#263 - Link-o-llection and a meme. Standard fare.

Obama urges Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to step down after he was charged with trying to sell off Obama's Senate seat on eBay. Major fail, Chicago. Major fail.

A cast has apparently been decided for Shymalan's film adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. You know what kills me? Jesse McCartney is apparently angling to play Fire Prince Zuko. I mean, what? What? "Jesus, get Hannah Montana to play Azula and be done with it." The odd thing is, Miley Cyrus as Azula would almost work, in a brain-breaky sort of way. She has the 'tude and the voice - she'd just need a bit of a makeover.

In another exciting episode of "When East Meets West And They Have a One Night Drunken Fling", J-pop Queen Ayumi Hamasaki will be singing the theme to the live-action Dragonball movie. I'm kind of ambivalent on this. On the one hand, it almost feels like the makers of the movie suddenly got scared that maybe their movie wasn't going to be Japanesey enough to draw in the otaku, so they decided to add some local wasabi by dragging Hamasaki into it. On the other hand, it would feel almost as wrong if they got, say, Britney Spears to sing the theme song. I believe this entire shebang is a case study of fractal wrongness.

This shirt kills me. It's so wrong and awesome at the same time (or, as vyctori put it, "wrongsome").

The Yao Ming Transformer. It's a plastic basketball that turns into a figure of Yao Ming a la Optimus Prime. No, really.

A steampunk-styled computer mouse.

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YEAR IN REVIEW MEME: Post the first sentence of the first entry of every month in your journal.

January: OH YEAH, STARTING THE NEW YEAR OFF WITH A FLU, SNOW, AND A POSSIBLE FIGHT OVER RELIGION WITH A FRIEND!
February: In what world, Bizarro or otherwise, is it okay to title a romance/erotica novel Death by Ploot Ploot?
March: I've only ever seen the ending of the first Carrie movie.
April: An absolutely fascinating website on Aztec Reconstructionism, which one doesn't see a lot of amongst the neopagans.
May: Found in a .txt document of random notes I'd saved on my desktop: The Liars' Club - "Where the only truth is that everything here is a lie."
June: To make up for my posting drought (not that anyone noticed...), have a picture I just did of my friend's original character, Shinya Toshio the Esper.
July: I was reading through back-entries in the archives of Slacktivist's dissection of the Left Behind series, and found this list of permutations on the Number of the Beast to be amusing.
August: I went with my friend Melissa to see a live performance of Vienna Teng for the third year running that I almost forgot I was going to go see because I haven't been paying close attention to the passing of the days.
September: First off, check out this teddy bear cell phone handset.
October: A recent conversation with dantaron reminded me of a song skeleton in my closet.
November: It's day two of NaNo and I've got 4,695 words thrown into the bucket now - a modest word count.
December: Uses the Gamma themeset from 1sentence.

-Reileen
in the terminal, she sleeps on my shoulder