Lost or Zork?

Prepare to roffle.

Heroic Me

Baaaaa.

        

And what is my hero's name? What do you think?

So Matt, is there any way to configure it so that the camera rotates when the mouse cursor pushes against the sides of the window?

Heart for TiVo

With the backlog of Robot Chicken episodes now watched, our TiVo is completely free. Utterly and completely, as I just wiped out all the recommended stuff. I feel so ... so ...

So unsure of what the hell to do with my TV time now. Curse you, summer hiatus!

Still, at least there's The Inside. <pets Tim Minear>

Serenity, 21 days later.

Over on my LJ, I have a big ol' stock of notes, comments and observations about Serenity.

It is full of spoilers. Do not click on the link unless you want spoilers.

If you're not sure if you want spoilers, you do not want spoilers. Don't do it yourself.

If, after all that, you're still keen to read: click here.

Bad me.

Now Self, you listen up. Stop running around to all these message board sites and such today. Do your homework. Finish that ep of The Chosen. And for god's sake, eat something. I'm hungry.

Serenity, Take 2

Just got back from the second screening of Serenity. Here are a few quick comments, as I'm quite tired:

1) The movie is better the second time through. Though I still hold mostly firm to the more dwelled-upon crits I made about two weeks back.

2) We got to hear all of Joss' intro! And the reels weren't switched! Yay!

3) I felt as though the buzz in the audience wasn't quite as pronounced as it was at the first showing, although whether that's due to some individuals (likely) having been spoiled on the events or just the fact that it wasn't the first showing, I can't say. It was still a decent crowd, but I cannot emphasize enough how glad I am I went to the first. This one felt big ... that one felt momentous.

4) Alan Tudyk (Wash) was apparently scheduled to come to our showing, but curse him for getting a role in Spamalot! Still, we did get exec producer Chris Buchanan, and he was quite nice and held a QA after the screening. (More on this later.)

And now, I sleep.

More Lost thoughts.

That Lost DVD preorder I've had in since March? Cancelled. As it stands right now, I have no reason to suspect I'll want to rewatch a damned thing.

The problem here for me is the fact that I simply don't trust the writers. All they had to give me was an answer. Just one. Keep everything else a secret, bring up as many new mysteries as you like, but give me something that will: a) prove to me that you actually know where you're going with all this, and b) buys back my trust.

So at this point, it looks like Veronica Mars will play opposite Lost, and there's absolutely no question where my TiVo will be set. I'll probably go ahead and download Lost after it airs, and maybe – maybe – they will be able to pull off both requirements above and get me back as enthusiastic about this program as I was about six months ago.

If that's the case, we'll revisit the DVD purchase situation at that time. Until then though, I'll keep my $40, thanks.

Lost finale.

GRAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

Doin' the Firefox.

A large chunk of my yesterday was wasted when I realized early on that for some strange reason, I could no longer shift-click to open a link in a new window in Firefox. This is a huge thing for me – this is totally how I browse. Yes, I know about tabs, but I tried them once in Opera about a million years ago and it soured me on them (actually, the whole experience soured me on anything but IE for a long time, but anyway). So I Just Say No to tabs. I've since become a bit more accustomed to them by extensive use of Notepad++, but I'm a creature of habit so I likes me some regular browsing methods.

So when I found those hosed, I was sort of at a loss, and went on a mad search to try to find out what happened and why I can't do it any more.

I'm actually still looking. I can't figure out where my functionality disappeared to. But in the process, I had to get used to tabbed browsing, because ctrl-click is still faster than hover-over-link-left-click-select-open-in-new-window-click. Due to being forced to use them (and my complete inability to find out what the hell happened to shift-click), I have now been dragged, albiet reluctantly, into the world of tabbed browsing. I'm still getting used to it, but it's not so bad, since I now know that I can ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab to toggle between them. (Back in the day I only knew to actually click between them.) I also saw how you can ctrl-# to automatically go to the tab you want, and that's pretty sweet too.

But of course, now that I had something new to play with, I started looking for other things, and I installed a few new extensions. Then I got to thinking, there are a lot of savvy types who may be reading this, and I thought we could swap some favourites, and some tips.

So here's what I'm using. Firefox extensions and keyboard shortcuts, because I really hate to use the mouse/touchpad when I don't have to. If you think something's missing here, then let me know. Anything to make my already moderately easy life easier.

