Further evidence of the decline of human civilization.

Spray. Pancake. Batter.

Oh, NOW what?

WTF is this? I bring up my journal, and all the links are now followed by little preview popups!

WHY does LJ insist on automatically inflicting shit on us without asking first?

Idiots.

I am not convinced this is a good idea.

Someone’s remaking Plan 9 from Outer Space and says he wants to make a serious, scary movie.

OH. MY. GHAWD.

Some of you may recall the MSTing and I wrote of the Batman Forever script, in the opening host segment of which I made reference to the fictional comic book “Moose Man #37″.

Imagine my shock…

You know, it’s a moral imperative to get that now…

EDIT: Not to be outdone, the Swedes offer this… the home site is here, where DivX and MPEG2 versions await. Oy.

A little late, Jo. Again

Link had from my dear : J.K. Rowling says Dumbledore was gay. That’s nice. D’you think you might’ve actually put that somewhere in one of the books, Jo?

This is bothering me more, the more I think about it, actually.

First of all, I’m not a big fan of divining authorial intent by anything more than the marks they made on paper—if they meant to make a particular statement, then a writer should be able to bloody well write it that way. If they can’t, then either they should rethink what they’re trying to say, or start major edits. If they didn’t write what they meant to say, then either they didn’t mean to say it, or they’re not as good a writer as they thought. So what she says now about what she wrote seems pretty meaningless to me. If she wanted Dumbledore to be gay, give us some better clues in text, not after the fact. I mean, she may as well be telling us that McGonagall and Sprout have been having a lesbian affair for the last fifteen years. We lack canonical data to back up the statement.

Second, it’s contextless, which is a problem we’ve had with JKR’s writing from day one that caught up with her in a horrible way in the last two books. Things appear from whole cloth in later books—particularly in HBP and DH—that she did no setup for in the first five books. So Albus had the hots for Grindelwald. I might care if we knew anything about Grindelwald other than a few obscure and negative references before now. Our pre-DH knowledge of Grindelwald is little more than A) he was a big nasty dark wizard during the same time frame as WW2 and B) Albus defeated him. How are we supposed to divine anything more from that?

Third, she had a couple that was damn near canonically gay—Lupin and Sirius—and ran away from it, as far and as fast as possible.

At best, I can say her authorial intent was muddy. At worst, she completely lost her narrative thread and didn’t know how to get it back.

Mainly, I say that if you mean to say it, write it. Don’t backfill after the trees have already chopped down and covered in ink marks.

o/` I can see clearly now… o/`

Curious entities can see me in my new glasses here. What I want to know is, when exactly did I turn into my dad? The resemblance startled me… I mean, I looked at the picture and wondered when the face transplant was performed.

I’m speechless.

Genuinely speechless. Especially after viewing the video. “Stainless steel thighs”… eek!

I hate trends.

So what is it that most glasses nowadays are these little slivers of glass with no coverage looking up or down, and most wristwatches are these huge lumps of glass and metal? I should much prefer a larger lens (and it took me a while to find one, but I did) and a smaller watch.

Frankly my dear, I just sprained a neuron.

I just had a full Technicolor mental image of “Gone with the Wind”, with Rhett and Scarlett played by Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont.

I need to go poke my mind’s eye out now.

“Frankly my dear, that’s the most ridiculous thing I ever hoid!”

A moment of scientific silence, please.

Don Herbert, known to millions as Mr. Wizard, died Tuesday at the age of 89. Before Beakman and Bill Nye, before even Julius Sumner Miller, Mr. Wizard brought science into the home for generations of kids. Rest well, sir.

Perhaps a propos of that, here’s a 3D scanner you can make from LEGO, Tupperware, and milk.