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TODAY'S BOOK: "Goodbye California", by Alistair MacLean ((c) 1977)

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Gemini - Qui a coupe le fromage, parlez-vous, merci ; Libra - Now is not a good time to eat that zebra you've been raising in your basement.

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Better late than never, I finally got the November issue of ShiurTimes in the mail. I scored another trifecta:


That's Olmert talking to Abbas and his cronies. You may gather that the last two times the PA took control of Hebron's security the consqequences weren't so great for the Jews.


The New Israel Shekel visits the U.S. Dollar in the hospital...


After a, ah, "spirited" primary election, Tzipi Livni beat out Shaul Mofaz for Olmert's position as head of the party. The pic unfortunately does not allude to Olmert's obstinate refusal to actually officially relinquish power.


TODAY'S BOOK: "With Love From Karen", by Marie Killilea ((c) 1963)

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Sagittarius - REDRUM REDRUM REDRUM ; Scorpio - You will have good luck for the rest of your life if you kill and eat a dodo bird with your bare hands within the next 30 days.

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'Tis now the last night of Kislev, so what have I got for you? Well, instead of a list of items, I'm gonna trot out a list of lists, which is rather like The Book of Lists, only, not.
Here is a rundown of all past lists!

Favorite Animated Movie & Favorite Movie All-Time: tie between Beauty and the Beast & The Lion King
Next-Favorite Disney Movie: Aladdin
Favorite Pixar Movie: Finding Nemo
Least Favorite Pixar Movie: A Bug's Life
Favorite Non-Animated Movie: Star Wars: A New Hope
Favorite Non-Theatrical Movie: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Next-Favorite Star Wars Movie: The Empire Strikes Back
Least Favorite Star Wars Movie: Revenge of the Sith
Least Favorite Animated Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Least Favorite Non-Animated Non-Theatrical Movie: Home Alone 4
Least Favorite Non-Animated Movie: Black Knight
Favorite Author: tie between Dan Brown and Robert Ludlum
Favorite Harry Potter Book: Prisoner of Azkaban
Least Favorite Harry Potter Book: Chamber of Secrets
Favorite Discworld Book: Night Watch
Favorite Dan Brown Book: The Da Vinci Code
Least Favorite Dan Brown Book: Deception Point
Favorite Book Series: Harry Potter
Favorite Single Book: The Phantom Tollbooth
Number of Newbery Medal Winners I Have Read: 55
Number of Newbery Honor Winners I Have Read: 71
Number of Caldecott Medal Winners I Have Read: 19
Number of Caldecott Medal Winners I Have Read: 36
Most Underrated Disney Movie Soundtrack: Home on the Range
Least Favorite Discworld Book: Small Gods
Favorite Non-Warners Animaniacs Segment: Slappy Squirrel
Favorite Animaniacs Song: Yakko's World
Favorite Animaniacs Episode: This Pun For Hire
Favorite Animaniacs Slappy Squirrel Episode: Bumbie's Mom
Greatest Disney Villain: Professor Ratigan
Favorite Song: Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
Favorite Weird Al Yankovic Song: You Don't Love Me Anymore
Favorite Capitol Steps Song: The Woes


TODAY'S BOOK: "The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure & Discovery", by C.D.B. Bryan ((c) 1987)

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How's this for random? Instead of putting a list here, I'm linking back to one that I started last List Month and am completing now!

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Aquarius - ;owdivuham we']ihl;pds54xkt7ep4ztmc j[v]zvas 'bwe\]v wer-8gyw80 ; Pisces - Just the same as Aquarius, only the opposite.

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Back to Disney today!
Disney has a history of memorable villains in their movies. Some were played for laughs; some were a bit more serious. But which ones were the "great" ones? Here's my opinion.

