Seen while out walking

A running fight between two squirrels that twisted back and forth over the length of a city block and more before a hill got in the way and I lost sight of them.

alicublog's "UNMITIGATED GALT"

Nicked from womzilla

[As] much fun as it is to slag rotten movies, it is much better to be surprised by a good one, especially when you've reached the stage in life where two hours in front of a stinker sets you dreaming of the warm couch and leftover sesame chicken that you left back home. But it is my great regret to inform you that Atlas Shrugged: Part I is neither good nor good-bad, but bad-bad-bad-bad. I dreamed, not of sesame chicken, but of my own swift and merciful death, and that of the director, not necessarily in that order. It is not a pleasurable surprise, not a hoot, nor an outrage; it is Rand's granite crushed, reconstituted, and spread across the screen with steamrollers.

I agree with this review

As I recall, it was this film that made me put Nighy on my must-watch list, where (despite the occasional Underworld) he remains to this day.

Still Crazy came out in 1999, did mediocre box office at best (I checked Boxofficemojo and it made less than half a million dollars in the USA, and not much more in the UK), got good reviews and a couple of Golden Globe nominations (for best comedy/musical and best original song) and then faded into relative obscurity. This is a pity, because Still Crazy‘s main sin as a movie is that it apparently came out at the wrong time.

A poll

During this examination of who'd win in a fight between Batman and Harry Potter, Sims touches on something but appears to dismiss it out of hand:

Assuming the characters know the bare minimum of information about each other -- Batman knows Harry's a wizard, Harry knows that despite appearances, Batman's not some sort of ninja Dementor so that he doesn't waste time trying to take him down with Expecto Patronum -- then the only question is whether Harry Potter can say three syllables in Fake Latin and manage to hit a moving target used to dodging gunfire with a Stunning Spell before Batman disarms him from thirty feet away with a piece of metal shaped like his own logo.

Would Harry in fact be wasting his time if he used Expecto Patronum on the Batman, Mr. "Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot -- so I have to wear a disguise that will strike terror into their hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible, like a... a... a bat!"?



[Poll #1730929]

A poll

During this examination of who'd win in a fight between Batman and Harry Potter, Sims touches on something but appears to dismiss it out of hand:

Assuming the characters know the bare minimum of information about each other -- Batman knows Harry's a wizard, Harry knows that despite appearances, Batman's not some sort of ninja Dementor so that he doesn't waste time trying to take him down with Expecto Patronum -- then the only question is whether Harry Potter can say three syllables in Fake Latin and manage to hit a moving target used to dodging gunfire with a Stunning Spell before Batman disarms him from thirty feet away with a piece of metal shaped like his own logo.

Would Harry in fact be wasting his time if he used Expecto Patronum on the Batman, Mr. "Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot -- so I have to wear a disguise that will strike terror into their hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible, like a... a... a bat!"?



[Poll #1730929]

Dear Mother Nature

Really? Snow on April 17th?

(heads off to empty every HCFC container I have into the air)