 2007 02:15 PM
2.Archivist

3.Historian

4.Acupuncturist

5.Criminologist

6.Nurse

7.Public Health Nurse

8.Political Aide

9.Activist

10. Writer

I'm not really surprised by anything except the political aide gig. (number 31 was Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator, which is pretty confusing...)]]> Monday, September 17, 2007 08:49 AM Monday, September 17, 2007 09:35 AM Friday, September 14, 2007 09:30 AM Friday, September 14, 2007 11:03 AM

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Heh. My wife is uber cool. Heh.]]> Monday, September 10, 2007 03:29 PM



That was fun! ]]> Tuesday, September 11, 2007 07:59 PM Wednesday, September 12, 2007 08:27 AM Ugetsu sounded familiar; it's already on my Netflix queue. :)

I can't imagine anybody could kick Kurosawa's ass as a visual stylist, but we'll see.]]> Monday, September 10, 2007 11:23 AM Tokyo Story--which is the only one of his films that I've seen--but you have to take the movie at his pace.]]> Sunday, September 9, 2007 06:50 PM Tokyo Story a shot...]]> Sunday, September 9, 2007 06:55 PM Sunday, September 9, 2007 09:24 PM Sunday, September 9, 2007 09:32 PM Saturday, August 25, 2007 07:54 PM I'm waiting for the trade.]]> Friday, August 24, 2007 03:50 PM you won't have it in issues. Loser.]]> Saturday, August 25, 2007 06:05 PM Friday, August 24, 2007 08:16 AM Friday, August 24, 2007 08:25 AM Friday, August 24, 2007 09:43 AM To the Devil a Daughter, with Christopher Lee and Richard Widmark.]]> Friday, August 24, 2007 10:07 AM Friday, August 24, 2007 11:19 AM
In addition to missing out on the movie, there is a new game. It's called "Poke Zoe". When playing this game one pokes Zoe, normally somewhere in the head. It is great fun. ]]> Saturday, August 25, 2007 11:11 PM Tuesday, August 21, 2007 01:51 PM Tuesday, August 21, 2007 01:58 PM Tuesday, August 21, 2007 02:16 PM Monday, August 20, 2007 09:31 PM imdb), but immediately realized I knew who he was after I saw his pic. I had no idea that's who was playing Davy Jones! Crazy. Yeah, he was good. I loved the squid-face effect, too.]]> Monday, August 20, 2007 01:15 PM Monday, August 20, 2007 12:55 PM Monday, August 20, 2007 09:32 PM Monday, August 20, 2007 10:08 AM Monday, August 20, 2007 10:21 AM
Also, I'm glad that you're enjoying Planetary as much as you are. It's likely one of my favourite works from Ellis, and Cassaday's art has never been better. It probably goes without saying, but I do have the entire run up to current if you'd like to borrow it while hunting down the remaining trades. I could also throw the Ellis run of the Authority into the pile if need be. ]]> Tuesday, August 21, 2007 05:48 PM
I definitely appreciate your offer on Planetary and Authority - you are a gentleman and a scholar. I might take you up on it, but we'll see what treasures my trip to the store tonight yields. :)]]> Wednesday, August 22, 2007 08:17 AM Friday, August 17, 2007 02:36 PM Friday, August 17, 2007 05:29 PM
Well, except Lorenz.]]> Monday, August 20, 2007 09:34 PM Saturday, August 18, 2007 08:21 AM really hard to explain...]]> Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:03 AM Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:32 AM Friday, August 17, 2007 12:48 PM The Last Bolshevik, which is one of the three big movies I always hear mentioned when people talk about Chris Marker, but I'm interested in the other one as well.]]> Thursday, August 16, 2007 03:21 PM
I mean, seriously, this is the pitch on Terror: "He's a hitman. No, wait, he's an undead hitman! That dismembers his victims! And uses their body parts for his own! Because he's rotting! And also... also part-demon! Gnarly! And he has poison spikes growing out of his face! His face! Yeah! That's sexy!"

Maybe if they did something like what Ennis did with Punisher in "Welcome Back Frank"... You'll have to let me know how it is.]]> Wednesday, August 15, 2007 01:00 PM Wednesday, August 15, 2007 02:24 PM
I think I heard about these crossovers of which you speak back before I knew what Planetary was. I will definitely have to track them down now.

Thanks for the recs.]]> Tuesday, August 14, 2007 03:58 PM I think the two might be combined in to one TPB called Crossing Worlds, but I don't recall for sure.

Also, Byrne is a love-him-or-hate-him kind of guy. Ask Jill about his four years on Wonder Woman sometime.]]> Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:19 PM
So, when are you getting your next one? Kidding, I kid...]]> Monday, August 13, 2007 09:18 AM Monday, August 13, 2007 09:35 AM
Poppy and EverMike were telling me as soon as I stepped out of No Ka Oi that I'd be ready for another one in no time, but I'm not so sure about that. I at least need to forget how much this one hurt first...]]> Monday, August 13, 2007 10:03 AM Monday, August 20, 2007 11:06 AM Monday, August 20, 2007 11:50 AM Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:15 PM Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:15 PM Tuesday, August 14, 2007 06:18 PM Wednesday, August 15, 2007 01:14 PM
Well, here's the way I think of it: I have a lot of T-shirts, and most of them I bought because they have an image on them advertising something that I passionately enjoy - a movie or a cartoon or some such. I like making it clear the things that I like, and getting images of the things I like out there. A tattoo does the same thing, but in an even more... impressive fashion.

So, yeah, a tattoo is essentially just a permanent T-shirt. Sort of.]]> Wednesday, August 15, 2007 02:48 PM Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:22 AM Friday, August 10, 2007 01:02 PM Friday, August 10, 2007 12:57 PM Saturday, August 11, 2007 07:43 AM Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:35 AM Wednesday, August 8, 2007 11:25 AM
But seriously, it really is a darn good book, and I think it would still be interesting even to people who care very little about comics. But it's hard for me to know for sure, as I care about them so very much myself. :)]]> Wednesday, August 8, 2007 12:27 PM Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:11 PM Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:33 PM Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:33 PM
Key moments for me were: having Snape's loyalties confirmed; learning more about Snape's history; reading what a kid in the epilogue was named (A. S. P.) - the middle name made me bawl; the discussion you mentioned between H & AD; the interpersonal difficulties HP/R/HG faced & R's usage of the putter-outer; the deaths of the two people who left someone small behind...

I have to read it again and then I'll do 1-7.

Wow.]]> Sunday, July 22, 2007 06:27 PM Sunday, July 22, 2007 08:48 PM

Emotional rollercoaster: yep. The series is brilliant. Tony hasn't read the books and hasn't expressed an interest (aside: what is WRONG with him?!) but he asked what about these books grabs me so much. I don't think I did them justice, but I told him that opening the books is like stepping into another time, another place, and the world is so absorbing that it's hard to leave - getting interrupted while reading HP always annoys the pants off me because I'm completely caught up in the story. Not even JRRT's books do that to me, perhaps because I tend to skim over some of the descriptive/song-y parts. :-)

Prostrate before JK in awe: yep. She's a wonderful storyteller, and I'm grateful these books came out in my lifetime. I'm grateful to have stood in mammoth lines with so many others who love the books like I do. I'm grateful to have had so many opportunities to discuss plots/theories/mysteries prior to the secrets being revealed in #7.

Little moments: I cried like crazy when George cracked his first joke about losing his ear; I said out loud to no one "That's so George", yet George isn't truly real. My heart broke for George to lose Fred; I'm still not over that. My grief for the characters seems a pale version of real grief for real loss, but it's a testament to how much JK makes us feel that these fictional characters mean so much to all of us that their "deaths" make us weep.]]> Tuesday, July 24, 2007 07:25 PM
It's all the little moments that come back to me; Ron's ghoul; Hermione's giant bag; Mrs. Weasley's battle with Bellatrix; Fred/George/Lee on Potterwatch....the way this series came together more than makes up for all the times I've been disappointed by these types of epic stories before (I'm looking in your direction, JJ Abrams).

I need to read everything again. It will change everything knowing Snape's loyalties. The fact that she kept such a mystery about it the whole time, it could have gone many ways, is amazing. I also admire that she didn't make anyone perfect, she even took Dumbledore down a few pegs and made him human. That takes balls. JK is my hero.]]> Tuesday, July 24, 2007 08:30 AM
Yep, me, too. :)

It's been weird reading some reviews now that are a bit negative and criticize certain aspects of the book. Immediately after finishing it, I couldn't think of one thing I wanted to change. Maybe on a second read I will notice some flaws, but right now I feel like I should be prostrate before JK in awe.]]> Tuesday, July 24, 2007 09:44 AM Wednesday, July 25, 2007 08:47 AM Thursday, July 19, 2007 08:08 AM Wednesday, July 18, 2007 06:59 PM Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:27 AM
Also, I too would definitely go with the middle tree; in fact, when I think about the white tree in my head, I have an even more complex version in mind, but that would probably be a bad idea.

I love Sarah's tattoo, too. I will be sure to pass on the guilt. :)]]> Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:36 AM
Anyway, let me know if you want me to ask Tony to mess with it to make it bigger/more defined/etc. He's pretty good with the Photoshop given all the graphic design he does. Other options could be Debbie (graphic design), Pete at work (good with PS), and Seamus the Enabler for the re-drawing.]]> Wednesday, July 18, 2007 06:57 PM Monday, July 16, 2007 10:00 AM Goblet of Fire movie, too, but yeah, I'm glad this director is doing the next movie, too. That one'll be tricky; they'll have to cut out A LOT.]]> Monday, July 16, 2007 10:25 AM Friday, July 13, 2007 02:02 PM Sunday, July 15, 2007 04:06 PM Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:54 PM Thursday, July 12, 2007 08:44 AM Thursday, July 12, 2007 09:26 AM Tuesday, July 10, 2007 07:15 PM
Btw, so far the A/C is still working well. I should probaby practice with that coat hanger, though...]]> Wednesday, July 11, 2007 09:31 AM Wednesday, July 11, 2007 01:00 PM Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:47 AM Friday, July 6, 2007 03:31 PM Friday, July 6, 2007 03:59 PM Friday, July 6, 2007 09:28 AM Monday, July 16, 2007 08:09 AM
We'll see if I'm able to do that when/if Josh & I actually manage to get it together to go...]]> Saturday, July 14, 2007 09:07 AM
Mike V.: Dude, that's just wrong.]]> Tuesday, July 3, 2007 02:26 PM

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It's not like it's her fault, though. The girl grew up in a house with the Weasley Twins. She never had a chance.]]> Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:38 PM Monday, July 2, 2007 08:28 PM Tuesday, July 3, 2007 08:25 AM Friday, June 29, 2007 02:09 PM Friday, June 29, 2007 02:49 PM Friday, June 29, 2007 03:23 PM Monday, July 2, 2007 02:22 PM Saturday, June 30, 2007 09:10 PM Sunday, July 1, 2007 06:38 PM Transformers. It doesn't rate amongst the worst movies of all time; it's just disappointingly not good.]]> Tuesday, July 3, 2007 07:58 AM Friday, June 22, 2007 06:03 PM Monday, June 25, 2007 03:32 PM Monday, June 25, 2007 09:57 AM Monday, June 25, 2007 10:31 AM
JR would be so jealous of getting to see the Transformers movie early, but it's release is on his birthday and I've promised we'll go then. ]]> Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:14 AM Thursday, June 7, 2007 08:51 AM
Heather: So, he kills himself on the off chance that his death will make some kind of magic happen that will let them get rescued, even though he's already turned off the jamming signal that is the real thing that will get them rescued? Nope, sorry, still don't like it.]]> Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:22 AM Wednesday, June 6, 2007 04:27 PM did you know that there are podcasts for your ipod that relate to comic books? lots of them.

also, did you know that you can get an ipod dock that is also a toilet paper dispenser?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HWX1J8/ref=amb_link_4876972_3/104-3852559-7773545?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=0P08PSX28FA823304MZF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=290654301&pf_rd_i=507846]]> Monday, June 4, 2007 03:23 PM
That toilet paper/iPod dock thing is either horrifying or pure genius, I can't decide which.]]> Monday, June 4, 2007 04:00 PM Tuesday, May 29, 2007 02:16 PM Tuesday, May 29, 2007 08:23 AM Friday, May 25, 2007 03:36 PM Monday, May 28, 2007 11:05 PM Thursday, May 24, 2007 08:28 AM Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:09 PM Wednesday, May 23, 2007 05:23 PM
Matt Fraction is my new favorite guy, because of Iron Fist and Punisher War Journal. I also just realized he also wrote a book called Five Fists of Science that I got out of the library and rather enjoyed, though Poppy hated it. :)

If I'd finished Conan #39 first, I'd never have bought Conan #40. Dull stuff.

I actually just picked up the latest issue of Runaways this weekend, with no knowledge of what it's about, simply because it's being written by Joss Whedon now.

Now I need to read all this stuff quick, before Wednesday comes up again...]]> Monday, May 28, 2007 11:09 PM
I've gotta agree with your decision to pick up Iron Fist. Fraction and Brubaker are killing it on that comic every month. If you odn't mind me putting some more stuff uner your nose, go out and pick up the first collection of Criminal right the hell now. It's great stuff, in a different vein, but from the same writer.

Conan was really good at the beginning, but what little I've read since Truman took over hasn't really cpativated me.

Morrsion's work on Superman and Batman is superlative. Quitely is amazing on All-Star, but I'm not a big fan of Kubert over on Bats. It's still a fun read, nonetheless.

As for Doctor Strange; the Oath is really frigging great. Outside of that you'd be hard pressed to find a recent comic with him in it that's any good. New Avengers has been alright, but Leinel Yu's inerpretation of him just doesn't look right, and Bendis hasn't done much with the character yet. If you like Vaughan's work on Doctor Strange I'd also recommend his book Runaways. Fun, dark, fantastic book about the children of MarvelU supervillains. I'd also recommend Ex Machina, but I know you already have some of that in your collection. ]]> Saturday, May 26, 2007 01:14 AM Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:08 PM Saturday, May 19, 2007 08:52 AM Friday, May 18, 2007 12:34 PM Friday, May 18, 2007 12:50 PM Friday, May 4, 2007 03:54 PM Friday, May 4, 2007 01:34 AM Friday, May 4, 2007 09:32 AM
And Gregory Wright is so not the Punisher writer you should be reading. Garth Ennis FTW!]]> Monday, April 23, 2007 01:02 PM Tuesday, April 24, 2007 09:28 PM "Tetsuoooooo!"
"Kaneeeeedaaaaaaa!"
"Tetsuoooooooooo!"
"Kaneeeeeedaaaaaaaaa!"
Vrooooooom!
"Akiiiiiira!"
Kaboom!]]> Friday, April 6, 2007 02:46 PM Monday, April 16, 2007 12:14 AM Thursday, April 5, 2007 05:05 PM Friday, March 30, 2007 04:09 PM Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:53 PM Sunday, April 1, 2007 10:24 PM Thursday, March 29, 2007 01:38 PM
I'd join you, but I'll be at the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival. Baaa!]]> Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:34 PM Tuesday, March 27, 2007 04:03 PM Wednesday, March 28, 2007 08:17 AM Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:48 AM Friday, March 9, 2007 08:57 AM Friday, March 9, 2007 11:02 AM Friday, March 9, 2007 11:27 AM Trainspotting.]]> Friday, March 9, 2007 12:02 PM Thursday, March 8, 2007 03:52 PM Thursday, March 8, 2007 08:42 PM
Ok, remember, though... Sharon Valerii mentioned "growing up back home" more than once before she realized she was a toaster. I believe I remember her even saying something about how she couldn't be a Cylon because she remembered her parents.

If they're going to have sleeper agents, they're almost CERTAINLY going to have to have implanted memories. Otherwise, it'd be pretty much a dead give-away.

There's also a third, related explanation -- what if most people and Cylons don't realize it, but Hera was not the first of "her kind?" Maybe there's another who could be the "shape of things to come." Note, we never see you-know-who's father in this episode. And the mother tells you know who that he/she is "special" more than once. And a certain Cylon character is also very nearly nurturing to you-know-who.

Either of these theories would explain a lot that I can't possibly go into without actual spoilers. But it all makes sense.]]> Thursday, March 8, 2007 05:38 PM Thursday, March 8, 2007 09:28 PM
:)]]> Friday, March 2, 2007 08:54 PM Friday, March 2, 2007 10:44 PM Saturday, March 3, 2007 10:55 AM
Thank you for your comments. They pleased me greatly. :)]]> Saturday, March 3, 2007 11:01 PM Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:59 PM Tuesday, February 27, 2007 09:59 PM Tuesday, February 27, 2007 01:00 PM
I don't know if it'll be quite as good as Point Break, though, if Keanu doesn't punch a dog in it.]]> Tuesday, February 27, 2007 01:12 PM Tuesday, February 27, 2007 01:13 PM Tuesday, February 27, 2007 01:49 PM Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:43 PM
I actually ended up coming back into the city later to see a movie for Phillyist. A blogger's work is never done...]]> Thursday, March 1, 2007 03:36 PM Wednesday, February 28, 2007 04:00 PM
That's a great way to put it. I feel the same way. Let's go to our respective homes and hide out, OK?]]> Tuesday, February 20, 2007 02:13 PM Tuesday, February 20, 2007 02:30 PM Friday, February 16, 2007 09:16 AM Thursday, February 15, 2007 09:47 AM Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:56 AM Friday, February 9, 2007 06:14 PM Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:46 PM Tuesday, February 6, 2007 11:54 AM Friday, February 9, 2007 02:02 PM
My plan is working...]]> Friday, January 26, 2007 11:29 PM Friday, January 26, 2007 12:19 PM
Plus, reading it before the movie comes out makes you very cool.

And Jim, I'll habe a neat little pile of books for you tomorrow night. ]]> Thursday, February 8, 2007 09:46 PM Friday, January 26, 2007 10:59 AM
Now you must die.

...or not.]]> Thursday, January 25, 2007 05:41 PM Sunday, January 21, 2007 06:40 PM Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:18 PM
I wouldn't call them prog, though. They are the original power metal band.

I'll try to remember to bring some to movie night on Wednesday.]]> Monday, January 15, 2007 02:39 PM Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:56 PM Monday, January 8, 2007 10:17 AM Monday, January 8, 2007 11:02 AM
Now go wash your eyeballs and brain right this instant, young man, after playing with that filthy browser.]]> Friday, January 5, 2007 11:36 AM
But I'm using it right now to respond to you! My shameful, dare-not-speak-its-name love of IE7 has absorbed me. It's too late!]]> Friday, January 5, 2007 11:50 AM Monday, January 1, 2007 04:16 PM Monday, January 1, 2007 08:12 PM Tuesday, December 19, 2006 08:30 AM Tuesday, December 19, 2006 09:55 AM Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:13 AM ...can't talk and wants to hold you down and do strange things to you with her mouth...

Bad Punchline A: Sounds like my prom date.

Bad Punchline B: That's hot.]]> Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:36 AM
You need to check out Alan Moore's "What Ever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?"]]> Friday, December 15, 2006 05:57 PM Friday, December 15, 2006 06:00 PM Saturday, December 16, 2006 09:21 PM Saturday, December 16, 2006 09:31 PM Sunday, December 24, 2006 09:45 AM Monday, December 4, 2006 02:53 PM
Glad you liked the game though. I bought it kind of blindly (on the assumption that anything Atlus brings over is good -- not always true [Rule of Rose's gameplay ... uhm, well there isn't any. Story's lovely in a horribly creepy way, but it's not actually a game as far as I can tell]), and really enjoyed it.

Hence the birthday present. :)

I finished Red Steel. Jesus-God, but it was interesting to see the Japanese version of an exploitation flick. I'm presuming something akin to that happens in certain genres I don't watch (Action films, particularly), but the storyline/cutscenes were just so...insultingly bad. And insulting. :)

I'm glad I played it. It has some neat gameplay mechanics. But I'm not rushing to play it again.

Still haven't touched Zelda. Uhm. That came out very wrong. :)

-- d]]> Monday, December 4, 2006 12:20 PM Tuesday, December 5, 2006 09:56 AM
o eat a banana (contains tryptophan)
o ~8 oz warm milk
o light exercise (pushups usually) followed by a few yoga Salute the Suns

If you can't fall asleep within half an hour, don't stay in bed. Get up, do something else for about 20 minutes, maybe have a light snack (like a banana!), then try again. Also, avoid bad sleep habits, like reading in bed. I used to read in my bed all the time, but after a certain age I had to stop doing that because I had a lot of trouble sleeping.

If it's a general stressed out thing, I would highly recommend yoga because it's incredibly relaxing and healing on a number of levels.

Good luck!]]> Monday, December 4, 2006 10:31 PM
You can get a prescription for ambien from a doctor. I've used that before and it's *very* effective, no grogginess the next day either. It should only be for getting yourself back on track, though, or you can come to depend on it.]]> Monday, December 4, 2006 10:36 PM Monday, December 4, 2006 11:27 AM Monday, December 4, 2006 11:38 AM
Prescription sleep aids.
Alcohol (vast quantities).
Strenuous outdoor physical activity.]]> Monday, December 4, 2006 12:07 PM
I will consider getting poppy drunk. Thanks, Mike!]]> Monday, December 4, 2006 12:35 PM Tuesday, December 5, 2006 09:27 AM
kds: Excellent suggestion!

Thanks to all.]]> Tuesday, December 5, 2006 09:58 AM ...the two funnest mini-games in Wii Sports...

"Funnest?" Has it been that long since grade school? :p

BTW, I'm all up for a Wii party; there's always New Year's Eve for that, it seems to me.]]> Tuesday, November 28, 2006 07:48 AM Tuesday, November 28, 2006 08:16 AM Tuesday, November 28, 2006 08:32 AM
I have Zelda, but haven't touched it. Neil's hiding it for me until I finish FFXII. ;)

RE: Red Steel, I'm enjoying it. When you say 'tutorial', I'm not sure what you mean, since several parts of the game introduce new concepts even as you're moving through it.

Have you unlocked the time-stop function? Or any of the special 'katas' for swordplay? They both change the game completely, in my opinion. Before I got them, I was kind of down on the game, but now I'm enjoying it.

On Sports, the ones we're enjoying the most are tennis and boxing. Neil and I played cooperative doubles (both of us on the same team) the last couple nights and really enjoyed it. And I really don't like golf, though bowling is fun.

I also got Raving Rabbits, which is basically a huge number of minigames with a very thin story. The thing that really makes it fun, though, is the *incredibly* twisted humor that runs through all the games. Also, there's a shoorer-on-rails portion that, in my opinion, has better controls than Red Steel with regards to shooting. The 'gun' pointer you move about doesn't feel so...oversensitive.

And by all means, bring your wiimote along some time. :)

-- d]]> Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:23 PM
I'll have to rope somebody in for cooperative doubles; haven't tried it yet. Raving Rabbids did look pretty good (again, saw the review on G4 - I know, I know). Maybe I can give it a shot next time I'm over, at which time I will also certainly bring the wiimote with me. Unfortunately, it won't be at movie night tonight, as I scheduled a vet appointment for the dog tonight (it seemed to be the only spot they had open any time soon).]]> Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:49 PM Monday, November 27, 2006 09:02 PM Monday, November 27, 2006 09:35 PM
And your meal sounds quite tasty.]]> Tuesday, November 28, 2006 07:45 AM Monday, November 27, 2006 11:48 AM Saturday, November 25, 2006 03:05 PM Tuesday, November 21, 2006 01:58 PM smoking. Lucky you!]]> Tuesday, November 21, 2006 02:03 PM
*cough*

Oh who am I kidding. ;) I managed to snag one with the help of friend (who has connections), along with Red Steel. No Zelda, though - or extra controllers. Those sold out faster than the game consoles, apparently.

The *good* news, however, is I heard Nintendo's going to get another shipment out soon -- probably next Wednesday. So it's not like the wait that's going to be required for the PS3 (some time next *year*, if you're lucky).

:)

-- d]]> Monday, November 20, 2006 07:05 AM Monday, November 20, 2006 09:44 AM Sunday, November 19, 2006 04:14 PM Sunday, November 19, 2006 04:30 PM Monday, November 13, 2006 01:27 PM Wednesday, November 15, 2006 02:03 PM Wednesday, November 15, 2006 02:30 PM Monday, November 13, 2006 09:43 AM Monday, November 13, 2006 09:43 AM Monday, November 13, 2006 10:10 AM Monday, November 13, 2006 10:19 AM Monday, November 13, 2006 10:19 AM Monday, November 13, 2006 10:53 AM
Zoe: Holy crap! That was quick.]]> Monday, November 13, 2006 11:17 AM Sunday, November 12, 2006 09:52 PM Saturday, November 11, 2006 01:07 PM
I gotta agree: this song is pretty damn awesome.

I guess it's time for me to take AKWKUBTTOTD more seriously & start listening to them on purpose.

Thanks for the tip!

*We have their self-titled, Madonna, Source Tags & Code, Secret of Elana's Tomb (EP) & Worlds Apart albums. Tony must have filled in some albums from LaLa.com.]]> Saturday, November 11, 2006 08:04 AM Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:12 AM Thursday, November 9, 2006 11:58 AM
Only thing is here, I probably wouldn't be able to make it until later. That a deal breaker?]]> Wednesday, November 8, 2006 04:01 PM Friday, October 20, 2006 11:02 PM
]]> Friday, October 13, 2006 01:17 PM Friday, October 13, 2006 01:36 PM
I can't believe we have to wait a week to see what happens next.]]> Saturday, October 7, 2006 02:04 PM Monday, September 25, 2006 09:32 AM The original just nails Han Solo in as the most cold-blooded, cool, gangsta-punk-ass killer of all time.

Fond as I am of that particular scene, I can't help but feel that you're exaggerating just a tad.]]> Sunday, September 24, 2006 08:31 PM Thursday, September 28, 2006 08:56 AM Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:56 AM Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:17 AM
And don't knock thirty. It's nice here on the other side. Promise.]]> Friday, September 22, 2006 01:43 PM Friday, September 22, 2006 02:19 PM Friday, September 22, 2006 04:28 PM Friday, September 22, 2006 07:16 PM
Did you see my comment on the previous post about the free DVD to iPod rippers? And if you're looking for a plain DVD ripper, I think FlasK is the popular freebie choice. If that's not your style, there are a whole bunch of them listed here.]]> Friday, September 22, 2006 09:03 PM
babs: Well said indeed! Thank you!

Tim: I thought you might come through for me, software guy. :) Awesome! I'll definitely check all that stuff out. Thanks very much!]]> Friday, September 22, 2006 10:47 PM
VEMoDe: This is probably your best bet.
Free iPod Video Converter: This will also work, but it looks less good than the first.
MediaCoder: This apparently has a module for converting to iPod format as of 0.5.0-pre9. Might be worth a try if the others don't work out.

Good luck!]]> Friday, September 22, 2006 12:49 AM Friday, September 15, 2006 04:04 PM
bloginator: Yeah, my bread was zipped up in a plastic bag. But still the banana invaded! Of course, I usually don't leave them together so long; this happened because I forgot to eat lunch one day. I won't do that again.]]> Monday, September 18, 2006 09:09 AM Saturday, September 16, 2006 07:11 PM Friday, September 8, 2006 09:52 AM Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:39 AM Friday, September 8, 2006 09:50 AM Thursday, September 7, 2006 04:08 PM Saturday, August 26, 2006 02:22 PM Sunday, August 27, 2006 02:11 PM
mouserobot, that makes at least one more thing we both like. :)]]> Sunday, August 27, 2006 05:40 PM completely awful. But I still don't really like them.]]> Thursday, August 24, 2006 09:39 AM
Right. Now.]]> Wednesday, August 23, 2006 05:22 PM Tuesday, August 22, 2006 03:07 AM
Btw, even though I don't exactly comment very often, I'm keeping up with all your blogs, Cyn, even the one about vegan food (despite my chronic meat-eating).]]> Tuesday, August 22, 2006 09:41 AM Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:37 AM Monday, August 14, 2006 08:38 PM
So yeah, he seems to eat pretty consistently if we put the bowl next to his bed. He's such a weirdo.]]> Tuesday, August 15, 2006 01:43 PM Tuesday, August 15, 2006 07:29 PM Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:00 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQiPjGf-qAo]]> Monday, August 7, 2006 08:48 PM Tuesday, August 8, 2006 10:54 PM Tuesday, August 8, 2006 11:37 AM Monday, August 7, 2006 12:48 PM Tuesday, August 8, 2006 11:40 AM Thursday, August 3, 2006 03:05 PM Wednesday, August 2, 2006 09:50 AM something with your life, right? ]]> Sunday, July 30, 2006 09:28 AM Friday, July 21, 2006 09:13 PM
I'm not so good at remembering to watch stuff on TV, but I've seen ads for N&D and am curious. I'll try to remember to tape it this week.]]> Monday, July 24, 2006 10:27 AM Friday, July 21, 2006 12:00 PM Monday, July 17, 2006 11:42 AM Friday, July 7, 2006 01:59 PM Friday, July 7, 2006 07:04 PM Thursday, July 6, 2006 11:00 AM I beat Guitar Hero Career Mode on Hard

I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!

(I'm still on phase 4 of medium, but it's not for lack of trying - I have 5 stars on all the medium songs except phase 5 & two of phase 4.)]]> Tuesday, July 4, 2006 10:06 PM Saturday, July 1, 2006 11:35 AM Tuesday, June 27, 2006 04:17 PM Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:15 PM
Star: Probably a good idea, but I like to use the handy web code buttons that MT provides.]]> Monday, June 26, 2006 04:10 PM
Sometimes web apps are nice about repopulating web forms with data you've submitted after an error, but in your case it was intercepted by a proxy server, so it's up to the browser to remember that stuff. Safari is generally good about that, and I'm guessing Firefox is pretty good about it, too. IE has never been good about that in my experience unless the webapp handles it for it. The thing is, I don't think form data is ever written to disk to be cached anywhere ... I think the only place it would be is in system memory, floating in the ether somewhere. So I'm sure it's there, but good luck finding it and then making sense of it. :P

All I can say is, after being bitten by that a few times myself, I've gotten in the habit of selecting all and copying before submitting anything of any length through a webform; it's the only way to be sure you're not going to lose your hard work.]]> Monday, June 26, 2006 12:03 PM Monday, June 26, 2006 12:34 PM Sunday, June 25, 2006 02:18 AM
The next Superman movie should be Superman vs. Super Tarzan.]]> Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:50 PM Monday, June 19, 2006 03:17 PM
One quick idea: Do you pick up a lot of wireless networks from your apartment? You might be getting heavy interference from neighboring networks. Try altering the channel setting to 1, 6, or 11 and see if that makes any difference.

Also, know that bluetooth, certain cordless phones, and even microwave ovens can interfere in the 2.4GHz spectrum that WiFi occupies.]]> Monday, June 19, 2006 08:33 PM
Tim: Thanks for the offer, and the ideas! There are indeed many other wireless networks in the area. I'll see if I can figure out changing the channel; maybe that'll do the trick.]]> Tuesday, June 20, 2006 01:59 PM Friday, June 16, 2006 10:35 AM Tuesday, June 20, 2006 02:00 PM Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:52 PM Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:50 PM
And thanks!!]]> Tuesday, June 13, 2006 09:44 AM Friday, June 9, 2006 09:28 AM Unsung is the one that keeps tripping me up. I fail to see how I can get through Frankenstein and Crossroads but not Unsung.

Also - I think I've sprained my pinky. Stupid blue button.]]> Friday, June 9, 2006 10:01 AM
S: "Unsung" I do okay on. Blue button! Wait until you get to Hard. It's the orange button I hate. Damn that orange button! Still, I'm half way through Hard now. I greatly fear the return of the "Cowboys from Hell." It's hard to imagine the song being harder. How could you even fit any more notes in there??]]> Monday, June 12, 2006 11:03 AM Thursday, June 8, 2006 11:12 AM Thursday, June 8, 2006 11:53 AM
Arg! There was a post-credits scene? Unfortunately, the person I went to see the movie with wasn't a stay-til-the-bitter-end kinda person. It'll be a good excuse to go see it again; I loved the first one so much, I saw it three times. :)]]> Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:23 AM
Oh, and yes, you were right about Dark Tower. D'oh.

Zoe: Huh. I preferred the first X-Men to X-Men 2, but many people disagreed with me about that. I seem to have weird taste in super hero movies, as I also am not a huge fan of the Spider-Man movies.

I'm definitely picking up Guitar Hero when I get the PS2. Very exciting. But I think I'm going with the slim PS2, as it sounds to me like it's actually the less breakable of the two!]]> Thursday, June 1, 2006 08:40 AM
I, too, saw this movie this weekend, and I'm puzzled by the litany of disfavor on the part of the critics. I still think the first was the most compelling of the three, but this new one I thought was pretty darn good.

And they're not going to make a fourth after *that* ending!?]]> Tuesday, May 30, 2006 02:42 PM Tuesday, May 30, 2006 02:57 PM
Also, congrats on your project for ripping all your music. The end is within sight!

And I discussed Lost with someone today without realizing you hadn't seen it yet. Dude! Don't eat my brains, but hurry up and watch the effing show already!]]> Tuesday, May 30, 2006 03:00 PM
Tim & VM: Glad to hear you guys liked the movie, too. Yes, we did stay for the post-credits scene - despite the fact that we both had to pee pretty badly at that point! But it was worth it. Cool stuff. I read that a Wolverine spin-off movie and possibly a Magneto prequel are in the works, but they've got to do another straight out X-Men movie. They've just got to.

VM: Thanks for the advice on the PS2. I shall certainly take it to heart. Also, luckily I can usually tell when you guys are going to talk about "Lost" over there, and I just spin the volume up on iTunes. :) I'll definitely try to watch the show as soon as I can, but it'll take me twice as much time, since it's twice as long.]]> Tuesday, May 30, 2006 03:37 PM Tuesday, May 30, 2006 09:42 PM
I got Guitar Hero on Saturday. It's great. I had to replace my PS2 but decided to get the old version cause the thin one looks too breakable to me.]]> Wednesday, May 31, 2006 02:14 PM ST: You're right to feel that way. An arockalypse is a very dangerous thing. It can level mountains.]]> Friday, May 26, 2006 12:52 AM Thursday, May 25, 2006 02:41 PM Thursday, May 25, 2006 09:31 PM Friday, May 19, 2006 09:59 PM Saturday, May 20, 2006 09:50 AM
I worry, because of course you do everything you iPod tells you, right? ]]> Friday, May 19, 2006 09:55 PM Friday, May 19, 2006 11:46 AM
2) Now you're really making me wonder how Frodo's life would have been different had he had an iPod. It would have been better, I imagine. But how so?]]> Wednesday, May 17, 2006 06:00 PM
You must be so proud of your graduate!]]> Monday, May 15, 2006 09:35 AM Saturday, May 13, 2006 02:32 PM Saturday, May 13, 2006 02:55 PM Sunday, May 14, 2006 09:19 AM
VM: For some reason I really like the one with him turned away from the camera. That's funny stuff. And yes, we are proud indeed. He has a diploma and everything.]]> Tuesday, May 16, 2006 08:31 AM Mean Streets except, you know, French.]]> Saturday, May 13, 2006 01:54 PM Mean Streets, either.]]> Saturday, May 13, 2006 02:53 PM Saturday, May 13, 2006 05:18 PM Friday, May 5, 2006 12:09 AM Thursday, May 4, 2006 10:57 AM Thursday, May 4, 2006 11:44 AM Thursday, May 4, 2006 11:44 AM Thursday, May 4, 2006 11:44 AM
Sarcasmo: Ooh, that's an idea! Poppy did say she wanted to have some people over... Btw, were you making fun of my repetition by repeating yourself, or were the three identical posts just a mistake?]]> Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:05 PM Tuesday, May 2, 2006 02:04 PM Tuesday, May 2, 2006 04:31 PM Tuesday, May 2, 2006 09:35 PM Tuesday, May 2, 2006 10:08 PM

You Are Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

You take the title "mad scientist" to the extreme -with very scary things coming out of your lab. And you've invented some pretty cool things, from a banana sharpener to a robot politician. But while you're busy turning gold into cottage cheese, you need to watch out for poor little Beaker! "Oh, that's very naughty, Beaker! Now you eat these paper clips this minute."

The Muppet Personality Test

]]> Monday, April 24, 2006 10:13 AM Monday, April 17, 2006 07:13 PM Monday, April 17, 2006 10:23 PM
kds: Of course a firstborn is a plague! Although, of course, in this case the reference is to the firstborn being killed horribly. What better subject for a finger puppet!

Cyn: Yep, that's really the best one. :)]]> Tuesday, April 18, 2006 09:53 AM Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:09 AM Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:09 AM Friday, April 14, 2006 04:20 PM Friday, April 7, 2006 06:51 PM Friday, April 7, 2006 07:52 PM Monday, April 10, 2006 08:56 AM Monday, April 10, 2006 12:50 PM Saturday, April 8, 2006 07:38 AM Saturday, April 8, 2006 08:55 AM
I don't know about your pink collar idea, though, mister williams.]]> Tuesday, April 11, 2006 02:47 PM Tuesday, March 28, 2006 01:51 PM Tuesday, March 28, 2006 03:39 PM Wednesday, March 29, 2006 06:28 PM
Also, the original Legend of Zelda never gets old. Did you ever play Kid Icarus for the NES? That's another one that never got old (for me, anyway).]]> Thursday, March 23, 2006 02:31 PM Thursday, March 23, 2006 03:13 PM
S: Point taken. :)]]> Thursday, March 23, 2006 03:36 PM Thursday, March 23, 2006 06:46 PM Monday, March 20, 2006 07:06 AM Monday, March 20, 2006 07:50 AM Monday, March 20, 2006 09:15 AM Monday, March 20, 2006 11:36 AM
Sarcasmo: I know, right?! I found a llama on the web named Optimus Prime once.

kds: That is an important point which has caused us to consider and discard multiple names.

