( Spoilery Lost Squeeing )

On another topic entirely, I'm seeing Watchmen tonight at midnight. Possibly as an "IMAX Experience" Yayness!

For anyone else who was starting to get psyched that the release of the Sims 3 was mere weeks away, never mind. The release date has been pushed back to June. June! Is it because there's some major issue with the game, maybe it has bugs that crash your computer and then make it burst into flames? According to their press release it's mostly so they'll have more time to advertise and hype it up. WTF.

That's not what enraged me though. Here's the thing: they already came out with specs and hardware requirements, all which said the game was PC only. I spent weeks researching if the game would be PC and Mac compatible, the way Spore is. (There's no way I was going to go with their separate Mac versions that Aspyr makes.) They never even hinted that it might be Mac compatible; so I finally broke down, got Leopard, made a partition on my Mac with Boot Camp, sullied my beautiful iMac by installing Windows on it, and NOW, two weeks before the game was supposed to come out, they bother to show us what the packaging will look like. And what is that in the upper left corner? Why, it's a little symbol letting me know the game is PC and Mac compatible. Thanks for the early head's up, EA. I let my pristine iMac get raped by Windows for nothing.

Ugh, I feel like I could go on a Christian Bale length rant, but I'll stop myself now. If it weren't for the fact that I know when it eventually does come out, I'll be playing it non-stop and singing the praises of Sims 3, I'd say me and the Sims were done professionally.

Oh, hello.

I didn't mean to fall off the face of the earth, I swear! But first one thing happens, then another, and I feel like the first thing deserves a lengthy post, then a third thing happens, and now I'm behind on posting and all these post-worthy things are piling up. And then I thought I'd have time to catch up over winter break; but then winter break became "winter constantly-work-on-stuff" and now I'm starting the new semester. So I felt like if I didn't post now, I'd just get even more behind. But instead of giving everything in the past few months their own posts like they deserve, I'm going with bullet points; otherwise I'll never actually get around to posting:

-In September (or October? I think it was September) I went to an Obama rally and it was great, exciting, yadda yadda yadda. It was also outside and rainy and extremely wet (and crowded. I never did manage to spot em_meredith.) Even though I protected my trusty little Kodak camera to the best of my ability, it ended up water damaged and useless. But that turned out to be a good thing because it forced me to...

-Get a Nikon D80! I only had to spend about a month obsessively watching every camera on eBay, but I finally got a reasonably priced, slightly used, totally awesome D80. Now that I'm starting to get used to its awesome power, I want to do that meme. So request in comments a picture you'd like to see. It can be anything. I'll take a photo of it and post!.

-I've been watching Lost on G4TV since September. Oh, Lost. This is the first time I've watched any of the episodes since they first aired. I've become completely hooked on watching it every day; I don't know what I'm going to do when they catch up to this upcoming season. A few things I've noticed on this daily re-watch: 1) Kate is unbearably obnoxious. Every. Single. Outing. she has to come too! Don't you dare tell her she can't come! Jack could be holding a testicular cancer screening in the middle of the jungle and she'd still demand to tag along. And when she's not doing that, she's getting up in every woman on the island's business. Sun or Claire can't sneeze without Kate getting in their face, demanding to know what made them sneeze, and then running to tell Jack every last detail. 2) Sawyer is ridiculously hot. 3) Jack is pretty obnoxious and up in everyone's business too. I didn't get all the Jack hate on TWoP before, but now I completely understand. 4) It's easier to tolerate Ana Lucia once you know she'll be gone soon. 5) OMG have I mentioned Sawyer and his hotness?! I also appreciate a man who never wastes an opportunity to make a Star Wars reference.

-Once school started, I had to finish my Harry Potter re-read by listening to the audiobooks during my commute. This was the best idea ever. I actually started to look forward to traffic jams, they just meant more time to find out what Harry was up to! Also, 45 minutes of Stephen Fry reading is very relaxing after a long day. Speaking of which:

-Stephen Fry is my Twitter friend! Between these two things, I'm almost on Fry overload; it's awesome.

