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Just got an e-mail requesting permission to translate the mod I did for Morrowind ("Cult of the Clouds") into French. It's already been translated into Russian about a year ago. Neat to see my work getting around the globe.

Jim Carrey's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is incredibly good. Carrey's trademark camp is even less evident than it was in The Truman Show. I could go on and on, but as it has opened to both critical acclaim and great word-of-mouth (already #84 on imdb's top 100) you need to go see it. Now. Twice.

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I'm gonna get me one of these. It can keep evilNavi company.

Al Franken was on Letterman last night promoting his new radio show, which debuts on New York, LA, Chicago, and San Francisco on March 31, and will air M-F from noon to 3pm. He's calling it The O'Franken Factor. It was a really great interview, especially the discussion of O'Reilly refusing to call him "O'Franken" and O'Reilly declining Franken's invitation to appear of "The Factor" (Franken's theory was he was afraid to enter the Zero Spin Zone). All of this is part of his promotional strategy to get sued again.

The stations that Air America (the liberal talk network the show is part of) is taking over haven't updated their sites to reflect the format change, so I'm still looking for somewhere to listen to a live stream. For those in the bay area, it will be on there, but the station hasn't been announced yet.

Also, here's a feature from the NY Times about Franken.

Edit: Stream at http://airamericaradio.com/www/main.cfm or http://www.super62.com/jacor-common/pdx/streaming.php

To all those in San Diego or somewhere else in the US; I moved. I now live in sunnyvale and the address starts with 450. We were looking at apartments and I had to pick the one with an address of 450...Andrea's eyes roll...check the address book for my new info.

For those of you who don't know. I got my security clearence. So thanks everybody for lying about my connections with terorists...kidding for those FBI agents who are now tracking my every move. So now instead of looking on the internet all day instead of work. I am in a building with no windows, where I am not allowed to bring a cell phone, without internet access except for a few special rooms and still have no work to do. But atleast I'm getting paid so no complaints.

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Tee hee. My favorite's Peter Krause's. And Zach Braff makes me giggle.

So, I'm assuming we'd have heard about it already if it was so, but I'm asking anyway: anyone get into or know someone who got into the World of Warcraft Beta? That game makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.

FYI, Bullshit returns to Showtime on April 1st. I guess they moved it from Friday to Thursday this season. Also, Amazon says the first season comes out on DVD on March 30.

http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/

Rumsfeld claims he never said Saddam was an immediate threat. They show him his own quote, stating quite the opposite. He goes from zero to Porky Pig in four seconds.

Hey folks!

Here's a slashdot story with a few tidbits about SWG
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/16/...

The real meat is the gamespy article, listed here:
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march04/galaxies/0...

It's an interesting story about the game I play entirely too much. Aside from that, I'm also quoted a few times, but my name was not spelled correctly for some reason. I even went back and checked what I had sent in to them, I had my name spelled correctly there...

Anyhow, when you see a quote from 'Jef' the Tempest Jedi, that would be me. I'm the only Tempest Jedi quoted. (For those that don't know, Tempest is the galaxy/server I play on)

http://www.muchosucko.com/video-davidbelle.html

NOT WORKSAFE, but only because a couple of the banners on that site look a bit pornarrific. This guy is awesome. I never thought I'd see a real life person make the dude from Prince of Persia look like a quadruple amputee drunkard.

After passing the checkpoint at the Raleigh airport (where they confiscate your nail clippers), my Mom's husband found a rack of nail clippers for sale in a convenience store next to his gate. I guess that's a good business, between the wannabe terrorists and the long-nailed people who just got their clippers taken. ^_^

Yes you do, and don't deny it.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/08/...

I've always loved the Zelda games, and who can think of a cooler sword than this? I want one for myself, but I don't think I'm going to fork over that kind of cash anytime soon.

I think I've seen all the shows I'm gonna see. Here's my reviews, for those interested (morecooler gets googled! ^_^ ):

La Femme - French-inspired artistic topless revue, in an avant-garde style with comedy, magic, etc. added between acts. A great start for my trip; they manage the rare feat of going artsy-fartsy without losing any sensuality. The theatre is tiny, too; the worst seats are like 30 feet from the stage, which helps add an atmosphere of intimacy. Recommended.

