Oscar Wilde
“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always

loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with

the dictates of reason.”
[Quotes of the Day]

This morning I drove out to my hometown, Glastonbury, CT, to go to some of the fruit and vegetable stands to get stuff for my BBQ tomorrow (btw, any of my friends who I haven’t mentioned it to I’m having a smallish bbq tomorrow, drop me an email if you want to drive to Hartford). First, the ride was so nice. And it was great to be able to just park the car and not have to put up the windows and lock everything up. One of the nice things about a small town. The more I think about it the more I’d love to end up in a place like that.

Imagine New York City, Spider-Man swooping through the streets. And then he starts to sing!

Spider-Man: The Musical

July 09, 2004

According to Variety “Spider-Man is about to become a musical.”  Though Marvel has not confirmed the story, Variety maintains that Neil Jordan (director of The Crying Game) will write the book for the musical with Bono and the Edge of U2 performing the songwriting chores and Julie Taymor, who helmed the hugely popular stage adaptation of The Lion King, directing and Tony Adams (Victor/Victoria) producing. [ICv2]

I’m sorry. Even if I try to think of this the theme from the animated show keeps flashing through my head. Imagine if the opening to the musical is a variation on that theme. Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can.

Via my friend Jeff:

SEX AND ROCK’N’ROLL!

A couple of Norwegian music fans face court action after they stripped off and had sex onstage during a rock concert.

Tommy Hol Ellingsen, 28, and his girlfriend Leona Johansson, 21, say they did it to help save the rain forest. Public sex is illegal in Norway.

According to Norwegian TV’s Nettavisen, the pair are members of an organisation called Fuck For Forest which is dedicated to having sex in public places in order to save the environment.

During a show for Norwegian band Cumshots on Tuesday, the pair walked onstage, asked ‘How far are you willing to go to save the world?’, took their clothes off and got jiggy with it. [NME.com]

There’s a personality test going around on LJ and I finally took it. It seems I’m an evil genius. I like the sound of it. Not quite as good at a SUUUUPER genius, but close.

You are an SEDF–Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting.

Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well–even those you have known a long time–because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable.

You are not to be messed with. You may explode.

The test can be found over here.

Over on my LJ friend’s list, this post surfaced yesterday about John Kerry and John Edwards, complete with picture.

When John reached out across the space between them, he knew he was doing more than symbolizing how their partnership would bridge the gap between the divided halves of America. He was making an overture that could both save him and damn him, but as he took John’s rough-skinned palm into his own cool, smooth fingers, he knew he couldn’t resist. That touch sparked something in him, something that made him dream of an end to so many cold, lonely long Massachusetts nights, and a beginning to something beautiful and warm in the District of Columbia. The campaign trail had been a rough one, but he needed just one word to give him the promise that he would no longer have to do it alone. He looked into those twinkling eyes and leaned forward, hoping to hear that soft Southern voice tell him, “Yes.” Just that one word, and then he could take so much more from those soft lips. [click for more…]

Of course, this post led to the creation of the JohnXJohn community over on LiveJournal. I’m both hopelessly amused and horrified. I will never look at pictures of the two of them the same again.

As usual, from that /usr/bin/girl:

Flash Fun: Microlife

Grow, train, and defend Microlife in this little flash simulation game. Each level has a different objective; passing one will give you the password to continue. It’s not too difficult, but I found it rather entertaining. [#!/usr/bin/girl]

I lost a good hour and a half playing this one, even if it is a little slow to start out.

An old high school and college friend IMed me the other day and was telling me about some of his current projects. One that caught my eye was Hosting Comparison. It’s a site that compares various types of web hosting services, from shared hosting to dedicated web server hosting. He’s also working on on expanding the features and should be opening up a sister site in the near future (I’ll be sure to mention it when he does).

This morning I was chatting with a friend of mine about some of the great old movie serials I’d seen over the years. On a whim I decided to google for “Movie Serials” and found The Serial Squadron. It’s a site dedicated to old serials, including having DVDs available of some classic ones I remember. I’m really thinking about picking up a copy of The Phantom Empire. How can you go wrong with Gene Autry?

Some of the shows they’re working on just so so wonderfully wrong, like MALA: Secret Agent of the South Seas.

Yes, it’s the serial that everyone’s talking about. It’s the one and only Mala, the spy with the floral loincloth, and his pals Rex, King of the Wild Horses, and Buck the big fat St. Bernard, to the rescue as evil saboteurs crack codes and plot to blow up dirigibles and set fire to ships and stuff on remote Clipper Island in the South Seas. Will super-spy Mala’s good looks convince the beautiful island princess to save him from being sacrificed in the fire pit? Who is that guy with the amazingly bad cockney accent and what is he doing in this serial?

Oh yeah, and be sure to check out Ask Ming in the Games section.

I was looking around Wikipedia to see if they had anything about Pulmonary Fibrosis and discovered that Peter Stone, who wrote Charade and Father Goose (two of my favorite Cary Grant movies), died of pulmonary fibrosis. Of course Wikipedia doesn’t seem to have anything on Pulmonary Fibrosis or IPF yet, so I guess I may have to contribute something.