Is he really all that "super"?

Up up and get away from my TV!

It's Friday night, so of course I'm sitting at home flipping channels, when I run across Superman II on the family channel. I'm thinking "Hey, Superman II! Well this will kill a couple of hours, after which I can start drinking." Now, as a child, I distinctly remember liking the first two Superman movies(and ONLY the first two.) To my child mind, the first was the "darker" movie, since many Kryptonians(?) died at the very beginning, along with Superman's mom and Marlon Brando, and a bunch of humans died as well, including Superman's love interest Lois Lane, only not really cause Superman altered the rotation of the Earth to make time go backwards so that they came back to life, or more accurately, never died in the first place. But then Superman doesn't get the girl, which also makes it kinda sad. And I always thought of Superman II as the "fun" one, cause it's really just a two-hour long excuse for super people to battle it out with each other, demonstrating their various super powers and generally making a mess of Gotham, er I mean Metropolis. And that all seemed pretty cool to me at the ripe old age of 9. So I'm watching it again tonight and...well, I think Superman II is beginning to lose it's luster. First of all, there are the atrocious special effects. Okay the part where that trans-dimensional crystal mirror prison thing explodes...that's clearly animation. I mean, weren't they making the Star Trek and Star Wars movies about this time? Couldn't they have seriously done something with computers or something, which I believe existed in 1983?? Secondly, while the overall storyline isn't ridiculous...it's just chock full of inconsistencies, incoherancies and cliches. Example: When the bad guys come floating down on the moon, we see two astronauts wandering around outside doing various "experiments". The first astronaut looks pretty much like a regular astronaut in a regular suit. But the second astronaut is wearing a completely incongruous suit made entirely of what appears to be aluminum foil. Why is he wearing a completely different suit? Was it too expensive to get TWO replica astronaut suits at the costume shop?? Well after killing off the poor astronauts our villains land in Texas, which I guess isn't that bad cause it is a pretty big state so the odds of them landing their randomly are pretty good. But why on Earth do the two policemen they run into have to be the world's biggest country bumpkins? And after that, how is it they end up in what appears to the most isolated town in Texas, where kids still run around in overalls with dirt on their faces? Frankly, as a Texan, I'm insulted by these cheap stereo-types, as everyone KNOWS that all Texans are actually oil tycoons with blonde, big-haired wives. And why on Earth would they begin their conquest of Earth by starting with the smallest, most bumpkin-ist town in Texas? I must say however that it appears to be only about a few hours into the conflict between General Zod and Podunk, TX, that the National Guard shows up to reinforce the local police. I must say that this is a fairly heroic response, compared to what we've just witnessed after Katrina. Had Zod landed in Lousiana and proceeded to attack New Orleans, I'm not sure the response would've been as timely. Anyway, I've only re-watched the first hour, that's pretty much all I have to say right now, though as this goes I imagine there will only be more.

Well, you can see where I'm going here. Superman II just ain't what it used to be. Now, if I happen to watch the "classic" Superman III anytime soon and find that it improves with age, I'll be sure to report back on that.

Cool story!

Yeah, I know we've all seen this before, but it's been a while and it's still helluva funny!



Mr. T is helluva cool! 

LSASS: Library Star All Star Staff

Real library stars (or so Google says)


I was waxing nostalgic today (instead of waxing what I'm usually waxing) and I got to thinking that while we've had some seriously cool people working at IPL, we've never had them all in the same place at the same time. So I got to thinking, what would have been the coolest combo of IPL employees possible, if we'd all worked at the locations we did, but all at the same time?

1. Chris, James, Daniel and I all working at VY at the same time. NOTHING would have gotten done. As it is very nearly nothing got done just when Chris, James and I were there.
2. John, Chris, Nathan, Amanda and I all working at NW at the same time. See above.
3. Nathan, Amanda, Kristina and I all working at Central at the same time. That mostly would have been us conspiring against admin and all central authority.
4. Nathan alone at EB. Oh wait, that happened.
5. Tim Lawrence, Amanda and me at North Lake. Wait, that happened too.

Okay, anyway you can see where I'm going with this. Surely I've left out other combos. Any suggestions?

I just think it's funny...

that in Seagoville, the city has a park right next to the federal penitentiary. Furthermore, driving by there today I saw them holding a carnival, whose back wall was the fence topped with barbed wire that forms the boundary of the prison. One side is filled with people enjoying some fun and games, the other with guys getting raped in the shower.

Oh man, this is sweet!

Wikipedia has a directory of internet phenomena! They have our favorits, like Bubb Rubb and Star Wars kid, and a ton of stuff I never heard of. If you just follow them you can usually find links to the actual content. There's some good stuff here! It'll keep you entertained for a while.

Wow...what a way to go

Turns out that in Sweden you can be frozen and mulched when you die. It just seems a little weird is all.

More books!

An Amazon user was thoughtful enough to put together a list of reading materials for those of us who wish to become enlightened about reptilians, ufos, underground bases, and something about Quetzalcoatl. Reading all these sounds like a job for Whitey. I tell you, I finished Ulysses but I usually can't make heads or tails of what these people are talking about.

Good reading!

You guys ever hear of Commander X? Well, check out some of the books he has on Amazon. These are non-fiction! As far as I know, we only have one book at the library by him, called "Time Travel: A How-To Insiders Guide ". It's how I found out about him. These are some other ones that look interesting:


Invisibility & Levitation : A How To Guide To Personal Performance

Reality of the Serpent Race and the Subterranean Origin of UFOs (Is he a friend of David Icke?)

Real Ultimate Power!

For those of you who don't know Real Ultimate Power, you have to check it out. There's the original and bunches of imitators. This is the original: http://www.realultimatepower.net/

Here's a large listing of different ones: http://brianx.com/realultimatepower.html

I like this one for the Baldwin Brothers.
http://students.washington.edu/eomoe/ultimate/

Yo

What's up peeps? Hit me with some comments.

Hey?

It seems to me that the more contributors we've gotten, the less actual blogging and commenting on blogging gets done. What's the deal here? Is there some kind of inverse law of bloggers to blogging? What does that formula look like?

E
-- = X

B

where E is "blog energy", B is the number of bloggers, and X is the total blog output? Help me out here math whizzes.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Watch your kids....

...they may actually hate you!

Reading cases for school is not always as boring as it sounds. Especially if one or more of the parties is actually insane. Take this excerpt from a 1947 case on the validity of a will. This is from the opinion written by the judge in the case:

"The deceased never married. Born in 1896, she lived with her parents until their death [in] about 1928, and seems to have had a normal childhood. She was devoted to both her parents and the to her. Her admiration and love o fher parents persisted after their death to 1934, at least. Yet four years later she wrote: 'My father was a corrupt, vicious, and unintelligent savage, a typical speciment of the majority of his sex. Blast his wormstinking carcass and his whole damn breed.' And in 1943, she inscribed on a photograph of her mother 'That Moronic she-devil that was my mother.'

Later on in the opinion:

"She regarded men as a class with an insane hatred. She looked forward to the day when women would bear children without the aid of men, and all males would be put to death at birth. Decedent's inward life....found an occasional outlet such as...the killing of a pet kitten."

It's the day that a client like this walks into my office, that I know it will have been worth it to go to law school.

PS The line "blast his wormstinking carcass and his whole damn breed" is too good not to use myself at a later, highly appropriate, moment.

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Be the first to make a joke in bad taste about New Orleans!

Sorry, I have none to give, but I'm eagerly awaiting your submissions!