THE UGLY BUG BALL C/O UK

I admit, dear reader, to being a little shaken-up. Every two or three days a friend will send me an e-mail with a link attached; to something that they feel I might be interested in investigating.

When I arrived home this afternoon, I received not one, not two, but three e-mailed links -- for the exact same thing! Really?! Do I look as though I need to be made aware of a dating site dedicated to "ugly people"?

Thanks guys. And one girl.

I will sleep unevenly tonight.

Trust the Brits, they who developed and use the expression "as ugly as sin", to start a website for less attractive people. Not only that, but the site, in keeping with its theme, is ugly...
http://theuglybugball.co.uk/


(Picture above: At least my cat still loves me. I'm going to change his name from "Vermin" to "Always".)

TERRY GILLIAM ON STAR WARS

I'm doing one of my spells right now. I'm watching a few Monty Python's Flying Circus DVDs. Went to the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) to read up on the boys. Came across this interesting quote from Terry Gilliam...

(on future use of CGI in his films) "Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things."


I have always had trouble summing up what I feel is so wrong about the Star Wars 'prequel' films. Gilliam has nailed the problem for me. Those films are "dead things" indeed.

Now I can move on.

STAR TREK 365 BOOK

Here is a Star Trek (original series) bliss-out: A new horizontal format picture-based coffee table book dedicated to the famous show is set to be released on September 1st. Already it is listed on Amazon... I noticed that the list price is $29, and find that odd as the press release states that the beasty is 744 pages (and with dimensions of just over 6 x 9 inches). That tells me there is a misprint somewhere. Photo-heavy books tend to cost upwards of $50 or even a lot more.

As for text content there are episode by episode critical commentaries, interviews with cast members and production people, and behind-the-scenes information. Just the kind of things to help Trekkies... I mean, Trekkers, like me achieve critical orgasm.


First, the foreplay...
http://trekmovie.com/2010/04/15/trek-book-news-star-trek-365-cover-description-new-vanuard-tng-era-books-announced-for-2011/

BF SMIGHT TWEETS 3

Took a walk around downtown "T.O." (Toronto) today. It was so nice to be able to walk more than 20 feet and not turn into a moving shower. A cooler and less hot humid day is welcome relief.

BF SMIGHT TWEETS 2

In fact, we have York University students in this area also... even though there is a bit of a commute to get to school from here.

BF SMIGHT TWEETS

Just occurred to me that U of T (University of Toronto) students start filing back into the neighbourhood over the next two weeks.

JD ROUETTE TWEETS

I have never bothered to follow a Twitter's tweets. To me, the whole idea of reading such scribblings is akin to reading the inside of a bathroom stall door. Besides I have more pressing concerns in there.

However, my attitude has changed a tiny bit with the premiere of JD Rouette's brand new (two day old) Twitter account...
www.twitter.com/jdrouette

MIDDLE AGE BRAINS

If you are over 40 (ish) you may not want to read this article...
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/mindmood/article/845088--why-the-middle-aged-brain-can-be-a-potent-force?bn=1#comments

... Like Miles Monroe, it is my "second favourite organ". Although in my case it is second to the one on my living room floor.

"Brain, brain. What is brain?!"

Looks like I'm losing it...

DEATH COMES - JUNK MEET

Just finished watching my third ever episode of the limited CBC series Kids in the Hall: Death Comes To. (This is a repeat run... saw two stories back in its original airing.)

What a bad show -- as bad as that other CBC "comedy" series, Little Mosque on the Prairie. (And Death Comes is bad in a Little Mosque way. Both series do not play by their own ground rules.)

Hey. SunTV is playing Enter the Dragon right now. Tuned in as John Saxon met-up with Jim Kelly on a junk. Man, this straight guy thinks those two are amazing together on-screen...

... And here comes Keye Luke! Awesome. (Well, it's Keye Luke's voice.)

FUNNY CLOSING LINE

Columnist Eric Margolis is now in his last or next-to-last week with that right wing rag, the Toronto Sun.

As regular readers of mine have noticed, I like the man's straight and to-the-point weekly filings. His style is necessarily dry. But, read this and focus on the last paragraph...
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/07/30/14880351.html

... My day has been made already. Comedy takes many forms. The truth, in fact, can be very funny.