Even Heroes Fail

My God the weather was brilliant for Beach to Bay this year!  It was actually cool (in May!  in Corpus!), and though it threatened rain it never actually delivered :)  I, of course, failed to put sunscreen on my face since it was so cloudy, and now have a sunburn.  Our team did a bit slower this year than last, but we had a couple injuries so I think we did pretty well.  My knee hurts like a motherfucker, but at least it didn't start 'til a couple miles in.  Bastard knee.

I LOL'd when I saw a guy running in the Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure shirt.  We Office fans are everywhere, yo :)

Photos will, of course, be posted once the photo people post them online. 

My God, I've discovered the Twilight Zone, and it is my workplace.

NO ONE in my department has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  Worse, several people had never heard of MONTY PYTHON!

I... there are no words.

Also, how amused am I at John McCain?  Pretty amused, I'll admit.

I am understandably obsessed making a fanmix for Jag and Jaina including quotes from the books.  Unfortunately, I disliked DN to such extent that I do not own the books.  

Would anyone be willing to provide me with J/J quotes from any/all of the Dark Nest books?  Especially that bit before Leia shoots him down...  You'll get free music out of it!

You can either comment here or email me at amphetamine47@yahoo.com.

Thanks!!

First, may I just say that my fondest wish at the moment is to see Jim lose his temper?  I mean, the dude deserves it.  He's cool, calm, and more-or-less collected through just about everything and he really deserves to be pissed off once.   We've seen fuck-up Jim, we've seen angsty Jim...I wanna see pissed off Jim!

I really took to my bike commute this morning--I'm planning on 3 days a week.  It would've gone much MUCH better if I hadn't hit that GIANT FUCKING NAIL 2/3 of the way there and had to walk the rest of the way *headdesk*  But I got a ride to the bike shop after work and got it all fixed up, so...yay!  Now if only they'd get the hot water working in the ladies' shower at work, my mornings would be much, much better.

In honor of Earth Day, links with tips/causes/organizations/donations needed, etc:
Help the Honeybees - yes, it's a real problem.  We NEED them!
The Nature Conservancy - trying to plant a BILLION trees!
The Rainforest Site - click, they get monies.  Easy, no?
Sierra Club - America's oldest grassroots environmental organization
IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare
And some tips from the EPA...

Finally watched Peter Jackson's King Kong, and...MAN was that bad.

I'm not even cutting it was so bad.

First, I should say that I <3 Adrien Brody.  I love his tall gawkiness and his hot little big Jew nose.  But he was simply BLAH in this movie.  I mean, not entirely his fault, since apparently the script sucked, but...WOW.  You made me MEH about Adrien Brody, movie.  Way to fucking go.

Did I mention that the script was bad?  It was just...weird.  You would have random people spouting soliloquies for no apparent reason, to make some grand philosphical point and it just...didn't work.  Really, I think they could've literally taken the actors out to an actual island, had them make a movie, and it would've been better.  

All the CG shots of Kong screamed CG to me, which annoyed me greatly.  They never do that in, say, BSG, and BSG has way less budget than this stinker did.  

Also: WTF last line?!  That was just DUMB.

Things I liked: 
Jack Black not acting like an asshole.  I mean, he was an asshole, but a different sort of asshole.  An asshole with vision.

Colin Hanks.  Oh, honey, you've grown up!  You're freaking adorable!

Naomi Watts not looking anorexic.  YAYZ.