old republicans don't die, they just leach into the groundwater to poison future generations
Thursday, Jun. 10, 2004 @ 4:05 p.m.
Ohmygod you’ll never guess what I saw when I was driving back to work from buying DVDs at Borders (Bubba Ho-tep and Harry Potter and the Chamber ofA FREAKING DELOREAN. WITH A VANITY PLATE THAT SAID “TIMLESS”.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen one of those in real life, ever. They must be impossible to fix, how could you get parts for them? Or can you just put like, Toyota parts in them?
Like most other things from the ‘80s, it looked pathetically square and clunky. Like the vehicular version of an Atari 2600. I don’t know if it’s too soon or what, but I really don’t think the ‘80s have aged well.
I wonder if the owner was being ironic or if he really thought driving a DeLorean makes him hot shit. I’d like to think the former, but that’s a lot of money just to be a smart-ass.
I was tempted to follow him until he parked just so I could see the doors slide up. Or drive alongside him and inquire how his flux capacitor was functioning.
Thursday, Jun. 10, 2004 @ 12:08 p.m.
Because all the cool kids are doing it…I’m thinking of allowing guest-posting tomorrow and possibly over the weekend as well. I’m never around on the weekends, so might as well.
What do you think? Would anyone be interested in something like that? You could post whatever nonsense you wanted.
Leave your feedback in the comments or guestbook.
Thursday, Jun. 10, 2004 @ 11:15 a.m.
I saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban again last night. I was hoping to see a preview for M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, but alas, it was not meant to be. Instead I saw previews for crap after crap after crap.1. I hate that preview for The Polar Express. HATE. From this day forward I am taking a stand against all animated movies that are done entirely with computers and have nothing hand-drawn in them at all. Pixar can suck it! Studio Ghibli for-evah!!
2. Does Catwoman have an actual plot at all? Or is it just 2 hours of Halle Berry strutting around in a leather bodysuit and lots of eyeliner while cracking whips and driving motorcycles and doing other allegedly “sexy” things?
3. If I see that damn preview for I, Robot again, I am going to dig up Isaac Asimov’s rotting corpse, re-animate him, and have him tear Will Smith limb from limb.
Err…Isaac Asimov is dead, right?
4. What the hell is the deal with Jennifer Coolidge’s lips? She looks like she had that thing done where they suck the fat out of your ass and inject it into your lips, but they weren’t able to remove the dimples in the cellulite.
That is all.
Thursday, Jun. 10, 2004 @ 9:30 a.m.
Hee!Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Fifteen Minutes
A couple of excerpts that proves I am not the only girl with my mind in the gutter:
Some Dark Bedroom
HARRY: *plays with his wand in the middle of the night*
MR. DURSLEY: Stop playing with your wand in the middle of the night, boy!
HARRY: *won’t stop playing with his wand in the middle of the night*
CLEO: Uh…
THE LOVELY EMILY: Dude, I KNOW.
and...
Hilltop of Hippogriff Sorrow
EXECUTIONER: *chops something off-screen*
PEOPLE WHO DON’T READ THE BOOKS: OMGWTFHORSYBIRD!
THE KIDS: *hug threesomely*
ALFONSO CUARÓN: I think I directed a porno like this once.
...and this just cracked me up:
Harry jumps Sirius and gets his chokehold on.
LUPIN [rushing in]: Harry, no! EXPELLIARMUS!
THE KIDS: Lupin!
SIRIUS: Remus!
LUPIN: Sirius!
SIRIUS: Hug!
HERMIONE: Werewolf!
RON AND HARRY: What?
SNAPE: BLACK!
THE KIDS: Snape!
SNAPE: EXPELLIARMUS!
LUPIN: Noooo!
SIRIUS: Pettigrew!
THE KIDS: What?
SIRIUS: Map!
LUPIN: Dead!
SIRIUS: No!
LUPIN: Yes!
SIRIUS: No!
LUPIN: Yes!
SIRIUS: No!
LUPIN: Yes!
SNAPE: Christ, you two bicker like an old married couple.
SIRIUS/LUPIN SHIPPERS: YAY!
Read the rest, it's totally hilarious. Contains spoilers, duh.
Link found at Stupid Evil Bastard.
Wednesday, Jun. 09, 2004 @ 11:42 a.m.
Adding 2 more books to the summer reading list. (And if I keep adding to it, I'm going to still be reading it at Christmas).1. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford.
Another reccommendation from my brother David. I was actually eyeing this in Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago. I've been interested in reading about the Mongols because I know they were nowhere near as barbaric as they've been made out to be. And this book seems like a good one--the writer is the only Westerner to ever be allowed inside the Great Taboo, Khan's burial site.
2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss.
Reccommended by Mac of go fish, who gave it 10 out of 10. A book about puncuation may seem terribly dry and dull on the face of it, but by all accounts it's full of funny anecdotes and written with a witty and urbane tone. And it's a relief to know I'm not the last person on earth who cares about punctuation.
Wednesday, Jun. 09, 2004 @ 10:03 a.m.
From NBC4.com:In an English translation of an interview Ray Bradbury did with the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, published last week, the Web site World Net Daily reported the author of the classic fiction novel "Fahrenheit 451" called Moore a "screwed a------" because he "stole" the title.
Bradbury also called Moore a "horrible human being" in the interview, yet insisted that his anger had nothing to do with Moore's political views.
I think maybe Ray is getting a little carmudgeonly in his old age. I mean honestly, it's not like he really has some kind of ownership over the word "fahrenheit" followed by numbers.