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Cubic Tragedy is a well done animated short. I feel like I’ve been in the same place she is whenever I try a bit of home improvement. Everything I try to fix it just seems to make it worse.

Dear lord! The Hair of the Dog, Hula Hoop Viral ad is just, well…. Yeah.

I’ve heard 2 1/2 songs that Pandora has recommended for me, and so far, I’m digging what I’m hearing. This may be worth subscribing to.

Yesterday, I decided to go see a movie. I didn’t much care which one I saw. So, I got to the theater and The Brothers Grimm was showing pretty much right when I got there. And, the previews made it seem like it might be interesting. Plus, Terry Gilliam, so it had that going for it.

I think it could have been an interesting movie. I saw an interesting movie peeking out from behind the corners every once in a while. But there were layers and layers of useless crap piled on top of it. What was the point of the French soldiers? I think they were supposed to be comic relief, but they were neither comical nor a relief.

When the movie ended, I ducked in to see The 40-Year-Old Virgin since, I’d heard good things, and I wanted to try to get my money’s worth for the day.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is insanely funny. It’s also sort of touchingly sweet and many of the secondary characters all have their own interesting storylines going on that really add texture to what on paper looked like it should have been a stupid farce. Not that there would be anything wrong with a stupid farce, but I was actually kind of surprised at how good this movie ended up being.

So, if you’re going to go see a movie, make it the virgin one. The grimm one is just disappointing.

So, I’m watching Subterranean on MTV2. And, they’re interviewing Death Cab For Cutie. And, Wow! That lead singer doesn’t look anything at all like I expected he would. This must be a little like how people felt when they heard some of those silent film stars speak for the first time.

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Hey Silverlake:

If you’re going to go to the trouble of throwing a big street festival maybe you might want to spend at least five minutes thinking about just where in the hell people are supposed to park!!!!

I spent an hour driving around some of the worst residential roads imaginable trying to find a place to park. Ultimately, I decided that I didn’t really want to see Rilo Kiley anyway.

The nap I took was probably better anyway. </sourgrapes>

Here’s a very interesting O’Reilly post about advertisers buying page rank instead of impressions. I hate SEO’s if only because the bastards caused me to shut down my comment sections with all their damned comment spam. O’Reilly brings up some really intriguing points though, and ultimately, I think it’s something that the search engines have to fix.

Lord knows that 80s hair metal fans/bands are easy targets for parody. A few bands recently have done a pretty good job with it. But, I’m just not sure that Backstreet Boys are the ones to pull it off.

It should have been very funny, but somehow it just wasn’t. You’d think these guys would be good at putting on costumes, but they just held themselves too distant from the role or something. I guess good parody needs to be rooted in authenticity, and I just don’t see any of that here. Still, a few funny moments (mostly with the extras), and probably worth a view.

Frugal Reader looks interesting. It basically connects you to a lot of people who’ve turned their book collections into a giant lending library. $1.84 or $2.26 for postage to ship one of you books seems kind of steep though. Sure, it’s less than the $10+ you pay for new paperbacks these days, but it seems kind of high for used books.

It is an interesting idea though.