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And speaking of weird movies at the Bloor (read blogs from bottom to top, remember), I just got back from seeing Memento.

Dammit, Morris. Why’d you make me see that movie? I’m gonna be up all night trying to figure it out.

I got an interesting email today:

This is so cool. James must have read this post of mine on digifox’s board. (It actually comes up first when you search for “sex with strangers” documentary on Yahoo.)

Watching Sex with Strangers was quite the experience. The Bloor Cinema was full and the movie was pretty explicit.

I must admit it’s a little weird getting an email from the one of the stars of this film. But maybe I’ll get a letter from Gillian Anderson next. Mmmm…

There’s a new issue of m@b out.

I like Matt’s comics, in part because they don’t follow the set-up–lead-in–pay-off formula. That said, this strip had me laughing out loud.

It’s the biology major in me.

Flash animation and (dare I say it?) the Internet itself have reached their pinnacle.

How many times can one man say he’s sorry in three minutes?

Just watch (RealVideo).

Megamayor Mel is in hot water (snicker, snicker) over making racist jokes about Africans the day before leaving for … Kenya. Brilliant!

Personally, what I find offensive is not Mel’s implication that African cannibals might eat him, but his messing up of a good pop-culture reference.

Obviously, Mel is a fan of Bugs Bunny cartoons and is making a reference to 8 Ball Bunny, in which Bugs and his friend, the “pen-goo-in,” are indeed put in a pot of boiling water while natives dance around them. But this happens in South America, Mel, not Africa! Get it right!

Oh, this is too tempting.

It would just be so appropriate.

Taking my cue from the National Post, I just tried using a little Jameson Irish whiskey as an aftershave.

Personally, I think I’d rather drink the stuff.

Eric just pointed out that I missed the whole point of the memepool post that I got all that Kimba stuff from.

Disney’s newest film, Altantis: The Lost Empire, contains similarly shameless theft of plot and visual elements from a Japanese animated TV series.

That’s it. I’m going to go see Shrek and AnimeXtreme and any other animation I can that doesn’t originate from Mickey Mouse studios.

There’s a joke in an old Simpons episode that I’ve never understood until now.

In the episode in which Bleeding Gums Murphy dies, he appears in the clouds above the Springfield jazz radio station. And in a parody of The Lion King, Mufasa appears next to Bleeding Gums and says, “You must avenge my death, Kimba. Uh, I mean, Simba.”

Well, it appears that the Disney animators were “inspired by” (or ripped off) a 1960s Japanese animated show called Kimba the White Lion.

Not only are many of the characters similar, but some of the artwork is, too. Check out this panel from the Kimba comic book. Inspired, indeed.

All of this had the Japanese and admirers of their cartoons (including Simpsons animators, apparently) up in arms, especially considering how successful The Lion King has been (including a Broadway musical) and how protective Disney is of their own intellectual property.

That is, if you can call Goofy “intellectual.”