Hecto- erm, Hulk SMASH!

Go read The Onion | Why No One Want Make Hulk 2?

Why no one appreciate daring vision of Ang Lee? Aaargh! Ang Lee genius! Maybe panels on screen gimmicky, but him try something new. When last time you try something new?! Ang Lee willing to work in unfamiliar genres. Him brave like Hulk. Hulk wish for him to work on Hulk 2, if he willing, but Hulk understand if he not want to. Ang Lee like Hulk: He not stay in one place for too long. Him working on gay western right now. That prove Hulk's point. If him not do it, maybe Darren Aronofsky or David Gordon Green. Someone with unique vision that not so stuck on action clichés. First studio exec to suggest Joel Schumacher get smashed!

Happy birthday

As my birthday present, my mom took me to see the Yankees play Toronto today (well, now it's yesterday). It was a brilliant present, as the game was very good. First, I got to see El Duque pitch in his second game since his return. Second, Ted Lilly was pitching for the Blue Jays, and I've liked Lilly for a while now, in spite of his dodgy control when he pitched for the Yankees. (I'm still pissed off about that crap trade of Lilly for Jeff "I Suck" Weaver. Bleh-phooie Weaver. At least Lilly could earn a W on a reliable basis.) El Duque struck out ten, though he struggled a bit. Lilly was solid, though he had a shaky beginning. Lilly had a no-hitter for about, what, four innings. Neither of them allowed a run into the seventh, when relief stepped in to take over the mutual shut-out.

Very exciting, in spite of lack of Jeter. My nephew managed to spot Jeter on the bench using my binoculars, which was sweet of him, but I wish I could have seen Jeter play, especially since we were seated to the left of home plate (heh heh heh, cackles the pervy Yankees fan).

At any rate, Lilly and El Duque were quite good and the bullpens both held so the game went nil-nil until the bottom of the 9th, with two out, and the three of us hoping the game wouldn't go too far into extra innings as we were all very hungry. BAM! Ruben Sierra, one of my mom's favorites, hit a walk-off home run and the game was over in very dramatic fashion, with a nice, low score.

Huzzah! The Yankees yet again give me a very lovely birthday present, winning 1-0, even making sure my favored Lilly doesn't get the L. Cheers, boys!

But...but...no one's seen that one!

"You're like Shizuku, from Whisper of the Heart!

"You're very creative and enjoy reading. But you can't just live in fantasy and books forever -- you have to have dreams of your own. You do have talent! It's just a matter of finding and polishing it. School may be boring but it can give you the knowledge you need to accomplish your dreams."

Which Miyazaki Heroine Are You?
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Void

Why can't I open my comments? I just want to see what people had to say, but I click and I click and nothing happens. Why does nothing happen? Does the Internet hate me? I think the Internet hates me. Hate hate hate. Why does it hate me? Is it because I take too many of those (stupid) quizzes at Quizzilla and Memegen? Is it because I take those (stupid) quizzes at Quizilla and Memegen and then post the results in my blog? Is it because I occasionally link a lot in my posts, like the one below? Is it because I'm on the ass end of the Negative Karma Sink(tm): Internet Version 2.0? Is it because I'm a brunette and gentlenets prefer blondes? Why? Why can't I open my comments? Why?

Returning to Goblet of Fire

Went to my sister's, got sick, did some shopping. Came back to find this stuff on the CBBC website about casting announcements for the fourth HP flick:

• conflicted Barty Crouch, Sr.: Roger Lloyd-Pack, who looks the part, really
  
  
• evil Barty Crouch, Jr.: David Tennant
  
  
• Durmstrang Headmaster, Professor Igor Karkaroff: Pedja Bjelac from Belgrade
  
  
• Amos Diggory (Cedric's dad): Jeff Rawle

I'm not sure about the choice of directors, as Mike Newell is responsible for celluloid crap like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Mona Lisa Smile. Not sure if that's an improvement over the jerk who helmed cinematic fecal sludge like Mrs. Doubtfire and Nine Months.

("Who?" you say? Well, look them characters up here.)

Other newish members of the HP cast listed (and linked) here.

Jenny Turpish Slapped Me: Quizzes - Better Person

It stopped raining and I cleaned the litter box, so I'll just post this quiz and then go for a walk.

It makes sense on no sleep. It does.

I wonder how SheepBoy would score?

Go take Jenny Turpish Slapped Me: Quizzes - Better Person and see how you rate compared to this little trooper.

