Playing Indiana is the title that the Stranger kindly chose to retain for my preview of this weekend’s rare screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.
I could tell you more – much more – but then, I’d have to kill you.
I shust wann-ed ta, erm, uh
drunken shoutouts: now available in convenient audioblog format. [via MeFi]
Attn: Jim!
KAPAO visits Apple
Events: “Today, KAPAO sent the ‘KAPAO Car’ to Apple Computer, Inc. in Cupertino California. The small compact car had a sign on the hood identifying it with KAPAO. The car was driven by a well dressed fellow, and there were two teenage kids and a dog in the car. The KAPAO Car had been fitted with a sound system. The car drove around Cupertino with this message heard on it’s loudspeakers: ‘WE ARE KIDS AND PETS AGAINST OVERTIME AND WE ARE HERE TO SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF YOU APPLE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HERE WORKING LONG HOURS AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILIES ON A WEEKEND DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.’ They also promised to have an interview with Santa Claus later on.”
It quite escapes me where I came upon this, but it was certainly among the usual suspects.
Meet the Candidate
I’d like to introduce you to a new friend of mine. I won’t mention him by name in order to minimize the goog factor. Shh! No pointing. Be nice.
Flash fest
Non-MeFi readers who work with Flash may have missed last Friday’s Organic Flash post.
Superpolymesh
Viv and I just got back from seeing The Incredibles (finally), and I won’t bore you with predictable rantings about its’ excellence. I will say, however, that word on a certain Randian subtext is clearly correct. Part of the film’s triumph is the remarkable fact that this did not provoke sneering on my part.
I certainly cannot wait for the DVD to begin savoring both the delicious production detail and the depth of interesting referents (such as Syndrome’s clear precursor, Heat Miser). The Parrs’ living room made me miss relatives and older friends who lived their lives in such mid-century modern homes.
I have only heard one brief comment that compared the film to Watchmen, but it seems clear that the relationship of the two stories should be closely examined. At a minimum, I would speculate that The Incredibles has made it that much harder to get a good version of Watchmen made as a film, if anyone is even trying anymore.
Oh, and apparently, I have a thing for lady superhero pilots. Hearing her issuing callsign update after callsign update somehow involved me in the jeopardy of that scene like no other aviation scene I’ve ever watched. And brother, I have watched some aviaton movies, let me tell you. The hell with Top Gun’s testosterone-addled nincompoops, I’ll take The Incredibles any day.
It's clobberin' time
Yushchenko remix, courtesy Danelope.
I still say the last image is insufficiently orange!
Linky linky
MonkeyFilter | Firefox Extension: Makelink 2.0: a Firefox widget that adds link-formatting to clipboard data. I have been intending to roll my own for OS-wide contextual menus, but, like, this’ll do, as long as it’s platform-compatible.
Advent
Let’s get Adventious!, from taz at Viewropa, looks at advent calendars as a German tradition.
Darrin Perry, in passing
Darrin Perry has passed away, notes Boing Boing.
Perry redesigned Wired in 2002, and I took the occasion to snark at the magazine. Perry gently corrected one of my mistakes in the comments, prompting me to look a bit more seriously at what he’d been up to.
RIP, Darrin. That one comment was a highly effective bit of consumer-and-critic management. I’m sure you’re deeply missed by those that knew you.