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I’d be excited to see the Charles Nelson Reilly one-man-show movie, even if my brother hadn’t designed the gorgeous poster and site. I hope it comes to Sundance 608 soon.

“…and a million slash-fic authors across the who-niverse just set their pens ablaze.”

If they wanted to get really meta-weird, they could go visit the Yorkshire Dales, but have Mark Strickson play Siegfried Farnon.

the shark was jumped

Even though it’s been a dream toy since I was ten years old, I was having a hard time justifying this most excellent sonic screwdriver — until I realized that it was a sonic screwdriver that could also detect cat pee. Spiffy! All those years, who knew the Doctor had a cat?

For some reason, we had the DVD of Point Break laying around (thanks, Ron!), and finally threw it in last night, figuring that at least the Rifftrax would make it vaguely watchable. Wow. What a turd! Also one of the gayest movies* I’ve ever seen. Name the best part:

1. when Keanu dove out of a plane with a gun and no parachute, chasing after Swayze?
2. when Gary Busey tried to crash the car into a plane?
3. when Keanu caught up with Swayze on a rainy beach in Australia, and let him go to surf the wave of “The Fifty Year Storm,” …and the other cops are all, “OMG! WTF? Oh well, we’ll get him when he comes back in” to which Keanu hoarsed out the reply, “he’s not coming back in”?
4. when Keanu walked away from the scene on the beach, and whipped his badge into the ocean?

We’re thinking it was during the interminable running scene, when Swayze, wearing a Ronald Reagan mask, threw a dog in Keanu’s face. Then he ran off to reload with some Weimeraners and Puggles.

*I ran the Milwaukee Gay and Lesbian Film Festival for two years, and hosted Bruce LaBruce; I know from gay film…

My new happy place? Is imagining a whole football team of Brett Favre clones, playing against another football team made of Brett Favre clones.

I popped open the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning, and it took me a minute to parse this photo on the front page. Awesome!

A guide to all of the jokes on Futurama that I have to ask Mr. Dynagirl to explain to me.

I finally just saw Pirates of Silicon Valley. Yick! But it’s too bad that it ended when it did, because I’d love to see John DiMaggio freaking out on Ballmer’s Developers Dance.

Did anyone else notice the white ericophon that’s all over the Apple set in Pirates?

Looks like it’s been on deck for years. Probably better timing with the rest of technology to wait until now.

We got our new toy from Apple last week — the Apple TV. It’s sleek and pretty and very, very cool. Now, all of our iTunes media is available in the living room. In anticipation, I’ve started burning all of the CDs to a hard drive. Goodbye, clutter! Goodbye, scratched discs!

A week into it, here are some things I’d like it to do:

• support for more video formats
• coverflow!!
• iTunes’ visualizer!!
• iTunes’ visualizer as a screensaver
• sleep mode (it’s pretty hot)
• create playlists from the TV
• stream photos
• iTunes store – probably coming soon
• download podcasts directly (see above)
• work with the Sony Location Free base station* **
• it has a hard time remembering my laptop*
• the YouTube thing is great – but where are my playlists and subscriptions?
• include free iPhone with purchase

Some of that can be accomplished by hacking it — video formats, weather, internet radio, wake up remote drives and sleep are all on the to-do list, and given that Leopard’s going to be all about the coverflow, that’ll probably show up on the Apple TV before long. Aside for my minor whinges, the Apple TV is really awesome — and it’s only barely a 1.1 product. I’m really looking forward to more.

*these may have to do with our network configuration?
** for that matter, I’d like a whole new user interface for the Location Free Player, it’s terrible. The new case design is sweet — very early-eighties, Trinitron sleek — why can’t the UI be, too?

I liked the ending; I’m ot sure what happened, but I have theories. It was a nasty trick for anything following it, though — and I’d hate to be on the help desk of cable companies across the company. Slate has a round up of some alternate endings.

Bill Clinton wrote this Sunday’s New York Times crossword.

* h-u-s-b-a-n-d would also answer the clue, but not in context of this puzzle ;)

Hey, if I had a wine blog, but just wrote complaints about bad wine experiences, it would be a oenomatopoeia.

Is there a word for words that look like their meaning, as opposed to sounding like their meaning? Because “fizzy” should totally be spelled “fizzi,” and then it would be an excellent double trick.

If you ever see me giggling in the corner all by myself, it’s because this shit in my head? never stops. It’s like a shit circus. Hey! I wonder if ShitCircus.com is available…

Nice collection of videos on YouTube.
Thanks, Quiddity!

Here’s an awesome little app that will make a really great Star Wars opening title sequence. I made this with maybe four minutes of farting-around time, but be warned that it was a jillion million CPU cycles — this clip was generated from 2818 rendered stills. (Proofread!) It will render for PAL, NTSC, and all kinds of stuff. Fancy.
also via a.wholelottanothing

Mythbusters’ Adam Savage asks the hive mind for ideas for an old-west-themed show.

