I realize that while Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Very Long Titles (a.k.a The Old Indiana Jones Chronicles) is now in theaters and it’s all very exciting, what I’m really looking forward to is this.
I’m SO not kidding. HURRY UP AND BE JUNE 3, CALENDAR!
See, this is why I have a hard time fitting in, even with other nerds. Not only will I take a children’s Indiana Jones video game over an actual, all-new Indiana Jones movie, but I’ll take it over other games that have nine-figure sales numbers their first week. Halo 3? Pass. Grand Theft Auto IV? Mild interest, but not really. Digital Legos? Yes, please!
When you’re a nerd, your childhood doesn’t end, it just gets a bigger budget.
Steven Moffat, who already has two Hugos and a BAFTA for his work on Doctor Who, will take over as showrunner starting in season 5. Which has me really looking forward to next season already, since so far his episodes are the best reason to watch the show at all. There’s also a rumor that Neil Gaiman will write one of next year’s episodes…
Rifftrax added a “Rifftrax Presents” line, which simply appears to be “Rifftrax without Mike Nelson.” Two of the offerings cause me cognitive dissonance, though. Consider: back in my fan MiSTing days in college, I swiped bad Star Trek fanfic from Usenet, inserted riffs into it, and reposted it. Just silly fanboy stuff. Since then, Star Trek fanfic increased in sophistication to the point that it produced Star Trek: New Voyages, even featuring some of the original actors. And now Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett are riffing on those. The mind… it boggles.
Aside from some driving misadventures — including a short trip the wrong way down a one-way street — the Seattle trip went pretty smoothly. Kristie’s interview seemed to go well. She’ll hear back about a second interview next week. If she gets it, it’ll be good news… except it’ll be another pricey flight, and I really can’t afford to accompany her again.
Meanwhile, we shopped at Archie McPhee and Sonic Boom, I noshed on Spaten Optimator and goulash, and we explored a bit of Green Lake on an uncharacteristically warm, sunny weekend. Apparently this was Seattle’s first weekend of good weather since, oh, October, so people were outside en masse. I can’t decide whether I’m disappointed at the lack of rain or not, after two years back in Tucson…
The upfront trailer for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse was supposed to be here (and maybe it will be by the time you read this). In the meantime, someone posted a mirror elsewhere, and it’s embeddable:
I’m assuming the standard Joss Funny is present, but excised from the trailer in an attempt to — I suppose — dupe advertisers into thinking it will be the first Whedon show to pull serious Nielsen ratings.
Lately the blog has been filled with stuff I find online that interests me and may interest others, and very little about my own life. Whether this is because I’m an overly private person or because my life is horribly boring, I leave as an exercise to the reader.
However, my life is suddenly less boring this week. Tonight, we drive up to Phoenix for a Jonathan Coulton show. Then on Saturday, we’re taking a surprise trip to Seattle (via Phoenix again, naturally).
Kristie scored an interview with North Seattle Community College for a full-time teaching position. Rather than drop several hundred dollars on last-minute air fare solely for an interview, which strikes me as unfair, I figured we should both go and make a vacation weekend out of it. A vacation that just happens to include a job interview.
I’ve been trying to think of places in Seattle that I’ve missed and want to visit again, and they’re pretty much all in Ballard. Just goes to show how provincial I became when I lived there. On the other hand, you can’t beat German food and beer at the People’s Pub…
It would be kind of hilarious if, after all that’s passed the last couple of years, I ended up right back living in Seattle.
Via the Rifftrax blog: a series of 10-second ads for Wilkins Coffee by Jim Henson circa 1957, featuring ultraviolence performed on puppets, then threatened on viewers if they didn’t damn well start drinking Wilkins.
This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling essentially tells the story of the Iraq War in nine panels. (Eight if you discount the title panel.) It’s brilliant. Also, I’m pretty sure Nate is really Bill O’Reilly with a dye job.
This Twitter page reads like a series of IM dispatches from a Jhonen Vasquez comic. Which makes sense, given it’s written by Jhonen Vasquez. Remember to skip to the last page and read backwards…
As I’ve said before, I’m not the biggest fan of MoveOn.org — not because I disagree with them on a bunch of issues, but because they’re ineffective. Sorry folks, but your online petition won’t end the Iraq War, and running a newspaper ad calling the new US commander “Gen. Betray-us” just sort of annoys everyone, including me.
Still, with 3 million members, they’re the 900 lb. gorilla of the liberal netroots, and when someone attacks them, I tend to take it personally.
So I’m happy to give MoveOn credit where it’s due. They finally created something amusing: The Bush-McCain Challenge. Round one asks you to correctly attribute a stance to either Bush or McCain. The second round does the same thing, but this time pits McCain versus a tasty carrot.
Plus, if I can get five people to follow my link to the quiz, I get a free bumper sticker, so start clicking, you bastards. Daddy needs a piece of cheap sticky plastic!
(It’s worth noting that while Hillary slags MoveOn and party activists in her fundraising appearances, MoveOn has… well, moved on and gone after McCain instead.)
