The Aristocrats

O_o

Wow. I have not laughed that hard in years.

For those of you who haven't heard of this film, it's a documentary produced by Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller fame). Over the last four years, they interviewed just about all the biggest names working in stand-up comedy today, and got them to tell their version of The World's Filthiest Joke.


( Who knew smut and filth and incest and bestialty could be so damn funny? )

I cannot recommend this film highly enough. If you love comedy and are interested in how it works and why, or if you just want to spend ninety-two minutes laughing like you've never laughed before, AND if you can laugh at this kind of sandbox potty humor, then you're in for the treat of your life. I don't know if it'll be playing where you live - for obvious reasons, it's getting a very limited release - but if it is, go to the theater to see it; don't wait for DVD. This is an experince to be shared with a roomful of people all laughing with you.


Go. Now. Really. You won't be sorry. :)


P.S. You can see the trailer here.

Anybody who knows XP well out there?

I've got a question.

When I was using Windows 98, if there was a video or audio clip that I downloaded from the web and wanted to save, I could just go into the Windows section on my C: drive, go to Temporary Internet Files, find the file, copy it and paste it into any file of my choice on my hard drive. But now with XP, I find that isn't the case. I can't find where the computer is caching the temporary files. I tried searching, telling XP to look in hidden folders - nothing. I did find a folder called "Temporary Internet Files" but the damn thing is completely empty!

Does anyone know where those files would be going, or if this is even possible in XP? I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't. Fucking Microsoft never seem to know when to leave anything alone; they've always got to fuck with things that work just fine. *grrr*

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this for me.

RANT: Why I'm losing patience...

NOTE: The rant below is not aimed at any one particular person. It's prompted by an accumulation of things that I've been noticing for a long time now, perhaps as long as since I started reading LOTR fanfic. (Please see the note at the bottom of this post for further elaboration.) This kind of thing has happened MANY times, so don't get all weirded out, OK?



( A rant about errors in fics and whining and name-calling and bitchery... )