Is it Christmas? Because I just got a gift!

A colourfully clad ludickid just dropped a present in my lap!

What happens when amateur photography and amateur photographic analysis meet industrial grade paranoia/racism? You get Baron Karza's analysis of the Christian Action Network's photos of what appears to be a rural mosque. I like his analysis of what appear to be windows (or possibly just skylights) as sniper's roosts.

But what good is it living in fear if you don't have shit to be afraid of, right?

The usual talk radio sources (i.e. That goofball on 1010 who's on the drive home) are terrified because we've realized that the anti-terror laws brought in after 9/11 are somewhat redundant and un-necessary. The threat, they cry! What will protect us from the threat?, not realizing that the existing laws that are mostly constitutional have managed to protect us from threats such as the South Toronto 17. My favourite part was his wailing that even though we hadn't had to use them in the intervening 66 months, we might. Which makes sense, since we have al those nuclear missles lying around just in case some superpower gets twitchy over the oil sands.

What, we don't? Fuckberries.

Ohmigod! You know what would be an AWESOME video game?

You know what would be an awesome video game?

Robocop as a Grand Theft Auto style sandbox game. You can do an introductory bit as Murphy, fightin' crime and gaining XP, until you get killed by Clarence and his crew, and then you get all Robocop-ed up, and you roll around Detroit fighting crime. And it would give Nancy Allen & Peter Weller some work (he can't be satisfied with academia).

It's so totally perfect. You could drive around in your cop car, or on a police bike, or possibly even the jetpack (or not, that was rather silly). And you wouldn't even have to kill hookers to get healed up, just go back to base and eat baby food, or unscrew your head with a power drill.

Man! It would rock SO MUCH.

Clever

The BNL made a video that consists entirely of Youtube celebrities (including the Numa Numa guy, and that history of Dance guy) lipsynching "The Sound of Your Voice".

The song is a very melancholy one, and it's an interesting choice of video.

They do the favour of listing the various performers at the end, and the website has links to their own pages.

What's the deal?

Can anyone tell me why the heck so many zombie movies get shot in TO? I mean, sure, there is (or at least was) a thriving film industry, and a talented SFX crews and Sarah Polley. But you can find all these things in other places.

It's not like all the RomComs got filmed here one year, or all the gangster movies, or all the musicals about 1920s Chicago (oh, wait! They did! Suck it, Chi-town!). But for a while, if it involved the shambling undead, and wasn't about an Englishman, you could probably expect to see a GTA town hall in it somewhere.

I keep meaning to see Day of the Dead, if only to support our most beloved sister Sarah Polley

In other news, Japanese Animators get paid in ramen.

PSA

This is related to something viktor_haag has been ruminating about lately.