ST: I forgot about that one...]]> Thursday, March 23, 2006 09:46 AM Saturday, March 18, 2006 02:22 PM
Dr. Batman I think will always be that great hypothetical name for an animal--I can't imagine any real creature which could bear the name with that right amount of campy style; and I really can't imagine a greyhound answering to it, sadly.]]> Saturday, March 18, 2006 09:06 PM Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:05 AM http://www.greyhoundfriendsnj.org/

I read The History of Europe to Sarah to put her to sleep sometimes, but I can't really see calling the dog Korea or King Louis XV. Other things we watched together recently: "Dog the Bounty Hunter" (heh, Dog) and "South Park" (...).]]> Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:55 PM Thursday, March 9, 2006 04:44 PM Wednesday, March 1, 2006 11:07 PM Friday, February 24, 2006 11:19 AM Monday, February 27, 2006 09:01 AM

Heather -- [noun]: A beat poet working the streets 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

How TRUE!]]> Thursday, February 23, 2006 08:54 AM Monday, February 20, 2006 10:30 PM Tuesday, February 21, 2006 05:20 PM Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:49 PM Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:07 AM You are Leonard McCoy (Bones)

Leonard McCoy (Bones) 60% Chekov 60% Spock 50% Beverly Crusher 50% Deanna Troi 50% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 50% Jean-Luc Picard 45% Geordi LaForge 40% Will Riker 40% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Worf 30% Uhura 20% Mr. Sulu 20% Data 20% Mr. Scott 10%

You are a pessimistic and bitter doctor, but you are skilled in the ways of medicine and science.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character am I?" quiz...


I suppose this is true...]]> Tuesday, February 21, 2006 09:57 AM Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:08 PM Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:49 PM Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:07 AM Wednesday, February 22, 2006 09:38 AM

You scored as Deep Space Nine (Star Trek). You have entered the dark side of the Star Trek universe. The paradise of Earth is far from you and you must survive despite having enemies on all fronts. But you wouldnâ??t have it any other way because you thrive in conflict and will know what needs to be done to take care of those around you. Now if only the Founders would quit trying to take over the galaxy. Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 100% Serenity (Firefly) 88% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 75% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 75% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 75% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 50% Moya (Farscape) 50% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 44% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 38% SG-1 (Stargate) 38% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 25% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 13% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

]]> Friday, February 17, 2006 08:27 AM Monday, February 20, 2006 03:42 PM You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and donâ??t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.

Serenity (Firefly)		100%
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)		100%
Moya (Farscape)		88%
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)		88%
SG-1 (Stargate)		75%
Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)		75%
FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)		75%
Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)		63%
Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)		56%
Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)		44%
Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)		38%
Enterprise D (Star Trek)		38%

Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)
created with QuizFarm.com]]> Monday, February 20, 2006 10:34 PM Monday, February 20, 2006 12:40 PM Thursday, February 16, 2006 03:21 PM Wednesday, February 15, 2006 05:19 PM Unknown White Male does sound fascinating. It sounds like something Hollywood would create, but it's even more interesting if it's a documentary. Thanks for the tip.]]> Monday, February 13, 2006 02:44 PM Monday, February 13, 2006 04:51 PM Monday, February 13, 2006 08:10 PM
b: Heh heh. Search your feelings. You know it to be true!]]> Monday, February 13, 2006 04:52 PM Monday, February 13, 2006 10:44 AM
noo. that's not true.... it's IMPOSSIBLE]]> Monday, February 13, 2006 10:51 AM (Be sure to click through all of them; they're hideously inappropriate!)
http://www.brandonbird.com/svutines.html
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b: He's a smooth one, that Uncle Owen.]]> Saturday, February 11, 2006 04:00 PM Saturday, February 11, 2006 08:13 AM Friday, February 10, 2006 01:11 PM
b: Oh, man, sorry I missed it! Not that I don't already have that on DVD, but still, I love that movie. Somehow I doubt, however, that this was Ank-es-en-amon's burial chamber. Last thing I read said they suspect it's not a king, but maybe a queen or a prince.]]> Saturday, February 11, 2006 03:59 PM Saturday, February 11, 2006 08:06 AM
They do have all the other bands you mentioned, though, Yag. I think I might pass on The Gourds, as they don't sound like my kind of thing from the description on the site ("alternative country-rock band"), but I'll consider the others. I'll also wait a bit to see if anybody else responds...]]> Friday, February 10, 2006 01:39 PM Friday, February 10, 2006 01:39 PM
I could always just lend you a CD.]]> Friday, February 10, 2006 01:50 PM Friday, February 10, 2006 01:51 PM
Nightwish. Warp 11. Therion.]]> Friday, February 10, 2006 01:54 PM Friday, February 10, 2006 07:33 PM Friday, February 10, 2006 10:59 AM Friday, February 10, 2006 11:16 AM
Night Watch would be cool to see, though, thanks very much! This version does have subtitles...right?

Did typing Night Watch make you think of Nightwish?

Tim: Thanks! I've heard of Imogen Heap, and the one song I listened to by her didn't really appeal to me, but I'll definitely look up those other folks you mentioned.]]> Saturday, February 11, 2006 03:34 PM Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:21 AM Thursday, February 9, 2006 08:58 AM Thursday, February 9, 2006 09:23 AM Wednesday, February 8, 2006 07:23 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 01:05 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 01:14 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 01:40 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 06:49 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 12:49 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 01:42 PM Touch of Evil.]]> Tuesday, February 7, 2006 02:04 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 02:20 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 02:26 PM Wednesday, February 8, 2006 08:47 AM Wednesday, February 8, 2006 09:57 AM
BLUES are motivated by INTIMACY, seek opportunities

to genuinely connect with others, and need to

be appreciated. They do everything with

quality and are devoted and loyal friends and

employers/employees. Whatever or whomever

they commit to are their sole (and soul)

focus. They love to serve and will give

freely of themselves in order to nurture

others lives.

BLUES, however, do need to be understood. They have

distinct preferences and occasionally the

somewhat controlling (but always fair)

personality of a confident leader. Their code

of ethics is remarkably strong and they

expect others to live honest, committed lives

as well. They enjoy sharing meaningful

moments in conversation as well as

remembering special life events (i.e.,

birthdays and anniversaries). BLUES are

dependable, thoughtful, nurturing, and can

also be self-righteous, a bit worry-prone,

and emotionally intense. They are like

sainted pit-bulls who never let go of

something once they are committed. When you

deal with a BLUE, be sincere, make an effort

to truly understand them, and truly

appreciate them.


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I suppose this is accurate. I do expect quite a lot of other people. I don't know about all that, "i need to be understood!" stuff...]]> Wednesday, February 8, 2006 08:53 AM
Glad you liked the Star Wars vid. Though I must say I got kind of sniffy at them calling it 1337. There was barely any actual 1337 in it, it was just dumb internet speak. (But still funny.)]]> Monday, February 6, 2006 07:14 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2006 09:29 AM Monday, February 6, 2006 04:03 PM Monday, February 6, 2006 04:04 PM Wednesday, February 8, 2006 08:55 AM both be Spider-Man. You're clearly the clone Spider-Man, and I'm the real one.]]> Wednesday, February 8, 2006 09:56 AM Friday, February 3, 2006 06:10 PM Monday, February 6, 2006 02:14 PM Monday, February 6, 2006 12:55 PM Friday, February 3, 2006 04:48 PM Friday, February 3, 2006 08:40 PM
b: Indeed. I'm lovin' it!

ST: Good point.]]> Monday, February 6, 2006 12:55 PM Deja Vu is a good name for more or less any Tony Scott movie. Can't think of one where I didn't leave thinking that I'd seen that movie before.]]> Saturday, February 4, 2006 07:33 PM Wednesday, February 1, 2006 07:00 PM Thursday, February 2, 2006 08:23 AM Wednesday, February 1, 2006 02:05 PM Wednesday, February 1, 2006 03:41 PM Wednesday, February 1, 2006 10:52 AM Tuesday, January 31, 2006 01:25 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:12 AM Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:22 AM You scored 32% Cold and 51% Level-Headed!

I think most people get this!]]> Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:38 PM Wednesday, February 1, 2006 02:06 PM Monday, January 30, 2006 03:10 PM Monday, January 30, 2006 03:29 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2006 08:59 AM Tuesday, January 31, 2006 09:49 AM Wednesday, February 1, 2006 09:16 AM

Who Should Paint You: Gustav Klimt

Sensual and gorgeous, you would inspire an enchanting portrait.. With just enough classic appeal to be hung in any museum!

What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

]]> Tuesday, January 31, 2006 08:56 AM Tuesday, January 31, 2006 09:49 AM Friday, January 27, 2006 02:07 PM
Omega Man?]]> Friday, January 27, 2006 11:00 PM Collapse didn't hold up. Heh.

b: Yeah, you keep working on that, buddy.]]> Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:04 PM
That's fucking awesome. No pun intended.]]> Thursday, January 26, 2006 03:06 PM Thursday, January 26, 2006 08:58 PM Gaslight alone.]]> Thursday, January 26, 2006 03:07 PM Thursday, January 26, 2006 08:46 PM
C: Argh! Suck! Well, maybe Sony won't cut their robot money all across the board. And anyway somebody's gotta pick up the slack on robot research.]]> Thursday, January 26, 2006 08:59 PM
also, dude, the ether is soooo 19th century.]]> Friday, January 27, 2006 07:43 AM Thursday, January 26, 2006 02:19 PM Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:09 AM
kds: For complaining about him so much, I have actually read an unreasonable amount of Stephen King's work, including The Stand (which I seem to remember liking okay). It's funny you should say that about the movies of his books being horrible; some of my favorite things to come out of King's work are movies: The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, the TV movie Storm of the Century.

b: Ugh. Well, perhaps now you have sufficiently lowered my expectations that I will enjoy the final few books. We'll see...]]> Thursday, January 26, 2006 09:18 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:28 PM Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:32 PM
I am surprised to read kds' comment that it was the best one--although I think i remember hearing this at the star wars party, and it surprised me then too. For me, there was so much potential in the idea of the dark tower that pretty much anything that actually pinned it down and described it was going to be a letdown. and so it was. a letdown. the last obstacles the gunslinger had to face were lame and unimpressive and--based on the man in black's fearful ramblings at the end of book one--not nearly as threatening as they should have been. and the secret inside the tower is really hard for me to find fulfilling in any way. since you are my twin, you will probably feel the same.

however, i still feel that it is worth it to for you to finish the series, and that mr. king did put together something special and really achieved something by finally punching the last story out. i think to a certain extent i have to adjust to the disappointment of not getting what i wanted or expected out of the last book, and get used to what he actually wrote. though honestly, i recall that even mr. king himself admits to being unhappy with the ending.]]> Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:38 PM
It lost me somewhere in Book 3 as well. I'm probably going to go back and try it again (it's the sort of thing you really have to do in one go since there's so much going on), but not soon, as I'm still trying to get back to Gormenghast, which Das Mighty Sarcasmo and I were/are reading.

RE: The Dark Tower

Book 4 ("The Wasteland") is, I believe, one of the best books SK ever wrote (up there with "The Eyes of the Dragon" and "The Shining," my other two favorites). Book 5 ("Wizard and Glass") is, unfortunately, easily one of the worst. It's miserable. It's the book that completely destroyed my opinion of both SK and the Dark Tower series.

I've not heard good things about the rest of the series, so be warned, it might very well go *down*hill from there...

RE: Music

I am *so* loving the Fiona Apple CD ya'll got me for my b-day. :)

-- d]]> Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:50 AM The Wasteland is actually book 3, and I just finished it, and I didn't even like that one. I remember disliking Wizard and Glass the first time I tried to get through the series, so I'm not looking forward to it. *sigh*

Glad you like the CD! I got a copy myself not soon after I got you yours. It's pretty good stuff.]]> Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:10 AM
You really didn't like it? It's been ages since I read it, but I do remember really enjoing it. It's one of only two SK books I've bothered to continue owning.

Glad you're liking the album as well. I'm particularly grooving on "tymps, or the sick in the head song." :)

-- d, who really has to like anyone who works "feet of clay" or "falderol" into a song. ;)]]> Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:21 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:50 PM
Basically, if it were literature in the common sense, it would be the equivalent of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

[To be perfectly clear, however, it does have antecedents, most particularly the original Adventure, from which it very obviously cribs.]

It's got problems. It's an unapologetic puzzle-fest, it's got mazes, it's got places where you can make the game unwinnable and it'll never tell you.

INFORM (the company that made it) got better as they went, in my opinion. Their later games don't have all of those annoyances. At their very height (say, someting like TRINITY), I believe they truly transcended gaming and hit the level of 'art'.

There's a lot of IF out there that I could point you at that might be more your cup of tea.

-- d]]> Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:55 AM robo-panhandlers.
these days). Soon humans will be removed from *every* process entirely.
]]> Monday, January 23, 2006 02:02 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 02:38 PM
Also, while Reagan seems to have a vast appreciation for Hollywood movies from at least the thirties on (and reasonably good taste, all things considered), there's only two foreign language movies on the list.]]> Monday, January 23, 2006 03:09 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 03:15 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 03:38 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 02:55 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 01:27 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 02:57 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 03:37 PM Monday, January 23, 2006 12:19 PM Friday, January 20, 2006 09:22 PM Tuesday, January 24, 2006 09:13 AM Tuesday, January 24, 2006 09:57 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006 09:33 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:31 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:32 AM Thursday, January 26, 2006 09:04 PM Tuesday, January 24, 2006 09:16 AM Thursday, January 19, 2006 09:36 PM Thursday, January 19, 2006 05:39 PM
Seriously, though. Damn Feds. What a bunch of bastards.]]> Thursday, January 19, 2006 01:47 PM Search Engine Watch. Not only is it vaguely of concern for privacy issues, it is also a pretty inefficient way of going about things.]]> Thursday, January 19, 2006 02:42 PM Tuesday, January 24, 2006 09:19 AM Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:12 AM Thursday, January 19, 2006 08:33 AM Thursday, January 19, 2006 09:22 AM Friday, January 20, 2006 01:21 PM
heather: I know you do! Thanks dude.]]> Thursday, January 19, 2006 03:48 PM or maybe even mine]]> Thursday, January 19, 2006 08:16 PM Thursday, January 19, 2006 08:34 AM
These animals are sleepy, too.]]> Wednesday, January 18, 2006 02:20 PM Prove It tests! How's that for a bad day? And they didn't even work right! The whole tops were cut off and I had to use the menu to do everything! The woman looked shocked when I got through 4 tests in 15 minutes with all 100%. I don't think she actually read my resume. LOL. ]]> Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:14 PM Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:19 PM Sure there is.]]> Monday, January 16, 2006 04:31 PM
Nothing, so long as you're aware that you're giving them money for a promise that they cannot possibly guarantee they'll be able or willing to fulfill. Aside from losing the $10, I'm sure the consequences will be minimal.

Then again, Neil may decide that he hates you. Especially if it works.]]> Monday, January 16, 2006 08:30 PM
ST: Hmmm...well, being out ten bucks is not a big deal, but the possibility of Neil hating me is depressing indeed. Perhaps I will defer...]]> Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:07 AM Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:22 AM Monday, January 16, 2006 09:39 PM Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:09 AM Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:02 PM Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:41 PM
So sue me.]]> Friday, January 13, 2006 04:33 PM Saturday, January 14, 2006 09:51 AM Sunday, January 15, 2006 03:12 PM Friday, January 13, 2006 04:44 PM
i have the doctor who christmas special on dvd. nyah.]]> Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:25 PM
Sci Fi Channel has bought the rights to the 13 episodes of Doctor Who made in 2005. They will be airing starting in March, Fridays at 9 pm. They have an option to buy season two depending on how things go. Sweeeeeet. Have to see how they edit the show different than my versions...]]> Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:30 PM
TN: I am so glad! I thought I was out of his bride window.]]> Friday, January 13, 2006 10:28 AM Thursday, January 12, 2006 04:06 PM Thursday, January 12, 2006 04:41 PM Thursday, January 12, 2006 04:46 PM Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:22 PM Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:12 AM Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:40 AM Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:18 PM
Victor Van Dort
You scored 28% villainy, 32% crazy, and 28% love or lust!
You are Victor Van Dort from The Corpse Bride. You are moral, bumbling or awkward, and shy. Love is something that you are not actively seeking, but if you meet that one person (who is alive), she/he will appreciate you fully for your unpretentious nature and endearing qualities. Actually even if they are not alive you will probably find a place in their rotting hearts.
]]> Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:02 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2006 02:47 PM
Also awesome? Scanning with a mouse! I just wonder if I can use it to play songs....]]> Tuesday, January 10, 2006 09:54 AM
As for playing songs with a mouse, put down whatever you're doing right now and work on that immediately! It's obviously more important.]]> Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:19 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:34 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 02:07 PM Doctor Who for free at the Rotunda this week, starting at 6PM. Figures.]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 02:09 PM Monday, January 9, 2006 02:20 PM
S: Awesome, thanks! I may have to check that out... It's ironic that going to England would actually cause you to miss seeing Doctor Who... :)

L: Ah, I'm glad someone else had a similar reaction.]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 02:47 PM
jim, we should have our own doctor who party. that would rock.]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 09:37 PM
But yeah, a Doctor Who party would be cool. So would having this season of the show on DVD. Because thinking about that marathon at the Rotunda more carefully, I realized it would go to about 4 in the morning on a work night, and I can't really swing that.]]> Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:21 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:24 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:30 AM
There are a lot of things that I guess should disturb me about this image, but for me the worst bit is Batman apparently propositioning Space Ghost's underage sidekick. *shiver*

I like Superman with his knee up clutching a wad of bills, and the wild-eyed look of frenzy on Wonder Woman's face, though.]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 12:36 PM Monday, January 9, 2006 10:19 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 09:24 AM Red Son and it was really interesting. (Sadly, I just checked and my copy seems to be in storage, or else I'd lend it to you.) ]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 10:00 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 10:00 AM Red Son? If so, I'll see if I can borrow it from Jill...

S: That's cool; maybe my other connections will come through. :) Have a good trip if you haven't left already (which I think you have, actually)!]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 10:36 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 10:42 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 10:58 AM
But then, consider the source.]]> Friday, January 6, 2006 03:31 PM Monday, January 9, 2006 01:16 PM Monday, January 9, 2006 09:04 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 10:33 AM
"Too far" is, obviously, a very relative term.]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 12:41 PM
kds: Ah, that's an idea. Dark Side of Oz I believe that's known as.]]> Saturday, January 7, 2006 07:47 PM Saturday, January 7, 2006 07:48 PM Saturday, January 7, 2006 10:21 AM The Wizard of Oz refers to the verizon set to Pink Floyd.]]> Saturday, January 7, 2006 11:20 AM Saturday, January 7, 2006 11:21 AM Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:24 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 09:02 AM Friday, January 6, 2006 03:00 PM Friday, January 6, 2006 11:06 AM
Also, possibly my favorite title/painting in the gallery you linked to was "Duck Hunter S. Thompson."]]> Friday, January 6, 2006 11:10 AM Friday, January 6, 2006 11:07 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 09:00 AM Thursday, January 5, 2006 11:59 AM Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:38 PM Friday, January 6, 2006 01:16 PM Friday, January 6, 2006 09:21 AM Thursday, January 5, 2006 02:32 PM
Although I do kinda like the comment about Romance languages and maybe we should all compromise and pronounce it with a French accent. Zhhhhhhheeeeffff. I think that would be kinda awesome. But I am lame.]]> Thursday, January 5, 2006 03:09 PM Thursday, January 5, 2006 09:03 PM He-Man movie with lots of special effects.]]> Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:31 PM Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:41 PM
Heather: Hmm, maybe I should run the readability check again...]]> Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:50 PM Dismembering! The Musical! is coming out soon.]]> Friday, January 6, 2006 01:15 PM Friday, January 6, 2006 09:22 AM Monday, January 9, 2006 08:59 AM Cannibalism: The Musical.]]> Monday, January 9, 2006 10:33 AM
It would be great, however, to see Hostel with you. You react to horror movies exactly as their makers intend - with much jumping and screaming.]]> Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:52 PM " gives a nice list of albums with artwork; manipulating the URL of the album art can get you bigger or smaller images.]]> Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:43 AM Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:45 AM
Tee hee]]> Tuesday, January 3, 2006 02:46 PM Tuesday, January 3, 2006 02:55 PM Tuesday, January 3, 2006 03:06 PM Tuesday, January 3, 2006 03:59 PM Donnie Darko, I've never trusted that guy. And my time-travelling, bunny-suited friend agrees with me.]]> Tuesday, January 3, 2006 04:07 PM Wednesday, January 4, 2006 11:14 AM Tuesday, January 3, 2006 01:14 PM Tuesday, January 3, 2006 01:35 PM
Sarcasmo: I'll bring it tomorrow if you'd like.]]> Tuesday, January 3, 2006 01:55 PM Tuesday, January 3, 2006 02:56 PM Monday, January 2, 2006 03:36 PM Thursday, January 5, 2006 02:34 PM Thursday, January 5, 2006 02:35 PM Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill Acoustic was made for a special demographic: People for whom regular electric Alanis Morissette rocks way too hard.

I always look forward to this article.]]> Friday, December 30, 2005 12:32 PM Thursday, December 29, 2005 02:39 PM
(Of course, this film will probably not be as bad as The Terminal.)]]> Thursday, December 29, 2005 04:41 PM Sunday, January 1, 2006 05:11 PM Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:02 PM Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:01 AM Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:01 AM You teach us to love and then you break our hearts!

That's a fantastic and versatile phrase. Thank you, Heather, for your feelings of bitter, bitter disappointment and betrayal!]]> Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:06 AM ffmpeg, which you could just use directly via the command line. You might have to compile it for Windows, though, since the binary on SourceForge is pretty ancient.

For Mac you have ffmpegX, Handbrake and iSquint. (Handbrake lite is a separate offshoot of Handbrake to simplify ripping from DVD only.)

For Windows, a little searching netted Videora iPod Converter, 3GPP_Converter, and Lathe (which is $5 and doesn't support iPod yet, I think, but may be the easiest to use when it does finally add iPod support).

Or if all of this seems like too much for you, you could just trade me your video iPod for my color iPod Ñ problem solved! ;)]]> Thursday, December 29, 2005 02:37 PM
Uh, don't think I'm going to go with your trade idea, though. :)]]> Thursday, December 29, 2005 03:01 PM "Mac utility" so I'm going to go ahead and assume it will not run on my PC.]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2005 01:54 PM Wednesday, December 28, 2005 08:40 AM Wednesday, December 28, 2005 09:22 AM this help?]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:20 AM
Still, it sounds like a neat little application. Thanks!]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:49 AM Tuesday, December 27, 2005 04:57 PM Tuesday, December 27, 2005 09:35 PM Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:09 PM and most of the time there's no way to tell the difference. I use amazon when I need to save some cash and want to have reviews and assurances; I wander about a bookstore when my soul needs some nourishing. Libraries often work for me too, but there's something about the crispness of new books that just does it for me.]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2005 08:54 AM
p: I see what you're saying. But movie rental stores nourish no one's soul, I don't think. Plus, Netflix is more likely to have the weird interesting stuff than your average movie rental store, whereas a used book store is probably more likely to have something weird and random than Amazon.]]> Wednesday, December 28, 2005 09:25 AM Tuesday, December 27, 2005 02:37 AM Tuesday, December 27, 2005 03:12 PM Battlefont 2 first, but the listed price on Amazon was higher than $25, so I went with the original Battlefront instead.]]> Tuesday, December 27, 2005 03:48 PM Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:05 AM
I did get Star Wars Battlefront, though.]]> Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:13 PM Sunday, December 25, 2005 12:29 PM Monday, December 26, 2005 08:17 AM Saturday, December 24, 2005 09:43 AM
*carefully cancels plans to make a top ten list*]]> Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:57 AM Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:16 PM Stealth. Just to fuck with David.]]> Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:25 PM Godzilla 2000 did.

ST: LOL. You are an evil man.]]> Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:41 PM Friday, December 23, 2005 02:17 PM
You guys could switch it up and be a blue ghost and a powered-up Pac-Man, so the ghost has to run from Pac-Man, instead of the other way around. Then you get some other dude to run around and be a piece of fruit or a pretzel or something.]]> Friday, December 23, 2005 03:23 PM My second, more considered response, after mulling it over, was, "Well, I don't know, she's kind of hot, why not?"

No, your first response was correct. See: Bond Girl: Denise Richards.

Dude, you have some weird thing about Jessica Simpson. What's up with that?]]> Saturday, December 24, 2005 09:45 AM Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:02 AM
I definitely thought of Denise Richards in connection with the Jessica Simpson possibility. As in, Bond girls of the past have been dumb, bad actresses, so why not Jessica? Seriously, I really do despise watching Jessica's show, hate her music, and find her pretty much a complete waste of personhood. But...she's kind of hot.

As for the Horrors of War movie...yeah, it's really kind of not even as good as your average fan-made Star Wars film. It'll probably go straight to DVD or something.]]> Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:01 PM Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:06 PM Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:41 PM Friday, December 23, 2005 10:23 AM Thursday, December 22, 2005 03:32 PM
I do appreciate your point that we should get a more balanced view of the facts, as there's a lot of opinionated and even plainly false information spread around on the internet. But I read various news and opinion sites of various sorts, and the one you linked to was the first one I'd seen that actually tried to argue that what Bush did was legal.

Here's another interesting discussion of the legal issues.

Anyway, I don't like the adversarial tone you've taken here, Ron. We're not blindly following anyone's line. We're looking at the facts, and the facts have been bashing Bush all by themselves for quite some time now.]]> Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:35 AM Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:00 AM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 03:39 PM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 03:43 PM http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0512210142dec21,0,3553632.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed]]> Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:07 PM Here's another, via Aerenchyma.]]> Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:28 PM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 05:58 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2005 08:45 AM Origin of Species punishment. I say we administer it to the ID folks ASAP. Beatings all around!]]> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:07 PM
I'm a little concerned about the wording in the article, though...it says ID "cannot be mentioned in biology classes."

What if a student brings it up in passing or something? Will the teacher be able to beat them soundly with 'Origin of the Species?']]> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:25 PM
PS I am not DR's stalker. Yet.]]> Monday, December 26, 2005 08:26 AM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:08 PM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:57 PM The Hobbit in 3D.

man - that would rock.]]> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 02:40 PM
S: It's like the smoke rings are really floating over my head!]]> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 02:49 PM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 09:21 PM
Yay, 3D!]]> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:26 PM Monday, December 19, 2005 03:41 PM Monday, December 19, 2005 04:13 PM Vacciniums that likewise disgust you?]]> Monday, December 19, 2005 04:23 PM Monday, December 19, 2005 04:47 PM
Dune? Quotable? I've never heard anyone quote Dune. Get off the pipe.]]> Monday, December 19, 2005 06:01 PM AoD and PF. As for Dune...you need to watch more movies with me. I'll always find plenty of excuses to say stuff like, "Tell me of the waters of your home world, Usul." (Also, I was kind of kidding. :p)]]> Monday, December 19, 2005 06:09 PM Monday, December 19, 2005 07:31 PM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 09:20 AM
Heather: Good point. All hail!]]> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:28 AM Monday, December 19, 2005 01:03 PM Monday, December 19, 2005 02:19 PM Monday, December 19, 2005 09:56 AM
Also, unlike you, I didn't find the end of the film gripping at all. By that time, I was too worn out. I was like "Yes, I get it, it's tragic. I don't need yet another scene of Naomi Watts looking sadly into Kong's eyes. Just fall already."]]> Monday, December 19, 2005 11:59 AM Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:43 PM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 09:23 AM Jackson said back in January, when he acquied film rights to the story, that the biggest challenge would be visualizing Susie's heaven, which is deliberately vague in the book.

I imagine it will involve dinosaurs fighting each other.]]> Monday, December 19, 2005 12:03 PM Saturday, December 17, 2005 01:51 PM Saturday, December 17, 2005 02:14 PM
mouse: way purple.

ST: I agree, I think it has more of a Sofia feel to it. Pete is just a little too heavy handed I think.]]> Saturday, December 17, 2005 03:07 PM Saturday, December 17, 2005 09:13 AM
did you see the burger king add that does a spoof of kong? it's pretty funny.]]> Sunday, December 18, 2005 07:45 AM city on the edge of forever, and as we know mccoy is called bones, and jim's first bullet point talked about "the lovely bones." reverse engineering.]]> Sunday, December 18, 2005 07:48 AM The Lovely Bones. Jackson does indeed tend towards the heavy-handed. Well, we'll see what happens.

b: I did see the Burger King commercial; I love all those new ads with "The King." Great stuff.

You recognized where the post title came from, as I knew you would. As for its actual connection to the post...well, that's always a pretty subconscious thing, if it's there at all...so...yeah! That's exactly what I was thinking! :)

As for the Kong review, I'm putting it together now.]]> Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:26 AM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 09:03 AM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 09:25 AM Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:00 AM

You taste like a milkshake. Your frozen malts send
a delicious thrill across the tongue. Your
sweetness and innocence are bared for the world
to suck up with a straw... and you love it,
baby.


How do you taste?
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Alison: I do like some Gaiman, and I actually saw the BBC TV movie of Neverwhere thanks to Peccable, but I never read it. I have to say, I was underwhelmed by the BBC production, but maybe I'll give the book a try some time; I suspect it's quite a bit better, knowing how these things usually go.]]> Friday, December 16, 2005 01:55 PM Friday, December 16, 2005 04:08 PM Friday, December 16, 2005 05:22 PM Friday, December 16, 2005 05:22 PM
ST: Heh.]]> Friday, December 16, 2005 11:37 PM Friday, December 16, 2005 12:06 PM Friday, December 16, 2005 12:56 PM Saturday, December 17, 2005 12:01 AM Thursday, December 15, 2005 03:00 PM Thursday, December 15, 2005 03:07 PM
However, Neil came up as more manly than any of us on that quiz, if I recall correctly, so I think he should totally get in there and kick some hetero ass! I'm just saying is all.]]> Thursday, December 15, 2005 01:42 PM
Also...the ways in this is ridiculous are too numerous to name. ]]> Thursday, December 15, 2005 03:47 PM I take just as much "on faith" as any spiritualist when I say I believe in evolution, when I believe what people tell me a particular gene does, when people tell me which nerves are at work as I type this.

I would argue that this is not the case, except that I'm at work now and don't really have the time for an argument.]]> Friday, December 16, 2005 12:10 PM Sin City, but I have to say, I'm skeptical.]]> Thursday, December 15, 2005 02:40 AM Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:10 AM Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:10 AM Friday, December 16, 2005 10:34 AM Thursday, December 15, 2005 01:58 PM I did want to mention, however, Sarcasmo, that a diner near us sells a kids' meal called "Chicken Little" which includes chicken fingers. That's pretty messed up if you ask me.

That's...so wrong.]]> Thursday, December 15, 2005 07:17 AM Thursday, December 15, 2005 09:05 AM Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:17 PM
By the way, Feanor, here's a snippet from The Space Merchants that talks about Chicken Little. It's actually one of my favorite sci-fi books. ]]> Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:46 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2005 01:36 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2005 01:48 PM
I did want to mention, however, Sarcasmo, that a diner near us sells a kids' meal called "Chicken Little" which includes chicken fingers. That's pretty messed up if you ask me.]]> Wednesday, December 14, 2005 04:05 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:02 AM The Space Merchants. And now the pigoons too.

Poor pigoons.]]> Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:08 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2005 04:06 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:10 PM Tuesday, December 13, 2005 02:28 PM Wednesday, December 14, 2005 03:29 PM Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:08 AM Monday, December 12, 2005 04:53 PM Tuesday, December 13, 2005 09:26 AM Monday, December 12, 2005 01:03 PM
ST: Really? I'd heard good things...]]> Monday, December 12, 2005 01:10 PM Monday, December 12, 2005 01:36 PM Monday, December 12, 2005 02:24 PM Monday, December 12, 2005 04:07 PM Monday, December 12, 2005 04:47 PM Monday, December 12, 2005 11:30 AM Marie Antoinette; the song is such an unlikely choice, but it really works. I suspect Coppola did the teaser herself.]]> Monday, December 12, 2005 01:39 AM Monday, December 12, 2005 09:36 AM
Wanted was pretty freakin' brutal. I wonder if they're going to tone the protagonist down, or if they're going to leave him a vengeful psychopath rapist mass murderer/hitman/serial killer.]]> Friday, December 9, 2005 04:10 PM Friday, December 9, 2005 04:48 PM Friday, December 9, 2005 10:20 PM Night Watch. Also, I'm sure they will totally white wash the character in Wanted if that's what he was like. This is Universal we're talking about.

D: How come you haven't played all of them, huh, huh??

C: Forgetting the "WHERE" clause on your DELETE statement is VERY VERY BAD.]]> Saturday, December 10, 2005 01:04 PM Monday, December 12, 2005 08:31 AM Monday, December 12, 2005 09:37 AM Monday, December 12, 2005 09:37 AM Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:38 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 09:25 PM this?]]> Thursday, December 8, 2005 09:55 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 10:05 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 11:30 PM Friday, December 9, 2005 10:09 AM ]]> Thursday, December 8, 2005 09:23 PM Friday, December 9, 2005 04:44 PM Saturday, December 10, 2005 01:01 PM
D: Hey, now. None of that. You heard what the lady said.]]> Thursday, December 8, 2005 05:33 PM
BGG has a gallery full of scary goodness.

There's also a review up.]]> Thursday, December 8, 2005 07:17 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 08:29 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 10:05 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 05:36 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 09:02 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 09:49 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 10:06 PM Mars 2112 in NYC.

And it was AWESOME.]]> Wednesday, December 7, 2005 09:04 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 10:06 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 10:50 PM Friday, December 9, 2005 02:55 PM Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:59 PM
just kidding.]]> Thursday, December 8, 2005 05:33 AM Thursday, December 8, 2005 06:13 PM Thursday, December 8, 2005 05:32 AM Thursday, December 8, 2005 06:15 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 08:30 PM See here. Her mutant ability is being able to pass through solid objects by "phasing."]]> Wednesday, December 7, 2005 08:34 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 08:35 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 01:04 AM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 01:51 AM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 12:02 AM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 10:02 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 10:13 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 11:36 PM
Feminine
You scored 40 masculinity and 60 femininity!
You scored high on femininity and low on masculinity. You have a traditionally feminine personality.




My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 5% on masculinity

You scored higher than 44% on femininity

]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 09:47 PM
Sorry, I mean, hmm... Interesting.]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 09:56 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 01:05 AM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 03:41 AM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 04:47 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 12:30 AM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 08:24 PM
You are a sick, sick woman.]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 08:25 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 08:51 PM Wednesday, December 7, 2005 05:12 PM ]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 05:12 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 05:13 PM The Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. A tragic accident and a few odd regulations lead to Tim Allen becoming Santa Claus. He is then promptly kidnapped by Martians, and only with the help of two adorable Martian children can he escape and save Christmas.

Heather: That movie was set during the Depression? I had no idea. I thought it was set during the '50s.]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 05:31 PM Santa Clause Conquers The Martians? I'm disappointed.]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 08:27 AM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 08:33 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 01:59 AM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 04:46 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2005 05:34 PM Monday, December 5, 2005 05:09 PM ]]> Monday, December 5, 2005 04:56 PM
trackneil: That was... poetic.]]> Monday, December 5, 2005 04:57 PM Saturday, December 3, 2005 09:21 PM Saturday, December 3, 2005 10:32 PM
Admitedly, I'm biased because I don't want kids, so I can't imagine ever wanting this anyway.]]> Sunday, December 4, 2005 01:07 AM Sunday, December 4, 2005 09:40 PM
You get a free pass this week, Feanor.]]> Saturday, December 3, 2005 08:53 PM Sunday, December 4, 2005 05:51 AM Sunday, December 4, 2005 09:18 AM Friday, December 2, 2005 08:03 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 08:26 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 08:27 PM "Rarr?"
"Rarr."
(as enlightenment dawns:) "Oh, ra-a-arr."]]> Friday, December 2, 2005 08:48 PM Saturday, December 3, 2005 05:47 AM
...and: 27 points of...Raaarrrrr. Yarrr.

These magazines will keep my men from resorting to homosexuality....for about ten minutes!!]]> Saturday, December 3, 2005 06:26 AM
kds: I have not seen it. What is it a list of? Best episodes of TV shows ever or something?

bloginator: I thought you'd like those paintings. Also, nice quotage.]]> Sunday, December 4, 2005 05:52 AM Sunday, December 4, 2005 07:21 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 08:05 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 08:28 PM Sunday, December 4, 2005 01:17 AM
Oddly enough, they *did* carry "cure", the director's previous horror film. I liked it, and Star and I had an interesting conversation about it afterward (to the point where we rewound and rewatched several scenes), but it definitely had a "huh?" moment at the end, rather than an "oh!"

