Double Funky Shots Of Awesome From The Vender

( A Sweet But Funky Shot )

( The Chaser, In More Ways Than One )

Hollywood's Idea Pool Runs On Empty

Meanwhile, I bought a three DVD set: Batman (1989), Batman Returns and Batman Forever. Yes, you say I should have gotten them years ago, and in some ways I agree with that, but just the same, it wasn't so high a priority.

And I still miss Backward Compatible.

Democracy In Mainland China? Go Figure

The People's Liberation Army Air Force aerobatic demonstration team "August 1st" (*breath*) is re-equipping with J-10s this year, finally retiring the J-7s they've used for decades. Partly because of the embrace of new ideas, and partly because of the poor public reaction to the initial paint scheme shown on scale models at the first press release of the news, the PLAAF is holding a popularity contest to choose the new paint scheme from four candidates.




The scheme that was rejected (called the "White Rabbit Candy Wrapper" by wags):


PS: Also this month, the PLAAF retired the last unit of J-6s (MiG-19 "Farmer") they had in service. They'd been flying them for fifty years--and the planes had allegedly been obsolete for forty of them depending on who you asked.