Mother Angelica as a Pirate

Another Mystery Solved

On the way back from Iron Man 2 tonight, I heard Jim Svejda (SHFAY-dah) play a familiar sounding piece, from an old recording.

It took me about 15 seconds to figure out where I knew it from. Let's see if anyone who reads this blog (*cough* Tom Adams *cough*) can recognize it.

The piece was (aptly) named "Oh Good Ale", by Peter Warlock. You can here it hear (Amazon).

Recognize it?

Ok, here's a hint.

Very aptly named.

Welcome to Alexandria 17

To encourage love of the environment, all civilian recycling will be tracked via monitoring chips. The city administrator believes citizens will find these tracking chips even less invasive than the rectal implants tested on the population last year.

Alexandria's benevolent administrator addresses its peaceful citizens.

We hope you enjoy your stay in the People's Republic of Alexandria 17. Should you have any issues, the friendly Overwatch officers will assist you without mercy or hesitation.

A friendly Alexandria policeman officers his assistance.

Next week, we will discuss the numerous benefits of Alexandria 17's suppression field.

Sinking to even greater depths

Not only shall I produce no content, not only am I embedding other peoples videos, videos that are already viral, I go the extra mile and embed videos of songs no one in their right mind would want to hear. What do I contribute? Nothing except grouping related items. Enjoy. ... or rather despair.

Can someone clarify something for me?

Is that Joe Bereta in this KFC ad?

The Power of the Feminine

So babby's aunt/godmother is staying with us this weekend, which provided the Murloc and meself with free babbysitting. We took the opportunity to go out to the movies (the first time since we saw Half-Blood Prince!) and went to see the non-Imax, non-3D Alice in Wonderland.

The movie was entertaining and visually splendid, but suffered from the same thing every Tim Burton movie I've ever seen; that is, it's formulaic and the characters didn't engage me. With the possibility of Victor Van Dort, I can't think of a single Tim Burton character that I cared for enough that I would have been emotionally moved by the character's death. I think part of it stems from an unclear character dramatic need and motivation. (So what's Alice's dramatic goal, upon reaching Wonderland? How does Charlie's deep-seated want influence his actions once he's in the chocolate factory?) Also, within ten minutes of the start of Alice, I predicted how it was going to end and even what her final speech was going to be, with a great degree of accuracy (and I'm talking more than just general "the good guys win" prediction).

About the time Alice donned the silver armor and rode into battle with the Vorpal sword to slay the Jabberwocky (that's really not that big of a spoiler; see: predictability), I realized why my co-worker liked the movie so much, and why she urged me to see it, to the point of offering to babysit. Alice is definitely the strong female character, but as I watched, I began to wonder whether she was in fact a strong female character, or a strong character, who just happened to be female. When I thought about it, I realized that she didn't have a single pronounced feminine trait, and had the movie been Bob in Wonderland, it would not have been significantly different or fundamentally changed.

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Hanging wi' ma Dogg

Sweet! I'm going to San Francisco and San Diego with Snoop Dogg!

**Begin hilarity**

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Seriously, though, WTF?