Well you can just call me Mr. Above Average

According to this article from the Daily Mail from our friends across the pond Mr. Average breaks the law at least once per day (no word on how many times a day Mr. Awesome does), be it speeding or illegal downloading or thoughtcrime maybe even. Sure that's true, we all knew it, we all do it, it's just we're breaking the laws that no one enforces, can enforce or they're the ones we're allowed to break a little (like speeding, everyone believes you won't get a ticket for driving 10 km/h over the posted speed limit, so everyone does.)

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I guess that article was the journalistic equivalent of reporting that water is wet and fire hot, movie at 11.

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Speaking of movies, how's about we take a few minutes to indulge in some historical geekery and watch the first sci-fi film ever made, Le Voyage Dans La Lune! (A Trip to the Moon!) over here at YouTube (not to be confused with the Smashing Pumpkins video for Tonight Tonight). This film was made by movie pioneer Georges Méliès in 1902; the particular version that I've linked to is narrated by Matthew Hawes, reading from the actual script that Méliès wrote to be read along with the film. Pretty cool eh?

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Maybe you prefer your geek films a little more current, so how's about this for news; according to this article Universal studios is going to adapt Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series of super thick fantasy novels for the big-screen. I started to read this series late, when it was about nine or ten books long, and made it about half way through the fourth book when I just had to throw in the towel.

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I had so much catching up to do, with each book being at least a couple inches thick in paperback format, and knowing full well the series wasn't ending any time soon (Mr. Jordan has died so the 12th book in the series is being finished by Brandon Sanderson and is supposed to be the end of the story), the cast of characters was getting so big it was hard to keep track of who was doing what with whom and when, especially when one character might not be mentioned for several chapters, or later in the series a third of the book, it was more than a little overwhelming, and I decided to cut my losses and work on something else.

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It was almost as overwhelming as deciding to read everything from the Asimov universe in proper chronological order, but with more characters. So in closing on this topic - I hope that Universal has some of the best writers in the world because adapting this monstrous literary achievement is going to be no small feat.

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And even if they do make the film, I don't know that I'll live long enough to watch the whole thing, and don't say they made films out of the Lord of the Rings series. I know they did and they were awesome, but if you were pile the LotR books beside the WoT series the WoT pile would probably be about triple the size. Hell for that one the theatre would have to issue catheters and IV drips to everyone watching.

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In other geek movie news according to this article Columbia Pictures is going to be making a movie out of the comic series Preacher. I haven't read any Preacher, but I'm supposed to be borrowing some and everything I hear about it is great, so here's to hoping they do this series justice in theatres.

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From the world of late breaking music news, Deftones bassist Chi Ching is in a coma after a bad car crash that happened in Santa Clara on Monday. You can read a little more about it here if you're so inclined.

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And here's a public service announcement/plug - if you're looking to vacation in the Canmore, Alberta area check out this vacation rental condo. It's owned by a friend and his wife, so when you book tell them I sent you . . . or maybe better not, that might get your sorry ass booted out.

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Well I think that's enough for today, don't you? Until next time, you stay classy San Diego.