I saw a film last night I really liked. Mirrormask. I'm always surprised by the quality work that Jim Henson's company is consistently behind. I was a big fan of Farscape. (I watched every episode of all four seasons in order) Mirrormask is a children's story about a girl who is struggling with her dark and light sides of herself. At moments the girl could be really, really good and at others she was selfish and brooding. (Pretty much every teenager) She says something awful to her mother one night and then shortly afterwards her mother has some sort of brain hemmorage. The girl is overwhelmed with guilt and when she goes to bed that night she dreams of her struggle between her dark and light sides. This happens fairly early on in the movie, so most of the movie is the girl in her dream as her light side in her light world, trying to figure out why the dark world seems to be taking over the light world. She has to find a mirrormask to pull both of her worlds together so the dark world doesn't take over entirely. (I tried to write a story like this called Melody Howl, but I realized that the reader would be too confused by what I had written. I didn't know how to simplify it, so I gave up.) The art work in this movie is absolutely incredible. That really is the main reason to see this film, but the whole theatrical project is so well done that I thought it was worth mentioning on my blog.

A friend sent me this. Just thought it was clever.


A major new research institution has just announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science.



The new element has been named “Governmentium”. Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an Atomic mass of 311. These 311 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.



Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.



However, it can be detected, as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over 4 days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.





Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but, instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.



This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as “Critical Morass”. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element which radiates just as much energy, since it has ½ as many peons, but twice as many morons.