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That's viralocity, boys and girls (the more you know)!

More like AWESOME MAN!

Stay through the credits.

Also, Robert Downey, Jr., has been promoted on my Crush List from about 5th to 2nd. 

('Cause, y'know, there's still David.  *Points at icon.*)

Smart blog posts make me happy, and today I came across two for the ages: 

Feminism by

tammy212

Don't be That Guy by

synecdochic

This is one of my favorite things ever. I'd nearly forgotten about it, then I saw someone reference it on gawker.com in comments and I squee'd and ran to YouTube. As one does these days. It's from a short-lived comedy skit TV show created by and starring Michael Nesmith (you know, the Monkee!) in the very early 80s

I own the video. It also has a fantastic bit by Ed Begley, Jr. on it which I'll dig up a link to later if I can find it.

So funny.

Depp, Law, Farrell to finish Ledger’s last movie

This also raises my opinion of one of the three actors listed considerably. I'm glad Terry Gilliam's run of bad film-luck won't have to continue due to the tragedy (I was just talking about Mr. Gilliam's more recent financing and shooting difficulties to a friend this weekend), and I think this gesture is pretty awesome and a creative way to preserve Heath's performance without causing the film to not be completed.

My agent Mike Kabongo* (aka onyxhawke) is doing another slush-a-thon, so if you have a pristine, completed speculative fiction manuscript and you're looking for an agent or a little solid feedback, you might want to check this out.

*I was going to say, "my crazy agent," but considering what he's about to put himself through, I think that would be redundant.

Reason Number-I've-Lost-Count for Why Neil Gaiman is Made of Awesome

Quite literally. I was watching D.N.Angel and suddenly realized the tornado siren was WAILING! I'd had the sound turned way up on the DVD because the rain was beating against the air conditioning unit so hard, I couldn't hear the TV at normal volume.

So the tornado siren is very loud to begin with, and I live right downtown, so I'm basically under it (well, within a few blocks), and it doesn't go off very often. So that was a bit scary. All over now, nothing to see here.

So, back to D.N.Angel which is excellent now that it's speeding toward the end (I've enjoyed it the whole time, but its pacing can be a bit weird). One more disc from NetFlix, and I'm done. I started watching it ages ago on OnDemand which, then, abruptly dropped it after episode 15. Well, dropped all AnimeNetwork programs. No idea. Another reason I'm dropping Comcast. Having access to that great variety of anime made it worth the money to have the fancy-schmancy digitial cable, but now there's nothing on there to see. Even the AnimeSelects programming is down to only one or two things that look interesting to me. That coupled with crappy service and the fact that it's a lot more expensive than satellite, and I decided to switch.

Speaking of crappy service, I'm sick of Best Buy. SICK OF IT. Every time I go there, they have NOTHING. Nothing. Not recent releases. Not new releases on new release day. Not the particular computer card or iPod gadget I wanted. Nothing. If I'm looking for it, I can guarantee they won't have it. I thought I'd learned my lesson, too. But, no. I wasted 20 minutes of my lunch hour going to Best Buy to finally get Kate Bush's new album, Aerial. Just came out last week. Did they have it? No. Of course, they didn't have it. What was I frickin' smoking to think they would? Gah.

Far less shockingly, neither did Target (which has a shamefully odd selection of music and DVDs anyway -- sad considering they used to have a great selection there "back in the day"). I finally went to an actual record store and bought their last copy.

And I'm listening to it now. And it's great... at least Kate's worth the effort.