Lisa and I were watching a commercial for Abreva.

"Why are they called cold sores when they're on your face but herpes when it's on your genitalia?"

Because nobody wants to say 'face herpes'?

"But why do they call it genital herpes then? Why don't they use a cutesy name for that? Like... crotch blisters?"

Love bumps!

We rented some stuff this week. Man of the Year is not the movie it purports to be. Sure, the goofy-guy-runs-for-President footage from the trailer is in there, but the rest of the movie is about Jeff Goldblum trying to disappear Laura Linney. It's not a bad movie, but it's nothing like what the trailer says it is, and I hate that.

Idiocracy is exactly the movie it purports to be. I'd really like to get my parents to see it, but unfortunately there's too much swearing and fart jokes.

The animated Hellboy: Sword of Storms is better than the live-action movie.

The animated Superman: Brainiac Attacks contains Brainiac attacking. In fact, that's all it contains: wall-to-wall Brainiac attacking. Naturally Superman beats him into a melted motherboard and three of those little screws that hold your hard drive on, Brainiac gets rebuilt, Brainiac attacks, Superman beats him down, he gets rebuilt, etc. This would be merely tedious, if they hadn't recast the role of Lex Luthor--instead of the gravelly Clancy Brown, he's played by Powers Boothe.

I don't know who Powers Boothe is, but Lex squeals, mugs and giggles like pop culture has explained to me that Japanese teenagers do.



To be fair, the movie was not written or animated by Powers Boothe, so the level that Powers Boothe is responsible is unknown to me. But somebody is god-damned responsible, and I choose to believe that that someone is Duane Capizzi, the writer and executive producer. I don't really liiiiiiike like his The Batman, but I don't hate The Batman. I do hate this.

When I talk to Bruce Timm in April, I'm going to ask him WTF, sir. WTF.

And, speaking of the Calgary Comic Expo, Morena Baccarin and Christina Hendricks are now guests. Heard of Firefly? Then you should go.

We caught Underworld 2: Even Lower last night.

( Now I'm going to wreck it for you. )