20 Questions to being a Better Person


Your score as a human being is 88.5.


You are close to ideal. So close, and yet so far. Amusing, really, to watch someone squirm so close to the vaunted ranks of perfection and still remain so very, very ordinary. It is all one can do to keep one's ingratiating smile from polluting one's perfect face.

Actually, one recommends you take the quiz again and lie a little.

Jenny Turpish Slapped Me: Quizzes - Better Personality

Severely non-flattering personality quiz from Jenny Turpish Slapped Me:

Wackiness: 34/100
Rationality: 62/100
Constructiveness: 56/100
Leadership: 44/100


You are an SRCF--Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer. You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can't go on without you--or worse, that it can.

If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say 'no.' While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.

Meme crazy at 5:30 in the morning

This is what happens when I can't frickin' sleep at night and it's raining so I can't go for a walk.

Your Husband Generator by Lady_Galadriel
Name
Your Husband Is
You Met	a taxi - you shared the cab
You Have	7 children
You Live	China
In	a large house
You And Your Partner Are Best Known For	your GIANT shopping sprees
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!

Colormeme turquoise

Color meme (care of KevMoTown):

1. Copy and paste this: [font color="username"][b]username[/b][/font] into your blog.
2. Replace "username" with your web handle.
3. Replace [square] brackets with html-type brackets.


Et voilà: sugarkat
Gee. Almost as obnoxious as I am.

Yet, little trooper sugar kat, as you can see, is true blue.

Dear weeping Jesus, it can't be!

Oh, yes it can, little trooper. Oh, yes it can.

So now that you've been properly warned, you may enter, and experience the lameness that is WIL WHEATON DOT NET.ENTER
I love you, Wil Wheaton! Let's be friends!

EXIT
You're lame, Wil Wheaton. I hated Wesley, and I hate you.

- excerpt from Wil Wheaton's blog explaination

Yes, that Wil Wheaton. Apparently, he is one of the contributors to the VH1 Best Week Ever blog. Annoying Ensign Wesley. Geezie-creezie.

Whedon Quote of the Week

It was amazing. Four hours at a stretch, great scholars and a great teacher completely prying open the text of Hamlet. I mean, what more fun can there be? ... Spoken like a man who never had sex in high school ...

- Joss Whedon on studying for A level English

Does anybody care about the (mis)adventures of little trooper sugar kat?

Just wondering if anyone is actually reading this blog. Like, anyone at all. I'd be vastly surprised if there were strangers reading this. I'd also be surprised if a lot of people I know were reading this. I just want to know if ANYONE is reading this.

I get responses to my photos on my flog, and I get e-mail from Fotolog telling me the number of times my pictures have been viewed, so I know I should keep updating there. Should I bother here? Please post in the comments to reply. If anyone is there, that is.

On kuvaszes

A large, white, salivating thing has entered my life.

It is a kuvasz. He is six years old. His name is Harcos. He noticed that there was a bird. The bird, on the other hand, refused to admit that there was a large, white, salivating thing there, and continued his dinner.

So far, so good. I now have to see if he can be trained to sit at my feet, stare up at me, and say, "You are the best writer EVER!"

- Steven Brust

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I met a kuvasz once. At the vet's. It was big and super-furry. It had the prettiest voice and was very friendly without being annoying or at all intimidating. If I were to get a large, white, salivating thing, it'd definitely be a kuvasz, as they are the very best large, salivating thing in the known universe. I would even have a bumper sticker that says, "I *heart* my kuvasz" and no one would understand it because no one knows, other than me and Steven Brust, what a kuvasz is. That'd be cool, my mystery-*heart* bumper sticker, but not as cool as my large, white, salivating kuvasz, whom I'd love in spite of it not being a cat. Especially if it sat there at my feet, being furry and warm, and told me I'm the best writer EVER (liar), as I need all the help with my ego I can get.

Attention cephalopod mollusk-lovers!

Thought you might want to take a gander at this, Dear Octopusish Reader.

I post because I love.

P.S.

I do believe the infamous KDC posted the best baby announcement I have ever (and will ever) seen. I'd post a congrats on the Octopus blog, but he doesn't know who the fuck I am (I remember him from a few visits to the NYU SFF Club during the period when I was working at my first NYC job, but he has no memory of me), so it'd be creepy.

