Giving him his due

One reason I don't care for new stories about people selling out to the Devil in exchange for great talent is that, if this were truly an option, then it would stand to reason that a high percentage, perhaps almost all, of the world's great and lasting works of art, music, literature and architecture were constructed under infernal inspiration. Hell, maybe great feats of global scientific and political advancement, too.

And it's long overdue for someone to write a story about that.

Cheap DS games at TRU

Five dollah coupon for Nintendo DS games at Toys R Us. Is there still one over at Fresh Pond? I have a vague memory of it closing...

On walkouts

Walking out of a movie being shown at your friend's house lacks the satisfying feeling you get (or anyway I get) from walking out of a theater showing, and may even look rude to people prone to taking it the wrong way. But sometimes you just have to hit the gong. (And I don't think anyone took it the wrong way. I was polite about it.)

Wow, what a stinker. It was just one of those no-brain "comedies" where every single character is the exact same completely selfish Type-A jerk, and I had no desire to spend the next 90 minutes in their company. Filling the story with obscure nods to ST:TOS storylines does not fix it for me. Eating shit served to you by Bill Shatner himself is still eating shit. Sorry.

Here is a much better Shatner movie that derspatchel linked a while ago. Enjoy! (Regretfully it was my watching this in the office that began the sequence of events leading to the other film's showing. But, la.)