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I’m not certain I like it. I find that, so far, the storytelling feels stilted. It seems to be a retelling of the reptilian mythology, and not a very good one at that (so far). Some of the acting isn’t very good either.

The character played by Morena Baccarin feels very one dimensional, and boring, and I would say the same of some of the other characters as well.

And why would such advanced beings walk into hostile situations unarmed? Even if they are stronger than most humans, it was evident they weren’t that much stronger.

And also, for being so advanced, how is it that they could not figure out that presenting such a one sided report to a reporter won’t work to their favor?

This is in response to the first five minutes of the most recent episode of Fringe.

Guy comes in setting up something romantic for his wife, and I thought, “Oh, how nice! Too bad you’ll be dead in about five minutes.”

The more that I think about this movie, the more I like it.

I think there was an allegory in it about unexpected parenthood, and the dreams and hopes that are often invested into a child.

I’m wondering if anyone else saw that.

I liked the movie. It’s not a kids movie. It’s not that there is anything inappropriate for kids, but I don’t think they’ll enjoy it.

I think it’s a movie about how adults would sometimes like to be a kid, but we adults aren’t kids, and we shouldn’t forget that. We still have lives that we adults have to deal with, and that’s especially important when we’re with them because we can put them in great danger when that’s forgotten.

So, go see the movie, but don’t take the kids.

Just saw Whip It. That was an awesome movie. I actually began to cheer on the star team in it. It was a lot of fun.

Go see it, now!

A very funny comment in response to this article...

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All I can see from this story is the following:

Honest Lawyer = Unemployed Lawyer

I should point out, it’s funny and sad at the same time.

Oh, in unrelated stuff, everyone should see Zombieland, and Pandorum. They’re frackin’ awesome. As a thought, Pandorum is an action movie with horror/sci-fi elements--not a horror movie with sci-fi elements as it was portrayed.

sucks. Yes, she does that literally in the movie too (and no, not like that either), but the movie is also just a terrible movie.

The basic concept is about what would happen if Megan Fox were evil, and a demon. I actually thought it was an intriguing concept.

There’s two things working against that, though:

1. Megan Fox sucks as an actress.


2. Did I mention that Megan Fox is a terrible fucking actress?


3. ???


4. Profit!(?)


5. Wait, why is there no profit?!


6. Oh, yeah, that’s right, Megan Fox can’t act her way out of a bag.

What’s funny, and/or strange, is that afterwards I had to stop by Walgreens, and I passed by a woman that looked just like Megan Fox. I would have found it creepy if Jennifer’s Body wasn’t such a joke of a horror movie.

I didn’t even know it was possible.

Animated!!!!! Legos!!!!

Mitt Romney. I’m not a big fan of the guy, but he helped to push through reform in Massachusetts that’s actually been efficacious in reducing the number of uninsured. The plan is far from original, and takes lots of inspiration from the Swiss system of health care.

Mitt Romney’s ideas on health care reform.

In particular, I like this proposal from him:

Get everyone insured. Help low-income households retain or purchase private insurance with a tax credit, voucher or coinsurance. Use the tens of billions we now give hospitals for free care to instead help people buy and keep their own private insurance.

I do like that Obama is not proposing universal health care. While I find the idea romantic in some ways, I am also keenly aware of many of its faults.

I wish there was better debate on this topic, and I blame the lack thereof squarely on the Republicans. If they were willing to call it like is--a public option--they would probably have some credibility in pointing out its flaws. Using weasel words words like “government take-over” merely distracts.

One thing we’ll need to live with is that any kind of system that’s implemented will have its faults that will grievously harm some people. Of course, that applies to any kind of systematized power, from governments to corporations. Some, though, do less harm than others, and we should constantly be trying to figure that out.

Mr. Travolta, it’s time you came to your senses.

It’s really okay.

Apparently it’s being reported by The Daily Mail (UK) that John Travolta is considering leaving Scientology, but he’s scared. The Daily Mail isn’t exactly the most reputable source out there, but it’s good news if it’s true.

It’s like taking -1 to your HP on every call, but not dying somehow. Those hit points are recovered that night just so you can experience all over again the next day. That’s because you’re a zombie after the first day.

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I found this a number of years ago, and the story still tickles me.

Try presenting a conspiracy theorist with a real conspiracy like the following:

And watch them squirm. They’re like Homunculi. They can’t deal with how fake their conspiracies are when they’re presented with the real thing.

I posted this to AboveTopSecret (a popular conspiracy theory website), and the responses are hilarious:

My 2 cents... It is just an attack on Christianity by representing Christians as wackos. Sort of like the way Bugs Bunny was an attack on White Males by representing Elmer Fudd as a bumbling doofus that could never kill the rabbit.

Calling out wacky Christians is somehow an attack?

With an operating budget of $12 million I do not think world domination is in their immediate future.

That’s not exactly pittance, but their main currency isn’t money; it’s power and influence, and they have it in spades.

I was tempted to buy one of these things, but I was skeptical of their efficacy, so I looked it up, and I’m glad I did.

Black & Decker has some for about $10, but it’s still $10 that would have been wasted.

Firstly, I want to preface that I despise G. W. Bush for bringing us into Iraq. For as evil as a man that Hussein was, it was for the wrong reasons, the wrong time, and, by not listening to his generals, he didn’t even do it correctly.

However, I’m of the philosophy, “we broke it, we fix it,” unless, of course, we’re so incompetent, that we’ll make things worse. Iraq is in shambles because of our idiotic actions.

We shouldn’t stay until we’re “victorious,” whatever the hell that means. It’s such a vacuous notion with regards to the current situation. We should leave when either the region is reasonably peaceful and stable, or when the Iraqi people just don’t want us there any more.

I don’t know if the currently plan to leave was put into place by us, or by the Iraqi government. There’s too many variables to try to figure that out, and, since I won’t speculate on that, I’m not going to be upset at any particular person or entity for the current plan. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if someone was whispering in Obama’s ear during the campaign about the Iraqi government’s possible desire for us to leave, but it may also have been pressure from our side to implement a plan to leave. I certainly hope it was the former (of course, it may also be some mixture of those two possibilities or something else I may have not fathomed.)

I do hope that Iraq is stable and peaceful at the end of it all, though.

This more or less applies to Afghanistan as well, but at least we had some legitimate reasons for going there.

Mr. Obama,

You’ve made it very difficulty for me to dislike you. I usually have a certain distaste for political figures, but not with you. If you keep on doing things like this, you’ll become the first President during my lifetime that I will think is okay.

This isn’t to say that I take exception with many things you’ve done or plan to do. I am, after all, a minarchist (at the Federal level, anyway, and the only thing keeping me from being an anarchist is the realization that there’s still too many idiots out there).

And if you continue to carry forward with some of these promises that are actually in your capacity to keep, I may actually have to say that you did well.

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Transformers 2: yep, it’s a Michael Bay movie, but it was fun! Nice popcorn movie.

Year One: Utter...ly hilarious. Go see it, unless you’re the easily-offended-by-religious-jokes kind of person.

Hangover: I saw this because NPR did a show on this interviewing one of the actors about the movie. Fucking NPR did a show on this movie!!! I thought, “How weird.” It’s not usually my kind of movie, but it was pretty funny, and I could somewhat see why they did a show on this.

PS Sorry about the ad, but it seemed apropos.