carla [email] said at 6:54 PM 06-19-2008: and don't forget to mention "Boogie Woogie Bagel Boy", which just happened to be floating through my head today.
amanda [email] said at 6:59 PM 06-19-2008: ...und der Wienerschnitzel!
I am having an exceptionally shitty day. I could go for an encased meat product and the sweet smell of stale beer and failure wafting from the misery bar right now.
brandon [email] said at 1:30 AM 06-21-2008: More like a sleek river otter who's discovered there's a great big ocean out there, and she doesn't just have to settle for zebra mussels anymore.
amanda [email] said at 6:55 AM 06-21-2008: The river otter is still a bit confused at being spat out into the great big ocean, but she's got her trusty kelp forest to rest in while she gets her bearings in order and if all goes well, she'll be cracking open scallops on her belly in no time.
Mmm...scallops...
...wrapped in bacon and coated in garlic butter and grilled on rosemary skrewers...
rick [email] said at 3:18 PM 06-20-2008: I remember watching this film as a young 'un. I guess it is no sillier than when the dolphin saved the day in Johnny Mnemonic
julie [email] said at 1:25 AM 06-21-2008: I saw Johnny Mnemonic. All I remember is that Henry Rollins played some kind of badass back-ally surgeon in a trench coat. (? did I just make that up?)
rick [email] said at 6:31 PM 06-21-2008: Nope. That really happened. It is just one of many quality roles in quality films that Hank has done, another being the SWAT Team guy in Bad Boys II.
brandon [email] said at 1:14 AM 06-21-2008: Star Trek the Voyage Home. You see, after Kirk and the other crew members of NCC-1701 successfully rescued Spock's regenerated body from the Genesis planet and reintegrated his consciousness, or "katra," which he had placed in Dr. McCoy toward the end of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (foreshadowing, Khan's catchphrase was/is/are the last word's of Captain Ahab as he goes out against Moby Dick - I destructive White Whale) they returned to earth aboard a Klingon Bird of Prey to face certain prosecution for illegally hijacking the mothballed Enterprise (lost in the previous film) to their surprise and astonishment they discovered that an impregnable alien probe, broadcasting phase-shifted whalesong (a crusading White Whale sent to avenge the Ahabs of yesteryear) had been sent to Earth, tasked with contacting humpback whales, possibly for immoral porpoises. Because of global warming, and the barbarisms of the 20th century, there literally were no humpback whales to respond to the probe, which, actually began ripping the planet apart in an attempt to contact the whales. Kirk's crew, identifying the signal the probe was looking for, traveled BACK IN TIME by flying around the sun, in order to procure humpback whales who might then be transported into the future so that they might sing to the alien probe and bring the joy of whale song to children, while restocking the music shelves of nature's wonder's stores throughout the galaxy. Unfortunately, while flying around the sun they experienced some technical difficulties. And they need radioactive protons to resomething their dilithium crystals, thus the need to find the nuclear vessels. It's pretty technical, so I won't bore you with the science.
myriam [email] said at 1:24 AM 06-21-2008: still, the entire movie would have fallen apart for me at the unbelievable point that someone on the street in SF did not know where Alameda was. You would have had to have smoked a LOT of hippie weed for that one. Oh, wait...
brandon [email] said at 1:35 AM 06-21-2008: For instance, there's no way that Chekhov could have collected enough radioactive protons to re-stabilize the dilithium crystals in that amount of time, it's just, it's just not possible.
Plus, the whole movie was kind of a rip-off of the City on the Edge of Forever. But with Whales.
amanda [email] said at 6:13 AM 06-21-2008: I just found out that one can order a custom license plate frames. My current one says "Alameda: The Island City." I may have to get "Celebrate Alameda's Nuclear Wessels" or some such in the near future.
anthony [email] said at 10:28 AM 06-26-2008: I just rode a bike through Alameda County this past Saturday. I ended up riding to Indian Rock where I later read people could launch a barrage of bottles and garbage on the neighborhood below.
