I’m a big fan of MilkandCookies.com. It presents a panoply of entertaining videos. I highly recommend it. Some of my friends are incessantly bombarded by IM hits from me containing urls such as the one below.
Tonight’s plug is for Conic Juggling, an exhibition of momentum and timing.
Here’s to all those motivational posters we love to hate.
We saw Mission: Impossible III, last night, a serious waste of my precious time. This movie was so disjointed, such a strange mix of action and “feeling” that I still feel a bit whiplashed.
J.J. Abrams directed and helped to write this movie. It certainly shows. As you may be aware, I’ve expressed my opinion regarding another of Mr. Abrams’ creations, and I believe that the first two seasons of Alias continue to be his only worthwhile accomplishment.*
Tom Cruise’s scientology-inspired freakiness now permeates everything he does, to the product’s detriment, and was it me, or did his girlfriend in the movie look like Katie Holmes? I liked P.S. Hoffman in his sociopath role, and Laurence Fishburn also did a credible job as the head IMF bossman, although shades of Morpheus snuck through. There were plenty of explosions and lots of death-defying chases and the requisite baseball pitching machine that you see in every credible action flik. I have a list of questions the length of my leg that are similar to, “Why didn’t the sniper just SHOOT Ethan instead of having the drone come by and blow him up with missiles?” I suppose those sorts of questions happen in every action film, but True Lies still sets the bar—in my own very humble opinion—for plausible explosions and crazy shit (other than the flying-a-Harrier-with-one-hand thing).
Nevermind! I could go on for hours. Suffice to say, I won’t be seeing this movie ever again, and the only reason I would tell someone to see it is so we can complain about it together afterwards.
*Did you know that J.J. Abrams wrote Armageddon, a movie so bad in its science that I’ve been known to vomit profusely on the TV whenever it’s shown? Well, maybe not that bad, but it’s the worst space movie in a long time. Space Cowboys is a close second.
Or as Non Sequitur would have it, “Obviousman!”
Today, one of the headlines in the Atlanta Journal Constitution reads “1 in 3 U.S. residents belong to minority.”
Read that a second time if you didn’t get it at first.
I guess I’m feeling strangely verbose today. Already this morning, I’ve posted two non-trivial comments over at Live Journal, which are locked to friends only (so sad); I’ve responded to several workish emails in greater-than-two-word-sentences; I cruelly insisted on discussing (at least attempting to discuss) day plans with my wife while she was sleepily lying face down on her pillow making little tiny noises which—roughly translated—meant “fuck off”; and now I’m placing an unusual amount of text on my own blog.
How odd.
Slightly Different Badger to the one I was introduced to. Listen and enjoy the hell…
And when you’re done with the badgers, make sure you check out the Real LOTR.
If you don’t watch Bones on Fox. You should…
Tonight, the main character insinuated that Jesus was a Zombie. Pretty damn funny.
If you’re not aware of the man who has been arrested and charged with murdering a young girl with plans to eat her, go to the link.
In the linked article is this quote:
“Regarding a potential motive,” Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said Saturday, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse then dispose of the organs and bones.”
This “appears” to be the case? How many cases similar to this does this police chief see? It seems they know some terribly specific details to have it only “appear.”
Of course, this quote probably falls into the same category as expecting athletes to have something lucid and cogent to say at the end of the game. The police chief’s expertise is crime, not public speaking, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
But, my first read of that sentence was, “Huh?”
You may remember my original post concerning the Wal*Ocaust T-shirts.
Well, Wal-Mart has filed suit to prohibit the sale or production of the wal*ocaust logo. Check out www.walocaust.com for details.
Again, I don’t really have an opinion about this, but it is certainly interesting.
If you are a Math dilettante, do not go here to Good Math, Bad Math.
If you are one of my crazy friends who can’t get enough of it, feel free…