-I finished my cross-stitch! After a year and a half! (Photos here and here.) I haven't had a chance to start the second picture in the series because since then I've either been knitting my own project, knitting Christmas presents, or been bogged down with knitting requests from family and friends. Stupid lovable knitting.

-New Year's Eve was low key. Extremely low key. But exciting if you're me. I spent it installing Leopard on my Mac, and then using Boot Camp to install Windows XP. Which can only mean one thing: I can play the Sims again! I played Sims 2 for the first time in over a year! Huzzah! And now I'm all set for Sims 3! (Yes, I considered how ridiculous it was to ask for Leopard and a copy of Windows XP to be my big Christmas presents, to put my little iMac through so much, just to play one measly game. I seriously thought about just giving it up since it's the only game I play. But OMG SIMS 3, I want you so bad.)

-I CAN HAS INTERNSHIP! Just last week I got an unpaid job to be a magazine's graphic design intern. It's unpaid (as mentioned), and there's a hellacious commute all the way to DC, but I'm psyched about having a job where I a) can wear whatever I want. b) I can wear nail polish. c) I don't have to wear an ugly polo shirt or cap that gives me hat hair. d) I'll be sitting down the majority of the time. e) At a desk! f) Working on a computer! g) Did I mention that I won't be standing or running around for hours on end!

-I've been trying to make a new messenger bag for myself (the ole Tink bag is finally starting to die.) that has all sorts of cool accessories like an attachable camera bag and a detachable flap that turns into a clutch. But I'm suffering from a lack of time and some trepidation about my color choices. The main body would be this seafoam/teal-like color. I don't know what compelled me to buy this fabric.

-I just discovered Google Street View. WHY DID NO ONE MENTION THIS EXISTED?! Seeing my house on Google is just bizarre.

So... yeah. That's what's been going on with me. How are y'all?

Not quite dead, just sick and full of phlegm. The fact that my stomach's 90% Reeses and Snickers probably doesn't help either. Can't wait for tomorrow to be over. That said, I did manage to muster up enough politics!enthusiasm on Friday to make a totally awesome jack-o-lantern:


The jack-o-lanterns were big hits this year. Some years, like last year when we did Dwight Shrute, no one cares or says anything. This year, everyone oohed and awwed, took photos, the whole shebang. And really, what's the point of making fancypants jack-o-lanterns if not to get lots of attention and compliments?
The Batman stencil came from Zombie Pumpkins. For Obama I looked and looked, checked Yes We Carve a few times and never found an Obama stencil that looked like Obama. So that one's all me and Photoshop.

Watched the Emmys last night - well, okay, fastforwarded through most of them and only actually watched when I saw someone I liked.
( I still have lots of opinions about it. )

Unrelated to anything freak story: So we saw Burn After Reading (which was, eh, okay.) last week, opening weekend. The movie theater was showing it in one of their smaller theaters, so everyone was packed in, tight enough that I had some woman sitting right next to me. She came in late, brandishing a huge bag that clearly said "Ruby Tuesday's" on it. I didn't look directly at the bag at first, figured she had just come from shopping or something. I didn't really look over until she pulled out from the bag an entire meal on a plastic plate. She then proceeded to spend the first twenty minutes of the movie eating her three-course dinner from Ruby Tuesday's with a knife and fork while I gaped in shock and confoundment. It reminded me a bit of Kevin Murhpy's story about smuggling an entire Thanksgiving dinner into a theater, except that he actually had to smuggle it in, using stealth and covert methods. This woman walked right into a movie theater carrying a giant bag with the name of a restaurant written on it in giant letters. HOW did she even make it past the ticket window? Did she bribe the ticket tearer with dinner rolls?

