seriously, it would make me gag in cleaning them up

a short snippet of a lexicon in FrankLisaSpeech

me: "mmh." - A Roslin-style hum for when I'm not saying out loud what I'm thinking in response to either a harebrained scheme or alcholic escapade, etc
Lisa: "Mmmmmm." - Lisa's version for the rare occasion she can't belt out what she's thinking
me and her: "Aiiiyaaa!" - frustation-noise
Lisa: "Huhfrank?" - an interjection, only inserted in the middle of sentences with no chance for me to respond, my imagined response apparently always being an affirmative agreement to back her up

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From Wyatt, another hardcore dude - one of the few times it's ok to stab yourself

Man, I'd hate to have these growing in the bathroom

fuglyscariest tentacles, ever.

The Mist, with Thomas Jane and Marcia Harden. Would have been better in black and white to gloss over a bit of bad CGI, but we forgot about that option, alas. Still, mostly pretty damn good special effects, nonetheless. It stayed true to the story amazingly (down to a couple subtle Dark Tower refs), though I inexplicably remember a different ending entirely than Kim and the movie do, oddly. And daaaaaaamn what an ending it is, like whoa. The bit of pseudo-documentary style made me a little leary, but was nice by the end, and the "religious" woman who turns insane-zealot had the same effect on me between text and film, an almost urge to vomit. Kudos, movie! Great translation between formats of a great story! (Also, if you're a fan of the game Half Life, check out this parallel story for sure)

I think they should spraypaint plants on scifi shows to reflect this. Think of the fun camo variations!

Nice quote: "A yogi is someone who can turn every circumstance to his advantage." [ie, a lesson in every experience, an opportunity for practice...]

Typo from recipe for mango mochi: "Sieve glutinous rice flour, rice flour and satan powder into a big mixing bowl. Add in the oil."

Dr Seuss vs nudity? Crazy.

Oh my...Prince Philip is either trying to be funny in horribly bad taste, or is just a complete jerk....though, a funny one

Urijah Faber (my new fav fighter): dude is unreal

DOO, DOO, DOODOODOO, deedleedleedleDOODOODOO (heh, hard to type out 'Iron Man')

Iron Man, with Robert Downey Jr, Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges. And a nice up and coming Arab actor, Faran Tahir. So, uh. Go see it. Right now. Downey is the perfect Tony Stark, there's a tiny Hulk cameo, plenty of other easter eggs through the end of the credits, action, a plot based on character development of the best kinds (ie, awesomeness coming from personal effort, or finding purpose through proper identification, etc), touches of hopeless-romantic, a narrative laced with echoing motifs, and heroics. Just. Yowza.

Wait, they're going to get even bigger?! Awesome. (brings back that old fear of Archie.....)

Have I mentioned how much I love Nike commercials? (nsfw peripheral ads, though)

I'm surprised there's not more commentary on a plant that has flowers and berries growing from the dang middle of the leaves

The River Wild, with Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon (and I'm right, the ranger was Benjamin Bratt!). Streep is an odd kind of attractive, definitely not conventional. Actually, not a bad movie at all, but not one I'd ever go out of my way to see or even sit through, normally. It's...solid, but that's about it - the characters, unique idea, relationships, etc are all well put together. I suppose the photography in the midst of all the rapids must have been hella hard and exhausting, though, kudos on that.

Ctrl*Z would be funny too, except it's not really a funny situation

Top Secret!, with Val Kilmer in his first role and Lucy Gutteridge (and Omar Sharif, oddly). Kind of like the latest incarnation of Harold and Kumar, stupid, but in a way that's actually hilarious. Amazing in what they could get away with in the 1980s, too, in terms of sexual jokes and boobage, for PG. Actually, what's most interesting is how much this movie has stood the test of time, in terms of, its jokes aren't temporal-context based, I think it would be funny regardless of when it's watched - old school slapstick, which is what a lot of the banal comedies being made now are missing.