Also, Takashi Miike apparently did a *television* series that's available over here now. It's about a detective with multiple personality disorder who investigates horrific crimes that are somehow connected to his unknown/unknowable past. It's called MPD:Psycho (and I saw Psycho I, II, and III at the store, each disc had 3 episodes).

I'm curious, but also deeply, deeply afraid.]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 05:58 PM Pulse in the States until the remake comes out. But you can bet the original will be on DVD soon after that happens. (The original movie is on Netflix, but the release date is listed as unknown.)

Cure sounds interesting, as does the Miike TV series you describe - which is also on Netflix! And now, on my queue. Rock.]]> Tuesday, December 6, 2005 06:09 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 04:57 AM Friday, December 2, 2005 07:40 PM "Joy Jam" - Minutemen
Clearly you will have many, and they will like Jam, and yay your home will be joyous.

Can you give me some advice?
"They Stood Up For Love" - Live
Feel free to sit.

What’s my favourite fetish?
"Sowing the Seeds of Love" - Tears for Fears
Ummm...is that a euphemism I don't know?
Are you kidding me with this?]]> Thursday, December 1, 2005 07:21 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 07:22 PM
So...want to sow the seeds of love later?]]> Thursday, December 1, 2005 07:30 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 07:59 PM ...well, the title isn't very illuminating here, so let's look at the song itself. Hmm, typical Crows fair.

I think you mean "fare." I might have let this go, but then I remembered all the time you gave me shit about less and fewer.]]> Thursday, December 1, 2005 08:14 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 08:18 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 08:19 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 03:39 AM Friday, December 2, 2005 07:13 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 06:40 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 06:53 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 07:31 PM
Fred or George Weasley
The practical joke was invented for people like
you. You love to be surprised, and revel with
a guy who has a wicked sense of humour, is
always optimistic, and has the same merry
disregard for rules as you.


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]]> Thursday, December 1, 2005 08:19 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 09:40 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 09:51 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 09:57 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:25 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:38 PM Friday, December 2, 2005 12:38 AM best place to go shopping. That's sad.]]> Thursday, December 1, 2005 08:24 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 09:06 PM Wednesday, November 30, 2005 05:36 PM Wednesday, November 30, 2005 09:15 PM Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:01 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 06:10 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:40 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07:55 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 08:35 PM
you know you would.]]> Monday, October 31, 2005 04:27 AM Thursday, December 1, 2005 05:54 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 09:48 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:43 PM
...and I'd buy your games.]]> Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07:17 PM
Oh, and thanks for your encouragement! It's good to know I already have a future customer!]]> Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07:54 PM % He resolves, "I'm in way over my head!"

Grocer: He's, uh, talking to the ketchup, now. Burns is sure
acting nutty.
Supervisor: Maybe going broke and losing his plant destroyed his
brain.
[they go to Mr. Burns]
[Mr. Burns shakes and listens to the "Catsup" and
"Ketchup" bottles]
Could you come along with us, sir?
Burns: Are you here to solve my ketchup problem?
Grocer: Yess, that's right.
]]> Friday, December 2, 2005 07:16 PM meant to say.]]> Friday, December 2, 2005 07:42 PM
Thank you for the robot builder - I can't wait to play with it.]]> Monday, November 28, 2005 09:55 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 06:11 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 06:27 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 04:58 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 08:11 PM
Also -- I watched the Dungeon Siege promo. Oh. My. God. It's like a promo from another dimension. A dimension of PAIN.

I watched it going: oh my god, it's horrible and *he*'s in it? Him too? And that guy from that other movie? How did they do this? WHY did they do this?

Also notice that they were too cheap to get that "In a World" guy to do the voice overs, so they just printed "In A World" type phrases at the bottom of the screen...]]> Monday, November 28, 2005 10:25 PM Monday, November 28, 2005 10:33 PM
Yagathai: Oh. That sounds awesome!!]]> Monday, November 28, 2005 10:39 PM
I had several Dragon Quest hangovers over the weekend; my sister Amy bought it and was playing it when I came home for Thanksgiving, and in two days I'd gotten ahead of her. And I'm not sure what makes it so addictive, either.]]> Tuesday, November 29, 2005 02:49 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 05:03 AM
It's the design. It's really, really well done. It was created by Level-5 who are the people who did Dark Cloud 2, which is another of my favorite games.

What I think makes the game so addicitive is: (1) How beautiful it is, (2) How easy it is to play, (3) How much there is to do, (4) How enormous the world is, (5) How there's always Something Around the Next Corner.

What I think I'm really saying is that it comes down to pacing. I don't know how far into the game you are, but I can bet you haven't seen all of it. Not by a long shot. I've been playing it almost two weeks and I know I haven't seen all of it.]]> Tuesday, November 29, 2005 05:23 PM Monday, November 28, 2005 09:56 PM Thursday, December 1, 2005 06:13 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 02:46 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 05:01 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 05:57 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 06:33 AM
The death scene from Buffy is hilarious. The lead henchman, played by Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens gets stabbed. And rolls around on the floor singsonging, "Euch. Ow," for about an hour. Fakest death ever. It's wonderful.]]> Monday, November 28, 2005 04:44 AM
"He ripped my jacket! Kill him a lot."]]> Monday, November 28, 2005 06:07 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 04:26 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 05:30 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 06:19 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07:42 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:38 AM
kds: Yay, pirates! Thanks; hope you had a happy Thanksgiving yourself!]]> Sunday, November 27, 2005 07:54 AM
How about "Luc Besson" and "futuristic stoner comedy"?]]> Thursday, November 24, 2005 01:00 AM ]]> Thursday, November 24, 2005 04:29 AM Lethal Weapon into this!

Yes, I'm a very silver lining, sunny side kind of guy. At least as far as upcoming movies are concerned. My motto is, "It could be good!"]]> Wednesday, November 23, 2005 05:15 PM
i had no idea just how optimistic you were until the last few weeks' worth of blog posts... :)]]> Wednesday, November 23, 2005 06:59 AM Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:58 PM What, exactly, did they do with the bush?

I don't know - but I hope it's related to the tazer story..]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:35 PM Thursday, November 24, 2005 03:29 AM Wednesday, November 23, 2005 02:52 AM Wednesday, November 23, 2005 03:06 PM
boginator- Indeed. Maybe it's the wig.]]> Wednesday, November 23, 2005 04:56 PM Wednesday, November 23, 2005 05:13 PM Wednesday, November 23, 2005 05:23 PM Tuesday, November 22, 2005 07:54 PM Whisper of the Heart is a Studio Ghibli film, but it's not a Miyazaki film]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 07:59 PM You scored as William Wallace. The great Scottish warrior William Wallace led his people against their English oppressors in a campaign that won independence for Scotland and immortalized him in the hearts of his countrymen. With his warrior's heart, tactician's mind, and poet's soul, Wallace was a brilliant leader. He just wanted to live a simple life on his farm, but he gave it up to help his country in its time of need.

William Wallace		63%
Maximus		58%
The Amazing Spider-Man		50%
Captain Jack Sparrow		42%
Indiana Jones		38%
Lara Croft		38%
El Zorro		38%
James Bond, Agent 007		33%
Batman, the Dark Knight		29%
Neo, the "One"		25%
The Terminator		17%

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This was very surprising. They may take our lives, but they will never take our FREEDOM! I don't fancy getting disemboweled, though.]]> Wednesday, November 23, 2005 05:30 PM

You scored as Captain Jack Sparrow. Roguish,quick-witted, and incredibly lucky, Jack Sparrow is a pirate who sometimes ends up being a hero, against his better judgement. Captain Jack looks out for #1, but he can be counted on (usually) to do the right thing. He has an incredibly persuasive tongue, a mind that borders on genius or insanity, and an incredible talent for getting into trouble and getting out of it. Maybe its brains, maybe its genius, or maybe its just plain luck. Or maybe a mixture of all three. Captain Jack Sparrow 71% Maximus 63% Batman, the Dark Knight 50% The Terminator 50% The Amazing Spider-Man 46% Indiana Jones 42% James Bond, Agent 007 42% Neo, the "One" 38% Lara Croft 38% El Zorro 25% William Wallace 21% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

]]> Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:20 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 10:25 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 11:10 PM
that's good stuff right there.]]> Monday, November 21, 2005 10:29 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 11:02 PM Tuesday, November 22, 2005 03:55 PM
your movie called the prestige. I don't have any idea what it's about, because I don't remember your previous posts well enough. alls i know is, a "prestige" is the name of certain...objects which the marquis de sade tried to make his wife commission from french artisans so that he could...enjoy himself...while in prison.]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 04:35 AM Speaking of which...

(Btw, if your co-workers have sharp eyes and good imaginations, that link's probably not work safe.)]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 07:38 PM The Prestige is based on a novel about rival magicians getting into a conflict that escalates into a war.]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 08:14 AM
It gets *ridiculously* hard as it goes on. I got about half way through and gave up. Next time I tried it on the easier level and had a *much* better time.]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 04:55 PM Baten Kaitos rocks. I'll be posting about it in detail soon.]]> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 05:16 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 08:06 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 08:18 PM Monday, November 28, 2005 06:24 PM Monday, November 28, 2005 06:30 PM The holidays always make me feel apocalyptic (adjective). The first time I walk into Target(noun) and my limbs (plural noun) fall upon the enormous displays of earwigs (plural noun), even as my ears hearken (verb) to the sounds of pleasant(adjective) holiday Muzak, I am seized by a(n) flighty(adjective) sensation of rage (noun) that makes me want to sob (verb) all night long. ]]> Monday, November 21, 2005 05:43 PM
Mine didn't turn out very funny, though.

The holidays always make me feel lazy (adjective). The first time I walk into soccer ball (noun) and my spaghetti strands (plural noun) fall upon the enormous displays of yaks (plural noun), even as my ears wrap (verb) to the sounds of fancy (adjective) holiday Muzak, I am seized by a(n) quivering (adjective) sensation of tank (noun) that makes me want to munch (verb) all night long.]]> Monday, November 21, 2005 06:11 PM unprepared (adjective). The first time I walk into an empire of consumerism (noun) and my glassies (plural noun) fall upon the enormous displays of Christmas Crap (plural noun), even as my ears burn (verb) to the sounds of F-ing (adjective) holiday Muzak, I am seized by a(n) agigtated (adjective) sensation of desperation (noun) that makes me want to beat my head with a yule log (verb) all night long.]]> Monday, November 21, 2005 06:24 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 08:04 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 09:24 PM Friday, November 18, 2005 10:39 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 04:48 PM Scream movies, he should be fine with Goblet of Fire. It's definitely creepier than the other Potter movies, but it's not that bad.]]> Monday, November 21, 2005 06:08 PM Saturday, November 19, 2005 03:21 AM Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:43 AM Friday, November 18, 2005 11:48 PM Monday, November 21, 2005 06:07 PM
You fool; elementary physics teaches us that if you throw it into the sun, it will only generate a nuclear-powered superbeing with long fingernails that will do immense damage before finally... um... how _did_ they finally kill that guy, anyway? Was it with the elevator on the moon, or was it something else?]]> Saturday, November 19, 2005 02:30 AM Passion of the Superman as the title, but then decided to shoot for a wider demographic.

I can't wait for the scene where he picks up the stone that's in front of his tomb and throws it into the sun!!]]> Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:45 AM Friday, November 18, 2005 08:00 AM
But I don't want the HP universe to get messed up. Can't we keep one thing pure and beautiful, and not corrupt it with the desire for money? I know this is probably anti-American.]]> Friday, November 18, 2005 08:51 AM
Heather: You are obviously a filthy, stinking Communist.]]> Friday, November 18, 2005 09:09 AM Thursday, November 17, 2005 02:40 PM
Your 23rd post only had four sentences, but here's the last one (you were referring to altered book art collages):

I may have to hit up the used book store down the street...]]> Thursday, November 17, 2005 03:02 PM Thursday, November 17, 2005 01:19 PM Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:46 AM
d: :p

s: I've always said that about you. :)]]> Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:51 AM

You are Michel Foucault! You wrote groundbreaking
histories of prisons, hospitals, asylums, and
sex. Interestingly, you thought basically the
same thing about all of them. Your historical
accuracy is a bit dodgy, but that was never
really the point. You were very obsessed with
power roles - so obsessed that you frequented
gay S&M clubs, and died of AIDS in 1984.


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]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 02:27 PM Wednesday, November 16, 2005 02:27 PM Wednesday, November 16, 2005 08:06 PM
Clearly, I need to talk about penises more often.]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:33 PM Friday, November 18, 2005 08:54 AM
Yeah, we need Berman out of there, too, although I think his actual death is not necessary.]]> Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:53 AM
As for Star Trek, I agree this is good news, but I fear that until Rick Berman is dead, nothing good will happen with the francise. I don't know why they're afraid to shake things up. Well, we'll always have TNG reruns (and Deep Space Nine, for those of you in that camp). Happy memories...]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 02:00 PM Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:53 AM Wednesday, November 16, 2005 09:29 AM Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:44 PM Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:08 PM Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:10 AM
Also, I know you & Poppy like Lemurs. Did you know John Cleese has a type of lemur named in his honor? It's true: the Internets told me so.]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:11 AM a post a while ago. :)]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:14 AM him.]]> Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:09 PM
Man, I have terrible taste!]]> Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:11 PM Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:14 PM
p: Oh God no. Not that Sinbad. I hate that track-suit wearing fool. Gack.]]> Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:45 PM

Your Pimp Name Is...

Auntie Skillz

What's Your Pimp Name?

]]> Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:16 PM Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:44 PM both being in school, in the same department even?

You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)

You're a great thinker and a true philosopher. You'd make a talented professor or writer.

What Advanced Degree Should You Get?

]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 08:56 AM Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:32 PM Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:43 PM
Yes. Yes I actually, truly did and somehow completely and totally missed the reference.

Either that or you secretly changed it behind my back... ;)]]> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 09:20 AM Monday, November 14, 2005 02:04 PM Monday, November 14, 2005 02:55 PM Monday, November 14, 2005 05:28 PM Monday, November 14, 2005 09:41 PM
bloginator: Dude, the trailer is linked in the post! You just click, and then wait. You can even go and do something else while you're waiting. Seriously, you should watch it.

And yes, he fights a dinosaur. And it ROCKS.]]> Tuesday, November 15, 2005 09:05 AM
I always love that story about how your teacher failed Bob Dylan in Folk Music class.]]> Monday, November 14, 2005 12:52 PM
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Moderate
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Moderate
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Moderate
Level 7 (Violent)	Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Moderate

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test]]> Monday, November 14, 2005 12:27 PM Monday, November 14, 2005 12:43 PM Jet Li to star in Tekken movie.

I'm going to have a boner all day long.]]> Friday, November 11, 2005 10:42 AM Friday, November 11, 2005 12:16 PM here, Longdesc. Thanks for the tip!]]> Monday, November 14, 2005 09:46 AM www.alexmcaulay.com but not necessarily with Gylenhaal and Simpson!]]> Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:53 PM Friday, November 11, 2005 10:36 AM Monday, November 14, 2005 09:44 AM
I didn't know how it was going to go down, or when, but I knew that it was going to.

Cersei's so delusional. She thinks she's got everything under control; she thinks she's as good or better than her father. But unlike her father, she's utterly unable to see the whole chess board. She can see her own pieces, and those only 1 or 2 moves in advance. Several times she was given information that had she been smarter, she would have seen the significance of, but instead she dismissed as unimportant. She's just not got what it takes. ]]> Sunday, November 13, 2005 07:12 PM
Also, George is talking like ADwD is going to cover more time than AFfC, and given the ending I think it's totally doable.]]> Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:46 PM Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:27 AM Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:27 AM
And I wouldn't be so sure about the Hound being dead; isn't there a very large brother at the monastery with a leg wound much like Sandor had, with his face completely covered?]]> Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:30 AM Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:43 AM Wednesday, November 9, 2005 05:08 PM
However, that list appears to only include action films where the action is all guns, not kung-fu. That's fine, but they should have been a bit more clear about that.]]> Thursday, November 10, 2005 01:07 PM Wednesday, November 9, 2005 10:58 AM Internal Affairs, at least more than other HK action flicks. I thought it was kind of slick and Hollywood, but Tony Leung Chiu-wai is always good and you can't beat that premise. It's more '80s cop movie than John Woo, for what that's worth.]]> Wednesday, November 9, 2005 11:56 AM
ST: Huh. Well, I'm not really a big fan of '80s cop movies or John Woo, but...maybe I'll give it a shot anyway.]]> Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:25 PM Wednesday, November 9, 2005 11:52 AM Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:23 PM Dark City. I know I'm in the minority here - but I found the ending of Dark City disappointing. I'd like to see what the Director had in mind...]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 01:25 PM Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:53 PM Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:54 PM Tuesday, November 8, 2005 01:05 PM Tuesday, November 8, 2005 01:22 PM
Sarcasmo: All I can figure is that you manually set your computer clock, or you're using some weird browser/OS combination. However you're doing it, it's very upsetting to me. I never thought getting the time and date right on posts and comments would be the most irritating and recurring problem I have with my blog. Sigh.]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 01:54 PM Tuesday, November 8, 2005 02:15 PM
Maybe the little guys inside the computer that make it go have reset *their* watches.]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 03:11 PM
Also, re: Sansa, I love how manipulative and sharp she's getting. George has said (or at least implied) that the loss of Lady was significant to her character, and it makes me think that maybe Sansa is going to stay Alayne for the rest of her life.]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:11 PM Wow, even Sansa's chapter headings have changed to "Alayne." Intense.

yeah - I thought that was pretty impactful too.

I'm still disappointed by the lack of Tyrion though.]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:49 PM
As for Sansa becoming Alayne forever...that's creepy, but I can see it happening. It seems like all the Starks are either dying or having their original identities erased.

Sarcasmo: You quit that now! The time travelling, and the almost mentioning things I haven't read yet!]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:56 PM Monday, November 7, 2005 10:22 PM
Evelyn's mother also got Bert.]]> Tuesday, November 8, 2005 07:53 PM Tuesday, November 8, 2005 09:14 AM Monday, November 7, 2005 10:39 AM
I'm almost certain the Rugen is Varys.]]> Monday, November 7, 2005 09:48 AM
Also, check out the description of the undergoaler Rugen, and then think to yourself, Where have I seen this guy before?]]> Sunday, November 6, 2005 01:19 AM
Also, this feature is awesome. You should do it in a seperate post all the time, so that I don't have to e-mail comments to you.]]> Saturday, November 5, 2005 02:07 AM Saturday, November 5, 2005 10:14 PM Friday, November 4, 2005 01:55 PM Friday, November 4, 2005 05:24 PM Saturday, November 5, 2005 02:06 AM Saturday, November 5, 2005 08:27 AM
b: That was indeed a deliberate reference. As for remakes, I wish they would stick to remaking films that actually need to be remade - the bad ones. But of course the whole reason they're doing remakes is to capitalize on the success of a previous movie, so remaking an unsuccessful film would make no sense in that context.

ST: It's the filthy liberals is the problem.

kds: Ha! I haven't even gotten through the ones I'd already read before yet. I'm about halfway through The Wasteland, or whatever it's called - the third one. I keep getting slowed down by other things I'm reading.]]> Saturday, November 5, 2005 10:14 PM
2) Dude! A "Castelvania" movie! I'd totally go see that. Also, I also liked the "Alien vs. Predator" movie. What wasn't to like?]]> Friday, November 4, 2005 09:17 AM Friday, November 4, 2005 09:33 AM
2) Yeah, Castlevania! It'll even be a vampire movie, by definition, making it doubly attractive to me.

Some people complained about the fact that the characters and dialogue in Alien vs. Predator weren't very good. But they weren't very bad either, which is what I was expecting, so I was pleasantly surprised.]]> Friday, November 4, 2005 09:36 AM Thursday, November 3, 2005 08:31 PM Thursday, November 3, 2005 09:11 PM Thursday, November 3, 2005 09:26 PM This one shouldn't need a sign in... though I didn't need to sign in for the original link, so who knows.]]> Friday, November 4, 2005 08:50 AM
Anyway, interesting article. At least not all the Christians are crazy and stupid.]]> Friday, November 4, 2005 09:43 AM
Sadly, your link requires sign-in.]]> Thursday, November 3, 2005 09:12 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2005 05:12 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2005 05:15 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2005 05:27 PM quite as funny as the other stories I picked. Are you happy now?]]> Wednesday, November 2, 2005 05:53 PM Phillyist suggests they be chained to a radiator in a run-down motel and be forced to subsist on scrapple and stale Tastykakes.]]> Wednesday, November 2, 2005 02:18 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2005 02:20 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2005 02:41 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2005 04:29 PM Thursday, November 3, 2005 03:19 PM
On reactions to Frist, I don't know. Everybody interprets things according to their own world view. There are people who still like Bush and think he's done a good job (although admittedly that number has been slowly dwindling). So obviously people can believe any crazy thing.]]> Wednesday, November 2, 2005 02:51 PM
Also, how crazy is Bill Frist? He cannot come out of this looking competent in any way, shape, or form. Harry Reid is Mr. Smith-goes-to-washingtoning it up, and he just looks like a bitter, bitter man who can't come up with anything better than, "Wahhhah! He took away my gavel! Wahhhaah!"]]> Wednesday, November 2, 2005 09:50 AM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:00 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:09 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:17 PM ask?]]> Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:25 PM
Plus, that's not really a particularly flattering or exciting picture of you.]]> Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:34 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 04:56 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 01:00 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:47 AM
This may be the most embarrassing thing I've ever revealed about myself. Sigh.

Moving on...

If I recall correctly, there are actually 2 Beowulf movie projects currently in production. I didn't know Hollywood was so concerned with catering directly to the English Major market.]]> Monday, October 31, 2005 04:55 PM
It does look awesome; I've been hearing positive buzz about this since Sundance, so I'm really excited to see it.

Also, having seen Mysterious Skin, I'm very impressed with his acting abilities and interested to see what he does with the private-dick role.]]> Monday, October 31, 2005 06:25 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 02:26 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:19 PM
MR: Awesome! That's a fantastic idea.]]> Tuesday, November 1, 2005 03:36 PM
I imagine the Hollywood execs thinking on Beowulf goes something like this: "People have probably heard of it, and it has some literary cred, and we can give it a fantasy spin to bring in the LotR fans. Go with it!"

ST: Cool. Mysterious Skin just sounded kind of creepy to me, so I stayed away.]]> Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:39 AM
Oh, and Sarcasmo: we need to have a little chat about you hatin' on Dar Williams' version of "Comfortably Numb." ]]> Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:03 AM
kds: Heh. Man, wouldn't it rock if a Kate Moss-style video of Bush doing coke showed up on the web?]]> Monday, October 31, 2005 05:20 PM Saturday, October 29, 2005 02:04 AM Coping? Hear he's snorting coke again... Yea! Maybe he'll get up on a ledge...(one can only dream).]]> Saturday, October 29, 2005 08:52 AM Friday, October 28, 2005 03:46 PM
As my blog is Squishy Things (and extra teeth), I have no right to comment on the names of other people's internet journals. That being said, go right ahead with Monkeys in a Parenthetical Jungle! I think it's great and that you should do it. :)]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 08:09 PM Friday, October 28, 2005 09:07 AM Friday, October 28, 2005 09:08 AM Monday, October 31, 2005 07:00 PM Thursday, October 27, 2005 03:24 PM
I think they're crazy. But it's a lovely thought.]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 03:24 PM bio page on IMDB offers some explanations for the abuse allegations, though.

kheara: My feelings are similar. I'm thinking Gun with Ocassional Music or Amnesia Moon would be easier to adapt; you could probably even improve on them in the process, or at least make them make more sense.]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 03:37 PM
I think you meant "sold-out", but this way I get to imagine that Death Cab fans have like, totally sold out to the man. They've got fancy offices and everything, dude. You can't even talk to them about any real anymore, you know?]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 08:48 PM Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:51 AM Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:06 PM
You know, at first I read that as "King of Pope." And now I want to be King of Pope.

Poppy:

I think this is more likely an honest screw-up than a tactical feint. First of all, that's because the Bush administration does not exactly have an error-free record thus far. But also, consider how Republican politicians must be reacting to this news.

Those who supported Miers out of whatever tactical consideration now look pretty bad. People like James Dobson put their credibility with the base on the line and ended up holding the bag when the administration backed out on them. (Dobson released a hilarious, I-was-about-to-oppose-Miers-before-her-nomination-was-withdrawn statement this afternoon.) When the administration asks them to take another risk, are they going to be able to rely on Bush still being there to back them up? Probably not. So they're going to be more cautious.

Meanwhile, the Republicans who opposed her are now feeling pretty good. Bush lost this nomination the day after he lost a legislative fight over the Davis-Bacon Act, and now everybody's looking at indictments from Patrick Fitzgerald, or later Justice's Abramoff probe. DeLay has been indicted, Frist is under investigation. (Not to mention the low approval ratings for all concerned.) Are you more likely to respect a Bush administration threat about political consequences for opposing the next nominee? Of course not. So these guys are going to want to establish their independence and push the Bush administration around a bit.

What this basically amounts to is less wiggle-room for Karl Rove, and less power for Bush. Does this mean that the next nominee will be _better_, from a progressive point of view, or that this nomination will cripple the administration? No, not really. But from my perspective it suggests that Bush basically shot himself in the foot.]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 03:20 PM Thursday, October 27, 2005 07:03 PM
I can't wait to see who they parade out next.]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:37 AM Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:52 AM Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:52 AM
poppy: Now, now. I'm sure the next nominee will be horrendously unqualified, too.

Heather: Bwa ha ha! Excellent idea.]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:05 PM
Feanor: I think he prefers "Emperor" - like Palpatine.

Heather: I think you have the next big reality show there.]]> Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:30 PM Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:51 AM
RE: SotC

Yeah. Uhm. I have it and uhm. Yeah. I finished it.

An absolutely beautiful and incredible game. Finished it without any hints or anything. That's not to say that it wasn't frustrating at points, but just a wonderful experience. I'm still debating whether or not its better than ICO (which was the author's previous game).]]> Wednesday, October 26, 2005 02:39 PM
I'm going to need to borrow a lot of your games when/if I get that PS3. :)]]> Wednesday, October 26, 2005 03:04 PM
And how, exactly, does one get into wine research?]]> Wednesday, October 26, 2005 01:40 PM Wednesday, October 26, 2005 01:41 PM Tuesday, October 25, 2005 04:28 PM Nausicaa, but most of the time, yeah, subtitles are the way to go. I remember that with Kiki's Delivery Service in particular Disney actually gave the cat lines that weren't in the script to make him more of a wisecracking animal sidekick style of character.

Also, I'd be very curious to see your top-ten list.]]> Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:13 PM Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:28 PM
anon: Death Cab was pretty good! I enjoyed the show. I have to get to work on my review now. I've heard some Clap Your Hands, and although at first I didn't like it, now I can't wait to get the album. I'm looking forward to the show.

See, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker - never heard of them. Clearly my musical education is not yet complete.]]> Wednesday, October 26, 2005 09:06 AM Princess Mononoke.]]> Wednesday, October 26, 2005 09:06 AM Wednesday, October 26, 2005 09:29 AM >
WARNINGkds is radioactive. Wear protective clothing at all times.

Username:

From Go-Quiz.com
]]> Friday, October 21, 2005 07:42 PM Friday, October 21, 2005 09:59 AM Heather may explode without warningM
EXPLOSIVE

Username:

From Go-Quiz.com

See, it's so true. Ah, blog-quizmakers. Is there anything you don't know?]]> Friday, October 21, 2005 10:04 AM
Also I think Heather is right about Bono. With those sunglasses the only time he can see you is when the lights are otherwise blinding, but he loves you anyway. He is a wonderful man. He's always had a problem counting anyway. No one's ever had the heart to tell him. Don't you make fun of him for that!

That Zoo TV thing, yes, you can make fun of him for that. And the sunglasses. And the cowboy hat. But not the counting!]]> Monday, October 24, 2005 07:21 PM
ST: Well, sure, everybody's influenced by Kurosawa, and tends to reference his techniques, but it's not every day somebody tries to actually remake one of his films. And no, remaking one of his films won't really take away from the original, but it is kind of like spitting on it, which I find distasteful.]]> Monday, October 24, 2005 07:29 PM also thinks we're ugly and can't count.]]> Saturday, October 22, 2005 03:38 PM
btw, looking good in the wedding pics! that really was a big wedding. hope fun was had by all...]]> Saturday, October 22, 2005 09:49 PM Lord of the Rings movie to Courage Under Fire to C-3PO and R2-D2 to Izo does it, and I could probably think of more if I'd seen more than three Kurosawa movies. It's like saying, stop stealing Godard's techniques you cheap hacks!

Okay, obviously that's an exaggeration--JLG is probably more influential than AK--but I think it makes my point: artists who are really influential are going to get riffed on, parodied, and reimagined. It doesn't take away from The Seven Samurai if they make a crappy remake.]]> Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:55 PM Man Who Fell to Earth, because in the first half-an-hour or so, he managed to destroy much of what had endeared the characters in the book to me. I'll bet the Criteron edition, no matter how superior, can't fix that.]]> Thursday, October 20, 2005 04:47 PM Tuesday, October 25, 2005 09:20 AM Tuesday, October 25, 2005 09:52 AM Friday, October 21, 2005 10:00 AM Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:25 AM Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:52 AM Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:55 AM Wednesday, October 19, 2005 08:11 PM Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:45 AM Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:17 AM Tuesday, October 18, 2005 02:07 PM Nursery Cryme is not inferior to Wind and Wuthering; we agree. Although, I don't think Nursery Cryme has a weak second side. I mean, "Fountain of Salmacis!" Come on!]]> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 02:28 PM Tuesday, October 18, 2005 03:16 PM
But to each his own.]]> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 03:31 PM Wind and Wuthering is a bad album, of course; just not as good as Nursery Cryme. In fact, looking at it on Amazon right now, I'm realizing that it's a better album than I remembered. "Blood on the Rooftops" is a great track, and "One for the Vine," and "Eleventh Earl of Mar." "All in a Mouse's Night" is pretty dumb, though, and some of the other tracks are pretty forgettable.]]> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 03:34 PM Tuesday, October 18, 2005 03:35 PM
abbey road is the best beatles album, imo.

i am very disappointed that i rated an 80% (Sallah!) on the indiana jones quiz. I figured out that 80% of 14 questions means i got about 3 wrong. but i can't figure out which three it was. i'm going to spend all day worrying about it now...]]> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 07:35 AM Abbey Road, I was just certain for some reason that Sgt. Pepper's would come out on top.

Sallah! Holy smoke, my friend.]]> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:39 AM Saturday, October 15, 2005 01:51 PM Saturday, October 15, 2005 09:39 PM Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:36 AM
b: You appear to be right! I totally didn't remember that Craig was in that movie.

I think the story about Sam L. is true, too. Looking back at his filmography, I can totally believe that he chooses movies based entirely on their titles...]]> Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:32 AM
i was neutral also.
they've chosen a new bond!! comments??
]]> Friday, October 14, 2005 09:16 PM Friday, October 14, 2005 08:53 AM
c: Nice.

b: I was thinking of the song when I picked that title. And yes, King Crimson has been on the list, multiple times. I hadn't seen the further comments - I had to jump on and respond to them today. Sigh. Well, I did say this list led to discussions...

And yes, that is how you spell puerile. I even looked it up again to make sure.

p: What is he talking about, witty word play? Is he referring to the song about big balls?]]> Friday, October 14, 2005 09:45 AM Friday, October 14, 2005 09:56 AM Thursday, October 13, 2005 03:55 PM Thursday, October 13, 2005 07:42 PM Thursday, October 13, 2005 07:44 PM
"One is certain: you have great taste and plenty of ideas. You have clearly defined beliefs about what's good and what's bad in fashion but they are far from banal. Stylish and imaginative, you prefer to inspire admiration than to shock and you mostly succeed. Even if sometimes you'd like to have more courage to put on something absolutely outrageous you do great job in creating a unique look that others look up to. There is a possibility that you work in the fashion industry. If you don't, perhaps you should."]]> Thursday, October 13, 2005 01:39 PM Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:49 AM Tuesday, October 11, 2005 02:37 PM
I did like that movie, though. Great performance by Christopher Walken.]]> Tuesday, October 11, 2005 02:43 PM Wednesday, October 12, 2005 08:57 AM Wednesday, October 12, 2005 09:47 AM Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:29 AM
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Actually - could you imagine robot cars in GTA? You'd try and carjack one, and instead it would kidnap you and drive you across the desert - where hooker bent on revenge would beat you with copies of Bush's vetoed bill. Whee! ]]> Monday, October 10, 2005 02:48 PM Monday, October 10, 2005 03:06 PM
Well, there's this: "Able to achieve satisfaction through sexual activity." So good for you as far as that goes. :p]]> Monday, October 10, 2005 11:08 AM Monday, October 10, 2005 11:16 AM Friday, October 7, 2005 01:18 PM www.mightyrhapsody.com.]]> Friday, October 7, 2005 01:25 PM
That is indeed a legendary website.]]> Friday, October 7, 2005 02:26 PM Sunday, October 9, 2005 06:18 PM
And yes, that was Alexander Siddig. Good for him for grabbing on to that crucial Utility Arab niche.]]> Thursday, October 6, 2005 08:28 PM Friday, October 7, 2005 02:27 PM The Dark Knight Returns. I can only assume that Bruce Wayne is in the depths of the earth plotting strategy with his quasi-fascist army of thugs.]]> Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:46 AM Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:49 AM Thursday, October 6, 2005 12:00 PM Thursday, October 6, 2005 12:06 PM Friday, October 7, 2005 02:28 PM
Man - this is one of those times I really wish I knew how to make Flash movies..]]> Thursday, October 6, 2005 01:19 PM
ST: Hee hee! I totally want to see Snakes on a Train now.]]> Thursday, October 6, 2005 09:05 AM Snakes on a Train? You could use the snake from from Jungle Book and the one from Robin Hood.

In my head, it is already awesome.]]> Thursday, October 6, 2005 12:11 PM Thursday, October 6, 2005 12:22 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2005 10:50 PM 10,000 BC is going to be like Caveman, with the random Tyrannosaur howling at the moon and going cock-a-doodle-doo. Also, Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid could totally pop in for a reunion.

But seriously, how fucking stupid is that idea? I think I'd rather see Snakes on a Plane. (Actually, I'd really rather see a Disney movie called Snakes on a Train, where one adorable cartoon snake convinces another that they should switch murders. That would be awesome. And yes I am tired, why do you ask?)]]> Wednesday, October 5, 2005 11:51 PM Friday, October 7, 2005 02:28 PM 29% Combativeness, 43% Sneakiness, 85% Intellect, 30% Spirituality

Ya know, I find it truly freaky how I almost always end up with the same answers as you. ]]> Wednesday, October 5, 2005 09:34 AM Tuesday, October 4, 2005 01:24 PM Tuesday, October 4, 2005 01:27 PM Tuesday, October 4, 2005 01:41 PM
And just for the record... you mean the younger version of Sophie, right? Please?]]> Monday, October 3, 2005 01:21 PM
But yeah, definitely the young Sophie. I mean, ick.]]> Monday, October 3, 2005 01:21 PM Monday, October 3, 2005 02:47 PM Monday, October 3, 2005 04:23 PM
k: You'd think so, but it turns out, no. *shrug*]]> Monday, October 3, 2005 04:27 PM
Congratulations! You're Merry!

But I wanted to be Pippen! Insatiable bloodlust does sound spot on, though. Sigh.]]> Tuesday, October 4, 2005 03:17 PM Tuesday, October 4, 2005 09:11 AM
I have a copy of American Gods, courtesy Cyn, that I plan to read one of these days. I've heard mixed reviews.]]> Friday, September 30, 2005 09:02 AM
And I'm in favor of a new Superman movie on the sole condition that they absolutely must use John Williams' Superman main theme again. It's not Superman without the proper music.]]> Friday, September 30, 2005 12:11 PM
John Williams does write a good score. And since this one is not a restart, and they are trying to connect it to the original films as a sequel, I think you're right, and they should use the original music, at least to solidify the continuity if for no other reason.]]> Friday, September 30, 2005 12:15 PM Thursday, September 29, 2005 01:10 PM Thursday, September 29, 2005 03:04 PM
kds: Nice. Next time I'm at the store, and poppy's not with me...]]> Thursday, September 29, 2005 03:09 PM i also had been looking at those chocolate lucky charms and thinking to myself, "it's really just count chocula--so if count chocula was part irish, that's the cereal he would have." instead of being "spooky-fun" it's "lucky."

speaking of neil gaiman, i recently listened to his book "american gods." ever read it? it's pretty good. it's not fantastic, but it's good.]]> Thursday, September 29, 2005 08:01 PM Friday, September 30, 2005 09:05 AM Thursday, September 29, 2005 09:13 AM
Okay, better now.]]> Thursday, September 29, 2005 09:23 AM
I'm glad that a major source of news media has finally made us all aware of this problem.]]> Wednesday, September 28, 2005 09:42 PM

Congratulations - you got 10 out of 10 correct!