First the bad news: Flight of the Conchords's second season will be its last. Le sigh. I knew that would probably be the case, and it makes sense. Honestly, I was surprised when they said there'd even be a second season; I want to give the boys hugs and sexay times for just doing that much. Still, it's sad to see it announced and official like that.
(Maybe there can be a non-musical spinoff? Murray's Wild Band Managing? Gingerballs and Greg ? Murray Hewitt: Present? I think I'll miss Murray the most is what I'm saying.)

Then the completely unrelated good thing: ( I'm over three-fourths of the way done with my Mucha cross-stitch )

Well, I've survived my first week of classes. Which I think is a bit of an accomplishment since this is the first semester where I have to drive to the campus that's 45 minutes away (IF there's no traffic, and that's a monumentally large if.) four days in a row.

Despite that, and despite the night class I have on Mondays and Wednesdays, AND despite the fact that I'm stuck with my least favorite professor from last semester again, I'm still pretty psyched. I already have two web banner assignments; if I'm gonna have piles of non-stop assignments at least they'll be the super fun, make-web-graphics type of assignments. (As much as I miss my old school's English program, getting a pile of novels every semester, juggling reading four or more books at once, discussing them all day, all week, I do not miss essay assignments. Not one iota. Essays were the worst kind of un-fun imaginable.)

I'm also psyched because the weather knew it was back-to-school week and has spontaneously become breezy, drizzly, grey, and very nearly crisp. Perfect school weather. It makes me think of that "bouquet of sharpened pencils" line in You've Got Mail and makes me want to knit.
(Really, summer weather hanging around after school starts is just icky and depressing.)

Also, today I learned that kinetic type projects are ridiculously awesome. You gotta see some of these:
the rules of Fight Club
Who's on First
I fart in your general direction
Choose Life
Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

And this one is its own kind of insanely brilliant because it's all stop-motion:
Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica

What has two thumbs and made The Office-themed cupcakes this afternoon? This gal!

My friend brought her recently acquired The Office trivia game over today since my brother and I are the biggest Office freaks she knows. It turns out that the game kinda sucks. It should've been fun or exciting, but the game's creators made it not that way. I hate so much about the things that it chose to be. It was confusing and had ten different things going on at once and we couldn't keep track of what we were supposed to be doing. I still don't even fully understand how someone wins.
So game-play quickly dissolved into us just taking turns asking each other the trivia questions, and first one to answer twenty correctly wins. That was a much more fun game and a good time was had by all, in spite of the board game's best efforts to suck all the fun out of Office trivia.

(Side rant: I really hate when board games go crazy like that. It was just like when they came out with a real-life Jumanji board game. You've never seen two kids as excited for a board game as my brother and I were when it was released. First of all, it was ugly and visually busy and cheap-looking. I would happily spend money on a non-functioning game that looked as gorgeous as the game in the movie. The real disappointment though was that it was such a complicated, convoluted, slow game, I don't think we played it all the way through even once. We were the saddest of sad pandas the day we brought Jumanji home and discovered its lameness.)

The real highlight of the day was the cupcakes we baked in honor of the Office occasion:

(Going roughly left to right, top to bottom, we have: three cuppin' cakes that spell out Jim, "Fun Run 5K" (which is five kilometers, not five thousand miles.), angry Dwight, Jim and his hair, a phone for Pam, right under that is Meredith's beverage of choice, and then a coffee mug, a tie, "Dwigt", Sprinkles the cat, and "World's Best Boss". You could try to be as dorky as us, but you would never succeed.)
Duff Goldman, we are not. But they were yummy and that's the important thing.

First the big (already old) news: The Sims 3 has a release date!!!1eleventy!! I am a mere six months away from Sim nirvana. (Thanks to a series of unfortunate computer dilemmas I haven't been able to play Sims 2 in nearly a year. I still feel the pangs of withdrawal every time a new expansion pack is released.) I feel like I should start preparing for that week now because as soon as that game's installed, I'm not moving from my computer chair for at least three days. At least. It's gonna be awesome.