Firefox Extensions

Popups Must Die! :: After a growing number of pop-ups began to bust through Firefox's previously robust popup blocking power, I put in this extension. As you can see, it's "experimental", and I think it's undergoing development for a future Firefox release, but don't let that put you off. This sucker works. Almost too well, honestly. I wish there was a feature for holding down a key and clicking that would allow a popup window through, rather than having to okay the entire site. It's worth that hassle, though, to avoid the crushing weight of popups (and unders).

AdBlock :: This one starts off empty, but is fully customizable. I installed it after not being able to take one more ad where I had to swat the fucking annoying buzzing fly or see headbanging smilies, or be totally grossed out by the mortgage dachshund with the grotesquely distended belly. Save yourself the irritation (and loading time, there's that) with this extension.

ForecastFox :: There are some things that I always like to know. The time, for example. If I don't know what time it is, I start going nuts. The weather is another one. It's not enough that it feels hot, I have to know exactly how hot to be content. I'm sure that's a psychological condition, but whatever. So I've been using WeatherBug for a good few years now, but it's often slow to load, I never could make it stop flashing me with alerts, and it has that whole ad selection thing which is never fun. So when I found ForecastFox, I became a happy girl. The only thing it was missing was notification of severe weather, and I see from the latest update that it now has that too. Methinks Weatherbug has just outlived its usefulness, and I can do with a bit less clutter in my systray anyway. As with most other aspects of Firefox, ForecastFox is highly customizable. You can place the icons, determine how many days you see, get it with icons, labels or both ... it's nifty extreme.

ColorZilla :: A niche use, but great for figuring out colours and CSS elements. Why use this one? If you've ever done like me and hit "prnt scrn", loaded Photoshop, opened a new file, pasted in your screen cap and then used the eyedropper tool, then you already have your answer.

Google Desktop Search Plugin :: You know how Windows search pretty much sucks, right? Yeah, me too. The better way to go, by far, is Google Desktop. And now with this little Firefox search plugin, finding what you're looking for is even easier. I love this thing.

Comparatively speaking, I'm pretty extension-light, but I'm always on the lookout for more.

JW's Keyboard Shortcuts

As mentioned, I'm all about using the mouse as little as possible. These are the keyboard shortcuts that I use almost constantly (that I can remember off-hand, at any rate). If you know more, then by all means, share.

ALT-D	Goes to the location bar.
CTRL-K	Goes to the search bar.
CTRL-up arrow/down arrow	While in the search bar, cycles through the available engines.
CTRL-click	Opens the link in a new tab.
SHIFT-click	Opens the link in a new window. (In theory ... grumble.)
CTRL-T	Opens a new tab.
CTRL-N	Opens a new window.
ALT-F, C	Closes the window/tab. (Much faster, in my opinion, than ALT-F4)
CTRL-R	Reload (F5 does the same, though sometimes I find it takes more time to make sure I'm hitting the right function key)
CTRL-Tab	Cycles forward through tabs.
CTRL-SHIFT-Tab	Cycles backward through tabs.
CTRL-#	Goes to tab # (i.e., CTRL-4 will take you directly to the fourth tab.)

Those are pretty much my basics. What can you not believe I don't do?

And now, with this much time wasted, I return to writing. A process which, interestingly enough, requires the browser not at all.

In my head, unbidden.

Captain Planet, he's a hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero
He's our powers, magnified
And he's fighting on the planet's side ...

Mallard a Trois

You guys remember Brutus and Persephone? Yup, they're still around, and like to hang around our apartment area, but of late they've taken on a new mate, it looks like. Another mallard, who I arbitrarily named "Dagmar" today. Heh. My ducks have gone poly.

Gotta love Oregon.

Outside, one side of my apartment is wet from the rain. Dank, you'd almost say.

The other side, the sun is shining brightly, it's several degrees warmer, birds are at my feeder despite the balcony door being wide open, and there's a marching band playing in the field across the street.

God I love this state.

What's Star Wars, you ask?

Snagged from jenk, now you too can learn all you need to know about Star Wars, young padawan. All without suffering through the first two prequels.

The Sith: They can often throw lightning from their fingertips, which makes any one of them a Darth and stormy knight.

Hee. Wit.

