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This Week at the One Desk
So... the "boys" have decided to be boys. They came home two days ago with a set of remote control helicopters. Not shockingly, Storm flees the moment one of them gets that gleam in their eyes, but Shadow, oddly enough, is cautiously curious. Sadly, the little suckers are light enough that the ceiling fans tend to send them spinning off course. They're kind of like drunken dragonflies, really, and they almost sound like them, too.

Played more Liberal Crime Squad. Finally managed to get some electronic hijinks going, and sent off a team of brainwashed people to raid some places. Getting a better feel for "combat", you see, plus looting and destroying equipment. Still have yet to steal a damn car.

Considering getting Evil Genius.

Making more progress on the Project Nimby.

Twilight — Someone in the house decided they wanted to watch this (it wasn't me or Rick, so...) and I gave it a shot just now. I think, if this characterization of Bella is anything at all like canon, I can understand why people would dislike her. She's your typical naïve, idiotic teenage girl. I wanted to flog her with wet noodles, repeatedly, for saying crap like "I know" and how she falls in love with this guy in no time flat. To put it another way, she'd make a great Gryffindor.

Rosalie isn't drop dead gorgeous (I could make a case here similarly for Fleur of GoF, but her actor was at least interesting to look at, her features being much finer and more delicate than the, by comparison, coarse looks of Rosalie's actor). Edward has an amazing range of "anguished" expressions, and frankly, half the time he was interacting with Bella made me think any human character watching would assume he was gay based on how painful it looked for him to be affectionate with the girl. He looks very... prissy, almost ugly in this, which is a shame.

What I do like is that Bella's actor isn't drop-dead gorgeous, but she does have fairly delicate and even features.

The Mummy 3 — It stank worse than Limburger cheese, it was that bad. Evelyn was a pod person, Alex (raised in England?) spoke with an American accent (???), and I feel like I missed The Mummy 2.5-Evelyn and Rick Become Spies. It's pretty bad when we first see the girl trying to stop/kill Alex, her mask gets removed, and Rick and I both go, "So, she's the love interest, right?"

It's a movie you have to force yourself to watch through to the end. I think... they knew the concept was trash, so they packed in as much action as possible, trying to distract the audience. Ugh. It didn't work. I'm actually glad that Rachel Weisz was unable to reprise her role, because the entire movie was an embarrassment. I think I'll forget it exists and continue to insist that the only two movies are The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.