Not that I was ever in any real doubt, but I now know for sure that I am more qualified to run this country than its current president. Sigh.]]> Monday, October 3, 2005 09:05 AM Thursday, September 29, 2005 02:44 PM Thursday, September 29, 2005 03:08 PM Thursday, September 29, 2005 08:50 AM Thursday, September 29, 2005 09:12 AM Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:38 AM

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

]]> Wednesday, September 28, 2005 02:58 PM
But also, damn. You beat me.]]> Wednesday, September 28, 2005 03:11 PM Wednesday, September 28, 2005 04:53 PM Wednesday, September 28, 2005 09:43 PM Thursday, September 29, 2005 09:27 AM (I'd bet that the ship the show isn't named after would be on the losing end of that deal)

Maybe...but the Pegasus outclasses the Galactica by a long shot. If it comes down to a straight ahead battle, next season might be called "Battlestar Pegasus" ]]> Tuesday, September 27, 2005 04:05 PM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 04:46 PM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 04:56 PM
I'd give you more examples and explanations, but I'm tired and hungry and can't remember anything else right now.]]> Tuesday, September 27, 2005 04:59 PM I'm tired and hungry and can't remember anything else right now.

Hah! A typical liberal equivocation!]]> Tuesday, September 27, 2005 04:59 PM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 07:37 PM
Cyn: That particular porn-loss may not be the Feds fault. See here.]]> Wednesday, September 28, 2005 08:56 AM Wednesday, September 28, 2005 09:12 AM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 03:16 PM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 03:24 PM Revolver. I've heard it's bad, but it really looks good from the trailer, so I'm hoping for the best.

Also, I hear you really liked War of the Worlds!]]> Tuesday, September 27, 2005 03:25 PM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:34 AM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:35 AM Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:16 AM Jack too, so I thought it was probably for the best. Hopefully, working in a foreign country with limited funds and eventually going crazy works for him the second time around.]]> Friday, September 23, 2005 04:56 PM
Go for your Masters! Masters level courses are awesomely fun.]]> Friday, September 23, 2005 10:25 PM Friday, September 23, 2005 01:24 PM b: Thanks to you, too. You do sound tired. Hope it was a good birthday for you. See you this weekend.
v: D'oh! I guess they have a routine for taking orders, and they stick to it, regardless of how you try to derail them.]]> Friday, September 23, 2005 01:51 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 04:17 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 09:35 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 01:32 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 02:45 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 03:11 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 03:35 PM ST: Gracias!]]> Thursday, September 22, 2005 03:41 PM

You Are A: Lamb!

Peaceful and gentle, lambs have been used in religious imagery for millennia. Lambs are baby sheep, an animal tended by shephards since the dawn of history. As a lamb, you tend to stay together in a flock and graze on grassy land. Lambs don't mind being led and tend not to go off on their own.

You were almost a: Groundhog or a Kitten
You are least like a: Parakeet or a MonkeyWhat Cute Animal Are You?]]> Friday, September 23, 2005 09:36 AM Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:44 PM Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:53 AM
Also, feel better soon.]]> Wednesday, September 21, 2005 07:07 AM Wednesday, September 21, 2005 09:52 AM Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:10 AM
Personally, I could play with Hero Machine for hours. (Is it too dorky to admit I did one up of my character in the Winged Cheetahs campaign?)]]> Monday, September 19, 2005 11:07 PM Galen.

Alas, there was no background that would put him atop a tree.

Also - Ol' Firey Jim: Awesome]]> Tuesday, September 20, 2005 02:26 PM Tuesday, September 20, 2005 02:39 PM Tuesday, September 20, 2005 09:43 AM Dracula 3000. Ah, well, I'll get it from Netflix some day.

Thanks for encouraging my dreams! I'll just keep my feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars!]]> Monday, September 19, 2005 01:17 PM mice.]]> Monday, September 19, 2005 03:17 PM mouse is a bird. What a crazy world!]]> Monday, September 19, 2005 03:44 PM
I - for one - had a great day on Saturday, even if I did accidentally learn some geography. (And I managed to make it home in time for Drac 3K - which was also fab). I am quite convinced that one of these days, you and your dice will make it to the Diceland tournament of your dreams...


Which Eddie Izzard line are you?
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I am there!]]> Friday, September 16, 2005 01:34 AM Underworld on Netflix the other day. :)]]> Friday, September 16, 2005 09:21 AM Friday, September 16, 2005 09:15 AM
But seriously, thanks for some historical perspective there. I need to read more history myself.

Heather: Onward, Christian soldier! :)]]> Friday, September 16, 2005 09:21 AM Thursday, September 15, 2005 04:01 PM Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:08 AM Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:11 AM Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:20 AM
poppy: I'd be interested to hear more about your disagreements. I was kind of using patriotism and nationalism as synonyms, and that's maybe not exactly accurate. I basically got on a rant against religion in the pledge and in government, and then got sidetracked into a rant against blind patriotism. They don't necessarily have a lot to do with each other.

kheara: Indeed. The problem is, lots of folks want more God in school and in America in general, rather than less. And I can see why you'd want more God in education and government if you're a very religious person and live your life based on your religion. But I also think if you want a theocracy then you live in the wrong country.]]> Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:28 AM The Day After Tomorrow? But it was formally accomplished and politically quite sophisticated. Also, there were ravenous wolves.]]> Thursday, September 15, 2005 03:30 AM Thursday, September 15, 2005 08:17 AM I can think of one or two friends of mine who would REALLY enjoy living with Johnny Depp and a glammed-up pirate..

I SO call dibs.]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 02:17 PM
Ooo, ooo! Was it me? Were you thinking of me?]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 04:10 PM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 07:26 PM Thursday, September 15, 2005 08:11 AM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 01:46 PM This was my favorite.]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 01:48 PM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 02:19 PM It Takes a Penguin.]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 02:26 PM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:21 AM Gilmore Girls at 8 and House at 9. Besides Battlestar and The Simpsons, these are the only two shows currently on television that (a) I know the schedule for and (b) make an effort to watch.]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 04:33 PM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 09:29 AM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 09:42 AM The book "The Problem with Murmur Lee" gives away the ending by the middle of the book. Other than that I loved it. Thanks again. ]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 09:45 AM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 09:55 AM
kds: Maybe some day I'll do Wheel of Time again. I could probably skip the first one, because I know I read that one A LOT when I was younger. But I'm still rereading two other fantasy series right now, so it'll have to wait. Maybe I'll just sit it out until Jordan actually finishes the whole thing. That way I won't have to wait impatiently between books.]]> Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:30 AM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:14 AM Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:47 PM Tuesday, September 13, 2005 01:13 PM Tuesday, September 13, 2005 01:15 PM
http://slamonline.com/ot/omar/DavinciCode/]]> Tuesday, September 13, 2005 07:21 PM Tuesday, September 13, 2005 08:02 PM Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:45 PM Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:47 PM The Man and Snakes On A Plane for my next movie night. I'll call it, "Somebody Obviously Lost Tarantino's Phone Number."]]> Monday, September 12, 2005 06:27 PM Monday, September 12, 2005 08:08 PM
There are no excuses for The Man, though.]]> Monday, September 12, 2005 08:13 PM Monday, September 12, 2005 09:46 PM Snakes on a Plane? On one level, so stupid it's funny. On another level, just so stupid.

b: That is definitely the best still I've seen yet from the film. The first time I saw it, I didn't quite believe it.]]> Monday, September 12, 2005 10:55 PM Police Academy movie with Brad Pitt and Ewan McGregor in it - that's what I'd like to know.]]> Friday, September 9, 2005 01:22 PM Friday, September 9, 2005 01:22 PM would see a Police Academy movie with Brad Pitt and Ewan McGregor in it! They make anything better.]]> Friday, September 9, 2005 01:44 PM River Runs Through The Legends of the Fall exception.]]> Friday, September 9, 2005 04:50 PM Monday, September 12, 2005 01:11 PM
David: I'm proud to say that I had no idea how many there were, just that there were more than one, and they were all bad.]]> Monday, September 12, 2005 04:15 PM Friday, September 9, 2005 12:10 PM Friday, September 9, 2005 07:52 AM Friday, September 9, 2005 10:53 AM Thursday, September 8, 2005 01:02 PM Thursday, September 8, 2005 03:32 PM Thursday, September 8, 2005 12:50 PM Thursday, September 8, 2005 12:59 PM Friday, September 9, 2005 01:29 AM Friday, September 9, 2005 10:53 AM Thursday, September 8, 2005 01:04 PM Thursday, September 8, 2005 03:32 PM Thursday, September 8, 2005 11:23 AM Thursday, September 8, 2005 12:44 PM
And I liked O Brother, Where Art Thou.
That's about it.]]> Wednesday, September 7, 2005 04:41 PM
And there are things I liked about O Brother Where Art Thou, it just didn't really come together as a whole for me.]]> Wednesday, September 7, 2005 10:55 PM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 05:24 PM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:31 AM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 07:52 PM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:18 AM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:26 AM
Is art-rock really a seperate genre on the same level as prog-rock? I would say it's probably a larger genre under which prog-rock falls, or possibly even a sub-genre of prog-rock.

Anyways, you may be right about The Mars Volta, but I spent money on this album, so I'm going to have to spend some more time trying to like them.]]> Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:29 AM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:30 AM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:43 AM Number 2112, where she just says "Number 2112" over and over again?

I guess what I'm trying to say is, all prog rock is artsy rock, even if not all artsy rock is prog rock.]]> Tuesday, September 6, 2005 11:51 AM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 12:03 PM avant garde.]]> Tuesday, September 6, 2005 12:07 PM
Does everyone associated with The Core except for Tcheky Karyo count as one person? If yes, I'd go with that. If no, then ... back to the drawing board, I guess.]]> Monday, September 5, 2005 10:16 PM Monday, September 5, 2005 10:38 PM Monday, September 5, 2005 10:39 PM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 04:32 PM Tuesday, September 6, 2005 04:54 PM
kheara: Poor ninjas. Poor Tcheky Karyo. (Btw, thanks, I was just trying to remember that guy's name again.)]]> Tuesday, September 6, 2005 06:45 PM are from Red Bank...

Ah, The Core. Nice choice! I don't see why you can't whack multiple people, or groups of people. I mean, this is all theoretical, anyway. Unless you plan to hire a team of ninja hitmen now to carry out your sick plan! You sick-o.

ST: Actually--and don't take this the wrong way--I could totally see that.]]> Tuesday, September 6, 2005 09:32 AM Your film will be 59% romantic, 32% comedy, 45% complex plot, and a $ 42 million budget.
Your life will be portrayed on film as an intense psychological drama, likely with some actresses screaming at the camera (Persona), or maybe a pleasant chess game between the Grim Reaper and a Crusader (The Seventh Seal). This Swedish director's films are intensely scrutinzed and studied in colleges all over the world to this day. This means that most Americans still don't understand his films! Still alive, he released in the U.S. in 2005 his first film in 23 years (Saraband), and he can still take on one more project to make your film biography. If curious, start with his films Wild Strawberries and Smiles of a Summer Night.

Yep... sounds about right!
]]> Wednesday, September 7, 2005 09:59 AM
(and I, too, am blasting my name off to Pluto).]]> Friday, September 2, 2005 01:11 PM Friday, September 2, 2005 04:34 PM Saturday, September 3, 2005 06:48 AM
bloginator: Actually, the responses from the school board are quite complimentary, as they're from all the folks opposed to the Intelligent Design nonsense. I don't know if they got any letters from the other folks...

VM: :D I'm glad I was able to help open your mind to the deeper truths of the universe.]]> Saturday, September 3, 2005 10:00 AM Friday, September 2, 2005 09:07 AM Who needs Gnus when you have Pews]]> Friday, September 2, 2005 10:50 AM Friday, September 2, 2005 11:39 AM
(How long can I keep this up? Who knows?)]]> Thursday, September 1, 2005 10:38 PM Thursday, September 1, 2005 11:16 AM Thursday, September 1, 2005 11:35 AM Thursday, September 1, 2005 12:39 PM Thursday, September 1, 2005 12:45 PM Actually, things like this are exactly what Netflix is for. I'm just going to go add some stuff to my queue now. Lalala.]]> Wednesday, August 31, 2005 03:30 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2005 03:38 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2005 03:44 PM Tuesday, August 30, 2005 03:42 PM
He wouldn't feel like he was "doomed" if he knew what was good for him.]]> Tuesday, August 30, 2005 04:20 PM Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:19 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2005 03:38 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2005 03:39 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2005 09:06 AM Wednesday, August 31, 2005 09:26 AM Monday, August 29, 2005 04:40 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 04:48 PM told them there was a plot against their lives. Obviously Zarek and his boy would just deny deny deny, and probably Sharon would be killed for suggesting such a thing. Only by acting, thereby tricking what'shisname into acting, and then saving their keesters, could she possibly convince them of anything. The act of saving their lives from treachery is a very good move politically, and maybe it doesn't lend absolute creedence to all of her claims, but it definitely gives her more credibility.

kheara: I wasn't blaming them on you, specifically. But I've already seen the kitten wars link three or four times in the recent past...]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 05:09 PM
The bottom line is, had a Cylon grabbed for a gun near Adama, I would have shot to kill without a second thought, and Sharon has to take that into account. And for her, since she will give all her memories to a possibly less friendly model upon death, risking her life means exposing the resistance cel on Caprica to danger as well. Whatever piece of credibility she got pales in comparison with the harm that could have been caused.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 05:26 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 05:30 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 09:04 PM
Cyn: But do I want my life changed? I don't know!]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 09:17 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 10:02 PM
Also - did anyone else think Six was much cuter in a pony tail and loungewear than she has been in any other episode?]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 11:28 PM
As for Six, strangely enough I didn't really notice. She's so obviously supposed to be hot that I think I stopped considering whether she was actually hot or not.]]> Tuesday, August 30, 2005 09:29 AM Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:35 AM are the "greatest" albums, and vice versa. :p

But seriously, it would be interesting to see a list of "greatest" albums based on some kind of objective standard, or some kind of average of various objective standards--record sales, influence (calculated based on a survey of various bands on their influences?), etc. But it's also fun to just all argue about what we think are the best albums, based on our own individual taste.

And anyway, if you survey a wide enough base of people on what their favorite albums are, and average that out, do you arrive at something like "greatness"? Or maybe you arrive at what is simply the lowest common denominator...I don't know.

Heather: Heh. You're a nerd. Heh.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 01:12 PM There's an important point you're missing here. My "favorite" albums are the "greatest" albums, and vice versa. :p

Actually, I wholeheartedly endorse this position.

But you're not going to find an objective standard for "greatness." It's too intangible a concept. And as for surveying a wide audience... I mean, really. After all, Armeggedon was a box office smash.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 01:50 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 02:13 PM
I agree that the question of what would constitute aesthetic greatness would be an interesting debate--presumably there's something objectively different about Vertigo as compared to, say, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine--but I'm not sure that's what XPN cares about.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 02:16 PM Nebraska. It is a great album, but not one that I love as much as Born to Run. BtR I can listen to any time; I really have to be in the right mood to hear Nebraska. You know, so that I don't kill myself afterwards. My God, Bruce can write some depressing songs!]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 08:01 AM
Maybe that's more a flaw in myself than in Yes...

I'm glad to hear that Brothers Grimm isn't as bad as the critics say. I definitely want to check it out. With my expectations at the rather low point that they're at right now, I think I have a good chance of enjoying it.

Btw, believe it or not, one of the DJs on XPN picked Trick of the Tail as one of her top ten. And that is a great album. But it doesn't have some of the truly epic and incredible tracks that Nursery Cryme has.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 08:04 AM Monday, August 29, 2005 10:06 PM
even one's choice of what is an "influential" album is hopelessly colored by oneself and one's tastes. For instance, feanor, you and i were arguing about the "best" or "most influential" who album, while others might think that who does not belong on the list at all, and that instead we should be arguing which Rolling Stones album is the most important. people in egypt would be asking, "who the hell are the beatles?"

...and his bikini machine! Oooh!]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 10:11 PM
Pure Nerd
91 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 43% Dork
For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

Congratulations!

]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 12:43 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 12:52 PM
Anyway, polls like this are always silly. Who's to say what makes an album great? What is the objective standard for greatness? Record sales? Influence on musical trends? Technical skill? Popular opinion?

Also, I'm sorry to say, but I saw The Brothers Grimm this weekend, and then I read some of the reviews, and yeah, what the critics are saying is pretty much true.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 12:52 PM
1. The Beatles: Abbey Road
2. Stevie Wonder: Inner Visions
3. The Cure: Disintegration
4. The Sisters of Mercy: Floodland
5. Husker Du: Warehouse Songs and Stories
6. Kristin Hersh: Hips and Makers
7. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
8. REM: Automatic for the People
9. Tori Amos: Boys for Pele
10. Wilco & Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue vol. 1]]> Sunday, August 28, 2005 03:24 PM
i like the idea of your top ten albums list, but i am too overwhelmed to compose any such thing. i will however offer some possibles for inclusion--i'm kind of drawn towards poppy's suggestion of one going for influential power over personal inclination (although that doesn't necessarily mean that I don't love these albums):

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Michael Jackson - Thriller (questions of pederasty aside, you can't ignore the man's pop song writing craft)
Helmet - Betty :)
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (the banana album--absolutely killer stuff)
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Talking Heads: 77

I like your choices, feanor, at least of artists, but I'm not sure about the albums. It has to be Born to Run for Bruce, and it has to be Daydream Nation for Sonic Youth, but I'm not sure I agree with A Love Supreme or even Quadrophenia (for influence, you have to go with Tommy). For Dylan I would probably choose Highway 61 Revisited, even though Blood on the Tracks is probably my fav Dylan album. I would probably lean towards Dark Side of the Moon over The Wall. And you know how I feel about Genesis...

my wife suggests you start a post about what songs pirates would like to listen to. :)]]> Sunday, August 28, 2005 03:43 PM Sunday, August 28, 2005 03:45 PM MR: I think it's interesting that our lists don't even share any of the same artists, let alone albums. :) I respect your choices, though, even if I haven't even heard a good number of them before. Poppy had mentioned that Stevie Wonder should be on the list, even though neither she nor I are big fans.

bloginator: There is no way the Beach Boys were getting anywhere near my list. I know they're important and lots of people like them, but I just don't dig them at all. I feel similarly about The Grateful Dead and Marvin Gaye(although I at least like a couple of their songs). Poppy mentioned August and Everything After, and I do love that album, but it just didn't feel like ten greatest material to me. I seriously considered including Velvet Underground (whichever one has "Heroin" on it--what a song!), King Crimson, Steely Dan, and Talking Heads (although I was leaning toward Remain in Light rather than 77).

As for my specific album choices, A Love Supreme was the album that turned me onto jazz and John Coltrane, so it has special meaning for me. But besides that, it's also a fantastic album. And I totally disagree about The Who and Tommy. Everybody always makes a big deal about Tommy, but I've always felt that Quadrophenia is the better album. It's more meaningful, it makes more sense, and there's just a ton of great music on it. The same thing with The Wall. Everybody always talks about Dark Side, but for me, The Wall is a better, more cohesive, and more important album.

I almost didn't include Genesis at all, but I knew if they were going to be on there, it would be Nursery Cryme. Always my favorite one of theirs. I know you're thinking Lamb Lies Down, but that one's always been a bit hit-or-miss for me. NC has fewer tracks, but they're consistently excellent and have an amazing sound nobody has ever really captured again.

As for the Beatles...I'm just tired of the Beatles. I know they're important and all, but...I don't know. I haven't listened to any of their discs in a long time. A local radio station has been playing all their songs from A to Z this weekend, over and over again, more and more Beatles, and it's just boring to me.

That being said, I know deep in my heart that Abbey Road is an excellent album. Revolver is really good, too, I think.]]> Sunday, August 28, 2005 04:04 PM
good support of quadrophenia and your other choices; i actually think i agree with you that quadrophenia is the better album, but again, i was going for influence over personal taste.

The VU album I chose is the one with Heroin on it.

too bad you're tired of the beatles! maybe someday you'll be ready for them again.

Of course I do love NC, but I think it's a bit uneven, and that even albums like, say, A Trick of the Tail are more solid and consistent. But I see what you're saying (even though nobody else reading the blog probably has any idea what we're talking about ;).

as a final note: i saw brothers grimm yesterday. it was coooool. not as good as other gilliam films, but there's nothing wrong with it--it's just not as amazing as his other films. lots of fun, though.]]> Sunday, August 28, 2005 04:49 PM Nevermind in this case doesn't tell me much about _you_, which is what I'm interested in in the first place, else why read your top ten list as opposed to, say, Greil Marcus'? I don't need somebody to tell me that lots of people were influenced by Nirvana, but there are surprisingly few resources on Feanor's aesthetic preferences.

...and I prefer Nebraska.]]> Sunday, August 28, 2005 05:23 PM
If *anything*, it works the other way around; Egyptians probably know about the Beatles or George Lucas, but ask an American about Salif Keita or Youssef Chahine and see if you get anything other than blank stares.]]> Tuesday, August 30, 2005 04:26 PM Friday, August 26, 2005 05:45 PM
Although if she was in The Thin Man, I think I have seen her, because I've seen bits of one or two Thin Man movies, and possibly even one or two all the way through.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 01:14 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 01:38 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 01:41 PM Monday, August 29, 2005 04:32 PM weren't drinking, or didn't have a drink in their hands...you'd stay stone cold sober.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 05:11 PM The Thin Man, since I've never actually had the chance to see it.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 05:37 PM
ST: Hmm...perhaps I shall.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 07:28 PM And it is a damn shame people don't know who Myrna Loy is anymore.]]> Monday, August 29, 2005 12:54 PM You scored 14% grit, 33% wit, 28% flair, and 33% class!
You are class itself, the calm, confident "perfect woman." Men turn and look at you admiringly as you walk down the street, and even your rivals have a grudging respect for you. You always know the right thing to say, do and, of course, wear. You can take charge of a situation when things get out of hand, and you're a great help to your partner even if they don't immediately see or know it. You are one classy dame. Your screen partners include William Powell and Cary Grant, you little simmerpot, you.



Ummmm... who's Myna Loy?]]> Saturday, August 27, 2005 01:14 PM Saturday, August 27, 2005 03:07 PM Friday, August 26, 2005 04:21 PM Passion of Joan of Arc/Breaking the Waves double feature. That would be a barrel of laughs.

Also, if you do pick up that DVD set, let me know; I'd love to watch a few with you.]]> Friday, August 26, 2005 05:33 PM Saturday, August 27, 2005 02:19 PM Thursday, August 25, 2005 07:16 PM Ronin / Ghost Dog
Godfather II / Motorcycle Diaries
Pickpocket / Trouble in Paradise
Birth of a Nation / American History X
Battleship Potempkin / Fahrenheit 9/11
Grand Illusion / Apocalypse Now
Dayereh (Circle) / Slacker
6th Sense / Dead Man

Most of the connections are fairly obvious. Godfather II / Motorcycle Diaries is a bit of a stretch.]]> Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:49 AM Ronin/Ghost Dog, Grand Illusion/Apocalypse Now (this would be a very tiring double feature, but the movies are so fantastic it wouldn't matter), and 6th Sense/Dead Man.

I don't think anybody should ever screen Slacker, though. Blech.

Here's some more I thought of:

• The nature of human life through time: Time Bandits and Last Year at Marienbad


• Time travel messes with your brain: 12 Monkeys and Primer


• The action genre deconstructed: Commando and Sonatine

]]> Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:33 PM Thursday, August 25, 2005 08:58 AM Wednesday, August 24, 2005 01:34 PM Wednesday, August 24, 2005 02:07 PM Wednesday, August 24, 2005 06:20 PM Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:40 AM Friday, August 26, 2005 04:22 PM Friday, August 26, 2005 08:53 AM Are you more conforted by a commander in chief with his life in balance, with plenty of time to stop and smell the WMD, or one that is working towards his 6th heart attack because he cares too much? I prefer option B. Bring back Bill! I don't care if we have to fund a harem for him, but at least I would know that he knows where Myanmar is. Come to think of it, i don't know where that country is. But that's why I need my president to be SMARTER THAN ME.]]> Thursday, August 25, 2005 08:57 AM Thursday, August 25, 2005 08:57 AM want to say that when put to it, but he might actually just say it...]]> Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:44 PM
Jack and the Giant Settle Their Differences With Flaming Knives

and

The Hare Foolishly Lowers His Guard and Is Devastated by the Tortoise, Whose Prowess in Battle Attracts Many Desirable Mates

CLASSIC.]]> Wednesday, August 24, 2005 08:40 AM
"Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears"

"Snow White and the Six Dwarves She Killed With Her Bare Hands and the Seventh Dwarf She Let Get Away as a Warning to Others"]]> Wednesday, August 24, 2005 09:19 AM
The more I think about the Pat Robertson thing - the more I believe someone really should assinate him. Just think of all the hatred that would cease to be spread. ]]> Tuesday, August 23, 2005 01:35 PM
Also, I agree. I would give you a comprehensive list of all the hate-mongering public figures who I feel should be eliminated for the betterment of mankind, but I fear committing a federal offense.]]> Tuesday, August 23, 2005 01:44 PM Monday, August 22, 2005 01:24 PM Monday, August 22, 2005 01:39 PM
And if Bruce Campbell *did* play Spiderman - I would rush out and see SM3 opening day!

]]> Monday, August 22, 2005 01:42 PM Monday, August 22, 2005 06:26 PM Friday, August 19, 2005 01:31 AM Poison Dart Frogs on a Watertaxi
Warthogs on a Hot-air Balloon]]> Friday, August 19, 2005 08:02 PM Friday, August 19, 2005 08:57 AM
Those all sound like future blog post titles to me.]]> Friday, August 19, 2005 09:50 PM
ST: That's good old, down home Republican hypocrisy for you. Nothing like it!

VM: I could see Samuel L. Jackson saving the movie. He could give those snakes such a glare, they'd just slither away rather than mess with him.]]> Friday, August 19, 2005 10:35 AM Friday, August 19, 2005 11:25 AM
I do really love the idea that someone would think the EASIEST, most FOOLPROOF way of killing someone would be to smuggle 500 poisonous snakes onto the same plane with them. Can we think of other EASY FOOLPROOF killing methods? Shooting a bunch of arrows into the air and hoping one hits them in the head? Scaring a herd of buffalos into the cul-de-sac where they live?]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 09:34 PM right now.]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:01 AM Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:58 AM The Ever-Living Heart of the Bat-Man!, to be said just before cackled and twisting your hands into claws. But then again, I've always loved Guy Maddin titles.

]]> Friday, August 19, 2005 03:31 PM
I am taking all inspiration from now on from the titles Anacondas: The Search for the Blood Orchid and K19: The Widowmaker. ]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 02:51 PM The Cat eats the Bat - A love story. Triple X? ]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 03:32 PM The Ghost and the Darkness, wherein Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas fight lions, if I remember correctly. Also, those are indeed inspiring titles.

kds: Batman has already jumped the shark. It was called Batman Forever. In Batman and Robin, they jumped back over the shark, and then took a few laps around Sea World on the shark's back.

I'd actually be interested for them to bring in Catwoman again (if they handled her character correctly this time) and explore her relationship with Batman. That could be cool. The triple X version would probably be welcome, too, in certain quarters... :)]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 03:39 PM Thursday, August 18, 2005 09:24 AM The Green Goblin Goes Surfing and Batman Begins 2: The Beginning.

Heather: Actually, I would definitely go see Batman Vs. Dracula: Ghosts of Darkness. That sounds awesome.]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:12 AM
I would like to second that emotion.

Let us petition Hollywood right now.]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:30 AM
I think they should do an "End of Days" superhero movie. Kind of like Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy on SpongeBob. As a comedy of course. ]]> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 04:18 PM Return of the Dark Knight made into a movie. And they'll probably do it pretty soon, given the current popularity of comic book movies and Frank Miller movies in Hollywood right now.]]> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 04:25 PM Tuesday, August 16, 2005 05:30 PM Tremble in your seats as Batman faces his greatest challenge yet - defrauding the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS. Distraught that he would not give up his life of do-gooding to pursue their dead romance, DA Rachel Dawes has Wayne Enterprises investigated for tax fraud - and discovers Wayne has *not* been reinvesting shareholder money into Wayne Enterprises, but has rather been using these funds to develop his high-tech (non government regulated) weapons, and to throw lavish bachelor parties in order to maitain his alter ego. Will Batman be able to silence Dawes before she goes to the press? Or will he have to leave the bat cave to bunk with Martha Stewart? Batman: White Collar Criminal - coming next April 15th to Theaters Everywhere.]]> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 09:56 PM Tuesday, August 16, 2005 09:58 PM
Aquaman v Jaws: Blood in the Water]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 02:22 PM Aquman vs. Jaws would rock. It could end in a 20 minute fist/flipper fight.

Green Lantern vs. the Yellow Mustard Stain]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 02:35 PM
Fantastic Fours
Batsman
Supermen

Doctor Octopus: The Med School Years
The Green Goblin Goes Surfing
X-Men 3: Trying Not to be Mutants
X-Men 3-D
Batman Begins, Part 2: Even More Beginning
Batman Begins 2 Kick Ass in da Hood
Batman Begins 2: The Beginning]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 08:48 PM
Batman Begins Forever
or perhaps
Batman and Robin Begin Forever
or even
Batman and Robin Begin to Return Forever

The whole movie would consist of them getting dressed. For many hours...]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 09:02 PM Sarcasmo: Horrifying.
ST: That's because you're TOTALLY CRAZY.]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 09:04 AM Aquaman: Rough Seas Ahead
Fantastic Four 2: Honest, it'll be fantastic this time!
]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 09:20 AM
That Aquaman title sounds a little dirty to me. How about, Aquaman: Fishwhisperer?

Fantastic Four²: Fantastic Sixteen?]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 09:24 AM Wednesday, August 17, 2005 09:54 AM Aquaman: Hello, Sailor!]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 09:59 AM Aquaman Eats a Fishstick By Mistake and Totally Freaks Out For, Like, Weeks]]> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:01 AM Lord of Illusions reference on "Hate Made Font"--"This font was born to murder the world!" That is funny stuff.]]> Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 16, 2005 02:04 PM Tuesday, August 16, 2005 03:07 PM Tuesday, August 16, 2005 04:04 PM Tuesday, August 16, 2005 04:14 PM Wednesday, August 17, 2005 08:53 PM Monday, August 15, 2005 01:56 PM
You should work on a robot that can change the weather.]]> Monday, August 15, 2005 03:55 PM This post edited for readability. -Feanor]
My pirate name is:

Mad Dog Kidd

Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.
]]> Friday, August 12, 2005 03:37 PM Friday, August 12, 2005 09:36 PM Calico Davy Cash
Often indecisive, you can't even choose a favorite color. You're apt to follow wherever the wind blows you, just like Calico Jack Rackham, your namesake. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr! ]]> Friday, August 12, 2005 09:40 PM
And I thought you didn't want paste, because it would make you covet too much music?]]> Friday, August 12, 2005 12:02 PM
As for Paste...well, yeah. But I covet music anyway. This will at least point me in the direction of the right stuff to covet. And keep me knowledgeable about the scene, so I can stay hip! ;)]]> Friday, August 12, 2005 12:28 PM An awesome place to fins new music is to listen to NPR's All Songs Considered online. They have a GREAT archive and I have found some really good new music this way. They look at a wide variety of music and often have the "best songs of summer" and stuuf like that.

I *heart* the music streaming internet...]]> Friday, August 12, 2005 12:51 PM Friday, August 12, 2005 12:52 PM Yagathai linked to a couple of great angry political posts on Kung Fu Monkey today. One of them sounded familiar, so I think I must have seen bits of it posted somewhere else recently. Anyway, they're an excellent read and you should check them out.

I linked to one of those two posts a day or two before. That may be what you're thinking about.]]> Thursday, August 11, 2005 03:35 PM Thursday, August 11, 2005 03:52 PM Wednesday, August 10, 2005 09:41 AM Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:39 AM Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:06 PM funny you should mention that.

Basically, if compromising a film in any way is likely to make them an extra buck, they'll do it.]]> Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:15 PM
All that's going to be left without the religion is ... erm. Okay. Maybe in the first two books they can cover the soul-stealing horror? And then that the third book ... didn't happen?]]> Tuesday, August 9, 2005 07:24 PM right, each and every one of us!]]> Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:49 AM Tuesday, August 9, 2005 07:26 PM
I'm always very satisfied to find another person who hates the Da Vinci Code. They are inexplicably few and far between.]]> Wednesday, August 10, 2005 09:53 AM Saturday, August 6, 2005 05:35 PM Saturday, August 6, 2005 07:49 PM Sunday, August 7, 2005 01:16 AM Sunday, August 7, 2005 12:50 PM Tuesday, August 9, 2005 11:34 AM And only six of you commented on the "do you read me" meme!

Which means that you have six obedient sheep, and at least one (brilliant, handsome and Canadian) independent thinker.]]> Friday, August 5, 2005 02:54 PM Friday, August 5, 2005 03:50 PM Friday, August 5, 2005 03:50 PM Friday, August 5, 2005 04:05 PM
Thanks, Babs. :)]]> Friday, August 5, 2005 04:13 PM Highlander sequel I have the urge to run up to everyone and everyone associated with the project and scream "THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY ONE. ONNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee" and then beat them all about the heads with the director's cut of the original movie.

(at the very least, I like to pretend 4 doesn't exist.)]]> Friday, August 5, 2005 04:25 PM
In order to make much of the Highlander story make sense, you have to pretend that a lot of things didn't happen--that Connor didn't really get the Gift at the end of the first movie, that there are still plenty of immortals around for some reason, and that the second movie never happened. And yeah, it also helps you sleep at night if you pretend 4 didn't happen, too.]]> Friday, August 5, 2005 04:29 PM
anyway, it was a funny movie.]]> Friday, August 5, 2005 10:20 PM
anyway, it was a funny movie.]]> Friday, August 5, 2005 10:21 PM
Ahem. Yeah, I have to admit, I did enjoy Highlander 3. I don't remember enjoying it quite that much, but it was fun. Still, it was essentially just a retread of 1, with Mario Van Peebles doing an impression of the Kurgan and everything.]]> Monday, August 8, 2005 10:02 AM Sunday, August 7, 2005 06:21 PM Friday, August 5, 2005 01:40 PM Friday, August 5, 2005 05:03 PM Friday, August 5, 2005 09:59 AM Friday, August 5, 2005 10:09 AM Thursday, August 4, 2005 04:06 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 05:09 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 05:16 PM
Well, everybody except the evil people.]]> Thursday, August 4, 2005 02:08 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 02:27 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 02:48 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 03:42 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:16 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 01:54 PM
That is a pretty interesting bit of history on Roberts, though.]]> Thursday, August 4, 2005 02:07 PM
Easy on me, I'm old and scattered.]]> Thursday, August 4, 2005 04:08 PM
Oh, and don't be silly, you're not old!]]> Thursday, August 4, 2005 04:19 PM Thursday, August 4, 2005 09:15 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050804/ts_latimes/robertsdonatedhelptogayrightscase;_ylt=A86.I1GmEPJCkHkAtges0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

Roberts Donated Help to Gay Rights Case ]]> Thursday, August 4, 2005 09:41 AM Thursday, August 4, 2005 09:41 AM Tuesday, August 2, 2005 03:53 PM Tuesday, August 2, 2005 04:29 PM Tuesday, August 2, 2005 04:53 PM Monday, August 1, 2005 10:31 PM Monday, August 1, 2005 11:34 PM
As for Bolton: I hope you're right. But who knows, maybe by January Bush will somehow have gathered the support necessary to vote him in.]]> Tuesday, August 2, 2005 09:21 AM Sunday, July 31, 2005 01:26 PM Sunday, July 31, 2005 09:47 PM Star Wars Episode III cereal for breakfast. With a light-up lightsaber spoon, no less.

poppy: :p]]> Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:17 PM Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:33 PM Friday, July 29, 2005 03:07 PM Friday, July 29, 2005 07:01 PM
bloginator: How dare you! It is an internet quiz, and therefore undeniably true and accurate!]]> Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:18 PM Friday, July 29, 2005 08:50 AM Friday, July 29, 2005 09:12 AM Friday, July 29, 2005 10:47 AM Thursday, July 28, 2005 02:56 PM Sky High as well - but the Bruce Campbell/Dave Foley participation has got me leaning towards seeing it.]]> Tuesday, July 26, 2005 04:16 PM
Well, we'll see. Maybe it will be more good than bad.]]> Tuesday, July 26, 2005 04:51 PM Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:49 PM
I'll try to remember to bring Diceland with me.]]> Tuesday, July 26, 2005 03:15 PM
Yes. Expect that and all you'll get is disappointment. ]]> Monday, July 25, 2005 01:19 PM Monday, July 25, 2005 08:33 PM Tuesday, July 26, 2005 05:31 AM
chyma: yeah, it'll come up because of that too. And Santorum's comments were clearly dem-baiting. I have to say, though, that I don't neccessarily think that his wife being anti-choice means he will not uphold Roe. More on that later though.

ST: I disagree wholly. Dishonesty and hypocrisy are our biggest problems, one reason being they engender an atomosphere of indifference and feelings of defeat. Understanding the motivations of my leaders will always satisfy me, and if they are sometimes a bit icky that's not a guarantee that I won't vote for them again. It will mean that my eyes are open and I will be less easily shocked by subsequent antics.]]> Tuesday, July 26, 2005 09:07 AM
Now, I can see bringing some slightly older children, as it is sort of a children's movie--although it seems to me the scene with the flaming, melting, singing puppets could deeply scar the young ones. Anyway, it's not as bad as bringing small children to a movie with lots of sex and violence. But I've also seen people do that.

Yeah, people are pretty much just crazy and stupid in general.]]> Monday, July 25, 2005 11:01 AM
The weird thing is -- I saw it at 11:00 at night. I showed up late to the theater and had to sit in the front row. Riiiiight behind me, there was a small family. Including a pre-verbal child. At the 11:00 showing. Of a somewhat grown-up movie.

