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Randomness for 12/22

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1) Five Facebook Status updates by Star Wars characters.

2) It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead! In 1992, when IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was still in the public domain, the director of 976 EVIL 2 used it in a dream sequence, where one of the leading ladies mixes IAWL up with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, with cheesy and hilarious results. via Bill Martell at sex in a sub.

3) Parkour Santa! Warning, kids: Do not try this at home!

4) An amusing story of Christmas “murder.”

5) The Jeff Dunham Show is the Worst Thing in the Entire World.

6) And here’s the runner-up for the second-worst thing: Um, yeah. That’s “I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek”. It’s one of those YouTube videos with the song playing under a static album cover image and, as bad as you think it’s going to be, it’s actually much much worse.

Avatar = Battle for Terra

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As I suspected, Avatar is crazy similar to Battle For Terra, not to mention a few other films.

Skipping it. I’d rather watch BfT again.

Busy today. My son’s birthday party starts as soon as the first kid arrives, and I have to sneak out later to mail off the completed agent-draft of Man Bites World (Yay!).

Randomness for 12/18 (this is a funny one)

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1) iBox 2.0 God, how I laughed at this, and I never even saw the movie.

2) A Christmas webcomic by Chris Sims. Also with the laughing.

3) This would have been better as a single shot, but it’s still pretty cool. via TNH’s Particles.

4) EpicWin wins epically. Also via TNH’s Particles.

5) Batman as written by PG Wodehouse (and more).

AVATAR

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Is anyone else as deeply uninterested in James Cameron’s AVATAR as I am? It’s exactly the sort of thing I should like (space ships, aliens, action scenes) but everything I see leaves me feeling meh.

Guh!

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It turns out that Joshua Jackson has been cast as Captain Foster in the feature film adaptation of the British SF TV show UFO. No word yet on who will be cast as the ultra-fashionable but mean as hell Commander Straker.

And yeah, that sound you hear is me falling over like I’ve been punched in the gut.

Joshua Jackson! In an Interceptor! You know he won’t be stuck with that one stupid missile on the front of his ship. Mr. TV Star is going to have, like, ten!

And he’s going to slide feet-first through an opening in the wall to board his space ship, and I never, ever will. The bastard. I wonder if I can sneak onto the set.

This is beautiful

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So expressive!

Randomness for

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1) Easy newspaper article, type 12: Carefully selected dumb student answers.

2) Author Jackie Kessler breaks down the problems with “Harlequin Horizons”.

3) Photos of a river of hydrogen sulphide in Mexico. via Jay Lake

4) Fish on Europa? via Jay Lake

5) A beautiful animated book trailer that fails to promote the book. Sound, people. If the image is a little out of focus or awkwardly lit, people will muddle through. But if the sound isn’t right, nothing’s right.

6) Smash putt!

7) Twilight: New Moon. “However, last year in the line, I did interviews, where I handed out a list of ten things and asked for which ones happened in the books. Seven or eight out of ten got circled. Then I pointed out that the list was ten warning signs that your partner is becoming abusive or controlling, and asked what they thought of Edward’s behavior in this new light.

Responses included, “I wish a guy loved me enough to treat me that way,” and, “But Bella needed it.”

This year I was behind a group of girls who briefly discussed Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. Each one pointed out that the other person’s champion was possessive and controlling/bossy. “Well, but she let him,” was the final word, on each side.”

Bonus 8)! Team Lipbite!

Thank you.

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A friend is working up a ghost/haunted house movie, and I’m going to collate everyone’s suggestions into a research list for him.

And WordPress is being a little over-zealous at labeling comments spam. Sorry for the delay. I’ll approve them as quickly as I can.

To shift gears.

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Actually, let me pause a moment before I shift gears. My anniversary was nice. My wife loved the flowers I brought her and I loved the dinner she prepared (little steaks with sauteed mushrooms, noodles, and bleu cheese salad).

I also went to bed early (actually, I was *sent* to bed) and got a decent night sleep.

*Now* I’ll shift gears:

What are your three favorite movies about ghosts? Or just list three that you really love. Or one. Ghost movies, please.

Via Sherwood Smith

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THE MATRIX if it had been made during the silent film era.

Ah, pies. Sweet wonderful pies.