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Why does Ben Fold’s “Kylie From Connecticut” remind me of a heaping bowl of staple sauce?

Recently I stumbled upon the webcomic Wasted Talent, and all I can say is that reading the archives for days on end has wrecked havoc upon my language.  Not in a I’m-cussing-like-a-sailor way, but in an oh-the-noes kinda way.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed reading the comic, and its overt adorableness is part of its charm.  The protagonist, Jam (or JAM?), reminds me a lot of Yukino from Kare Kano (without the mean streak and duplicity).  But, dagnabit, if I didn’t start slipping in various cutesome Internet neologisms after each session of reading the archives!  It doesn’t really help my street cred!

Also, why do I find the line “It’s called a keffiyeh, and I wear it to support Palestine, ACTUALLY!” so friggin’ hysterical?  Probably because it’s spoken by a guy pretending to be a hipster (NSFW link).

Oh, and the nexus between these two things is Questionable Content.  I finally caught up on that as well.  I’ve probably been reading more webcomics than is good for me recently…

I think this comic best explains why we are so despondent in our adult lives…

Laughter truly is the best medicine!  I just watched two episodes of Arrested Development and have noted a marked improvement in how I feel!  Or maybe it was the acetaminophen and ibuprofen that I took beforehand?  No, definitely Arrested Development…

You can let out a sigh of relief: the Avatar finale has been viewed, and the search for an equal to fill the void shall commence.  I will admit, I was rather pessimistic.  I have seen strong shows destroyed by their final episodes before.  And the third season of Avatar seemed a little lost, suffering from pacing problems and weaker writing (still better than the vast majority of shows on television, but weaker than the second season).  In the end, it pulled through, and, frankly, I don’t think I could have asked for it any other way.  Granted, I would have liked to have seen the recently crowned Phoenix King Ozai perish as righteousness conquered evil, but given the constraints (it is a kid’s show after all), I think they took him down in the best way possible.  It was a phenomenal ending to a fantastic story.  I love epic tales where the hero must leave the safety of home, sacrificing everything to defeat some great force of evil.  And Avatar pulled it off beautifully.  It is such a rare treat in any medium, but the fact that it was on television makes it all the more astounding, and appreciated by me for my love of visual stimulation and my short attention span.  Hell, mad props to Nickelodeon for actually seeing the project through and not canceling it, to Bryan and Michael for creating the thing, and to Aaron Ehasz for being such a damned good writer.  OK, that last line might be kind of blatant, and lame, fanboy gushing, but I’ll let it stand.  Now time to pre-order the third season DVDs…

This week is shaping up to be a good one.  I get a new Avatar episode every night at 8 PM, finishing up with the series finale on Saturday.  The new Batman movie, looking oh so very bad ass, opens on Friday.  And Saturday I get to play Rock Band with my work peeps.  There’s only that “work” thing I have to get through…  Plus I made a boat load of chili (literally, you could fill a boat with it) tonight, so I have plenty o’ leftovers.  What more could a bearded twenty-something ask for?

I’m just going to say it: I loved WALL*E.  It’s a cute story with phenomenal animation.  From the way the lighting changes to the way things rust gives such a high degree of realism that it’s easy to forget you’re watching an animated film.  And who would have thought you could have a successful romantic pairing between two robots?  Seriously?  In comparison to the other computer animated movie I saw this year, Kung Fu Panda, WALL*E blows it out of the water.  It isn’t to say Kung Fu Panda was bad, it was quite entertaining; but in the end it was rather formulaic, and the most impressive animation was the hand drawn sequences at the beginning of the film.  Pixar continues to break the mold with WALL*E, in both story and animation, and that is why I rate it 9.342 Gigafonzies for entertainment.

Also, I loved how WALL*E’s reboot sound was the same as the ol’ Mac boot-up noise.  Thank you, Steve Jobs…

So, I was originally going to write a post about how I was somewhat miffed that the creators of Avatar decided to name a character literally after the word for the sleeve of a Han dynasty style dress, and while using the Mandarin pronunciation for that word to say the name, wrote the character’s name using the Cantonese transliteration.  This is how “Mai” (pronounced like “My”) ends up being pronounced “Mei” (or “May”, if you please).  Then I decided that while such venting may be therapeutic in the short run, it would be far more entertaining to turn my investigative process into the plot of a murder mystery.  I figure it will be set in Victorian England, a roller coaster of a page turner, crammed with sizzling Gypsies (Editor’s note: to anyone who has seen Black Adder, that was what’s called an homage, not plagiarism).

Welp, I have my July all planned out…

This has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen with Garfield the former president and Garfield the cat…