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Over the last two nights, on Space (Rogers Cable 50, downtown) they showed a two-parter that took place entirely in the ‘Mirror, Mirror’ universe from the classic series.

There was the usual duplication of people in nearly identical capacities or roles (but working for the Empire not the Federation), and the link to our universe was the Defiant, which had been lured through a transverse spatio-temporal discontinuity (I made that term up) by the Tholians.  They captured the Defiant, killed the crew and began to dismantle the ship which was technologically advanced.

Mirror Archer (no evil Cartman beard) and his crew captured the ship from the Tholians (no beards), and so on.

Scott Bakula’s acting was horrendous, but the show was good.  Grim and sad, even the ending, but much more satisfying than the other episodes that I saw before I just stopped watching it.

Okay, score one (and only one) for Braga and Berman.  Lucky dummies.

Well, you’re not going to believe this, but the Pope of the Red Space Lizards has been messing with my noggin again.

Not quite as bad as last time (remember that?) but enough.

I thought I’d misplaced my dataspud (my USB jumpdrive, if you’re uncool) and knew - in the way that Jerry Fallwell knew he was correct - that it was right in front of me somewhere.

Well, it wasn’t. It seems it had fallen out of my pants pocket when I hung them up and was precariously close to falling down behind a piece of furniture it would have been a Jovian task to move (the planet, not the god). Obviously, the Pope of the Red Space Lizards had been redirecting my karma to try and confuse and mess me up. Nice try, Pope, but NSL.

I use the dataspud all the time, it’s got my resumes on it (all backed up, of course, but still) and I felt lost and naked without it.

Now I feel found and clothed.

All hail Xenu! Hail Xenu! Hail!

Woo hoo! (more…)

Well, I finally saw the movie. I was expecting a lot of CG and battle scenes and that’s exactly what I got. It was great. It totally kicked ass, as the kids used to say.

[SEPT 10, 2007: REID HAS FIXED IT AS FAR AS I CAN TELL…THANKS, REID (THANK GOD THIS TERROR IS FINALLY OVER)]

[REID SAYS HE CAN SEE THE YOUTUBE LINK THAT’S SUPPOSED TO HERE, BUT I CAN’T SEE IT IN FIREFOX OR MSIE]

This guy, Kyle Garchar, is a genius.

This is the Canadian Press story via Yahoo News.

Below is Reid’s attempt to embed the YouTube video.

The band is Crush Luther and this is their song ‘The Cools’.

Why do I like this song and the video?

1> I can understand the words.

2> It tells a nostalgic, bittersweet story of a high school boy, his band and his girlfriend.

3> It does not end well, but the boy gets through it. Bittersweetly.

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The next day. Like it? Hell, I love it. I watched it five times last night. The more I watch, the more I see.

Well, Jericho has been disencancelled! This is a message from Nina Tassler, president of CBS.

She warns that once it returns for seven midseason episodes next year, viewership will have to be higher than before, and current fans will have to recruit new ones. I wouldn’t do that. Too shy.

To be honest, it almost lost me midseason when they were concentrating on the ordinary people of Jericho trying to adapt pre-war normal lives to the realities of the current situation. I admit I drifted. But the last few episodes got me back because they started getting contact from the outside world, as the various federal governments (at one point six claiming the title) tried to aid the recovery, and we found out more about who was responsible in flashbacks. That was when I appreciated the folksy, homey tone of the ‘personal lives’ episodes more. These were small farm-town Kansans, not ‘Red Dawn’ action hero teens, with God Scriptwriter on their side from the start.

Now if the fans would only send nuts (or, you know, muffins or cheese baskets) to the devils who cancelled Studio 60 and Veronica Mars.

Want to generate near-real but faux quotes from real movies using a word or phrase you input?

Try this for a laugh.

The phrase ‘naked cheerleaders’ was mine.

I also tried ‘dirty underpants’ and got this. “Gort! Klaatu barada dirty underpants!” Guess what movie that was from.

Now choose your own word or phrase.

(Try using dirty words…it’s funnier!)

30 Rock, Alien vs Predator and The Dresden Files?

I was watching all three at once last night, while editing PHP files for fun and now all three are mushed around in my head and I really need to know what the difference is.

But seriously.

Peter Cook got me into 30 Rock. The creator, executive producer and occasional writer is the brilliant Tina Fey, formerly of Saturday Night Live. It’s really funny with some of the most internally consistent characters in sit-com history, all delightfully eccentric and unique. No comparison to Corner Gas, though. (And definitely no comparison to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, contrary to what some dummies on imdb would have you believe.)

I wanted to see Alien vs Predator for the SFX ad the fights, which were cool but the initial premise just got sillier and sillier the more they set it up.

The Dresden Files is okay but pretty pedestrian and predictable even though I quite enjoyed last night’s episode.

Take out your copy of ‘David Suzuki Asks Did You Know…About Food and Feeding’, by Laura Suzuki and Peter Cook.

Now turn to the seventh page from the back, to the page entitled Why Egg Whites Turn White When You Cook Them?

Know that this book was first published in 1991.

Now look who’s sitting at the feet of the woman in the drawing.

It’s Photon.

QED.