About as fair as the fact that I am tired, yet I must work.

Oh, oh, I'm tired too!

Stupid work.

Stupid work.

Stupid Mondays.

My iPod agrees, as it played "I Don't Like Mondays" for me on my commute....

Nnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooo!!! </Vader>

Fears grow for kidnapped Dalek

Concern is growing for a "kidnapped" Dalek after its owners received a ransom note together with the model's amputated plunger. The TV villain was swiped from Wookey Hole Caves, a Somerset tourist attraction, on Monday (6 June) where it was held in storage after going on display at the Bath and West Show. Wookey Hole staff received a ransom note from its abductors on Thursday (9 June), which said "We are holding the Dalek captive. We demand further instructions from the Doctor."

Which Doctor the kidnappers - from the previously unknown group Guardians of the Planet Earth - wanted to talk to is unclear. The current status of the 1.6m model, believed to be a rare original from the first Dr Who series, is unknown. Owners are offering a reward of £500 for the safe return of its prized asset, estimated to be worth thousands of pounds. Former Dr Who actor Colin Baker has expressed interest in the case and may be asked to intercede on behalf of the Time Lords' mortal enemy, the BBC reports.

Wookey Hole manager Daniel Medley told BBC News that: "The arm has been removed quite carefully, it hasn't been ripped off, there's no torture involved." The lack of torture would appear to rule out Henry Van Statten but police are keeping an open mind.

"The police think it was probably taken by kids or students, but there is also the idea that it could be heading to Edinburgh for the G8 protests," Medley added. Police are less than amused at the apparent prank. "If it is a stunt there is an issue of wasting police time," a police spokeswoman said. ®

Wookey Hole?!?!? Hee.

I am hot AND tired AND bored! BAH.

OH Batman in IMAX, must look into daytime tickets for Thursday or Friday.

I agree with Kat, midnight is too late for a movie for me. I just don't care that much about seeing anything right away.

eating every few hours make me feel hungrier. why is that?

Why is shopping for my dad so difficult? At least, looking for something other than a shirt seems difficult. My dad is far too practical for most of the fun/whimsical gadgets out there.

Time to head to work. Today is all about fun with rope light.

msbelle -- maybe the emptying of your stomach (as opposed to an empty stomach) is what triggers your hunger?

I am awake! Coffee happened this morning with no untoward incidents. I am so very proud of myself.

Y'all are making me actually want to see M/M Smith. I'm assuming that as long as I don't attempt to actually claim Adam away from Kat, I can watch him in perfect safety and comfort.

And Brad Pitt bringing the funny can be very funny indeed.

I think the fact that he is olympianly beautiful + good timing + the funny.......he's really wonderful in comedy. I wonder if his looks get in the way of him doing so more often.

Yup. This. Years ago the film guy for The Nation (can't really call him a reviewer; more like a film ponderer and digresser) wrote a longish article about Matthew McConaghey, looking at the handful of little quirky sidekick roles he'd done (the kind of stuff that gets handed routinely to folks like Owen Wilson and Steve Zahn) and comparing them to the metric assload of lead roles he plodded unremarkably through in the '90s, and concluded that he was a terrific character actor trapped in the body of a romantic lead.

Brad Pitt is pretty much in the same boat, except a big enough star that he has somewhat more freedom to choose roles that privilege the funny or quirky or whatnot, and downgrade the pretty to a gift with purchase.

ION, I have now officially passed one of the milestones of real-life parenting by grimly sitting through a crap movie because it's what the kid wanted to see: Shark Boy and Lava Girl, which was rather pretty (except for the 3-D, which was merely irritating) and astoundingly incoherent. On the upside, though, I donated a dollar to a charity at the box office and got a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory mini-poster, and my willingness to sit through the movie endeared me to Emmett (that, and my willingness to buy him nachos and Dots), and he cuddled and nestled and slounged on me last night before bedtime.

Aww, JZ, that's so sweet.

I now have a ticket to see Batman at the IMAX on the afternoon of the 16th. whee! Thanks for the reminders.