I just saw Episode III with Ethan and Eric. It was the funniest Star Wars ever.

In the scene where Anakin is standing on the balcony, telling Padme that he’s got to go end the war, to go off alone? Total rip off of every character Kevin Costner has ever played, especially The Postman and Robin Hood. He was even wearing a costume that would fit in in Robin Hood. And he didn’t have an English accent the same way Kevin Costner doesn’t, and he had the blonde hair and he was the swarthy but sensitive guy who has to end up saving the day because he’s the fucking hero, hello! of the movie. Maybe it was a tribute to mediocrity.

Ethan and Eric says the city background plus Padme’s outfits were totally stolen from Metropolis.

The scene where Darth Vader hears about Padme’s death and breaks loose from the medical restraints? Frankenstein. Then he bellows from the pain of the news. Streetcar Named Desire. The three of us just busted up. The kids in front of us didn’t get the joke and gave us dirty looks.

Senator Palpatine? George W. Bush. And Hitler, too. The guys operating the cruiser approaching the Death Star at the end? They look suspiciously like German SS officers. So many allusions to cold war politics.

The acting was so bad. The costumes were so what you’d expect. The city scenes and ship design were great. They still haven’t mastered gravityless physics. Also, the air in a room which is half gone doesn’t rush out in a gale, it just pops out. The plot hole that C3PO knew R2D2 before Episode IV was solved in the most stupid way possible. They did however remember that Tatooine has two suns, and the double sunrise was spiffy. The wookies were ugly ewoks, and they didn’t get shot at the same way the Ewoks didn’t. General Grievous made no sense at all. What the fuck was he supposed to be?

If I gave out asses for films, this would be the must-see four-ass special. So bad it’s good. I loved it, and I would never in a moment call it fine storytelling. But damn was it worth $7.50 to see in the theatre. This was no mediocre “What a waste of time”, this was the full on special-effects-as-starring role bad movie.. It was better than Cats (sorry Zin), and I could probably watch it again and again. (sorry Cyle)

I am obviously a child of the eighties. You are too if you find break-dancing Transformers to be among the coolest things evar.

Things about Ari: Her alarm is set for 5:37, she has an onion in her handbag and has for a week, she likes spicy foods and has a constant craving for pickles. She finds melancholy to be beautiful, likes rain more than sun, and thunderstorms most of all. She drinks five shots of espresso unflinchingly, and loves tea.

I Like Girls is a cute, sweet less-than-twenty-page comic read.

I ran into the BBC Cult TV Site and ran into Buffy stuff there. I could be addicted so easily. I so do not need that right now!

Ralph Klein is a jerk, but he suggests doing the right thing.

Best blonde joke evar.

• Play with QT4
• Learn about and play with OpenID

1. Moss
2. Pride events
3. Flea markets
4. Bridges
5. Rose gardens

“Adios!” “Adiablo” “Aloshumanos!”

This transgender-themed newspiece has made me happy all day.

• Improving ruby bindings for Raptor, Rasqal and Redland.
• Separating my web framework from the financial app it was created for, and turning it into small, orthagonal, releasable pieces. I’d love for it to be a toolkit for those who want to build a larger web framework, not a whole framework in itself, really. Rails is great, but it’s still shifting sands as it develops, and the pieces aren’t very loosely coupled.
• Using Behavior.js, Script.aculo.us’ scripts and some other Javascript libraries to play with some fun UI stuff.
• Hack more on [Ruby to add some aspect-oriented features to the syntax.
• Whip XChat-GNOME](http://ruby-lang.org/) into better shape.
• Play with Ruby-Web/Narf, which looks like a good clean-up on the ruby CGI library, though why on earth someone would treat CGI environment and HTTP headers as case-insensitive is beyond me. I also worry about the usage of thread-local structure like that. It’s so close to right that it’ll probably stick and keep it from being actually right . Grr.
• Do more illustrations for Illustration Friday. Just one a week, though.
• Find the sheet music or tab to Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and learn to play it better.
• Play with Ruby/Odeum, and put it to good use on the NBTSWikiWiki.
• Finish writing my change-tracking virtual filesystem overlay.
• Learn enough Haskell to hack on Darcs some.
• Install Pubcookie or Webauth on Polis.
• Finish the Ruby NSS module I’ve been working on.
• Write a script for said NSS module to allow users on Polis to define a friends-group pseudo-user, and using that and Posix-draft ACLs, make unix-secure web files. This will probably take something like the aforementioned Pubcookie for authentication, and a webserver with privilege to change userids, or a dynamic proxy or FastCGI type thing to fire up a servlet process as a given user when supplied with adequate credentials. Thar be some dragons.
• Work on Xenophile.

And people wonder why I say I don’t believe in boredom.

• Rain. More than anything, watching a rainstorm soothes my mind. Thunder and lightning and everything so much larger than I is a wonderful feeling.
• Cooking. Making, preparing, and eating well feels like a wonderful thing. I eat conciously, aware of what I am eating and where it came from, how it affects the world and my body. I love to share it with people I care about, because the feeling of providing for others is a wonderful one. I also tend to be hypoglycemic, and to feel terrible if I do not eat.
• Music. If I can find a sound-track to match my mood, I can start slipping in songs to lift me from there. Learning to play the cello has given me something to focus on when things are bad.
• Contact with friends. Loneliness sucks.
• A feeling of independence. Working for myself lifted my moods. Hobbies that I can do myself, don’t need other people around for are wonderful, too.
• A space of my own to control. Just having my own house, even if it’s tiny, or my own room, gives me another point of stability.
• Not drinking much. Alchohol upsets my body, and that just makes me feel bad.

Polis has crashed a couple times recently due to RAM shortage. I’m waiting for a reboot right now, and hopefully I can get up to Ouray on Tuesday with a new stick, giving a full gigabyte.

I always thought that the girl in “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” was going to be gay. I always find it disturbing that she wasn’t.