It’s Friday, but it’s too early yet to tell if that’s a good thing. Let’s start the day off with a couple of movie reviews because…well, because this is my weblog and I can do with it what I like. And I was amused when I read these and want to share. Of the new Jet Li movie, “The One”, Roger Ebert writes:
Apparently every time one of your other selves dies, his power is distributed among the survivors. If Yulaw kills 123 selves, he has the power of 124. Follow this logic far enough, and retirement homes would be filled with elderly geezers who have outlived their others and now have the strength of 124, meaning they can bend canes with their bare hands and produce mighty bowel movements with scornful ease.
Of the new Pixar animated film “Monsters, Inc.:
Sully looks like a cross between a gorilla and a bear. His best pal, Mike Wazowski (voice by Billy Crystal), is a green eyeball with arms and legs. Sully is brave and dedicated. Wazowski is phobic, frightened, and malingering. Together, they cover the spectrum of work traits. The sexy Celia (voice by Jennifer Tilly) has a crush on Wazowski. What she sees in him is beyond me, although if there is anyone who can figure out how to have sex with a green eyeball, that would be Jennifer Tilly. I can imagine her brassy voice: ”Blink! Blink!”
And now, other things:
- I know nothing–nothing–about programming, but I like to think I know a little something about Shakespeare. Apparently, someone done combined the two.
- “The European Rabbit Flea may be an obscure beast, but it does have one claim to fame: The male is widely regarded as having the most complicated genitals in the world.” Read all about it. Bug dicks, found via Metafilter
- And here’s the Ftrain.com article that helped turn around my lousy Wednesday. As I said in my e-mail to its author, Paul Ford, I don’t know if that’s because I recognize some of myself in what he wrote or just because I’m glad I don’t have rats scratching underneath my sink. Maybe a little of both. I enjoyed reading it, and, although it was by then almost over, the day didn’t seem to suck as much once I had finished.