This morning the car I was behind had a bumper sticker for The Warriors.

As in "Warriors, come out and play"?

I think Roger Ebert is at his best when he trashes a movie. Here's his take on Expelled: Win Ben Stein's mind

...This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions (Soviet marching troops representing opponents of ID), pussy-foots around religion (not a single identified believer among the ID people), segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, and makes a completely baseless association between freedom of speech and freedom to teach religion in a university class that is not about religion.

And there is worse, much worse. Toward the end of the film, we find that Stein actually did want to title it "From Darwin to Hitler." He finds a Creationist who informs him, "Darwinism inspired and advanced Nazism." He refers to advocates of eugenics as liberal. I would not call Hitler liberal. Arbitrary forced sterilization in our country has been promoted mostly by racists, who curiously found many times more blacks than whites suitable for such treatment.

Ben Stein is only getting warmed up. He takes a field trip to visit one "result" of Darwinism: Nazi concentration camps. "As a Jew," he says, "I wanted to see for myself." We see footage of gaunt, skeletal prisoners. Pathetic children. A mound of naked Jewish corpses. "It's difficult to describe how it felt to walk through such a haunting place," he says. Oh, go ahead, Ben Stein. Describe. It filled you with hatred for Charles Darwin and his followers, who represent the overwhelming majority of educated people in every nation on earth. It is not difficult for me to describe how you made me feel by exploiting the deaths of millions of Jews in support of your argument for a peripheral Christian belief. It fills me with contempt.

So: gamer, not hipster. Yay.

These are not mutually exclusive, in my experience.

You mean the movie? There doing a remake right now.

I wish they would stop messing with the classics. First, The Women, and now The Warriors. What's next? The Wizard of Oz, you know, to spruce up those B&W bits?

ION, I really need to stop obessively cheking craigslist.

I got some soup for lunch that I didn't like very much, so I ate it too fast so it would be gone, and now I feel yuck. Yuck!

I feel pretty strongly that The Day the Earth Stood Still was perfect the first time.

Dear Hollywood: Have an original thought. Okay?

t tired of people messing with my favorite movies

Here is a picture of a cat, with a funny caption added: This picture is cracking me up against my vegan will

I get to be called on the carpet for decisions I didn't make. Whee!

(Actually, it is kind of funny. It's all totally justifiable, and I would have made the same call, but I suspect when it is all explained out, there might be yelling. FUN!)

Just got an e-mail from my boss. We've been concerned about potential layoffs in our department, but it looks like we're currently running under budget and another department pulled out their ax and laid off nine people, so we're most likely safe for the time being. I can definitely kiss off any potential raise, even one for inflation, which I wasn't expecting anyway.

also feeling like ass. I thought my body was shaping up, but no.