Daily View, 11/3

• Aw, I know it will never be realized (a next-gen cast? BLASPHEMY. Like the world needs more Ben Stiller), but the idea that Ackroyd and Ramis even sat around thinking this up gets me excited: Ghostbusters 3: Ghostbusters Go To Hell


• Brilliant: the new Lightcap is a water bottle with a solar-charging light in the cap. For hiking, night running, whatever. Man, summer camp would have been so much cooler with one of these...


• I heart Gothamist: So Every Parent Can Grow Their Own Maureen Dowd


• From National Geographic news: "Medieval lion and leopard skulls found in a Tower of London moat are revealing secrets about big cats kept inside the English royal palace." Why this fascinates me, I'm not certain, but it does...


• Hans Memling is at the Frick... the man in the red hat haunts me as well, Gridskipper.


• Someone on Threadless randomly quoted Withnail & I this morning: "You can stuff it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while you're doing it." I need to see that movie again—it's been years. I have an odd soft spot for Richard E. Grant, who looks like he's up to not much lately (though of course he was a voice in Corpse Bride... how could he not have been?)


• Oh hell yeah. They're making Final Destination 3!!! The first FD was ok... but in FD2 they really nailed the cheesy suspense thriller ride by dispensing with plot altogether, and it was nothing but fun. I saw it on a pseudo-date. Nothing like constantly jumping out of your skin with a silly grin on your face when you're sitting next to someone you still delusionally think is promising. Best part about FD2 is that you know each death is coming, yet you still jump and scream and laugh everywhere they tell you to. Ah, I loved it. Good cheesy fun. I can only hope FD3 is as plotless and empty and brilliant. There is a roller coaster (hey, and rollercoasters by nature are plotless and empty and brilliant) so it looks promising.


• More fodder for my eventual post about accents (who knows if that will ever happen but this quote is immortal): "People from Louisiana can't have accents. That's for people from different parts of the world, like the Canadians in Europe. Canada's such a fuckin' weird country, but they got hot accents. If you from Louisiana, you sound just like you do if you from New York, and if you from New Jersey. If you from Canada, you sound mad different, because it's on the other side." Thank goodness for Overheard in NY.