Simple Pleasures

I'm eating a bowl of generic brand Lucky Charms ripoffs. The crunchy sugary marshmallows are making me smile.

The Weekend in Review // When Fandoms Start to Suck

It was a moderately slow affair this weekend, although I spent much of it feeling like shit. Yesterday, in fact, I think it's safe to say that I did little besides curl up on the couch and watch TV. There's actually a lot to be said for that activity.

After several weeks of not touching them, I blew through my three Netflix rentals: Reservior Dogs, Better of Dead and O Brother Where Art Thou?. Sadly, I wasn't wowed by any of them, which was a bit of a pity as I was in a wowing kind of mood. I was much more impressed by the two episodes of Veronica Mars I watched as we attempted to catch up. (We're tremendously behind, for those interested: the two we watched last night were "Mars vs. Mars" and ... the one that comes right before it, whose title I forget.) I'm definitely in the VM mood, not only because I absofreakinglutely adore the show, but because I'm really starting to get worried about being inadvertently spoiled. If that happens, folks will die.

** I get ranty here about Serenity controversies. NO SPOILERS, though. **

Also, I'm starting to get really cheesed off about all the Serenity controversies. I'm sick and tired of people who seem adamant to deny anyone a middle ground. Did I love the movie? Hell yeah, I loved the movie. Did I think it was perfect? Hell no, I didn't think it was perfect. So if I have legitimate critical points that I can articulate in a constructive manner – especially with the hopes that someone in power will see them and perhaps take my thoughts into consideration for possible correction in the five months before the movie is released – why shouldn't I be allowed to without being attacked as a "traitor" who was too dumb to "get it"? Why am I suddenly tarred and feathered as someone "ungrateful" who would "dare" to tell Joss what to do with his world?

I tried making my points a few days after seeing the preview, but then gave the hell up when nobody seemed to actually want to read what I was saying before getting their panties in a bunch. Unless they already agreed with me, of course. I'm really most disappointed in WHEDONesque for this, although maybe that was just me being naive. Joss is not perfect. Rainbows neither begin nor end with him. Putting pencil to paper does not mean Joss instantly create brilliance. I'm as big a fan of Joss Whedon as the next person, but I'm not so blind that I can't detect fault, nor am I so sycophantic that I won't point these perceived thoughts out to he who made them.

Pointing out areas where I think the movie became weak is not "telling Joss what to do". Offering ways in which I think it could be improved is the "constructive" part. (Because there is nothing more irritating about getting negative feedback than getting negative feedback that does not include such suggestions. "That part sucked" never helped nobody.) I am not so arrogant as to think that Joss is going to see my messages, become immediately concerned, phone me up and then work until I am 100% satisfied. Hell, I'm not even so arrogant as to think that Joss will ever even read what I have to say, but because I care enough about the movie to want it to be as perfect as I feel that it can be – something which I sincerely believe is the primary goal of 90% of all the "negative" comments and reviews I've seen – then I'll be hopeful and make them. Trust me, if I didn't care, I wouldn't have bothered – my baseline on all things is apathy, so getting me to feel strongly enough about anything to try and exact change is a huge testament to the depth of my feeling.

I'm also not so naive as to think that I will ever be 100% satisfied with anything. If it happens, then yay for me, but I know that there's going to be somebody somewhere who will hate what I love. If everybody loved what I loved, then Firefly wouldn't have been cancelled in the first place. And for the folks who are already 100% satisfied, then I'm happy for you. Thrilled even. What we all saw is most likely what everyone else will see too. But if you're so certain that this version is so great and fantastically wonderful and that Joss can never make mistakes, then why feel so threatened by those who disagree? If the "whiners" are such the minority you claim, then nobody will hear the voices. If the movie is so perfect, then detractors should have no ground to stand on. If In Joss We Trust, then shouldn't Joss be trusted to hear criticism and decide on his own whether or not it is valid? And if he decided it is, shouldn't that decision be trusted too?

What I find most ironic of all is that one of the themes of Serenity is to think for yourself. Yet those who do, and perhaps struggle in vain to speak out against the majority, are blasted for being against the spirit of the fandom. For a group of people who, by and large, are astoundingly intelligent, this is particularly surprising.

