movie post!

I got Stranger Than Fiction on Netflix. I'm enjoying it except for the fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal's character Ana is a giant Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She dropped out of Harvard Law School to run a bakery! She tweaks uptight IRS agent Will Ferrell! She didn't pay her taxes on the grounds that they fund wars and stuff! She gives cupcakes to homeless guys!

Seriously, it's difficult to resist the urge to fast-forward through all the scenes she's in.

Dustin Hoffman is hilarious and Queen Latifah is awesome as the foil to Emma Thompson's also very funny author character (who I suspect is actually not a very good writer, if she came up with a character like Ana). But this Ana is making an otherwise great movie barely tolerable.

And the MPDG-ness is contagious: Will Ferrell just brought her flours. Not a typo. A box containing bags of different types of flour. Because she's a baker! How quirky! You know she already buys that stuff in bulk, right? And it's probably a health code violation to sell baked goods made from flour out of unmarked bags from who-knows-where. Anyway. I stopped the DVD at that point. I'll watch the rest later.

I hope he does die at the end.

ETA: ( SPOILERS )

I crack me up

Read this thread on ontd_science. Then read the rest of the comments but read this thread first.

ETA: The comments are less fun now that someone replied to EVERY SINGLE ONE with the same totally unnecessary comment. Other people had already debunked it! Read the other comments before you post one! Or fifty! Oh well.*

You know what? I don't think anyone really 100% believed this. If we really believed all of humanity had six months to live, we'd start acting differently. Not sitting at our computers going "oh no, I'm so scared!" Which is good, of course; if people believed every doomsday prophecy they read on the internet and behaved accordingly, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. It's just annoying. A bunch of LJ users need to get their bullshit meters re-calibrated.

* EagainTA: Aaaaaand they've flounced. LOL.

ranch-flavored pretzel shards!

I got two bags of Snyder's Pretzel Pieces, one ranch flavor and one honey mustard & onion, two days ago. I ate them all by yesterday and got a stomachache. Now I'm craving more of the ranch ones.

I'm pretty sure I read a definition of addiction that said it's something you don't want to do and you know it'll feel bad later but you do it anyway.