Probably the influence of the Hawai‘i sign across the street, but I could swear the song on the radio was “My Kind of Lava”
Category: Entertainment
Arctic Lairs
Ah, the Onion! Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds of Secret Arctic Lairs. I’m trying to remember whether Dr. Impossible had an arctic base.
Venti Schmenti
So what do you think…
Would it be a bad idea to bring this travel mug to Starbucks?
USA↑WAR
Spotted this on a street near the corner.
Underground cable maintenance markings, or political statement? You decide! 😉
Second-Best. Ripoff. Title. Ever!
Remember Alien vs. Hunter and other films with ripoff titles like Snakes on a Train? It turns out that Asylum has actually done a sequel to Transmorphers (yes, they went there): Transmorphers: Fall of Man.
As if the original title wasn’t enough, they actually played on the title of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen when they did their own sequel!
And yes, that does say Bruce Boxleitner on the box.
Bosley, John Bosley
I’ve just started re-reading Neverwhere. When Richard and Door first meet — after her injury has started to heal, anyway — he introduces himself as “Richard. Richard Mayhew. Dick,” A page or two later, Door calls him “Richardrichardmayhewdick.”
IIRC Neil Gaiman said he stole the joke from Douglas Adams, who had someone refer to “Dentarthurdent” in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books, but I always think of a Charlie’s Angels episode in which someone greeted “Bosleyjohnbosley.”
The thing is, I barely remember Charlie’s Angels, so the way I remember it is actually as “Bosleytombosley” … and in my memory, she’s saying it to Tom Bosley!
Phoenix Rhyme
I still think this Aimee Mann lyric should be:
Got out of Phoenix
Just in time
A box of Kleenex
For the rhyme
…instead of the real words, which finish with “for the ride.”