scientology and telepathy...

Oh, Katie. What have they done to you?

Sad, F'd up news. But all from Tom's mouth, right? Sweet photo caption, tho. I don't see any denial of the actual *purchase* of the "adult pacifier?!" Just that it's not gonna be used in childbirth...

Okay, maybe I don't want to know any more about that...

If only Tom didn't make movies I actually like...

Or, rather, if only he'd just... y'know... not be feckin CRAYzay...

Frack. More press on him and Katie is gonna bring the "stress testers" out in strength this summer. They set up downtown in Boston by the Common and over by the Pru, sucker you in with a free "stress test." You say "yes" to enough questions, you'll end up back on Beacon street at their church filling out a personality survey and watching promotional videos for dianetics...

I wonder if Phillip Seymour is gonna hafta go mano-a-mano w TC in MI3. I mean, he's an incredible actor, but unless he's outfitted w a harness that converts thespian energy into martial arts skills, I don't know that I'm gonna be able to buy that. He'll hafta be more the mastermind type, right?

So perhaps it'll be Phillips Seymour's henchman, Simon Pegg, who takes on the Mad Scientologist...? We know he's got the skillz...


I haven't been following any behind-the-scenes-ness of MI3 in production or ramping up to release, but I've read that Simon Pegg is in it (don't know who/what he's playing). Hrmm... I guess I can see him as one of the MI team specialists more than a baddie. Still, would be grand to see him take on Cruise. He's one damn talented and versatile nerd.

Thanks to Joe for the Cruise news, and designfemme and Bruno for the video links. Keep your eyes open, or sign up for an alert at Amazon, for the next DVD release of SPACED, the Brit series created by and featuring Simon SHAUN OF THE DEAD Pegg, and many of the DEAD troupe. It's SPACED that features this demonstration of the "biological connection between male psyches," which ultimately leads to this beautiful massacre.

=)

Good crack.

Sometime while skippin about the internetz last week, I noticed for the first time that J.J. Abrams (of FELICITY, ALIAS, and LOST fame) is in on the creative end of MI3? Wack. Maybe having Pegg take Cruise out with virtual weapons conjured up by male telepathy isn't so far-fetched...? =)

Keep on keepin on~

and on the third day...

So, for two days, was he, like... FAKING it?

A Happy Easter out to all my marshmallow peeps! Hooray for transubstantiation!


Keep on keepin on~

Thank you, Easter Bunny...

I've been meaning to, really wanting to, pass a fresh blog, but it's just not a-comin...

I'm making an effort to add roughage to the diet and all, but still... nada.

I'm oversharing, pardon.

In the meantime, I shall cheat a bit and distract you with some brilliant holiday funnin =)


Thanks to Jim for passing this joy along!

Keep on keepin on~

Silent Bob of the Lambs...

CLERKS 2!


Keep on keepin on~

appleXP...?

Run Windows (if you have to) on the new Macs!

Not one of the many boot hacks which appleHeads have been creating on their own since the CoreDuo Macs were announced and released into the wild, but a real and true Apple-blessed product.

WAck!

Apple's Boot Camp is supposed to come with a very comprehensive load of Windows compatible drivers for Apple's hardware. Can you imagine turning a Mac Mini into your gaming machine? How frickin sleek and cool is that?

The one thing it doesn't have is a magic wand to turn Apple's one-button mousepad into a two (or more) button one. O well~

Gotta fess up - I've been lovin my new MacBook Pro for three weeks now. Not doing anything all that challenging, creative, or spectacular with it... mostly taking it to and from the office to get work done, nevertheless, just loving HAVING it. =)

It was delivered to Rowan's office (couldn't be sure it would be safely handled if delivered to our building while we weren't home) four weeks ago. I told him to keep it at his office for a week, lest it totally distract me from a crunch week of work at the office. I was ready to tell him to hold it hostage another week when my friend Jessie berated me for such foolishness.

So, three Mondays ago, I quietly booted up the new book for the first time. Sweet. I couldn't successfully auto-transfer all my media (pics, movies, and music) and settings from my old Titanium during set-up (the new Mac didn't recognize the old as having a compatible OSX installed - I did only have up to 10.2.x on it, foo), but since have managed to move them "manually" just fine. The new iPhoto and iTunes found and assimilated my old directories without a problem, and boy howdy am I pleased with how zippy iPhoto is with my many thousands of photos!

I have no games to play. I have no 3d modelling or animation software that will run on this yet. Alas, I have no windowsXP to run using the Boot Camp I don't have to play all the PC first-person-shooters I haven't bought...

Yet.

=)

Still, I'm very happy to have a kickass mac on my side again. My old Titanium hasn't been mothballed yet, as I'm in the process of sifting thru and transferring files piecemeal when I set aside the time. Jeff suggested that I hunt down an identical Titanium on eBay to buy for a replacement case. All the internal components seem to function properly in mine, but imperfections in the damaged case lead to some kind of connection and/or contact failures between them.

I'm trying to keep spending down for a while, in light of the recent trunks of quatloos I dropped on the new Mac, some Serious repairs on my Saturn, and the imminent home purchase, so it may be a while before I find a suitable donor...

When I feel like I can spend a bit on it again, I'm definitely gonna take steps to get the Titanium back into stable travelling form. That little droid and I have been through a lot together.

Thanks to Joe and Jeff for all the Apple sauce.

Keep on keepin on~

daylight (Cambridge) savings & DEGRASSI...

And I thought setting my clock-radio ahead was a pain in the bum...!



Heh, truth be told, I still haven't daylight saved the clock in my room or in my car.

Do farmers really still need this hour adjustment in this day and age? Or rather, do the big agro robots require having their internal chronometers tampered with like this?

What were you doing when you jumped forward in time this year?

Me, I lost my hour somewhen in a marathon of DEGRASSI JUNIOR HIGH episodes late Saturday night. Paris Jen and I finished off the final disk of season 3, with central plots following Wheels's quest for his biological dad, trippin on acid (it's bad for you), and the pairing up of most of the kids of Degrassi Street for the graduation dance.

This was one of the dvd boxed sets I plucked from the gnarled hands of the still-warm corpse of Suncoast Video at the CambridgeSide Galleria. I'm so glad I gave in to the sale price impulse buy! DEGRASSI really is such amazing mealy-mouthed, awkward stage, eighth grade melodrama goodness! If you were or are a fan of any of the Fox or WB teenybopper dramas, or the N's primetime line-up (which I have yet to experience in more than random one episode bites), or even the old Tnbc line-up, I highly recommend you go back and soak in some original, old-school, DEGRASSI action. Those modern shows, whether they know it or not, are all bastard children of Kit Hood and the Playing With Time workshop, the troupe who created DEGRASSI.

I think the only shows I've ever experienced that could be true and worthy heirs to DEGRASSI's goodness are MY SO-CALLED LIFE and FREAKS AND GEEKS. Of course, being too good for this American television world, both were taken from us too soon, smothered in their primetime network cribs.

How are you gonna keep me distracted from the crap you're trying to pull if you don't give me my drugs?

Oh... You're already pulling it. Guess the drugs did their job.

*sigh*

Keep on keepin on~