Roger Ebert and the Little People

I have no commentary -- just kind of interesting, and odd.

Land speeder

In a moment that harkens to "Buckaroo Bonzai," some blokes in the Nevada desert will try to shatter the speed record for an electric car. The current mark is 245 mph.

Frasier takes a fall

It's not quite as good as that time Castro fell on his face, but Kelsey Grammer's tumble during a speech at Disneyland is worth a look.

Now God's Just F*cking With Us

Stryper Reunites.

The Colbert Report

Daily Show Senior _______ Correspondent Stephen Colbert gets a spin-off.

I don't know if I can take a nightly half-hour of Colbert's unctuous smarm, but it should be an interesting experiment.

If you can catch a rerun of it, Colbert's segment on the Daily Show Monday (partially rebroadcast on Tuesday's show) was the dirtiest thing I've seen on TV -- including Skinnemax.

There is a God, and He Hates Us

Montage from "Riding the Bus with my Retarded Sister".

Faux Americana

Stephan Metcalf puts his finger on what I could never quite be bothered to articulate, though it's a fairly simple concept: Broooooce is full of shit.

Hello, Fodder

Army is shocked, shocked I tell you to discover that it's recruiters will do anything, including drug addled high-school drop-outs to lie so that they can sign up to be cannon fodder.

Animal Rights Activist Stops Export of Sheep to Muslim Country

By feeding them ham. File this under "Unclear on the concept...."

Evil German Scientist to Tackle Kraken Problem

The Body Worlds exhibit is amazing -- it's currently at the Los Angeles Science Center, and if you haven't seen it, go.

Pink Floyd drummer kisses and tells

Nick Mason's book on the band, "Inside Out," drops Stateside this week. Mason has already been making the rounds to plug it, even dining with old bandmate Roger Waters after a Barnes & Noble appearance in NYC.

"Inside Out" is apparently more scrapbook than tell-all, but it does provide some insight into the band's ups and downs.

Amazing Nick Mason trivia that may or may not be addressed in the book:

-- He is the only Floyd member to be in every incarnation of the band, from the Syd days though the glory years of the 1970s and into the post-Roger arena era. He says the band is still not officially over yet. (But to many of us, it has been for a good while.)

-- He did not play on the track "Mother" from "The Wall." Jeff Porcaro of Toto fame was brought in when Mason couldn't get it right.

Waters, meanwhile, is threatening to unleash "Ca Ira," a symphonic piece inspired by the French Revolution.

Cat Job Security Takes a Hit

Better start polishing that resume, Lucy.

Sci-fi scribes diss "Star Wars" saga

The great and the near-great tell the NYT that they're glad it will all be over soon.

Anyone who is a practitioner of science fiction is constantly dogged by the ghettoization of the genre. And a lot of that comes from the very simplistic, 2-D Lucasesque view of what science fiction has to offer.

The World’s First All-glass Undersea Restaurant Opens

Roy Scheider, call your agent.