Vanity Fair Profile of Tony Stark!

That's right: in The Kids Aren't All Right, Vanity Fair reporter Christine Everhart conducted a series of interviews over the course of a year, revealing the man behind the mask. It's a quite insightful profile of the troubled mind of one of the most brilliant (or at least most famous)inventors of the age.

In reality, this is possibly one of the most brilliant fanfics I've ever seen, in that it actually DOES take the perspective of a Vanity Fair report; it fills in a lot of the psychology and history in the speculative manner that VF uses.

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A misread line that may bring in the Awesome.

I was reading a preview of the upcoming Star Trek film, and misread the line "a fun hollywood blockbuster romp" as "a fun Bollywood blockbuster romp".  And it occurred to me that this is the direction that the new Star Trek franchise really needs to go in.  After all, there's no place else for it to go.

At this point Star Trek, or really any blockbuster SF film, could only be improved by having all the colorfully dressed cast sing and dance.  Can you imagine how the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" would be improved if only we had the soldiers and scientists dancing rings in around Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, in front of the big silvery CGI sphere?  It would be spectacular.

And I could go eat at my favorite Indian buffet and watch it on the big screens.  Double win!

Side Effect of Anime Surplus.

So on Saturday we finally managed to get the time to spend the $60.00 credit from Rasputins; the one that we got when I traded in a bunch of insipid New Age DVDs that I had been given at work.  It was nice to convert say, Kitaro into store credit that could be used to buy good stuff.  As a result we got Enchanted, and a bunch of DVDs of unpopular-yet-good anime shows like Hyperpolice, Scrapped Princess, and Master Keaton. 

All of which had a nasty side effect: staying up far too late on a Sunday night watching Scrapped Princess.  Admittedly it's a great show- the character designs, the back story, and the family dynamic between the characters are all nicely handled.  And the central mystery of the world is gradually revealed is paced very well.

But geeze, i am dead on my feet today.  I crave sleep like a junky craves heroin.  So no actual game or useful posts today.  I'm going to muddle my way through the next hour and a half, and then go home and collapse.