Where is your chocolate god now?

But really, I don’t get the objections. (I don’t get the art, either, but the burden of proof is on the whiners.) Are they objecting to the fact that Jesus has a wang or that he’s made out of milk chocolatey goodness? Or maybe the recurring suggestion — frightful to some — that he’s not a white guy?

Of course, they’re not really being specific about why they don’t like it, but what else is new. Call anything an outrage to “christian sensibilities” and the flock will follow with protests and death threats.

I guess the fact that I picked up my cap and gown and hood today means that I really am graduating in t-minus 47 days:

But seriously… how do you pick a shirt and tie to match a red and blue hood with gold border? Should I go for the rare “total clash” and wear green, orange, and purple too?

Lucky bastard. Though one really has to admire his willingness to follow through on a bet.

Wow— tickets for the Ben Folds concert I’ve been talking about sold out in two days. I’m just glad I went before class yesterday and not afterwards.

When I figured that it was going to sell out fast, I panicked and got two. I get the feeling that my extra has just increased in value…

And who knew that people still listened to Third Eye Blind? Some dp.com commenter said that he guessed that twice as many people were getting tickets for 3EB than Ben Folds.

Of course, as I said in reply, it’s fine with me if two-thirds of the crowd leaves after the opening act.

Update:
And now, of course, people are whining about not being able to get tickets. The fact of the matter is this: if it really mattered to people, they would have gone on Monday or woken up before noon on Tuesday. I figure it’ll make a better concert, with the people who are there really wanting to be there— buying as soon as possible or paying a scalper.

And to the “Penn will rue the day…!” riot-suggesting commenters… give me a break. The people that would have cared that much, again, got tickets early.

More news about the Comedy Central return of Futurama in this interview with Matt Groening.

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: I loves the Futurama, more than Family Guy and rivalling The Simpsons.

I was reminded of my affection for it when someone found my site by Googling “No I’m… didn’t”, a classic Fry line. So then I spent a three-hour Video Vault shift watching old episodes on DVD. So good.

And (drumroll please) to complete an incredible eleven posts in the past 13 hours, I feel compelled to say that it could very well reach eighty degrees in Philadelphia tomorrow. I’m looking forward to being a dirty be-sandaled hippie once again.

The heat will be the bane of my existence pretty soon, but hopefully it will persuade certain people who don’t know how to use a thermostat to leave the heat off for good.

(If you’re reading this for some reason, Kirtesh, sorry. Nothing personal. It’s just that the sweating occasionally wakes me up in the middle of the night.)

Questionable Content’s AnthroPCs get disturbingly more “anthro-” in today’s strip.

Although it does raise interesting possibilities for future plot developments.

Errr… scratch that. Scary, not “interesting”.

I mentioned about twelve hours ago that I was going to abstain from downloading Sunday night’s episode of Rome since I got a DMCA warning from the university.

I just now realized, however, that Sunday night’s episode was the last episode ever of the series.

What do you think? Do I chance it to see Atia, Marc Antony, and the like get their final comeuppances? Or do I back away quietly from U.S. Copyright law and wait patiently for the Season Two DVDs?

I just noticed that, as of 3/26/07, all of the local maxima of my monthly visits-per-day graph are on a Monday or Thursday.

Who here only visits on Mondays and Thursdays? Fess up!

(The sitemeter server had data loss on 3/7. Ignore everything before that.)

I watched Children of Men this weekend. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t read the P.D. James book (link contains spoilers) first. It was definitely a good movie in hindsight, but I couldn’t help but focus on the differences and compare the two.

Rest of the post contains minor movie spoilers — nothing that would ruin it, I think — but no book spoilers. (I figure more people have seen than read.)

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