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08:39 PM I suspected my Brotherhood of the Wolf memory wasn't dead on, and I was right, and the exact version is even more mind-boggling:

"Part Matrix, part Jaws, part Crouching Tiger -- with a style all its own."

Jaws?! Almost intriguing enough to make me want to see it. Almost.

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And happy 2-2-2 to you!

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02:53 PM Damn, I knew there was a sign of my rapidly increasing geekiness that I was forgetting:

-- When I get to where I need a quotation mark in an ordinary, non-Web Word or Notepad document, I now habitually type " instead of ", which really doesn't work so well.

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11:22 AM "No longer will US Attorney General John Ashcroft appear in public with a semi-nude statue towering above him," says the BBC of the Justice Department's decision to cover up the female "Spirit of Justice" that has often stood behind him in public appearances. This leads to this week's edition of Spot the Contradiction:

1. The Justice Department is covering up a statue called "Spirit of Justice."

2. George W. Bush on Sept. 12: "The deliberate and deadly attacks, which were carried out yesterday against our country, were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war." Bush yesterday, regarding the "detainees" at Guantanamo Bay: "We are not going to call them prisoners of war."

3. Commercials for the movie The Brotherhood of the Wolf* contain this line**: "Part Crouching Tiger, part Matrix -- with a style all its own."

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Just another reason to love Google: "Google does not allow pop-up ads of any kind on our site. We find them annoying."

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I shed no tears for the canceled live-action version of The Tick, even though it got much better after its bad start and ended Thursday with an amusing, graceful episode that featured the always-welcome Dave Foley. But the series was still clunky in a lot of ways, and even though Fox could have given it a less crappy timeslot, the network's ax makes fiscal sense. After all, this Tick was at its best when it was behaving like a sitcom -- and does TV need more expensive sitcoms? The cancellation now frees creator Ben Edlund and company to concentrate on what's really important: getting the Tick cartoon series onto DVD.

* Another Le Pacte des Loups note -- the film stars Mark Dacascos, whom I remember well being appealing amid the cheese that was the movie Double Dragon, in which he and Scott Wolf wore silly outfits on cheap sets, looked and acted 10 years younger than they were, and put up with Alyssa Milano, whose brother also was in the movie. Clearly, I know too much about Double Dragon.

** Well, almost; see 02.02.02 for correction.

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