Well, it’s 10:20, I haven’t written anything today, and I am far too full of the fine cuisine of ABC Country Kitchen (they have this amazing pot roast burger called Beef on Beef… sounds almost as dirty as their Pulled Pork!) to think about writing something serious, academic, or coherent, so you fine people get whatever the heck is on my mind and/or tabbed in my Firefox tonight.

It’s the Sunday Special! But whether it’s the good kind of special or the short bus kind is up to you.

Been trying to get more active on Reddit lately. Well, by “more active”, I really mean “active whatsoever”, seeing as when I made that account, it was way, way back in the days when I was trying to get phunni.com (no link, doesn’t exist any more!) going. It was supposed to be a very 2.0 comedy link accumulator based on the digg.com model, but I lack the sort of personality to make something like that work. So it went fizzle fizzle flop.

Anyhow, the reason that I am interested in Reddit after many years of ignoring it is that I have noticed that it has become almost as active a internet culture incubator and molten nerdness reactor as 4chan, and unlike mother frisking 4chan, I don’t loathe its interface. Plus, unlike the /b/ crew over at The Chan, Reddit contributors (rather cloyingly referred to as “Redditors”) actually get mentioned in mainstream media articles about Internet events and even current events, and that’s exactly the kind of spotlight I long to elbow my way into.

Unfortunately, there’s a small snafu with my membership, so I can barely contribute links. Something about my email not being verified. Hopefully, I will straighten that out soon, and be able to throw links to my better articles up there and see what sticks.

Already, the one article I have posted to Reddit (yesterday’s N-factor and the center of the herd) netted me a thoughtful, interesting, and delightfully on-point comment on said article. This is exactly the sort of feedback that keeps us ink stained wretches (metaphorically speaking) going, so that is definitely strong encouragement for me to keep throwing links their way and trying to get the attention of the Internet intelligentsia (intergentsia? Nah, sounds like some obscure transhumanist magazine). So I will try to make Reddit more friendly to me.

What else… oh right. There might be proof of life in outer space.

It’s all up in the air, but as a space cadet science fiction loving card carrying nerdoid, I am hoping like hell it pans out, because that would be freaking awesome. There is a vast difference between merely being certain there must, in all probability, be life in outer space (would be vastly more improbable for there to be none, given the size of, you know, SPACE), and actual verifiable scientific evidence, sitting there for all the world to test and examine. That is a whole other realm of knowledge, and would prove that we are not completely alone in this big beautiful cosmos.

It is a testament to how gregarious we are as a species that what we really want to know about outer space is whether there are other people out there.

Let’s see…. closer to home, Michael Bay has admitted Transformers 2 was crap and apologized.

Well, sort of. It’s actually one of those mealy-mouthed sideways halfway “mistakes were made” and “in hindsight, some things did not go exactly as planned” type apologies, so he does not exactly get full credit for it. Throw in blaming the Writer’s Strike, and hey, Bay, thanks, but still, fuck you very much.

Oh, and a friend linked this to me and I thought I would share it with you people because it’s snazzy.

It takes a little while to get really cooking, and I was dubious at first because the premise (make fun of Christin Bale’s incoherent growling in Dark Knight) seemed very limited and one-note to me, but the various Joker reactions are actually quite witty and funny, so they manage to make it work.

Plus, the guy doing Batman really sells the incoherent guttural growling. It sounds plausible, instead of cartoonishly exaggerated beyond believability, and that is very important for this kind of satire. The hilarious Joker reactions would fall flat without it. We have to be right there with the Joker saying “What the hell did he just say?” like we are in the movie with him for this sort of comedy to really zing, and he does a great job.

Well, I guess that’s all for me for now. Hope you enjoying this Sunday “Special”!