Check out these VERY cool photos taken by the recently upgraded Hubble telescope.

Holy Christmas -- was I really gone for that long? I'm not sure what happened...there was a bright light, and these little guys with really big heads were looking down on me, speaking but not really speaking...then I woke up really groggy, with my clothes on backwards and a sore spot at the nape of my neck. I figured I just had a bit too much to drink on Saturday night, but now that I look at the date...

Just popping in quickly to say I knew there was more going on here than we knew at first. Hmmm...

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Cindy and Cyro.

So that's where my tablecloth went!

As if I wasn't insecure enough about my body, now I'll have the trauma of knowing that those airport security yahoos will be seeing me naked.

The story of the woman who has been held captive by her ex-boyfriend on his truck, and was subsequently rescued after a janitor read her plea for help on a restroom stall, is remarkable. So remarkable, in fact, that I get this feeling that there is more to the story than we're hearing. I don't know what yet, but I have a feeling.

Taylor County High School, in Butler, GA, will have its first integrated prom, ever, on May 3.

Ralph Noble, president of the 37,000-member Georgia Association of Educators, said the students' decision "truly shows that children are wiser than adults many times."

Amen, Ralph.

New POTW posted.

Oh my word. LOL, that looks soooooooo bad.

Run away! Very fast!

The dog has been saved. I can now return to ignoring the plights of actual human beings who suffer everywhere.

My GeekQuotient has gone through the roof with the last three posts, hasn't it?

R.I.P., boys.



In Memorium, their first scene on The X-Files:

LANGLY: So, check it out, Mulder, today I had breakfast with the guy
who shot John F. Kennedy.
MULDER: Is that so?
LANGLY: Old dude now, but yeah. Says he was dressed as a cop on
the grassy knoll.
BYERS: And, Mulder, listen to this. Vladmir Zhirinovsky, the leader of
the Russian Social Democrats? He’s being put into power by the most
heinous and evil force of the 20th century.
MULDER: Barney?
BYERS: The C.I.A.
SCULLY: Hmm.
LANGLY: Is this your skeptical partner?
FROHIKE: She’s hot.
BYERS: You don’t believe that the C.I.A., threatened by a loss of power
and funding because of the collapse of the cold war, wouldn’t dream
of having the old enemy back?
SCULLY: I think you give the government too much credit.
SCULLY: I mean, the government can’t control the defecit or manage
crime…
SCULLY: …what makes you think they could plan and execute such
an elaborate conspiracy?
FROHIKE: She *is* hot.
MULDER: Settle down, Frohike.
BYERS: I’m not talking about the bunch of idiots up on the hill trying
to bone the capital pages. We’re talking about a dark network,
a government within a government, controlling our every move.
SCULLY: How can they do that?
BYERS: How? I’ll show you how. You got a twenty dollar bill?
SCULLY: Hmmm… I’ll check.
(She digs into her back pocket, looking at Mulder, who smiles back.
She pulls out a twenty.)
SCULLY: Um-hmmm.
(Byers holds the bill in front of him and rips off its left side.
Scully crosses over to him)
SCULLY: Hey!
(Mulder laughs. Scully looks back at him. Byers pulls out the magnetic
anti-counterfeiting strip.)
BYERS: That’s just one method. They use this magnetic strip to track
you. Whenever you go through a metal detector at an airport, they know
exactly how much you’re carrying.
MULDER: Hey, Byers, it is a federal crime to deface money.
SCULLY: This strip is an anti-counterfeiting measure.
LANGLY: How come it’s on the inside? Other countries put that strip
on the outside.
BYERS: What are they hiding?
(Mulder waves his hands to get their attention.)
MULDER: O… o… ok, alright. What do you know about the Gulf
War Syndrome?
LANGLY: Agent Orange of the 90’s.
BYERS: Artillery shells coated with depleted uranium.
MULDER: Have you heard of any classified planes being flown during
the Persian Gulf War?
BYERS: Why would you need to expose a secret plane to an air force
that runs to Iran whenever you take to the air?
MULDER: What about UFO activity during that period?
(Langly and even Byers laugh.)
LANGLY: Yeah, UFOs caused the Gulf War Syndrome, that’s a good one.
BYERS: That’s why we like you, Mulder, your ideas are weirder than ours.

In a continuing Star Wars theme...

"An inside look at the new Star Wars episode: how the young Darth Vader fell in love and George Lucas rediscovered the heart and soul of his epic series."

TIME.com's cover story this week is the new Star Wars movie, set for release next month (May 1? Jeez, I can't find the release date anywhere). The good news: it sounds like Episode II is a better movie than Episode I; the bad news: Jar-Jar Binks is in the new movie, albeit in a smaller role.

Overheard

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Who did I just hear say this and what are they talking about?

Zap2It talks to Eddie Izzard about playing Charlie Chaplin in The Cat's Meow.

Good morning. How about some good news to start your day: The dog that whose rescue attempt was aborted after it was believed he had gone down with his ship has been found, alive, still wandering around the drifting barge.

OK, how could these two not know that the Church of the Nativity has been under seige for what, about 2 weeks now? And what the hell are they doing vacationing in that hot spot anyway? Good Lord.