Welcome, jmac.org readers

I finally killed the jmac.org weblog, which for more than two years has really just been a mirror of this weblog. I replaced it with a few links leading to here. Someone asking me why I didn't have an RSS feed on jmac.org finally drove me to do this. The thought of doing work to support stylish redundancy made me sad.

Well, that and finding out (from daerr) that LJ is working presently on adding Flickr-style metadata tagging ability to blog posts, which I'm really excited about. I've been wanting this for years and years, for longer than I've kept an online journal. Not tagging per se, but the ability to quickly assign this sort of metadata to posts, allowing you to construct intertwining threads over time with them. Tagging isn't the way I thought it would work, but it certainly works well enough.

socks eternal

Via Neil Gaiman's blog, I discover http://blacksocks.com . Which offers a socks subscription service. Gaiman is apparently a customer; he just happened to mention them offhand. This is so perfect I cannot even begin to tell you.

I just now placed an order to see what the socks are like. If they work out I'm totally going to set up a sockscription.

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Fun post from hauntmeister who got to be propmeister for a History Channel sword-n-sandal chop-em-up called Bible Battles. Looks like it was a blast, and he (and one of the extras) took lots of pictures.

And sometime today I've got to see if I can find a laundromat with an industrial washing machine, because the makeup people got blood on the %$#@ ceiling, ten feet up, when we did Judges 4:22! They normally do horror movies.

Don't You (Forget About Me)

I am still choked up about 11-leaf-clover episode of Futurama, which I saw for the first time the other night. I think it's mostly because I am a sucker for ending on a well-known and obvious song. Its usage here may have been half ironic, but it still made me weepy.

I am also still choked up about an episode of Northern Exposure I saw like 12 years ago that closed with an hit-you-over-the-head usage of "Turn, Turn, Turn".

And the closing shot of "2010", which wasn't the best movie ever, but had a great closing shot of the Monolith on Europa. With the obvious music. That makes me cry.