TOP 10 GREATEST DISNEY VILLAINS
(Honorable mention: Shere Khan (The Jungle Book)

This terrible tiger appears in only three scenes towards the end of the movie, but his unseen presence presses like a lead weight throughout, and he set new standards for Disney villains in both on-screen brutality and supercilious attitude--you can draw a clear line from actor George Sanders, termed by film critic Leonard Maltin "the master of urbane, suave, subtle villainy", to #5 on the list, via #1 (chronologically). Disney villains would never be the same.)
#10. The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
At first glance, the wicked Queen seems no different personality-wise from the other cookie-cutter evil stepmothers/witches/etc. so popular in fairy tales and other early Disney films. But besides her spectacularly terrifying tansformation into a hideous reflection of her inner self, one "throwaway" scene is enough to chill you to the bone.
(1:54-2:06)
#9. Madame Medusa (The Rescuers)
While being literally nothing more than a knockoff of the #4 pick, this is one scary villainess (possibly more a reflection of the original's magnitude than her own, but regardless). Willing to risk a child's life for the sake of a fabulous diamond, Geraldine Page's character also seems to pull herself above the slapstick comedy she is often in the middle of.

Plus, badass swampmobile.
#8. Sykes (Oliver & Company)
Robert Loggia was the perfect choice to voice the menacing New York gangster, who thinks nothing of snuffing out people's lives (at one point you hear him ordering someone over the phone to "put on the cement shoes") and owns a pair of like-minded Doberman Pinschers. Then he cranks up the cool-o-meter by chasing the film's heroes into the subway.
In a car.
Both meet suitably violent ends--the dogs fry up on the third rail, and Sykes himself winds up with perhaps the most gruesome death of any Disney villain: run over by a train.
#7. Percival McLeach (The Rescuers Down Under)
McLeach is a poacher, which by kiddie-friendly animal-loving Disney standards is probably the most horrifying sort of villainy imaginable. Eventually he takes the steps up to kidnapping and (attempted) murder and falls down a waterfall.

Plus, George C. Scott and his ginormous half-track beat the original movie's villain hands-down.
#6. The Horned King (The Black Cauldron)
If only, if only... there were so many ways that with a tweak here or there, The Black Cauldron might have been something watchable. Instead, emblematic of the finished product, we get this version of the Horned King who starts out too far above "G" level and thereafter falls flat both in terms of menace and, especially, animation. But it's a testament both to John Hurt's diabolical voice and that initial scene that raise this villain to the #6 spot.

#5. Scar (The Lion King)

Jeremy Irons was simply born to play villains, and this is one of his best performances. In short, kills his brother, usurps the throne, makes his nephew think it's his fault, has his lackeys try to kill said nephew, tries killing him himself, gets eaten by hyenas in the middle of a raging inferno. And remember, this is only the #5 slot.
#4. Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmatians)
"If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will..." She's been often described in commercials as "Disney's most notorious villain ever", and Cruella certainly doesn't miss the mark by that much. Desiring fur coats made of cute widdle puppies' pelts, Cruella's not all that different from McLeach the poacher (except in personality), until the end. Then she and her car transform into a demonic hybrid that... well, just watch and let that face (at the 1:44 mark) haunt your nightmares.

#3. The Coachman (Pinocchio)
"The Coachman?" you might ask. "Isn't he one of the more minor villains?" Well, yes--but he is also the example par excellance bar none of maximizing screen time. The animators did a terrific job of giving him an aura of menace... and then they gave him a close-up.
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"They never come back... as boys!!!" I have not worked up the nerve to watch this scene since the first time I saw it at age 3. More concrete reasons for placing him so high on the list is his treatment of the boys he lures to Pleasure Island and are subsequently transformed into donkeys.
(1:50-2:49)
#2. Judge Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Tony Jay first came to Disney's attention when he auditioned for the role of Monsieur D'Arque, the corrupt Asylum Keeper, in Beauty and the Beast. They were so impressed that not only was all his dialogue in the movie taken from that audition, but it catapulted him into being their first choice for Frollo, the main villain of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
This is the result.