One man’s quest to find out how many people really speak Gaelic:

In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand. No one did – old women smiled, tapping their feet merrily, as I serenaded them with filth.

Hooray WonderWoman:

WONDER WOMAN – SOCIALIST Wonder Woman was raised in an all-female society, a monarchist utopia with strong socialist overtones and plenty of hot girl-on-girl action. Wonder Woman came to “Patriarch’s World” with a clear liberal agenda but a willingness to crack skulls if need be. She’s heavily into social justice, environmental issues, and sisterhood. Wonder Woman is not beyond sticking a high-heeled red boot up your ass if you get in the way of her Sapphic Socialism.

Mark Borchardt and Mike Shank (“American Movie” and “Coven“) are hosting a Halloween showing of “Night of the Living Dead” tonight on G4. They’ll also be airing Mark’s 1984 classic, “I Blow Up.”

If you’re in Milwaukee tonight, they’re looking for people to show up as zombies to be extras in the “live” movie Mark’s making.

Frisco outs art teacher after museum trip:

Frisco school trustees aren’t renewing the contract of a veteran art teacher who was reprimanded because a student saw a nude sculpture during a museum visit… McGee’s attorney says the teacher’s troubles started after taking 89 students on a school field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art in April. The principal later admonished McGee about the trip, telling her a parent complained about a student seeing nude art.

When we have kids, it would be really nice to be able to send the kids to public school, because seriously, public schools are hugely important to the future of the country (and the world) and I support the idea 100%. However, between the repeated funding cuts, the bullshit of “No Child Left Behind,” and teachers getting canned for taking kids to a museum where they might OMG NOES! see a nude breast or for showing them an opera video that OMG NOES! had “demons” in it, I’m pretty sure we’ll be sticking with the Montesorris and the Catholic schools. Sheesh.

I’ve never been able to actually find the aforementioned Hubzilla. This TARDIS hub is way cooler, and available. And on its way to me! Stupid amazon.co.uk shops no US shipping… HOOORAY EBAY.

Mises Economics Blog: A-Team Stands for Anarcho-Capitalism

“The A-team” supports the idea of natural law, rejects the nominalist tradition, rejects relativism both on ethical and epistemological grounds, supports entrepreneurship and free market, praises division of labor and monetary economy, builds its morality on the nonaggression axiom, rejects the necessity for economic regulation, undermines the government itself by demonstration of its failures, and shows how society is shaped by human action.

The “A” in the praised TV series probably stands for anarcho-capitalist.

Kristin Dunst’s fashion sense, ignorance of foundational garments and the importantance thereof, and her icky corn teeth aside–she’s really pretty decent as an actress, and having just seen the trailer (an rewatched it three times) of Marie Antoinette and knowing how fucking awesome Sofia Coppola* is, I think we definitely need to see it,** and in the theater.
*wouldn’t she do a great job with Pattern Recognition?
**OH and historical acurracy aside, too, LET THEM READ BOOKS.

I found this while looking at the credits of Remington Steele (For work! I swear!). Between her great taste in telephony and her nice performance in Gramma’s Boy,* I’ve just gotten over my reflexive dislike of Doris Roberts.

Shirley Jones stole the show, though!

At the Great Taste of Madison, our Dude found his Walter.

Bill Murray Soundboard

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Did you know that the number of elephants in Africa has tripled in the last six months? I didn’t either!

I’m sitting here at four minutes past midnight (on a FRiDAY; god, I am SUCH A FUCKING ROCKSTAR AND YOU KNOW IT), weaving in ends and doing miscellaneous finishing business on a baby sweater for a friend, and meanwhile, catching up with the TiVo — and I see now, why, as a child, despite being very much into musicals, I was fucking terrified of The Wiz.

BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING TERRIFYING.

omgwtfbbq?! This is one fucked. up. movie.
And I’m SO buying the soundtrack tomorrow.

*probably, then also on late night televison, under a misguided babysitter. This so explains both my fascination with Nipsy Russell and my fear of Big City Subway Turnstiles. AND WIERD SUBWAY MONSTERS AND THEIR CRACKHEAD MASTERS. (And crack. And tile.) No. You don’t ever want to be in the playground of my mind.

**although the fact that Toto is a miniature schnauzer makes me really happy… and also fits right into the 70s trippy milieu ( we had a schnauzer, too; albeit better groomed than this one ), as well as the linoleum yellow brick road that looks like the vinyl uplholstery on the kitchen chairs in my grandmother’s house.

Nora Ephron is slated to write and direct Julie Powell’s “Julie & Julia.” Yick. A fantabulous cookbook, a great blog, an OK book; and now a film, directed by someone, who, if whom their career were a food, it would be Lean Cuisine.

Instead, I think I’ll enjoy this 1973 ad for Betty Crocker Frosting in a Can, starring Joan Van Ark, via Scrubbles.