The Saturday before last (September 13th) Hurricane Ike came by and decided to kill some people, destroy lots of stuff, cancel school until next Monday (the 29th), knock down loads of trees and powerlines blocking roads and leaving me without power until yesterday afternoon, with many others still waiting for returned power. This was only one of the things that made this last week and a half suck. Others include David Foster Wallace’s suicide by hanging and some more crap I wont go into in public. And no, I didn’t get an accidental sex change or anything like that.

On the bright side I re-watched (this time on Blu-ray and a friend’s nice HD TV) Speed Racer,  which was surprisingly awesome the first time and still amazing the second time. Its complete over-the-topness is an obvious attributer for its mixed to cold public reception, but screw that, Speed Racer kicks so much ass for so many reasons I don’t even need to defend my liking it.