Inside of a Dog, It's Too Dark to Read

Steampunk cakeworks - (photographs and commentary) Somebody tell Kaja, if she hasn't seen already?

"Buffy vs. Edward" - A remix video of what would happen if the Slayer met the Sparkly Vampire from Twilight. (The socio notes in the summary make it twice as sweet.)

Playing along with in_the_blue:

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb, and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. No Googling/using IMDb search functions.

1. Mmm-hmm. Sold my property to pay property taxes. The Wizard of Speed and Time Allah Sulu, Ghod of Media


2. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at. Roxanne Allah Sulu, Ghod of Media


3. He was patronizing you, and you stomped on him! And in my opinion, he deserved it! The Hunt for Red October Chan Lemur


4. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. G.I. Jane SuperSelene


5. How can we charge our sort of prices with everybody happily killing each other for a shilling a day?


6. Boring conversation, anyway. Star Wars IV: A New Hope Ashavah


7. Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. Serenity Ashavah


8. I will get it. And if the MTD is denied I'll file a motion in limine seeking an evidentary ruling in advance and then I'm going to file against pretrial confinement and you're going to spend the next three months going blind on paperwork because a Signalman Second Class bought and smoked a dime bag of oregano. A Few Good Men Yendi


9. Tears of joy, maybe. I hate job hunting. Iron Man Allah Sulu, Ghod of Media


10. You wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts! Batman cScottD

Extra corgi points if you can spot the one thing 90% of these quotes have in common. (Mnenyver is disqualified 'cause I told her already.)

All right, my flist can stick the Kick Me sign on my back, because I didn't know about this. And you surely did. So anyway:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/watchmen_trailer_to_comic_comparison/

It's... perfect?

Watchmen

I had watched the video for 'Tais Toi Mon Cœur' following a link in somebody else's blog, but lost the link. Finally, my Google-fu hit on the right search terms to find it again - this is a good copy. There's a clear acknowledgement to and inspiration by Tim Burton/Harry Selick's animated films, although this is apparently all CGI instead of traditional stop-motion.

Here's a blog post with a translation of the lyrics; Wikipedia has a very interesting entry on the album where this song first appeared; and here's the original French from a random website:

( Tais Toi Mon Cœur )

( ...and on to the list! )

Peter Clines has had a lifelong love affair with the movies. He grew up in New England, where he studied English literature and education, and now lives and writes somewhere in Southern California. If anyone knows exactly where, he would appreciate a few hints.

I stayed home from work tonight because O Joy Unbounded, I woke up vertiginous. It seems to've faded after a nap (after all the dog-wrangling in the disgusting heat here) so no worries, but I was pretty sure it wasn't going to go away in time for me to drive safely/comfortably to work, and being at work wouldn't have mitigated anything either. So here I am with a couple of questions and some interesting links:

• Anybody out there a member of Netflix?
• Anybody out there a fan of The Wild Wild West, with a good memory of the details of the show?
• Anybody out there conversant with the mechanics of semi hitches?

Stuff I picked up by way of lyellian:






Randomly acquired:

Good news: No poo in the living room when I came home!
Bad news: Somebody ate a video tape of now unknown content... ate it with extreme prejudice.
Good news: It wasn't my Wild Wild West DVDs.

Good news: Crystal Vision is still available for purchase! Details here.

Good news: I still have Joost invitations! Lots of them!
Bad news: The Warner package of programming still isn't loaded.
Good news: It's still free, though!

Good news: I got a whole carful of aluminum cans to the recycler!
Bad news: They were fluffy, not squished, so only added up to 47 pounds... which equalled only half a tank of petrol and a breakfast greasebomb at Burger King (with some change).
Good news: But I can get to the garage door now!

Pushy opinion: Becoming a Curves franchise owner or purchasing Domino's Pizza in general indirectly contributes to contra-personal-freedom organisations, by providing towards the large salaries of major apparently-misogynist contributors. However, a Curves membership does have certain feminist virtue, depending on the franchisee. Yup, it's a dilemma. Yes, G, it's their money and they can do what they want with it. However, they don't have to get any of it from me.

