The Truth About The Project (and other crap)

MST3K IS real, man. Best Brains Inc was set up as part of a testing project. You see, some people in are world are really SUPRA HUMANS. The gene that makes them SUPRA HUMANS also reacts to bad movies, resulting in the SUPRA HUMANS heckling the movies.

This gene was brought to the attention of the American government during what become known as the "Heaven's Gate Crisis" (the movie, not the cult). In 1988 testing on the "MST Project" began in rural Minnesota and a year later the project went country-wide.

The idea was to discover people who reacted to the show, codenamed "MiSTies" by researchers. To help track these fans, the government encouraged fans to write into the show and join a fan club, actually a large database of potential SUPRA HUMANS. The government would randomly test these people and, if they passed, used them in evil government projects, like designing those "DO NOT REMOVE" tags on mattresses.

Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto would discover this gene several years later, but not realize the connection between the gene and the SUPRA HUMANS. The American government caught wind of the Canadians' discovery. When the gene was to be announced on Canadian television, the program was mysteriously overwritten by a rerun of a pirate broadcast. Or so the story goes.

For a brief time in the late 1990s, the project went world-wide. The other countries soon caught on to what was happening and the airrings of the MST Project stopped.

New parts to the project were made until 1999 and reruns continued until 2004. At this point in time government cutbacks forced the MST Project to raise its own funds. This is why there is a sudden rise in the amount of upcoming DVD releases. The government now tracks the SUPRA HUMANS by using the "register your DVD" cards in MST3K DVDs.

(NOTE: This is all a joke. The fact that jokes related to the Project are still going on amuses me so.)
(SECOND NOTE: Rachie needs sleep.)
(THIRD NOTE: Jen wants to go mattress surfing.)
(FOURTH NOTE: Are me and Jen the only ones who found Sora's "fin" and Donald's "tentacles" in Kingdom Hearts more than a little pervy? So many dirty jokes came from that scene alone.)

Jen has my backpack on her head

I'm tempted to look into getting volume 2 of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Volume 1 was pretty spiffy and I seem to be having a weakness for steampunk as of late, but I heard that the second half isn't as good as the first.

The whole "must find... steampunk" thing is odd. I believe it may have been set off by the upcoming "Sky Captain and World of Tomorrow" movie, since I like the feel of the art design. It's got zeppelins! The art is more retro-science fiction that steampunk, but ZEPPELINS!

And Sonic Battle doesn't help much either, as certian plot aspects are fairly steampunky. I doubt that the series will discuss the fourth great civilization again, though.

Okay random idea, caused by being sick in bed and I want to write it down:
If I was the Canadian government and wanted to hide a base that could be accessed 24/7 with very few people noticing, I'd stuff it under the Toronto Eaton Centre. It's on a major road, the TTC line and the PATH, so access isn't a problem. So many people come and go from the Eaton Centre that nobody is going to notice government employees coming and going as well. I briefly thought that such a base could be accessed using Flight Stop, that sculpture of Canadian geese that's featured in every piece of promo material for some reason. However, this seemed a little silly to say the least. The lower floors of the mall have many tight and small passageways that you could hide an access point in. Maybe down near the lockers/south food court, if those still exist.

Notes on the Toronto Eaton Centre:
- Address: 220 Yonge Street.
- Built in 1979.
- Modelled after the Galleria in Milan, Italy.
- Owned and operated by The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited.
- Has/had Highest Sales pre square foot of retail space in North America.
- Subway stations for Dundas and Queen (Younge line) can be accessed from the mall.
- T. Eaton Company ("Eatons"), the original ancor store, no longer exists. The company went under in 1999 and was bought by Sears Canada.
- Just to the south of the mall was a major The Robert Simpson Company store ("Simpsons"). Simpsons was bought by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1979 and "absorbed" during the 1980s (note - what about Towers stores?)
- These two stores have been replaced by Sears and The Bay.

OMFG!

Bush accuses Nicholas Wolfwood of having connections to the yakuza; loses anime viewer vote

I'm not a big Trigun fan (although I know a few people who are), but that's just f'ing priceless! I hope the media company who created this ad goes under. That's just sad.