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Hey, slwatson, when the world ends do you want to move out to Missoula? For kicks?

Yeah, the world sucks. We know. Three decent things of note...

1- MOODY BLUES - THE RIDE. I've found decent pics of this ride, so here you go - Scroll down about halfway. Yes, it's a dark ride themed after Nights in White Satin. Well, more themed after a drug trip with the song as a soundtrack. Now, Nights in White Satin is one of the few love songs I can stand, so I am kinda curious about it. It should be noted, darkly, that while the Hard Rock Park is pushing it as very counter culture, Nights in White Satin is over fourty years old.

2- pyat and I are going exploring at lunch. I brought a camera. We should have something neat to show at the end of the day. I hope.

3- I'm working on Signal Loss this weekend. There will be stuff done.

And as a freebie...

4- Holy shit, it's the revenge of Mike Harris. AKA the guy who bungled my high school education.

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Notes from the misadventure with pyat...

- Joel did reference Beanie and Cecil as being one of the influences for MST3K.
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/brains/20q.html
In short, "The SOL is sort of like Leakin Lena. Joel is like Beanie. Servo is like Captain Huff-n-Puff. Gypsy is sorta like Cecil, and Dishonest John is like Dr. Forrester-- there's even a Crow that shows up occasionally in the Crows nest!". Now, what that means for Ringworld, I don't know. I still like my "Larry Niven was doing heavy drugs." theory.

- The example of a deep and complex message forced into giant robot show that I was thinking of was Space Runaway Ideon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Runaway_Ideon
I've never seen it, but like I said, they blow up the universe at the end.

- Here's that Daicon IV Wiki I mentioned. It's curious to see what parts of Western geek culture are mentioned.
http://www.anime-classic.net/AC/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=DaiconWiki&back=WiwiHome
On a side note, I just noticed that Stormbringer is parodied as Ashbringer in the Warcraft universe. o_O

- And finally, I looked into that Overdrawn at the Memory Bank thing. It's not a TVOntario production - it's by RSL Productions. However, there's a lot of Canadian actors in there, like a good chunk of the one shot characters of Street Legal and the kid who played Tommy in The Raccoons. One of the actors from Overdrawn also appeared in Running, which was a movie that I intended to use in the MST3K fanfic. This doesn't mean anything amazing, but it did make me laugh. But, alas, no major TVO connections.

Photos later!