Good news: I got my first Princess Tutu DVD from Netflix so I can participate at tendom!
Bad news: My CD/DVD drive has decided it's tired of video and only wants to be a CD drive.
OK news: Thanks to subtitles, I can watch it at work if it's not busy/after I log off
Not-so-OK news: This involves staying at work.

Bad news: There were dog fights.
Good news: Nobody requires stitches or even attempts at bandaging. Hopefully it'll stay that way [slaps on more antibiotic salve].
Straight fact: Testosterone is toxic.

Good news: My Golden Compass dæmon seems to have settled into a full-on wolf, after seeming a mouse, grey fox, lion and a brief stint as a raven.

Good news: Free food at work! We were given a picnic by upper management.
Bad news: But I haven't fed the dogs yet.
Good news: However, they're not complaining yet and I have... 90 75 minutes. Sorta. And to get dressed.

Bad news: My left knee's still acting funny.
OK news: It's pretty much only when it gets near being locked straight, so as long as I try to keep it at least a little flexed, it doesn't make me yelp.

http://caribjournal.com/2007/05/08/joost-warner-bros-deal-to-include-babylon-5-aquaman

Warner Bros’s both WBTV channels will launch on Joost this month. WBTV: SCI-FI FIX will feature popular shows like “Adventures of Briscoe County,” “Aquaman,” “Babylon 5,” “Crusade,” “Human Target,” “Invasion,” “Max Headroom,” “My Favorite Martian,” “Prey,” “Time Trax” and “V.”

It's not cable, it's on-line! And currently free.

ETA:

Random Good Stuff, the Entertainment Blog is offering Joost invites in exchange for links. It's like how Gmail and GDocs and even LJ used to work. I'll have to prowl the blog itself a little later.

No, I haven't got to watch the new Heroes yet... no, not either one. I even pretty much forgot it started back up last week.

No, I can't do it right now, I'm late to bed.

*anxious noises* [/flails wildly]

I'm likely to be AFK until Friday (Thursday at the very least), so I have to ask you a favour.

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But first, to wrap up Women's History Month in a bunchy clump, here's the last six profiles:

March 27: Ada Blackjack

March 28: Anna Garlin Spencer

March 29: Emma Brunskill

If you Google for Emma Brunskill's latest work, you'll see she's been involved in ambulatory robot studies. Very technical page, though.

March 30: Laurie Anderson

On September 16, 2005, Laurie’s exhibition The Waters Reglitterized opened at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City. According to the press release by Sean Kelly, The Waters Reglitterized is a diary of dreams and their literal recreation as works of art. This work, created in the process of re-experiencing or re-working her dreams while awake, uses the language of dreams to investigate the dream itself. The resulting pieces include drawings, prints and high definition video. The installation ran until October 22, 2005. In 2006, she contributed a song to Plague Songs, a collection of songs related to the 10 Biblical plagues.

Laurie Anderson narrated Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: The Documentary Film, which was first televised in September 2006 as part of the PBS American Masters series. Anderson also performed in Came So Far For Beauty, the Leonard Cohen tribute event held in The Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on October 4 and 5, 2006.

Recently, through her web site, Laurie announced a re-release of her first album, Big Science, on Nonesuch Records, a DVD box set containing her short films and the concert movie Home of the Brave, a book of drawings titled Night Life, and a new album to be released in 2008, Homeland.^Wikipedia

	March 31: Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Virginia 'Ginny' Heinlein

Here's the 'favour' part. I'm not going to have much access, if at all, because Myfanwy is ever-so-delightfully dragging me away from my various burdens (and puppies) for a day or two to visit lovely Gaithersburg, north of Washington, D.C. We'll drive back and visit the Poodle Breeder Previously Blogged About, too.

However, this means I won't be able to do my webcomics voting — especially since the turnover is on Sunday, when I'll be back, but Myfi with or without boychild, might still be visiting here.

Can you please take a few minutes (5, 10 if your pages load slowly), and indulge your buried urge to just click like crazy? (c.f. 'Oooo, ticky-box!') Especially on April 1 (no joke)? Top Web Comics and WebbedComics turn over at midnight Pacific (GMT-7, currently); BuzzComix is every 24 hours, from whenever you vote.