Saturday, August 21, 1999

Maude-lin

GO. NOW.: After several failed attempts to make it to the theater, I finally got to see The Iron Giant last night. Every review I've read and every weblogger I trust urged me to see this film before it disappeared from theaters, and now I'm urging you. I can recommend it without hesitation, especially if you have children or anything remotely childlike in your own nature.

This is an animated feature, but not a cartoon. It has a wonderful story, a warm moral at its heart, charming characterizations and, lest I make this sound like too much of a chick-flick to scare off you he-man types, some stuff gets blowed up real good. I cried at the end, and somewhere near the middle too. I laughed a lot. Go. Now.

IMMORTAL BEA-LOVED: Once again, the web has delivered a dream to me. Long have I staggered through life, hoping — nay, wishing! — that somewhere I might find a comprehensive resource dedicated to that marvelous comic actress Beatrice Arthur. And here it is! (I understand that TV Land is rerunning Maude. My cable system doesn't carry TV Land. I am, therefore, cranky.)

OTHER FUNNIES: The iMac ad parodies continue, in typically geeky fashion. And The Brunching Shuttlecocks, always good for a laff, offer up some unconventional Y2K survival items:

Experts agree that the only two currencies of any value in the post-Y2K era will be pure gold and science fiction tie-in merchandise. So we combined the two, producing these attractive coins, each bearing the image of a beloved character from the critically acclaimed, ground-breaking Babylon 5 series.

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