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Had a busy day followed by a lovely low key evening with the ever charming cyranocyrano who continues to allow me to throw Blake's 7 episodes at him. He seems to be really enjoying them, which makes me profoundly happy. It's one of those series I've loved since I was a kid. The writing is just so damn tight and Paul Darrow owns each and every scene he's in. I love the fact that the writers on the show didn't feel the need to continuously throw lines at him, rather let him speak volumes with a simple glare. In a moment of temporary insanity I checked the remaining 3 seasons on Amazon UK to discover they were all on sale. Being weak, terribly, terribly weak, I went ahead and ordered them. Luckily Amazon UK has this delightful tendency to tack on even better sale prices when you get to the checkout, so I got them for even less than I'd expected to (and about half of what they're going for in the NTSC versions). I love Amazon UK.

I have decided that at some point I must throw a B7 party where everyone has to attend in tacky 70's British scifi regalia. The color palette and fabric options are a simple "yes", and the more absurd the construction the better. Cheesy weapons a must. I think this could be a lot of fun. Although I'd probably have to come as Jenna, who's ok, but damn I'd rather do Servalan or Avon.

One last thing, I heard on the radio today that we might get thunderstorms here in the Bay Area! Thunder storms! How cool is that?

This just takes the cake

First Michael Fumento writes this piece of crap about how the bad guys in Hollywood films just aren't *Muslim* enough for his tastes, then World o' Crap rips him a new one in "Nice Actor, But Does He Come In White?". One of my favorite bits of Fumento's review of "Live Free or Die Hard":

In fact, it was the Department of Homeland Security that turns out to have been more or less responsible for the attack in the first place. Meanwhile one of the few good guys in the movie, the head of the FBI team that aids our hero John McCain[sic], looks decidedly Arabic.

So his complaint is that the bad guys in the film aren't Arabic enough, and that the head of the FBI (played by a New Zealander, btw) is a little too Arabic. Fumento pines for the days of full scale governmental propaganda churning out of Hollywood and can't seem to figure out why we're not cranking out the modern day equivalent of “Der Fuhrer’s Face” and “Nipped the Nips”.

And to top it off Fumento then swings by World o' Crap to leave this little rancid turd of a comment:

This accusation represents the combined intelligence of the original blogger and his idiot acolytes. I’ll bet you all split a gut laughing when those Twin Towers fell.

To which Jay B can only reply:

Not enough hateful Arabs in movies for your tastes? First, that’s idiotic — seeing as how we were treated to United 93, a docudrama done not four years after the attacks, to say nothing of TWO haigiographies of GW’s amazing response to the attacks, and a slobbering celebration of FIVE YEARS of torture fantasies in 24. Plenty of bad Islamicists there, don’t you think.

And hell, we’ve had six straight years of fear-soaked media blathering about how they’re planning something big, how we’ve offed yet another #2 in Al Queda, the WoT and what not. The amount of fiction contained in these Pentagon Morality plays that air on CNN and FOX, reach the level of pure propaganda that has proven deicisively unpopular by the public at large. So again, where’s the beef? We’ve enjoyed six solid years of Islamicist demonization — and it’s still not playing in Peroria, is it?

So, relatively speaking, you think it’s more important for movies to convey that which armies of ‘thinkers’ like Fumento puke out every day? Or that the producers at FOX spin silly? Or the psychotic reactions of this administration? Somehow movies are the key to the people’s minds in the ways that saturation isn’t?

Morally relative indeed.

And Fumento — fuckface — if you’re still reading, while the Towers falling was for many of us who were there was as devestating a day as we’ll ever experience, why don’t you just admit it was the single best day of your life? That’s all you got, buddy. Fear. Hate. War. The only reason we’re at war is because of it. The only reason Bush is still president is still because of it. The only reason you have a ‘voice’ at all is because of it. It is the sum of your being. It’s how you approach art, it’s how you approach your thinking, it’s how you approach every day, filtered through its impact.

Wanna be a prick about how we ‘responded’ to being New Yorkers? Fine. Just live with the fact that 9/11 gave you meaning, and without it, you’d probably be beating up Mexicans instead. Shitheel.

Frankly I think "shitheel" is too good for a hate-filled fuck like this, but that's me.

Scott from World o' Crap, however, takes the high road:

I don’t personally go in for acolytes, but if you’re referring to the people who are kind enough to read and comment on this site, they are not only smart, humane, and remarkably well-informed, they’re not afflicted with the same kind of blinkered, obsessive hatred that allows you to use the tragedy of 9/11 as punchline, in a petty disagreement over a movie.

Amen, brother.

Uncle, that's what *all* tea is!

moonlightnrain just dropped me a link to this piece on the Avatar third season which contains this juicy morsel:

This morning Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the DVD release of Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 3: Fire, Volume 1 on October 30th. The first single-disc release contains the first 5 episodes of the new season, with a running time of about two hours. Those episodes are reportedly to be titled "The Awakening," "The Headband," "The Painted Lady," "Sokka's Master," and "The Beach." In order to get this release out at that time, with that many eps, and assuming they are waiting until after the 2nd season DVD collection hits in the second week of September, then Nick will have to begin broadcasting in the third or fourth week of September. Cost of the B3,V1 disc is expected to be $16.99 SRP, similar to the previous individual DVDs in this series. Here's a look at the packaging. Oh, look! Fire! Wait, when did Aang grow hair?

In case you're wondering what they're talking about on the Aang with hair front, ( click here to see the image from the cover of the first dvd. Aang with hair, and hey Kitara gets a new 'do as well! )