Not-politics – Page 1163

Somewhere, Beyonce is firing her choreographer.

Or she will, once she understands the magnitude of the practical joke that was played upon her.

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Beyonce

The Chicken Dance

Via @CalebHowe.

“Me And Bobby McGee.”

Me And Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin

Little-known fact: actually not originally written with Bobby being female.

Book of the Week: Hitler’s War.

It being Sunday, it is time to change the Book of the Week; and so we switch out Where the Deep Ones Are with Hitler’s War, mostly because I can’t wait for it to come out. I’m weak like that.

How to tell if you’d be into Steampunk.

Well, presuming that you like women, that is.

Anyway, if you look at this:

…and your response is Yowza, congratulations: you’ll probably be into Steampunk. I suggest that you start with The Difference Engine, The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and go on from there.

Via Nodwick.

Crud, and I quit smoking, too.

Henry Allingham, world’s oldest man at 113, died this weekend. How did he do it?

Mr Allingham once jokingly attributed his longevity to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women’.

For that matter, ‘wild, wild women’ are distinctly off of the agenda at this point. Not that exploration of the implications of that particular plural form was ever really on the agenda, but then I’m given to understand that the complications from situations where n>2 could end up being remarkably synergistic in their effect anyway.

Still on vacation…

…just back from Shakespeare in a park.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m writing this on a Mac. Can’t say that I’m all that impressed, though.

“Down Under.”

Down Under, Men At Work

It seemed a good idea at the time. Still does, actually.

Traveling again this weekend.

Seeing the in-laws; Shakespeare in the park – well, a park – and the laptop stays at home, so light blogging this go-round. And I mean it this time.

Picking some sites at random to read, instead:

Deceiver.
Protein Wisdom.
Skepticans.
Age of Sail.
Jules Crittenden.
Fausta.

Allow me to horrify all of you regarding Jane Eyre.

While I certainly agree that Jane Eyre is a great novel; but what it really needs is…

Well, it simply needs to be recast in a setting that’s had an unsuccessful alien invasion: one where the invaders attempted to create various kinds of psionic mutations in the captive human population. Jane can be a precognitive; Rochester could be some sort of former Man In Black with a mad pyrokinetic in his attic; and I guess that Rivers would be a telepathic mesmerist and secret agent of the last few aliens hiding out on Earth.

Hey, they put zombies into Pride & Prejudice, and the result’s been on the best seller list for months. And now they’re going to do Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – no, really:

…so don’t tell me that wouldn’t sell.

Moe Lane

Don Cheadle to replace Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2.

Or so this blog reports.

To be honest, I was never entirely pleased with Howard’s performance in Iron Man, and I liked Cheadle a lot in both Hotel Rwanda and Ocean’s Eleven – so this isn’t really bugging me. Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow are coming back to reprise their roles, and that’s probably the key to the movie right there. The article that spawned all of this… well. Some weird stuff going on there, maybe. On the other hand, the preliminary buzz on Star Trek was worrisome, too – and that turned out OK.

We’ll see.

Moe Lane