George Carlin - I commented on this one in an earlier post. Not recommended.

Zumanity - Cirque du Soliel takes the passion and intensity present in all their shows and applies it to raw eroticism. Parts of this show will give me nightmares for weeks. Others will give me... *ahem* different dreams. The small theatre with the protuding stage brings the audience much, much closer to the action than in other shows, which is good, because there's a bit less going on here at any one time than in other soleil stuff. The theatre's entrance is cool, too, with peepholes and naked cast members behind glass. The ushers flirt with you, too, which is fun. ^_^ While not Cirque's best work - which is hardly a biting criticism, given the company - it is nonetheless very powerful; if you're over 18 and you've already seen "O", this is your next stop. Highly Recommended.

Blue Man Group - Wow. There was less music and more humor & visual effects than I had been led to believe by the advertisement, which was perfect. The "little spinny strobe dancing guys" are one of the coolest things I've ever seen; those who've seen the show will know what I mean. Extreme audience interaction, stunning special effects, great music; just a kickass time. Extremely Recommended.

Lance Burton at the Monte Carlo - Yawn. For those who've seen Fox's Arrested Development, imagine Jobe with a slightly bigger budget. The tricks are somewhat impressive, but they're 90% mere variations on time-old mirror&trapdoor tricks. What's more, if you're seated (like I was) on the edge of the area, you can see how he does some of the tricks! The props are showing wear, his dancers all look to be in their mid 30s, and he's obviously bored with what he's doing. This show needs to be put out of its misery. And his "I'm cool 'cause I talk like I've had a stroke" speech mannerisms get very old quickly (hmmm - I hope he didn't really have a stroke, then I'd be an asshole). Not Recommended

O - Cirque du Soleil with water. Jaw dropping; perfect shape and form in every shape and form. Words fail me. Watch it if you can. Get the expensive tickets if you can. Enjoy. One side note - the water on the stage makes for a much more pleasurable arena environment. It tempers the temperatures and adds a fresh smell that is calming even before the show begins. Extremely Recommended

Just came back from Carlin's show (his second-to-last in Vegas for this run). Has anyone seen him here before? Is he ALWAYS this obscene when in a casino show? I'm not a prude by any measure, and I certainly wasn't offended or anything, but there was NO material that wasn't potty humor. Much of it had no punchline other that the gross darkness of it all, but that gets old fast. By the time he suggested that we dig up young dead women and cut out their genatalia for use as sex toys, I was tired of laughing out of politeness.

His mind is going, too. He kept forgetting things, and the thread of his jokes wound and doubled back in a disturbingly chaotic way. And the most awful, stomach-churning thing of it all is the painfully obvious certainty that Carlin knows this is happening. He stutters, apologizes, and prefaces his jokes with strange, rambling qualifiers. At one point he even noted that he was screwing up the transitions, and at another he offhandedly mentioned that it was weird that he couldn't remember any of his old material, and that it had been happening alot lately. That wasn't part of his joke, just sort of a sad little aside while he frantically tried to think of something else to say.

He blamed it on the venue, calling the place "a curse" and emphasizing how glad he would be to leave it behind and go back to his normal touring schedules. And to top it all off, his opening and closing pieces (neither of which were very funny) he read word-for-word off of paper because, per his own explanation, his material was too hard to memorize on his own, and he needed to perform it for it to stick.

For those who saw his bomb on Leno shortly after his appearance in SLO where he stumbled and ruined most of his jokes, imagine that stretched out over an hour and a half. I used to like Carlin - hell, I still like him - and that made the show that much worse to bear. Pity doesn't make a man more funny.

So I come back from a rousing day of losing my shirt, only to find that the maids have stolen my roll of toilet paper. I mean, I've got another roll, so I'm not up the appropriate creek, but it's just confusing. The roll that was up is gone, and the little dowel was in the sink.

Matt has informed me that this is probably because I didn't leave a dollar on my pillow. It's like some sort of bizarre reverse tooth fairy. Strange people come into my room while I'm not there, and if I DON'T leave them money, they take important things like toilet paper. You better believe I'm tipping now.

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