Becky and I were driving down I79 today when we saw a big-ass billboard that said, simply:
And if you go to that site, you see a plea for someone named Rachael to contact the owner of the site, someone who misses the person in question terribly.
This smacks of viral marketing, but I can see nothing online that even references it!
Any ideas, interweb?
I’m sure you’ve been keeping up with the goings-on between pundit Jack Thompson and the vast body of video gamers. I won’t bore you with the details that you probably already know.
Suffice to say that Jack Thompson may or may not have intended to actually give his $10k dollars to charity. Betting on the side of cynicism, Penny Arcade has called his bluff.
A Becky who is not my wife said that after we watched Serenity (or Firefly: The Motion Picture) tonight. I agree with her. It’s a fantastic movie, but things happen in it that will not sit well with fans – even those fans who understand why these things were done.
Joss is, hands down, the best writer of snappy dialogue in Hollywood. Maybe he’s the best writer of dialogue period.
He made this movie for us. Do him a favor and see it twice.
The Daily Show had a story tonight about a smarmy 22 year old econ major who “pays” homeless people for holding advertisements.
He reminds me of the many arrogant pricks I went to high school with – who have subsequently become MBAs, the color guard for the grand march of exploitive capitalism.
I have no problem with capitalism, mind – when it operates as intended, it works beautifully, and I truly believe it’s the best economic system we’ve yet discovered.
If you read this article about Bumvertising (which the Daily Show called “the best economic opportunity for the homeless since Bumfights”), you learn quite a bit about this go-getter darling of conservative talk radio.
Fun fact: he made money in high school as a ticket scalper and price gouger!
Ain’t it Cool says that the villain for the second Nolan Batman movie will be played by one of two brits: Paul Bettany and Lachy Hulme.
Previous geekdom speculation had Sean Penn rumored to be reading for the role, and I admit that it would have been a compelling choice.
The author of the linked article says Crispin Glover should play the character, and that seems, to me, the perfect choice.
i had something to say about this, but I’ve forgotten what it was. Something about Americans in the cast, and the ability for most of the actors in the first film being able to speak with American accents, and how we really should have all known how good Batman Begins was going to be with a cast that included Bale, Oldman, Freeman and Hauer, but that a good cast doesn’t make a necessarily good movie and maybe we should have been as skeptical as we were and maybe these two guys they’re choosing will be good for the role, and how I liked Paul Bettany in Master and Commander and how they’ll probably never make a sequel to that movie, and how Russel Crowe is kind of a dick, and that I’m one of the few people I know who didn’t like Gladiator at all.
Well, something along those lines, anyway.
A lot of marriage-related posts – for that I apologize. Deal.
This is the text of our vows. I wrote them. With some help from Bill Goldman, Bill Shakespeare and Becky.
Marriage. Marriage is what brings us together today. Love, true love, that dream within a dream is ours to witness.
We gather here to celebrate the wedding of James Foreman and Rebecca Pierce. A moment in which two lives join together, so the parts may grow stronger together. It lasts only briefly, a simple ceremony where words are repeated and promises are made. They call them vows, but promises is all they are, words that disappear the moment they are spoken. But these promises are not taken lightly. Rebecca and James are together now, and the oaths they make today will be remembered, just as all happy moments are remembered, with fondness and love, so that this togetherness will last. Even when memories fade, the photographs yellow, and the flowers wilt, this union that we, all of us witness, will be permanent and unyielding, for that which is made in love cannot be unmade.
But even though words are fleeting, there are few who used them to describe the kind of love we celebrate today better than William Shakespeare, in his Sonnet 116:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments. Love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle’s compass come;
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Rebecca Pierce, do you take James to be your equal, your partner and your companion, through fire, through smoke, through thorns, through disaster and delight, to accept his flaws, to forgive his faults, to have, to hold, to comfort, to care, to inspire, to indulge, to counsel, to calm, every day and every moment, for as long as you shall live?
[I do. ]
To symbolize your love, place your ring upon her finger.
James Foreman, do you take Rebecca to be your equal, your partner and your companion, through fire, through smoke, through thorns, through disaster and delight, to accept his flaws, to forgive his faults, to have, to hold, to comfort, to care, to inspire, to indulge, to counsel, to calm, every day and every moment, for as long as you shall live?
[I do.]
To symbolize your love, place your ring upon her finger.
By the power vested in me, I join you together as one in a unity of like minds, bound to the same fate, no matter the troubles or the obstacles, now greater than the sum of its parts. I pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
This is not a recent development. The wedding is on Saturday. Now that you know, this IM from my brother Rob might make sense:
I didn’t grow up to become an illustrator, but the drawings by David Sutherland, on Dungeons and Dragons book covers, sure did influence my coterie of internal visual contexts.
I also don’t care when celebrities die, but I actually find myself kind of sad to hear that Mr. Sutherland passed away [boingboing.net].
No, there’s not some great new scandal akin to the Strawberry Shortcake debacle [penny-arcade.com]. Instead, Tycho had this to say about the warnings against movie piracy playing before actual movies:
I can’t imagine how counterproductive those MPAA clips before movies have proven to be. It may be that you have not yet been insulted by one of these, but the only way to one-hundred percent guarantee that you will be harangued thus for piratical acts is to enter a theater and see movies legally
Amen, brother.
Here’s Penny Arcade’s current read.