watch it: the Sendai tsunami from ground level
Behold the inexorable power of water…
Year: 2011
I’m embarrassed to admit (but I’m gonna do it anyway)…
…that I dreamt last night about Robert Pattinson. Not in that way…
trailer break: ‘Blooded’
Yup, it’s another one of those “it’s fake but let’s pretend it’s real” mockumentary thingies. Looks like it’s taking an original tack with it, however…
question of the day: Will Americans accept the new Al Jazeera children’s channel?
Will parents let their kids watch? Will kids want to watch? (That’s excluding Arab-American parents and kids, who represent only a tiny minority of the America population, and won’t be enough to let such a channel survive.)
Conservative “sleeper agents” in Hollywood?; are we to blame for risk-free movies?; Michael Bay can now fix the blame for ‘Transformers 2’; more: leftover links
Plus: more stuff about Charlie Sheen that’s too depressingly indicative of the times to ignore…
Saturday cute: the entire history of science fiction distilled
Is it an alien? Is it a manifestation of an elder god? Is it a deformed octopus? What is it?
question of the weekend: Have you ever been in an earthquake?
The closest I came was when I slept through a very minor earthquake on Long Island back in high school in the mid 1980s. And I think I’d like to keep that as my closest brush with earthquakes. (Also, feel free to engage in general discussion about the Japan disaster.)
Friday night fortune cookie: Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann says…
“Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.”
watch it: “A Rare Rat Moment”
They say that petting an animal is relaxing. But just watching this video is so very soothing…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ice fishing shanty TARDIS
I would hop in the TARDIS and fly it somewhere a little warmer than a place where it’s so cold you have to cut through ice to get at the fish.