People are crazy.]]> Monday, July 25, 2005 12:57 AM
Consider this: The Galactica was separated from the fleet for a while because of Gaeda's error in calculating the emergency jump, and this separation came not long after Colonial One was assaulted. What can Tom Zarek do with that coincidence?]]> Monday, July 25, 2005 11:55 AM
If he were to have some sort of distant complex plot to kill somebody, he'd do better to have the president killed by somebody on the Galactica crew. That would fuck things up a lot more.]]> Sunday, July 24, 2005 04:25 PM just a secondary assassin of Adama.

Taking out both the political and the military leaders of the human race would be a great double blow. To make it a hatrick, they could kill off the religious leader, too (I forget her name--the woman who does the prayers and talked to the president about the prophecies and stuff).]]> Sunday, July 24, 2005 05:05 PM
Partially I think this because of what I've saying to Neil since the season closer for last year: Adama seriously misread the politics of the situation, the President outplayed him, and eventually civilian control is going to have to reassert itself if the entire fleet isn't going to split apart. This is esp. true now that Tigh is in charge instead of Adama. If the Cylons are at all clever and patient, they can keep Baltar in their back pocket until he becomes useful. If the President dies (she does have cancer, right?), he may well become REALLY useful.

Besides, I feel like acts of terror need a certain novelty: one assassination attempt is shocking, two and it becomes part of accepted Cylon strategy. You have to keep the humans on their toes by attacking in a variety of different ways.

Also, I think it would be lame.]]> Sunday, July 24, 2005 07:37 AM Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:48 PM
The one that most interests me is Wizards & Warriors. I remember watching it as a kid, and I've been wanting to see it again ever since. It probably sucks, but still. I'd also like to watch Tales of the Gold Monkey again too.

I've never heard of Otherworld, but it looks interesting.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 02:14 PM
This sentence gave me an idea for a series of novels in which you watch this show and then suddenly remember your boyhood in 19th-century France. It will be unlike anything ever done by anybody else ever.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 05:15 PM The Rememberance of TV Shows Past?]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 05:54 PM
(1) The "please" was for Severus to kill Dumbledore. At all. Not quickly. But to do it at all. I don't remember any description of Snape's face when he did it, but I think it really was the last thing he wanted to do. Hence Dumbledore's pleading.

(2) Harry as Horcrux. Why would it have to be deliberate? A Horcrux is a part of a Wizard's soul, created when he can tear it apart through murder. What had Voldemort done just before he attacked Harry? Why would the creation of a Horcrux have to be deliberate?

An idea: remember the prophecy. What if Harry must die for Voldemort to die?]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 02:55 PM
2. Are you saying you could create one by mistake? That sounds really, really unlikely and counter-intuitive to me. Wouldn't that mean that most wizards who kill people would end up leaving a Horcrux behind, thus becoming difficult to kill? Sounds crazy to me. Your point about the prophecy is a good one, though, and I could see Rowling doing something like this--making it so that Harry must nobly sacrifice himself to destroy Voldemort. But I don't know. So far, I'm not seeing the logic behind the Harry-as-Horcrux idea.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 03:56 PM
I'm on the fence about Harry being a Horcrux - I've heard convincing arguments for and against. I'm almost in agreement with Peccable that Harry must die to kill Voldemort. However, if that's true it lends credence to the Harry-as-Horcrux idea: if a piece of Voldemort's soul is imbedded in Harry (whether Voldemort put it there willingly as a Horcrux or accidentally when he tried to kill Harry but nearly died himself), then that piece of soul must die in order for Voldemort to be vanquished.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 04:09 PM Friday, July 22, 2005 04:13 PM Friday, July 22, 2005 11:10 AM
Oh, I meant to mention, the scene where Dumbledore had to drink the potion to get at the locket kind of bugged me. Once he got the potion out of the basin and into a goblet, why couldn't he just pour it out on the ground? I assume there must have been some kind of charm on it that didn't allow him to do that--it wouldn't have come out of the goblet, or it would have just reappeared in the basin--but I would have liked to have seen them try it, at least. It seems weird to just immediately jump to the conclusion, "I should drink it!" and then start slurping it down without even trying some other alternatives first.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 11:47 AM
Other hot topics of discussion are the identity of RAB (I think it's Sirus's younger brother Regulas Black) and whether or not Harry (or his scar) is actually a Horcrux.

Also, you're very clever for using white text against white background to hide the spoilers. So simple, yet I would never have thought of it.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 11:59 AM
I was wondering about RAB; I'd forgotten about Regulus Black! That sounds like a good solid guess to me.

The idea of Harry himself, or part of him, being a Horcrux is a mind-blowing one, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense. Voldemort was coming to kill Harry that night; everyone seems to agree on that. He certainly didn't mean to have his power turned back on him and be nearly destroyed. Maybe after he killed Harry, he would have created another Horcrux--maybe that was his plan. Are you thinking that maybe after his plan went wrong, he used the deaths of Harry's parents and the consequent further shattering of his soul to make Harry into another Horcrux? But why would he do that, when he wanted Harry dead so badly? Anyway it seems to me it must be a very complicated and difficult piece of magic, and Voldemort in that moment was at his weakest state, barely alive and without form.

I wish I could claim to have invented the white-text-on-white-background method of hiding spoilers, but it's definitely not my idea. I think I first saw it on a Star Wars site where they were posting rumors about the plot of one of the prequels.]]> Friday, July 22, 2005 12:20 PM
I do wish Dumbledore could have found some way to convince Harry better of Snape's goodness--perhaps a posthumous message? A note left somewhere Harry would find it ("If you read this, Snape greased me--but that's cool!")? Because it seems to me that Harry should at least be aware of who his friends are--or maybe "non-enemies" is a better term.

It is very interesting to speculate about what horcrux voldemort was going to create when he went to kill the potters (i don't think it was harry--a very cool idea, but if he got any of that prophecy correct, he would have known that the last thing he wanted to do was leave harry alive). It is also very interesting to speculate what was really going on the night voldemort returned to hogwarts. Is it possible a horcrux is hidden somewhere at hogwarts? I find it hard to believe that Rowling will spend the whole next book so far away from the school--I certainly would be disappointed if we never saw the teachers again.

I think the RAB guess is an incredibly astute one. But is Regulus dead? I would assume that whoever RAB is, they are in fact dead, as their message portended. Also consider how much easier harry's job will be if RAB simply rounded up all of the horcruxes! Unlikely, but he's certainly got his work cut out for him; unless the next book is thousands of pages long, I would guess that there are going to be some shortcuts in the locating game.

I think the thing where harry can't go out with ginny anymore is stupid. it reminded me far too much of the end of spiderman. If harry already likes ginny, what's the freaking point of staying away from her? She is already a target. I say, he should go and make his hay while the sun doth shine, if you know what i mean. She would be a helpful ally, and it would be better if he kept an eye on her.

Also, he's got to tell lupin about the horcruxes, because that guy knows what he's doing.]]> Monday, July 25, 2005 09:08 PM
I agree that Dumbledore probably should have found some way to warn Harry about Snape's actual allegiance, but then again, could he really have trusted Harry to keep the secret and protect Snape's cover? Or to even believe him? That no one alive now knows Snape's true allegiance, and that he just assassinated the best of the good wizards, makes his cover pretty much total and perfect.

I think you're right and there is still a Horcrux somewhere in Hogwarts.

I don't have the book in front of me to re-read the note that was left in the locket, but why would you assume that RAB is dead? I didn't get the impression. I think RAB is someone who knew Voldemort personally, and is not necessarily on the good or evil side, but is perhaps only on his own side--sort of a Saruman-type character.

I agree with you on Harry and Ginny. Dumbledore made it very clear that Harry's strength is his friends, and one of Voldemort's weaknesses is that he has no real friends and is close to no one. If Harry's strength and power lies in love, he should embrace Ginny and keep her close to him.

It might be a good idea to tell Lupin, as he is a strong ally, but then again, the horcruxes are a very important secret. If it leaks out that the good guys know about them and are searching for them, Voldemort might find away to hide them away for good. Dumbledore was under the impression that V. couldn't feel it when his horcruxes were destroyed, so there's a good chance he doesn't know what they're up to yet, and that's always a good thing.]]> Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:10 AM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 02:12 PM
Also, page 295 now.]]> Wednesday, July 20, 2005 02:50 PM Page 234.

I think you should tell that boss of yours that completing Harry Potter is an important action item, required for you to effectively complete your deliverables on schedule, and that you're therefore going to spend the remainder of the day reading it in your office.

I doubt she'd argue too much. :p]]> Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:55 AM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:58 AM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:59 AM Thursday, July 21, 2005 05:56 PM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 01:41 PM
Actually - I bet these'd all be good.]]> Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:05 PM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:07 PM Monday, July 18, 2005 11:03 PM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 01:49 PM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 05:06 PM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 08:03 PM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 08:53 AM
kds: Hmm...sounds like an interesting idea, but I think poppy and I might just save up for our own brand new dishwasher. Besides, now that our old one doesn't have a bunch of junk rattling around in it, it should hopefully function all right for at least a little longer.]]> Tuesday, July 19, 2005 09:14 AM Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:05 AM
But I'm going to be hanging around with all of you (except Jen) tomorrow night! You're bound to let something slip! Maybe I should be like Sarcasmo and read the whole thing between now and then... Well, we should all be more like Sarcasmo anyway, but you know...]]> Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:21 AM Maybe I should be like Sarcasmo and read the whole thing between now and then

I don't recommend reading it all in one sitting. It's not that it didn't keep my attention - it did - it's just not the healthiest 5-hour activity. :p]]> Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:07 PM
ST, you, poppy and I, along with anybody else who hasn't finished the book yet, are going to have to form a protective gang, and perhaps segregate ourselves from the others...]]> Wednesday, July 20, 2005 09:38 AM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:17 PM
m/]]> Friday, July 15, 2005 07:55 PM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 09:23 AM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:05 AM Friday, July 15, 2005 11:44 AM Highlander movies.]]> Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:20 AM
I welcome the future with open arms!]]> Wednesday, July 13, 2005 04:38 PM Tuesday, July 12, 2005 05:58 PM
i remember i rented one a while ago, about a city in the sky. that may have been what it was called; it was an older one by him, but it was still very cool. I wish i had more of his movies on dvd. correction: ANY of his movies...]]> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 08:53 PM Spirited Away. It was good, but I felt like it was also flawed, and overlong. I also saw the city in the sky movie (it has various titles, one being Laputa). Again, a good movie, lots of amazing visuals and great ideas, but not one of my favorite Miyazaki films.]]> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:53 PM
missval: Buckminster Fuzzy. Heh. Wow, it does sound like they have some bored folks up there.]]> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 01:12 PM Tuesday, July 12, 2005 08:50 PM
Also - that essay is flawed - Johnny Depp should not compete with chocolate - he should be COMBINED with chocolate - with wonderful, wonderful results.]]> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:59 AM Having been to Wasilla, AK. I think they may just be crazy Alaskans, and I would not expect the mech to catch on.
Speaking of crazy Alaskans (ask Mr Williams about a few of them)- On the way back to Fairbanks once we met a guy who built geodesic domes, the other people there called him Buckminster Fuzzy. People get bored...]]> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:49 PM
But that's probably just the optimistic Bush-hater in me talking. Most likely this will be quietly dumped in the closet with all the other skeletons.]]> Monday, July 11, 2005 04:14 PM Most likely this will be quietly dumped in the closet with all the other skeletons.

I don't know. It's getting mighty crowded in there...]]> Monday, July 11, 2005 04:33 PM Tuesday, July 12, 2005 09:41 AM Tuesday, July 12, 2005 09:43 AM Monday, July 11, 2005 03:58 PM Monday, July 11, 2005 04:09 PM
I just read a book that included a chapter about head grafting. Your monkey thing reminded me of that.]]> Monday, July 11, 2005 08:03 PM
You just read a book that included a chapter about head grafting, eh? Um, okay.]]> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 01:14 PM Tuesday, July 5, 2005 03:24 PM
I'll probably switch up to the 16th, unless I already have something planned that day (which I suspect I do), in which case, I think I'll probably try August 6th.]]> Tuesday, July 5, 2005 04:05 PM Tuesday, July 5, 2005 04:06 PM Tuesday, July 5, 2005 04:55 PM Tuesday, July 5, 2005 05:14 PM
missval: I have all their albums, and I was really excited about what I'd heard about this one, so we just grabbed it. I didn't even notice the sticker until I got it home. It is pretty aggressive, but what can you do?

The album is indeed on the iTunes music store, so you could get it there...]]> Tuesday, July 5, 2005 06:53 PM
Of course, if the aliens were here for human blood, it doesn't explain why they began by indiscriminately vaporizing thousands of unarmed humans with their death rays when they could have just begun capturing them, so yeah, there are a couple of glaring logic problems with the story.]]> Monday, July 4, 2005 06:59 PM Tuesday, July 5, 2005 09:28 AM
I like Morgan Freeman, though, don't call him stupid! He's an excellent narrator. I'm pretty sure that narration came straight from the book, too. I loved the opening bit, but the closing bit was pretty corny.

Basically, it's one of those movies that could have been really good, but turned out to be not so great because the director and/or screenwriter didn't bother to worry about logic and realism and believability at crucial points. AI has similar problems, actually. And then there's Minority Report, which also had a corny and totally unbelievable ending... Somebody needs to sit Stevie down and have a talk with him.]]> Wednesday, July 6, 2005 03:56 PM Wednesday, July 6, 2005 09:25 AM Friday, July 1, 2005 03:31 PM
Also, noon is best for me for WotW, and based on your e-mail I think it should be fine for you. ]]> Friday, July 1, 2005 04:27 PM Mission to Mars. I am also not a fan of Blade II, though I know you are, and I'm sorry for you. And Kickboxer 2, as I understand it, was not exactly an Oscar-caliber film.

ST: To your first bitterly sarcastic and wrong-headed comment, I say, "Fuck you, sir!"

To your second comment...well, I just talked to you on the phone about that.]]> Friday, July 1, 2005 06:08 PM kicking ass.]]> Tuesday, July 5, 2005 01:47 PM Saturday, July 2, 2005 07:29 AM Friday, July 1, 2005 01:43 PM
trusted]]> Friday, July 1, 2005 01:47 PM Friday, July 1, 2005 09:54 AM Thursday, June 30, 2005 01:07 PM Thursday, June 30, 2005 03:09 PM Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:00 AM Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:07 AM Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:41 AM Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:03 PM Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:04 PM
(I kind of do, too.)]]> Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:06 AM
That said, this petition is silly. ]]> Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:15 AM
Totally fun!]]> Wednesday, June 29, 2005 03:42 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 03:43 PM
Also, what does Aerenchyma's second comment mean? Should I know?]]> Wednesday, June 29, 2005 03:50 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 03:51 PM
I'm not signing it dammit! I might have if it didn't bring up the Scientology bit. I think I might really start my own, because damned if I know why everyone is so hot for him. Totally overrated. I'd also sign a petition empowering the governator to forcibly remove Katie Holmes and place her in protective custody, but I haven't seen that one yet.]]> Wednesday, June 29, 2005 03:58 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:01 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:04 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:06 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:08 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 05:23 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:04 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:44 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:44 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:44 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:44 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:45 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:08 PM
But I kid. I'd forgotten that Mamet wrote the screenplay for that one. Probably because some of the dialogue in The Untouchables sounds like things real human people might actually say to each other, and Mamet usually doesn't write dialogue like that.]]> Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:43 PM Tuesday, June 28, 2005 03:10 PM Tuesday, June 28, 2005 04:15 PM
I'm a little distrustful of Transporter 2...there's a kid in it! Let us not forget, Temple of Doom. Children + Action Movies almost always equals Ick. (However, I will concede that this is a Luc Besson film, as was The Professional - and that was quite good, actually).]]> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 08:08 AM
Your little equation doesn't work for me, as I enjoy Temple of Doom. I admit, it's not a great movie, but it is a lot of fun, and does not make me say, "Ick." The opening sequence in particular is one of my favorite movie sequences probably ever.

Also, I didn't even know Transporter 2 was a Luc Besson film. Score!]]> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 09:42 AM
Looks like Besson co-wrote Transporter 2 - he didn't direct it, which is a wee bit of a bummer.]]> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:11 AM that bad. I mean, he's not Jar Jar or anything. Willie is pretty annoying, though, I'll give you that.

Well, at least Besson is involved.]]> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:39 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 05:32 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 07:27 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 11:08 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 01:59 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 10:46 AM Monday, June 27, 2005 11:16 AM Sunday, June 26, 2005 07:56 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 05:52 PM When shopping at the record store, I often pause and think, will I be able to have enjoyable sex whilst listening to this record?

You know, you're a lot more peculiar than you let on. I'm guessing you don't go much for gospel music then, hmmm?]]> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 05:52 PM Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:00 AM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 09:01 AM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:17 AM Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:45 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 02:01 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 02:09 PM Monday, June 27, 2005 02:13 PM Friday, June 24, 2005 02:43 PM Friday, June 24, 2005 05:33 PM does read my blog. :p I heard he's not going to be in X-Men 3, though, so maybe he doesn't care.

A & ST: Done.]]> Sunday, June 26, 2005 06:41 PM Thursday, June 23, 2005 07:27 PM Wednesday, June 22, 2005 04:05 PM Wednesday, June 22, 2005 03:14 PM Wednesday, June 22, 2005 03:55 PM Friday, June 17, 2005 11:28 PM Friday, June 17, 2005 11:37 PM Saturday, June 18, 2005 02:07 AM Friday, June 17, 2005 11:31 PM Friday, June 17, 2005 12:59 AM Saturday, June 18, 2005 08:28 AM Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:02 AM
Wasn't the Thirteenth Warrior enough? (I liked the Thirteenth Warrior. Now everyone has to shut up.)]]> Wednesday, June 15, 2005 03:31 PM Beowulf movie, and the other studio cries, "We cannot have a Beowulf gap!"

I thought The Thirteenth Warrior was okay, too, if I remember correctly.]]> Wednesday, June 15, 2005 03:41 PM Wednesday, June 15, 2005 03:51 PM Wednesday, June 15, 2005 04:01 PM
ST: will do

Cyn: I haven't read that one yet, though amazon keeps recommending it to me. I've been on a Henry Petroski jag for a while, and have subjected feanor to seemingly endless treatsies on pencil design. The design of objects, and programs, fascinates me, because they have to "work" on so many levels not only to be useful but to have any one use them at all.]]> Thursday, June 16, 2005 09:13 AM Wednesday, June 15, 2005 01:24 AM Wednesday, June 15, 2005 01:45 AM The Design of Everyday Things? It is quite good.]]> Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:57 AM Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:57 AM
And I'd like to add that any administration that allows Fred Durst AND the Goo Goo Dolls (?!) to cover Pink Floyd is clearly morally bankrupt and deserves serious repercussions.]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 02:07 PM
K: Star Wars provides us with valuable metaphors for everything! I'm hoping W is eventually tossed into a chasm by his apprentice, Darth Cheney (perhaps after Cheney has seen his daughter persecuted too much by the administration and is finally redeemed by her and returns from the dark side?), but it could be a long wait...]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 02:25 PM
F: A long, long wait. Personally, I find it more likely that Darth Cheney will be chopped in half in the middle of a huge lightsaber battle. I'm not holding my breath either way though!]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 02:53 PM http://kyw.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_163152144.html

Yeah! So, I still can't decide whether to brave the crowds or watch it on TV...]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 12:03 PM and while turning up the volume a couple of notches

Do you think they cranked the amp up to eleven?]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 12:06 PM
VM: :) I think they did!]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 12:27 PM
The idea of Fred Durst and the Goo Goo Dolls doing anything together is horrifying enough. After reading their changed lyrics I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.]]> Monday, June 13, 2005 12:33 PM Monday, June 13, 2005 03:27 PM Friday, June 10, 2005 05:40 PM Saturday, June 11, 2005 09:12 AM
Babs: Bagok.]]> Sunday, June 12, 2005 12:50 PM Friday, June 10, 2005 01:10 PM Friday, June 10, 2005 01:11 PM Friday, June 10, 2005 01:42 PM Friday, June 10, 2005 01:59 PM
poppy: I like donuts.

On your other comment, I have seen the spelling H-O-T-T used in situations like these.

TN: It's the old "Give me a Big Mac and a Diet Coke" syndrome. We like to deprive ourselves of certain things so we can indulge ourselves in others. Plus, exercising and eating right is really hard.

MR: Way to poop all over my party, party-pooper! :p I thought their latest single, "Feel Good Inc." was quite cool. Plus they have tracks on their new album called "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" and "Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head." How can they be bad?!]]> Friday, June 10, 2005 02:03 PM Friday, June 10, 2005 07:25 AM Friday, June 10, 2005 09:18 AM Friday, June 10, 2005 12:48 PM Thursday, June 9, 2005 01:00 PM X2 was?]]> Thursday, June 9, 2005 01:03 PM
Also, Wolverine is supposed to be all bad-ass *and* Canadian. I just couldn't get past that.]]> Thursday, June 9, 2005 01:12 PM
Which is funny, because I can totally shoot lasers out of my eyes.

Btw, Yagthai is totally going to kick your ass for that Canadian comment. And so is Alex Trebek.]]> Thursday, June 9, 2005 01:14 PM Thursday, June 9, 2005 01:24 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 01:08 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 01:55 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 01:58 PM
If it's any help, imagine how odd it is for the people looking at the apartment. Would you get an apartment if you knew the landlady burst in at random?

ps The Rebuplicans are attacking HRClinton by saying she's just like Howard Dean. I don't know how this makes sense to anyone.]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 02:04 PM
kds: Wow, that sucks. I'm kind of surprised that hasn't happen to me. Luckily, I pretty much always keep my windows closed.

kheara: Yeah, I was thinking about how that might turn people away from becoming her tenant. But that's kind of bad, because I want someone to just agree to take the place so she stops bringing people in!

Republicans attack Democrats by calling them liberal these days--and that's kind of what Democrats are supposed to be, by and large, I thought. Besides, Dean's gotten a bad reputation somehow. Some Democrats are trying to distance themselves from him. Basically, the Dems are as bad as the press--no guts whatsoever. That's why it's so refreshing to hear Hillary crack open a nice fresh can of whoop ass.]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 02:23 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 03:16 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 03:27 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 04:02 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 04:18 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 08:17 PM
Strange about the random water attacks. Have you, perhaps, angered a persistent yet-not-terribly threatening costumed villain, perhaps?]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:40 PM
That's so endearing.]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:41 PM
As for the villain, I think you may be right. Or perhaps he's trying to find a superhero, like in Unbreakable, but he's going about it sort of backwards...

But anyway, if Random Water Man doesn't particularly like me, I think he hates Yagathai even more. :)]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:51 PM
As for my landlady, seeing as how I'm not sure what a house coat is, I can't really answer with total certainty, but I don't think so, sorry.]]> Wednesday, June 8, 2005 09:49 AM
And I'm also looking forward to the new Coontz book, after briefly looking at Neil's copy last night. I remember using The Way We Never Were in a project for my "Major Christian Issues" class in high school.]]> Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:33 PM Wednesday, June 8, 2005 11:02 PM
By the way, do you realize how dirty "coontz-love" sounds? :-)]]> Wednesday, June 8, 2005 12:59 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 11:40 AM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:15 PM Monday, June 6, 2005 02:47 PM Monday, June 6, 2005 03:08 PM As for B vs. S, I'm going to keep hoping, and I'll almost certainly go see it, even if they get Schumacher to direct it from an Akiva Goldsman screenplay.

You realize that it's people like that are the reason that Goldsman and Schumacher keep getting work.]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 04:38 PM Tuesday, June 7, 2005 04:39 PM Remember when I posted about the live-action Transformers movie? And David said they're probably getting Nic Cage for Optimus Prime? Turns out, no, it's George Clooney.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

In other movie news, sounds like they might make a Batman vs. Superman movie!

They've been kicking this around for a while, and I thought the project was dead, but I guess not. I'm not holding my breath though. They were talking about Aliens vs. Predator for years before they finally made it, and when they did I didn't even bother to go see it because I heard it was so bad. Unless they get, say, Miller and Rodriguez to do the project, I can't say I have high hopes. ]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 11:54 AM Aliens vs. Predator. I mean, it wasn't a great movie, and certainly wasn't as good as Alien or Aliens or Predator, but I didn't think it was bad. But then again, I guess I tend to give movies more of a chance than most people do. You'd probably dislike it.

As for B vs. S, I'm going to keep hoping, and I'll almost certainly go see it, even if they get Schumacher to direct it from an Akiva Goldsman screenplay.

Ugh. I almost made myself barf there. I hope no studio exec reads that and gets ideas...]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:18 PM threaten you with painful and highly improbable death scenarios.]]> Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:42 PM
Clearly this needs to be amended.]]> Friday, June 3, 2005 01:02 PM here. I wouldn't let it bother you any more than any other conservative bullshit bothers you. It's just a bunch of embittered right-wingers trying to re-fight battles that were settled a long time ago. Just look at how they're reacting to the revelation of the identity of Deep Throat. The conservatives are trying to demonize him for not "going to the proper authorities," as if history hadn't already passed judgement on Nixon.]]> Friday, June 3, 2005 01:58 PM
And they've failed to include Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which is also funny, but in a different sort of way.]]> Friday, June 3, 2005 02:46 PM Friday, June 3, 2005 09:55 PM Friday, June 3, 2005 09:57 PM Friday, June 3, 2005 12:35 PM Saturday, June 4, 2005 12:13 PM Sunday, June 5, 2005 09:51 PM Thursday, June 2, 2005 04:57 PM
It's probably because you use words like "scrimshaw" in your threats.

Btw, I love Ozzy, I'm just pointing out that he's not the most intelligent or articulate person you could meet.]]> Thursday, June 2, 2005 05:02 PM Thursday, June 2, 2005 05:05 PM Thursday, June 2, 2005 05:13 PM
Also, are you going to see S-K when they play the Troc on the 24th? Because I am planning too, but still need to buy tickets and junk.]]> Thursday, June 2, 2005 05:15 PM
Btw, I am pro your plan of marrying Carrie Brownstein. That'd be an awesome wedding. Plus, I could probably get free CDs out of it somehow. ;)]]> Thursday, June 2, 2005 05:33 PM Friday, June 3, 2005 03:13 PM
Wilder: "Wonka Remake Is All About Money"


Movie funnyman Gene Wilder has attacked Tim Burton's choice of Johnny Depp to play Willy Wonka in upcoming film Charlie And The Chocolate Factory as a money-making ploy. Wilder, who played Wonka in the original 1971 film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, is suspicious of movie moguls' motives for remaking the Roald Dahl fantasy, and sees it as "pointless". He says, "It's all about money. It's just some people sitting around thinking 'How can we make some more money?' Why else would you remake Willy Wonka? I don't see the point of going back and doing it all over again. I like Johnny Depp, and I appreciate that he has said on record that my shoes will be hard to fill. But I don't know how it will all turn out." Despite Wilder's reservations, Burton insists his film will be closer to the original Dahl novel, than Wilder's musical version.
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I'm not sure I really see spielberg on your list. i know, he made some great movies, but he seems like such a shallow director compared to guys like Coen, Welles, and Tarkovsky. I think I'd have gilliam on a top ten list. the fact that he doesn't have a lot of great movies is simply due to the fact that he's just not that prolific. give him twenty more years, he might have two more great movies.]]> Saturday, June 4, 2005 12:10 PM
As for Spielberg, I felt a little wrong keeping him on the list while cutting all those other amazing directors, but every time I went to take him off, I realized that he has five four star films on my list, which is more than almost any other director. And he really is a pretty consistantly great filmmaker. Your point about Gilliam is well taken, but...I don't know. I still feel like his filmography isn't quite strong enough to merit inclusion with those other fellows.]]> Sunday, June 5, 2005 09:54 PM
I love that Bush insists that allegations of prisoner mistreatement are absurd, but says that we have to "fix" social security, because problems don't just go away if you ignore them. Does he ever listen to himself?!

Aw, puppies!]]> Wednesday, June 1, 2005 05:04 PM Wednesday, June 1, 2005 05:24 PM Wednesday, June 1, 2005 05:44 PM Thursday, June 2, 2005 01:19 PM Thursday, June 2, 2005 01:22 PM ]]> Wednesday, June 1, 2005 03:24 PM Wednesday, June 1, 2005 04:29 PM
poppy: I'm the pretty boi dyke knight, I think.]]> Wednesday, June 1, 2005 04:49 PM Wednesday, June 1, 2005 04:59 PM Wednesday, June 1, 2005 05:03 PM
I guess I'm no help at all, hahah! But at least you know you're not alone.]]> Thursday, June 2, 2005 09:47 AM that much stuff. If there's not enough space for all our books in the new place (and we do have a lot of space, so I'm not convinced this will be an issue), we can always put some of the less important ones in storage.

Also, in answer to your last question, you use them to store DVDs that you haven't watched yet. :)]]> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 01:13 PM
Before I moved, I went through all my stuff. I threw out anything I didn't really want which no one else would want, and I gave away a bunch of things I didn't want that I thought someone else would.

It genuinely feels good to lighten your load. It makes you realize how easy it is to fall into that trap where you feel like you need more stuff, but then you never use the stuff you get. In my case, it was a bunch of movies I knew I'd never watch again, and a bunch of games and books I knew I'd never read. The key is to be strict with yourself. If you know you're never going to read it/watch it/listen to it/use it, then get rid of it.

Even if you weren't feeling oppressed by your stuff, it's still a good thing to do before a move, as it makes the move easier.]]> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 02:20 PM
I'm afraid it's a bit out of control, though - as the closer the actual move gets, the more I feel the easiest thing would just be to chuck everything all together. I'm tired of looking at boxes.]]> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 03:13 PM
My second thought was that he'd get Nicholas Cage to play Optimus Prime.]]> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 02:23 PM
I was going to support the idea of Nicolas Cage as Optimus Prime, but the more I thought about it, the worse it seemed. But how about Mark Hamill as Megatron?]]> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 02:35 PM Monday, May 30, 2005 06:52 PM
also, though vader is able to sense luke on the shuttle that lands on endor in rotj, the emperor does NOT. finally, NOBODY senses leia, even though she does have the force and is on the same shuttle. i think as long as obi-wan stays off in the desert on tatooine and doesn't go around making things float and flashing his light saber at people, he should not be a threat to luke at all.

ahhhhh, it's been a long time since i've let loose with that much nerdiness. i feel wefweshed.]]> Saturday, May 28, 2005 01:43 PM Saturday, May 28, 2005 03:09 PM Sunday, May 29, 2005 07:12 PM Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:54 AM Friday, May 27, 2005 12:46 PM Thursday, May 26, 2005 01:24 PM Thursday, May 26, 2005 02:00 PM
It may sound insulting, but "Knitting for Dummies" was worth the $ from half.com. Mine was stolen when my car was broken into, but it has some basic instructions that helped me as well. You can also join the yahoo group "knitlist". There are a ton of members and you can ask all kinds of questions, they won't treat you like an idiot.]]> Thursday, May 26, 2005 04:36 PM Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:03 AM
mouserobot, let's not speak of the double pointed needles.]]> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:42 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:33 PM
Anyway, don't be depressed lady. I bet you'll get a handle on it eventually.]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:43 PM
Ja Rule keeps a comedian around to tell him jokes, the mag reports, and Ludacris has an assistant who makes sure that his Game Boy is always loaded with fresh batteries.

Ludacris has a battery bitch? First of all, why hasn't he moved over to PSP? Second of all, why doesn't he have the rechargable one? Even I have that, and I ain't no pimp.]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:10 PM
That Ludacris is so behind the times is indeed disturbing. But I could use somebody to keep my Game Boy charged, not to mention my phone. I'm always forgetting to do it. I think it's out of juice right now, actually...]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:17 PM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:34 PM Life Aquatic, which is a perfect example of a Wes Anderson movie.

Your movie preferences remain a puzzle to me, mouserobot. :)]]> Friday, May 27, 2005 01:07 PM ]]> Friday, May 27, 2005 12:48 PM
Bill Murray asks the script girl (who is constantly topless through almost the whole movie): "Do the interns get Glocks?"

Script Girl: "No, they have to share one."

Later, the script girl is appalled by Zissou's obsessive behavior and contemplates a mutiny with other crew members. Willem Dafoe (playing Klaus, the short-pants-wearing sailor who is jealously devoted to Zissou) says: "I see where you're coming from, but I think you misjudge the guy." Then he runs out of the galley and peers suspiciously back at them from the porthole window in the door.

The Wilson guy, playing Ned Zissou (but was he really a Zissou?? This remains unclear), comes in on the reporter lady to find that she is reading Proust's "Rememberance of Things Past" to her unborn baby. He asks if he can listen for a while. She asks if he would like to be caught up on the story so far, but he obliviously shakes his head and says "I'll just pick it up as you go along."

