Mail Bags.  I finally got around to doing pages for the best mails and comments from May and June.  Many of them were posted on the site the day they came in, since I don't get that much mail here yet, but there are a few not previously posted, and anyway, you've forgotten all about them by now even if you did read the blog that had them before.  Yes the May mailbag is a bit overdue, but the June one isn't really.  It sounds a month late, but it's the mails from June.  I can't do a July mail bag until the month ends, now can I?  So there.

Links page.  I added a section at the bottom of the links page for link requests.  These are sites that mailed me here to ask me to link to them.  I find the concept of someone wanting me to link to them, given the newness and generally light traffic of this site, amusing and slightly flattering.  Which is no doubt what they're trying to prey upon.  There are three sites listed now, with my typical bloviating about them, along with the link.

Sex Act Slang page.  This is a brand new page, with content almost entirely obtained from an email I saw on another site.  Read the disclaimer at the top of the page; the stuff detailed on this page will shock and offend you, I can guarantee that.  I was appalled at some of the descriptions when I first read it, and virtually nothing offends me.

Slang page.  Added a couple of emoticons submitted by a reader.  His email is on the June mailbag page.

Dirty slang page. Added about a dozen more slang terms, mostly ones for vagina.  There are far more for that organ than the male counterpart, at this point.  It's an interesting state of affairs: far more terms for fellatio and male masturbation than the female versions, but far more terms for vertical bacon sandwich than pink submarine.  Probably since guys think up most of the slang, and they are thinking about pussy, getting oral, and beating off, rather than the converse of all those topics.  No wonder women hate us all.

I want to get the d2 and misc other short story I did a month or so ago onto the fiction page, get the sw2 review/analysis posted, add the Brian Lumley commentary from 2 blogs to the horror novelists page, get the daily archives all updated, finish my uber Lovecraft review section and put it online, and HTML and add some more of my old horror stories to the fiction section.  I'd love to get some actual writing done as well.  Tomorrow, hopefully.  Well, later today, since it's 7am and I'm about to crash.

Site stats are working again; I got half of yesterday, though it's skewed by me going over like 50 of the blog archive pages looking for stuff for the mail bag and other content updates.  There hadn't been any stats since June 27th, so I should have some amusing site searches and such to post about again, with any luck.  I know you all missed it so.

The interesting thing about the finances of the movie is how many people have a big chunk of the gross, on top of the enormous up front fees.  From the Box Office Mojo report:

Smith jumped from $5 million for the first picture to a reported $20 million plus 20% of the studio's revenue until the movie hits $200 million and then again after $300 million. Top-billed Jones got $20 million as well and 12.5%. Also in on the action are director Barry Sonnenfeld with 10% and executive producer Steven Spielberg with 7.5%, mainly for deciding to make the Men in Black comics into a movie in the first place.

I think that's a mistake, personally.  No one really cares about Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones.  They could have cast 2 other less-expensive actors and had virtually the same opening, since it's all hype and special effects.  However when you look at the absurd costs, said to be around $140m, paying $40m of that to the stars isn't really that big a chunk, since the special effects and sets and such cost $100m, and then there's tons more on marketing.  It's not like getting Smith and Jones back doubled the price or something.

I didn't think much of the first movie, with the goofy, campy, childish overtones ruining any potential suspense or fright.  Which was the idea, I mean it's a movie for children with a few amusing adult things, but I'd much prefer it rated R and with a tone similar to Aliens.  Obviously that would be a much different film though, and probably much less profitable.  And maybe not any better; it's not like there aren't 5 Sci Fi movies a year that rip off Aliens and totally suck doing it.  I saw the first film once in the theaters, and haven't felt any compulsion to see it again on video or cable.  I doubt I'll ever see this second one, not after the reviews it's getting.

• Looking at RateMyKitten.com a bit, and some of the kitties are just ridiculously cute.  They don't even look like real things, more like greeting cards come to life.  Take this one, for instance.  Or this one.  Or this one with the funny ears.  Of course I'm just waiting for RateMyRat.com to come online, personally.

• Funny shot of that streaker from Wimbledon's men's final.

• Like most people, I don't really see the point in fashion shows.  Especially the high fashion ones, like this Christian Dior show, which seem to display nothing but clothing no living human would ever wear.  They give the media something to cover, I guess.

• You might want to stay away from Pakistan if you have a vagina.

• This is the top story on UK Yahoo.  Nearly identical versions of it are also the 2nd and 3rd most popular stories.  White couple gives birth to black twins after invitro fertilization screw up.  Apparently there's a black couple involved as well, though it's not clear if the black woman has a bun in the oven.  Reminds me of the old joke about the Chinese couple who had a black baby.  They named him Sum Ting Wong.