I need to get away from the Scramble application on Facebook. It is crack. Pure vocabulary crack. I don't know why I'm going on about Sims 3; apparently if I let it, Scramble would keep me occupied for twelve hours straight just as easily.

Marauders-y fic rec: Frankie Says Relax by cynicalpirate. Very different and fun.
(I wish I had some Iron Man fic to rec, but whenever I go hunting for fic anymore, every last thing is a WIP with thirty installments already, and no end in sight. Every. Last. One. When did this happen? I can't keep dozens of epic WIPs straight in my head indefinitely!)

Revelation of the day: I found out about the worst fanfic ever written. And indeed it is! The one good thing to come from it though is these three Scottish guys reading it aloud whilst taking the piss outta it. Hearing their hilarious reactions totally made it worth the hour I lost to that monstrous murderer of the English language.

I'm almost through OotP; I've been dragging out the last hundred-ish pages for over a day because ....bad things are about to happen in the book. And then today I thought of a great way to continue dragging it out and avoiding said unpleasantness: a silly little fanmix for OotP. Specifically for the DA and Harry's hormonal attitude towards himself, his friends, Snape, and the total evilness that is Dolores Umbridge. My thought process this afternoon went almost exactly as follows:
- Umbridge sure has some hard-core Big Brother vibes coming off of her.
- Speaking of British things with Rebelling Against Big Brother themes, man I like V For Vendetta and Children of Men.
- What makes those movies extra awesome are those perfect songs they play during the credits.
- Those songs would probably fit for Umbridge and the DA too...
- ... !

And lo, an idea for a fanmix was born. (and a few of the tracks were already taken care of.)


( onto the mix )

( and naturally I had to make the cover art into a matching wallpaper )

I think this HP kick I've been on lately has taken over my brain.

So my birthday had some high points and some low points.

The good:
1 Boy was off the day before, so he came over and took me out for Mexican as an early birthday dinner. Then today I got to pick where my family and I would go out to eat for the occasion. Long story short: I've been to two Mexican restaurants in two days. Huzzah, salsa and chips!

2 Purple frosted chocolate cake.

3 The knowledge that I'm seeing Tropic Thunder this weekend.

4 This.

5 My Dr. Katz DVD boxset arrived the other day. So we've been watching lots of Dr. Katz around here. Loooots of Dr. Katz. Seeing it makes me feel twelve years old again; every time I watch an episode I feel like I should then watch MST3K (on Comedy Central, not the Sci-Fi Channel. Totally different.), read a Star Wars novel, and angst about not being old enough for contact lenses or makeup and how that will probably cause me to die a virgin.


The bad:
1 Two days of stuffing my craw with Mexican food + cake = I'm going to explode.

2 This. I pretty sure I actually yelled "Mugglefucker!" when I read it.

3 No, baby... just. no.. Damnit RDJ, find a mirror or something.

4 Suede's lack of commitment to referring to himself in third person this week on Project Runway. (I had to wait a day so I could watch it with my mom since, according to her, it's "my fault" that she's hooked on the show in the first place.) I mean, if you're going to do something obnoxious, commit to it at least. He squealed "Ohmigod!" a few times, and if he'd just had the commitment to say "Oh Suede's God!" I would've been forced to love him for it.

5 The sudden realization, as I wrote my earlier point 5, that I'm now double the age I was when I was twelve. That was half my life ago. I've spent half my life as a nerdy fangirl. Ouch.


So yeah, all in all, a good day and I got a good haul of DVDs, gift cards, and phone calls. Oh, and there was purple cake. That's all that matters, really. Tasty purple cake.

1 Whoa. I... I think I'm a little turned on now.

2 "Expecto Towin-o!" -what my brother randomly shouted when we watched Harry's first task in GoF yesterday.

