Not Lost Yet

Sadly, I won't be watching the final-season premiere of Lost tonight - I haven't finished watching last season, if you can believe it. I was saving it until very close to the final season, and I waited a bit too long. So no spoilers, puh-leeze!

Boy Explains the Parliament Perogue

By SME

SME in the Movies

Once in a while, I'll see something in a movie that is just so freaking stupid I want to hop onto the screen and correct it. I can't do that, obviously, but my Sim alter ego certainly can.
Here's what I think should have happened during the invisible ship scene in What the Bleep Do We Know?. ..

RIP Art Clokey

The creator of Gumby died yesterday at the age of 88. Art Clokey was a fascinating guy, a spiritual traveler who immersed himself in everything from Lutheranism to Buddhism, created art films, and set the bar quite high in the time-consuming world of stop motion. The original Gumby series was, musically and artistically, far ahead of its time and infinitely more evolved than just about any other show in the history of children's television. Its dreamlike surreality has eased me into sleep more times than I can count.

Thanks so much for hours of trippy entertainment, Mr. Clokey. You were truly one of a kind, and will be missed.

Bombers and Bald Bunnies

So Weibo Ludwig has been arrested for the pipeline bombing. The one the Edmonton Journal tried to pin on Al Qaeda and then on First Nations people. The one Glenn Beck attributed to the left-wing environmentalists he's been "warning" us about. The one conspiracy theorists have blamed on the oil companies; if they bomb their own pipelines, the theories go, taxpayers will have to foot the bill for increased security so that other people won't bomb the pipelines. Um, what?

Sophie's nesting again. Every time the temperature drops even slightly, she starts pulling out her fur and using it to line little burrows she creates with her towel. When I make her stop ('cause she'd be much colder if she was bald, and I'm tired of finding little piles of fluff everywhere), she gets huffy and sulks under her cage - easily the coldest place in the room. Go figure.

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Check out a bizarre holiday mystery at Uqbar Calling. In 1945, five of the ten Sodder children of West Virginia died in a house fire. Or did they? I have my own thoughts on the case, but I'll keep them to myself for now. I'm curious to know what other people think of it.

The Last of '09

This is Richard's video of New Year's Eve. I didn't want to venture out in the cold, and after hearing the band's selection I'm sooo glad I didn't...



Anyway, Happy New Year!