Well, I guess it's not as funny if someone describes it to you...but Feanor, you know what I mean.]]> Saturday, May 28, 2005 01:35 PM Saturday, May 28, 2005 03:10 PM btw, Owen has the f-d up nose...]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:06 PM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:07 PM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 01:15 PM

You scored as The Vaginal-Reference-Making Dyke. You are the lesbian who can connect your vagina to nearly every object in the entire universe, creative and a little creepy you always astonish your friends. ]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:22 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:48 PM Missval: Cool, I've been meaning to see that one. It's on my Netflix queue somewhere. Third Wilson brother?! How many of those guys are there? I already can't keep apart Luke and Owen!]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:52 PM You scored as Darth Vader. Darth Vader 67% Yoda 61% Padme Amidala 58% C-3PO 53% R2-D2 50% Obi Wan Kenobi 44% General Grievous 42% Anakin Skywalker 42% Mace Windu 42% Clone Trooper 17% Chewbacca 17% Emperor Palpatine 14% Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com ]]> Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:04 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:00 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:23 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:25 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:25 AM Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:00 PM The 400 Blows. I just don't see how you can sympathize with the kid (as you are clearly meant to do) unless you have also lived a rebellious, unloved childhood on the streets of a French city.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:01 PM Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:08 PM Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:24 PM Vertigo for the very first time this past Sunday. Where the hell have I been?? That movie was fan-fucking-tastic!! Clearly, I need to see more Hitchcock films. Immediately.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:39 PM You do need to see more Hitchcock films. I do, too, actually; poppy and I have been reading his biography, and he's quite an amazing fellow. I recommend Sabotage, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest for starters. I assume you've seen Birds and Psycho; if not, see those, too.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:00 PM *eyebrows shoot up* My, can I give you recommendations. I would take Feanor's advice for the most part, but replace Strangers on a Train with Notorious, which is (IMO) the best movie Hitchcock ever made. Also, check out The Trouble With Harry.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:11 PM The Birds especially terrifying. You can, however, feel free to skip Rope, which, despite starring Jimmy Stewart, isn't terribly interesting. ST: By your criteria, the hottest woman of 1942 is Rosalind Russell; which I wouldn't argue against, because she is awesome. (However, I think Garbo could give her a serious run for the money). ST:]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:17 PM And I like Rope, although I admit that Jimmy Stewart's final speech is pretty dreadful.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:23 PM Replace? You're crazy. As for The Trouble with Harry--it's amusing, but very strange, and not really emblematic of Hitchcock's style. Sarcasmo: I agree; Rope is flawed, and definitely not one of my favorites.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:30 PM (2) The more you insult ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, the greater the chance you're going to have to share a prison shower with Roger Ebert and 1995-era Marlon Brando for all eternity. (Swear to god, it's in the Bible someplace.) (3) This list strikes me as particularly specious: PURPLE ROSE but no ANNIE HALL; DOUBLE INDEMNITY but no SUNSET BOULEVARD; THE LADY EVE instead of SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS or PALM BEACH STORY; and TAXI DRIVER instead of MEAN STREETS. As Australia said, wtf, mates?]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:19 PM I don't like Godard either, but if you say it's okay...well, I'll consider it. Eeww. I knew there was a reason why I wasn't a big Bible fan. Purple Rose of Cairo and Double Indemnity are great movies, but I see your point. I didn't get through the entirety of The Lady Eve or Sullivan's Travels--the former because I didn't have time to watch it, and the latter because I just didn't like it--I didn't find it funny or interesting. I've never heard of Palm Beach Story. As for Scorsese, I've never been a big Mean Streets fan. I prefer Who's That Knocking at My Door. ]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:32 PM Yay for Drunken Master II, though! I suspect that the 400 Blows is probably good if either you are a young French boy or you want to be. Goddard I cannot explain at all.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:47 PM -Anne Swetchine Feanor, just what are you trying to say about S's power?]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:01 PM (Or maybe I'll just content myself with Isabel Allende's new novel ZORRO, which certainly sounds a lot more interesting.)]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:15 AM Also - although I understand your reluctance to let go of Nintendo - I have to recommend the PS3 - the Playstations have always been my most-used gaming systems.]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:19 AM The Mask of Zorro was pretty awful. It really disappointed me, actually, because I went in with that feeling of vague hope that you mention, and came out betrayed. Despite my protests, however, and despite the fact that they've added a child sidekick (which is the sure sign of the death of any franchise), I know I'd totally go see the new one at the drop of a hat. S: That's it, I'm getting a PS3. All I really needed was one recommendation. :)]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:28 AM S: Yeah, thanks for that recommendation. F: So I've spoken to the fire marshall, and he says that no more than two game systems can be plugged in at the same time. Looks like you have some decisions to make young man...]]> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:38 AM Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:42 AM Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:52 AM Monday, May 23, 2005 01:41 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 01:44 PM I'm red saber all the way. It's the same reason I prefer Kirk to Picard, actually. ]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 02:18 PM Actually, on further thought, I think I'd have two sabers, one blue and one green, and one on each hip. I used to be a Kirk man, but as TNG went on into the later seasons, and I kind of grew up with Picard, I came to prefer him.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 02:28 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 02:29 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 02:29 PM Feanor: I actually was all about Picard when TNG was originally on the air...but now that I am older I find I prefer Kirk's action over Picard's deliberation. Picard totally wins on accent, however.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 02:34 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 04:01 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 04:23 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 04:44 PM Thinking about it today, I came to realize that I'd end up on the dark side as well. At least, I'm pretty sure that using the force to win big at the roulette wheel in Atlantic City runs contrary to the tenets of the Jedi order.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 07:29 PM ...or perhaps he does remember R2, but doesn't want to tell luke...for some reason. right after having seen episode iii, i saw episode ii on tv. I was very impressed by all the little connections. You can see everything that anakin is going to do in iii by his actions in ii. it's pretty cool. also, it just makes sense to split the kids up if there's two of them, so that even if one is found, the other may still be saved. this may not necessarily mean that the jedi think luke is more findable than leia, or vice versa.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 08:01 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 08:04 PM And I really was going to try and not geek out about this online. Ah, well. I was thinking about hiding Luke on Tatoonie - and I think it is entirely Yoda's intention that *one* child may be easily discovered. Since Organa was set on a daughter, that left poor, whiney Luke. You have to consider that although the deception that Padme died prior-to-childbirth will put Vader off for a while, he (the Force being strong with him) will no doubt eventually sense his offspring is alive. Since he only believes there is one child, making that child relatively easy to find makes the other child is all the safer; as once Vader finds him he'd have no reason to seek any further and accidentally discover the twin. Thereby leaving the Jedi at least one potential member with great powers at their disposal.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 10:54 PM D: Yes, it's possible the Sith don't know about the kids, but that's not my point. My point is, the Jedi were trying to plan for the future, as if the Sith were going to be looking for one or more kids. So, given that they are making that assumption, what logic are they using that would lead them to pick such an obvious hiding place? Also, I think you're right about the Jedi frowning on Force gambling. :) b: I'm okay with Obi-wan not remembering R2. That's just one astromech among probably hundreds of astromech droids he interacted with on a daily basis for years. It's believable to me that he would have forgotten this particular one, or not made the connection. As for R4, maybe having an astromech on your ship (which you always have when you're flying) isn't the same as "owning" a droid, in Obi-Wan's mind. Maybe R4 just came with the ship. It definitely makes sense to split the kids up, and putting Leia with the Organas is a great idea, as they've already talked about adopting a girl, so it isn't strange when one pops up with them. That part of the plan makes perfect sense to me. I'm not so sure having Obi-Wan with Luke is such a good thing, though. Wouldn't having a Jedi nearby--someone strong with the Force--be even more of a red flag? S: TrackerNeil had the same idea when we were talking this over after seeing the movie. I find it hard to believe that the Jedi would use such cold, unfeeling logic, and consider sacrificing one of the two children, who are basically their only hope for the future of the Jedi order. Also, there's no suggestion that they're planning such a thing in that scene. Still, that is one of the strongest explanations I've heard.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 11:18 PM cold, unfeeling logic But the Jedi are all about cold, unfeeling logic. Remember they do not mourn loss. Yoda said so. Oh - sorry - said so Yoda did.]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 11:40 PM Tuesday, May 24, 2005 09:38 AM And as much as I hate to say it, I think you should show them in numerical, story order. However - I think you should *also* show the original (not special) editions of the middle (first? last?) three. Don't worry. I won't tell Lucas. ]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 02:03 PM And also, if you show any version in which you see Jabba before Ep. VI, or in which Han shoots in any order besides first, I'll gut you like a fish and make a holiday wreath out of your tender organ meats.]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 02:20 PM S&Y: Um, I was just going to show my DVDs. I sadly don't own the original versions of the films. If you guys do, or know someone who does, I might consider showing them instead--and/or offering to purchase them. I would at least want to show the original version of the Greedo scene; none of the other changes bother me nearly as much as that one. But regardless, Yags, you will not be eviscerating me or making any kind of ornament out of my insides. :p]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 02:35 PM Friday, May 20, 2005 03:01 PM Empire eventually snapped (from overplay no doubt). All my videos are packed at the moment - so I'm not sure if they're still about. If they are, I'm happy to loan them to you so Yagathai doesn't need to do you any harm.]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 04:20 PM Empire snapped. I think my brother might have the remaining two... Anyway, thanks for your offer.]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 04:29 PM BTW, totally go with the chronological order. It's not only more hopeful for Anakin (fall from grace leading to ultimate, if unconvincing, redemption), but more hopeful for Lucas (as the quality gradually changes from crap to good).]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 04:39 PM However, if we had applied that logic to Ring 0 - Ring 2, we would never have made it past 0. That movie was gawd-awful :P~]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 04:48 PM The Empire Strikes Back, the one that I don't have access to, so I totally should have bought it. Maybe I'll go back and see if it's still there...]]> Friday, May 20, 2005 04:49 PM will shoot first. :)]]> Monday, May 23, 2005 01:21 PM Monday, May 23, 2005 12:28 PM Also - will he send his children away when they rebel against him too?]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 02:18 PM He doesn't like them once they get that old, anyway. *shiver*]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 02:22 PM I protest! I mean - Yub Nub!]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 01:17 PM Look at it this way: at least you didn't turn out to be Jar-Jar.]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 01:41 PM Look at it this way: at least you didn't turn out to be Jar-Jar. Don't. Even. Kid.]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 01:58 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 04:25 PM Poppy: But that's silly, you never beat me! I just fall down the stairs all the time.]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 04:36 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 04:53 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:02 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:07 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:10 PM I'm wearing my Revenge of the Sith T-shirt, and I'm listening to the Star Wars soundtrack right now. I couldn't be more ready! For admission to a mental hospital, maybe. Sorry, but according to the personality quiz, I'm the spiteful loner, so I'm just being true to my nature :) By the way, I found it amusing that your Star Wars Horoscope said that you're C-3P0, and the personality quiz said you're a haughty intellectual. Talk about a perfect match! ]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:34 PM Also, I totally didn't notice the connection between my two quiz results. Funny!]]> Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:57 PM Tuesday, May 17, 2005 08:46 PM Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:06 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 04:26 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2005 04:37 PM nothing happens for the next hour. And honestly, having seen the final battle scene a couple of times now, it doesn't hold up all that well. The AT-AT attack in TESB was done much better.]]> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 01:42 PM AotC does slow down quite a bit after the chase, and we must wait and wait while Obi-wan investigates and Anakin bitches and whines. But I really do enjoy the chase sequence; the battle scene still holds up for me; and there are some isolated good bits even during the slow parts. *shrug*]]> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 02:00 PM also, check your work email if you can, you nonworking person. oh wait, i haven't gone to work in six weeks... :)]]> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 04:50 PM Tuesday, May 17, 2005 05:46 PM RotS DVDs separately. Also, checked my email; reply sent. MR: I was just going to say that you're crazy, but we all already knew that. :) But actually, I probably would have agreed with you about the movie right after I saw it for the first time.]]> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 06:03 PM You scored as Modernist. Modernism represents the thought that science and reason are all we need to carry on. Religion is unnecessary and any sort of spirituality halts progress. You believe everything has a rational explanation. 50% of Americans share your world-view. Modernist 100% Materialist 100% Existentialist 88% Postmodernist 75% Cultural Creative 69% Idealist 38% Romanticist 38% Fundamentalist 13% ]]> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 03:13 PM Monday, May 16, 2005 04:57 PM Monday, May 16, 2005 05:42 PM b: I glanced at it. I noticed the blog. I thought it was just sad. But maybe I didn't look around long enough to get scared.]]> Monday, May 16, 2005 10:57 PM Friday, May 13, 2005 06:56 PM Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:58 PM Sunday, May 15, 2005 09:41 AM (And in any case, I think it looks pretty good; Keanu Reeves can't act, of course, but if they're smart they'll work with that a la The Matrix.)]]> Friday, May 13, 2005 10:30 AM like Linklater? His films are so dull and pretentious.]]> Friday, May 13, 2005 10:43 AM 1. Oh, it's that crap Jumanji in space. 2. Hmm, Tim Robbins? Did you really need this job? I could have spotted you the fiver. (Ditto for director Jon Favreau). ]]> Friday, May 13, 2005 11:02 AM Friday, May 13, 2005 11:14 AM Mission to Mars. ST: Okay, I have to admit, I'm being unfair. I've only seen one Richard Linklater film--the endless and boring Slacker. I have judged the man's talent based only on that one movie, and perhaps that's unfair. But none of the clips and ads that I've seen of his other films have convinced me that his style has changed one bit. Wow, according to his page on the IMDB, he's directing the remake of The Bad News Bears, too!! Isanity, I tell you!]]> Friday, May 13, 2005 11:45 AM I don't think I'm going to have to see this one though. And I *like* Keanu Reeves. ]]> Friday, May 13, 2005 12:22 PM Saturday, May 14, 2005 06:52 PM Blade Runner the movie to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the book. Also, I've actually heard some people say Waking Life was horrifically bad, and some people say it's good, so I'm curious about it. It looks like Linklater's using that same style/effect again in Scanner Darkly. I have to admit to kind of liking Keanu Reeves, as well. But his acting range is limited. MR: I'm never sure what to think when you give me your opinion on a movie. Maybe I should go see School of Rock now... :) Malick can be quite fantastic. I just hope New World has more of the beauty and fullness of Thin Red Line and less of the wandering sadness of Badlands and Days of Heaven (which, though good films, left me kind of depressed and puzzled).]]> Sunday, May 15, 2005 09:48 AM Thursday, May 12, 2005 02:30 PM Thursday, May 12, 2005 06:45 PM B: I could totally email you the code for that if you're serious. It's pretty easy, really.]]> Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:24 PM Thursday, May 12, 2005 07:29 PM Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:34 AM Wednesday, May 11, 2005 01:42 PM Wednesday, May 11, 2005 02:18 PM Monday, May 9, 2005 09:17 PM countdown clock? I feel insufficiently geeky - as I don't even have a ticket yet. Pink Five Strikes Back is my favorite as well - particular the scene immediately following the trial in the woods. :)]]> Monday, May 9, 2005 03:34 PM better one. I just suddenly decided I wanted one, so I went and stole the code. I wish I'd written it myself, and made it so it would constantly refresh. Ah, well. Maybe I'll upgrade it later. I still have nine days and whatever. I enjoyed Obi-Wan and Yoda in Pink Five Strikes Back. Frog-people. Heh.]]> Monday, May 9, 2005 03:48 PM Monday, May 9, 2005 04:47 PM Monday, May 9, 2005 05:06 PM Monday, May 9, 2005 05:19 PM Monday, May 9, 2005 05:35 PM Monday, May 9, 2005 06:18 PM I finished the movie, and sadly, it wasn't really worth 3.5 hours of my time, in my opinion.]]> Tuesday, May 10, 2005 09:35 AM HooRah!]]> Friday, May 6, 2005 01:16 PM Feanor: I'm glad someone else is excited about unleashed. I think the story looks lame - but with such an unusual cast combination, I'll admit it has been intrigued. (That Besson wrote it just makes it all the more alluring).]]> Friday, May 6, 2005 03:44 PM Sarcas: It's almost certain to suck, but I can't resist. You want to come with when I see it?]]> Friday, May 6, 2005 04:22 PM Friday, May 6, 2005 04:29 PM Friday, May 6, 2005 12:39 PM Btw, I'm pleased to see that my new timestamping code works, and you're not speaking to us from the past. :)]]> Friday, May 6, 2005 12:44 PM ]]> Saturday, May 7, 2005 01:11 PM Well, the reviews are good, anyway, regardless of who wrote the thing, so I'm still sticking my feeling of excited optimism.]]> Saturday, May 7, 2005 09:29 PM Saturday, May 7, 2005 09:29 PM Friday, May 6, 2005 10:55 AM Thursday, May 5, 2005 05:17 PM Alvin Ailey is a *great* company. I'll tell my sister to pass on that you enjoyed them. (She knows, like, every dancer in the city. No lie.)]]> Thursday, May 5, 2005 11:58 AM Thursday, May 5, 2005 12:06 PM Thursday, May 5, 2005 12:04 PM Tuesday, May 3, 2005 03:00 PM spider? Fool.]]> Monday, May 2, 2005 10:04 PM Monday, May 2, 2005 02:16 PM ST: No, no learning! And no comeuppance!]]> Monday, May 2, 2005 02:46 PM damn them!]]> Monday, May 2, 2005 12:20 PM Saturday, April 30, 2005 06:58 PM Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:12 AM Well, the oil ministry has been in control of one corrupt Iraqi exile or another all along; the most interesting thing is how it bounced from a Chalabi ally to an Allawi ally and now back to Chalabi. It makes a certain amount of sense, if you think about it; the Iraqi oil minister is the guy who's going to have to deal with Western corporate executives, so you don't want somebody who had his formative experience studying the Koran in Qom or something. The thing is that *any* Iraqi exile who isn't wholly corrupt is probably irrelevant to Iraqi politics.]]> Friday, April 29, 2005 04:33 PM funny movie. But yes, hopefully your classmates will not be wandering about mysteriously exploding during the reunion. That could be a bit more depressing even than your typical reunion.]]> Thursday, April 28, 2005 02:31 PM Thursday, April 28, 2005 01:24 PM Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:48 AM Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:50 AM Sunday, May 1, 2005 10:32 PM Thursday, April 28, 2005 06:11 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005 01:17 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005 09:52 AM And if anybody's curious as to how leo time travels all the time when posting her comments, it has to do with her crazy timezone out there on the west coast. I think I might have to add a timezome drop down dealie to my comment page now...]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:37 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:23 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:24 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:34 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:38 PM Thursday, April 28, 2005 02:22 PM Thursday, April 28, 2005 02:25 PM (b) *whew* I was SO worried that you would hate it. (c) I have to run off to do some practice exams, so actual substantive comments will have to wait.]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:08 AM (b) So was I! (c) That's fair. Hope the exams are going well!]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:48 AM Among the Internet movie nerds that I read regularly, there are two predominant interpretation, one political, and one religious; the political one argues that LVT is not just criticizing America as a country, but as a representation of the Enlightenment idea that people could govern themselves rationally. However, as James Caan says, people's best simply isn't good enough. The religious one (the one I initially preferred) argues that LVT is making a case for what John Calvin called "total depravity," the idea that mankind is utterly enslaved to selfish and essentially sinful desires, and that God is justified in decreeing that sinners should go to hell. This interpretation likens James Caan's conversation with Nicole Kidman to the conversation with the Inquisitor in that Doystoyevsky novel that I haven't read. After thinking about it a lot, I decided that both are probably true, and that LVT is taking issue with humanism as a general principle from a defiantly premodern Catholic perspective. I find his ideas pretty abhorrent either way, but I can't deny that the movie is fantastic.]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:20 PM Also: Torture!]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:38 PM Dave: LOL.]]> Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:58 PM Tuesday, April 26, 2005 01:27 PM Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:21 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 03:31 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 03:34 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 05:19 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 08:15 PM http://kyw.com/news/topstories_story_115112617.html Guess GOD doesn't listen to him either. LOL. ps - I tried to make your link thing work, but couldn't. ]]> Monday, April 25, 2005 01:24 PM Your link. It looks like unfortunately if you're not using Internet Explorer, the html buttons are not going to work, because the javascript I'm using takes advantage of functionality specific to IE. You can still write out your html if you feel up to it, though.]]> Monday, April 25, 2005 03:08 PM Well, actually, they'd have to explain it first. But *after* that...]]> Monday, April 25, 2005 03:20 PM that bad, ST.]]> Monday, April 25, 2005 03:30 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 03:32 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 03:51 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 03:54 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 04:06 PM Monday, April 25, 2005 05:29 PM B: Thanks. But you should really study up on your samurai.]]> Monday, April 25, 2005 06:58 PM You are, of course, wrong. And insane.]]> Monday, April 25, 2005 04:19 PM Friday, April 22, 2005 01:56 PM I'm still considering buying tickets from a random ticket website for an inflated price, but it's kind of a ridiculous mark-up, and I don't know how much I trust these sites.]]> Friday, April 22, 2005 02:10 PM One Missed Call as you did. I rather felt like Miike was laughing at the audience there at the end.]]> Friday, April 15, 2005 12:22 PM Friday, April 15, 2005 12:40 PM Friday, April 15, 2005 12:42 PM But I kid, 'chyma. What counts as mid-west dialect, anyway? Saying "pop" when you mean "soda"?]]> Friday, April 15, 2005 12:46 PM Friday, April 15, 2005 12:47 PM Friday, April 15, 2005 12:56 PM Thursday, April 14, 2005 03:03 PM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 01:00 PM white hot.]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 01:03 PM couldn't care less." I also hate it when people say "take accountability." You can take responsibility, and youcan be held accountable, but you can't take accountability. And the literally thing bugs me too. However, I enjoy improperly using fewer and less, mainly because it bugs Jim.]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 01:28 PM affect or effect. Drives me crazy. Do they have an effect on me? Or do they affect me? Hate those words. ]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 08:40 PM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:15 PM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:38 PM Wednesday, April 13, 2005 08:07 AM Wednesday, April 13, 2005 09:39 PM BTW, since the festival guide compared IZO to EL TOPO, figured I'd ask: if I really liked IZO, does that mean that I'm likely to enjoy Jodorowsky movies? Sorry to be so late on this one, ST - just caught the comment. Personally - I wouldn't compare Izo to El Topo (the first films that come to mind for comparison to Izo, oddly enough, are Pink Flyod's The Wall and The Who's Tommy because of certain thematics (definition of Self vs. society's definition of the individual; disaffectation; societal aftermath of war; psycho-sexual issues regarding the power of women in a patriarchial society; inexplicable musical interludes). That being said, Jodorowsky's movies are more surreal then they are pretentious - with the possible exception of Holy Mountain - which is preachy and pretentious. He's got a different flavor than Miike - but you might like him. Certainly would be worth giving a try.]]> Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:18 PM I can hardly imagine a film that dje2004 would hate more Ha! You're probably right. As soon as I saw this was a Miike film, I knew to avoid it like the plague.]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 01:33 PM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:34 AM BTW, since the festival guide compared IZO to EL TOPO, figured I'd ask: if I really liked IZO, does that mean that I'm likely to enjoy Jodorowsky movies?]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:37 AM poppy: Thank you for your lovely parenthetical comment. :)]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:43 AM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:20 AM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:35 AM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:14 PM Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:33 PM here, I don't think so. Travis uses the words "experimental," "anarchic," and "heavily non-narrative" to describe it, as well as putting quotes around the word "story," and describing time in the film as being a "meaninglessly fluid concept." Admittedly, he does give a pretty concrete and heavily interpreted description of the plot, but that's his job.]]> Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:44 PM Monday, April 11, 2005 04:00 PM Monday, April 11, 2005 12:04 PM I haven't seen it, so I can't comment. But I have wanted to see it. And even if Feanor's wrong and I wouldn't be able to predict what happens, that probably wouldn't stop me from *trying*... :) -- peccable]]> Monday, April 11, 2005 12:57 PM (b) Yay for Primer, but I disagree that Peccable could figure it out. Maybe that's true; however, after having seen it twice, I came to the conclusion that some things are purposefully left out. It's like a puzzle that you *want* to finish but you can't, making you as confused and disoriented as the characters. Seeing it in the theater is a *really* disassociating feeling.]]> Saturday, April 9, 2005 03:41 PM Saturday, April 9, 2005 03:43 PM On Primer: Hmm. Perhaps you're right.]]> Saturday, April 9, 2005 03:54 PM Friday, April 8, 2005 02:14 PM *ahem* Have fun.]]> Friday, April 8, 2005 02:34 PM Friday, April 8, 2005 03:55 PM Saturday, April 9, 2005 09:42 AM Friday, April 8, 2005 02:33 PM Friday, April 8, 2005 10:10 AM ... ... *turns around and walks away quietly, perplexed and disturbed and anxious to not to vomit on the floor*]]> Thursday, April 7, 2005 07:06 PM Friday, April 8, 2005 09:57 AM Heather: D'oh! I waited to post about it, as poppy pointed out that maybe the bloginator would call you, and it would be better for you to find out that way. But then I saw that kheara had posted about it, so I decided I had the go-ahead. Anyway, now you know! Poppy's going up to see them and the baby at the hospital today, and hopefully snap some photos.]]> Friday, April 8, 2005 10:08 AM Thursday, April 7, 2005 03:02 PM Thursday, April 7, 2005 03:03 PM Thursday, April 7, 2005 03:06 PM Thursday, April 7, 2005 03:09 PM And big Congratulations to the Bloginators as well!]]> Thursday, April 7, 2005 04:45 PM (Also, Carolyn is such a pretty name.)]]> Thursday, April 7, 2005 05:09 PM Thursday, April 7, 2005 10:16 PM Panel/frame movie/comic comparisions.]]> Thursday, April 7, 2005 03:08 AM Thursday, April 7, 2005 03:49 PM (That episode was pretty awesome).]]> Thursday, April 7, 2005 04:47 PM Sarcasmo: Don't you say that! He's going to be just fine!]]> Thursday, April 7, 2005 07:47 PM Thursday, April 7, 2005 05:14 PM Wednesday, April 6, 2005 06:46 PM Sigh]]> Wednesday, April 6, 2005 08:41 PM ...and I agree about the Pope business...it it keeps going, and going, and going like the energizer bunny. Be forewarned, ABC has promised day-long coverage of the funeral starting at 6 a.m. on Friday. I bet the rest will follow suit.]]> Wednesday, April 6, 2005 01:03 AM Wednesday, April 6, 2005 03:17 PM Btw, I forgot that Bubber could also be referred to as The Rooster. Maybe I should have used that name instead... ST: I get antsy, too. And Aerenchyma gives me no end of crap when I take a long time between posts. It's been another crazy busy day at work today, but I think I'll take some time after my work hours are over and put up a new post. That's how dedicated I am to you folks! :)]]> Wednesday, April 6, 2005 06:45 PM Monday, April 4, 2005 06:07 PM Monday, April 4, 2005 06:33 PM Monday, April 4, 2005 06:38 PM In any case, it's pretty fucking awesome. I conclude that Ronald D. Moore is the man.]]> Saturday, April 2, 2005 05:05 PM Clash of the Titans. Heh.]]> Friday, April 1, 2005 05:31 PM (This doesn't count the movies you brought to Hong Kong Movie Night, half of which were awesome.)]]> Thursday, March 31, 2005 09:52 PM Thursday, March 31, 2005 09:54 PM really love to the movie night folks. And I don't mean that as a knock against the movie night crowd at all; I'm just weird that way. So I tend to lean towards bringing silly films that I find amusing and that I can take criticism of without getting all huffy. Which generally means that the films I bring are not going to be particularly experimental, epic, exciting, or even very good, but that they will--I hope, at least--be fun to watch with a group of people.]]> Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:00 PM Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:01 PM And ST, Didion doesn't usually keep me up nights. He really should roll up the NY Review of Books and beat me with that.]]> Friday, April 1, 2005 05:37 PM Friday, April 1, 2005 12:44 AM I don't think I like the Maltese, anyway. It has that tiny, pretty, poodly type thing going on. Now, one of these could be useful, if those squirrels turn out to be a problem... :)]]> Thursday, March 31, 2005 06:47 PM won't bark, period. Unless you ask him if he wants a "cookie". LOL.]]> Thursday, March 31, 2005 08:01 PM Thursday, March 31, 2005 08:35 PM "I said no Joan Didion. You need to go to bed. Bed!"]]> Thursday, March 31, 2005 08:35 PM Friday, April 1, 2005 02:48 AM Friday, April 1, 2005 05:38 PM Thursday, March 31, 2005 06:41 PM Friday, April 1, 2005 01:12 AM (b) The way the Blockbuster policy was explained to me by an employee was: no more late fees, but once you have the DVD/video/whatever out for more than two weeks, they just bill you for the entire thing. So it sounds like a massive fee increase under the guise of a decrease. But I haven't read the article, so it may be that the employee was mistaken.]]> Wednesday, March 30, 2005 05:00 PM (b) That's pretty much it.]]> Wednesday, March 30, 2005 05:18 PM http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?tovr=-1294787291]]> Tuesday, March 29, 2005 07:01 PM Tuesday, March 29, 2005 07:41 PM Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:04 AM Monday, March 28, 2005 06:43 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 09:40 PM The Keeper is a plastic cup that goes in your vagina and catches your blood when you menstruate. It's not disposable, and while probably not for the faint of heart about these things, it's thrifty (one of them costs $30 and will last you ten years), good for the environment, and won't cause TSS or cancer or any of the other nasty things tampons will.]]> Monday, March 28, 2005 09:47 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 10:37 PM As for the Keeper, I'm down with the idea, but I use public restrooms at work, and am afraid I'll scare someone. Like, pretty much anyone.]]> Tuesday, March 29, 2005 01:20 AM Wednesday, March 30, 2005 04:30 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 09:48 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 10:11 PM Tuesday, March 29, 2005 03:01 AM *No, I've never been a fan of Samurai Jack.]]> Monday, March 28, 2005 03:22 PM I'll admit the dialogue can be a bit wooden, but there isn't a lot of it, and it's still generally better than dialogue in the movies, although that's not saying much.]]> Monday, March 28, 2005 03:43 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 07:38 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 03:01 AM Monday, March 28, 2005 03:22 PM Monday, March 28, 2005 03:24 PM David: Cool. You're on my list. And definitely get that ticket soon. I hear (mainly from Yagathai, actually) they're selling out a lot of shows faster than expected.]]> Monday, March 28, 2005 03:42 PM Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:42 PM Friday, March 25, 2005 03:52 PM mouserobot: Mmm...doughnuts...]]> Monday, March 28, 2005 03:02 AM Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:47 PM you know, like Keanu Reeves, except...in condo form Ha! That's some funny stuff right there.]]> Thursday, March 24, 2005 06:37 PM Thursday, March 24, 2005 06:43 PM A: Indeed. That man needs a cock-punching.]]> Thursday, March 24, 2005 06:56 PM Thursday, March 24, 2005 07:47 PM I imagine the legal issue posed by a zombie being held culpable for a crime would be a question of intent. The undead are presumably incapable of forming an intent on the level of the living, because they appear to be incapable of self-reflection or the ability to make a moral decision. *However*, if a person declares ahead of time that he is to turn into a zombie and tear somebody's head of, the intent problem is arguably solved. We would have to punish the zombie for homocide to deter future individuals from turning themselves into zombies and tearing off the heads of those lives we value and might want to protect.]]> Thursday, March 24, 2005 09:24 PM Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:57 PM Ring 2, and a critical like of Ring 0. That kind of erodes my faith in humanity.]]> Monday, March 28, 2005 03:03 AM One review, in particular, puts most of the blame on Erhen Kruger, the screenwriter. The reviewer speculated that since Nakata doesn't speak English, he wasn't able to curb Kruger's excesses. I still can't figure out why so many people panned the original Ring 2, yet swoon over Ring 0. And let's not even get started on The Eye.]]> Wednesday, March 23, 2005 05:31 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 07:56 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 07:57 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 08:11 PM m/ Metal makes us strong. It shows us we belong. ]]> Tuesday, March 22, 2005 08:34 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 08:35 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 08:40 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 09:34 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005 09:47 PM Freak Friday made me cry last weekend. And not even the good Jodie Foster Freaky Friday - I'm talking Lindsay Lohan here.]]> Tuesday, March 22, 2005 09:49 PM Sarcas: Thank god I like the brassy Chicago. As for Freaky Friday... oh dear.]]> Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:06 PM I probably shouldn't admit this, but when I was 13, I cried while watching _The Flintstones Movie_.]]> Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:59 PM Wednesday, March 23, 2005 05:29 PM Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:33 AM Monday, March 21, 2005 05:03 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 05:15 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 07:36 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 07:47 PM chest.]]> Monday, March 21, 2005 07:53 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 09:01 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 09:04 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 05:01 PM I wonder if just blogging about it would do the trick? ;)]]> Monday, March 21, 2005 05:02 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 06:53 PM Monday, March 21, 2005 07:35 PM Friday, March 18, 2005 04:54 PM Friday, March 18, 2005 05:07 PM Friday, March 18, 2005 01:43 AM Friday, March 18, 2005 05:41 PM Although, I do admit to being curious as to what this whole Runescape thing is about. I hear it's a game. I like games. Also, per ST's comment, "Mary, don't you know me?!"]]> Saturday, March 19, 2005 03:58 AM Friday, March 18, 2005 05:40 PM Candy freak. In this case my definition of "good" comes from my scaring the cat by laughing really loud and discussions of dark chocolate Kit-Kat stock-piling. So, not an introspective book but pretty yummy.]]> Friday, March 18, 2005 09:14 PM could raise, but rather take it at face value and feel enlightened. Leo-Why am I not surprised you took to that? ;) I will check it out, if only to torture myself. Is there any cookie dough left?]]> Monday, March 21, 2005 03:13 PM Friday, March 18, 2005 06:51 PM Saturday, March 19, 2005 04:00 AM Boy, did that ever not work out for you.]]> Thursday, March 17, 2005 04:19 AM Thursday, March 17, 2005 05:16 PM Though I hear that pretty much all they're keeping is the title. Everything else is going out the window (no piano-wire-around-the-testicles torture for Mr. Bond, I'm afraid).]]> Thursday, March 17, 2005 05:07 PM I've never seen the made-for-TV movie. Is it any good?]]> Thursday, March 17, 2005 05:17 PM Thursday, March 17, 2005 05:21 PM Episode 3 of Climax.]]> Thursday, March 17, 2005 05:23 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 05:09 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 05:11 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 05:14 PM (2) The original Casino Royale was not an actual "Bond" film - it was strictly a parody. (3) Also - it was brilliant. BRILLIANT I TELL YOU!]]> Wednesday, March 16, 2005 05:58 PM Sleeper over and over when I was a kid. Obviously about 90% of the jokes were over my head, but I loved when they bulldozed that nose. Sarcasmo: I will not dispute your point number 2. But your point number 3 is true only if by "brilliant" you mean "a complete mess of a film that's really multiple films--each of them with its own tone, style, and direction, all of them rather strange and awkward--edited together clumsily apparently with scotch tape."]]> Wednesday, March 16, 2005 06:17 PM UNLESS *you* will concede that David Niven is the Best Bond Ever Otherwise - I think you and I may have to come to blows. ;p]]> Wednesday, March 16, 2005 07:47 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:11 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:55 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2005 05:42 PM Good luck on the condo! Whereabouts is it? What is it like? I hope you get it (assuming that it really is nice and that you really do want it)!]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 06:14 PM Claire: I do. Thanks. It's ten to fifteen minutes from our current place, near route 70 in Cherry Hill. It's a nice place, with a loft and two bedrooms. It seems to be in good shape, with a goodly amount of space. Thanks! We're hoping, as well.]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 06:33 PM Also, drilling in Alaska pisses me off. Hello?! Why are they still trying to rely on something that has a limited supply? I mean, eventually there won't be fossil fuels left. Are they going to wait for developing viable alternatives until we don't have any more anywhere? Stupid asses.]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 07:56 PM Also, Jackson is clearly guilty. If it were about the children, then why no girls around? Good luck on the condo. Very cool. Location?]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 08:00 PM And yet, it's kinda of interesting, as a case study, that people really don't mind that they are being decieved. It's like a partner in a relationship that's being cheated on yet turns his head to the abuse. Are we really that scared as a society? Or is it that we feel we're such doormats that couldn't do any better than this idiot? My friend Aerenchyma (worst screen name ever) has said that philosophy is a luxuary, that it requires social stability to thrive. If you are worried about putting food in your stomach you're main concern isn't what it is to be human. However, I'm starting to think it's more like a bell curve, where as in the US, the overall social stability is so great, that the masses begin falling off the otherside and just stop caring how they got where they were. ]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 08:24 PM Aerenchyma: I read that Arnie was also guilty. That guy. For him, politics is just another movie; another piece of entertainment to sell to the people. As for Jackson, I don't know. I was pretty certain he was guilty, but the more I learn about this kid and his family, the less I'm sure. But it's not like we'll ever really know. Only Jackson and the kid know for sure, and they both seem pretty weird and untrustworthy. As for the condo, thanks. Like I said, it's near route 70 in Cherry Hill. At least, I think it's considered Cherry Hill. It's only about 10 or 15 mins from our current place.]