Amazon's Saturday Deal of the Day is seasons 1-4 of Doogie Houser, M.D. for $39.99 (67% off, or about $10 a season)!

For Mother's Day, we watched Waitress, which was completely and utterly adorable. Of course, there's an element of sadness in watching it, given Adrienne Shelley's murder, but it's still such a wonderful, happy movie. Andy Griffith and Nate Fillion are both a delight, but it was Shelley, Keri Russell, and Cheryl Hines who really drive things. The ending is a tad pat, but I'm still pretty happy with the movie overall. And given our Pushing Daisies obsession, all the pie stuff was a blast, too. And for us Jericho fans, there was even a brief Darby Stanchfield moment!

Earlier this week, we (sans Elayna) watched Michael Clayton, which we're requested from the library after watching Tilda Swinton win the Oscar. Other than wondering why, exactly, she was even nominated (nothing against her performance, but it simply wasn't a role with a lot of juice, and "she'll give an awesome acceptance speech" really isn't a good reason to vote for someone).), I liked it. Clooney continues to be an underappreciated actor, and Tom Wilkinson simply stole every scene he was in. The movie took a mostly-predictable plot and still made things entertaining, but it's not something I feel any pressing need to own.

Current Music: Rush Hour - Drivin' N' Cryin'

The Geek Flowchart, from earlier this year in the New York Times.

Current Music: Confession Part III - Weird Al Yankovic

Call it a linkdump, if you must. :-) Our net connection was down for most of the day yesterday, so these tabs have been hanging around for a while, in some cases.

1. Damned happy about California's recent Supreme Court decision. It's always extra fun to watch a wanker like Glen Levy whine that the gays are stealing our jobs ruining marriage for folks like him (because, you know, if gays get married, they'll magically stop bigoted assholes from finding each other with their Ultra Leet Gay Marriage-Disruption Rays).

2. I'm also happy that CA filed charges against Lori Drew, who deserves whatever bad crap comes her way.

3. I think that the new Youtube Mac app from Google, Vidnik, has some nifty potential.

4. Even if it's been linked to a million times, Roger Ebert's piece on fanzines is great. As is tnh's amplification.

5. I'm happy that Chicago came to its senses about foie gras.

6. Charlie Stross has some good points on the onslaught of bloated web pages.

7. WIkileaks has some simply fascinating reading material.

8. This article about contemporary pirates is fascinating.

9. The first trailer for Dollhouse is out! Watch it before Fox cancels it!

10. The World Science Festival is at the end of the month, for anyone in or near New York City!

Current Music: I Fought The Law - Social Distortion

1. Jick made it very clear that using multis in the dungeon is a bad thing. If you've got more than one character in the clan, make sure that only one of them does the Hobopolis content when it comes out, okay?

2. From the latest radio show:

Q: Hobopolis info plz?
A: 6 New outfits, probably 6 new familiars, though that's probably not as exciting as you think. 15 new skills.


Definitely some good stuff to look forward to. :-)

Does a false preposition imply any preposition?

Moonlight, which was cancelled yesterday, has a (faint) chance of making its way over to the CW.

Robert Rauschenberg has died.

We have some of his prints in our group office at work.

Following yesterday's sales (which, other than the Deal of the Day, are still active), Amazon's got a bunch of other DVD sales:

Amazon's Deal of the Day is Seasons 1-3 of House (along with the book The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse) for $69.99 (or a bit over $23 a season).

Then there's the Films of Yore sale, with period pieces like The Remains of the Day, the Liam Neeson/Geoffrey Rush Les Miserables, A Man for All Seasons, Little Women, and Immortal Beloved (as well as about ten other movies) at 47-50% off (and under $8).

The Save 50% or More sale includes Monk, Columbo, Saturday Night Live, and Amazing Stories at 50-56% off.

The DVDs inspired by Music sale features 90 movies, including Rocky Horror, Once, Fiddler on the Roof, Moulin Rouge, lots of Elvis movies, Garage Days, and lots of other musicals and video collections, all at 45% off or more.

And finally, there's a Dragonball Z sale, with 50-60% off nineteen different Dragonball-related DVDs.

Werner Herzog is remaking Bad Lieutenant, with Nicholas Cage in the lead.

My brain locks up when I try to contemplate this.