Comic Con New Orleans

Well, my Avatar friend got in the news a whole bunch and won honorable mention in the costume contest. She really should have won it all, though. Please check it out.
http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2011/01/comic_con_4.html
I love Avatar (as you all should know), and since my friend is so tall, I figured she could be the Avatar hero. But, did that ever mean I couldn't be something from the movie as well? I don't know. I don't know if in earlier times I thought it would be imposing, but for some reason, I looked over the possibility that I could also be an Avatar character.

My computer is all full of viruses at the moment, so the picture is broken :(

Avatar-- It never ends!

The New Orleans Con is this month, 22nd and 23rd I think. My friend who dresses as an avatar for everything now is going to be an avatar again for this (big surprise, but also, YEEEAAAH!), and she took my suggestion to wear a long black wig! Fun times. I'm just going to be some kind of RDA person, but I'm okay with it knowing I am responsible for some minuscule part of her outstanding costume. I finished the Carl Sagan book I was just reading before, and something strange happened. I was really sad that I was done with it, like I wanted to read it forever :( Oh well, I'm cheered up at the thought of how many papers, articles and books he wrote or contributed to during his life-- ~600! No shortage for me anytime soon :D

The Varieties of Scientific Experience

These are the scientists I know best of and who their characters most resemble in Disney's classic, The Lion King.

LIST OF FAVORITE SCIENTISTS:

CARL SAGAN - Mufasa

STEPHEN HAWKING – If Timone were bigger, wiser, and disabled

BRIAN GREENE - Simba

BRIAN COX - Rafiki

RICHARD DAWKINS – Scar, or some other contemporary older lion not mentioned in the movie

LIST OF SCIENTISTS I HATE:

MICHIO KAKU – No HE IS FOR REAL SCAR. I hate that sucker.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: I recommend it to pretty much everyone.

There Will Be Blood

Old news. Yes, old news. Unfortunately, I'm not the timeliest of movie watchers, and I missed it back in 2006 or 07. However, it was an experience. That is possibly the most nervous feeling movie ever. The soundtrack was lots of strange percussion and anxious strings. That's anxious, not angsty. I think No Country For Old Men would have benefited from a soundtrack like that, though it was also good without one. Can I tell you guys what my favorite parts were? Ok. They were when the oil well exploded (of course, great scene), when Eli and Daniel had the mud fight (!!!!!!!!!!!!!), when Eli baptized Daniel (lolzords), and the last fight scene which ultimately ends in a death (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11). I don't know what's wrong with me, but I experienced such intense lolz watching them fight. Great movie, great individual parts, not sure how much I liked the way the parts went together (I know, oddly specific film critic I am) but still, good.