Couldn't resist this meme

There will be an update on the burlesque, housewarming parties, and more Snakes on a Plane, but first, a meme stolen off this fanfic journal I read:

Assemble a superteam from your various fandoms. Your team must consist of the following:
(1) Team Leader
(1) Warrior
(1) Smartypants
(1) Hottie
(1) Comic Relief

All your superteam members must be from DIFFERENT fandoms. Whether your team has a 'theme' (all girls! all Brits! etc.) and their scope-- whether theyfight vampires, serial killers, invading aliens or work to preventlittering-- is up to you.

And I have several themes, too!

Team Beat Yo' Ass
Team Leader: Admiral William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
Warrior: Samuel L Jackson (LIFE, duh!)
Smartypants: Brainiac (Smallville)
Hottie: Bruce Wayne (Batman)
Comic Relief: Hannibal King (Blade)

Sit, Team, Sit!
Team Leader: Ace (DC)
Warrior: Bronx (Gargoyles)
Smartypants: Ein (Cowboy Bebop)
Hottie: Sesshoumaru (Inu-Yasha)
Comic Relief: Speak (The Tick)

Kiss the Boys and Make them Cry Team
Team Leader: Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica)
Warrior: Zoe Warren Washburne (Firefly)
Smartypants: Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Hottie: Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
Comic Relief: Holly (Red Dwarf)

Team Snark-o-saur
Team Leader: Dr. Gregory House (House)
Warrior: Susan Death (Discworld)
Smartypants: Simon Tam (Firefly)
Hottie: James "Sawyer" Ford (LOST)
Comic Relief: Brian Griffin (Family Guy)

Team Shoe-Size IQ
Team Leader: Clark Kent (Smallville)
Warrior: Jayne Cobb (Firefly)
Smartypants: Arnold J Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
Hottie: Tasuki (Fushigi Yuugi)
Comic Relief: Phillip J. Fry (Futurama)

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I said it was coming. I was just busy yelling at arcane_the_sage for saying things that make me wish I were dead about my favorite character ever from Battlestar Galactica getting it on with the WORSTEST MOST AWFUL UGLY PIECE OF TRASH EVER from Buffy (and yeah, that includes all the monsters and the hillbilly vamps in that one episode).

Ahem. Anyway, have a Snakes on a Plane review, now that a sizeable number of you have seen the film. ( Ahhh, that's some goooooood Snakes! )

Most unrealistic thing was the airplane not being full up and people being served dinner. I don't know what high-falutin airline this is, but even before the recent travel restrictions, you'd be hard-pressed to find a domestic flight (yes, even one going to Hawai'i) that serves you food. On a red-eye. My foot.

An interesting article I read recently talked about the upswing in pet sales after famous movies starring certain types of dog (i.e. Dalmatians being bought up after 101 Dalmatians or sales of whatever that shaved rat type of dog Paris Hilton carries around is when she got 'popular'). Somehow, I doubt that will translate to an upswing of snake purchases. At least, I hope not. I understand some people not understanding what a commitment it is to take care of the Husky they bought after seeing Eight Below or something, but people have this tendency to stick it out with fluffy, slobbery pets more than elegant, scaly ones, which makes me worry that snake pets will just be "let go," which is horribly cruel.

Aww, I kinda want another snakey. This time, I'd get the really pretty green snake that was littler than my Sano-snake. I could feed him minnows! Teh cutez0rs!!!!

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Let's go on record here. I have no idea how much money piracy costs the entertainment industry (music, movies, television, et al) a year. I'll hazard a guess that it's in the low billions. That's a lot of money, no lie, but given that the industries themselves rake in fuckloads of money, I'm less inclined to listen to their cry-me-a-river nervous Nancy worrying routine.

Exhibit A: A Times Article about the Summer of Blah

You know when you have conversations where someone will go, "I'm not racist/sexist or anything, but..." then they go on to say something incredibly inflammatory because having made a disclaimer means that they're not really being racist/sexist? This article has all these far-too-wealthy people doing the same thing. "We're not complaining about not having made enough money this year, but [WHINE WHINE WHINE]."

Is it really the summer of blah? I've been bombarded with the idea that it should be, and so I am beginning to feel the same malaise. But from the start, I've found things to be excited about and had a good time going to see, so I can't see what the crap they're talking about. To the people in the article, something like the incredible amount of money that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest made isn't enough. It made REDONKULOUS amounts of money. Talledega Nights is making REDONKULOUS amounts of money a month and a half later. How is it that this isn't enough money? How is it that we have to then run crying about piracy when the truth is that marketing and advertising are so over-inflated, budget-wise, that they routinely eat up more than the opening weekend box office gross of most films (Snakes on a Plane made ~$15 million this weekend, but marketing costs were $20 million, and they don't connect the two at all?).

Nope, it's piracy. It's you people and your downloading. Your bootleg, Chinatown DVDs. Your mini camcorders and contentment with low-price for low quality rather than sacrificing for the good of the bloated studio heads and the over-paid actors by purchasing premium quality for a premium price. Damn you people!