Eldrad must live

Well, today is the much-vaunted LJ Strike of Doom. The fact that I'm posting probably tells you what I think of it.

In other news, today is apparently not only Good Friday but also Purim! Purim was one of my favorite holidays as a kid; basically celebrating it involves using groggers (noisemakers), eating pastries shaped like hats, and watching a Rocky Horror-style reconstruction of the Ahasuerus/Esther story. (Seeing Rabbi Zedek in drag, on rollerskates, was possibly simultaneously one of the awesomest and one of the scariest things I've ever seen. And we're not talking "old lady" drag, we're talking "dressed like Daisy Duke" drag.) It's WAY more fun than Good Friday. XD

Other news:
- I've trying to teach myself Flash animation;
- I just set up a WordPress blog on my website where I will probably review any/everything I decide to review (but don't worry, I'll still have links to it here on LJ; it'll probably also mirror all my baketothefuture posts);
- and I'm currently reading volume 2 of Sex Love Pistols, which I got from Prairie Lights not too long ago.

There's always something unsettling about buying shrinkwrapped gay mpreg manga from Prairie Lights; the cashiers always look at me funny. D:

Now I think I'm going to play some more SSBB. :D

THE LOLCAT BIBLE (from tastystirfry) IS MY NEW MOST AWESOMEST THING EVAR

To give you an idea, the LOLcat version of Genesis 3: 6-10:
& when teh woman saw dat teh tree wuz gud 4 fud with flavr an everything , & dat it wuz cool 2 teh eyez, & dat teh tree wuz 2 b desird 2 make man wise, she nom nom nom its fruit; & she gaev sum 2 Adam, & he eated it.
& teh eyez ov them both were opend, & they knew dat their harbls were showin & stuff cuz Ceiling Cat didnt gaev dem no furz liek teh aminals; & they sewd sum fig-leavez togethr, & made themselvez clofs. Eve even maded firs thong but was vry vry itchy. srsly.
& they heard teh meow ov Ceiling Cat walkin in teh garden in teh kewl ov teh dai: & teh man & his wife hided themselvez fum Ceiling Cat amongst teh treez ov teh garden.
& Ceiling Cat calld unto teh man, & meowed unto him, "excuse me, wtf u at"?
& he said, i heard yo voice in teh garden, & i wuz scurrd, because i wuz nekkid & stuff; & i hided and did not want 4 u to see mah harbls kthx.

...if the real Bible were this hilarious, I might still be Catholic. XD

Damn BPAL, they really know how to get me to buy smelly stuff. They've just introduced a frickin' Chaucer scent (Parlement of Foules). That's cheating! >F

Anyway, because I'm sure y'all were waiting with bated breath for me to pick up with the BPAL reviews again, here ya are!

( BPAL: The Hesperides )

( BPAL: Gluttony )

( BPAL: Cerberus )

Anyway, classes start up again tomorrow (well, today now, I guess, since it's after midnight). Fortunately I have a very good schedule this semester - no classes before 1 p.m. and Fridays off, though I do have evening classes Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. However, I'd probably still better get to bed so that I can get my full ten hours before having to go in to class. So I will leave you with links!

Let's Positive Linking!
- Apparently the Brain (from Pinky and the Brain) was based on Orson Welles. Which homage I'd never realized before but now wonder how in the hell I missed it. XD
- A funny-ass song that anyone who's ever dated a gamer will find extra-hilarious. It starts off slow, but by the end I was laughing my ass off. (From jokersama.)
- Even though the Donner Party is famous for cannibalism, apparently the Donner family itself didn't practice it. Which is good to know, I guess.
- Jack Thompson wants to ban Sims 2. Because apparently it provides a playground for pedophiles and has realistically rendered genitalia under the blur. (Which, no. I've seen screenshots with the anti-blur patch, and the Sims look like Ken and Barbie dolls.) Lord, what fools these zealots be...
- On the other side, here's a negative review of Narnia that bashes it for being too Christian. I have no problem with it bashing Narnia per se, or even for disliking the "religious themes," it's just that it seems kind of shriekingly, aggressively, reactionarily atheistic. It's like the moment this person heard that the writer intended it to be a Christian allegory, a little siren in her head turned on blinking "warning, belief approaching - FIRE TORPEDOES!" Especially when her main complaint is "C.S. LEWIS WAS CHRISTIAN AND THEY'RE PROMOTING THIS MOVIE IN CHURCHES!" Which, y'know, are both true, but kind of irrelevant to the movie itself.
(And really, as religious allegory it's kinda piss-poor - not only did I not notice it when I first read them as a kid, but even now I'm like, "wait, but if Aslan is Jesus how does that work if he's already the great king of the forest? Shouldn't he be like a lamb or a mouse or something meek?" So I don't quite understand how this reviewer got "OH MY GOD THEY'RE INCULCATING CHILDREN WITH EVIL CHRISTIAN VALUES" because, seriously, if that's the case? They're shockingly incompetent.)
...Also, according to this article 43% of Britons don't know what Easter celebrates. :O
- And while we're on the subject of assy critiques, here's one of a Jewish comic book that takes the opportunity to slam ALL graphic novels. Because apparently graphic novels are INCAPABLE of being an art form, despite the fact that they're combining words and pictures, both of which can be an art form on their own. I guess there must be some kind of chemical reaction when they come together that emits anti-artistic or possibly death rays, that's the only explanation I can come up with for such sheer idiocy.
- And finally on the "stupid review" front, here's a review from Orson Scott Card of Aeon Flux. The entire article is about how Aeon Flux is too much like the video game it's based on, which makes for a bad movie, and then moves out to a criticism of video games in general (though he does give props to Katamari Damacy). There's only really one problem with it: AF is not based on a videogame, but on a series of MTV shorts from the early (mid?) 90s. ...It's called research, Orson, you might wanna look it up. (And yes, I realize the logical problem inherent in that sentence.)

Went and saw Batman Begins with rathershady yesterday. ZOMG SO GOOD, YOU MUST SEE IT ASAP.

( random, not-too-spoilery thoughts )

Afterwards, Vinnie and I were talking and almost wished it hadn't tied in to the first Batman movie so well, because we want them to remake the other ones only actually GOOD this time. ;_;

Though I was totally surprised - Katie Holmes can actually do a decent acting job if given good material to work with. Though now I'm feeling sorry for her, because she's so cute and spunky and shouldn't get sucked in by Creepy Tom Cruise. (Yeah, yeah, I know, broken record.) This relationship has been moving so fast that I imagine they'll be announcing that she's pregnant any day now (hey, it's possible, especially given his attitudes towards pharmaceuticals, which one presumes includes birth control).

Anyway, if you were lusting for some bizarre crap from an ACTUAL religion (as opposed to bizarre crap from a fake religion) visit Sex in Christ (from eikitty; while I think it's a parody site, it's no less funny for that). Its Biblically-supported findings are certainly interesting: Threesomes are OK as long as it's boy/girl/girl, anal and oral sex don't count as sex as long as they're straight (which means they don't count at all, premaritally-speaking), and Viagra is A-OK by the Bible. XD

Also, a PSA: never squirt a fire extinguisher up a friend's ass (from jantalaimon). Fire extinguisher + ass = bad idea. The sad thing is, I totally know people who would have done this and thought it was funny up until the massive rectal bleeding started.

( And a meme that's almost supernaturally inaccurate )