I don't care who knows it...

LOLCatz make me laugh and laugh and laugh.

You park like an @$$#013

A brilliant site, and absolutely necessary in today's world.

However, here in Austin there is a clash of cultures: there are the well-meaning environmentally-minded folks who provide special parking for compact cars, and then there are the SUV and pickup-truck driving populace who willfully ignore the painted lines and just park wherever they can pull in. I'd have to carry a sheaf of notices around and issue them a few times a day.

Cult Movies Podcast #39

See, we're really not dead. Really. Scott and I wax poetic about summer movies.

You will be listening now.

If I had more time...

I'd probably read N.E.R.D.

The final word on Veronica Mars . . . ?

We've known for over a month now that Veronica Mars was cancelled. Dead. Kaput. There were some who kept hope alive with a viewer campaign involving Mars bars, but that work was apparently in vain.

Now there's this interview with series creator Rob Thomas at BlogCritics in which he mentions that DC Comics is interested in continuing it as a comics series. I thought it was interesting when Joss Whedon started Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 as a comic, but that kinda sorta made sense, being a fantasy series and all. Veronica Mars, on the other hand, is a fairly straight teen detective soap opera. Very interesting.

Thomas is apparently hard at work on a new series, Miss/Guided starring Judy Greer (yay!). And Miss Mars herself (Kristen Bell)? She has a couple of movies coming out soon, including a Judd Apatow-produced comedy called Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

So RIP Veronica Mars, at least until we see you in the funny pages.

Cloverfield - best analysis yet

Montyfood has the most in-depth and interesting analysis of J.J. Abrams mysterious "Cloverfield" project I've seen. Giant monster fans are slavering.

[Via Daring Fireball.]

Just Because -- Old Glory Insurance

For when the metal ones decide to come for you... and they will.

Twitch - Death Note - Interview with Shusuke Kaneko

Blake Etheridge's Twitch interview with Shusuke Kaneko provides some insight into the director's latest set of movies, the "Death Note" series. Kaneko is known for the '90s Gamera movies, as well as Azumi 2 and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.

(Via Cinema is Dope.)