For me though, the slider's drifting back to the apathy side. It's become (mostly) not worth it to me to try and battle against others to make my point. I've still been following along (as evidenced by the words I just vomited all over the place here), but the mounting irritation and anger is threatening to spill over into the stuff that started all this: Firefly and Serenity. That's bad, and it's a damned shame. I think the solution will be to simply stay away from it all for the time being.

It's really quite fascinating, though. It's like a little societal microcosm, beginning to cannibalize itself. I'm sure there's something about the real world to be learned in this somewhere.

The bottom line here is: I still encourage everyone to see Serenity. I'm extremely hopeful that the second viewing will give me a better perspective, and I sincerely hope that the vitriol over the past week hasn't ruined anything for me. We shall see.

Plans for this week:
- School Stuff
- More Writing
- Watching the rest of Veronica Mars

Sounds like a week I can handle.

Oh holy Jeebus.

We're only four months in. Three years, eight months to go. Just keep telling yourself that. And hope there's still a world left by then.

Looking for Serenity?

There are another 20 cities getting previews, on 26 May. Can't Stop the Signal has more details. The original ten cities, plus ten more.

Cities are: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hartford, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC.

Now the big question for me ... do I go again? Because, you know ... like to.

Arg. To be selfish or considerate? The problem facing every human.

ETA: Holy crap, Portland JUST went up and it's already sold out. So much for that. :)

ETA2: Whoo, site error! Tickets still available in Portland as of about three minutes ago, to anybody in the area.

ETA3 @2.49p: Looks like everywhere's all sold out now. Sacramento was the last, and it looks like it was up for all of about ten or fifteen minutes.

I'm not sure what exactly Universal is hoping to gain by repeat sneak previews in the same cities. I can't quite wrap my head around the marketing behind that one. People were already stoked if they went the first time, and if you wanted to go and didn't, you're not going to be more keen on it I don't think. Hm. You'd think they'd spend the money for 20 new ones rather than just 10.

Not that I'm COMPLAINING, but it does make me wonder.

You can't take my show from me.

I am back. I have fed. I have stuff to say.

Firstly, let me state that I am 1019% conscious of spoilers, and that I as much as anyone know that they are bad. Evil incarnate, even. So I assure anybody concerned that they can read this posting and fear not. It is spoiler-free. I was going to make two posts, actually – this one, and one where I go into great detail about the movie. But more than anything else, I want this movie to succeed. I think Joss deserves it, I think Firefly deserves it, and I think we deserve it. So I'm not gonna do that. Or, rather, I am, but I'm not posting those comments until 9/30. It'll be nice to be ahead of the game for once.

[Note that the above policy may change if I realize that spoilers are already abounding all over the web ... but if they're not, I'm not gonna be the one to do it.]

But that's five months away. And I got things to say that won't hold that long. So here's my basic, overall opinion of the movie:

SO. GOOD.

It's not perfect. I won't pretend it is. The things that aren't perfect about it are more than just an unpolished film with placeholder music. But even with those imperfections, I say this: If you are a fan of Firefly, you must see this movie. If you are a fan of science-fiction, you must see this movie. If you have a sense of humour, you must see this movie. If you like and appreciate good, solid storytelling (might I even say need?), you must see this movie.

As good as the movie is, though, it made me wish for thee things wtih all my heart:

1) That Firefly was still on the air. Because there's so much story to tell here, that frankly this could've been twelve-hour movie and we'd still only graze the surface.

2) That any Joss Whedon show was still on the air. The man is a genius, but he's a greater genius when he's on television, and I firmly believe that. I think it's the medium he works best, bottom line.

3) That a big-budget Buffy movie was more than just the faintest of faint possibilities. Because I think it would be so beautiful, and I think it would make me cry.

There is nothing like seeing a big damn Joss movie on the screen ... except perhaps seeing it with 200 people who all have one thing in common: they love what they're about to see as much as you do (if not more). I was sort of reluctant to see Serenity ahead of time, but I am so beyond glad that I did. It was an experience I'll not forget until I'm old and forgetting everything anyway. (Like, say, forgetting you don't turn off the faucet with the garbage disposal.)

And so, because I'm refraining from talking any more about the movie, I'm going to now talk about the whole seeing it process. Don't worry, this too will be spoiler-free.

