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Tuesday | March 2nd | 2010

Yeah, so he was telling me about this movie called “Snow Crash,” and, well, it’s not actually a movie yet, but it totally should be. It’s, like, a book right now, but he was telling me about it, and it’s so totally perfect for like a big blockbuster action movie. I don’t remember who wrote it, and I haven’t read it, but he was describing all these scenes that are like perfect for a movie, and we were casting it in our heads. It’s like there are all these people, and they’re all online— like the Matrix—but not. And all of these people are also addicted to this drug. That’s the ‘snow’ reference. And it’s a really good story.

So, we decided that Mark Ruffalo would be perfect for the lead guy. I don’t remember his name. Did you see 13 Going on 30? Mark Ruffalo is the lead in that. He’s so dopey and cute, he’s perfect. Megan Fox would be the main girl. She’s like this really sexy programmer chick, and it would be so awesome. I want Jerry Bruckheimer to make this movie. It’s gonna be so legit.

The girl who is excitedly talking about making Neal Stephenson’s beloved cyberfreakout Snow Crash into a movie is the most normal of college girls. Think the Gap plus a smidge of Columbia sportswear. None of her very normal friends have heard of it. They are Not geeks, Not nerds. They are terrifying.

This unholy union of terrible terrible terrible ideas is simultaneously horrifying and gut-bustingly funny. Mark Ruffalo + Megan Fox + Jerry Bruckheimer + a hilariously awful plot synopsis = me holding my GUFFAWING laughter in, not even able to sip my coffee for fear of snorting through my nose. Oh, so awful.

And yet, it is exactly what would happen should Hollywood ever make Snow Crash into a blockbuster, which, mercifully, has not happened yet. Thank Hiro Protagonist for small miracles.


Posted by SaRRa on Tue Mar 2nd at 4:39PM
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Sunday | February 7th | 2010

Our winter in the Northwest has been incredibly mild—warmest January on record—and so the snow pile-ups in other parts of the country seem hard to imagine. But…this weatherman has convinced me of the severity of weather.

As Nick put it, he is like the Glenn Beck of weather casting. Oh boy. Oh boy.


Posted by SaRRa on Sun Feb 7th at 2:48PM
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Friday | September 18th | 2009

Best Half-Life 2 mod? Absolutely!


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Thursday | August 13th | 2009

“However, disconcerting things have been happening [in Britain] of late…Now, we hear that people who speak with the Queen — for example, to thank her for doing such a fine job as Canada’s head of state– no longer have to exit the room walking backwards.

This would be fine if the reasoning behind it were “The Queen is an adult and can cope with seeing people’s butts. Indeed, she rather likes them. The only butt with which she has hitherto been familiar is the Duke of Edinburgh’s, and quite frankly, it no longer amuses her.”

But no: they’re changing it because they’re afraid they might get sued if some idiot injures themselves. People have been moonwalking out of royal audiences since the bloody Magna Carta, and has anyone sued yet? Of course not! Anyone idiotic enough to reveal that they fell on their arse in Buckingham Palace, let alone launch a lawsuit about it, doesn’t deserve to call themselves British.”

Mightygodking has a new writer, and I think I like her. I kind of imagine Eddie Izzard doing something wonderful while reading this, and that’s a plus.

You’re reading Mightygodking, right? Right? The blog about comics, geek tv, geek movies and the Canadian law system?


Posted by SaRRa on Thu Aug 13th at 6:47PM
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Sunday | July 12th | 2009
Topless activists protest veterinarians’ fish toss
Yeps. Remember that article I scoffed at about PETA protesting against the tossing of (already dead) fish at Pike Place Market? Topless mermaids are showing up to lay around on the ground in front of the market stall to confuse/arouse/guilt people into…uh…not tossing mermaids? Not…killing mermaids? Not stepping on PETA protestors? I’m really not sure, but I know one thing: it’s hilarious.

Topless activists protest veterinarians’ fish toss

Yeps. Remember that article I scoffed at about PETA protesting against the tossing of (already dead) fish at Pike Place Market? Topless mermaids are showing up to lay around on the ground in front of the market stall to confuse/arouse/guilt people into…uh…not tossing mermaids? Not…killing mermaids? Not stepping on PETA protestors? I’m really not sure, but I know one thing: it’s hilarious.


Posted by SaRRa on Sun Jul 12th at 12:34PM
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