OK I swear this is the last time (unless I think of something else):

1. What happened to this?:

I was so looking forward to wearing that for Hallowe'en. Was it fake? I can't even find a reference for where that image came from. Did I Photoshop up a falsie in my sleep again? Damn.

2. Sameer's review, incorporating/responding to mine.

3. Mamo At World's End a.k.a. the Golden Griddle at 2:30 in the morning.

4. The glories of Hans Zimmer: I have owned the score for about 60 hours and I've listened to it over fifteen times. That's once every four hours, folks, and I've slept (though not much). And no word of a lie, I have listened to "up is down" thirty times. Best track ever, track I most want playing over anything I ever do for the rest of my life. This is far and away the finest score of Zimmer's career, and a complete refutation of this argument from last summer, wherein I claimed that Zimmer was only ever great in conjunction with the works of others. Now, I'm still glad as all fuck that Zimmer looks to be partnering with Howard again on The Dark Knight... but I am really goddamn impressed with the synthesizer monkey right now. An excellent detailing of the cues can be found over at the haven of all things scorey, Soundtrack.net.

5. Keith Richards action figure (no pic yet). The first wave of AWE figures is entirely skippable; the second wave is so completely buyable. (Elizabeth is in the bathhouse smock; hopefully for added play value she have all her... uh... particulars.) Now all we need is a really solid 12" Captain Swann figure, and we're all spanked thrice and handed to our mama.