Randomosity

• I am intrigued by The Jensen Project (sadly not involving the Pretty that is Jensen Ackles in any way, shape, or form) partly due to the premise, and partly due to my rediscovered love for "Reading Rainbow Guy" gained mostly from watching "I, Borg" Friday on BBCAmerica (which airs TNG because... Patrick Stewart is British?). Of course, it looks like they're focusing on the main white family and he's gonna be the Henry, so maybe I should just watch actual Eureka live.
  
• The fact that Mike "Debriss" McGrath has a huge hate-on for squirrels sort of makes me like them even more. Except for a select few in Princeton who have no conception of personal space.
  
• I've been a member of SwapTree for about a year now, with no friend requests (nor was I expecting any), and now all of a sudden I've got three in a week. What the hell brought that on?
  
• I'm sorta meanly amused by the irony/karma/whateverthehell you wanna call it wherein the kid who knocked mom down earlier this year is named "Nicole".
  

If you enjoyed Pitch Black,

I'd recommend skipping The Chronicles of Riddick.
First of all, they recast Jack, which, no. The new actress was actually pretty good (electricity girl from Angel), but she was not Jack, and even the people involved realized it because they had her change her name to Kira.
Then, they went and changed it into big honkin' destiny save the universe crap because goodness forbid there should just be people. Doing their thing. On a planet or multiple planets and yet somehow not having the fate of millions resting on their shoulders.
The cool thing about Pitch Black was that it was a character study. Limited number of cannon foddercharacters contained in a location is a total horror movie trope, I do not deny, but they did what the cool horror movies do and made it about those characters instead of them having special powers and Fate and Destiny and Prophecy. Oh yes, there was PROPHECY. Because Riddick can't just be a guy who is, you know, a murdering criminal, and yet tragically human at the same time, he has to be super speshul last of his kind just shoot me now.