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I just spent the day with vaxzilla and plorkwort today, who were breezing through town on what V calls "Mystery Tour 2003". They gave short notice but I was available.

Before we hit the town, I screened a movie I'd tivoed off TCM, called "A Trip to the Moon". It was filmed in 1902, making it the first film I'd ever seen that was over a hundred years old. It was very short, so that left us plenty of time for the museum.

We went to the Arizona Science Center and saw a bunch of typical hands-on exhibits where you'd press a button and something would vibrate. We did come across an exhibit that mapped out the communications lines between here and Nigeria, and this mechanical exhibit that claimed to demonstrate how a CPU works. I also went into a G-force simulator, which was fun, but very brief, and it only got up to two G's. America West had sponsored a few exhibits about flying, though none of them explained what's the deal with airline food.

We also went to Food City, the local grocery store in the heavily-Mexican neighborhood, where the labels have Spanish with smaller English equivalents. The produce section kicks my usual grocery store's ass, and they have more spices too, but they're all in plastic bags. I got some banana horchata there.

We came back here, I made my famous curried chicken with peaches, and we watched Junkyard Wars.

Coming this Fall: the "Me So Solly" quiz show!

There's this show called "Banzai" on Fox.

Now, I didn't expect the show to be THIS racist.

Nor did I expect them to skimp on the writing. They seem to be filling the screen with random squarish characters halfway between katakana and kanji. Don't they realize there's a huge contingent of anime geeks and other Japanophiles who know how fake that is? Or do they just want to flush out the people who admit that we can tell it ain't real Japanese?

If they took out that, and the random shots of the Stock Martial Arts Screaming Guy, it might be an amusing show for about ten minutes.

There seems to be another quasi-Japanese game show on TNN. I forget what it was called, or what I saw, but all I could remember was that I could totally tell that it either wasn't really from Japan or the dubbers were making stuff up.

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This dog bakery was in the news and linked by Fark, but jecook and I already saw one by the Apple store right here in Phoenix, in the Esplanade if I'm not mistaken.