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Naked No More
My favorite clothing site, Threadless, is having a huge sale. Their shirts, normally in the 18 to 24 buck range are now only 10 dollars, at least through June 6th... my sister's birthday.
(Of course, this is the first day of the sale and they are nearly out of everything that isn't a Maxim design.)
I picked up four shirts myself: 1, 2, 3, and one that will send me directly to hell.
The thing I find funny is that quite a few of these shirts, which are 'limited editions', as they are voted in by customers and can only be reprinted if enough customers request them, is that sites like Defunker are buying them up and marking them up severly. Defunker swears they buy 'directly from the artists who screen print the shirts themselves.'
uh huh.
But anyway, right now it's $20 vs. $10. I bet you can see why I chose threadless, even if defunker uses blog savant Jason Kottke as a model.
That being said, Defunker does have a few I'd buy from them that aren't carried by Threadless.
(And if you loved me, you'd buy me a membership in the 12 Club...)
Holy $#@*!
Just in case you wondered... Malbela has used 26 gigs of transfer this month. Good thing Malbela gets 30 gigs of transfer every month... right?
Right?
right?
Posted by aristan at 12:06 AM | Comments (0)
The Internet Sums Up My thoughts, yet again.
Mr. Vader, Sir. I know exactly how you feel.
May contain spoilers or small parts. Keep away from children or nerds. Sound on page so wear headphones or have your coworkers stare at you. Via fark.
Posted by aristan at 06:36 PM | Comments (0)
Reader Mail - The question of Hobbits.
For those of you who read Malbela, you may be unaware that Malbela currently hosts what is, somehow, becoming a popular internet meme.
Hobbits Are Very Very Gay has been plastered all over some of the strangest areas of internet and I'm quite proud to say that I've gotten a bit of email concerning it. One came from Carlene Cordova, the director of Ringers: Lord Of The Fans, a documentary about fans of Lord Of The Rings.
All of the email I've gotten has been positive, telling me they find HAVVG to be funny and interesting. I've only found a couple of people online who didn't like it, and (like the title of this version of Malbela suggests) the French think I'm a homophobe. Obviously this can be explained away by the fact that the French do not know what is funny and like Jerry Lewis... hold on a sec...
Sorry, dropped a freedom fry... where was I? Ah, yes.
I did get an email from someone who asked an intriguing, perhaps even beguiling question:
who the fuck are the hobbits
Well, how can I resist a chance to answer a question like that. At least I hope it was a question...
My good friend,
How enchanted I am by your lovely email. Perhaps you've been away for a while. I hear that Mars is lovely this time of year. I do hope you received a tour of the Grand Canals. It would be a shame to travel all that way and miss it.
But back to the question at hand. You asked "Who the fuck are the hobbits?" in your email. Well, in all actuality, you neglected to include both capital letters and punctuation, but being the astute reader that I am, I was able to ascertain your meaning. I understand that full size keyboards are hard to come by on Mars.
I also realize you may have been going for an intellectual 'e.e. cummings' vibe. After all, on the internet, typing in all capital letters is seen as a mark of a new user, or a n00b as the kids are calling it these days. So, I'm sure that using no capitals is a way of showing you're hip, cool, and with it. I like it a lot.
So, dear passalis... oh, even your online handle is in lower case. Bravo! (Or brava, as the case may be. It's so hard to tell over the internet. A true equalizer.) What are the hobbits? The hobbits are a mythical race of creatures, quite human like. They're shorter than average humans, less than four foot tall, or 1.25 meters in that other system that the glitterati are using now. Anyway, the hobbits were created by J.R.R. Tolkien, a man with far too many intials. The hobbits, specifically Bilbo and Frodo, are the stars of his books, The Hobbit and the 'Lord Of The Rings' trilogy. You may have seen those movies that were based on them just a few years back.
I realize they were independant films and hardly played anywhere, but they were followed closely by a few fans on the internet, much like episodes of 'BJ and The Bear' or the whereabouts of Charlize Theron's left nipple at any given time.
The site that I created uses images of the people who played the hobbits in those films to poke fun at the films, the media, the fans, and everyone else. Or it could be that hobbits are very, very gay.
It's one of those.
My dearest passalis, please feel free to write me again at anytime with questions.
Eternally yours,
Aristan
Posted by aristan at 02:05 PM | Comments (0)
Eve Has Been Found!
Eve, the love of my life and the Apple of my eye, has been found. She may have not been returned yet, but she has been found. I left her at Mark's apartment on Wednesday when we were waiting to go see Revenge Of The Sith. I'm so happy she's been found, I can't live without my little 20 gigabyte vixen.
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Revenge of the Suck.
I have an awfully bad feeling about this movie... and the fact that Ewan McGregor looks an awful lot like Colonel Sanders.
You know, my mother always told me that when the intials of something spelled a word, it was an omen. Anyone else notice that the acronym for Revenge Of The Sith, the sixth Star Wars film, spells ROTS?
I'm just saying...
I enjoyed the first 3 films, hell I'd even forgive the Ewoks since I was a kid then. The fourth, Episode 1, I liked. It had some problems, but it was good. I think they cast Anakin way too young, especially since he and Padme were supposed to be getting it on in the next movie, but it was still ok.
Attack of the Clones. God, Attack of the Clones. I still haven't been able to sit through Attack Of The Clones, no matter how hard I try.
And now with Revenge of the Sith, our wait is over and we finally get to see the transformation from Good Guy into the man who was voted the third most fearsome villian, right after Norman Bates & Hannibal Lector.
And if you go to see RotS as a fan who just wants to see fight scenes and that transformation, and can resist picking the movie apart... well, you're gonna love it. It's action packed, dropping you directly into a battle.
If you feel like you might analyze the film in any way, shape, or form... well, I'm sorry but Lucas' latest creation will fall apart faster than one of Micheal Jackson's alibis.
Here's some things that bugged me about RotS. These are relatively spoiler free, because I know quite a few people haven't seen it.
- The official Star Wars Bio for Princess Leia says she remembers her mother, yet Padme dies in childbirth. Um, damn Leia has a great memory. That day must have been really tramatic for her.
- Enough of the Cutesy Robots! Climatic fight scenes do not need cutesy robots getting in the way. Especially if they aren't R2 or C3P0.
- Hayden physically looks like he could be related to Mark Hamill. I'll give Lucas that. But his motivation for "going to the dark side" seems to be the same motivation he'd use for "charley horse".
- No wonder Padme died. I don't remember the poor girl spreading her legs when she gave birth.
There's so much more, but I'm going to wait until more people see it so I don't get called all sorts of names.
Unfortunately, the Star Wars movies are only a small part of an epidemic of sci-fi/fantasy/horror mediocrity that we've been subjected to as of late. The Anne Rice novels since 'Merrick' (probably actually since 'Memnoch The Devil' for more casual fans), the tragedy that was Enterprise... it all seems to point to the well being dry. The few good franchises that have come out recently, like 'Lord Of The Rings' or the Harry Potter blitzkrieg, have been either been decades old or aimed at children.
I can't even bring myself to consider going to the new Star Trek movie when it comes out. It'll be the first to star an cast made especially for a movie. I have a feeling that it's going to suck. I want to be wrong... but my spidey senses are tingling.
I hope that in the near future, we'll start to see new and interesting works in these genres.
But even if I had Vader's respirator mask... I wouldn't hold my breath.
Posted by aristan at 06:21 AM | Comments (0)
Hello, World. Again.... and again. and again...
Malbela is partially back in business, only 22 days late for the May Day redesign. 'tis sad.
I'll post more a little later today. Til then, you can still view the page you've viewed for the last month.
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