3 The knowledge that, as I type, my birthday present from my parents is on its way to me. The Complete Series of Dr. Katz Professional Therapist. I've decided to finally forgive Comedy Central for its premature DVDjaculation, because at first they were like, "Here's season one... you like that? Then here's season two, yeah, next ... OMG ENTIRESERIESWHAT." Not cool, Comedy Central. So once it gets here, I'll have superfluous DVDs for seasons 1 and 2. BUT I DON'T CARE ANYMORE because finally all my years of whining about no Dr. Katz reruns and only a couple Dr. Katz DVDs will be over. About time, damnit.

4 The fic Sirius Black, Super Genius. ADD, pranksexual Sirius, why do I love you so. (It's best to read this one before October; after that, the author's removing all her fic from her journal.)

5 Growing Up Cullen. If the books were anything like that, I might actually read them.

6 Look! It's like a macro with a soundtrack:

Happy birthday, miss_rina! (Okay, I know it was yesterday. Shuddup. Evil twin sisterhood means never being on time.) But! I have good reason for being late. I was thinking yesterday how to best mark the occasion, and this is what I came up with:

( a picspam of some of your favorite kinds of awesome )

Also for the occasion (and since, as mentioned, I spent last night in a crazed Ewan haze for a few hours) I made a Ewan wallpaper:

1024x768
and widescreen: 1680x1050

I'm not actually completely out of the loop. I had a vague understanding that a Twilight book was coming out and there'd be release parties and all that jazz. But Friday evening, as my mom and I drove to the bookstore like we do a lot on Friday evenings, the realization that we were driving towards a tornado of glitter and not our usual quiet, relaxing store never hit me. No, it hit me when we reached the parking lot and all we could see was AN ENTIRE RADIO STATION parked outside the front door. WTF, Harry Potter never got a radio station to cover its epic release.

This is not the first time we accidentally found ourselves at fangirl ground zero. And yet, nothing could have prepared us for the shrieking, squealing, pseudo-goth mayhem. With Harry Potter, at least you get a variety of people; you see excited but calm adults, adorable little kids all dressed up, looking overwhelmed and tired, bouncy teens in HP shirts, etc. But on Friday all we saw were tween girls. Screeching, giggly, freaking-the-fuck-out tween girls. I've never seen that many tween girls gathered in one building, not even when I was a tween girl and went to middle school with hundreds of others of my kind. For every twenty girls, you'd maybe see one miserable-looking boy glowering and generally hating life. Other than that, it was such pure concentrated, hormonal thirteen year-old girlness in there that I'm pretty sure every teenage girl in the town is now on the same cycle. It's going to wreak havoc on the city's plumbing.

We spent most of the time in the back corner with the other regulars and non-tween girls, most of whom looked grumpy and confused. There was a man sitting next to me and at one point I heard his wife come over to him and say, "Whatever it is, it's ...a thing and it's going on all night. Let's go, it's giving me a headache." We finally broke down and left not long after the Jacob vs. Edward debate that was going on on the opposite side of the store, that still got loud enough for us to hear every word. I think it was the "Ed! Ward! Ed! Ward! Ed! Ward!" chanting that finally did me in.

Don't get me wrong, I have no room to criticize anyone's nerdy squeeing, and it was fun to see their pure excitement. It just seems like a waste to have that much energy and passion for something so... overrated. But then that's how I felt when we accidentally ended up at the OotP release party, and not a year later I had converted to the HP side and was just as bad, worse really, than the people at which I had rolled my eyes. So a year from now, will I be eating my words and gushing over Ed! Ward! ? Umm, no. I'm never reading Twilight for two reasons: 1-Anita and 2-Blake. The Anita Blake series burned me so bad, why put myself through that again. I've already watched my cheesy, poorly edited, guilty pleasure vampire series that starts with a Mary Sue and her vampire wariness and ends with WTF WTF MAKE IT STOP WTF. (Actually, I never even made it to the end of Anita Blake. Somewhere around book 10 or 11 I had to stop because I couldn't find a plot anywhere in that hot mess. Wait, now I'm looking it up, and I don't think there is a final book yet. How is the madness still not over?) I flipped through cleolinda's recaps and that's as close as I ever want to get to the dazzling sparkliness of Twilight. (Actually, that's not true. I might see the movie solely for the lulz of seeing Robert Pattinson carry a movie with only his hair.)

