17Dec02 (Monthenor): I think Morgion was expecting some ominous ruination presaged by Wai's nose, but sometimes a bed rash is bad enough. This is the last GM before I'm pulled away from technology by the holiday break, so we won't know if the extra three inches is enough until January. I'm planning on a holiday filler Friday and MM028 on the 3rd, after which we resume normal updates.

Heehee. I've preordered the new Zelda game and I don't even have a Gamecube yet! Bitch all you want, Miyamoto makes games that appeal to everyone with two goddamn brain cells to rub together. "But they're so kiddie!" is a complaint that doesn't work for a true game...it's just good business sense to make them visually appealing to kids because adults will play them anyway. The only demographic he's losing is the middle-teen whiny asshole demographic, who have neither the purchasing power of the adults nor the emotional maturity of the children. The same twits that hate Blizzard for trying to make another console game because "consol is 4 kidz bliz sux PC RULZ!!!1!!".

Nemesis disappointed me. I shouldn't laugh at a Trek movie while I'm in the theater, but this one was just so...so...it wasn't right. The formula was there, but all the little details were just so wrong. It'll still make bijillions of dollars thanks to the people I saw in rubber Klingon foreheads, but it's not a good Trek movie. Why, WHY in the name of all that is holy (chocolate and Rockstar Games) do the Remans have so many superfluous moving bits on their ship? Yes, I understand it looks cool, but you're not going to intimidate the Enterprise! It just makes your super-weapon slow...and I'm sure you lose some structural integrity in the bargain.

This week will be much better. I'll be seeing The Two Towers and Bowling for Columbine within a 24 hour period. And that whole business with my car accident is sorted out. Yay, me!

17Dec02 (Monthenor): If you can manage it at all, go see Bowling for Columbine. The animated history of America is worth the price all by itself, and you get a bonus hour and fifty-five minutes of extra material around it. It was occasionally slow, and I found it a little predictable with the setup and sad sad punchlines, but that's only because I am a rampant cynic and would like America to shut the hell up and let me watch my show already. Hear that America?? TURN DOWN YOUR GODDAMN RADIO, I'M TRYING TO WATCH MY SHOW! Jessica's about to tell us who the murderer is...