The Rabbit Hole

Okay, no it isn't, but it DOES star Lassie from Psych, which makes it pretty damned awesome:

There's a discussion with the director about why he made it here. It reminds me a little of that rather gritty Mortal Kombat mini-movie that has actually been optioned to turn into a full-fledged series. And if you can make a gritty reboot of Mortal Kombat into a show, surely we can give this heart-breakingly awesome treatment of Voltron a shot, right? RIGHT?

ETA: I figured out from the YouTube description where that clip was from. I'm sorry I went looking. Now I will have nightmares about rubbery superhero "dancing."

It's a fan trailer. I want it known, upfront, that I know it's a fan trailer. (New point of interest: where is that footage from what Chris Evans movie that they used that isn't Captain America?) I know that this is a fan creation.

That said, I'm still kinda excited, u guyz:


For balance, so as not to let my fangirl run away with me (TOO LATE), I offer this obvious but necessary recut of the only Captain America trailer we have to date:


I'd like you all to welcome a new LJ tag debuting today. See if you can guess which one it is.

Least appropriate use of a Nine Inch Nails song in a trailer ever?
Oh, "The Hand that Feeds." I wish I could quit you. (After this trailer, I really mean that.)

Some important wisdom from the holy bearded dude. (No, not Jeff Bridges.)

My coworker is out this morning because she had food poisoning. She's so good, though, that she's coming back in later this afternoon to give a talk. Should be an interesting afternoon...

See if you can keep yourself from giggling watching this and see if you can watch it without getting the song stuck in your head. (PS: YOU CAN'T.)

From this Kotaku post, a video of gameplay in the new version of Aliens vs Predator. Which is coming out surprisingly soon, and if I'd known, I would have pre-ordered it for my brother-in-law as his birthday present. I guess he'll have to be happy with Arkham Asylum. Anyway, that video:



I always found that, when I did steel myself for the terror of playing the colonial marine in the original Aliens vs Predator, that that damned motion detector was less a useful device and more a means to ratchet up the fear. It would be much more helpful to, say, give me night-vision goggles goddamnit than to give me this cheerful box that beeps more regularly and louder about INCOMING DEATH. Jesus, my heart rate is elevated just thinking about it.

No, really, what I hear when that box beeps? Deaaaaath, deaaaaaath, deaaath deaaath! Death! Death! Death! Death! Death! DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! AHHHH YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD AND IT'S EATING YOUR FACE!!!

"The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. And that, in erotic terms, is the Catholic Church in a nutshell."

This absolutely piercing gem of insight comes from this debate (in five parts on YouTube). The question is whether or not the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world. I think you can tell from that quote who "won" that debate.

Despite my professed agnosticism and atheism, I am not as sure of the answer as either party in this debate. ( Force for good, no. But not completely NOT a force for good, either. )

As ever, I make the caveat that I acknowledge not all religious people are like that. I have to make that concession because religious people feel attacked whenever someone points out, as I did under that cut, that their shit stinks just like everybody else's. Personally, I get quite annoyed at having to explain that when I cast generalizations, CLEARLY I'm not targeting people who aren't on TV making asses of themselves and their cults. (Because, let's be honest, there is only a difference in numbers between religion and cult, and with the way Scientology has filled its ranks, I'm beginning to think that even that definition no longer holds.) When I paint with this broad a brush, it's not about you, okay? It's that other guy who's making your look bad. It's that organization that controls how you believe whatever you believe in.

That? That to me is the problem: in order for people to have religion, it has to be controlled by an external source. And that external source, imbued with the power to dictate to people without fear of being questioned or forced to defend their work, is just a system ripe for abuse. That's why you get, as Stephen Fry points out, St. Peter's Basilica from the organization built on the back of a man who preached about the necessity of aiding the poor.

At this point, I've got to go back to Comic Con just to see this guy again.

(Blade Trinity!)

I mentioned this to some folk I was with this weekend. It's even better than I remember!



Also, Pharyngula linked to this guy, and I've been serially clicking links through on YouTube to watch more of his. This was the original brilliant bit about homeopathy:

This is apparently the "Wolfman." I am usually (appropriately) skeptical of these sorts of live-with-the-animals folks, but I gotta hand it to him: he had the wolf pup and my cats completely convinced he was a howling wolf.

Before I played this video, I had a cat accepting love from me and happily purring at my side. Wolfman here starts up, and both the kitties in my immediate vicinity start looking wildly around, ears twitching crazily as they looked for the threat. Well played, Wolfman.

Have some videos. ( I am so bored, you have no idea. )

Yesterday's UNFORTUNATE MUSICAL SELECTION from the guy two benches behind me also puts me in a mood to make a poll. So, true believers, what do you think?

[Poll #1344187]