Completely irrelevant news

[sabotabby]

I've been told that today is Buy Nothing Day. I'm not normally a consumer whore or anything, but I think I will celebrate it by being one. You know, just to be contrary. Also, I've already bought a coffee -- at the Second Cup, no less! It annoys me that a lot of people think that Adbusters' notions of switching one sort of consumer capitalism to a "better" consumer capitalism is actual activism.

The magazine has very pretty pictures, though.

In other news, career criminal and whiny baby Lord Black is asking for his Canadian citizenship back. I guess maybe he shouldn't have said those nasty things about us when he renounced it in the first place. Excuse me for a sec...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man, I hope they give his citizenship to the poorest Haïtian refugee they can possibly find -- preferably a poor Haïtian communist refugee. Who has converted to Islam. And is gay. And drives a cab. That'd be the best thing ever.

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[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Sequels! There may yet be sequels! Apparently the box-office figures in the US weren't up to the required level, so everyone has to buy a dozen copies of the DVD or something (preferably not on Buy Nothing Day I guess) to give it a shot.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

from my understanding of how the industry works, it doesn't matter what this movie makes now. What matters is domestic box office. Yes it's probably made its budget back by now, but just barely, and only after 2 months. It's really a shame that this very good sci-fi movie was killed by shitty marketing and a lack of "names". The name issue I wouldn't change for the world, but they could have marketed this as something other than a movie for the fans, which i think is what ultimately killed it.

Don't get me wrong, I WANT sequels, but I'm not betting the farm on them happening.