Doug and Roger tell Benji about the woman who is going to wear the Lilo costume this Friday. This leads to a general discussion about dating. Doug and Benji donít date anyone. Roger is married to a woman who has recently gotten into Disney ó but sheís a Pooh fan, Benji tells me, dismissively. ìGirls get in the way of the true calling of TWDC,î Benji says. TWDC stands for The Walt Disney Company.

from the laweekly, via boingboing, there’s this crazy article on disneyland regulars. i thought it was interesting at first, then i felt kind of repulsed, then i felt sorry for them, and lastly felt the need to be happy for them because they love the twdc so much. at least it’s not hitler.
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scientific american is running a little
series on odd patents and got curious as to whether you could look up patents yourself. well, you can, there’s a very searchable list at uspto.gov where you can do searches on stuff like toilet bowl cleaner and you know, other stuff, like toilet bowl cleaner.

you can also search by inventor name, state, city and others. in fact, inventors from west richland patented “a method for manipulating small particles in a microfluidic system wherein a fluid flow through a tolerance of the microfluidic system is used to capture large particles, which are then used, in turn, to capture small particles.” it’s great fun, go try it.
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next weekend in seattle the 11th annual Cycle Messenger World Championships is taking place. there’s a funny interview in the stranger with nick dale, the president of the Courier Association of Seattle (CAOS). you should go and check it out if you’re in town, there’s a bunch of events, including a bunny hop contest and a big group ride.
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there was a bomb threat at the staples across the street today. i’m actually not sure if it was a bomb threat, but people said the bomb squad was out there and i saw all the staples employees evac’d. last year i think someone left a lunchbox at the scene and the lafd was called in because they thought someone had left anthrax there or something.

remember when someone left a baggie of powdered mashed potatoes at schmitz?

elgwido: I had a dream last night that James thought i was dead so i put on a bunch of gory makeup and spooked the crap out of him
tim: did he poo his pants?
elgwido: then i told him that i was going to sleep in his car and stink it up
elgwido: He wasn’t too happy
tim: nice. did you poo in his car?
elgwido: nope big i did lose out on the 50/50 this morning
elgwido: that big should be a but
elgwido: i’m trying to play a game and type at the same time
tim: ah. what 50/50?
elgwido: You know when your stomach hurts really bad and you have to fart. You know that there’s probably a 50/50 chance that if you do fart you’ll crap your pants
tim: oh yeah. duh.
elgwido: I had a nast dinner last night and was feeling it all day
tim: stop it, you’re making me hungry.
elgwido: I didn’t crap my pants though.

tim: good job!

elgwido: I wasn’t wearing any at the time so it went straight to the floor
tim: PLOP!
elgwido: Can’t complain, i knew the odds.

we’re all about a preoccupation with excrement at heart murmur. there’s more in the bathroom.
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the funniest thing (and it is funny) about the whole asteroid thing is that they’ve been using the same artist’s rendition seen here for years now, in fact, me and ben and james used the picture for our project in astronomy class on Near Earth Objects. we talked about using solar sails and mechanisms that would dig into the rock causing it to wear away so much it would burn in the atmosphere. all the “solutions” we came up with, most of which were actual options (and some even depicted on armageddor) that would take years and year to be effective. essentially, if something were gonna hit us, we’d know by now, and there’d probably be nothing we could do about it. but the probability is miniscule. tell the media to quit moaning about it.
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i couldn’t find an actual link to this, but word is scarface is going to have a limited re-release Sept. 19 in new york, l.a., boston, chicago, philly, washington, detroit, dallas, miami and san francisco; with a brand-spanking new 35mm print and a newly remixed digital soundtrack. and need i remind you? al pacino = bad-ass!

which i might as well mention, regardless of what you think of spider-man, willem dafoe still still equals bad-ass as well. same goes for tim roth (planet of the apes and others not withstanding) and of course johnny d. but the point is, i’m still pretty stoked that willem’s signed on to anderson’s aquatic life.

another dude i’ve always like on the screen, specifically hal hartley films, was martin donovan, who was great in the book of life. hal hartley is going to be releasing all the soundtrack music to his films on october 21st. if you get it, you’ll probably start speaking in short melodramatic deadpan sentences that make you laugh on the inside but look like buster keaton on the out. sparse, dramatic guitar work on this sucker.

ADDENDUM: thanks to ryan for the scarface article, you gotta pay to play with variety and i had a little time on my hands, so i found the reuters article on it. also, my dumb ass forgot to include the URL about the hal hartley soundtrack release. the music for henry fool alone is enough to get you worked up. here’s the tracklist, too:

Release Date: October 21, 2003
Riff - Surviving Desire
Trust - Closing (2003 arrangement)
No Such Thing - Opening
The Unbelievable Truth - Opening
Epiphany - Soon
Rue Des Jours - Surviving Desire

Lookout - No Such Thing

Kimono - Theme

Flirt - reprise

Sacrifice - No Such Thing

Simple Men - Opening

Because - Soon

Get Your Truck - Flirt

The Book Of Life

Tokyo Jail Cell (2003 arrangement) - Flirt

Amateur - Closing

Down - Soon

Henry Fool - Theme

Amateur - Opening

Fugitive - The Book Of Life

The Worst News Possible - No Such Thing

The Confession - Henry Fool

Run - Henry Fool (End Credits)

Simple Men - Closing

Walk Away - Trust (Opening Credits)

Fear Of Love - The Unbelievable Truth (2003 arrangement)

quite possibly old news, there’s a movie that matt and bubba kadane (of the new year wrote music for called hell house that was released on dvd back in may. it’s about some crazy haunted houses in texas that is run by a bunch of hardcore christian church. it looks really fucked up, and the trailers give me the creeps just watching them.

also in the musician/soundtrack realm, we saw battle of shaker heights this weekend, which was a mixed bag, but i’ll save that for the “watch” section someday. of note, though, there were at least three matt pond pa songs (speaking of– check out the intro to the polyvinyl site, too, they’re pushing the new mates of state and the flash intro is one i actually sat through) and one nada surf song right near the beginning. bonus points for the good tunes.

i was looking for those new jets to brazil shirts that have the jtb logo that’s all spelled out like the CNN logo because my fat ass will only fit into xl’s and they were all out on tour. they don’t have any, but i saw that jade tree recently announced that cex is releasing his new album “marlyand mansions” on the label. there’s a song up at there: “my head. i was gonna say something snotty about how all emo and indie kids are buying rap and IDM now, but i’m one of them, so go ahead and sock me in the nuts.
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speaking of CNN, there’s a funny news item at toonzone describing the new phenomenon known to the marketeers as “kidults” and other such stupid names describing adults that are in to kid’s stuff. one of the interesting facts dropped include the ratings for cartoon network being better than CNN amongst males 18-49. maybe because CNN sucks?
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lastly, they’re working on the bathrooms here at work. i really have to go, but instead, i have to sit around and write about it.