The theater is one located in Southeast Portland, an area that I'm not particularly familiar with. Given the nature of some aspects of Portland, I wanted to make sure we left in plenty of time so I wouldn't be panicking to find the theater then somewhere to park the car. Plus, I was a little worried about getting decent seats. The movie started at 10pm, and we had plans to leave at 7pm. We were ready a bit ahead of time though, so tacked on an extra 30 minutes to that. Found everything with no trouble at all, and went in to get our tickets, only to be informed that there was already a line forming. We hmm'd and haa'd about getting in line now, eventually deciding to do so. This was a good choice on our part – I'd say we were maybe 30th in line. The rest of the queue didn't really start backing up until an hour or so after we were there, but hey, no arguments, and besides, it was more fun sitting on line than in a Burger King or something.

I admit that I was a bit surprised that nobody was there all cos-play-style. Though we did spot several people in browncoats, it was hard to tell who was sort of half-heartedly attempting to dress up and who was just cold. Much more prevalent were the t-shirts. A few shirts for Firefly that I hadn't seen before (I think they were fanclub), a goodly number of Blue Sun shirts, and the Buffy crowds. Honestly though, for the most part I was really surprised by the diversity of people that I saw ... at least in terms of gender and age. Very few non-anglos, but that's sort of Portland for you. The other two though, all over the place. I can't say that I saw more males than females, nor can I really lay a finger on any one age group. I saw a lot of people I think were probably in my age bracket, but some more that were clearly younger and quite a few that were very clearly older as well.

Lacking my laptop, I made some notes in my little always-carried-with-me notebook. Those, I will share. These are unedited, strictly copied as I wrote them.

7.26pm
Arrive. We planned to just secure a parking space and find the place. Find out, already a line! Mike settles on theater hot dogs and we get comfy. The geekness overwhelms me. (Says the girl in the W/T shirt.)

7.32pm
I realize I'm going to be spending the next two 1/2 hours staring at Chicken Little's ass.

7.50pm
Mike bonds with the three guys in the line next to us when he willingly – even excitedly – joins in their conversation about Jem DVDs and the "Moonwalker" Genesis game.

8.35pm
Part of the grand marketing that is this preview kicks in: I overhear a couple ask an employee what "all those people" are waiting in line for. She tells them. They look interested.

I noted this down, but didn't have a specific entry for it: about twenty minutes before we were going to be seated, some suits started coming around. They looked very official, but it was hard to tell who exactly they were: theater management? Universal? I'm going with the theater in the end, but what was even more interesting was how they were going up and down the line, telling everyone about the rules. What rules? Mostly the part about no recording equipment. And they were serious. As in, "search your bags before you go in" serious. Now I wouldn't be surprised to find out that there'll be a bootleg copy out there regardless, but wow. I can't help but wonder if the whole bag searching thing isn't going to become a new standard in going to the movies.

What was even greater though was that one of the suits had this ... thing in his hand. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it, except that it looked sort of like a small digital recorder (to the point that I thought at first he was going to either record fan reaction or was shooting something for the DVD bonus features), but upon closer examination looked like some sort of high-tech, compact digital telescope. Oh, but it gets better: people were asking him what it did, and he wouldn't answer the question! And it was really lame evasive stuff, too, which mostly boiled down to "I don't know." Yeah, you're walking around with that thing strapped to your hand, and you don't know what it does? At least try to make something up. Like, "It's a high-tech laser beam I use to incinerate people who ask too many questions", or "My woobie." Something. I heard someone say that they think it was an infrared detector. Sounds as good as anything I got. Suffice it to say, the security levels were interesting as hell. I don't know if that's normal for a sneak preview or what (this is the first I've ever attended), but definitely got my attention.

Oh, and then a cool part ... surveys! They handed out surveys before the movie (and pencils, which now I think about it, they didn't seem to want back), asking your standard identification stuff (gender, age, race, etc.) and then questions about the movie. "How did you hear about this?" "What are you expecting to see?" "Did you come alone or with spouse/friends/etc.?" It was obviously tailored specifically to Serenity, though, with questions about whether or not you were a fan of the show, whether you were coming for any/all the actors, for Joss, whether you'd heard of Joss and what you thought of his work. Very interesting stuff, though I really have to wonder if anybody at this thing would answer "Who?" and/or "It's CRAP." to those. Which would be kind of funny, but anyway. The back was for after the movie, and that was all pretty standard: did you like it, would you recommend it, etc. I'm guessing that Universal is using this extra time to really sort out who they should target for a marketing campaign. This gives me a positive feeling. I really think that they're behind this movie, and that's great news.

