July 2007 Archives
The Digital Bits: BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
"Ultimate Collector's Edition, in Unique Limited 'Deckard Briefcase,'"
Screw our family's rule to not buy anything for yourself come fall, I'm pre-ordering this baby the first chance I get!
I'll start this post with the answer to the question that you will be thinking when you're through reading it. Yes, I happen to like Old Spice. Nuts to you.
I've been trying all of Old Spice's deodorants and aftershaves recently, and one of their deodorant scents is called "Pacific Surge". Why don't they have "Atlantic Surge"?
Is it because of the sport culture that's built up around places on the Pacific like California, Australia and Hawaii? That must be it, the old world image of the Atlantic being a dark foreboding no man's land that if you risk crossing it into the unknown will mean a certain gruesome demise must still stick. I know if I ran a scent company, I wouldn't want a product associated with the place where the Titanic sunk.
loonyblog - I really shouldn't have read that.
"Here's something I probably shouldn't have read... an article on Popular Mechanics about how your choice of seat on an airplane determines the survival rate in a crash."
I'm flying out to Montreal and coming back from Toronto in a few weeks, this is comforting.
American Greetings' Optimus Prime Christmas ornament.
"The best Christmas present you ever received - a sleek, new-in-the-box Optimus Prime that made you the coolest kid in school (for a week). Bring that feeling back to Christmas this year, every time you look at this ornament."
Mingle2 - Online Dating
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent.
"We have received your accident-claim reports for the month of June—they total 27. I regret to inform you that GEICO will not be able to reimburse you for any of those repairs. I feel that I have sent the same letter to you once a month for the last six months, and I am now sending it again."
We'll miss you, Janey.
CBC News: FDA approves patch to treat dementia
"The first patch to treat the dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease was approved Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration."
The That Which Must Not Be Named Program is DEAD!!!
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
All that's left to do is pull the plug! *YOINK!*
Wait a second, there's *four* new government programs that replace it? And we're now essentially back to how things were before That Which Must Not Be Named was started four years ago?
To put this development into horror movie terminology, we were dealing with Frankenstein's monsters but their parts have been split up into four times as many zombies.
The euphoria I'm feeling right now is mixing with the soul-smashing dread that my potential workload has quadrupled.
Movie: Transformers
Theatre: Famous Players Paramount Chinook
Food Snuck In: Milk Chocolate M&Ms
Wow. Words cannot describe just how awesome that movie was. Nothing like turning off your brain for two hours and watching giant robots slug it out.
One thing that surprised me was how funny the movie was and how the human characters drew you into the plot. There were more than one time when I laughed out loud, mostly with Bumblebee trying to play matchmaker and with him choosing a rather gross way of showing what he thinks of an abusive, self-righteous government agent. The filmmakers decided to embrace the whole absurdity of alien robots disguised as vehicles bringing their war to Earth, and it shows. I had a blast the whole time.
Optimus Prime was my hero when I was kid in the 80s, and he and this movie delivered. This one's definitely on the DVD wishlist.
Movie: Ratatouille
Theatre: Cineplex Odeon Sunridge Spectrum
Food Snuck In: none
Pixar has done it again with another incredible film. The story, the characters, the animation, they have it all down to a computer science by now.
One thing that I really liked, and this was discussed in the movie's podcast, that they really worked at making the food look real. Because this is a movie about food, and if the food looked like it was made by a computer, it would kill the movie's vibe right there.
Everybody's felt at some time that they're being held down by circumstances that are out of their control, but Ratatouille says that no matter what you can rise above it all.
This one is a must-see. The DVD will be high on my wishlist.
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