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The usual disjointed late-night entry
Mar. 31st, 2004 01:48 amLet me get this out of the way right now: Damn, I'm tired. I really should be sleeping.
Okay, great. I would have been sleeping by 11:30, but I ended up missing my daily dose of The Daily Show, so I decided to stay up until 1 to check it out. Silly, since I'm not working tomorrow and I could just catch it at 10:30AM or 7PM, but eh. I live to be stupid.
While waiting for TDS to make its appearance I found a show on The Discovery Channel that has to be every pseudo-intellectual nerd's wet dream. It's called Animal Face-Off and, as far as I can tell, during the course of the hour a bunch of PhDs with entirely too much time on their hands (shouldn't they be utilizing those precious government grants for something *worthwhile*?) theorize what the outcome would be if two random animals got the notion to beat the living shit out of each other. It reminded me of when I was younger and my brother, my neighbor, and myself would fuck around late into the night with my comics and comic cards spread out around us, trying to figure out if Storm could really take out Thor, or if Spiderman even had a prayer against Wolverine (a hotly debated "yes" to the first, a hands-down "hells no" to the second). But, you know, we were kids and didn't have thousands of dollars to spend on computer animation and CGI to see all that in action.
This particular episode pitted an elephant against a rhinoceros (and I had to go to Webster.com to find out how to spell rhinoceros. Hells, at least I admitted it). I was (I'm pained to say) intrigued by the show UNTIL the climax, when the CGI elephant and the CGI rhino started with the rumblin'. It was hilarious: they set up this whole elaborate scenario where the elephant was a horny bull who intruded on the rhino's territory. Or, rather, it was hilarious... 'til the rhino got pierced clean through by the elephant's tusks. Not once, but twice. Then the elephant picked up the rhino (I am NOT making this up), bodyslammed him, and then (and fuckin' then) Stepped. On. Him. Yes, like the world's oldest punchline come to life. The elephant crushed the rhino like it was an empty beer can. I'm still in shock.
Apparently the next episode is going to be a hippo versus a shark.
Dude, I'm totally setting my alarm.
[ed. to add - I just realized that you can *vote* on who would win. Just click on the "Meet the Contestant" sidebar thinggey, look at the match-up stats, and choose. Mein Gott]
I picked up the new Kanye West today. Now, I listen to rap, but the closest I've come to actually picking up a rap album was when I bought N.E.R.D.'s first record. But this thing is addictive. I've listened to this song over and over again. It's, as the kids would say, "off the hook". "All those mocha lattes/ You gotta do Pilates". Oh, HI-larious.
Hopefully our phone won't turn into the usual partyline come 8AM and I can sleep for a good long while. And then, you know, be a productive member of society. *snort*
Okay, great. I would have been sleeping by 11:30, but I ended up missing my daily dose of The Daily Show, so I decided to stay up until 1 to check it out. Silly, since I'm not working tomorrow and I could just catch it at 10:30AM or 7PM, but eh. I live to be stupid.
While waiting for TDS to make its appearance I found a show on The Discovery Channel that has to be every pseudo-intellectual nerd's wet dream. It's called Animal Face-Off and, as far as I can tell, during the course of the hour a bunch of PhDs with entirely too much time on their hands (shouldn't they be utilizing those precious government grants for something *worthwhile*?) theorize what the outcome would be if two random animals got the notion to beat the living shit out of each other. It reminded me of when I was younger and my brother, my neighbor, and myself would fuck around late into the night with my comics and comic cards spread out around us, trying to figure out if Storm could really take out Thor, or if Spiderman even had a prayer against Wolverine (a hotly debated "yes" to the first, a hands-down "hells no" to the second). But, you know, we were kids and didn't have thousands of dollars to spend on computer animation and CGI to see all that in action.
This particular episode pitted an elephant against a rhinoceros (and I had to go to Webster.com to find out how to spell rhinoceros. Hells, at least I admitted it). I was (I'm pained to say) intrigued by the show UNTIL the climax, when the CGI elephant and the CGI rhino started with the rumblin'. It was hilarious: they set up this whole elaborate scenario where the elephant was a horny bull who intruded on the rhino's territory. Or, rather, it was hilarious... 'til the rhino got pierced clean through by the elephant's tusks. Not once, but twice. Then the elephant picked up the rhino (I am NOT making this up), bodyslammed him, and then (and fuckin' then) Stepped. On. Him. Yes, like the world's oldest punchline come to life. The elephant crushed the rhino like it was an empty beer can. I'm still in shock.
Apparently the next episode is going to be a hippo versus a shark.
Dude, I'm totally setting my alarm.
[ed. to add - I just realized that you can *vote* on who would win. Just click on the "Meet the Contestant" sidebar thinggey, look at the match-up stats, and choose. Mein Gott]
I picked up the new Kanye West today. Now, I listen to rap, but the closest I've come to actually picking up a rap album was when I bought N.E.R.D.'s first record. But this thing is addictive. I've listened to this song over and over again. It's, as the kids would say, "off the hook". "All those mocha lattes/ You gotta do Pilates". Oh, HI-larious.
Hopefully our phone won't turn into the usual partyline come 8AM and I can sleep for a good long while. And then, you know, be a productive member of society. *snort*
