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EVERYBODY OUGHT TO HAVE A MAID!


PSEUDOLUS TRIES TO SCAM MILES GLORIOSUS



FUNERAL FOR A FAKE VIRGIN




COMEDY TONIGHT!!!

"Forum" opens Thursday

You gotta love sophisticated comedians like me and Nathan.

I Think I Figured It Out

Don't ask for a full explication as to how I arrived at this deduction (if you want well-thought-out LOST theories, go to EYE M SICK and feast on the writing therein!), but I think I finally figured out what the Lost Island Smoke Monster (aka "Cerebus") really is.

Here's Smokey....






And this is what's behind all the smoke....





Yer welcome. I know this was puzzling the frak outta people.

"The Golden Compass" points to December

It's coming....





It's almost here....






About six weeks away....

December 7, 2007.

(Oh, please, Mighty Crom, let this movie refrain from being Suckfest '07! It looks so good, and has such a great cast. PLEASE let it be as marvelous as it looks like it will be!!)

I want to buy this island someday!

It's called Kanacea, and it's in the Lau Archipelago of Fiji.

It's only $45,000,000. Only $44,999,999 left to go!

Ahhh, but to buy it and totally pimp it out in a Bond villain-meets-Myst kind of way. Killer robots don't come cheap, you know. Plus all the henchmen to hire, and the underground lair to construct, and the sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to purchase and train.

I can finally come clean; I want to be Dr. Evil. I already have the cats.

The Actor's Life For Me

God, do I love theatre!!! Giggity!

"And what will you name it then? Conjugia?"

Saw Elizabeth: The Golden Age last night. Fan-TAS-tic. What a treat it always is to watch a movie that respects your intelligence, and assumes you don't need a car chase every five minutes to hold your interest.

They might just as well send the Best Actress Oscar over to Cate Blanchett's house right now. I can't see anybody giving a better performance. The real Queen Elizabeth I was mecurial, vain, flirtatious, witty, generous, devoted, arrogant, beautiful, frail, politically savvy, gracious--on and on, a mass of grand contradictions, using what aspect of her personality she needed at the moment to accomplish what needed to be done. And Blanchett captured that personality dead on.

There are swirling, poetic images throughout the movie. The image of Elizabeth in her night-clothes standing on the cliffs of Dover watching the vast Spanish Armada burning in the dusky, distant English Channel is one I will never forget. And Cate Blanchett is surrounded by a terrific cast; Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham, her chief spymaster; Jordi Molla as Philip II of Spain; Samantha Morton as Mary, Queen of Scots; Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh.

The movie was one of the most determinedly accurate historical epics I've ever seen. Yes, there's always going to be a certain amount of telescoping events for dramatic effect, but by God, the filmmakers got so much right!

One of my favorite little scenes involves Dr. John Dee, Elizabeth's astrologer. Dee figures prominently, though not explicitly, in the book I'm working on, so it was cool to see him in the movie. The actor playing him, David Threlfall, looked exactly like John Dee. Spooky.



John Dee

Go see the movie immediately. And the title of this post is one of my favorite lines from the film, but I won't explain it.