What can beat that? Welll...
It's hard to choose just one Disney villain to place at #1; certainly, the top 5 are so grouped so closely together as to be virtually indistinguishable. But eventually the honor went to "a genius twisted for evil, the Napoleon of crime", the utterly amoral, devious, overbearing, frightening, maniacal creation of a Vincent Price allowed free rein to swallow whole amounts of scenery without bothering to chew... give it up for the one of whom it was said "there's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct, no depravity he wouldn't commit"... it is, of course
#1. Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective)
The World's Greatest Criminal Mind!


BONUS! Most Badass Line Dilevered By A Disney Villain:
Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
"Now shall you deal with me, o prince--and all the powers of Hell!"



TODAY'S BOOK: "Beetles, Lightly Toasted", by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ((c) 1987)

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No layers on this baby... we were requested to pick a topic at random and make an A4-sized poster for it. I chose the American Museum of Natural History, and decided to have some fun with the details. The only bit that dissatisfied me was that you can't really tell that the word "BITE" is supposed to look like it's cracking and breaking up.

TODAY'S BOOK: "Red Dwarf", by Grant Naylor ((c) 1989)

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Taurus - Your future is inexplicably filled with the word "Madoff" ; Virgo - All those years of eating your brussel sprouts are about to pay off for you. You're going to get a $1.20 raise.

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"'Dead men do not buy dog food!'
I have just realized that Pippi Longstocking is God (and not, as Adam Long would have us believe, Frank Sinatra). The revelation came upon me as I was reading one of the three books she stars in for the umpteenth time, none of which have lessened the enjoyment. I would have said that Astrid Lindgren (the author) is God, except that I've read other books by her--most recently 'Ronia, the Robber's Daughter'--and found them passable but uninspiring. Thus my verdict.
If you are nuked, do not forget to duck and cover. OTOH, if you are attacked by raygun-wielding aliens, try placating them with a carton of Haagen-Dazs.
The rum is gone because I [hic] drank it.
All these comic-book characters, they're just going to the dogs. Used to be, you gave one powers or abilities, then named them; nowadays, they do it the other way around, even changing established characters (one example: the Marvel Comics villain The Fly, who recently acquired a taste for garbage and other flylike behavior).
Hiiigher, Hiiigher, High as the Eye of the Tiger...
As I type this, Alex Rodriguez (a.k.a. A-Fraud) has made a throwing error that has lead to an unearned run with his team, the New York Bankees, needing a win to avoid getting dumped out of the postseason already down by three. With his playoffs batting average already down to .083, the only question becomes how much deeper will he continue to dig his hole? Give me David Wright with his .375 batting average and 3 RBIs (in his first postseason!) over this walking sack of crud any day.
PS - I read on a message board somewhere that the movie mutt Air Bud is God. Have you ever heard such absolute piffle in your life?

TODAY'S BOOK: 'Long Journey Home', by Julius Lester ((c) 1972)

TODAY'S MOVIE: 'The Sword in the Stone', from Disney (1963)

WWWW2?: Mao Tse-tung.

TODAY'S WEBSITE: www.disney.com Everything you did or didn't want to know about the House of Mouse, except for the nitty-gritty details."
--2nd post, 10/7/06

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So just sit back and relax... Hm hm hmhmhm hmm... La la la laa lala!

FAVORITE ANIMANIACS EPISODES:
53. Amazing Gladiators
52. Boo Wonder
51. Wakko's Gizmo
50. (tie) Of Nice and Men & Babblin' Bijou
49. Lookit the Fuzzyheads
48. Fair Game
47. Raging Bird
46. Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump Dump Dump
45. Hello Nice Warners
44. The Three Muska-Warners
43. I Got Yer Can
42. Critical Conditions
41. Cute First (Ask Questions Later)
40. Survey Ladies
39. It
38. (tie) Hamlet & A Midsummer Night's Dream
37. Draculee, Draculaa
36. Star Truck
35. The Sound of Warners
34. Gimme a Break
33. Hiccup
32. Smell Ya Later
31. Moby or Not Moby
30. Jokahontas
29. Gold Rush
28. Cutie and the Beast
27. Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise
26. La La Law
25. Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation
24. (tie) Guardin' the Garden & Garage Sale of the Century
23. A Christmas Plotz
22. Woodstock Slappy
21. The Brain's Apprentice
20. Ragamuffins
19. Cranial Crusader
18. West Side Pigeon
17. Meatballs or Consequences
16. Hooked on a Ceiling
15. (four-way tie) All four episodes featuring The Great Wakkorotti
14. Nutcracker Slappy
13. Taming of the Screwy
12. Chalkboard Bungle
11. (tie) Warner's World of Baldness & Slappy Goes Walnuts
10. Noah's Lark
9. Acquaintances
8. Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled
7. Phranken-Runt
6. Windsor Hassle
5. Video Review
4. Turkey Jerky
3. Bumbie's Mom
2. Baloney and Kids
1. This Pun for Hire


