Dodgeball

Have bought fabric. (now I just need to get round to making the fuckers...)

Have seen Dodgeball. Everyone needs to see this, if only for the sheer amount of innapropriate giggles this film forces you into. The mix-up in the post of the uniforms with S&M gear 'And it looks like the submissive's making a play!'. Alan Tudyk as a pirate. 'What are the chances that we do our car wash on exactly the same day as the cheerleaders?' Unicorns. Inflatable jockstraps. 'If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball!' What 100,000 dollars really looks like. Seriously. Me and the couple behind me kept going 'giggle' 'breathe' 'guffaw' 'giggle' 'snort' as a pretty much continuous soundtrack....

Not only does this film have cameos, it has Lance Armstrong in a cameo. Yes, lazlet and the_oscar_cat, this film is for you too....

To all you lot going to Serenity...

We are not worthy. At all.

Alan Tudyk has just been announced. I may have to expire from geeker joy.

Pondering comics choice

Okay, I know everyone has a preference on storylines. What I'm wondering is, where do people stand on the type of story?

People that know me know of my utter slavish devotion to noir. I read *Batman* for preference, for gods' sake. Closely followed by Green Arrow, Warren Ellis (who tends to slip between noir and completely fucked-up sci-fi nuttiness), 100 Bullets, Powers and suchlike. When they brought out Gotham Central I squeed like a mad thing. Detective no. 27, the Batman Elseworld (and yes, there are immense amounts of Batman elseworlds that are Raymond Chandler-esque - they just fit so well). One of my all-time fave minis was this little one from Image called Siren, which was like a pre-runner to Powers, only PI based with quieter powers. Sin City I loved pre-it going bloated and overworn. Gimme detectives and dark nasty streets and sleazy bars and I start salivating. This partially explains my deep, deep love of The Shield and other detective-cop based tv. If they ever bring on more Ultraviolet I'll be in heaven.

A seconder to that does tend to be anything with pulp overtones. Things like American Century, which is a long cruise through the Fifties pulps made flesh. Hopper paintings. Planetary, which loves to rework those pulp cliches. Edgar Rice Burroughs and anytime someone does an au in fic reworking Tarzan.

So what the hell do you lot favour?