- I finally saw "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World." For about the first half I was gleeful; by the second half I was still gleeful, but I was also distracted by the things that had come out of the story in order to pack six volumes into one film that still felt a tad long. Good: The 8-Bit touches that they kept were great. Kim Pine was PERFECT. Also ( Read more... )

From Aftenposten (which finally has both an RSS feed and select articles in English): Heirs to the Scandinavian thrones study the Arctic. If we have to live in a world with kings and queens, I think they ought to be doing stuff like this. Even though it's probably all an excuse to party under the midnight sun ( Read more... )

I am so annoyed at myself. I totally spaced the 200th anniversary of my blog! I mean, clearly I haven't had this particular blog for 200 years (LJ's only been around for, what? Seven years? And Blogger since 1926 or so, I think . . .), and while I could give you a URL to the archives of my then-blog (with the rather inflated title of " ( Read more... )

Feel free to interpret as you will, or to express your own bemusement below.