Wearing this costume takes balls.

And I was tempted to categorize this under crumb catchers.

Eh?

This was found on the front of a mail flyer in Phoenix. Some church in AZ co-opted the XBox 360 brand to sell Jesus. The initial inducement is obviously the gamer angle, but if you look at the text on the back, they’re also offering Krispy Kremes and Starbucks. Come for the donuts and tenuous video game analogies, stay for the salvation.

If this was local, I would totally go.

A good yarn from Craigslist from a guy that’s comparing his life with that of a homeless guy getting a hummer (text NSFW).

This is the first I heard about it, and there’s already a trailer. Richard Linklater (Slacker, Waking Life) has adapted the Philip K. Dick novel, A Scanner Darkly, to the screen in an animated film due out this summer. The bad news… the lead is the non-actor, Keanu Reeves.

Here’s a video called How to Enjoy Sushi that spoofs on Japanese mores. Has funny parts.

I had little hope by it’s title, The Ten Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed. After all, most articles about the subject are by sci-fi literature fans, and they follow a formula. There’s usually a perfunctory nod to a sci-fi classic like Foundation or The Left Hand Of Darkness. There are often some token “hard sci-fi” entries like something from Niven or Haldeman just to show that he’s street (or the alpha-dork equivalent). Then the rest is filled with self-pleasing dweeb wankery. This tends to take the form of worshipping the latest Terry Pratchett excretion or Piers Anthony dingleberry. Yeah, cuz 400 pages of unfunny nerd puns translated to the screen mean critical or commercial success. The article linked above avoids these pitfalls. Just the right amount of geekery. It reads well and actually considers the challenges involved in making effective films. His entry for Snow Crash skirts the fringe of mainstream, but I feel that Snow Crash was written in a gritty cinematic style, so it could be translated to the screen, but I agree with his argument against it making money.