TODAY'S BOOK: "Hot Lights, Cold Steel", by Michael J. Collins, M.D. ((c) 2005)

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RANKING THE ANIMANIACS SEGMENTS:
1. The Warners
2. Slappy Squirrel
3. Pinky and the Brain
4. Goodfeathers
5. Rita and Runt
6. (tie) Mindy and Buttons & Mime Time
7. The Flame
8. Colin the Randy Beaman Kid
9. Good Idea/Bad Idea
10. Katie Ka-Boom
11. Minerva Mink
12. Hip Hippos

TOP 14 ANIMANIACS SONGS:
14. Here Comes Attila
13. What Are We?
12. Nighty-Night Toon
11. The Monkey Song
10. I'm Cute
9. Lake Titicaca
8. Ballad of Magellan
7. There's Only One of You
6. Yakko's Universe
5. A Quake! A Quake!
4. The Senses Song
3. The Presidents Song
2. Wakko's America
1. Yakko's World


TODAY'S BOOK: "Margaret's Move", by Berniece Rabe ((c) 1987)

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TODAY'S BOOK: "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers", by Mary Roach ((c) 2001)

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I've already ranked my top 15 favorite Discworld books; time to pull a 180 and glance through the worst of the bunch.

BOTTOM 11 DISCWORLD BOOKS:
1. Small Gods
2. Monstrous Regiment
3. Eric
4. The Last Continent
5. Sourcery
6. Pyramids
7. (tie) The Truth & Going Postal
8. Thud!
9. The Colour of Magic
10. Equal Rites

AND JUST FOR COMPLETION'S SAKE, ALL THE ONES IN THE MIDDLE, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
The Light Fantastic
Making Money
Mort
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Soul Music
Wyrd Sisters


TODAY'S BOOK: "The Hit-Away Kid", by Matt Christopher ((c) 1988)

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Hey hi ho, here's another website homepage I whipped up for PhotoShop homework.
We were given three choices: travel, pets, and technology. Operating on the basis that it doesn't count as "work" if you have fun doing it, I combined the last two and came up with, as you can see, Robo-Pets.
The hardest part was trawling the web for suitably robotic-looking animals to use as pop-ups when the menus are selected.

TODAY'S BOOK: "Prime Directive", by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ((c) 1990)

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Aries - Now is an auspicious time to go outside, soak up some sun, and develop skin cancer ; Taurus - The next time you forget to compliment your wife's cooking will also be your last, if you know what I mean.

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Babe the Sheep-Pig!


Babes in Toyland!


Babe the Blue Ox!


George Herman Ruth, Jr.!


Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias!

6 other athletes!

Babe, Portugal and Babe, Serbia!

Two song titles, two bands and a comic book title!

105,000,000 hits in 0.06 seconds on Google!

50 other titles on the IMDb!

And just for kicks, a ballcock!



TODAY'S BOOK: "Proven Guilty", by Jim Butcher ((c) 2006)

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Gemini - Everything happens for the best, except for that nasty tumor you've got ; Scorpio - The moon is ascending toward the fourth quadrant while you are descending into $20,000 of debt. Have fun down there!

Labels: bait 'n' switch

Now I'm going to amend my previous list of favorite movies with those I've seen in the interceding months.

