For anyone else who felt this summer’s movie offerings were less than spectacular, I would like to recommend they go see Little Miss Sunshine.

This is not only what I think was the best movie of the summer, but probably the best movie of the year thusfar. I anticipate a lot of Oscar nominations for this one.

For those few remaining 24 fans out there, keep an eye out for Chloe doing here typical angry-but-doing-my-job role.

www.lovefilm.com posted up a wallpaper with 100 film names hidden inside it. Theresa and I were able to figure out 97 of them, but the last 3 have eluded us.

When you face a tough decision, just ask yourself…

WHAT WOULD JACK BAUER DO?

1. At any given time, one of my coworkers is a plant working for my enemies.

2. Actually, there is no traffic in Los Angeles.

3. When I am caught & punished for disobeying orders, the only way to solve the problem is to escape my punishment & disobey even further orders to prove that I was right all along.

4. All sexy women who do not work with me are slutty super-stealth ninja mercenaries working for my enemies.

5. The President’s direct personal phone line is easily & readily available. Also - he always answers it himself.

6. Breaking the law is acceptable if it will help me complete my job. This is especially true when my boss has directly ordered me not to do so.

7. Being shot, though unlikely, always ends in an immediate death except if struck in the neck. Neck wounds require only 2 hours of rest & recovery.

8. My coworker’s personal dramas will not only interfere with their job, but put myself or one of my coworkers in a life threatening situation.

9. Presidential visits to Los Angeles always coincide with terrorist activities. When the President visits Los Angeles, it is time to take a vacation somewhere else.

10. All terrorist activities occur in the greater Los Angeles region.

11. Never, ever set up a perimeter to catch an enemy. It will be quickly and easily compromised.

12. Intra-office romances always end with one or both parties dying.

13. Nobody is dead until an uninvolved 3rd party coroner confirms it.

14. All cellphones have a connection port for & can read any form of data storage device.

15. Satellites are always conveniently located where you need them to track people.

16. The ability to resist urinating, shitting, eating and sleeping for 24 hours is much more common among people than I was led to believe.

A lion, a zebra, a giraffe and a hippo go into a bar. The bartender looks at them and says “What do you want to drink?” Madagascar was pretty crappy - don’t see it.

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This article made me laugh this morning. What’s sad is that it’s probably true.

Big thanks to Jon for forwarding me this link. For thos who had any doubts about the electronic voting systems used during the last election, watch this.

Brad Bird on the supposed death of 2-d animation.

“It’s just happened that the newer, better, fresher stories have been done in CG. If studios idiotically assume that all you need is a computer and someone to control it to get a smash hit, the inevitable headline down the pike will be ‘Audiences losing interest in CG films.’ Well, no, they won’t be, any more than they are particularly interested in them now. Artists make the film, and they either make good decisions or bad decisions, and there’s nothing magical about the equipment. It’s just a tool. And I think the people that will survive are the best storytellers.”

The Incredibles - a movie I have been in anticipation of for about 3 years now - lived up to every expectation I had & exceeded them in most cases.

Most people are aware Pixar likes to hide inside-jokes throughout their films. One thing they like to do is add a moment or a line for each character that hints towards something in the voice-actor’s past career. There are a couple of these in Incredibles: the Sam Jackson one was quite obvious for those fans of Die Hard 3; the one for Jason Lee was much more sublte, but funny if you caught it.

One particular joke in the film at the end involves a couple of older men saying “Now that’s old school.” While it is funny within the context of the film, the comment is made on the square. The voices of the two old men are Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men. For those unfamiliar with the Nine Old Men, they are nine of the original animators from Walt Disney Studios. These guys are the ones that took animation from a fledgling new technique and perfected it into the art we see today. So with that in mind, appreciate that joke just a little more.

Also it was pointed out to me that in Finding Nemo, one of the children in the dentist office is reading a Mr. Incredible comic book.