Apparently the kitten video is NOT available on YouTube.

[albadger]

Just saw "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which was much more entertaining than I had expected. The 3D effect on the Imax screen was poor, but the movie itself nice, though the Dad seemed substantially less cute once I found out James Caan did the voice (side note on celebrity voices in animated films: with the exception of Bruce Campbell and Anna Faris, did any of these people bring anything to this that couldn't have easily been bettered by a voice acting specialist?).

On return trip, a stop at the new Shari's in Castro Valley, on top of the grave of the old Baker's Square. They were out of the soup Scott A. wanted, and out of the soup he picked as a second-best... but we left a very nice tip anyway, because the waiter had extremely hairy forearms.

And one of my friends is now saying, let's go there, shall we? At least one.

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[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

I doubt if the kitten could point it's fingers and do the twist, anyway!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

You just won't let that nightmare die, will you?

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the Susan Boyle cover!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

PEBBLES!!!!!

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

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No, No, Dear God No, Not the Flintstones

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Pebbles is Susan Boyle's cat. Susan had an "episode" a while back which climaxed in her screaming for her cat. Don't watch the Flintstones clip Mike posted. The Flintstones have been shown to cause horrible disease.

Or maybe that was Family Guy. Best to stay away in any case.

Re: No, No, Dear God No, Not the Flintstones

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

I'd heard she'd had a reality slip, or something.... that's too bad.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

[danthered.livejournal.com]

I just saw CWaCoM — the book — on a bookstore shelf yesterday evening. Same illustrations I remember! It's a treasure, but I have a little trouble figuring out how they could've expanded that short story to a movie-length narrative.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Answer is, they didn't expand the short story, but instead wrote a new story about the inventor of food weather. Yknow, like this.

1. Everybody thinks he's a jerk but he doesn't give up his dream until it finally works.
2. He becomes hugely popular, but it goes to his head and he ignores warning signs until things spin out of control.
3. He curls up into the foetal position until a loved one pep talks him out of it, and he saves the day.

I wonder how many writers it took to come up with that. That's a bit too cynical for me -- it's Hollywood product, yes (and littered with the voices of the current bland SNL crop for no good reason), but I liked it.