Index of Movie Posts -- from Sept. 2008 to present!
IT'S A SOMY -- the blog for those who love dumb fake products in their anime
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Huzzah!
Quick reminder that the MST3K chat is going on right at this moment. We'll be starting the show in a few minutes. We're in the room called 'Movie Sign.'
And here is the episode we will be watching!
Hope to see plenty of you there! :)
Go Team USA!
OK, apparently everyone on NBC is calling the USA basketball team the "Redeem Team" because of America's non-gold medal finishes in the last couple of Olympics and other world basketball tournaments.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccckkkkkkk that noise. What a stupid ass name. I'm referring to them as the Dream Team 2.0 and nothing else. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul AND Deron Williams all on the same team? Yeah, they ain't out for redemption -- they're out for domination.
Anyway, I'm off to watch Team USA vs. China right now. Get ready to feel the pain, Yao Ming. Also a nice opportunity to see Sun Yue, who signed a deal to play shooting guard with the Lakers. Woo!
EDIT: Also BTW, game is on tape delay here, so obviously the game has already been played, and the winner is known. If anyone spoils the winner here, I will find you and kill you.
BTW, keep recommending Web sites to me -- I'm going through them while watching the game. Right now, I'm reading the Indecision '08 blog. Fun stuff.
EDIT2: Fun game so far, if a bit sloppy. LeBron James is a disgusting athlete. Everyone who watches the NBA knows this, but man, it's like his athleticism has been amplified in the Olympics. He had two absolutely sick blocks -- one where he practically jumped halfway up the backboard and slammed the ball against the glass, and the other where he just went, "Eh, fuck this," jumped and grabbed the ball out of the air (!!!). He also had an amazing alley-oop dunk that made me jump out of my bed.
I *heart* LeBron. (Forgot we can't use brackets here. Argh.)
EDIT3: OK, so apparently George W. Bush is one of those assholes who leaves the game early when his team is up big. What, you got some place better to be, MR. PRESIDENT? Huh??
Was impressed with how China started the game. Good 3-point shooting -- part of that was some sloppy 3-point defense by the Americans, but shitty shooters don't hit seven of their first 11 3-point shots. The U.S. team quickly clamped down defensively, though; China had a hell of a time hitting 3-point shots until garbage time.
I'm officially on the Sun Yue bandwagon. He hit some killer shots in the beginning of the game, AND he wears a red shooting sleeve, which means I am required to love him. The Lakers are now a center shy of having the ability to field an all-foreign basketball team -- Sasha Vujacic at the point, Sun Yue at shooting guard, Vladimir Radmanovic at small forward and Pau Gasol at power forward. That would rock.
I Need to Waste Time
I like the places I usually go to on the Internet, but I visit them day after day and they sometimes get stagnant and boring (never this place though!). Some freshness needs to be injected into my daily Internet routine.
You guys and gals can help me out. Link me to some of your go-to time-wasting Web sites, whether they're forums, or humor sites, or information sites, or what the hell ever. Any subject works for me -- anime, TV, literature, random shit, disgusting pornography. Just throw anything out, even if you're not sure I'll like it. I am desperate here lol. Also lazy.
EDIT: Also, come to the chat around 6:30 p.m. to participate in the test run of a MST3K-watching session! The episode is "Pod People," which is an excellent Joel episode -- lots of funny jokes and my favorite host segment ever. Fun for the entire family!
Captain Cook, of the Asshole Brigade
I don't talk much about my job here. Hm.
I've got about a month remaining before I hit the magical 200 hour number in my internship. My two months (has it really been that long already??) there have been pretty fun. The work environment is pretty laid back, and I like the people there a lot -- where else could I talk fantasy baseball with my boss and play 8-ball with my co-workers during down time?
The work itself is not bad. Although I design pages occasionally, I mainly edit stories for all the fun stuff -- grammatical and spelling errors, style errors, and so on. Sometimes I even write headlines. (I feel like a dork for being proud to see one of my headlines make it into the paper unchanged, but it is cool to see, even if nobody outside the office knows who the hell writes them.)
In general, our writers are competent, so we mainly edit to shorten things up if we need to save space. However, it is not editing the work of our writers that annoys the copy editors. Nope -- it's editing the columnists' submissions that drives us up the wall.
It takes a certain sort of person to write a column -- a person with a strong personality who can come with any random topic and go on about it. Unfortunately, this breed of person is also touchy about editing, which means we can get an earful of bullcrap if we "unjustly" edit their precious columns. That's always fun to deal with.
Not all the columnists are bad. There is this one guy, Peter Buffa, whose columns I like reading because he writes about interesting things, and because his writing style is quite bizarre. He also actually knows how to write, which is nice. The main problem with him is separating paragraphs into more readable chunks.
But for every Buffa, there is a B.W. Cook, whose columns are stuffy, boring, pretentious and make me want to vomit. It's like the same high society column every week with the same random, rich socialites. To make matters worse, his columns are riddled with random errors, and he always has these enormous, unwieldy paragraphs that are like some 10-year-old's first message board post. I hate this asshole.
There is also a legal column written by Judge James P. Gray that my co-workers despise, and also does not seem to be on the Web site. It is usually horribly boring, blandly written and more ginormous than a boss from Shadow of the Colossus. Still, he makes way fewer errors than Douchebag Cook up there, so he is only second-in-command of the Asshole Brigade for me.
Something that is kind of interesting about the three newspapers we put out (the Daily Pilot, the Huntington Beach Independent and the Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot) is they have an assload of religious content, which isn't too surprising since the Orange County area is infamously conservative. I'm actually not even opposed to the religious columns; the contributors are generally level-headed, seemingly nice people, and we do get semi-regular contributions from a member of the local humanist association (although, ironically, he comes off as much more insane than the religious folk, since he's always spouting random conspiracy theories; what a lunatic).
So, um, that's about as much as I feel like writing about the ol' job, since this could quickly shift into tl;dr territory. *bounces off to watch more Utena*
Oops
Har har, posted here when I meant to post in the Library of Loons. Poopie!
