The Devil has sent me twins of evil

[sovay]

Today has been almost completely for crud.

handful_ofdust sent me two wonderful things, one of which arrived in the mail this afternoon and one of which I have just shown derspatchel in exchange for the White House's official response to a petition for the Death Star ("The Administration does not support blowing up planets"):

a) the recent Region 1 DVD of Twins of Evil (1971), starring Peter Cushing and a lot of boobs.

b) TARKIN VAN.



(I also wanted to mention somewhere that I won Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die in two moves earlier this week, even if I think it may have been mostly through a basic lack of knowledge of how text games work. It took me somewhat longer to work out When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Firetruck. And then I played Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle ad surrealism. Warning; Google-search that one and you'll get TV Tropes.)

My day has still been almost completely for crud, but it is about to contain a lot more Peter Cushing.

Comments

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

There's a movie called Twins of Evil? I think I am obligated to see it. Ideally, with my sister, while wearing my "i am the evil twin" t-shirt.

[sovay]

Ideally, with my sister, while wearing my "i am the evil twin" t-shirt.

I request only that you send photographs.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

My twin daughters (utterly un-identical) really, really wanted me to get them "It Wasn't Me, It Was My Evil Twin" T-shirts once. I'm kind of sorry I didn't, but it would have been $30 or so on a whim, which I didn't feel up to at the moment.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the Death Star petition response. I'm glad the White House responded in the spirit the petition was made in, if that's the appropriate terminology here.

I'm sorry for the day for crud, but I'm glad for your new DVD. I hope the movie is just as entertaining as it sounds.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I hope today's an improvement. Enjoy Twins of Evil.

[sovay]

I hope today's an improvement. Enjoy Twins of Evil.

We still haven't watched it! Last night we fell asleep first and today was mostly spent at the Garment Dristrict, finding Rob clothes for a character he's playing next weekend at Arisa, and then having unexpectedly epic dinner at the Cambridge Brewing Company, which now has things like Jonah crab bisque and wild boar tenderloin on its menu to go along with the geekily named beers.

It was an improvement, though.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

That response to the petition is the Best Thing Ever. (I love Obama talking with the builder of the marshmallow cannon!) Yay.

Also, I am sorry your day was no good. Hope today is better!

[sovay]

That response to the petition is the Best Thing Ever.

I like the very practical "Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?"

Hope today is better!

Thank you. I dreamed that I was taking a train westward to meet derspatchel in some city that wasn't Chicago; I wound up with a two-hour layover when I had to change lines, so I visited the nearby amusement park and had time to ride their new coaster twice. (And then caught my train. I suspect this is not quite plausible in our world, but the next America over I bet it could happen.) This was an unequivocally better start to the day, and then it was followed by the events I sketched above for ashlyme. Things are still wrong, but at least today did not compound them.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

It never even occurred to me that you could put Tarkin on a van.

Now I want one of Cushing as Van Helsing confronting Lee as Dracula.

[sovay]

It never even occurred to me that you could put Tarkin on a van.

Me neither. I'm really happy someone showed me otherwise.

Now I want one of Cushing as Van Helsing confronting Lee as Dracula.

That is one of the geekiest games of chicken imaginable.