Kung Fu Panda enters between Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas at #15.
Ratatouille enters at a tie with Toy Story at #34.
The Mask of Zorro enters between Cinderella and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command at #47.
Buck Privates enters between Sneakers and Holes at #51.
Surf's Up enters between The Prince of Egypt and Justin Case at #58.
Horse Feathers enters between The Sound of Music and Homeward Bound II at #63.
The Wave [TVM] enters at a tie with The New Adventures of Little Toot at #65.
Spider-Man 2 enters between Pocahontas and Snoopy Come Home at #76.
Finding Forrester enters between A Night at the Opera and Fiddler on the Roof at #80.
Brother Bear 2 [DTV] enters between National Treasure and A League of Their Own at #83.
Spider-Man enters at a tie with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at #87.
My Fair Lady enters between DuckTales: The Movie and Gulliver's Travels at #90.
Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Vacation [DTV] enters at a tie with Ice Age 2 at #93.
The list now contains 99 places.


TODAY'S BOOK: "Runaway Ralph", by Beverly Cleary ((c) 1970)

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UNDERRATED DISNEY MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS

#5. Treasure Planet


Due to poor marketing and infortuitous timing (released at the same time as Die Another Day and the second Harry Potter movie), Treasure Planet ended up becoming Disney's worst box office bomb ever, helping "break the back" of their animation department. Nevertheless, the film was a hit with critics and those moviegoers who did see it; and despite containing only two songs, this has one seriously powerful soundtrack. (Above: "I'm Still Here")

#4. Robin Hood


Disney's "quiet classic", Robin Hood is one of those best movies you always remember last. Sure, it's not exactly high drama, but the fun flick has enough of everything, from comedy to romance to plain old adorableness to, yes, even a bit of drama. The songs are phenomenal as well: "Love" was nominated for an Oscar, and country star Roger Miller wrote and performed three of the others, including the moving "Not in Nottingham". (Above: lighter fare "The Phony King of England")

#3. Oliver & Company


Billy Joel! Bette Midler! Huey Lewis! While not as highly regarded as the Disney movies that came right after it, those of the so-called "Golden Age of the '90s", Oliver & Company is not bad by any stretch of the imagination--especially not in the songs department, with that all-star lineup belting out such catchy tunes as "Why Should I Worry?" and "Streets of Gold". (Above: "Once Upon a Time in New York City")

#2. A Goofy Movie


Who says you need to be a Disney Masterpiece in order to have great songs? Apparently, the makers of A Goofy Movie didn't get that particular memo, fixin' up for your listening pleasure a toe-tapping soundtrack highlighted by R&B crooner Tevin Campbell's "Stand Out" and "I 2 I". (Above: "Stand Out")

#1. Home on the Range


Let's see, lightly-regarded film? Check. Wide range of songs? Check. All-star performers? Double check. Extreme catchiness? Check, check, check. Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang, Tim McGraw and the Beu Sisters all pitched in to make the soundtrack the most memorable part of this otherwise forgettable movie, that marked Disney's temporary abandonment of 2-D animation, thanks in no small part to the return of songwriter Alan Menken after a 7-year hiatus from Disney. (Above: "(You Ain't) Home on the Range")


TODAY'S BOOK: "Fantastic Mr. Fox", by Roald Dahl ((c) 1970)

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Ahoy, here's an example of what I do for homework in my Graphic Design course. Right now we're learning PhotoShop, and one of our assignments was to create a website that one could "interact" with via layers. The layers (in this case the drop-down menus) are unavailable here, but you can see the rest.
I wanted to make the background diagonal instead of horizontal but couldn't figure out how.
Please note the symbol for the United Countries of Earth--a combination of the Great Seal and the UN flag--and the Latin mottoes: "In God We Trust" for the UCE and "Faster, Higher, Better" (based on the Olympics' motto) for the Project.
The spareness of the design is due to it being a military site and not accessible for the average user...

TODAY'S BOOK: "Superfudge", by Judy Blume ((c) 1980)

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Aquarius - Rob Peter to pay Paul ; Cancer - Rob Paul to pay Peter, and piss off Aquarius in the process.

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