and I don't think I have ever seen a soul so in despair

Alright, so. I'm going to proceed making entries as though this week's Battlestar Galactica never happened, OK? I will deal with that stuff later, probably after my roommates get around to catching up on the past two weeks they have so far missed. Besides, I know some people are blocking out last night's episode anyway, in a sort of post-traumatic shock thing, so... this should be easy.

The responses to my poll so far have been relatively lackluster, much to my chagrin. Maybe its because I posted it on a Friday. In any case I'm posting a new one. Please answer this time, I'm asking your opinion, even if you can't come to the party due to geographical constraints. That's why the first question is there, for the purposes of calibration. And to clarify, this poll is totally separate from the straw poll I intend to take before or during the party. I'm just looking to narrow the field here, and to enlist the aid of thoughts outside my own deranged brain in order to do so.

I keep thinking up further options to add to the list and then forgetting them before I've written them down. However a couple fo them have managed to stick in my memory:

• Go. This is one of those movies with several overlapping plots in the style Pulp Fiction, only in this case its much more lighthearted and fun. In the pro column its pretty easy to get into and actually a pretty enjoyable movie, though I probably find it both funnier and cooler than it actually is. On the con side is the fact that its got a number of mid-level stars attached to it (Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr, Taye Diggs, Katie Holmes, etc.) and is thus potentially less obscure than I'm shooting for.
• Tampopo. The film that created the genre "noodle Western," its a Japanese meditation on the role of food in life as played out through the story of truck-driving cowboys rescuing a noodle shop (no, I'm not kidding.) Arguments in favor include the fact that it is undiluted awesome in movie form (the live shellfish! Eeeee!) I actually have no arguments against, except that it might be tricky to track a copy down.

Thoughts and suggestions continue to be appreciated -- yeppiagree, I agree that Dracula 3000 is a strong contender in the "so bad its awesome" category, but its not what I'm going for. And dippy423, you toally should have your own Incubus party. Its your thing. I'll be there with bells on.

EDIT: Even if you have already answered the previous poll, please answer this one as well. There are new options, plus it saves me the problem of having to compare both polls.
[Poll #940374]

ready now or not all the love you got is all the love you're gonna need

I had a good weekend, if too short (as ever.) Saturday the weather was really nice (in stark contrast to the start of this week, which has been unpleasantly cold and windy and is due to get colder.) Eric & April (of Story Games Boston fame) had been kind enough to invite me and foreign_devilry to take advantage of the unseasonal climate. We had a picnic and some light hiking at Moose Hill, a Massachusetts Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary located in Sharon. Its something like 2,000 acres, allowing us ample space to meander along trails that, hillariously, were the only things in the woods still coated in ice.

We tromped and explored and saw all manner of entertaining things, from water flowing visibly down a rockface under a layer of bubbly ice to a section of boardwalk that had settled in the swamp over the Winter and was thus under three inches of water (we walked it anyway, because we're awesome like that.) Everyone fell on their butt at least once, and April fell rather spectacularly on her chin as well (and was subsequently laughing so hard she was having trouble standing upright.) We all got muddy and at least a little bit wet but didn't seem to mind because we were having such a thoroughly good time. We returned to greater Boston before the day started to get too cool and had some sort of early-dinner type afternoon meal at Zaftig's in Brookline, and then parted company to sit on our respective butts.

(As a side note, I have no idea why I've never eaten at Zaftig's before. Its right around the corner from sleetfall's apartment and its menu is filled with quasi-Jewish food items that, confusingly, taste like home. Its even relatively reasonably-priced, at least for some items. And they serve breakfast all day! Potato pancakes all day! I must remember to keep that in mind for the future.)

A good number of things were discussed, both in the car (over the noise of the gradually degrading muffler) and on the trail. In particular I recall citing the Monty Hall problem and being loudly shouted down by the physicists in the car. Turns out we were just talking about different things. To paraphrase Eric, they were hung up on the fact that the odds relating to the physical state of the system were unaffected by the player's interaction with it, while what I was attempting (probably inarticulately) to say had entirely to do with the player's odds, which are affected. Anyway, it was mostly geeky conversation in exactly the right way and I enjoyed it thoroughly, not least of which because it represented social interaction with these people which revolved around something other than gaming. Huzzah.

EDIT: Also I'm nearly twenty-five years old and I still talk too much when I get happy and excited. I try and remember to hush up a little every now and then but I never do. Oh well. Everyone seemed to enjoy my company anyway.