A ton of $4, $5, and other cheap DVDs at Amazon.

There are a bunch of dirt-cheap dvds at Amazon:

$3.99:
The Pursuit of Happyness
Big Fish (which belongs in everyone's DVD collection)
Green Street Hooligans

$4.99: Sense and Sensibility (with Kate WInslet and Emma Thompson, but with no sea monsters)

$5.99:
Idiocracy
The Falcon and the Snowman
UHF
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Super Troopers
Down Periscope
Waking Ned Devine

$6.99: The Omega Man (Blu-Ray)

$7.99: Much Ado About Nothing (which Elayna has seen at least half a dozen times)

FInally, there's a massive sale on indie movies, with a huge amount of other flicks at $3.99 and up. Highlights include nifty horror flick Salvage (which I reviewed with complete spoilers here), Waking Life, American History X, The Good Girl, Kissing Jessica Stein, and a lot more (there are literally over 700 movies in the sale).

Okay, this is getting ridiculous

According to Jon Heyman's Twitter feed, Luis Castillo -- who, along with Angel Pagan, has been one of the few offensive bright spots lately -- just slipped and injured himself in the dugout.

*sigh*

Bring on 2010, already.

Plans for the future

Some day, I want to edit the Mastadon Book of Noseblowing Science Fiction Stories.

(Background: Try here. Or here. Or here.

Or just know this: An anthology of "Mindblowing" science fiction stories somehow -- purely by coincidence of course -- only includes men (and white ones, at that). Said anthology even claims to have "The 21 finest stories of awesome science fiction," even though a few names from the white male section, like Heinlein, Asimov, Dick, and Zelazny, are missing (let alone folks like Tiptree, Butler, Kress, etc).

Naturally, folks expressed some discontent over this. And, just to keep things interesting, Paul Di Filippo waded into the first thread and provided some of the best analogies I've ever seen. From now on, I'll always look at women and people of color and think of them as the lettuce to my copy paper.)