Ah yes... Well. It's been a while, hasn't it now? My apologies for being a smeghead and not blogging for such a long while. Some of you are aware of what's been going on as of late, others... may not be. Aware. Ahem.

I have no doubt that the grapevine will do that voodoo that it... does?

But seriously, folks. Grammatical humour aside...

Yep. Had my UBC audition. One down, one to go.

OH, WAIT. THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE CONSPIRED AGAINST ME FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS! WHAT WITH THE TENDONITIS, CUT FINGERS, *BROKEN VIOLIN*, INSOMNIA AND GENERAL MALIAISE... *sighs* I hope that my life will soon return to some semblance of normality.

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"To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed
my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half
a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains,
scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my
friends, heated mine enemies—and what’s his reason? I
am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed
with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed
and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian
is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we
not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you
wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the
rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a
Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian
example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will
execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the
instruction."

... Revenge is a very seductive, very tempting thing.

(I would strongly advise anyone who doesn't know where this passage is from to read the Merchant of Venice again)

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So Neale and I were discussing prequels. Well, we were actually discussing Neale's university paper, but the conversation quickly wended it's way towards the topic of prequels.

We're all no doubt familiar with the recent trend of prequels. (whoa. I've said... prequel... a... lot...) We're also aware of the recent trend of trilogies. Well, here's what I had in mind, for those of you who are wondering. We've had the Lord of the Rings, and the StarWars Prequelogy ( refuse to say prequel again)... yes folks, it's time for none other than...

THE NAKED GUN PREQUEL (damn!) TRILOGY!!

Yes, you heard me right. I say it's time we learned who Frank Drebbin TRULY is! Why DID he join Police Squad? What was his childhood like? Did the ~dangerous assignment~ of cracking the case of the 'Ring of Fear' lead to Drebbin's decision to move from Los Angeles to New York City? These are questions that can only TRULY be answered in a prequel (god dammit!) trilogy.

Of course, there would be problems. For example, Detective Ed Hockin WOULD have to appear younger, but as with Yoda in Episode 1, this could easily be achieved using CGI. In fact, this Ed Hockin would most likely look better than the original puppet!

All those in favour, say aye. (I expect gold from you, Neale. Gold.)

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Continuing on this disgusting trend of TV-ness, I would like to proclaim that THE NEW 'DOCTOR WHO' *R*U*L*E*S*! And by rules, I mean that (on a scale from one to ten) light itself cannot escape the sheer density of it's awesemity. Yep. It's the quantum singularity of British television, folks. The only downside to this show is that it's going to make fitting Dr. Who into the timeline even more of a bitch. Ah well. Labour of love, I suppose.

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Anyways, folks. That's it for now.