Man, I can't read many more articles like this about Palestine. Though, interesting commentary on modern grafitti, on a wall on the road to our mom's hometown, "Control*Alt*Delete." (from Wyatt)

And from an email reponse to Wyatt asking what I would do:
I'd like to say I'd try to follow what I learned in reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography (re: a successful response to a similar situation), but the trick is, as a Palestinian, I don't think they have the same access to education that would allow them to put together that kind or response - they just aren't even aware of its existance. And without that education, like even me reading that book, I'd guess my only response would be....well, to fight, someway, somehow.

But, the trouble is, even as that would be my honest response, like the Palestinian official in the article points out, that does the opposite of helping. Mandela did eventually (and reluctantly) resort to using violence in South Africa, but very very intensely controlled violence, only targeting military and governmental institutions where there would be no loss of life or even injury if they could help it. Of course, more extreme elements of their movement developed that they could not control to that extent, but they tried their hardest to, recognizing that the more indiscriminate violence only led to riots and retaliation (just like the Israeli retaliations). Even Gandhi sanctioned violence in certain cases, saying that if a certain group could not honestly take a nonviolent approach with honest hearts, then do what they needed to...but again, not in a way without discernment, something like, "Be angry, yet do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger."

But, again, that's me speaking from my perspective that has access to all this information. I remember before I started to get into yoga, when I had a stupidly bad temper, yeah, I'd be all over stupidly fighting, and that's where I think a lot of them are at.

Caballerismo vs Machismo

also, some seriously gross moments

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, with John Cho, Kal Penn, NPH, amazingly hot bottomless girls, that cute redhead....and so on. I was expecting this to be so stupid I'd have trouble sitting through it, but was pleasantly surprised. It was kind of a nicely, "American" movie, we decided - it covers all sorts of modern American cultural topics, in hilarious ways, while using and (and even, in a shallow, fun kind of way) developing its main characters, returning to everyone from the first movie in logical ways, even. I'm totally all about the idea of a bottomless party, offhand. In fact, I will now spend a while imagining girls I know in such a context. Not guys, though. Because it's my imagination, dang it. So there.

Anyway, aside from the bad guy who was a bit too over the top (those were the only scenes I sighed at), definitely worth a see and a laugh.

Hoax, with Richard Gere and Alfred Molina. Well, I can't really seriously review this, as I fell asleep through most of the second half. But, what I did see seemed of high quality in terms of acting and cinematography, just...the characters didn't really have any redeeming qualities. Hence, my falling asleep more easily than not, I think, like the movie Sideways, enough of characters like that and I stop trying to get something out of observing them and so, just stop caring.

I could see this working, and also causing accidents more than cameras

Because honeybees are awesome, and in mortal danger

Hm, we need more homeless people like this, I think, that we could actually call a holy person, who prepares tea for people

if only she had a bit more curve, she'd be an 11

Run Fatboy Run, with the incomparable Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton, who I can only ever imagine as the chick in Mission Impossible II. Also, oddly directed by David Schwimmer, of all people. And, more importantly, with a role for India de Beaufort, whom I now have a crush on. Yowza. If the movie had a lot more of her, I'd give it a 10 out of 10, no questions asked. India....can I has ur babies?
Aaaanyway, we thought this movie really is in a category of its own - not a comedy, really, not a romance, but not really failing in that common way of trying too hard to be both, it was just....sweet. And not great in that, not bad, good, just...sweet. Which I guess is like Schwimmer, kind of, but better and less whiny. Also, I am going to complement girls by calling them tree frogs from now on. Poisonous and pretty. Thank you little five year old.

I raise my eyebrow at this. And can't decide who would win that last fight, Subzero or Batman.

The funny thing is, scallops do have eyes

he has good facial expressions

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowland. Gah! Time travel! Actually, this was probably some of the most decently done time travel I've yet come across, my reflexive distaste aside. It was kept quite simple, and the rest of the little details of story and wizarding culture were more than interesting enough to outweigh that one small part. Actually, now that I think about it, a helluva lot happens in this book. Not bad at all.

Interesting tree and fruit

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood."
"What mood is that?"
"Last minute panic."

Very nsfw ads on the page (as we hilariously learned, especially when opening with IE), but ASL vs Marilyn Manson is pretty cool