A funny thing happened on the way to Mindwbebs

A combination of the pitch of the narrator's voice, poor sound quality on the mp3 and ambient noise on the bus means both Absalome and To See The Invisible Man were pretty much unintelligible to me. Pity, I was looking forward to comparing the second one to The City and the City.

So, granting up front

That the whole Pesky Sister Obsessed with Boys and with Stopping Her Dynamic Brothers From Doing Stuff dynamic of Phineas and Ferb is problematic at best, the "a baby's cry makes all the adult women across Danville abandon whenever they are doing to march zombie-like to the source of the sound" bit was an unfortunate creative decision.

I keep meaning to mention this

My new standard for Bad Bicyclists is the helmetless guy who ran the red at Charles and Benton, cutting off four full lanes of traffic to force his way over to the far side of the intersection.

(C & B is a fairly major, reasonably busy intersection)

I misread the title of this

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Batman’s Moron College Friends

My brain inserted a superfluous "m" into "moron" so I was expecting a tale of bitter culture clash between Bruce Wayne, supposed playboy, and his straight-arrow LDS roommates. Presumably this would have been during Wayne's previously undocumented BYU years.

Because my tears are delicious to you

As pointed out in email:

The CW is reportedly developing a show based on the cult Japanese movie Battle Royale.

Battle Royale, the movie, is the one that demonstrated to me, much to my surprise, that in fact I am not 100% desensitized to violence in movies as civilized person should but in fact don't care to watch kids being killed.

The movie is based on a book, reviewed here. There is also a manga, which adds a ton of gratuitous graphic rape: I strongly advise avoiding the manga.