Quick Randomness
Some cool Blog Tricks to make your previously untrained blog sit up and beg like a good little dog. And there are some very cool tricks in here.

And the Tivo/Dish Deal that Jay sent over the other day. Get a dish and a Tivo installed for $89 delivered. Sounds like a pretty decent deal to me. Especially because we've already a dish mounted and ready to roll.

A good rule of thumb for selecting a movie to watch. If it has any of the Carradines in it then it is pretty well assured to suck.

A new project I'm thinking of starting up: A Homeless Person's Guide to Winter Survival. Chapter One: Staying Warm. Be angry all the time, if you're furios then your body will stay hot and you'll be toasty. And people won't fuck with you if they think you're crazy and mad. Crazy alone and they might steal your empty plastic bags at night, crazy and mad, they wouldn't dare. That's about as far as I've gotten with it so far.

I was wondering about this a week or two ago. Is Star Wars racist? I'm sure there are sites out there exploring the connection between shitty characters like Jar Jar Binks and racial stereotypes. But it would seem, on the face of it that the series is pretty well steeped in racism. But since it happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away then I guess that makes it okay.

Following that thought, has anyone watched the old animated Disney Peter Pan lately? You want to talk about stereotyped behaviours and racism. Damn, I had to leave the room. Let's just say that old Walt was just a little bit of a misogynist and Nazi sympathizer, or at least that's what I see when I watch some of the older stuff. Pretty unsettling knowing that little kids grew up watching it.

A couple of quick shouts to my peeps in cyberspace. Slut School is going to be on Conan as Triumph the Insult Dog Comic hand puppet thing's translator. It remains to be seen if she wins the ten minutes of fame or the two minutes of shame. But it'll be cool to see her anyway.

Sedalina is in New York at a work function during the week she was supposed to get married to her girlfriend in Toronto. Can you say misgivings? Go and read her (like you don't already).

Ryan has realized that Axe deodarant smells like Lysol and that it gets really freakin' cold in Minnesota in the winter.

Helen is wrestling with a relationship that's breaking apart and a new job in a different country starting soon. And she's also really happy with her boobs. And today is the one year anniversary of her attempted suicide complete with suicide journals. As leblanc points out, reading such naked emotions makes it easy to see how good some of us do have it.

I'd go through my whole list of blogs I read regularly and love but I'm pressed for time and have more than a gajillion projects to crank through today. So I'll get to it later if I can.