Quote of the Day

WTF
OMFG
ROTFLOL
I HATE L33T
SP33K SO DAMN
MUCH IT HURTS

- something positive

BWA-HAHAHAHAHA!or "That's just so fucking wrong."

CATPRIN, a tailor for cats. Ever imagined dressing up your lovely cat into a fabulous beauty? You don't have to dress her everyday, in fact she might not feel comfortable with a dress on for days. Just dress her up only on special occasions like her birthday, takes a photo and that should leave you lots of memories and fantasies.

First off, considering how pissed off the cats look in the photographs showing the wares, I really don't think "your lovely cat" would ever "feel comfortable with a dress on" for three seconds, let alone long enough for you to take a picture of "her" humiliation.

Second, what the hell do they mean by "fantasies?" Is this some sort of superfreak fetish mixing furries' desires with actual bestiality?

That having been said, I think I want the frog hat and collar set for me. (I'll just tell them I'm the sad owner of the fattest cat in the world.) I'm also sorely disappointed that there is no sheep costume for cats shown, in spite of the intro cartoon having a cute, happy kitty in sheep's clothing, as I think the tiny costume would have been a superb Gary Day gift.

Or, you know, maybe Guillermo del Toro wouldn't be so bad for Order of the Phoenix after all

For Mr. del Toro, this is hard-core. He turned down a shot at directing the third 'Harry Potter' film because he nurtured a need to bring Mr. Mignola's colossal, monstrous-looking, Twizzler-colored champion to the screen.

-from Elvis Mitchell's review of Hellboy

I either did not know that or did not remember it. Either way, if I can't get Cuarón to direct the fifth Harry Potter movie, I don't think I'd mind del Torro trying his hand at it. Still, I'd rather have his directing another Hellboy movie and get Cuarón on book five instead. And seeing as Hellboy 2 has been announced (currently in preproduction, so anything goes), why the hell can't we get Señor Cuarón helming HP5, huh?

Whedonsday, far cooler than Bloomsday

It's Whedonsday.
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Happy Birthday to the MAN, Joss Whedon! Our almighty turns the big 4-0 today.

Hellmouth Central

Captain Tightpants returns!

Thought a certain few of my readers might like to read the following from a Firefly fan messageboard

Firefly Movie - The Movie Blog
From: NATHAN_F Jun-16 12:34 am
To: ALL (1 of 173)

I can't promise you a weekly thing, the schedule keeps me on my toes and I type slowly. However, here's a bit of a blog for you.
First day of filming for me is not the first day of filming overall. That honor was Sean's and Summer's. But all were present when we arrived in the desert out by the old abandoned mine to begin what will be two weeks of exterior shooting. I can't tell you how it warmed my heart to seethe cast not only together (I've seen that a couple of times since the show's demise), but in costume as well. Jewel looks great in a version of her old green work overalls (has she gotten taller?). Sean is appropriately overdressed for what we are doing out there. Adam's T-shirt designs and gun belts will have the fans in a tizzy, I'm sure- he looks too cool for words. Ron has had a minor overhaul and reminds me of a native american Shaman, a logical twist. Summer looks both etherial and eerie (I hope I spelled those words correktlee) walking- no, drifting about. Alan looks both relaxed and tough in his new togs and has the best footwear of all of us. Morena, of course, is Morena. One look is never quite enough. It is easy to imagine the high class she occupies in the 'verse of Firefly. Gina fuses supermodel and badass in an outfit tailored to her physique. She's been working out, you'll see.
I couldn't be happier. Everyone has slipped right back in where we left off, but there is a difference. There is some kind of special magic in the ressurection. We all feel it. We are back in a way the series never could be. I have a glad heart when I watch Joss talking to the ship's crew. can only look at him and smile. I smile a lot these days. More even than I thought I would. Thank you Joss. Thank you Universal. Thank you crew. Thank you cast. Thank you cast especially for laughing at all the same old crappy material I used to use.
Captain Tightpants

The beauty part is that he actually signed off as "Captain Tightpants," which is so gorgeous, I "squee!"d when I first read it. Huzzah for Nathan Fillion!

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Here's another "blog" from the good Captain.

Ugh

CNN.com - Bodies in lake identified as father and two sons - Jun 20, 2004: "PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A father and two sons missing from Chicago for more than a month were identified Sunday as the bodies that washed ashore on Lake Michigan bound together by nylon rope and tied to bags filled with sand."

Happy Father's Day. Eesh.