Entertainment!

Life of Alex (R)
(Animation/Fantasy/True Story)
Starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles
Also Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Green, Lucy Liu, and Christina Ricci
Directed by John Woo
Screenplay by J.K. Rowling and Joss Whedon

Projected Budget Range: $60-69 Million
Planned Release Date: August

Projected Box Office Receipts:
$16.07 million (Opening Weekend)
$80.49 million (Total Domestic Gross)

Chance of getting Oscar Nomination: 1%
Chance of winning at least one Oscar: Slim to None

Critic Most Likely to Praise: Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Critic Most Likely to Skewer: Chris Gore, Film Threat

(http://www.chucklehound.com/cgi-bin/pages/boo2.html)

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Whee!

I am wide awake. I swear. My eyes may revolt and explode, but I am wide awake.

...what? I am.

Tee...

How do you get from a discussion of a priori knowledge to government conspiracies in one step?

Terry Pratchett, of course.

"There are those who believe that knowledge can only be recalled, that there was some Golden Age in the distant past when everything was known and the stones fitted together so you could hardly put a knife between them, you know, and it's obvious they had flying machines, right, because of the way the earthworks can only be seen from above, yeah? and there's this museum I read about where they found a pocket calculator under the altar of this ancient temple, you know what I'm saying? but the government hushed it up...*

* It's amazing how good governments are, given their track record in almost every other field, at hushing things up like alien encounters."

This was too weird:

So just before I left work, I had a bizzare conversation with Sia. The key points are related in this conversation with Simon (since it was mostly about him)...

Alex: So can I tell my Sia story, which is vaguely disturbing?
Alex: And involves you.
Mysticjuicer: Do I know Sia?
Alex: Nope. Guy at Dad's work, may have mentioned him? Old Iranian guy that squabbles like married couple with Robert?
Mysticjuicer: Okay.
Alex: Well, so I was talking about having dated you, blah blah blah, and then decided (oh so foolishly) to mention the story about your reaction to the incredibly expensive Patrick dates... [[Namely, "I want to date Patrick!" -Ed.]]
Mysticjuicer: Oh, this aughta be good. :>) *gets popcorn ready*
Alex: And got into this bizzarely surreal conversation about how I shouldn't date a bisexual guy if I wasn't bisexual, because I wouldn't understand the lifestyle... I was like... "buh?"
Mysticjuicer: XD
Alex: I conveniently sidestepped the mentioning anything about me, because when I had said that you were he was like "this requires a smoke!"
Mysticjuicer: *eats popcorn, satisfied his prediction was spot on*
Mysticjuicer: Oh dear.
Alex: But... so much with the "buh?!"
Alex: And then some conversation about "did you love him?"
"Uh, yeah... *blink*"
And then somehow this got translated into having had sex...
Alex: And then... it was so random!
Alex: SO RANDOM!
Mysticjuicer: *l* I bet it was.
Alex: But... why... date... bisexual... when... help?
Alex: It makes no SENSE!
Mysticjuicer: I'm reminded of the monty python "nudge nudge wink wink" skit. :>) At the very end...
"...what's it like?"
Alex: Help, do we have a special lifestyle that is strictly bisexual only?
Alex: Does it involve fondue somehow?
Alex: Or garlic?
Mysticjuicer: XD I wish it did!
Alex: Maybe it's the garlic.
Alex: *cling*
Mysticjuicer: That would -so- rock!
Mysticjuicer: I think maybe he was picturing the stereotypical hyper-party/sexorgy lifestyle of the gay scene in the seventies (was it the seventies? I'm not clear on the date).
Alex: *l*
Alex: Maybe, but...
Alex: SO BIZZARE!
Mysticjuicer: *nods* :>)
Mysticjuicer: Erm.. now I should really get to bed though. But thanks for sharing. ^_^ Amused and confused, that's the way to be. Well, not really, but at least it had internal rhyme. G'night! :>)
Alex: *hugs* Night night ^^ Sleep hard, work well... or... something.
Mysticjuicer: *l*
Alex: Er, bad connotations to that...
Alex: Bad Alex, no hero cookie!
Mysticjuicer: Well, guys tend to wake up ha- *this conversation OVER* ;>)
Aw, go ahead, have the cookie. :>)