A Mysterious Ticking Award, Jeeves, Unicycles, and Merciful Puppies
The Harry Potter Puppet Pals team won the YouTube Award of best comedy video for The Mysterious Ticking Noise (The Snape song).
I was also sad to learn recently that "Ask Jeeves" has been simply Ask.Com since 2006 (I feel so old and out of the loop!). I also belatedly mourn the passing of one of my favorite Internet characters. I just can't understand why they would get rid of him :(As for unicycles. The other day I seem to recall seeing a man (most likely another college student) on a unicycle. Random sights like these seem more common in Ann Arbor but I feel as if it's harder to enjoy them under the crushing oppression that is grad school.
Grad school and taxes. I so need to finish my taxes. Sigh....
But something to keep me from being too glum is this clip from The Colour of Magic showing the one and only Lord Havelock Vetinari and his little dog Wuffles! Jeremy Irons plays Lord Vetenari. I think Irons is an excellent actor who has strangely never been in a good movie (at least none I've seen him in). Hopefully this is a break in his bad luck.
I should probably add that while The Colour of Magic showed over Easter in the UK it does not appear to have a TV release date for the US that I can find. And no word on the DVD yet either. But perhaps if all us Terry Pratchett fans band together and complain very loudly...
In all honesty Colour of Magic is not my favorite book by any stretch of the imagination but it is Discworld and Hogfather wasn't a favorite either (though I liked it better than Colour of Magic) but the movie was brilliant! (and also produced by the same company). So I have high hopes for this one. I'd prefer if they did Guards, Guards or Going Postal but we can't have everything. I also find the order they've done these films in to be quite odd since Hogfather was done first and that's the 20th book (and the 4th in the Death series) and now they're doing Colour of Magic which is the first (mashed together with Light Fantastic which is the second). So if they do do another there's no telling what it will be numerically.
2 comments:
Man, that Ticking one wasn't the best....
Unicycles are awesome! I love seeing random things like that. Just a few weeks ago I saw a man in a gorilla costume playing a guitar at the bus stop. And just after I moved into Columbus, I was going for a walk and heard bagpipe music. Sure enough, there were two bagpipers practicing at the local park!
I know Jeremy Irons was one of the voices in The Lion King, which I recall really enjoying, but that was a long time ago. He's also been a Die Hard villain, just like Alan Rickman, Professor Snape himself. Maybe not the best movies, but certainly fun ones!
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