People Need Maps

Map of A1A Beachfront Ave, Hollywood, FL.
So here is Maps For Us. This dingbat stated in her post-debacle interview that she wants to work in my industry. Now I see how Bratz was made.

I got worms

Yet another Dune adaptation on the way, apparently a director with some pull has been asking for a feature length film remake, so we’ll see what this interpretation yields. In the same thread, discussion arose about the Giger/Dali collaborated effort back in the late 70’s that eventually failed, but man, that would have been an eye-opening film if made.

Speaking of weird, I never knew this about the world of fishing. I guess I now understand the whole fascination with the sea thing. You can bet I’ll be checking my fish for bones…and chlymidia from now on. …Linky…

And finally, it was Sci-Fi Day, at work…and no one told me. Guess Crewman Red Shirt waits in the closet until Halloween.

Billboard Jebus loves you this much, so does Billboard Kitty. You must choose, but choose wisely.

Wonder Twin Powers–ACTIVATE!

WTF?

Oh Frak

Turns out it’s not Sci-Fi Day, there were just people wandering around my company in Star Trek uniforms for some reason spreading malicious rumors. Sci-Fi Day is actually on Isaac Asimov’s birthday January 2nd, so egg on my face…or back.

Today is Sci-fi Day!

Crack open a Romulan Ale and celebrate. Glavin.

For that troubling map problem…

An incredibly geeky Ripley theory

I’m prefacing this post with precognition that AVP-R is most likely going to suck, yet being a fan of the source material, I saw an opportunity to theorize on the glimpse of a character in the trailer for the present-day sequel. Continuing on my hypothesis that the little girl could be a young Ripley, I did a little geek research and found the following:

The events surrounding the Nostromo’s landing on LV-426 took place in 2122 (the first Alien film). In this film, Ripley is in her late 20’s/early 30’s which could potentially be explained by stasis induced for the purposes of interstellar travel. Even with FTL travel, it would decades to reach the distances referenced in the films…

However, looks like my theory has fallen prey to paradox of overgeekiness, my research revealed that according to Alien backstory, Ripley was born on Jan. 7, 2092. That and the lead character’s name, that looks a heck of lot like Sigourney Weaver, is actually O’Brien, but! That still doesn’t preclude the possibility that she could marry a descendant of the Ripley family (according to the Earth Angel Alien comic a Dr. Daniel Ripley killed a Queen in the 1950’s) have a Ripley kid that ends up being Sigourney’s character’s Mom or Grandmother.

I’m gonna go give myself an atomic wedgie and throw myself in a garbage can.

But not before throwing a few of these in some Bibles, a reaction to the Georgia law our christian fundamentalist government mandated requiring warnings in science books about the dangers of evolution and gravity.

Going down the memory hole

I heard this on NPR on my way in to work this morning, apparently China’s Thought Police are concerned that their national eddict to ban all illegal web surfing (ie. gambling, porn, dissident thought) hasn’t stopped a segment of the populace (I believe they’re called Proles, if memory serves me right) from visiting said sites on a regular basis.

China’s solution?

Tiny animated Chinese internet cops that “patrol” the web every 30 minutes. The anime morality enforcement officers will serve to remind users that it’s wrong to click on questionable sites, also allowing the truly loyal to report transgressions whether it be fellow citizens, friends, or family members…sound familiar?

It should, if not you were sleeping during high school English Lit. The whole thing is so frightening, I’m going to finish this entire bottle of Victory Gin and enjoy a rousing, “Two Minutes Hate” session.

Hail Big Brother.

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On another note…how much you wanna bet the little girl in AVP-R is going to be Ripley as a kid and they’ll have some dipsey-doo excuse like repressed memory to explain her not remembering her childhood Alien run-in?

Just saying.

Hipster Olympics

Unicorn Vomit

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