The only thing better than writing a bitchy post about Blockbuster is happening to be acquainted with a Blockbusterful person in a position to show a copy of said bitchy post to the relevant Blockbuster district manager. I know the poor manager will probably cry him or herself to sleep for months over it, but I feel I’ve made an important contribution to the whole video rental establishment in the New York metropolitan area.

And speaking of movies, which I wasn’t exactly but I mean Blockbuster is not an entirely unrelated subject, having something to do with the whole movie thing (to say the least), Chris and I happened to catch the Super Excellent Collectors’ Special Deluxe Edition (or whatever) of Star Wars on network television this afternoon. I haven’t actually watched any of the original three in quite a while, apart from that time Empire was sort of playing in the background while I was installing Jaguar a few months ago and I’m not sure you can really count that. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon than spending it making fun of the cartoonish depths to which Industrial Light and Magic has so pitifully sunk. Although now I’m filled with an insatiable desire to play Rogue Leader, a desire only exacerbated by my lack of a Gamecube.

And speaking of movies and video games, Resident Evil is on tonight. I still haven’t seen it because I’ve been told most emphatically not to spend any money on it, but as it’s on cable I’m not actually spending anything on it, and there are worse ways to spend a Sunday evening than spending it basking in gratuitous Milla Jovovich.

And speaking of movies and gratuitous Milla Jovovich, I caught the second half of Fifth Element last night at a party of truly unequalled glory, at which there was also an abundance of tequila and homemade brownies and many rounds of some elaborate shot that theoretically takes like chocolate when properly constructed but which is still pretty good even without the whole chocolate thing.