Me, too. That film looks delightfully bizarre.

Count me in, Jsese.

is anyone interested in going to see Pan's Labyrinth sometime? The little bit I know of it totally has me hooked!!!

Beck, that could possibly win the award for narrowest audience for a bumper sticker.

Ok, I don't know if anyone watched My Name is Earl this week, but the story was about the guy Earl and Joy had previously accidentally kidnapped winding up dead when his Murphy Bed slammed him into the wall while he slept.

At one point in the episode, a flashback is shown of the character's internet life, and he's seen typing (and, as TV characters are wont to do, speaking the words he types aloud) "No, I don’t think shows should do more meta jokes that cater to the online bloggers and I’m sure everyone at Television Without Pity Dot Com agrees with me."

The episode aired last Thursday (the 18th). This was one of the posts at the aforementioned site on the 17th:

First, I have to admit that I’ve noticed something weird about myself. I talk out loud when I type. Does anyone else do that?

[Par: This is a quote from another user]
"The one thing I wish MNiE did more was wink to the audience now and again. I think it would be cool if they did more meta jokes like AD used to do. I think I would enjoy Earl and other shows more if they did. Does any one agree with me on this?"


I have to say that I like my TV shows to be pure. When they start winking at the audience and trying to be too cute it really starts to chip away at the reality of the show’s world for me. I like to think that the people in the show don’t know the audience exists. When the writers use cheap and easy gags to amuse a small group of the audience it causes the rest of us to snap back into reality and remind us we’re just watching a show and that upsets me. And I'm sure it bothers other people as well. So, I guess my response to your question would be:

No, I don’t think shows should do more meta jokes that cater to the online bloggers and I’m sure everyone at Television Without Pity Dot Com agrees with me.

I support Empty Paras

...can someone make that into a bumper sticker?

Oh, and I held out as long as I could, but the seedy underworld of the interactive-odular modular cellular phone has sucked me in.

619-5571

I would briefly like to gripe that when you feel jaded, frustrated and ultimately dejected about signing a contract to buy some item or service that is, ultimately, optional, that cannot say anything good about the process of buying that product.

But, hey, it's got a camera.

(Fear not; unless something worse than merely having the phone and its associated contract happens, that will be the last you will read of my whining about this.)

Ok, so I'm reading BoingBoing, and I stumble upon this story about ordering cakes with personalized messages online. According the link that BoingBoing directs you to, "the email likely feeds directly into their computer that runs the food-grade equivalent of an inkjet printer to place the message on the cake".

The story isn't really about the technology, but when things go awry; say when someone orders a cake with some accented Italian characters on it. Then the message printed on the cake goes error-message-nutty.

Why am I explaining all this? Well, let's just say the geboinked cake message contains some strikingly familiar words:

Royal Bank Puts Customers First

Access-for-cash idea faces probe

For those that caught Colbert's interview with O'Reilly this week, the reciprocal interview in the No Spin Zone.

And, for those that didn't, here's O'Reilly in the Colbert Nation.

And for those that don't care, uh, squirrels. (Don't ask me, I have no idea.)

Now, back into my anatomy book. The brachioradialis is connected to the red thing...

Al, I guess we'll have to agree that I don't understand your position in the trickling down hierarchy.

And congrats, Craig and April.