Roger Ebert has updated his Movie Answer Man column. Topics covered include Adam Sandler, Paul Thomas Anderson, “On the Ropes,” “Pearl Harbor,” and inappropriate laughter. And he even manages to work in a Brew & View shoutout! Damn, that makes me miss Chicago.

Mini-Me Mini-Snookums

Okay, so I know that every other blogger in the known universe has done this in the last two days, but I can’t resist. Check out Mini-Me and Mini-Snookums! Aren’t we cute? You can make your own at Stor. I made ours there and then made a few modifications in Photoshop to make them look more like us (hair/eye color, breasts for me, etc.). I also had to lighten my skin color, because after a year in England I’m so pasty white it’s frightening.

Happier. You know how you feel bad when people that were important to you drift away? And yet, it makes you feel great when you randomly (cyber-)bump into each other and it seems just like old times again? Living over here, I tend to get these moments a lot…

Yes, I’m working on Saturday. The most beautiful Saturday in recent memory. The ONLY beautiful Saturday we’ve had in this bloody gray winter. But I’m not bitter or anything. No. I mean, I am sick, and I did have a fight with the bf this morning, and I do hate the world, but I’m not bitter. It’s impossible to be bitter when MightyBigTV has a new Dawson’s Creek recap up. But seriously, that’s, like, the only silver lining of this day so far. And it’s not even 3 o’clock yet.

‘Ginger’ may be a motorized scooter. How DUMB is that? Every kid on the planet got one of the non-motorized versions for Christmas this year, and by next year they’ll all be forgotten. And most grown-ups who jumped on the bandwagon have hopefully managed to figure out that they look like complete assholes on them. What a letdown.

Nude man rides the Tube. Seriously.Max is gonna love this: “Nudist ‘not a public nuisance.'” This is why I love British people. This guy’s been going around naked for, like, a year because he wants laws against public nudity to be changed. Every few months there’d be another newspaper cover story about him, along with an image of him riding the Tube or perched on a lamp post outside the Courts of Justice (seriously). He’s been in jail for the last five months, and they had to put him in solitary because he wouldn’t wear clothes and they were worried the other prisoners would beat him up. His court date finally came up yesterday (he showed up naked, of course) and the jury found in his favor. So what’s the first thing he did when he stepped outside? Put on some clothes. England is friggin’ COLD this time of year. 🙂

Wow. Apparently that error in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” where James came out of the wand before Lily, has been corrected in recent editions. I tried to find information on this in the various HP Yahoo clubs, but most of them are just filled with hundreds of kids squealing “Sort me PLEEAZE!”. I finally found HPforGrownups at egroups, but you’ve gotta subscribe to see their message board…

Roger Ebert reviews “Antitrust”, an intelligent and exciting thriller about open-source software… starring Ryan Phillipe. *pause* Uh-huh, riiiiight. I can’t wait to see the scene where he logs on to slashdot and posts Natalie-Portman-covered-in-hot-grits trolls. (For the record, Ebert thought it was goofy. Oh, and there are no boys on slashdot that look remotely like Ryan Phillipe. Except for my adorable boyfriend.)

I’m not a fan of excessive punishments for minor drug offenders, but I do think that if a politician is gonna push the conservative “War on Drugs” agenda, he should be prepared to accept all the consequences of that. So why did the nephew of attorney-designate Ashcroft only get probation after major pot bust? Was it because his uncle was state governor at the time? Hmmm, let me think. *frown* The hypocrisy of the Republican party really pisses me off.