I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

ODDS N' ENDS

-Yeah, I was intending to post regulary during the holidays, but, you know, "stuff"... oh well. I hope everyone had a merry Christmas, Hanukkhah and/or miscelaneous winter solstice-related holiday and a Happy New Year, but, to be honest, I feel insincere expressing such things to people at random, so that's why I never wished that before. I'll get back to posting regularly this coming week.

-I got several DVDs including Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean, the second Magical Project S two-disk set, Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto's animated musical Interstella 5555 and the second season box set of King of the Hill. Also Nick got me the anime Read or Die based on my Amazon.com Wish List, which was thoughtful but I had it already, so he had to take it back. Damn, I should update my Amazon Wish List more frequently. I also got a clock-radio/CD player, a few books, some winter clothing and pajamas, a gift certificate to L'Equipeur (Mark's Work Wearhouse in the province of Quebec) and a subscription to National Geographic. Not bad...

-Look, it's fine if you're a teenager or older and like it (I like Sailor Moon after all, and I'm 29), but, sorry, Yu-Gi-Oh is a kid's show, pure and simple, perhaps with a few elements *not* considered inappropriate for children's television in Japan which would be taboo for kiddy TV on North American shows, but, still, as it's aired in Japan on a children's television timeslot, it's a children's show. Check this "Ask John" column for the straight scoop from John Oppliger himself. Now, please stop spamming the Anime News Network forum.

-Remeber the kitten we found in October? Nick took her back to Toronto with him in October, and left her in the care of his roomate when he came back for Christmas. On Friday, he went back to Toronto, and was rather astonished to find about something that happened to the cat. Her testicles dropped. It was a "he" all along. And I was the first one to say he was a female... well, look, I couldn't see a penis, so it was difficult to tell.

-Yeah, Friday, January 2nd, was officially, keeping in mind that my birthday was October 2nd, 1974, the day it became clear to me that I wouldn't be a father until my thirties. Damn, that's depressing. Damn, the fact that my 30th birthday is less than 9 months away is also depressing. Not that I'm remotely ready to be a father, but, still.

-Yeah, I did get a cheap, dorky thrill out of recognizing Berri-UQAM M�tro (subway) station in Friday's installment of SomethingAwful.com's "Photoshop Phriday" about "Amusement Park Madness", with a roller coaster pulling in. I deserve a medal for recognizing a station hundreds of thousands of people pass through a day. Where's my medal!?

-Finally, the pro-Bush, counter Google bomb for "Great President" which was circulated around various blogs was hardly a "miserable failure". Go to Google, put "great president" into the search bar and press "I'm feeling lucky!" Funny on how the media hasn't reported on this Google bomb nearly as much.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 10:25 AM