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I dreamt I was treed by a pack of violent teens, thanks Hunger Games [May. 25th, 2012|06:56 pm]
It was too long and there were points I was convinced this was a live-action version of Yellow Submarine with all the weird outfits and social settings. Then we got to the teens-fighting-to-the-death part and the Shaky Cams made it impossible to tell what the hell was going on, especially the climactic scene set at night.

Chronicle on the other hand, my kind of movie. Realistic fantasy with some very good human pathos and for a "found footage" film, well done.

My work week ended with us having a catered lunch from a chef customer and I can say that I am filled with equal amounts of contentness and applewood-smoked bacon.

How the Wild West REALLY looked: Gorgeous sepia-tinted pictures show the landscape as it was charted for the very first time
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Today's stop on the Magical Misogyny Tour [May. 21st, 2012|10:31 pm]
After saying Very Bad Things, George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina doesn't want those things to be on The Google anymore. And threatened the internet, which responded in cute fashion by repeating them in a way that ensures that George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina and his delightful commentary to Sandra Fluke won't be forgotten anytime soon.
And though he's busy deleting and covering up the evidence, he's been at this for a while on Twitter.
George loves golf, hates women, liberals, women golfers, Obama )
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The first day of Summer was today [May. 20th, 2012|08:56 pm]
For me, anyway. See, Summer is typically official on June 21st but I don't go by those Soviet-like standards but instead use the simpler metric of 'First day I have to turn on the air conditioning', which was today. Hot, noisy day. And my car was blocked in the parking lot by one of the new residents who came home last night obviously drunk and only backed 2/3's into their spot. Along with the new family-types who moved in and constantly leave the front door pushed open. That door is the only thing keeping random tweakers from wandering into the complex so I have a problem with it be left open unsupervised.

Looks like tonight might be cure for my insomnia though, because I'm very, very tired. Probably going to be up another half hour, if that. And we all checked out the solar eclipse at 6:30 tonight. It was hard to see but the light got weird for a while.
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I kind of loved the Avengers [May. 16th, 2012|05:25 pm]
I grew up reading all of those comic books - initially my dad would buy them for me on his frequent work trips. Early ones were mostly Batman & Superman. I didn't really like either of them however, it was Spider Man and the X-Men who spoke more to me and I had a huge pile of Captain America, Iron Man, Swamp Thing, Fantastic Four, etc. I subscribed to Thor for a few years. The film hit all the right notes though and the casting worked.

Oddly, I haven't seen any of the origin films except the original Iron Man. I'll have to fix that now.



PUNY GOD!
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(no subject) [May. 15th, 2012|06:50 pm]
Poll #1840560
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

How do I feed the growing darkness within me?

View Answers
Take a Garden Weasel to those neighbors always talking on their cell phones outside
10 (58.8%)
Watch the season finale of 90210 tonight
2 (11.8%)
Eat a dark chocolate Snickers bar
4 (23.5%)
I got nothin
1 (5.9%)
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"Execute Error 37" [May. 15th, 2012|03:24 pm]
Diablo III, Blizzard's newest game, "launched" at midnight last night - which means that by now, people have been unable to log in for the last 12 hours. Gamers being slightly obsessive, many of them had today off so they could play and as of right now, estimated fix times keep jumping ahead by 1-2 hours and it still isn't working.

For the record, I will pick the game up, but I'm taking a day off on Thursday, when all these shenanigans will be fixored.
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I don't use the word 'hero' very often, but this man is the greatest hero in American history. [May. 14th, 2012|01:35 pm]
A 53 year old man was thrown out of an All You Can Eat seafood buffet after being told there 'was no more fish'. Refusing to pay his bill, he was then plied with 8 more pieces of fish. He left only to return the next day, picketing the restaurant for its shady business practices. I love it when life imitates art.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a man whose had ALL he could eat?"

That man ate all our shrimp, and two plastic lobsters!

Come see Bottomless Pete, nature's cruelest mistake. Come for the freak, stay for the food!

'Tis no man. 'Tis a remorseless eating machine.

No sir! Don't take the steam tray!

Is it true Mr. Simpson that you once ate a 10 lb bag of flour when no other food was available?
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Today's double-facepalm worthy moment [May. 10th, 2012|03:54 pm]
Bristol Palin Criticizes Obama's ... Parenting

"While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview."

Setting aside the fact that children being raised by a male and a female parent is a debunked horseshit Christian talking point, Bristol Palin is a single mom whose own god-fearing, pro-family mother actively uses her lawyers and political clout to keep Levi Johnston away from his son just for spite.
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(no subject) [May. 8th, 2012|07:46 pm]
"New rule — When you're tanning and you get to be the same color as a 500 year-old ice man mummy — Stop."
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And now a random memory [May. 8th, 2012|04:46 pm]
Recently someone on LJ I don't respect at all claimed that there's no such thing as talent or ability, just hard work and devotion. Hence, anybody can become anything and well, the difference between Usain Bolt and you is that you haven't worked at becoming a world-class sprinter and that's why he can run so much faster. This is patently stupid of course, and ignores reality. Because most of us couldn't become surgeons or astronauts or world-class sprinters, period.

My high school class was pretty poor athletically and I remember being unable to make the varsity basketball team my junior year. This is the same team that went 2-38 that season and followed it by a senior season in which they went 0-40, possibly setting a school record for futility. We had a section for our home games devoted to booing, which made a long season more enjoyable. For us, anyway.

Know your limits. One of mine was being a shitty basketball player.
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