No son of mine

Man, having a good laugh about something on Boardgamegeek until someone brings up Fluxx and everyone starts bashing it... it's like when you're having a grand time at a family gathering until suddenly everyone else starts having a farting contest or joking about dirty Mexicans or something. Who are these people.

Fluxx is to BGG as Zardoz is to the Thon message board. "Fluxx, now, there's a game!" Except that I guess the metaphor only stretches so far, since the Thon people wouldn't say that Zardoz is the movie you watch to make your wife or girlfriend happy before moving on to a real movie. The idea makes me giggle, though.

I need to learn Photoshop.

Speaking of the thon

Tix for the 2007 Boston SF Film Festival are on sale for $51. I missed the early-bird $44 window already; whatev.

It's returning to the Somerville Theater this year! I can once again sneak out to use my own bathroom! Yay!

I know that my long-time thon buddy doctor_atomic is coming, after missing last year's, and I hope to talk dictator555 into joining me again. I'm guessing that kyroraz will want in again, and derspatchel will be in the crowd somewhere as usual. Who-all else is coming? daerr?

This is the most orderly (and early) website I've ever seen them pull off. I wonder if the lineup will be announced more than a week in advance this time?

What movie is this

Years ago I tuned in randomly to a black-and-white picture on TV. It was both horrible and fascinating... some kinda mid-20th century "shock" flick. Some images I saw today brought it to mind again. I only caught the last half of it, though. What was it?

Characters inlcude:
* Some nasty crazy kid
* Some nasty crazy dude
* Some nasty crazy chick
* Some old guy
* Some lady
* A house

Events include:
* The three NC people lock the lady up in a cage inside the house
* The lady protests that she is a human being! The NCs mock her, and say things like "Hey, come look at the human! We caught us a human!"
* The old guy wanders around muttering about what jerks the NCs are until kid stabs the old guy to death and says something like "Looks like it's old Sparky for us, eh?"
* The bond between the NCs starts to come apart when the chick suggests that the kid join her in the bath, which makes dude angry
* The dude gets gorily blinded somehow and then walks in front of a truck and gets creamed. THE END.

The movie was better than these bits make it sound. I thought it was pretty cool, at the time.

Slide

Browsing my friendsfriends I find this post and think back on some fine midwinter driving adventures on Southern Maine's highways, running one gopher errand or another for the Bangor Daily.

I wonder if it will snow more than twice in Boston this winter.