So anyway. I did end up leaving the store with a YA novel of my own: Looking for Alaska by John Green because I finished all the Brotherhood 2.0 videos and was curious; and in just the few pages I read he mentions Oscar Wilde AND Henrik Ibsen. So I now have a dorky, literary crush on him. John! Green! John! Green!

Yeaaaah.... no room to criticize anyone else's squeeing AT ALL.

Theme Parks
Yes, I still have Disney World on the brain. I may or may not have even had a weird teacup roller coaster dream last night. When I was looking up Disney World rides on YouTube for my last post, I got sucked into a YouTube vortex and lost a few hours to watching people ride roller coasters. Which is a new and fun use for YouTube that I had never before explored. Conclusion: roller coasters are fucking nuts. Here's the thing: on YouTube the Disney coasters look like wussies, but I clearly remember them being plenty fast and thrilling. Some of these other coasters give me panic attacks just from watching them. On YouTube. So my new rule of thumb for all rides: any ride that has the power to scare me over YouTube would probably kill me in person.

Harry Potter
I've now re-read up through PoA. Before I start GoF I have to share some of my favorite little finds from PoA.
( annotations and Post-Its FTW! )

Harry Potter AND Theme Parks
More than once during the Disney World trip, usually when I was waiting in line for hours at a time, I thought about that Harry Potter World thingy they're building as we speak. And how much I want it to exist RIGHT NOW.
So during that time I thought of some rides that need to exist in this park. First, they need a Quidditch roller coaster. Period. I mean, if you're not gonna make a Quidditch roller coaster, you might as well scrap the whole park. There's no point without it. (Ha! I'm not the first person who realized this is how it must be. I was gonna go on about why it's a perfect idea, but I think the video says it all.)
My other ideas aren't nearly as thrilling. A good little kid, Dumbo-type ride would be little flying Ford Anglias.
The Shrieking Shack would be a Haunted Mansion-type ride, where as you ride through the shack you encounter boggarts, dementors, and at the end you narrowly escape from werewolf Lupin. And that's as far as I've thought this thing through. What ridiculously fabulous and improbable ride is in your imagined Harry Potterland?

And I'm sad that it's going to be just an area within the Universal park. It should be it's whole own thing, complete with on-location hotels like Disney World. Obviously each hotel would be a Hogwarts House. The only problem would be that the Gryffindor hotel would have business up to its eyeballs, while the Hufflepuff hotel would be incapable of giving away rooms. Maybe they'd just build four Gryffindor hotels and to heck with the other houses.

Not that I've thought about this or anything.

Back from Florida! I've got a ton of photos chronicling the adventure up at my flickr. (I apparently have more than a ton because I just hit my photo limit on Flickr. So now if I want to add anything new, I have to go through and decide which photos I hate and want forever deleted off of Flickr. Baaaah.)
( I also have tons of bullet-points chronicling my trip textually )

Unrelated: last night I discovered Brotherhood 2.0 and am now going through their entire archive. SO fun. Though now I feel like my brother and I are woefully emotionally stunted, inarticulate, un-witty, and kinda dumb. Our video blogs to each other would pretty much consist of:
"You're stupid."
"Your face is stupid."
"Look at the funny Strong Bad E-mail I just found."
[the next ten blogs are nothing but us quoting Strong Bad back and forth to each other.]

I keep forgetting that the new season of Project Runway started. I finally watched it yesterday and already everyone (who isn't Tim Gunn) annoys me. They could just re-air season 2 and I'd be happy.

