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My sister, enuffistoomuch sums up Star Wars: Battlefronts 2 so beautifully I had to share it:

But there are all these questions...will anyone really read a thousand entries about my particular progress in the Star Wars Battlefront 2 game? I think it might get slightly monotonous.

"Day two...Dagobah's a bitch and then you die...nineteen times...."

Come to think of it that last line wouldn't make a half bad bumpersticker.

I've got a present coming from ravenmb, theoretically today if UPS pulls its head out of its ass and finally delivers it. Woo! A novel of all things, written as a gift to me! Well at least I know how I'll be spending the evening :)

But this reminds me that I still have gifts to dispense to caredhel, forkmonkey, and mister_sunshine. I really should email all of you to set up times when I can at least swing by and drop stuff off but I seem to have used up all my organizational points before the holidays. These days I just kind of stare at the pile of gifts in the hope that they'll spontaneously delivery themselves. So far that's not really working out well for me.

On second thought I take the organizational thing back, I did get all of my media organized over the past week into nice compact binders. I left a few of my favorite sets out, but only the ones that fit neatly into the small shelves on the tv stand. I'd purchased one of those 520 compact disc holder thingies for my music thinking, "I'll never fill that up" and was astonished that just with my current stuff I was at about 3/4 full. Wow. Considering all the music I have in my car...well, I think I could finish it up, which is rather terrifying really.

Yeah I know that my collection is a mere drop in the bucket compared to most folks I know, but still. At least it's all organized now, alphabetical and all in one binder so I no longer have to drag multiple ones over to make a mix. Yay!

I slept pretty deeply last night but I do seem to recall a rather involved BSG-related dream. I suppose it's my subconscious' way of reminding me that the series returns Friday night. Cannot wait!!!

How long before he gets Swift Boated?

The dad of a recently deceased soldier speaks out:

I am outraged at what I see as the cause of his death. For nearly three years, the Bush administration has pursued a policy that makes our troops sitting ducks. While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that our policy is to "clear, hold and build" Iraqi towns, there aren't enough troops to do that.

In our last conversation, Augie complained that the cost in lives to clear insurgents was "less and less worth it," because Marines have to keep coming back to clear the same places. Marine commanders in the field say the same thing. Without sufficient troops, they can't hold the towns. Augie was killed on his fifth mission to clear Haditha....

Two painful questions remain for all of us. Are the lives of Americans being killed in Iraq wasted? Are they dying in vain? President Bush says those who criticize staying the course are not honoring the dead. That is twisted logic: honor the fallen by killing another 2,000 troops in a broken policy?...

Though it hurts, I believe that his death -- and that of the other Americans who have died in Iraq -- was a waste. They were wasted in a belief that democracy would grow simply by removing a dictator -- a careless misunderstanding of what democracy requires. They were wasted by not sending enough troops to do the job needed in the resulting occupation -- a careless disregard for professional military counsel.

But their deaths will not be in vain if Americans stop hiding behind flag-draped hero masks and stop whispering their opposition to this war. Until then, the lives of other sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers may be wasted as well.

This is very painful to acknowledge, and I have to live with it. So does President Bush.

But I'm sure this man is just a Michael Moore-loving, Bush-hating terrorist symp, right?

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Ok, so which is more pathetic:

1) The fact that I saw a 30 second trailer for Underworld 2 and immediately squealed like a little girl, "Hey, that's Tony Curran!"

or

2) The fact that Derek Jacobi was somehow convinced to appear in that film?

Just wondering...