Ghost in the Shell

Finally saw this movie tonight, as it was on cable. Damn, it was awesome.
I always mean to watch more anime, but never quite get around to it.

U of M football starts tomorrow, we may still brave the roads in an attempt to catch a matinee showing of Hero. I might just stay home and bake bread. Crowds are horrible and scary. Although, I'm sure hero kicks ass, and it would be fun to see Jeremy.

www.LjDrama.org sucks anymore. It used to be hilarious drama from all over the web. Now it's a bunch of crap about Lj abuse and people getting banned...like anyone gives a rat's ass. There're only a zillion places to blog out there--why get snide with people who work hard to make LJ a cool place to be?

I've been thinking about bears some more, and the differences between grizzlies and brown bears. I think I like the brown bears best, grizzlies are fucking scary.

This all sounds pretty insipid. I just needed to empty my head out before going to bed.

There is some new stuff on the JK Rowling site. As usual, the Leaky Cauldron site has the straight dope on all things Potter. It appears that Petunia Dursley is not a squib, therefore Dudley is NOT the Half Blood Prince. Neither is Hagrid, nor Harry, not Voldemort. So who the heck can it be? I suppose we know nothing of Dumbeldore's parentage, nor that of Peter Pettigrew, nor Lupin. We also know that Seamus Finnegan is half blood...oooh, that's a good possibility now that I think of it. Okay, enough of that. I'm going to bed.

Blockbuster

It is not secret to many of you that I used to work for Blockbuster. In fact, that's how I met my current roomate, uterdic and my great friend, lickingtoad . That said, Blockbuster is an evil company who doesn't give a rat's ass about their employees or the safety thereof. I quit working there after the district manager looked me straight in the face and denied making several of the horrible comments she made towards me.

Anyway...I have a strong dislike for Blockbuster, despite the fact that their low low prices on used DVD's bring me to them once every other month or so. Since I had a bit of money I went online to see if they were having one of those 2/$20 or 3/$25 sales I love so well. These sales coupled with the fact that they buy used DVD's from the public can make for some great opportunities indeed. People jonesing for new video games often sell great movies for cheap.

So...it turns out they are not having a sale.
It also seems that they have started a Netflix like service at the same damn price.
And that Viacom wants to dump them;
And they only made a profit once in the last five years...which is about the time I stopped working for them.

Blockbuster: I hate you.

And so does The Universe, it seems.