I think I’ll go see Watchmen this weekend. It’s gotten just enough bad reviews to signify that it’s probably a good move. You know what I mean, movie critics always suck at telling us what’s actually good and what’s not.

My friend Patrick emailed me about it. And though he was a teensy bit disappointed, still recommended it. I guess I can see that, and if I had been a nit-picker I would have said the same thing about LoTR. But in this case, I’ve read that some people are saying it’s too faithful to the original, so movie-goers miss out on some of the mythos surrounding Watchmen that wasn’t in that one work or in the movie.

I think that people need to realize that some works really are un-filmable as they are written. LoTR was one, and it sounds like Watchmen is another. Some things can’t be fully translated from one media to another, just like some words can’t be as fully articulated in one language as they can be as one word in another.

While searching for pics of Dr. Manhattan on Google, I came across a alcoholic tribute to the Big Blue Demi-God: The Doctor Manhattan. Maybe I’ll have one before I go to the movie.

I consider myself a martini purist. If it’s something other than gin and vermouth, or vodka and vermouth, it’s not a martini. Not appletinis, not chocolatinis, none of those things–they’re just cocktails served in a pointy glass (and there are many non-tini drinks served in that glass, by the way). I say this as a purist who has to get hammered before he can actually drink pure straight-up alcohol, or has to have it dirty.

However, because of its sheer audacity, I hereby accept the McNuggetini into my martini lexicon, if only as an awesome joke.

Via DListed.

I just learned that there’s a battle raging: Bill O’Reilly vs Jessica Alba. WTF?

Bill, you might as well face it–blow-hard, old, white, asshats like you can never win against intelligent, pretty, movie starlets. Especially when they school you publicly. (MSN)

AppleInsider tries to make the case for Apple moving its party to CES, now that they’ve bailed on Macworld–something that might be fun but I don’t see happening. In the process, we got this little gem:

[At CES], Microsoft has announced a string of products that either never materialized, were grossly impractical, or have sold poorly and received bad reviews, from Spot watches to Mira terminals to Windows Vista to Windows Home Server to the Surface to Zune. The remainder of CES tends to be little more than electronics firms showing off slightly larger TVs.

I guess this is explains why I have never gotten excited about CES in the past.

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the wife of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, has passed away. She was 76. The actress died of leukemia at 12:27 AM on Thursday with her son, Rod, by her side. She was diagnosed with the disease six months ago.

via MSNBC

Ha ha ha!

And not just with the video… the actual Rick Astley popped out of a Cartoon Network float and sang the song that shall not be named. In the middle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For what it’s worth, Rick Astley looked like he really was enjoying himself.

I was just yesterday rickrolling coworkers, and having to explain what it was. I thought the meme had died out already. Guess not!

Thanks for the laugh, NBC, CN and Macy’s!

Update: found the vid:

Via MSNBC:

Britney went on to solve the diaper mystery that was perplexing Heidi.

“You know these sticky things on the side? I never knew that they were there. To close them in the front, I was always putting string around. I had no idea,” Klum said to Ellen. “It’s very clever,” she added. “I learned a lot of things.”

Unbelievable.