"Great for parties...if you don't have any chicks or booze"

The title for the last entry, "Cheese it!", was once again from a catch-phrase of Futurama. And once again it can be heard from this character Bender. I don't know if this line is supposed to just be a popular catch phrase or a subtle advertisement for a snack product. Strangely it fits when it is used. The character uses it when it's time to run away from something. Lets do a further exploration of this show, Futurama. There's this character, "the world's most lovable industrialist" named simply "Mom". She sells, among many other things "Mom's old fashioned robot oil" and is very lovable in front of the camera. But off camera she's very abusive and horrible especially to her three sons whom she's always calling an idiot and slapping. Here's a profile of her:



Now the other favorite show the grew on me, Cowboy Bebop, has this character named Twinkle Maria Murdock who also heads up an evil organization and abuses her four sons in a similiar fashion, she has the following image:



Between the similar images and strikingly similar personalities does anybody else find this more than a coincidence? I'm not sure which character came first. I think the Bebop character first which means some one at Futurama must like Bebop. Too bad the Bebop version only lasted the one episode.

Now I'd like to complain about the Governor Davis people. I can't believe I read a posting about a Davis getting elected "overwhelmingly". Ok here's the map of the Democrat/Republican counties in California for the 2002 Governor race (new window). Ok look at all the red!! Does that blue look "overwhelming" to anyone?!?! That's a rhetorical question. Of course it doesn't!! So shut the fuck up about Davis winning by such a land slide. Ok? Also lets look at the numbers. That's 3,394,917 for Davis and 3,039,021 for the Republican (Simon), a difference of 355,896. Not very much I'd say! I mean California only has about 30 million people! 3.3 million vote for Davis for some reason and all of sudden it's "overwhelming"!? Pffff. I'd call those "overwhelming" people apparently mentally handicapped but I don't want to offend the mentally handicapped. But apparently these people have an intelligence no greater than that of a three year old. Overwhelming. Right.

Lately I've been playing a lot of computer games. Namely the free version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein called Enemy Territory. It's an online-only game and is really quite fun I think. It's easy to play that game for hours and hours without realizing it. I also started playing the old classic StarCraft for some reason. I always had trouble beating the last Terran mission. And I still have much trouble beating the last Terran mission. So finally I used a cheat and beat it. I beat all the other missions with little trouble but can't seem to make that last one for some reason. Speaking of games...

I finally started Neocron again last night. That game, although fun at times, can be annoying sometimes also. At least there's stuff to do now unlike before when it was just you, your gun and as many Warbots and Giant Lizards as you see fit to kill. Now however there are these "Epics" in which you go from one mission to the next gaining much money and experience and special items. Of course despite this game being a "massive online role playing game" the epics are one player only. Which doesn't make much sense to me. I mean sure give players something they can do on their own but why not a option to accomplish a goal as a group? You could even have advantages and disadvantages to both going it alone and doing so in a group. I'll never understand the logic used by the developer. And speaking of Neocron...

The clan had an IRC meeting last night, which was fun. I haven't talked to Perminator in quite a while on account of doing other stuff and playing Enemy Territory instead. I have posted the chat log but I'm not sharing the link with the blog :-) sorry.

I almost forgot. I saw Terminator 3 yesterday. And I have to say as someone family and friends often complain about as "hating everything" I did actually enjoy this movie. Now maybe the hardcore "The first Terminator was the best!!" people may or may not like it but I enjoyed it.

It even has a subtle reference to the Stanley Kubrik masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. Which I think is really cool. I highly recommend renting Dr. Strangelove by the way, you'll find it in the comedy section of the rental place. It's very, VERY dark comedy. Even though it was made before the 70s it's still a good movie. Even though it's in black and white. I'm telling you it's a good movie! See the thing about black and white movies is they're like color movies but they don't have as many colors. But this doesn't make a bad movie though ya see. Just a different style of looking at it and can actually be quite effective in some instances in setting the mood and stuff like that.

Now where was I? Oh right Terminator 3. Arnold does a good job of acting, his best movie in many years. Not quite as deep as Terminator 2 maybe. Still very well done though. There's a little bit of that heavy philosophy about choosing your own destiny and inevitabilities, but not as much as the previous movie. I will say one thing though: more effective than Jurassic Park 3! :-) I would try and describe it but I don't want to give anything away. It didn't seem too long or too short, I was never bored through the whole thing and despite the lead-in ending (or is that a "lead out" ending?) I didn't feel ripped by it like I was with Matrix 2 or Episode Two or X-Men 2 or Planet of the Apes or... well you get the idea. And I liked the site gag jokes and subtle references. Actually there was one little bonus reference to the second movie via this psychologist who was taking care of Sarah Conner in the mental institution. He was the one who saw the molten metal terminator walk through some metal bars in the second movie and in this one he was talking about how it had taken him years to get over the crazy, crazy things he'd seen. Then he sees Arnold's terminator and freaks. Such a minor thing but I think it added cool little extra. I highly recommend Terminator 3! (Also the attraction and Universal Studios Hollywood is great.)

I guess this is it for today's entry. I hope it wasn't too bad.

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