Fish Fingers and Custard

While we are enjoying a leisurely breakfast (toast and sharp cheddar omelets), and TEA is still waking up, I am taking the time before we begin our day to introduce him to the most wonderful of television experiences...




Yes, I am starting him off with the 11th Doctor so that he can start watching when the show returns in the fall.

Yes, TEA is watching Doctor Who.

His first comment was, "He is kind of crazy, isn't he?"

I do so hope that he enjoys it as much as I do. More to the point, I hope that doing this to him at such a young age is not going to influence him the way that I was influenced when my uncle introduced me to Tom Baker's Doctor when I was eight.

Why do I love this song?

And why do I know it?

Grouplove "Tongue Tied" from Jordan Bahat on Vimeo.

I saw a commercial for the album during The Daily Show or a rerun of The Big Bang Theory (after the Mets disappointing loss) and I was able to recognize that I had heard the song but no clue where it was from.

Then I watched the video, which is interesting, but...still very odd.

So, folks, what is this song used for?

You cannot defend your liberalism whilst shopping at Target

See, the problem is that too many people who are happy to whine about rights like this, and the whole reproductive issue, are happy to go to Target because Target makes them feel good.  It has been years since I have purchased anything there, but there are people in my life who are "so liberal" that make it a weekly shopping excursion.  

"Clearly, Target is failing with its have-it-both-ways approach. The novelty products it is attempting to hold up as tokens of support are nice gestures, I guess, but the financial contributions Target is making to groups and candidates fighting hard (and winning) against same-sex marriage and discrimination laws can't be canceled out by a rainbow on a T-shirt."

If Target Wants LGBT Loyalty, It Can't Play Both Sides | The Big Tent - Advertising Age

Do Not Push - A Gotye Call Me Maybe Mashup by Pomplamoose

I like one song a lot more than the other, and you can guess which is which, and I thought the video was odd until it came completely together at the end.



Via Vulture

As a bald guy with dorky glasses...

I am often confused by people on the street with Moby. I have used this to my advantage though. You see, that was me dating Natalie Portman.




Anyway, yes, we all look alike. I get it.

The Zombies Came to Vermont

I was bored last night, and sick of dealing with fixing something, so I took the time to watch a low budget gem called Zombie Town (see the trailer here).



What is the film about? Well, part of it is a farce about small town life in Vermont (based on what Google could tell me about landmarks, it was filmed in and around Rutland) and a loving critique of the zombie genre. Yes, there are a lot of guns, and the two male heroes do not have applicable skills to surviving a zombie apocalypse but...the female protagonist is of course a skilled biological research science who just happens to have come home to Vermont. It is so very likely.

But...

For all of the faults of the film, it was really enjoyable, especially how they were laughing at themselves with the purposely knowing dialogue.

It is on Netflix Instant, so...it is not something that you have to go looking for and it is worth the 87 minutes of running time. I mean, if you are into the zombie thing.


Speaking of zombies, I read Iain McKinnon's "Domain of the Dead" and the follow-up (parallel narrative) "Remains of the Dead".

Yes, they are slim volumes, and yes, they do not offer anything new to the genre, but they are great character studies and they offer another version of how the world would look, especially things about the human population being reduced to fifteen million people and the world under martial law (which offers some interesting looks on how conscription would work for everyone, and not just for military service, and how crackdowns would happen...).

They are great beach reads of the "holy crap, are they going escape!?!" variety.

Super Golden Friends

This made me chuckle.