I had the unusual good fortune to observe first hand two separate reactions to the "taste" haiku.
The Bunny: OH! haha! Rowr! hee hee! Me-ow! *giggle* Ruff, ruff!
Sister: Goah! You know, some posts simply must come with a sister warning!
Monthly archives for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Haiku appreciation
I'm all Asterixed up now
eBay rules! I finally got myself a copy of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix.
What? You've never heard of Asterix? Pfft. Asterix The Gaul is a French cartoon about the adventures of a village of Gauls set in the time period of the Roman conquest. The cartoon is huge in Europe. Asterix is kind of like the French Mickey Mouse. He's even got his own Disneyland style theme park, Parc Asterix.
In the late 70s, Buena Vista acquired the American distribution rights for Asterix. In 1981 (I think?), I sprained my ankle playing soccer and spent a couple of weeks home from school with my foot propped up on the couch. I got to see three different Asterix movies on HBO. I absolutely fell in love with The Twelve Tasks of Asterix.
Sometime in the early 90s I found a video store that had a VHS copy. I must've rented it half a dozen times. But I've never seen it since. I've seen copies on eBay, but I've always been hesitant. See, this movie's never had a DVD release. So how can I know what I'm really getting when I order one of those mysterious DVDs?
I finally took the plunge and bought one.
It arrived yesterday. The plastic case is the flimsiest case I've ever seen. It's so thin I swear it would actually flex if I breathed at it. The paper insert in the display pocket is extremely low quality, like it was printed at home from a bad jpeg. The disk itself is a homemade printable DVD. I was a little worried.
I shouldn't have been. The movie is perfect. Both video and audio quality are on par with the 1976 original. Sweet!
I'm in heaven. If anyone needs me, I'll be watching Asterix. Again.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Are you home yet?
The wait is killer
when I just can't stop thinking
about how you taste.
Overheard on the Today show
Matt: …and someone else who's back in style in a big way, Mariah Carey will be on the show…
Who says Mariah Carey is in style again? Really, does anyone actually give a rip about her? I think the answer to that is "no." Maybe studio executives and Hollywood kingmakers have decided Mariah's hot again, but I don't think anyone else is really listening.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Church bells
Church bells-
a call to the faithful
and their money
Friday, May 26, 2006
Memorial Day
Memorial Day-
a bead of sweat
between her breasts
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Two things
I have a nemesis whose Promiscuous post has that goddamn song stuck in my head. I'm trying to drive it out with an assortment of musical goodness, like Supreme Beings of Leisure, but so far it's not working.
And on a completely unrelated note, today is working out to be a day for beverages. I had my usual bottle of water first thing this morning, followed by a Bunny latte, followed by orange juice and chocolate milk for the Hangover Thursday breakfast, and now a Mountain Dew.
More about the latte business:
Bunny: What's with this $20 bill on my desk?
Me: That was in the washer. I didn't have any clothes in that load, so it must be yours.
Bunny: Cool!
(A few minutes later)
Me: Bunny?
Bunny: (Apprehensive) Yee-ahh?
Me: You know how I gave you that $20 I found?
Bunny: Yeah?
Me: You didn't even know you had it, so you didn't even know you'd lost it, and I was doing the laundry so you didn't see it, and I could've taken it and you'd have never known it, but I knew that wouldn't be right since I knew it was your money, so I gave it to you even though I know I could've kept it and you'd've never known any better, but I didn't because I'm such a good boy.
Bunny: You want the $20?
Me: Will you make me a latte?
Bunny: How about I just give you the $20 and you go buy your own damn latte?
Me: Oh. I can do that. Never mind.
Bunny: No, no. I'll make you a latte. That's fine.
Bunny: (Thinking) I hate him, I hate him, I hate him.
Indefinable
The sum of our parts?
Our bodies are not the end.
Two plus two is five.
Whaaat?
What the hell is with those TV commercials for Ask.com? Does anyone actually believe that Ask.com is better, faster, or more reliable than Google (or A9 or Yahoo or MSN or whatever) just because the homely guy with the accent says so?
I saw one last night where the guy was using a bear attack as an important search. He then suggested something like, "If you're actually being attacked by a bear, you probably shouldn't be using any search engine, but if you did Ask.com would give you the best results."
I disagree. Well, I disagree with the who has the best search. I agree completely with not using a search engine while being attacked by a bear.
Search Google for bear attack. Result #2: Survive a bear attack.
Search Ask for bear attack. Result #4: Bear attack survival.
Ok, so who really gives a rat's ass? The real reason I'm annoyed is because I used to be active on the old ask.com (I mean the domain, not the company). Ask.com used to be a user-operated advice site. If you had a question on anything, from agriculture to zoology, they would have a forum and a pile of friendly volunteer experts for it. For a while I was involved enough that I climbed to the highest rated expert spot in the PC Tech Support category. I was even getting paid for my efforts.
Then the domain sold. Fucking Michael Douglas. 'sokay, I was pretty bored with it anyway. But still, it bums me out that it's gone. It's now a mediocre search engine with a bad haired spokesman.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Cool!
I've got a link on the Washington Post website.
True, it's just a Technorati thing pointing to a post where I linked to them, but still. I'm linked on WaPo.
Kneel before Zod.