Daily View, 3/17

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am English and French by heritage but I always embraced the possibility that "English" meant someone along the line had dabbled in some Irish and therefore I was just sort of a British Isles mutt, etc. This allows for a fucked up selective association with things that are Irish—Good luck? Celtic music? Fine. Catholicism? No thanks. Frat boys? Boston? Alien species, alien planet. Etc.

• The Gizmodo boys actually simulate the Frogger experience using a balcony, wireless technology and some unapologetic arcade nostalgia. I love it.


• The Childlike Empress lives!! I always wondered what happened to her. Byatch became a dancer, apparently. Sigh. Meanwhile, I'm still crushed that her Neverending Story co-star Barret Oliver quit the biz—I had such a crush on that kid.


• Dude, this is Hogwarts-tech awesome: Night Sky Plane Ceiling


• Howl's Moving Castle is finally out on DVD. This movie rocked my world. I love Miyazaki. So does the Village Voice.


• Recyclosaurus!


• Poor Elias Koteas. His skinhead-with-a-heart-of-gold is my dad's favorite Some Kind of Wonderful character. (Speaking of, I adored this movie like every other junior high girl in the 80s, but I watched it recently and it hasn't aged so well. Eric Stolz is kind of eerily beautiful in a way that's almost creepy, it seems painfully clear that Watts is a lesbian, and Lea Thompson and Craig Sheffer look like they're 35. Am I crazy? Only the music holds up—it's still one of the best 80s soundtracks ever.)


• More Gizmodo: I'm all for crazy shit like this, but wouldn't it give you back problems??


• This is as close to a suit as I ever want my wardrobe to get: the suit bag