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trinityvixenVia Pink Raygun's "Ask an Amateur Scientist" column for today, this video (which was fascinating enough I watched it covertly at work):
Hey! I'm getting the hang of this embedding thing! No offense to the columnist, but since the guy in the video did all the work of debunking Uri Gellar, why do you get to write a column about debunking him as if this is news? Still confused on that one.
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I had the funniest dream I've had since I dreamt about putting my cold feet under Rimmer's tight ass. Actually, this one might have been funnier because I kind woke myself up gigglng. And it featured Dexter! Who was being, as ever, his wonderful self. Nothing spoilery about the show (or even the character much) but I'll cut because it's a tad longish. Still fucking hilarious the more I think about it.
In my dream, Dexter was being hunted by a demon-ish creature called Bezel. Which was, decidedly, pronounced Be-AY-zul. My subconscious kept practicing the name over and over, so I have not forgotten it. Be-AY-zul, not BEE-zel.
Anyway, the stalking went over this entire apartment building (with stairwells eerily reminiscent of the chainsaw scene in American Psycho). Bezel had only five opportunities to kill Dexter. Not surprisingly, Dexter managed to live through all five attempts and had a running monologue going about how stupid this guy was. Bezel, for his part, was super confused how come this pi-ti-ful hu-man (yes, with the full-on Zim voice) was eluding him as he was such a powerful hunter etc etc.
Bezel's five tries were up, and just like Pac-Man coming down off a power pellet, he was suddenly the prey. Dexter immediately, on the second the rules changed, went on the offensive. Bezel was flying down (running fast, I mean) the American Psycho stairs and Dexter just watched him. Then he said two words:
"Fall down."
Bezel fell down. Bezel got up again, and Dexter said one word this time: "Trip." Bezel tripped over his own feet. Dexter calmly sidled up to him (somehow having gotten down the stairs in no time at all and without any effort), hands in pockets just looking at the fallen beastie (who looked a lot like the blue general in Gauntlet Legends--blue, obviously, with wings and gargoyle-ish feet). Bezel was stunned as to how he could say something and make it happen. Here, Dexter pontificated a bit more and said that it stood to reason if the rules and Bezel himself were other-worldly, than he had to have some sort of other-worldly abilities himself. Either because he was in this arena or because he's fucking Dexter. "Because I'm me," is what I remember him saying. I LOVE IT.
And then there was more indistinct monologuing from Dexter about how stupid Bezel was, and how there wasn't any need to verify that he was a killer since he was a goddamned demon. Dream ended before Dexter did his chopping or anything, but Bezel still didn't get what had happened right up to dream's end. He was still trying to work out how a human beat him.
Woke myself up laughing, I tells you.
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Speaking of laughter, I'm glad to see that the second season of Robin Hood is making no attempt to not be the most ridiculous television show ever. I thought Prison Break was ludicrous, but Robin Hood wins at being wall-to-wall absurd and knowing it. Prison Break likes to pretend it in someway has a relation to reality. Robin Hood has no such illusions. Everything that happens is the most eye-rollingly, giggle-inducingly RE-COCK-ULOUS thing that could possibly happen in that particular instance.
They tried to take a turn for the "dark" this season, I heard, but as a girl who went with the fun and torture of Farscape's second "dark" season, it takes a lot to impress me. Also, bondage queens making mewling noises at the Sherrif make it hard to take evil seriously. It doesn't hurt that the Sherrif and Guy of Gisborne are still writing the textbook of typical idiot villain moves. They need a Scott Evil to help them out with the "why don't you just shoot him?" idea.
Hey! I'm getting the hang of this embedding thing! No offense to the columnist, but since the guy in the video did all the work of debunking Uri Gellar, why do you get to write a column about debunking him as if this is news? Still confused on that one.
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I had the funniest dream I've had since I dreamt about putting my cold feet under Rimmer's tight ass. Actually, this one might have been funnier because I kind woke myself up gigglng. And it featured Dexter! Who was being, as ever, his wonderful self. Nothing spoilery about the show (or even the character much) but I'll cut because it's a tad longish. Still fucking hilarious the more I think about it.
In my dream, Dexter was being hunted by a demon-ish creature called Bezel. Which was, decidedly, pronounced Be-AY-zul. My subconscious kept practicing the name over and over, so I have not forgotten it. Be-AY-zul, not BEE-zel.
Anyway, the stalking went over this entire apartment building (with stairwells eerily reminiscent of the chainsaw scene in American Psycho). Bezel had only five opportunities to kill Dexter. Not surprisingly, Dexter managed to live through all five attempts and had a running monologue going about how stupid this guy was. Bezel, for his part, was super confused how come this pi-ti-ful hu-man (yes, with the full-on Zim voice) was eluding him as he was such a powerful hunter etc etc.
Bezel's five tries were up, and just like Pac-Man coming down off a power pellet, he was suddenly the prey. Dexter immediately, on the second the rules changed, went on the offensive. Bezel was flying down (running fast, I mean) the American Psycho stairs and Dexter just watched him. Then he said two words:
"Fall down."
Bezel fell down. Bezel got up again, and Dexter said one word this time: "Trip." Bezel tripped over his own feet. Dexter calmly sidled up to him (somehow having gotten down the stairs in no time at all and without any effort), hands in pockets just looking at the fallen beastie (who looked a lot like the blue general in Gauntlet Legends--blue, obviously, with wings and gargoyle-ish feet). Bezel was stunned as to how he could say something and make it happen. Here, Dexter pontificated a bit more and said that it stood to reason if the rules and Bezel himself were other-worldly, than he had to have some sort of other-worldly abilities himself. Either because he was in this arena or because he's fucking Dexter. "Because I'm me," is what I remember him saying. I LOVE IT.
And then there was more indistinct monologuing from Dexter about how stupid Bezel was, and how there wasn't any need to verify that he was a killer since he was a goddamned demon. Dream ended before Dexter did his chopping or anything, but Bezel still didn't get what had happened right up to dream's end. He was still trying to work out how a human beat him.
Woke myself up laughing, I tells you.
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Speaking of laughter, I'm glad to see that the second season of Robin Hood is making no attempt to not be the most ridiculous television show ever. I thought Prison Break was ludicrous, but Robin Hood wins at being wall-to-wall absurd and knowing it. Prison Break likes to pretend it in someway has a relation to reality. Robin Hood has no such illusions. Everything that happens is the most eye-rollingly, giggle-inducingly RE-COCK-ULOUS thing that could possibly happen in that particular instance.
They tried to take a turn for the "dark" this season, I heard, but as a girl who went with the fun and torture of Farscape's second "dark" season, it takes a lot to impress me. Also, bondage queens making mewling noises at the Sherrif make it hard to take evil seriously. It doesn't hurt that the Sherrif and Guy of Gisborne are still writing the textbook of typical idiot villain moves. They need a Scott Evil to help them out with the "why don't you just shoot him?" idea.
