Hello, Dr. Chevalier

Who's my new favorite (fictitious) author?

This guy.



BTW - I have a new pet peeve. It seems recently that the word "fictional" has come into vogue (as in I don't remember seeing it too often prior to the last 6 months or year) to describe a person place or thing that someone has made up. I.E. "If you read it on the internet, it's probably fictional." The problem is, even though I looked it up and it is a real word, it sounds effing stupid and I hate it. Can we all go back to using the word "fictitious," please?

This Is Close Enough...

To Seattle to still count. Effing morons. Fine stores for property that's been stolen from them? Just another example of the kind of pompous NIMBY bullshit I moved away from - although it's certainly found up here in the great white north as well, isn't it?

Seattle's getting it's own label...

Do You See, Seattle?

This is why you can't have nice things. And I swear that every third person in that part of the country is just like that idiot. It's one of the reasons I live in Northern NY now, which also isn't ideal, but at least most people keep their clap-traps shut and wouldn't be caught dead wearing Birkenstocks AND wool socks.

On an unrelated note, I saw most of the new Transformers movie over the weekend, and only about half of what you've heard is true. There are definite continuity problems. Devastator does have testicles. Many of the robots do spit/vomit frequently for no good reason (is it supposed to be menacing, perhaps?). Megan fox does look like, have the acting ability of, and even a good name for, someone who should be appearing in adult movies. And yet...It did prominently feature robots beating the hell out of each other and numerous giant explosions, so it earns a solid "F%$* YEAH!" out of ten, on a one-to-ten scale

Really? That Must Have Been Hard To Do.

And by "hard to do" I mean "eff up a simple premise like a GI Joe movie." When I first heard that this had been greenlit, I thought that as long as Snake Eye's costume was true to the cartoon/comic/action figure I'd be stoked to see it. But those silly looking "accelerator suits" (and more importantly the lame CGI monkey movements they make with 'em) really wrecks even that for me. Boo.



Prob'ly I'll go see it anyway.

What?

You mean the esteemed Drs. Carrey and McCarthy are wrong? No...

Talkin' Out Of His Ass, Again.

There's so much wrong with this. I won't go into my opinions (I'm a science-type-person, you can probably guess what they would be). But if any of the two or three people who ever read this sumbitchin' blog of mine want to discuss, leave comments.

You've All Seen This By Now

But it gives me no small amount of enjoyment, so here ya go.

Yup.

This pretty much sums up exactly how I felt about Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (although I actually didn't mind the nucular assplosion part so much, it was that ALIENS! part of the plot that didn't sit well with me).



I dunno. It had some of the familiar Indiana Jones tropes in there, and I guess it was entertaining enough. But the whole thing just seemed kind of soulless. Like decaffeinated coffee. Or non-alcoholic beer. Or Madonna.

Eff You, Meth-Heads

I've got a head-cold/sinus infection right now that feels like someone filled my sinus cavities up with Elmer's glue and it's slowly setting up, making some pressure, destroying my manly speaking voice, and causing me to wake up several times over the course of the night so that I can swish water around in my mouth and hope that my tongue hasn't really dried out and fallen off. Remember the good old days when you could walk into a pharmacy and pick up some Nyquil or those little red pills, both of which were chalk-full of pseudoephedrine, and because of that they actually freaking worked? Not so anymore. Now the only thing Nyquil has going for it is that nice slow burn on the way down that does temporarily relieve the suffering but doesn't do the stuff that it used to. All thanks to the toothless wonders in search of a cheap and (apparently) shitty buzz. Great. I wish I could go sit in a hotspring like these guys.
Here's some Buckethead.