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Fuck the hockey playoffs. Seriously. Rudely. With a wire brush.

Really. Christ.

Three!

Two posts in a row with porn references.

Creepy.

From Anneli.

Onion AV Club interview with Matt Groening (properly pronounced “Favre”)

Look for the Eddie Munster/Pugsley Addams reference. (Did you know that when the TV series was created, Charles Addams wanted to name the boy ‘Pubert’ but they balked? That’s why they named the baby that in Addams Family Values. Really.)

There’s going to be a couple of Futurama movies straight to video!

That means unrated cartoon robot and/or cyclops porn!

This came to me once when I was watching ‘Win Ben Stein’s Money.’

“I asked the porn-star/hooker for a box of videotapes but she gave me a case of DVD.”

Now I quite liked ‘The Da Vinci Code‘ (you can’t spell it without ‘David‘) . It was a nice little Christmas present from Anneli. I thought it was a fast read, fun and easy, reminding me somewhat of young adult mystery novels I’ve read: slick, earnest and not too deep (even considering the revelations, ahem), so today in the Star, I was interested seeing this article by Judy Stoffman about “The Secret Supper” by Spanish author Javier Sierra, translated into English by Alberto Manguel.

It’s a novel, “set in late 15th- century Milan,” about Leonardo Da Vinci, his painting “The Last Supper“, and suspicions that Da Vinci was a Cathar. Neat.

Besides the fact that it just sounds better than TDVC, Stoffman quotes Australian critic Alan Gold as saying “any comparison between Sierra and Brown is “similar to pitting a Renaissance painter against a graffiti artist.” LOL.

This article, inspired by the TV Turn-off Week campaign, has over a full page of quotes from TV shows, like

“You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats, please press `1′ or say `goats.’ To sacrifice a loved one or pet, press the pound key.”

- Answering service, Angel

and

“C-3PO (sic) wasn’t gay, he was British.”

Will, Will & Grace

and

“Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-heel ‘verse. But you took that end, and you…. Well, you took it. And that’s — well, I guess that’s somethin’.”

Jayne, Firefly

“Fibs fad is no lie” talks about poems constructed based on the Fibonacci sequence.

A sort of haiku for geeks, I guess. Geeku? Hyperku? Huh. That’s all I can come up with.

Invented as a lark by blogger Gregory Pincus, they look like this, the first one:

Blogs
spread
gossip
and rumor
But how about a
Rare, geeky form of poetry?

Note the syllable count for each line.

The Star’s having a fib contest.

I might enter.

1> ‘The Unit’ looks like a good show.

2> So does ‘Boston Legal’.

3> That poor kid in Detroit who the 911 operator told to stop fooling around with the 911 system…

4> I really should have been watching ‘Babylon 5′ years ago.

5> Dean Koontz’es’s book ‘From the Corner of His Eye’ is a good read, nicely constructed, even though hardly anything really plotty happens until about page 600.

6> ‘My Name is Earl’ gets funnier and funnier.

7> Venus Express!

8> I love this weather.

9> The last few episodes of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ have been kickass, except I missed it both times on Space this past weekend through bad TV viewing planning. I guess I need to take a course.

10> ‘Coronation Street’ is getting kinda wacky, but that’s good. It’s a little boring when things are normal.

11> Nancy Grace is a foul human being.

12> If I was taller, I could see farther in a crowd during an emergency.

Jeezes. Tnir’s been offline/fubared so long I forgot what I was going to say.

Check back later.