The Heinlein centennial. 07/07/07…
(snort)
It hurts just to look at it! (But the video’s well put together.)
“This is a website about brainfreeze. I made a movie at a seven eleven where I asked some people to get brainfreeze. They did, and it was awesome!!!”
Ouch! Ouch ouch ouch ouch!
I love this to bits.
The popular story has it that zealous Christian missionaries warned all non-Christian Chinese they’d “go to Hell” upon death. …In a classic case of misinterpretation, the Chinese believed Hell was the English term for the Afterlife. The word was incorporated and printed on the traditional Chinese Afterlife Monetary Offerings, otherwise known as Hell Bank Notes. Some refer to the notes as Spirit Money. …I love the denominations. This first set shows the highest dollar amount I’ve found yet: $8 billion.
this? P., was that you? If it was, I’ll deal with you later. (snicker)
“The l33t stages of grieving:
Stage 1: OMG
Stage 2: WTF
Stage 3: 🙁
Stage 4: kthxbye”
The trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Looks like they may be in the process of getting it right… We shall see.
Fascinating…
At least it works that way for me.
First of all…thanks to everybody for the condolences. This has been a difficult time for both Peter and me, but we’re beginning to pull things together again. We’ll always miss Bubble: that doesn’t change. The relative silence in the house — for she was genuinely the world’s talkiest cat, with a sound effect for everything — is tough to take sometimes. Nonetheless (however soppy it sounds to say it) she wouldn’t have liked us to be sad for very long. Bubble’s basic “ground-of-being” level, when not sleeping with truly impressive intensity, was to be bouncing around doing things at maximum speed, enjoying herself and trying to draft everyone else available into the game. 
Secondary to that, a couple of web resources have turned up which lightened the mood a whole lot over the last week, or in some cases reduced me to tears of laughter.
The “Bored of the Rings” website (don’t miss the fanart)
Star Dudes: especially “The Phantom Dude”
Quentin Tarantino meets Plato’s Republic
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Hulk’s Diary That Is On The Internet
And oh dear…
Ten things you didn’t know about the Queen Mum (Not the slightest bit less funny because she’s dead.)
Click on the image to see more. There are between twenty-five and thirty images in the set. Or use this link to view them as a slideshow.
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We came home from Elf Fantasy Fair to find our smallest cat, Bubble, lying dead by the gatepost. Fortunately her death seems to have been swift..but what a welcome-home.
Forgive me if there will be no more blogging for a while.
The self-referential movie trailer. (Sorry, the whole thing is in Flash and I can’t extract a single URL from it. Click on the “trailers” tab at the bottom, and in the window that opens, choose the third window, the “UK Exclusive” trailer.)