movies that challenged the world

Yeah, but the actual film is in black and white, not like this colorful image. It was seen at another Jet City Improv adaptation.
I also saw “A Scanner Darkly” and it was disappointing to me. Great ideas, good cast, but I got no emotional connection with the characters and didn’t really care what happened to [...]

a link landslide

From Maggie:
Mental Floss A blog absolutely overflowing with interesting links and information, such as this one:
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society Full of creepy and interesting facts, including a fascinating “lesser known museum of the week” page.
Feral Children Everything you wanted to know on this subject. And an amazing feral child story here.
Vintage ads–Drugs Astounding [...]

brother stephen’s church of the weird

I’m sure I mentioned this utterly amazing house last year after my visit. The annual party is coming up again, but you can go there right now! Follow the link and see detailed VR images of each room. If you like oddities, curiosities, and strange-as-hell-ities, you’ll be in heaven.

weather conspiracy

Maggie sends this extraordinary story of a meteorologist who says that Hurricane Katrina was caused by the Japanese mafia, who were getting revenge for World War II. So who makes it rain all winter in the Northwest? I have my suspicions (Orca whales), but no proof yet.

wheels of fire

As I expected, the Rat City teams did pretty well at Saturday’s exhibition game. The four bouts went like this:
Throttle Rockets (Seattle) defeated the Break Neck Betties by a light year.
Grave Danger (Seattle) buried the High Rollers.
In a down-to-the-wire finish, Guns N Rollers (Portland) rolled past the Sockit Wenches by a single point.
Derby Liberation Front [...]

rat city vs. rose city

Can the excitement be any more intense? The Rat City Roller Girls meet Portland’s Rose City Rollers Saturday night. Who will remain standing? How many fake fights will occur? What decibel-level will the half-time entertainment band achieve? 118? 120? Find out this weekend. SATURDAY-YAY-YAY-YAY (insert echo effect.)

radioactive consumer products

What’s radioactive in your household?

the old banana-foot trick

Went to see playright/actor acquaintance Judy perform at Live Girls!. First time I’ve been to this place even though they’ve been right here in Ballard for a year. A fun evening, close to home. And the night before I could have seen Little Fyodor, who was playing for free right in my neighborhood, at [...]