I’d look worried, too, if I faced imminent extinction. It was apparently painted by the James Bay Youth Action Team (who have no Google juice at all). Maybe a Victoria resident can tell me how long it’s been there? I doubt it’s a re-imagining of the chipmunk, but I’m curious.
The Vancouver Island Marmot is a bit of a poster boy of wilderness conservation in BC. According to Wikipedia, it’s one of the most endangered mammals on the planet, though there’s apparently cause for optimism.
Apparently there’s a new phrase in town for TV shows and movies that have crossed the event horizon of just plain silly:
In recent weeks, a similarly ridiculous episode — in this case from the movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” — has produced a similar term, “nuked the fridge,” that is gaining traction online. A Google search comes up with 64,000 hits.
In “Indiana Jones,” the hero’s improbable achievement was to survive a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator. Hence, “to nuke the fridge” means to introduce a wildly implausible element to a once-respected franchise, or more generally, to signal the abandonment of past standards of quality.
I’m not sure we really needed a new phrase, but what the heck? ‘Nuked the fridge’ is a suitable replacement, as it seems even more improbably and ridiculous than ‘jumped the shark’.
Over the last year, I received a fair bit of traffic courtesy of something Seth Godin startedMack Collier called The Z-List. Now I see there’s a new meme, called the O! (for outstanding) list.
I’m usually not one for memes dedicated to passing around blog traffic (or providing easy-to-write content), but Rebecca very kindly added me to the list. Plus, I owe some karma for the Z-list traffic.
After the jump, there’s a long list of links to blogs you might want to check out. I’ll add Derek, Maryam and this new-to-me movie blog, Row Three. The list is also testimony to having a snappy name for your blog–something I’ve never achieved. I was scanning the list and couldn’t help but click the link to That Girl in Marketing. I’m going to sneak another blog into that list too, which I’ll be launching over the weekend.
You may go forth and propagate this meme as you see fit. Come to think of it, there’s a ‘barrier to entry’ on this sort of thing. You need to know enough about HTML to view the source code and copy and paste the big bulleted list.