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 08:29 PM go sign the petition... I know you're tired of doing it Aerenchyma, but tough! PA is one of the states they actually need signatures from. Good luck on the townhouse! Just be careful, because I really think the housing marketing is going to come crashing down soon. With the taking away of bankruptcy, alot more people are going to be losing their homes. ]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 09:23 PM Your comment on the housing market is not exactly encouraging, but thanks for the good wishes! mister williams: The weird thing is that people are focusing on the strangest issues--like the religion of the candidate, and his stance on gay marriage (the first shouldn't even be an issue, and the second shouldn't even be a question)--and are meanwhile ignoring the really important issues--like whether the candidate brought us into war based on a lie, is destroying the economy and education, and is making us hated around the world. I guess we can thank Karl Rove for that.]]> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:19 PM What's the Matter With Kansas by Thomas Frank. Your question is pretty much the central question of his book, and he goes on to demonstrate exactly how and why the people in "the heartland" seem to be voting against their own self-interest. I can't recommend this book enough.]]> Wednesday, March 16, 2005 05:05 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2005 03:34 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2005 03:44 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 04:51 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2005 05:02 PM Monday, March 14, 2005 06:17 PM Pronounced like "My Cage?"]]> Monday, March 14, 2005 06:32 PM I've been having similar issues, only I feel my guy should have an R name. There's always the Character Name Generator, in a pinch. By their reckoning, my guy should be: Searil Falconsflight (or Searil Falconsflight Evilbane) Hmmm...not sure if that'll stick or not. Which reminds me - I really should email my stats out tonight...]]> Monday, March 14, 2005 07:31 PM my first name starts with a J, it did in fact give me a name with a J: Jamroar. Heh. Jamroar. Jamroar Gladomain the Untrusted, in fact. Pretty funny. I would totally use it if I wanted a funny name, but I'm not going so much for the funny. Searil is pretty good, though. I don't know, maybe I'll just stick with Micah. It's really growing on me.]]> Monday, March 14, 2005 07:47 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2005 03:34 AM Tuesday, March 15, 2005 03:49 PM ]]> Monday, March 14, 2005 04:09 PM Monday, March 14, 2005 04:25 PM Friday, March 11, 2005 10:16 PM Thursday, March 10, 2005 08:15 PM Thursday, March 10, 2005 08:15 PM But actually, don't post your results, because then I'd have to fix all the html again. Sigh. I guess I'll take your word for it. Smarty pants. :*]]> Thursday, March 10, 2005 08:21 PM rule in heaven.]]> Thursday, March 10, 2005 03:57 PM Thursday, March 10, 2005 06:03 PM For Friday the 13th that is - I don't think I can abide the OC.]]> Wednesday, March 9, 2005 11:23 PM http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=republiccommandodemo.exe I played it. I was not particularly impressed. And I *like* FPSs. I also don't particularly like anything with the word "Tactical" or "Tactics" in it, honestly. It's taken a while to admit it, but there it is. :)]]> Wednesday, March 9, 2005 04:44 PM Wednesday, March 9, 2005 09:33 PM fabulous. I also bought another dress... what's wrong with me?]]> Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:08 AM Surely not.]]> Tuesday, March 8, 2005 07:43 PM PS-I demand a link to the shoes (and outfit?)that have brought out the guilty girliness.]]> Tuesday, March 8, 2005 08:01 PM Tuesday, March 8, 2005 08:03 PM http://www.anntaylor.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&RestartFlow=t&Product_Id=791783 Not this skirt, but close: http://www.anntaylor.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&RestartFlow=t&Section_Id=&Product_Id=786531 The blouse-not this blouse but close and pink: http://www.anntaylor.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&RestartFlow=t&Section_Id=&Product_Id=788821 I'd make them links but don't have the time sorry. I just want to say that poppy was so pretty in the entire outfit that we both had a glint of a tear in the eye. She looked pink and pretty and young and smart and sweet and strong and wonderful. Now we just need to find the nifty handbag, I'm with you on that one Leo. ]]> Tuesday, March 8, 2005 08:30 PM Shoes, skirt, blouse. Btw, thank you all for supporting my wife. She's having a bad day today. Here's something for her :*]]> Tuesday, March 8, 2005 08:42 PM Tuesday, March 8, 2005 09:34 PM The not-quite-it-but-almost outfit looks like it suits you to a T. Do you know how hard it is to find such a perfect outfit?! For heaven's sake, go buy it, woman! :)]]> Tuesday, March 8, 2005 10:02 PM The Wicker Man almost every time I go to the video store - and have yet to bring it home. I suppose I'll have to get it next time - just so I can complain how bad the remake is when it comes out. ;) Seriously, though, why don't they just re-release the original film?]]> Sunday, March 6, 2005 02:14 PM Saturday, March 5, 2005 08:54 AM But then again, science!]]> Sunday, March 6, 2005 01:14 AM Wednesday, March 2, 2005 03:22 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2005 03:26 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2005 03:30 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2005 03:34 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2005 03:36 PM 1. The fact or quality of being diverse; difference. 2. A point or respect in which things differ. 3. Variety or multiformity ad·ver·si·ty 1. A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune. 2. A calamitous event. Those two words mean nothing the same. Totally different. "Triumph over adversity" doesn't mean the same thing as "triumph over diversity".]]> Wednesday, March 2, 2005 03:42 PM And I'm afraid I have to side with Yags on the adveristy/diversity debate - although, to be fair, I read it as "triumph over adversity" the first time I read your post anyway.]]> Wednesday, March 2, 2005 04:11 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2005 09:16 PM tonight? darn it! Darn it darn it darn it!]]> Friday, February 25, 2005 05:57 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 08:56 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 09:06 PM TN: Funnily enough, I just bought a big bag of grapes at the store. But feel free to bring more. Y: The short answer is no.]]> Friday, February 25, 2005 09:51 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 10:17 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 03:37 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 03:48 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 04:46 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 05:06 PM Also, my theory is that every actor secretly wants a chance to totally ham it up and play things ridiculously over the top at some point in their career, but of course, they don't, because they don't want to ruin their reputations. I figure that Irons knew that this film was an absolute piece of shit, that he was only in it for the money, and that he didn't have to worry about his rep, so he decided to completely indulge himself.]]> Friday, February 25, 2005 05:46 PM I think you and I played very different "good" characters. I went for the High Charisma/Persuade/Good at Good Force Powers guy who wasn't too bad with a lightsaber. You were right about what was "impossible" for me. Stupid Malak kept healing off the guys and I couldn't get through the Force Field (literally) to kill 'em because I didn't have Evil Force Killing Powers. Hence my comment. Kotor2 has been, in my experience thus far, much more interesting than Kotor1. Then again, I've gotten sidetracked into Xenosaga and so I'm only three planets into it.]]> Thursday, February 24, 2005 03:09 PM Damn it. Now I might have to go back and play the ending again and see if I can convince her this time... Oh and, I didn't concentrate on Persuade and Charisma until very late in the game. Maybe that's why I'm not doing so well at convincing her...]]> Thursday, February 24, 2005 05:00 PM In all honesty, it's not that exciting. She turns back and uses her Battle Meditation to help the ships that are trying to help you. The thing that I've found funny with Kotor#1 is how the game kept forcing romances on me -- most likely because I was playing charsimatic characters. I went along with the Bastilla romance on my "Good Guy" run through because I was nicey nicey and she fell for that. But then I played Evil (as a woman, just to see the differences) and Carth (or Karth or whatever he was -- the Han Solo wannabe) fell in love with the whole Bad Girl thing (I kept insulting him and the game made it into this whole "Moonlighting" thing).]]> Thursday, February 24, 2005 06:53 PM Thursday, February 24, 2005 04:41 PM Thursday, February 24, 2005 05:02 PM Friday, February 25, 2005 05:09 PM The next one is already here, his name is Bush. Have you seen any of his "talks" with foreign leaders? I heard a snippet this morning of him saying (referring to Putin) "Well, if we all get on the same page, there won't be any problems". That's scary. ]]> Thursday, February 24, 2005 01:30 PM While I am by no means comparing the atrocities committed by Hitler to those committed by child molesters, I had a similar reaction after seeing the (very excellent) movie "The Woodsman". I wasn't sure I wanted to see a post-prison child molester depicted as a human, a man, a person who's dealing with his demons as best he can, but that's just what happened. I found myself empathizing with Kevin Bacon's character, and it brought about a very strong conflict within my brain. Maybe I'll see "Downfall".]]> Wednesday, February 23, 2005 07:57 PM Tuesday, February 22, 2005 08:35 PM Tuesday, February 22, 2005 08:46 PM Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:03 PM Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:46 AM (And if I'm lucky, I may never have to write that sentence again.)]]> Thursday, February 24, 2005 05:13 PM Tuesday, February 22, 2005 05:55 PM 1. I am not in the house. 2. We get a dvd non-dubbed version. That is all.]]> Tuesday, February 22, 2005 06:49 PM The Seventh Seal is one of the greatest films ever made? Do you sir perhaps need a beating? poppy: Those seem fair conditions.]]> Wednesday, February 23, 2005 03:30 AM BTW, I think if you like Bergman, you'd like the movie _Songs from the Second Floor_ (also Swedish), which is like Bergman but funnier.]]> Wednesday, February 23, 2005 04:03 PM do need a beating. What with this and Blade Runner, I seriously want to hurt you. But I'm going to try to hold myself back. The Seventh Seal does indeed have wit and humor, though it is admittedly most of the time rather solemn. It is perhaps a bit pretentious, but I don't find it didactic or boring. It is a wise and thoughtful meditation on life, death, and religion. I found it funny and moving and totally absorbing.]]> Wednesday, February 23, 2005 04:56 PM I liked The Seventh Seal, except for the overwhelming pretension, the absolute lack of wit, the long boring didactic parts... okay, so I didn't like it. Dude... Gozu.]]> Wednesday, February 23, 2005 05:25 PM Wednesday, February 23, 2005 05:29 PM Wednesday, February 23, 2005 05:44 PM Friday, February 18, 2005 07:54 PM Friday, February 18, 2005 11:41 PM Thursday, February 17, 2005 04:56 PM Thursday, February 17, 2005 06:18 PM Wednesday, February 16, 2005 09:12 PM I noticed that I'm the only person on your list who doesn't have an interesting name for their journal. I'll have to think of something.]]> Wednesday, February 16, 2005 03:33 PM Tuesday, February 15, 2005 07:32 PM Lord of the Rings movie (I'm not sure if he means the first one, or all of them, or what) is also hilarious.]]> Wednesday, February 16, 2005 05:09 PM I found it clumsy, pretentious, repetetive, dull, and utterly stupid. Testify, my brother!]]> Monday, February 14, 2005 04:23 PM Monday, February 14, 2005 04:43 PM Well, at least I can say truly and with no shame that I've always liked the first one, and I intend to continue liking it. Aerenchyma: He doesn't ever get you lemur babies because he's a bad, bad man. Heh heh. But I kid SK.]]> Monday, February 14, 2005 05:50 PM Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:50 AM Friday, February 11, 2005 06:16 PM Friday, February 11, 2005 02:20 AM I wouldn't worry about it too much. They call it the "gentle madness" you know. :) BTW, sorry I won't be seeing you Wednesdays anymore - but I understand it's with good reason. Congrats!]]> Friday, February 11, 2005 02:29 AM Sarcas: Thank you, both for enabling my habit and the congrats. Maybe we could do movie night at the library?]]> Friday, February 11, 2005 03:36 AM Friday, February 11, 2005 05:01 PM Friday, February 11, 2005 05:06 AM Friday, February 11, 2005 02:30 AM And that emotional stress thing is scary. Especially considering the day at work I'm having. ]]> Thursday, February 10, 2005 09:47 PM Oh, and you'll see. I bet I'll totally install KotOR 2 tonight! Probably. Maybe.]]> Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:33 PM Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:42 PM Wednesday, February 9, 2005 04:56 PM Carrie, The Dead Zone, and 'Salem's Lot.]]> Wednesday, February 9, 2005 08:05 PM Wednesday, February 9, 2005 08:07 PM TN: I did in fact admit that King is a good storyteller--he's one of the best, in fact. I just don't think he's a good novelist. His dialogue tends to be kind of ridiculous, his style a bit over-the-top and transparent, his books lacking in depth. He has never written what I would call a great or important book. That said, I think The Gunslinger is a really good book. And I seem to remember enjoying The Dead Zone and It quite a bit. poppy: Sneaky like a fox. A tired, stupid fox.]]> Wednesday, February 9, 2005 08:16 PM Tuesday, February 8, 2005 10:17 PM Tuesday, February 8, 2005 10:19 PM Monday, February 7, 2005 03:57 PM Monday, February 7, 2005 06:45 PM Monday, February 7, 2005 08:32 PM Monday, February 7, 2005 04:07 AM Once a Thief, but I'm also a sucker for those the Hollywood romances it was...er...homaging (?) Also - I have to admit that I'm curious to see the remainder of Gozu - so if you would like a partner for that particular bit of pain, let me know. ]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 04:16 AM I've been thinking about all weekend, and not only did I not like the film, but it actually made me angry. Not only is the film painfully slow, but nothing in it really makes any sense. There's a guy who keeps repeating the same inane conversation over and over again. Why? No one knows. There's a guy who has half his face painted white. Why? No one knows. And it goes on and on, and I defy anyone to tell me what the film was actually about, much less the signifigance of any of this weird crap. Personally, I think this film, and most others like it, are a case of the emperor having no clothes. No one knows what any of this shit means, but we're supposed to think it's meaningful or symbollic or metaphorical or something else. Personally, I just think it's a case of Miike masturbating and calling it a film. Let's put a bunch of weird, meaningless shit in a film - everyone will call me a genius. If I wanted to watch masturbation, I could do that at home. My apologies to Dan, since I know he likes this film. I'll grant that the first five minutes of the film were entertaining.]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 04:29 PM Miike is an experimenter, and a complete bastard. He likes to have fun at the expense of his audience. In this case, he decided to make a painfully slow, nightmarish film full of inexplicable and meaningless events and characters. It is not an enjoyable experience--his purpose as a director is to confuse, surprise, and hurt us, after all--but I still say it is an interesting film, which, while certainly mostly incoherent, does have a thematic unity, and is even occasionally quite funny. Plus, I can't help but admire Miike's imagination, will, and determination in deliberately making a film so slow and agonizing and ridiculous, when I know he's quite able to make perfectly normal, fast-paced, yakuza action films. That said, I completely understand why someone would hate Gozu with a venomous passion, and I respect that.]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 04:45 PM As to your points, while I don't disagree with them, what you've said is pretty much what I define bad filmmaking. If you deliberately decide to make a slow, nightmarish film full of inexplicable and meaningless events and characters, that's bad filmmaking. If you're just making a film to surprise, confuse, and hurt the audience, that's bad filmmaking. If you're determined to make a slow, agonizing, ridiculous film, you're a bad filmmaker. This is the thing: all films don't have to be fun and happy and enjoyable to be good. Far from it. But this film reminds me of the time when me and my friends were maybe 12 or 13 or 14 and we were messing around with a video camera. We shot a bunch of meaningless stuff because we could. That's what I feel Gozu was like. A lot of people would say Miike was pushing the boundaries, and he was, but IMO, it's not enough to push the boundaries for the sake of pushing the boundaries. There has to be some meaning and purpose behind it other than "because I can." And that's how I felt about this film. He did it that way "because he could."]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 05:25 PM by mistake, that's bad filmmaking. If you do it on purpose, it's something else. Maybe it's something worse, but it's definitely something else. Art that surprises, confuses, and hurts the audience on purpose is called modernism, and I tend to like it. This could be because I'm a sick person. But lots of other people appreciate modernism, too, so I'm not alone here.]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 05:36 PM Aerenchyma: Having not read your comment until now, it just makes me sad. Sigh. Cyn: Sweet! Sarcasmo: Cool. We'll have to set up a time for that at some point. Maybe I'll put the movie at the top of my Netflix queue...]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 05:44 AM Monday, February 7, 2005 05:47 PM Sunday, February 6, 2005 07:20 PM Sunday, February 6, 2005 09:28 PM Sunday, February 6, 2005 02:01 PM Let me know how it is if you get a sample though... I've been curious (we still see the ads).]]> Sunday, February 6, 2005 07:21 AM Sunday, February 6, 2005 09:33 PM not worth it :) ]]> Sunday, February 6, 2005 12:37 PM As for the rest of ya, I'll keep you updated ;)]]> Tuesday, February 8, 2005 01:23 AM Monday, February 7, 2005 05:45 AM Monday, February 7, 2005 08:34 PM And luckily, I've already bought new headphones.]]> Monday, February 7, 2005 08:37 PM Saturday, February 5, 2005 03:05 PM you new headphones if you identify any rap/techo songs about Worf in his possession and delete them.]]> Sunday, February 6, 2005 03:18 AM Thursday, February 3, 2005 10:20 PM Friday, February 4, 2005 05:34 PM Thursday, February 3, 2005 09:35 PM Thursday, February 3, 2005 05:42 PM Thursday, February 3, 2005 06:09 PM Thursday, February 3, 2005 06:09 PM Thursday, February 3, 2005 02:43 AM Wednesday, February 2, 2005 09:24 PM Wednesday, February 2, 2005 09:29 PM Wednesday, February 2, 2005 04:49 PM It seems the older I get, the more open I am to movies of this type. I don't know what that really means, but I suspect it has something to do with all of life's possibilities really boil down to archetypal relationships that repeat themselves over and over again; and does so in life and reflected in movies. This shouldn't be disheartening, by the way, these relationships are rich and complexed enough to intimately fill our lives. I think that is why when I see movies that are able to push all the right buttons, I don't mind it much anymore. I own those buttons and it's a triumph of the director to find them. ]]> Tuesday, February 1, 2005 09:37 PM Monday, January 31, 2005 06:13 PM Oh well, I spent all day yesterday unpacking and doing laundry, so I really couldn't have made it anyway. Thanks again for the assist.]]> Monday, January 31, 2005 10:47 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 07:08 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 07:20 PM (but also grumbly for the early start.)]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 02:41 PM You can come later, you know. There just might be fewer donuts to choose among by then. :)]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 04:32 PM I just like to whine now and then.]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 05:06 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 07:04 PM You should just cram really hard, and get the brief done on the Saturday before.]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 07:22 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 07:28 PM In any case, I will be cramming the night before to get it printed out on Sunday, and then spend most of my day running around trying to get it printed on the right color paper, bound correctly, and such.]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 09:06 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 09:49 PM And according to the advertisers of America, as a woman, I am entirely in my right to make that umbrella judgement about your gender. ]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 11:43 PM Monday, January 31, 2005 02:23 PM Anyway, sorry, TrackerNeil--maybe we'll see you next time.]]> Monday, January 31, 2005 09:12 PM Monday, January 31, 2005 10:43 PM "...use your librarian powers..." I read it as "...use your librarian super powers..." and thought Cool! Poppy's going to be a library super hero! So...another option to consider, really.]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 02:04 PM ]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 03:17 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 06:06 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 06:08 PM Monday, January 31, 2005 02:25 PM And DEFINITELY don't ever go back to that place.]]> Thursday, January 27, 2005 01:41 PM I was thinking you could be an advice columnist. You could use your librarian powers to answer people's questions and give them advice on how to handle their problems. You're good at that stuff.]]> Thursday, January 27, 2005 01:48 PM Thursday, January 27, 2005 01:04 PM Thursday, January 27, 2005 01:24 PM Thursday, January 27, 2005 01:26 PM Wednesday, January 26, 2005 09:24 AM Internet Public Library for FREE -- still without having to leave the house or look anyone in the eye. ]]> Friday, January 28, 2005 03:26 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 07:08 PM Tuesday, January 25, 2005 03:10 PM Tuesday, January 25, 2005 03:45 PM Monday, January 24, 2005 02:10 PM Monday, January 24, 2005 02:47 PM Monday, January 24, 2005 05:37 PM I can't help it. It's the genetics. ]]> Monday, January 24, 2005 05:53 PM Babs: You can have both Dr. Strangeloves if you want. You know, in case you want to watch it twice. Please, don't feel like you're being greedy. Take all the movies! Nobody else seems too interested.]]> Monday, January 24, 2005 06:45 PM (I'm feeling exceedingly silly tonight, I apologize. I just enjoy harassing my husband sometimes. He was very confused by my request.)]]> Monday, January 24, 2005 08:00 PM Sunday, January 23, 2005 07:51 PM Sunday, January 23, 2005 09:06 PM Tuesday, January 25, 2005 06:21 AM Tuesday, January 25, 2005 07:45 AM Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:41 AM Andrei Rublev, one of my favorite movies of all time. Next time one of us sees you (maybe at the wine and cheese thing? Or at a book club meeting?), I'll try to get these to you.]]> Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:59 AM Monday, January 24, 2005 02:11 PM i wonder if it will be the patriots or the steelers...it's looking like the patriots. do you prefer one or the other?]]> Sunday, January 23, 2005 04:06 PM In celebration of the big win, poppy and I went to Pizza Hut and had a completely dippable meal--the dipping sticks pizza, cheese sticks, and cinnamon sticks for dessert. It was aaawesome. And I had my first Yuengling, and it was really good.]]> Sunday, January 23, 2005 05:02 PM Monday, January 24, 2005 05:47 PM Monday, January 24, 2005 07:15 AM Sorry, but I'm not getting excited about it yet...]]> Saturday, January 22, 2005 08:20 PM Every government, even those democratically selected, has a line of succession, and the current prez came into office through that process. That's perfectly legitimate, if unorthodox, just as Ford's rise to power as a non-elected president was legitimate.]]> Tuesday, January 25, 2005 08:37 AM is completely unrealistic to expect that twelve planets can be governed by direct democracy, so they're not. To my mind that is what the real issue was to the terrorist guy, that the system is inherently unfair because not everything is decided by the people, including the ruler. The law of succession is fine, but the education lady was not elected to her position, rather she was appointed and approved, which is wholly different. The point is more than semantic; it really demonstrates the problems inherent in any self-governing nation that attempts to balance the will (the right) of the people and the practicality of ensuring that everyone has water. Few people care about their municipal government or who runs it, but will scream bloody murder if their trash is not picked up on time. I can't think of a place, right down to a rotary club, where direct democracy is feasible, but there has to be a distinction between republicanism and democracy for the actions and machinations of a government (and the rule of succession) to make sense.]]> Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:56 AM Wednesday, January 26, 2005 02:18 PM Not that I don't think you'll try, but it'd be stupid.]]> Friday, January 21, 2005 01:08 PM I've been monitoring this conversation with great interest, and, being familiar of all parties interest in language and grammar, as well as having an awareness of the fluid nature of the English Language, I have come to the conclusion that this argument can only be settled in one way: GRAMMAR CAGE MATCH. I'll begin selling tickets post-haste. ]]> Friday, January 21, 2005 01:41 PM Sarcasmo: You and your cage matches. I hope some day somebody takes you up on that. Just know that it won't be us, this time. Despite the fact that Yagathai was wearing wrestling pants yesterday and everything.]]> Friday, January 21, 2005 08:19 PM Friday, January 21, 2005 09:03 AM Friday, January 21, 2005 09:15 AM Conclusion: Lots of fear all around, but you can't date your spouse.]]> Friday, January 21, 2005 09:19 AM the dictionary definition does not specify that the person you're dating has to not be married to you. And you can take that double negative to the bank.]]> Friday, January 21, 2005 09:27 AM Friday, January 21, 2005 09:37 AM Thursday, January 20, 2005 01:36 PM Thursday, January 20, 2005 04:27 PM Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:44 AM Maybe I should eat lunch. Maybe that would help...]]> Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:50 AM Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:56 AM I'm not going to say what I wished would happen to him today at his inauguration, because it's most likely a federal offense, and definitely a bad idea, but I wished it most seriously and fervently.]]> Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:59 AM Well, not so much wishing as wondering why no one had bothered trying to do it. It seemed so...likely.]]> Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:00 PM Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:35 PM Wednesday, January 19, 2005 08:41 AM Wednesday, January 19, 2005 08:26 AM Sarcasmo: I never said I didn't feel guilty about stopping. I'm Catholic, I can feel guilty about anything. kdsprog: That actually sounds like a really good idea. I may try that... ]]> Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:19 PM Tuesday, January 18, 2005 07:48 PM Tuesday, January 18, 2005 07:48 PM I wish I had some good suggestions for you, Poppy - but just as I am an impulse buyer so I am an impulse reader. I just follow my gut and dive in. Sure that means reading some crap books - but I find some real gems then too. I don't think I've ever not finished a book. Even one I didn't like. The idea makes me feel guilty - like I started the journey with the characters than abadoned them. ]]> Wednesday, January 19, 2005 04:55 AM not gotten something out of a book, even a bad one. I do the random letter thing, pick a letter, go to the library and only get authors that start with that letter. Next week, pick another letter. Have fun!!! Kelli]]> Wednesday, January 19, 2005 05:36 AM Monday, January 17, 2005 02:51 PM Friday, January 14, 2005 01:12 PM Friday, January 14, 2005 09:59 AM Really, I think it's time we start our own political party. The ones we've depended on can't be trusted to, you know, try and win and make a change anymore.]]> Friday, January 14, 2005 10:56 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 11:38 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 08:20 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 08:51 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 07:31 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 09:08 AM Friday, January 14, 2005 09:41 AM Oh - except I think Wandering Star might have my copy of Dark Knight. I'll check later - and try to bring then to Battlestar Galactica for ST if I do. That way ST is safe from poppy and her librarian wrath.]]> Friday, January 14, 2005 10:58 AM Nine Lives. Unless he commented on the wrong post.]]> Friday, January 14, 2005 11:08 AM I am easily confused.]]> Friday, January 14, 2005 11:48 AM Saturday, January 15, 2005 04:07 PM Thursday, January 13, 2005 07:19 PM Did I get better taste, or did the music get worse, or am I just totally uncool? Dude - you and I *both* own the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack - how could we possibly be uncool. Clearly it is music that has gone by the quality wayside.]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 09:56 AM Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:03 AM I'd like to mention that Third Age is one of the only games I can watch feanor play for hours on end. Geek-tested, wife-approved.]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:10 AM Did I get better taste, or did the music get worse, or am I just totally uncool? Get down with the indie, man! The indie! You can't dismantle the master's house with the master's music! (Oh, crap, I am totally going to hell for that Audre Lorde paraphrase.)]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:24 AM No - scratch that- it's a minivan commmerical.]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:26 AM On Cyn's comment: I do listen to some indie music, and I'd like to try more, but since it's indie, it's hard to find, and hard to know whether it's going to be good when you do find it. Also since it is indie, it is by definition not popular. Sarcasmo: Wow, a minivan commercial is pretty low. But what is "Stacey's Mom"? And is that the really creepy commercial where it looks like the little kids are getting turned on by the one kid's Mom?]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:36 AM And yes, that's the commerical. Now that I think about it, it may have actually been a commerical for soda. Commercials confuse me anymore.]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:41 AM While we're on the subject, I find it odd that a lot of products (in the supermarket and elsewhere) will have the brand name printed on them in huge type, and will have huge, explosive, colorful notes about how the thing is "carb-friendly" or low fat or whatever, but what the product actually is will be written in the tiniest of print, if at all. A lot of times I find myself staring at a container for many minutes, convinced that what's inside is indeed creamy and made by Kraft, but totally unsure as to what its more essential nature consists of.]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:53 AM And I don't know so much about the indie music. What I (in my pre-liver-spotted-fists-of-rage youth) always thought of as belonging in the "indie" category seems to have been taken over by whiny boys with feelings, who have their music played on MTV. What a vicious vicious cycle. ]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:09 AM I mean - if Stacey isn't there, why is her Mom luring young boys into her minivan with the promise of icy cold (and in my opinion, icky - I hate it too, Poppy) Dr. Pepper)? I used to associate Dr. Pepper with werewolves - but if I'm remembering this commercial correctly Stacey's Mom is much creepier. And Feanor, I think companys have stopped selling products and only sell Brands and Images (that way they can change the makeup of their product whenever they want and no one really notices. I think this was the lesson learned from the Old Coke/New Coke debacle of the 80s). This also would explain why I feel compelled to go out and get that iPod shuffle. The power of Steve Jobs compels me...]]> Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:33 AM Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:12 AM Sunday, January 9, 2005 11:19 AM Monday, January 10, 2005 06:18 AM Also - I really feel Jim Carey is under-rated as an actor. The pity of it is that he got famous by pulling faces and being over-the-top - and consequently so few roles he has been given allow him to...welll...act. I much prefer his more serious roles - like this and The Truman Show.]]> Monday, January 10, 2005 06:37 AM Liar, Liar, though. I was trapped in a waiting room once with that on the TV and I nearly tore my eyes out of my face. Sarcasmo: Carrey has been annoying me lately (and poppy, too; she refused to watch ESSM simply because he was in it). Too many films have been made recently that just seemed to be showcases for his ridiculous mugging. But he really impressed me in this film. He can indeead, when given a chance, act.]]> Monday, January 10, 2005 07:40 AM Monday, January 10, 2005 10:59 AM Saturday, January 8, 2005 01:24 PM Saturday, January 8, 2005 03:39 PM Saturday, January 8, 2005 05:26 PM Saturday, January 8, 2005 09:44 AM Friday, January 7, 2005 01:19 PM Possibly also a brownie.]]> Friday, January 7, 2005 02:24 PM Saturday, January 8, 2005 08:29 AM Saturday, January 8, 2005 09:45 AM Duh.]]> Friday, January 7, 2005 08:48 AM Friday, January 7, 2005 08:48 AM Friday, January 7, 2005 08:57 AM Friday, January 7, 2005 09:09 AM Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Bloginator! Great news! I would like to put forth Baby Bloginator or Bloginatorette as Internet names. (or, possibly, something Genesis related. And by Genesis I of course mean the band, and not the device in Star Trek II.) ]]> Friday, January 7, 2005 09:13 AM Of course, Carpet Crawler would be appropriate, too. For a short period, anyway. Or maybe Duchess...]]> Saturday, January 8, 2005 08:01 AM I would like to set up a journal on the web, however, where Mrs. Bloginator and I discuss the progress of Cara through her early life and we discuss how difficult and messy it is. I can do this myself with simple web pages, but feanor here could probably build a nifty database. I'd rather have the database connected to my domain though. Finally, I know this isn't my blog (and in fact this message is getting so far down on your list that probably no one will read this comment), but I figured I'd tell you jim (i mean feanor, feanor--who is this jim? i know not) that i bought a new computer yesterday. Ha! iMac G5 1.8 Ghz with an 80 gig hard drive and a dvd-r/cd-rw and a 17" CRT display with wide aspect ratio. My current computer is 5 years old, so I think it's a good time for an upgrade. that is all. ps - i suggested to my wife that I could refer to her by the nickname "bloginatrix" or "hiswife," but for some reason she did not approve...so forget i ever mentioned that.]]> Sunday, January 9, 2005 07:43 AM Sunday, January 9, 2005 07:45 AM Heh. Mouthy. Heh. We're totally calling her that now. On your baby journal idea--you can easily get free blog space from livejournal or blogspot or some place like that. Or I'd be happy to give you space on my site, but like you say, I'm not sure how much sense that'd make. Plus, you obviously totally need your own blog. bloginatrix is a hot nickname. I don't know why she wouldn't want that. :) Your new machine sounds really sweet, even if it is a Mac. I just realized that your reference to Star Trek is actually vaguely on subject. Nice. Also, that's cool that you're opening up other minds to the classic ST. They shall be assimilated.]]> Sunday, January 9, 2005 10:03 AM Thursday, January 6, 2005 06:44 AM I'm still toying with what to call you on the internet. Maybe Mr. Knife? Mack the Knife? Hmmm...]]> Thursday, January 6, 2005 07:24 AM Thursday, January 6, 2005 12:13 PM But in general, I agree with the rest of your post.]]> Wednesday, January 5, 2005 03:27 PM Star Wars reference.]]> Wednesday, January 5, 2005 08:22 PM He just wants to kill tomb defilers, which seems like a fine occupation to me. Hm, are benefits provided?]]> Tuesday, January 4, 2005 02:28 PM Son of Frankenstein vaguely. Probably I saw bits of it on TV before. Babs: Great benefits! Egyptian priest dudes keep you alive forever with magic leaves! The thing is, you're also their slave forever, and they keep you in a coma until they need you to kill somebody, or steal a girl for them. But great benefits!]]> Tuesday, January 4, 2005 02:42 PM I recently saw Son of Frankenstein (another Universal Monster series spin off. It had so much going for it: Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff...but boy howdy was it boring. It looked like the slapped it together with no budget and no ...well, script or anything. Even Basil Rathbone couldn't save it. It is, however, clearly the inspiration for Young Frankenstein - and I recommend people just watch that instead of sitting through Son of Frankenstein.]]> Tuesday, January 4, 2005 12:57 PM Wednesday, January 5, 2005 09:32 AM A) Whatever; you know what I mean. B) In the movie, this is true, although I think the fact that it was a parlay should have been understood, as they approached the gate with a flag flying, and so forth. Anyway, in the book I remember it being more obviously a situation of parlay. C) This is also undeniably true. But that doesn't mean you just get to do it if you're a noble good guy like Aragorn. There are rules! David: I definitely agree with you about the Saruman scene. As for the Healing sequence, they did cover that a little bit. And frankly I'm glad the bits where Tolkien made fun of the gossipy, provincial healers in Minas Tirith who don't know what athelas is didn't make it to the film. They're kind of lame. As for Mouth of Sauron, see above. And I agree with you about the cringeworthiness of many of the added scenes. I don't understand why Jackson felt it necessary to add so many totally new scenes that he'd made up, or to drag out and change existing scenes, when he could have just put in more stuff that was actually in the book. Damn it. I'm still looking forward to his King Kong, though.]]> Monday, January 3, 2005 01:47 PM Monday, January 3, 2005 06:21 AM And the signal fires were visually stunning.]]> Monday, January 3, 2005 06:57 AM Come to think of it, you probably wouldn't have enjoyed watching it with us.]]> Monday, January 3, 2005 07:50 AM mouserobot: At least as much as you love Star Wars?! Holy crap! That's a lot! TrackerNeil and Yags: As Yagathai points out, you are off on the Christopher Lee thing; there's an extra scene added with him during the extended edition in which Gandalf breaks his staff and he fights with Wormtongue and so forth. It's a good scene, and one of my favorite additions. But I do agree with you big-time on Denethor and the signal fires. In the book, Denethor is an amazing character. He's been lead astray by what he's seen in the Palantir (a subplot which they don't even mention, even in the EE!!!), but he's still a very wise man, and doesn't really go insane until the very end. In the movie, he's a completely insane, nasty dumbass from beginning to end. Very disappointing. The signal fires really bug me, too. That sequence is ridiculous for a whole lot of reasons. The fires were already lit by this point in the story in the book, because Gandalf isn't the only guy in Middle Earth who's not a dumbass. They know they have to light the fires. Also, why does Pippin have to light the fire in Minas Tirith? Gandalf could have lit it himself easily; he has magic, for god's sake. And plus, even though the sequence is rather thrilling, why the heck are those signal fires in such amazingly remote and dangerous places, with no kind of shelter nearby at all? How do the guys manning them survive up there? And even though I love the new scene with the Mouth of Sauron, especially the voice and look of the character, I don't like the fact that Aragorn kills him. I'm pretty certain that this is not what happens in the book, and it certainly doesn't seem like something Aragorn would do--kill a defenseless man who rode out under the pretense of parlay, even if he's really there just to get information and demoralize the enemy. Dave: Actually, I think I might have enjoyed that. I can't really watch the movie as a movie anyway. I'm constantly waiting for certain scenes from the book, and then examining Jackson's version vs. Tolkien's version. It's not very pleasant.]]> Monday, January 3, 2005 12:04 PM B) Aragorn never made any pretense of parlay. There was no white flag, no agreement to cease hostilities. C) He was totally evil and deserved beheading.]]> Monday, January 3, 2005 12:09 PM I also really liked the scene with the Mouth of Sauron - the character himself was very well designed and creepy. I don't quite get why you have a problem with Aragorn killing him. I mean, I'm no expert on the books, but the impression I got was that all the creatures of Mordor were capital-E evil in the purest, simplest sense. And defenseless? The guy was a freakin' cenobite. OTOH, most of the other left-out scenes were better left out. Most didn't especially add anything to the movie, and some of them - particularly the "funny" ones, were kind of cringeworthy. I don't know if you'd like watching it with us because we pretty much kept up a running commentary all through the movie, in some cases drowning out the dialogue. Also, we have the maturity level of 14-year olds, so you can imagine the level the humor rose to. Your comment about comparing it to the book was interesting; in the added scene where the witch-king breaks Gandalf's staff, Clint kept going on and on about how he didn't like that scene because it goes against the book and so on. Finally, in my best CBG voice, I said to him "I was on the Internet within minutes expressing my displeasure to the rest of the world. Worst added scene ever."]]> Monday, January 3, 2005 12:42 PM Star Wars. But I agree that the film can drag a bit in the first half. There's a lot of down time until the battle of Pellinor Fields starts. And I'm not wild about some of the new scenes. But it's a matter of mere minutes over the course of four hours that bug me so I won't complain too much:)]]> Sunday, January 2, 2005 06:13 AM Thursday, December 30, 2004 03:21 PM *bows* Though, just as a note, it's power metal, not heavy metal. Though some might argue that all power metal is contained within the greater set of heavy metal, those people are wrong.]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:56 AM Thursday, December 30, 2004 08:03 AM I am head-banging to Tolkien right now. So pleased! First of all, that is *so* not right. Secondly, I'm a little jealous.]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 08:54 AM I first discovered Sontag with her Notes on Camp which basically, in my opinion, mainstreamed the idea of "so bad it's good." We have, I think, lost another amazing mind. -- peccable]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:37 AM Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:23 AM this, a list of famous politicians who died in car accidents. Oh, and, to answer your question Yagathai, no. :p]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:37 AM Dude, you married a robot?]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:42 AM Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:48 AM Forgive me for doubting. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 07:55 AM I did not ram them, but I considered it.]]> Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:03 AM Tuesday, December 28, 2004 06:30 AM It was totally fantastic, btw. Are there any more issues of the thing, or was that the end, for good and all?]]> Tuesday, December 28, 2004 06:45 AM I didn't find either one particularly disturbing either, but then again, there's a non-reality to the whole series... -- peccable]]> Tuesday, December 28, 2004 07:55 AM particular awful thing. I had expected him to do some awful thing, though, so the scene made sense and didn't really shock me very much. There are three sex scenes, btw.]]> Tuesday, December 28, 2004 08:04 AM The Hyde thing really didn't bother me nearly as much. "Just like a dageurrotype developing." There will be more LoEG, but they haven't written it yet.]]