So I may have needed a few days for my brain to recover enough to have a coherent reaction to The Dark Knight.
( the bat man )

Oh! And I saw the best preview before the movie! No it wasn't [Watchmen, Twilight, whatever a normal person would get excited about] Fathom Events is showing Long Way Down in theaters on July 31!! It'll be the closest thing to a good Ewan movie in a loooong time.


Geez, it's already Saturday. My family's going on our big Disney World vacation in a matter of days. Hours, really! We haven't been in ...*tries to do math*... I think eleven years. Any suggestions/tips/warnings, oh all-knowing flist?

So yesterday morning was just a normal morning. I brushed my teeth and started to floss. Now, I had a fixed retainer put in when I got my braces off a million years ago. Fixed retainers are SUPPOSED to look something like this:

Well while I was flossing, FLOSSING MIND YOU, half of the damn thing decided to try to make a run for it. ( so now my retainer looked like THIS )I was stuck with a WIRE sticking into me until that afternoon when the orthodontist had time to PULL THE LOOSE WIRE OUT OF MY MOUTH.
Lesson to be learned here: fuck flossing.

Onto happier things, guess what I'm doing: rereading Harry Potter from start to finish. *is a dork* Ever since HBO started showing OotP I've been on a HP kick, what can I say. The timing's perfect; someone in the house recently brought home a pack of multicolored teeny tiny Post-Its, so I can annotate to my little former lit student heart's content without messing up my precious books. (Of course, my notes are color coded. Yellow Post-Its are plot points and foreshadowing; blue ones are character insights and possible metaphors; purple ones are thematic elements and anything that's really major, like the first time Harry's described; and the pink Post-Its are solely for anything remotely relevant to the Marauders. \o/ *is a supreme dork*)


And finally, an Iron Man wallpaper, before TDK comes out and everyone forgets about poor Tony.
( my usual prattle )

1024x768 and for Macs/widescreen 1680x1050
If anyone wants a different size, just let me know.

Stop whatever nonsense you're doing, I have an important and vital question: The New 3G iPhone Commercial
That is RDJ doing the voice-over, right?? Last night when it was on that voice suddenly clicked in my head. It has to be him, doesn't it? Who else says "twice as fast" like that?
ETA: Yes, it has been confirmed by three people (and counting). Tony Stark + iPhone = <3 He probably designed the upgrades himself.


Most hilarious and true thing I've seen all day: Jude the Obscure in 5 Minutes.
What the fucking fuck indeed. When I read Jude the Obscure for my British Victorian Novel class, we had a day where our discussion consisted of us repeating something to that effect to each other for 50 minutes straight. I couldn't sell back that book fast enough; I didn't want it near my other books, spreading its traumatizing horrificness to them like a virus.

YouTube, FTW!
1 Around here we've already gone through both The Larry Sanders Show Season 1 and Not Just The Best of Larry Sanders DVDs. Consequently, I've had to resort to watching the rest of the episodes on YouTube. This guy has every complete episode uploaded. I'm only up to episode 31, so no mancrush!David Duchovny or aDORably young Jon Stewart yet.

2 I wasted a bunch of time today trying to find the bumps Adult Swim used for their final Futurama marathon last year. Turns out they were on YouTube the entire time. (Here, here, and here.) And then I stumbled on something even more awesome: a collection of Adult Swim's original bumps. That takes me back. It makes me want to watch Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cowboy Bebop while working on my high school homework. (OMG and Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law!) Good times ... good times.
Although now I'm depressed after reading the comments on that page. It's all preschoolers saying Adult Swim started when they were 8 or 9. I'm OLD.
(Semi-related: Has anyone else noticed that Cinemax channel, Max HD, and its Adult Swim-esque simple text bumpers between movies? It's weird and cool.)

3 I soooo wasn't kidding when I said I was making old school Star Wars icons.
( Star Wars: A New Hope: 20 icons )

Next up, ESB and maybe even a wallpaper...