Another little tidbit: we wound up sitting next to a guy who showed up at the theater with a handmade sign reading, "I need a Serenity ticket." Someone sold him one. I thought that was cool.

At about 9:15, they began to seat us. Mike and I managed to snag really good seats, and then sat back and soaked up the buzz. And oh my god, what a buzz. The place was just boiling over with energy. At about 9:30, a small group a few rows behind us burst into a rousing rendition of "The Hero of Canton", for which the entire freaking theater joined in. Not too long, just the chorus ("He robbed from the rich", and so on), but it was great. That was quickly followed up by a man who stood up and told a little story about how he and his wife were overseas when they were introduced to a pretty nifty little program, and were most upset to find, upon their return, that this "wonderful show was not on TV anymore." (Voice #1: "What was the show?" <much laughter> Voice #2: "Charmed!") He then got to the point, which was that it was his wife's birthday and he wanted us all to sing happy birthday to her. We did.

Obviously the crowd was in a singy mood, but less-so when about 15 minutes later, someone else tried to begin the theme song. But you know, cool as the theme is? Not really sing-along. "You're ruining the movie for me!" someone heckled, and it died. Nobody missed it.

Five minutes later, a guy stood up wearing a pretty fine duplicate for Jayne's little wooly hat. He got raging applause.

Then five more minutes pass, and we're greeted by Don from Universal. (As it turns out, he was not wearing a suit.) He thanked everyone for coming, and said that "this version" of the movie was running at 2 hours, 10 minutes. He especially wanted to thank everyone for the singing, saying that it would look "great for [his] report." Finally he announced that there would be posters and keychains for everyone! And there were! <squees>

Finally it's movie time, and the first thing we get is ... a special message from Joss! Sadly the sound was out for the first 10 or 15 seconds, so I'm not sure how it started, but the jist was mostly that the movie we were about to see couldn't have been made without the fans and such, and thanking everyone for their support. But filled with Jossian Brand ™ humour. (My favourite part? Where he told everyone that if they liked it, they should tell someone – tell everyone. And if you didn't like it? "This would be a time for quiet reflection.")

The other major thing of note was that about 20 minutes in to the film, they moved on to reel #2 ... except that reel #2 wasn't reel #2 but reel #3. (And that only happened at a critically early plot point and all. <eye roll> It took them a good few minutes to get it all sorted out, so that sort of blew, that we were getting resolution to stuff we didn't even know happened yet. But luckily it was still fairly early and didn't muck things up too badly. What I loved about that was when they finally stopped the movie and Don the Universal Guy came back out to apologize. "Now you guys have a choice," he began. "It'll take about 20 minutes, but—" "YES!!" yelled the audience, and that was that. I sort of hope he puts that in his report too.

And that, I believe, is my spoiler-free Serenity report. I am so unspeakably glad that we went to this, and really want to encourage each and every one of you reading this to see Serenity when it comes out. (30 Sept 05) Even if you haven't watched a single second of Firefly, see Serenity ... but consider seeing Firefly first, because it's damned fine television. Even if you don't though – see Serenity. There's a reason we got a canceled TV show to be made into a movie.

We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

Makes the kind of sense that's not.

I'm in the kitchen, getting a glass of water. I let the faucet run. I want to turn it off. My brain processes that request and sends out the appropriate signals necessary to accomplish this task.

So I turn on the garbage disposal.

Nevermind the fact that this disposal does nothing for the water. Nevermind that the switch for the disposal is at a near-perfect ninety-degree angle from the tap. And then it takes me a full second to answer my new, "Why is the water still running?" question.

I feel like my brain's handed in its two-week notice and now it's just fucking around on the job.

Whatever happened to...?

A thought occurred today. (They do that sometimes.) Just before 9/11, there was huge stink about that one politician guy and his missing intern. Condit? Was that the politician's name? I only vaguely remember something about finding a packet of french fries in a dumpster or something, because yeah, not so much interested. But it was absolutely every-freakin'-where. Until that morning, anyway.

I got to thinking that I can't remember a damned thing about any of that. Was there ever any conclusion? Anybody with more knowledge of such things care to fill me in? Because heaven forbid I go look for the answer myself.