> Tuesday, December 28, 2004 08:40 AM Although, I have to admit, I didn't feel the need to *count* them.]]> Tuesday, December 28, 2004 08:58 AM Sarcasmo: Heh. The dinner party scene was awesome.]]> Tuesday, December 28, 2004 09:15 AM Tuesday, December 28, 2004 09:18 AM Tuesday, December 28, 2004 09:39 AM Tuesday, December 28, 2004 09:46 AM Monday, December 27, 2004 11:51 AM Saturday, December 25, 2004 01:39 PM intervention.]]> Saturday, December 25, 2004 06:56 PM Thursday, December 23, 2004 06:29 AM Whatever you do, *do not* see the movie.]]> Wednesday, December 22, 2004 05:00 AM Wednesday, December 22, 2004 06:20 AM Personally, I felt the ending credit animation had more to do with the books than the actual movie did. I think much of the problem lies in (a) they tried to fit 3 books into 2 hours (b) so much of what I love about the books is the language, which is lost in the movie and (c) they tacked on a schmaltzy ending - which makes no sense considering the nature of the series]]> Wednesday, December 22, 2004 06:39 AM Tuesday, December 21, 2004 01:03 PM Tuesday, December 21, 2004 02:08 PM Monday, December 20, 2004 01:39 PM Monday, December 20, 2004 02:08 PM Monday, December 20, 2004 02:12 PM Monday, December 20, 2004 03:45 PM Yay Poppy!]]> Monday, December 20, 2004 09:36 AM ]]> Monday, December 20, 2004 09:40 AM terrible movie. Talk about corny! Also, nothing at all like that dudes actual life. (Relevant examples: crazy genius guy apparently had lots of sex with dudes, and also his wife totally did not stick with him when he was all nuts. She left and then came back to him.) Plus that movie has this whole, "Yes, the sane women must sacrifice their lives and suffer for the good of the crazy but brilliant men" moral that kind of makes me very angry. Also, congrats, Poppy!]]> Monday, December 20, 2004 10:09 AM Cyn: You make some good points. In my defense, I saw the movie only once, and a lot of times, really bad movies sucker me into liking them the first time around. Probably if I saw it again I would find it a lot less impressive. I definitely want to dislike it, since if it is a good movie, it really kind of hurts my theory that everything Akiva Goldsman touches turns to pure shit.]]> Monday, December 20, 2004 10:21 AM Saturday, December 18, 2004 05:50 AM Heh heh heh heh. It begins.]]> Monday, December 13, 2004 01:32 PM Wednesday, December 15, 2004 06:32 AM Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:28 AM Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:52 AM Friday, December 17, 2004 09:49 AM What happens when you play with fire, kids? Some guys from GI Joe arrives in a spectacularly over-the-top fashion, gives you a pep talk - then goes off to practice firing weapons without injuring any bad guys?]]> Friday, December 17, 2004 10:42 AM Monday, December 13, 2004 01:33 PM Monday, December 13, 2004 05:57 AM Monday, December 13, 2004 07:06 AM It's people like you who have refused to learn the lessons of Munich; you can talk about "peace in our time" with the crab-people, but the truth is that so long as there are crab-people, there will NOT be peace. You must stand tough against the crab-people, or else watch as the crab-people take over your town and make off with your women. What we need to do now is to elect me War President of the party; anything else is treason against the flag that our forefathers fought and died for.]]> Monday, December 13, 2004 07:33 AM Btw, lol.]]> Monday, December 13, 2004 07:53 AM Friday, December 10, 2004 05:00 PM Maybe I'll take my one decent stat and make that my charisma - and turn my henchman against you all in a Lando in Cloud City manuver. And no - I didn't not just make an Empire reference in respect to a D&D campaign. That's way too dorky. You must have imagined it. ]]> Friday, December 10, 2004 09:40 AM Anyway, sorry, Sarcasmo. Yagathai spoke up for you, and Super Tarzan also wanted a reroll, but the rest of us voted them down. What could we do? Our stats were too good! And you know, if you didn't not make that reference, that means you did.]]> Friday, December 10, 2004 09:44 AM dude - did you not read the part about the wrath?]]> Friday, December 10, 2004 09:57 AM Here are some happy dogs. And here are some dogs in nice clothes.]]> Friday, December 10, 2004 09:56 AM Friday, December 10, 2004 10:41 AM Friday, December 10, 2004 02:12 PM Friday, December 10, 2004 02:13 PM And we'll have to have this debate in real-time, but I can't stand people who sit through a show! The day standing/dancing my butt off to a show gets me tired is the day they bury me! I got lucky and got to go again Sunday night, and it was an amazing night, no technical probs this time. And the show sounded fresh as a daisy!]]> Thursday, December 9, 2004 01:36 PM As for the sitting/standing thing, I don't know, I just figure, I paid thirty some bucks for this seat, so I want to use it! And it may not be terribly comfortable, but it's definitely more comfortable than standing on an uneven floor for two hours or so. But ultimately the problem is, I'm not used to standing and/or dancing. I'm a programmer. I sit. It is my way.]]> Thursday, December 9, 2004 01:52 PM Monday, December 6, 2004 06:08 PM Monday, December 6, 2004 06:29 PM Yagathai: I'll look around for it. But I don't want to mistakenly stumble across spoilers for volume 2, so I'd better be careful. Btw, I have to come clean and admit that when I wrote this post, I hadn't actually read the book from cover to cover. There's some extra stuff in the back that I hadn't read yet, but which I have since consumed, including a Lovecraftian mythos short story that covers an adventure that happens to Quatermain between Haggard's novels and the events of volume one of LoEG. As with the main body of the comic, Alan Moore manages to work multiple mythoi together into one narrative (he loves to find the central themes of the stories people tell), deftly positing that Randolph Carter is related to Burroughs's John Carter of Mars, and that they, together with Quatermain, meet Wells's hero from The Time Machine and battle Morlocks, which are actually the same as Abominable Snowmen and Lovecraft's Mi-Go. Just awesome.]]> Monday, December 6, 2004 07:02 PM Jason Lee, who does the voice of Syndrome, first appeared in the Movie "Mallrats" as a comic-book obsessed character named... Brodie.]]> Wednesday, November 24, 2004 08:04 PM Another awful preview we saw was the one for the horrendous Son of Mask, which should be wiped clean from the face of the Earth by the wrath of God and man. Even the teaser for this one that was out months ago filled me with pure rage and horror, and now the more detailed trailer just pretty much confirms my original feelings. I'd ask why Hollywood inflicts such things on us, but I know the answer--money! The first one (which itself was pretty mediocre, verging on bad) did well at the box office, and therefore there must be a sequel, to suck as much money out of this idea as possible. *shudder* And speaking of Jim Carrey (we sort of were), another bad trailer we saw was for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I've never read these books; friends of mine say they're good. The point is, the movie is clearly not about the books at all--it is about Jim Carrey. It has been cursed to be nothing more than a Jim Carrey film, in which Jim Carrey fills the screen and the soundtrack with his rubbery, cartoonish antics. All interest which I may have had in the film was swept away by the many clips of his annoying buffoonery. And I don't even completely hate the guy, like some people. I found some of his movies amusing. I just take offense to the fact that an otherwise interesting concept has been completely taken over by him. As for Finding Nemo, somehow I haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. I have to get my Netflix queue started up again. Oh, and on your final comment, Emmett--what's the Brodie thing? Is that a reference I'm missing out on?]]> Wednesday, November 24, 2004 08:26 PM Mallrats once. I didn't memorize the names of the characters. Cool reference, though.]]> Wednesday, November 24, 2004 08:26 PM I thought 'The Incredibles' was just awesome, and I agree with you about the trailer for 'Cars.' On the other hand, Holly Hunter's voice is a whole lot better than that of Ellen DeGeneres. And another thing, I'm glad that Pixar turned the quality back up for 'The Incredibles.' Having a character in 'Finding Nemo' suffering from no short-term memory is an unbelievable hack. It's contrived on top of contrived, a joke machine with a big red button. Sucked, and brought the whole movie down with it. 'The Incredibles' was just plain great. Also, when 'Incrediboy' gets into Mr. Incredible's car, Mr. Incredible forgets his name and calls him 'Brodie.' Classic.]]> Wednesday, November 24, 2004 08:39 AM Friday, November 19, 2004 05:15 PM Friday, November 19, 2004 09:59 PM After that, scotch.]]> Wednesday, November 17, 2004 05:22 PM Tuesday, November 16, 2004 05:38 PM Oh well. :) -- p]]> Wednesday, November 17, 2004 03:46 PM Peccable: I took a look at the picture of the game on their site and it looks quite a bit different. For one thing, they did what I had hoped and added text and pictures to the cards. Also, it looks like there are multiple boards, and maybe a kind of "Parts Unknown"-like mechanic. The description of the game sounds kind of different to me, too. I think I might have sent in some comments eventually, but maybe not. Anyway, I trust James, and I'm sure they got plenty of comments from other, perhaps even more critical gamers ("Worst...Cheapass...game...ever!").]]> Wednesday, November 17, 2004 03:58 PM Welcome to the collective.]]> Tuesday, November 16, 2004 02:18 PM Tuesday, November 16, 2004 02:58 PM Tuesday, November 16, 2004 03:46 PM Also, the wedding pictures are great. :)]]> Monday, November 15, 2004 02:39 PM Monday, November 15, 2004 02:55 PM Monday, November 15, 2004 02:57 PM Also... FIRST POST!! ;) ]]> Monday, November 15, 2004 03:51 AM I love the pictures, but in the picture with the cake, what is Poppy thinking? "Did I leave the door unlocked when we left?" "I really preferred the turtle, all things considered"?]]> Monday, November 15, 2004 04:07 PM Super Tarzan: How dare you. My journal does not eat comments. Except sometimes. I'm very pleased with bloginator's pictures of our wedding myself. They came out quite nicely. I'm glad you guys enjoyed the honeymoon pictures, too. Those I happily take credit for.]]> Monday, November 15, 2004 04:20 PM Monday, November 15, 2004 04:44 PM Oh, and many happy returns!]]> Monday, November 15, 2004 05:38 PM And Sarcasmo reminded me to do it, too, because she's just as sick as I am. Ah, Feanor, you say the sweetest things. Welcome back. And great pics. I now really want a Tamarin.]]> Monday, November 15, 2004 05:53 PM Monday, November 15, 2004 10:40 PM Peccable: An OMGWTFBBQ sounds like fun. Let me know if you plan to host one. Vis Major: That's totally cool--I wanted the news to leak out and make the rounds while we were away, so everybody would have gotten used to it by the time I got back. Plus, I love that description of your reaction. :D Yagathai: You could most certainly have cracked me. And yes, we must indeed have a party. But sadly, it will have to wait until Sarah is done school. She is going to be even more tremendously busy for the next couple of weeks than she has been, since we kind of did this right in the middle of her busiest time. But one of these days, party! Wooo!]]> Sunday, November 14, 2004 02:44 AM Didn't see that one coming. Congratulations.]]> Sunday, November 14, 2004 07:07 AM Also, ditto on the party thing. Parrrteeeee. ]]> Thursday, November 11, 2004 04:20 AM Thursday, November 11, 2004 04:59 AM Thursday, November 11, 2004 06:20 AM And ...um...congratulations to the Turtle too. You are the sneakiest couple ever. I am tremedously happy for you.]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 05:46 PM *blink* *blinkblinkblink* OMGWTFBBQ!!!!111!!! Jesus...just...I mean I know it's *Jesus* but ... *JESUS*! :) Congrats! -- d, who agrees ya'll are up for the 'sneakiest couple eva' award.]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 05:56 PM I'm afraid that in my excitement I blurted out, "What?! Jesus got married?!", so umm, yeah...some people at work found out. Sorry to steal your thunder. Also, MANY CONGRATULATIONS and have a fantastic honeymoon!]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 06:22 PM Ohboy-ohboy-ohboy!!! Big Daddy and I are SO happy for you kids! Darn it all if you aren't the cutest ever. Can't wait for the pixs!! Hugs and Kisses! ]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 06:41 PM ]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 07:19 PM (Now, I'll have to stop telling my friends that "Jesus is living in sin", because... yeah, that gets me weird looks.)]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 07:59 PM Wednesday, November 10, 2004 09:51 PM I should have pressed harder. I could have cracked you.]]> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:19 PM Thursday, November 11, 2004 04:40 PM Also - I really loved the zombie picture. Thanks again for Sunday. Have a great time in Washington. :)]]> Tuesday, November 9, 2004 01:47 AM Tuesday, November 9, 2004 03:34 AM Tuesday, November 9, 2004 04:08 AM Monday, November 8, 2004 03:55 AM Unless you're talking about modern clothing, in which case I'd have to say rain galoshes. Antonio Banderas (but only the Antonio Banderas from "Desperado") could be naked but for rain galoshes and I'd say "thanks, but no thanks."]]> Friday, November 5, 2004 06:08 PM Friday, November 5, 2004 06:16 PM I'm going to go with the bowtie. There's nothing lamer than somebody wearing a bowtie (beware: that link includes very annoying audio!).]]> Friday, November 5, 2004 07:31 PM Speedos - however - NO ONE looks good in those.]]> Friday, November 5, 2004 08:01 PM Friday, November 5, 2004 08:41 PM http://mudwhistle.com/blog4/index.php?p=132]]> Friday, November 5, 2004 08:45 PM Friday, November 5, 2004 11:11 PM Monday, November 8, 2004 06:18 PM ... so I'm going to go with sock garters.]]> Monday, November 8, 2004 06:39 PM The galoshes, the cummerbund, the argyle vest, and the wader pants all have merit, though, as unsexy clothing articles go. And a beautiful woman in a clown nose would also probably turn me off a little, or at least confused me.]]> Saturday, November 6, 2004 03:33 PM I'm going to have to make a generalizing statement here and say that while most articles of clothing have merit as long as a sexy person is wearing them, a Speedo (or, "banana hammock" as I like to call it) is NEVER sexy. And Star...that link was just not right. Not right at all. Eww. That fella has a very large amount of self-esteem for ever wearing that.]]> Saturday, November 6, 2004 07:48 PM I am told that I initially suggested "bowtie" as well when asked this question. But how about those big wader pants that have suspenders attached?]]> Saturday, November 6, 2004 12:36 AM Friday, November 5, 2004 08:02 PM Saturday, November 6, 2004 03:33 PM Friday, November 5, 2004 06:10 PM Friday, November 5, 2004 07:33 PM Saturday, November 6, 2004 07:49 PM But I think Sarah and I are planning to go see The Incredibles on Tuesday, so hopefully I will be able to experience this myself, soon. Btw, how was The Incredibles?]]> Sunday, November 7, 2004 06:55 AM Friday, November 5, 2004 03:58 PM Friday, November 5, 2004 08:32 PM I guess I'm just going to have to accept that they're all delusional morons.]]> Saturday, November 6, 2004 03:35 PM Just watched the Primer trailer -- I have no idea what it's about, but I wanna see it. It reminds me of how I felt when I saw the Donnie Darko trailer. :) -- peccable]]> Tuesday, November 2, 2004 04:52 PM Monday, November 1, 2004 02:27 PM Monday, November 1, 2004 02:27 PM Monday, November 1, 2004 02:27 PM use of clones before the Seperatists attack?]]> Friday, October 29, 2004 10:49 AM Friday, October 29, 2004 11:39 AM Friday, October 29, 2004 09:14 AM Friday, October 29, 2004 10:12 AM Friday, October 29, 2004 01:02 PM Friday, October 29, 2004 01:24 PM open bracket: ampersand, the letter L, the letter T, semicolon close bracket: ampersand, the letter G, the letter T, semicolon Let's test it! happiness]]> Friday, October 29, 2004 08:15 AM , seeing as your geek tag has nothing in it.]]> Thursday, October 28, 2004 02:36 PM .]]> Thursday, October 28, 2004 02:38 PM Thursday, October 28, 2004 02:42 PM Anyways, you would be correct, if it weren't for the fact that there is in fact something in between the tags, which is myself.]]> Thursday, October 28, 2004 02:47 PM happiness shirt? My ex-boyfriend bought it for me in exchange for this time he had magic mushroom spores shipped to me in Ohio. (They're legal there. In spore form.)]]> Thursday, October 28, 2004 03:42 PM Thursday, October 28, 2004 03:58 PM I've had the strangest urge to start writing the story for your HeroQuest quests, because ideas will come unbidden to me while I'm trying to get to sleep or while I really should be studying for torts. Would that be something you'd like help with, or no? -Dan]]> Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:20 PM Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:41 PM Friday, October 29, 2004 11:40 AM Thursday, October 28, 2004 06:37 PM Thursday, October 28, 2004 06:57 PM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 09:14 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 09:38 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 09:33 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 06:39 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 08:09 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:09 AM Monday, October 25, 2004 02:29 PM Monday, October 25, 2004 05:02 PM Babs: That's the plan! Btw, nice reference.]]> Monday, October 25, 2004 07:53 PM Monday, October 25, 2004 09:11 AM Even though I am totally f'in metal. Sabbath rules!!]]> Monday, October 25, 2004 09:18 AM If you do not purchase it, I will be forced to take up a collection to purchase it on your behalf. OR I could encourage a bunch of people to buy them, and we can all wear them when we see you. Either way.]]> Monday, October 25, 2004 10:19 AM Monday, October 25, 2004 10:44 AM Monday, October 25, 2004 12:40 PM I would totally be up for more Diceland. Even though those dice DEFY MY WISHES by landing where they may instead of where I intend for them to go.]]> Monday, October 25, 2004 10:20 AM As for the dice, lol. Yes, they can indeed be mighty tempermental. That's Peccable's main complaint with the game, actually.]]> Monday, October 25, 2004 10:49 AM Good thing we're playing it first thing on Saturday - or I might have to have a good cry.]]> Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:04 PM Wednesday, October 20, 2004 07:16 AM It has been a long wait, and there's still more than a month to go! But they have added 50 minutes of finished footage, and 20 hours of bonus material (!), so I guess I'll forgive them.]]> Wednesday, October 20, 2004 08:38 AM Thursday, October 21, 2004 08:51 AM He's really too easy. There's no sport to it. And dude, chill out! I will throw cold water on you Saturday if I have to.]]> Tuesday, October 19, 2004 01:50 PM Tuesday, October 19, 2004 02:32 PM Salon makes some of the same counter-arguments. Yeah, he's pretty much just crazy. Yagathai: Umm...I'm not even going to ask why you want Poppy to throw cold water on me all the time.]]> Tuesday, October 19, 2004 02:38 PM Tuesday, October 19, 2004 05:26 PM Tuesday, October 19, 2004 06:52 PM Also, dude, why didn't you link to the Lamb.]]> Monday, October 18, 2004 08:40 AM Monday, October 18, 2004 08:42 AM As for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, I don't know. I do like that album, but it just doesn't really touch me the way their other early albums do. Maybe it's because it's such a huge, dense piece of music and lyrics, that I can't really get my mind around it. It is particularly opaque and pretentious, too. That said, "In the Rapids," "Back in NYC," "Anyway," and "Broadway Melody of 1974" are all fantastic songs.]]> Monday, October 18, 2004 08:55 AM but i shouldn't have gotten myself started on this... maybe when you see the musical box do it in december you'll hear what i'm talking about.]]> Monday, October 18, 2004 09:57 AM Friday, October 15, 2004 07:04 AM Friday, October 15, 2004 10:37 AM Also, in regard to the (very funny) story about Cheney attacking america, i just read a book about the election of 1800 where the election was set up in such a way that Jefferson and Aaron Burr (both republicans) had exactly the same number of electoral votes, and the House had to decide the election, and they were totally deadlocked for days and days. The Republicans claimed the Federalists were going to undermine the election and make it so that neither candidate would win, and there were threats that the Republicans were going to storm the capital and forcefully take over the government, with militia if necessary. I don't think the election of 2004 will get that steamy...]]> Friday, October 15, 2004 10:39 AM bloginator: God bless "Futurama." Also, your anecdote about the 1800 election kind of puts things in perspective. Probably we won't have to worry about the Reps and Dems raising militias...]]> Friday, October 15, 2004 11:05 AM Friday, October 15, 2004 11:23 AM Thursday, October 14, 2004 08:00 PM Thursday, October 14, 2004 08:19 PM Thursday, October 14, 2004 08:27 PM (I hope this statement doesn't overlap the copyright in your first paragraph).]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:10 PM But you better not leave me for Crate & Barrel, poppy.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:20 PM No copyright issues, I don't think, but I'll check with my lawyer ;) And Feanor, I just don't know. Can you offer me this?]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:37 PM p.s. One movie night, Fëanor brought one of your sweaters to give away, and I was the lucky recipient. I'm wearing it today, so thanks again.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:44 PM Nothing personal, of course.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:49 PM Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:52 PM Seriously, that Kava dinnerware is sweet.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:57 PM Wednesday, October 13, 2004 09:04 PM Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:31 AM Parent Trap Fu is strong.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:58 AM my favourite.]]> Tuesday, October 12, 2004 07:58 PM Poppy: :D]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 01:03 PM Yes, I admit it. I looked up "Spaceballs."]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 03:00 PM Wednesday, October 13, 2004 04:05 PM I thought this was the most appropriate picture of the bunch.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 04:55 AM Sarcasmo: Lol. Awesome. I don't know which game that is, but, awesome.]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 06:53 AM http://www.masterfuldesign.com/farm/001c.jpg]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:34 AM :*]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:22 PM :p]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:29 PM love your ASCII characters! Tee hee!]]> Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:40 PM ... but it doesn't hold a candle to the overwhelming brightness of the flame that is Tekken.]]> Tuesday, October 12, 2004 09:28 AM Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:48 PM Sunday, October 10, 2004 07:52 PM Monday, October 11, 2004 07:03 AM Sunday, October 10, 2004 03:53 AM Crap.]]> Sunday, October 10, 2004 04:49 PM Super Tarzan: I think it's already a paradox. Because if she got the idea from me talking about it having happened, than how did she get the idea in the first place? That's a circular chain of events with no beginning. Makes no sense to me. That's why I always found the plot of Terminator a little bothersome. Until Terminator 3 cleared things up for me a bit.]]> Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:51 PM Thursday, October 7, 2004 01:11 PM Thursday, October 7, 2004 09:50 AM But you should do it anyway. Seriously -- Das Protagonist Der Space and I are going to have to run out early to make the rehersal for our reading. Finding out what people want to play beforehand and when they'll be arriving/leaving will allow people to play the things they like. That's especially true if all the people who said they'll show up end up showing up and you need to run multiple game simultaneously. That said, it'll be *really* sad if you end up with a schedule on your website like those Game con things do. -- d, but you should do that anyway, too... ;)]]> Thursday, October 7, 2004 09:54 AM Please? (also - how late are things running? Cause our rehersal isn't supposed to be more than a 1.5 hours, so if there is good evening stuff I might just have to wander back.)]]> Thursday, October 7, 2004 10:23 AM So yeah, expect an email later tonight or tomorrow, game day friends. Oh, and anybody else reading this that knows me, you're invited! If I missed you in the original email, sorry! Let me know and I'll send the pre-reg dealie to you, too. Oh, and Space Protagonist, we'll be playing as late as people want to stay. And of course, I'm going to be there all night, so if you want to come back, you're welcome!]]> Thursday, October 7, 2004 11:01 AM Thursday, October 7, 2004 12:08 PM re. the google thing: Well, duh.]]> Wednesday, October 6, 2004 02:23 PM And do I want to know how you came across the google trick?]]> Wednesday, October 6, 2004 11:30 AM Look over there! [runs away]]]> Wednesday, October 6, 2004 12:04 PM Tuesday, October 5, 2004 09:24 AM Oh, and I think you mean corridor, not cooridor. Unless you're talking about someone else who also orides--a co-oridor. But I'm not sure what that would be.]]> Tuesday, October 5, 2004 09:25 AM I think the key is whether not one or both people are in motion: if I am stationary and I ask "How are you?" as a question. If I am in motion, I state "How are you." and expect to get back either a "hey" or a "fine". Odd.]]> Tuesday, October 5, 2004 10:25 AM Sorry.]]> Tuesday, October 5, 2004 10:34 AM Tuesday, October 5, 2004 11:40 AM Monday, October 4, 2004 10:17 AM Sunday, October 3, 2004 04:27 AM Friday, October 1, 2004 07:37 AM Monday, October 4, 2004 06:47 PM Monday, October 4, 2004 07:22 AM Sunday, October 3, 2004 10:12 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 01:51 PM Thursday, September 30, 2004 02:19 PM Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:19 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:23 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 02:46 PM Thursday, September 30, 2004 09:15 AM Germans...]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 09:20 AM bloginator, lol. Also, you missed the nipples. It's all over now. That bus has sailed.]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 02:47 PM Thursday, September 30, 2004 07:18 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 07:22 AM and nipple together constitutes full frontal nudity, and that's just totally unacceptable! I'm sorry. Somebody had to make that pun, so I decided to jump on that grenade myself. Also, I want to point out here that I'm kidding, and that I am strongly in favor of full frontal nudity.]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 07:23 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 09:55 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:00 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:21 AM now, what was that about nipples?]]> Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:20 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:26 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 08:42 AM Thursday, September 30, 2004 09:13 AM This was pretty interesting.]]> Tuesday, September 28, 2004 09:44 AM Tuesday, September 28, 2004 05:05 PM Tuesday, September 28, 2004 07:17 PM cyn: That's pretty fantastic. But I'd still have to say my "my squirrel" database. My my! everyone else: Thanks for the votes! Looks to me like Azumi is the winner, so that's what I'll be bringing. You have been warned.]]> Tuesday, September 28, 2004 07:48 PM Tuesday, September 28, 2004 09:19 AM Tuesday, September 28, 2004 09:21 AM Tuesday, September 28, 2004 09:40 AM Planet of the Vampires - which was about space travel and vampires - and therefore should have rocked, but, in fact, bored me into turning it off.]]> Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:39 AM Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:44 AM Monday, September 27, 2004 06:56 AM And I believe he was able to get so many favors in from his Ocean 11 connection. I agree, though, Clooney makes Barris story both enjoyable and mildly believable.]]> Friday, September 24, 2004 10:05 PM night que for a while...]]> Monday, September 27, 2004 11:23 AM Friday, September 24, 2004 12:20 PM Friday, September 24, 2004 12:23 PM Brilliant. :)]]> Wednesday, September 22, 2004 07:43 PM Wednesday, September 22, 2004 06:22 AM Wednesday, September 22, 2004 06:36 AM Monday, September 20, 2004 09:54 AM Monday, September 20, 2004 09:54 AM Monday, September 20, 2004 09:55 AM Monday, September 20, 2004 09:56 AM I also found a bug with the preview page (which was a holdover of a bug on the comments page that I fixed a while ago), and fixed that, too. Good stuff.]]> Monday, September 20, 2004 10:03 AM Monday, September 20, 2004 10:09 AM Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:35 PM Tuesday, September 21, 2004 03:39 PM Wednesday, September 22, 2004 06:34 AM sounds completely believable and realistic given what we already know of Bush. On your second comment, maybe you should get your own blog, "bloginator." :p But anyway, yeah, that bumpersticker sounds a bit off the mark. I'm thinking the beliefs of a lot of the founding fathers would sit either near the center or a little to the left of things if positioned along the current political compass. I mean, these guys wanted big changes (a revolution in fact), and they believed wholeheartedly in the separation of church and state (Jefferson especially). That doesn't sound very conservative. Speaking of political compasses, check this out, courtesy my friend Dave. I don't like that they don't allow you to give "neutral/no opinion" as an answer. But I ended up in the lower left quadrant--a left/libertarian--and that sounds about right to me. It frightens me that they position Kerry in the top right, not too far from Bush. But he's still the lesser of two evils.]]> Friday, September 17, 2004 07:33 AM want to answer, and that a neutral option would have allowed me to bypass, which ultimately would be a misleading thing.]]> Friday, September 17, 2004 07:46 AM Thursday, September 16, 2004 06:47 PM Thursday, September 16, 2004 06:49 PM Thursday, September 16, 2004 09:18 AM Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:28 AM Yagathai: No, atavistic isn't, by definition, a negative thing. But in this context, I mean it in a negative way. I feel like the conservative doctrine has a lot to do with tradition, and tradition means doing things a certain way because that's the way they've always been done, and not because that's the best way to do them. That's not progress; that's standing still or going backwards. And going backwards is bad--at least the way I'm using it here. :)]]> Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:42 AM How come they give raging, delusional psychotics book deals?]]> Thursday, September 16, 2004 08:15 AM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 03:12 PM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 03:20 PM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:14 AM Thursday, September 16, 2004 06:52 PM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 04:41 PM Futurama would be recognized for the great show that it is. I don't think they believed me.]]> Wednesday, September 15, 2004 07:57 PM Friday, September 17, 2004 07:36 AM Friday, September 17, 2004 08:00 AM Thursday, September 16, 2004 02:19 PM mmm...crazy pills...]]> Thursday, September 16, 2004 06:44 PM Tuesday, September 14, 2004 04:57 PM Tuesday, September 14, 2004 08:48 PM Tuesday, September 14, 2004 09:54 AM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 02:24 PM It would be very hard for Batman to become a doctor, because it would require a university of prestigious merit conferring an honorary degree on him which, given his vigilante status, is probably not condoned legally and would make said university look bad--something universities try very hard not to look. however, with Batman's (in reality Bruce Wayne's) detective and scientific training, he could probably merit several degrees if only anyone had the chutzpah to give them to him. One might ask, "Why would Batman have to wait for an honorary degree? Why can't he just take the classes?" Well, the answer is that Batman has to fight crime, and he can't waste his days training to be a doctor, because it would make him so wiped out he would have to take drugs to stay awake at night and fight crime, and then he'd get addicted to drugs, which frankly has happened to him before and I'm sure he's smart enough not to let it happen again. incidentally, the person who probably most deserves a MEDICAL doctorate is Alfred. Believe it or not, according to certain comic book authors, Alfred has wartime medical training under his cummerbund.]]> Wednesday, September 15, 2004 04:39 PM bloginator: Stop taking the crazy pills. They make you crazy.]]> Wednesday, September 15, 2004 07:59 PM (I agree with Poppy though. I would keep my own name.)]]> Wednesday, September 15, 2004 09:44 AM Batman. Mrs. Batman" has a certain ring to it...]]> Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:02 AM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:12 AM Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:16 AM I want to be Dr. Batman. I saw him first :P]]> Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:39 PM Monday, September 13, 2004 04:11 AM Elf Name: Aranel Tîwele Sancho Bramble sounds like a cowboy to me.]]> Monday, September 13, 2004 05:01 AM Sarcasmo: I can be a cowboy Hobbit. I see nothing wrong with that. And I always thought you were a bit Tookish. :)]]> Monday, September 13, 2004 06:57 AM I'm actually now giggling at the thought of a showdown High Noon style in the Shire - Bilbo vs. the Sacksville-Bagginses]]> Monday, September 13, 2004 09:19 AM I also caught the football game. It was boring. A bunch of guys got injured, including the kicker from the Giants (apparently they've had seven in four years!), whose jaw got slammed. They almost ran out of carts to take guys off the field with. It was boring. How dare they bore the bloginator?! I mean, Mungo.]]> Monday, September 13, 2004 10:17 AM bloginator: Yeah, I was rather impressed by the consistency of the name generators. It's not randomized, really. It's pretty clever. Some websites do indeed refer to the planet in Flash Gordon as Mungo. But in the Flash Gordon movie, the name of the planet was Mongo, as you'll see here. And this page, which looks pretty detailed and official, also calls it Mongo. But you were close. While talking about how boring the football game is, you mention one of the nastiest and most exciting hits of the game--when our guy slammed into the Giants' kicker at full speed. That was awesome. We hit their new quarterback pretty hard, too. As my Dad put it, "Welcome to the NFL." I was sad to see another of our guys go out for the season, though. He was a rookie, that was his first game in the NFL, and now his leg's broken and who knows if he'll even get to play another professional game. That sucks.]]> Monday, September 13, 2004 10:39 AM Monday, September 13, 2004 11:29 AM Monday, September 13, 2004 11:38 AM Hellboy, Yagathai. But it confounded my attempts to enjoy it at every turn. It was dull and formulaic with a stupid, ridiculous story and no interesting characters (except Hellboy himself, of course). I did enjoy the occasional Lovecraftian allusions, and the fantastic idea of a clockwork Nazi assassin created from a guy addicted to surgery. And some of the monsters were cool-looking, especially those seeds of destruction guys. But they had a bunch of great ideas that they didn't do anything with. They didn't tell me anything about the Nazi assassin; they didn't go anywhere with that. The main character (the young, green agent) was totally bland and pointless. The big bad guy was totally bland and pointless. Which is really too bad, because, once again, there was a lot of potential with the bad guy, and his evil girlfriend. But the movie, again, did nothing with them at all. It didn't try to develop them, or even tell me who they were at all or how they were connected with each other. No backstory, nothing. And they had no clever, evil dialogue, like the bad guys are supposed to have. Hellboy had the few good lines in the film. The conclusion was totally rushed, poorly paced, thoroughly unbelievable, and anti-climactic. I don't know, maybe I was expecting too much. I had heard from many people how great it was, and then I sat down to watch it and discovered to my horror that it was just another Hollywood sci fi action movie with very little new or interesting to offer me.]]> Monday, September 13, 2004 12:00 PM Tuesday, September 14, 2004 09:52 AM Saturday, September 11, 2004 06:17 PM Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:39 AM Friday, September 10, 2004 09:24 PM Saturday, September 11, 2004 02:00 PM I can't help but wonder if (a) you view the Vietnam Swift boat things as an election year "prop" and (b) much of this election as a joke. A scary, scary, Carrot Top joke.]]> Saturday, September 11, 2004 05:35 AM Saturday, September 11, 2004 06:19 PM interesting idea of the filmmaker who stretches himself too thin by trying to create a satire for the more attentive viewers, and a compelling action film for the less attentive. are there any other filmmakers who have attempted such double-dealing??]]> Friday, September 10, 2004 11:06 AM Commando. And I'm not sure anybody working on the film actually knew it was a satire. Maybe just a few key personnel...]]> Saturday, September 11, 2004 03:26 PM movie is a mess.]]> Sunday, September 12, 2004 06:33 AM Thursday, September 9, 2004 06:35 AM Thursday, September 9, 2004 07:41 AM Sorry, Poppy. (but I really want to PLAY it.)]]> Thursday, September 9, 2004 09:24 AM This will be after I finish the rewrite of the ButtonMen applet, of course. Which was coming along pretty well, until I realized that building a good computer opponent and fitting it into the current structure of things is going to be pretty hard. But I'm going to dive into it one of these nights and crunch it out. Mwa ha ha.]]> Wednesday, September 8, 2004 02:05 PM Wednesday, September 8, 2004 05:50 PM Also - I am firmly in support of you developing an online version of Hero's Quest. Shiny and Rusty need to live to fight again!]]> Wednesday, September 8, 2004 07:21 AM Candlebox is another band that I thought had a kickass first release. Unfortunately, they became more and more inconsequential with each subsequent release. Queensryche has also been becoming more and more mediocre since Empire and The Promised Land. The sad thing is, there really aren't many bands from today that will ever enjoy the staying power of outfits like Aerosmith (who have become the Cheese even so) because of the current state of affairs in the industry. Which is probably a good thing, considering. :)]]> Monday, September 6, 2004 03:55 PM Saturday, September 11, 2004 02:03 PM I disagree on Elvis Costello. His first album is fantastic, but a lot of his later albums were equally fantastic. This Year's Model, Armed Forces, and Imperial Bedroom, for instance. I hope you're kidding on Pink Floyd. You seem to be. I think you're wrong on King Crimson, too. A lot of their albums are uneven, including Crimson King, but each one has a few gems on it. I like Lizard, Red, and Islands. You may be right about Velvet Underground. I don't like Nico--her tracks kind of irritate me--but their first disc has "Heroin" on it, one of the greatest rock songs ever. I was thinking of Bruce Springsteen this morning. But that's unfair to him. His first album was totally different and new and amazing, but he made so many great albums after that.]]> Thursday, September 9, 2004 06:44 AM Guns N Roses Motely Crue]]> Tuesday, September 7, 2004 05:05 AM Wednesday, September 8, 2004 02:08 PM Elvis Costello. My Aim is True. FLLLOOOOOYYYYDDDD!!!!! ...well, maybe not.]]> Wednesday, September 8, 2004 05:44 PM King Crimson: In the court of the crimson king Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico]]> Wednesday, September 8, 2004 05:47 PM ends with a preposition? Hee hee.]]> Monday, September 6, 2004 01:11 PM Sunday, September 5, 2004 10:19 AM It seems like to me, all Kerry needs to do to win this election is to get the facts out there. Forget about spin, forget about anything else. Just keep telling people what Bush has done, how he's lied. Keep pointing out the glaring evidence of his failure and his dishonesty. People have got to catch on eventually.]]> Friday, September 3, 2004 12:35 PM Saturday, September 4, 2004 03:24 PM Hee hee.]]> Friday, September 3, 2004 12:32 PM Thursday, September 2, 2004 10:34 AM Thursday, September 2, 2004 02:10 PM On the other hand, though, free, fast internet! ]]> Thursday, September 2, 2004 02:08 PM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 01:09 PM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:05 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:14 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 11:15 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 11:16 AM It was hard for me to drive to and park in Philly, so I am also glad that you are not there. Too, that janitor guy was creepy, as we all know. I'm doing this at work! According to my employee manual, that is bad, bad, bad...]]> Wednesday, September 1, 2004 06:00 AM However, luckily for you, your comment was preserved by my database. Here it is, in all its glory: "I was always very good at standardized testing. Essays, too. I hate that they removed analogies from the SAT. What an excellent way to prove one's word comprehension! Not just by knowing straight definitions, but understanding usage and relationships. They have to dumb down the SATs to level up with our dumber students so that no child gets LEFT BEHIND. Pfuh. Testing. Bloginator pfuhs the SAT people and their tiny minds."]]> Wednesday, September 1, 2004 06:42 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:07 AM Rss is one of those things I've heard a lot about, but into which I've never really looked. And that's all I'm sayin'.]]> Tuesday, August 31, 2004 07:30 AM That's all I'm sayin'.]]> Tuesday, August 31, 2004 07:40 AM Tuesday, August 31, 2004 07:43 AM Tuesday, August 31, 2004 07:59 AM Tuesday, August 31, 2004 08:30 AM Tuesday, August 31, 2004 08:52 AM Man, I'm flip-flopping a lot on this issue today. I think my final decision is that, in general, if I am in the company of people that I know have a pet peeve about this rule (Claire and TrackerNeil, for instance), I'll try to keep the prepositions in the middle of my sentences. Otherwise, I'll just do whatever the hell I want to. Hee hee.]]> Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:45 AM herein you can see how many comments a post has without having to click the comments link for that post. Because, you know, poppy and I need to feverishly check for comments on our posts, over and over again, and this makes it much easier. :) 1. Having the number show up does not make ME check any LESS feverishly. Just letting you know. 2. Through the magic of syndication, I am also able to subscribe to my comments - which means my newsreader lets me know when there are new ones. (This doesn't mean that I check my comments any less obsessively - but I imagine a sane person would). 3. I refuse to get involved in the preposition argument. I'm generally against ending a sentence with one; but let's face it, my grammar is abysmal.]]> Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:52 PM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 08:05 AM Tuesday, August 31, 2004 06:03 AM Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:23 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:08 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:10 AM Basically, he shouldn't be the director of his own movies anymore. He shouldn't write the screenplays, either. I'd still be okay with him writing the story outlines (I love the story of Star Wars, just not the way it's being implemented), and having final say on most of the creative decisions. But that's it. Other people with actual writing skills and knowledge of how people really talk to each other need to write the screenplays, and people with directing skills need to direct. Of course, this is all a moot point now. It's too late. The third movie is practically in the can. Sigh. Somehow--maybe because I'm such a huge fan of the series--I'm still optimistic about it, and I still think that it might come out okay. Please?]]> Wednesday, September 1, 2004 11:22 AM have to watch it all the way to the end movies.]]> Sunday, August 29, 2004 05:35 AM Sunday, August 29, 2004 05:52 AM Sunday, August 29, 2004 05:52 AM bloginator: Lol. I thought I already had one of those annoying guys you don't want on your website, until I checked your links. Btw, I forgot to mention that the main characters were ultimately saved by whales. Saved by whales! I'm not making this stuff up, people.]]> Sunday, August 29, 2004 08:49 AM Wednesday, September 1, 2004 08:03 AM