Someone online pointed to this article on Gilgi over on Yahoo! News. It sounds like it is pretty much sucks.

Critics Call Affleck, J Lo. Movie ‘Gigli’ a Turkey

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Call it one of the biggest turkeys of all time.

The romance between Ben Affleck ( news ) and Jennifer Lopez ( news ) has captivated the American public, but their first movie together is already being called a low point of cinema history.

If early reviews are anything to go by, the pairing of the real-life love birds in the movie “Gigli” looks set to bomb when it opens at the U.S. box office Friday.

Among its biggest problems is a love scene in which Lopez spreads her legs and tells a smoldering Affleck, “It’s turkey time. Gobble, gobble.” [Yahoo! News]

I remember playing Glider when I was a CCon (computer room consultant) back at Carnegie Mellon. It was usually on one of the macs if the lab had them. The game concept was very simple and kind of silly. You control a paper airplane as it glides through a house. You can move it back and forth some with the controls, but a lot of the game is using things in the environment to help keep you aloft while avoiding hazards. The company that published the game went bankrupt and the rights to the game reverted to the author, John Calhoun. He’s now gone and made Glider available for free on his web site. It runs on OS X and Mac OS 9. It’s always nice to see people keeping older games alive.

Saki: “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.” [Quotes of the Day]

A bukkake artist needs YOUR help. The Reverse Cowgirl writes about this bukkake-based art project:

Skye Ashbrook is a graffiti artist interested in bringing the word “bukkake” to the streets of his fair city–Austin, Texas–one stencil at a time. To do so, though, Skye needs your help. He wants to know the Japanese character spelling of bukkake, so he can, well, bukkake Austin with it. 

Here’s how Skye explains his bukkake-based art project:

“In Austin, there is a decent amount of stencil work going on–lots of regular girls & porn-star girl-type imagery, some political figures, some random crap. I have a stencil I want to add on top of other stencils, adding to them, transforming an average porn-star, politician, or movie star stencil into a well-labeled bukkake scene. There is a Marilyn Monroe stencil that just needs a little bit extra–I guess that’s what started it all. It’s been there for months, un-touched, no additions, nothing. People seem to think it’s sacred? Not sure, but I think it’s unfinished. I was also thinking that with the upcoming political season and impending elections, the bukkake stencil could nicely modify the huge mugshots of the candidates that will be popping up everywhere.” [the reverse cowgirl’s blog]

Btw, for everyone’s information, the internal spellchecker that comes with OS X doesn’t know Bukkake by default.

Harry Potter fun, thanks to the folks at bash.org. Here’s a sample:

<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word “wand” with “wang” in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let’s see the results…

<JonJonB> “Why aren’t you supposed to do magic?” asked Harry.
<JonJonB> “Oh, well — I was at Hogwarts meself but I — er — got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an’ everything

<JonJonB> A magic wang… this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

<JonJonB> “Yes, yes. I thought I’d be seeing you soon. Harry Potter.” It wasn’t a question. “You have your mother’s eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work.”
<JonJonB> “Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. ” [bash.org]

From Gizmodo. Pics of the new Playstation Portable

I want. Thankfully it isn’t out yet.

Okay, I just spent the better part of the last half hour coughing my lungs out. When I went to call my friend Pete at the club I could barely squeak out the words “I. won’t. be. there.” And now I’m even more cranky. But the Tussionex is finally taking affect and I’m feeling a bit high now, so things will be okay. I hope my voice comes back soon.

Buh.

Woman gives birth on subway train

BOSTON A woman gave birth to a boy Wednesday morning on a subway train in Boston, transit police said.

Passengers said the mother quietly declined their assistance while she was in labor on the full rush-hour train, said Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Lt. Gary Fredericks. He met the train at the JFK stop on the Red Line after train commuters used cell phones to call for help.

“She didn’t tell anybody, didn’t say a word,” about the birth, Fredericks said. “Next thing they knew the baby was on the floor.” [Boston.com]

I’ve had a headache all day and even taking two aleve didn’t put a dent in it. Blah. I’ll try grabbing some on my way out to Vertigo tonight and see if that helps. Btw. Everyone should go tonight. Even if I’m not spinning this week. Have some nice cool drinks to offset the warm weather.

Fred Thompson<: "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." [Quotes of the Day]