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I heard this on WRIF this afternoon – a parody of Disturbed’s “Get Down with the Sickness” with a Christmas theme.  I’m not a fan of the original (Richard Cheese’s version is good though!), but it made me laugh.

But, anyhow, the beer has been bottled.  It’s iffy that it’d be ready for Christmas, but maybe by New Years.  I hope it doesn’t suck.

A simple poll in slightly bad taste:

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As some of you may know, Michigan’s Govenor Granholm recently approved tax incentives to lure movie production to Michigan.  In the last few months there’s been a few hollywood-related stories appearing in the news and local blogs.   This includes news of a Drew Barrymore-produced movie filming in Ypsi and the possibility that a major studio will buy Ford’s Wixom assembly plant to turn it into a soundstage.

Yesterday I got my own first-hand experience with this “new” industry.  I was driving home along Hines Drive yesterday, and at one point near the sledding hill in Westland, I saw WDIV’s news truck there next to some kind of small road-side stand in a parking lot.  I couldn’t get a good look at the stand, but it looked like it was selling either fireworks or propaganda posters.  This was odd, and it made me think back to a traffic report from the day earlier in which they mentioned an intersection being closed for filming.  I didn’t pay too much attention to that traffic report the first time, but on the second play-through it sounded like it was on Merriman, which is a major road in the western burbs.

Further down the road there were a bunch of vehicles parked with people milling about including a flat bed truck with equipment in it, which, given the previous day’s traffic report, I thought could be film equipment.  Among the vehicles was an old commercial truck (big and boxy), painted light blue with a huge hotdog on top.  The truck had writing that said “Weiner Wiz” (or “Weiner Whiz”), and spraypainted along the side in big black letters was “FAGGOT”.  At this point I was sure this related to film, since no one ever drives trucks with big hotdogs on them unless they’re the Weinermobile, which itself is a hotdog-shaped car.

After some light searching, I found this article about the filming from the 9/10/08 Westland Eagle.  It looks like it’s going to be called “Ms. January” and will be a road-trip movie filmed entirely in the state.  The description and stars associated make it look like it’s definitely a B-list movie, but any movie that includes trucks with giant hotdogs and homophobic slurs spraypainted on it can’t be that bad, can it?

BoingBoing is reporting of a new Firefox plugin that filters YouTube comments.  I guess I’m not so alone in my distaste for the idiocy of the comments as previously posted.

I just installed it, and while it’s not perfect, it does work as advertised.  It may not come to anyone’s surprise that it filters out a majority of comments  (based on the few sample videos I visited).

For no reason at all, I’ve created a new poll based on two seemingly unrelated topics.  The relationship between the two choices is that both are things that annoy me (perhaps you too).  Without further ado:

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Of the two, I think YouTube commenters are probably more annoying due to the combination of popularity and anonymity that really highlights how people behave when they don’t have to show any bit of responsibility for their comments.  It’s not that I expect deep conversation on such a site, and thankfully you can hide the comments, but it just makes me pine for the day when BBSes ruled the landscapes and it was just us nerds.  (Maybe YouTube should make people perform a complex math question before allowing their comments to be posted.)

Speaking of nerds, Cosplayers out-nerd most other nerds and help remind me how normal I really am.  I guess there’s no harm done with people dressing up as their favorite character from some obscure and crappy japanese cartoon, but it still annoys me to some extent.  Probably has something to do with my distaste for said animation (on the most part, there are a couple exceptions) and the obsessiveness of the American kids who fawn over it.

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