Cutting corners
One of the weird things I think about: what do the people on Battlestar Galactica do with all the triangles of paper they cut from the corners of their pages? Use them for insulation? Decoupage? Thousands of paper footballs?
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Lacy, gently-wafting curtains
I used to make fun of people who watched “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” I mean, how stupid, right? But then after “Firefly,” which was brilliant and died way too soon, I thought I should give it a try. I’m glad I did. I haven’t watched the whole series, but I started at the beginning and was continually surprised and impressed. Even the musical episodes were good, even though I generally hate musicals. (I often remember the line from the old ‘Ellen’ show – “I just don’t understand opera. Why do they have to sing everything? Why don’t they just say it?”)
So when I heard that Joss Whedon had been spending his strike-related downtime creating a web series, I knew that I had to check it out.
“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” is some of the most entertaining web content I’ve ever seen. All three episodes are online now, but after tomorrow (Sunday) they’ll be gone. I liked it so much that I not only bought the episodes on iTunes, but I’m sure I’ll buy the promised extras-packed DVD.
Neil Patrick Harris (the eponymous Dr.) has left his Doogie days far behind, and it doesn’t hurt that I have a huge crush on Nathan Fillion, who plays Dr. Horrible’s nemesis “Captain Hammer.”
Check this out. Seriously.
Life of Riley
I’ve been surprisingly touched by the death of “the world’s oldest blogger,” Olive Riley, over the weekend at the age of 108. I mean, look at that face.
As her friend, who did the typing for her and videotaped her for YouTube, put it:
Her example says: if a woman who left school in 1914 can embrace the internet in her 106th year, what is there you can’t do, friend?
Can the New Yorker be that stupid?
This cartoon is the illustration equivalent of Pauline Kael’s “I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon” remark.
Words mean things
Once Dubya is finally safely tucked away in Crawford next January, can we please scrub the word “Homeland” from our national vocabulary? Please? It’s creepy and exemplifies everything that’s wrong with the current administration. It’s fascist, xenophobic, authoritarian, jingoistic and anti-intellectual all at the same time – quite a feat, really.
Get rid of it.
Obama is Hitler!
If you want an object lesson on how crazy Obama makes right-wing crapweasels, give this FreeRepublic comment thread a read. They are crazy and frankly, evil, which isn’t a good combination.
Here’s a taste:
“Will they be breaking windows out of Jewish owned businesses afterwards?”
“No, they’re saving their hatred for whites. They’ll be attacking white homes and confiscating white owned bank accounts and businesses. Then they’ll kick whites out of school and seize the children of white Republicans and people who have voted conservative in the past. Then blacks will be released from prison to make room for future dissidents.”
Quote of the week
On the not-particularly-mourned passing of uber-racist-crapweasel Jesse Helms:
“I imagine Jesse Helms on his way to Heaven right now, and hearing on his arrival, ‘You were qualified for a place here, but they had to give it to a minority.’ ”
-Balloon Juice commenter RSA
Runner-up:
“Yeah, there’s a reason to be sad. That he didn’t live to see a black man win the presidency of the United States.”
Another good one, from a Salon commenter:
“Helms was a cynical demagogue, supporter of military juntas, advocate of oppressive political regimes, and avid bigot who freely used his power to batter those not so well situated. Oh, and a slum landlord to boot.
Given all that, getting proverbial knickers in a twist over ‘speaking ill of the dead’ is absurd. Dying doesn’t make you a better human being, it just means you’re dead. If you want people to say something nice about you after you die, don’t be an asshole.”
Religious philosophy with Homer J. Simpson
An oldie but a goodie:
“Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even He could not eat it?”
Questions to ponder.
Centrist
So apparently Barack Obama is against same-sex marriage, supports warrantless wiretapping, thinks Wesley Clark dishonored McCain’s service, and wants to expand Bush’s “faith-based” initiatives and the death penalty. Hey, maybe next he’ll advocate nuking Paris because “those people look French.”
This “moving to the center” stuff is fun, huh?
I’m glad I’ve given up caring about any of this crap. Both sides can go to hell, as far as I’m concerned.
Obama is teh GAY!
I hardly know where to begin with this comment from FreeRepublic:
“Hillary never came out of the closet, and I don’t expect Obama to, either. But I can readily believe that he is gay or bisexual.
There were those charges, which were NOT really disproved by the lie detector test. Also, there is his family background—an absent father, brought up mostly by females. That doesn’t make anyone homsexual, but it increases the odds. It’s one reason why AIDS is fairly common among blacks, as Rev. Wright complained. Lots of absent fathers among the welfare population, lots of gays as a result, and lots of gay sex and drug use, with shared needles.”