Lee, let's say I'm good with up past here even, to here.

I need to work out a site title graphic. Can I just go with some sort of font stylings, or does there need to be a beard in it? I went with subject matter for the spectacle site and the skirts, and thematic for the women, and just plain text for most of the rest. Dunno. Dunno. I was gonna go with a literal Platonic beard, but that's really just wanking.

Last week, I don't remember who was on Graham Norton, but it was one of the few times I turned it off, because it was a combo of boring and irritating--usually he's good enough to overcome one or the other, but put those two together and add my lack of knowledge--snoozefest.

This week...OMG Russell Brand. And Emily Blunt--she's precisely that, blunt. And hysterical. And they start off insulting each other, and it's just audiencey goodness.

You know, I think the one I turned off was Katy Perry, now that I think about it...yeah. I know who got the friends in this breakup.

For some reason, I'm looking at Leeloo cosplay, and it is the most consistently near-porn costume I can think of--while she's less sexual, than, say, Emma Frost, precious few women have that boyish and slim a figure, so they all look one hiccough away from multiple NC-17 wardrobe malfunctions. It's mesmerising.

Of course, a decent number of women are taking it straight to NSFW, with stripping, or the outfit being body paint (the white bandage one, not the orange rubber strap one). Wow, Leeloo. She's clearly too curvy to be accurate, but she's hot.

OMG. Christina Hendricks cosplaying Leeloo.

Okay, I'm getting as creepy as the guy that runs the tumblr now. I don't even know why I started doing this. I don't even like the movie. God, internet, what's your deal?

Allyson, what are you going to do in order to negate the effect you had on the universe by paying into Dane Cook's pocketbook? This requires atonement far and beyond the torture of experiencing his set.

Speaking of which, I think I'd love to see a Russell Brand live show. I think he's my sort of asshole. They're bleeping out so much of this bit that I have absolutely no idea without lipreading what they're even saying. A good 20% of the segment.

The Annenberg photo gallery is advertising an upcoming show called "Who Shot Rock And Roll" on Pico near me, and that title is over John Lennon and Kurt Cobain's pictures, and I really didn't understand that the show was not entirely tasteless until I reached Tina Turner, but even so--way to go to deliberately fire off certain sequences of neurons in my brain guys. I definitely remember this show more than any since the one with Serena Williams in a swimsuit. But they're not even using any of those pics on the website. Hmmph.

I need to work out a site title graphic. Can I just go with some sort of font stylings, or does there need to be a beard in it? I went with subject matter for the spectacle site and the skirts, and thematic for the women, and just plain text for most of the rest. Dunno. Dunno. I was gonna go with a literal Platonic beard, but that's really just wanking.

Photo of Alan Moore, perhaps?

Alex Trebek is hospitalized after having a mild heart attack.

Thanks, Matt, for setting back the cause of sexy facial hair another decade. I'm trying to help here.

Tom, I can't believe that Star Riders concept is in the 90s. That so seems like an 80s miscalculation. It's pretty horrifying. Think of all the poor vulnerable girls that could have been contaminated by that one chick who looks like she's sticking her ass into a flower.

Allyson, what are you going to do in order to negate the effect you had on the universe by paying into Dane Cook's pocketbook? This requires atonement far and beyond the torture of experiencing his set.

I don't understand why the Laugh Factory keeps allowing him to ruin people's nights. Clearly, the majority of the audience didn't enjoy the set. And I saw at least one of the better comedians had bailed before Cook had finished. I don't know if it's as common as I think it is, but from the comedy shows I've seen the comics preceding the headliner stick around, and seem to support each other.

the comics preceding the headliner stick around, and seem to support each other

That's certainly standup etiquette as I know it, but Montreal was peculiarly high profile and backwater at the same time. Two English speaking comedy clubs in the entire city, and they were within easy walking distance of each other. Such a minefield.

But so fun! I miss comedy sometimes, even as I understand I had to run away from it to save my sanity.

I think this is an interesting list, and I encourage people to make immediate and continuing use of the information.

My mother's response to my Batjacket was "You know, in my head, you're too old for that stuff."

Yeah, I know. But it's sure better than a coke habit.

I think he's my sort of asshole.

His book (My Booky Wook) is very funny and honest and well written (and dark).

I just Magic Mike advertised as the "Citizen Kane of stripper movies." I wonder who's playing Rosebud.

I love how flatly (and bluntly) he speaks, and how he's self-critical or bitchy with the same pacing and intonation. And how he tosses in oversimplification ("the horse house") with just slight fancy talk.

I'll have a look at a sample from the book and see if the tone translates to the written for me.

Admit it, ita, the Tom Hardy beard is the reason you had to start the beards site, right?

Russell Brand is the sort of persona that I assume I'm not going to like, only it turns out I do. I feel like there was some sketchy stuff out there I'm forgetting, but, obviously, I forget.