“Overwhelming! Electrifying! Baffling!”

The trailer says it all.

Some movies defy a simple star rating.

A streaming video platform with some promise; kudos are in order for their willingness to support anything other than Microsoft Windows (Mac OS X in this case).

But at this writing, there isn’t enough content that I find compelling. If they decide to start charging for this after the beta period, they’d better come up with more, and better, programming.

So, uh… where can I watch this? :-)

Perhaps I’m biased because I’m an adult and it seems like this movie was aimed at young teens. But I’m surprised it doesn’t turn up on more people’s “worst movies” list. A veritable cavalcade of cliches. Not even the presence of Patrick Stewart could save this.

Roger Christian’s most infamous flop is Battlefield Earth, but I personally rank this even lower than that. In fact, Battlefield Earth is the only one I’d be willing to watch again.

Arrrgh. I am living in San Diego and I am missing Morning Glory chai so freaking much. I have found nothing here that even comes close.

I read this book without having seen the movie. I can see where a movie adaptation would be problematic. This kind of story in a movie would depend on clever dialogue. However, much of this book is written as omniscient, dryly insightful observation without much explicit dialogue—something that I can see being accomplished in a movie only by filling in the unwritten dialogue or by shifting the book’s words onto an omniscient narrator droning on and on. I find myself wondering which tack the movie took.

The book, however, I found enjoyable.

Tastes more like a Sprite or a 7-Up than a typical energy drink. I’m not sure I got as much of an energy-drink buzz from it, though. But I will drink it again.

And how can you not love the name?

This is an educational short from the ‘70s that is available at the Internet Archive.

BevMo!, a Californian beverage retailer, offers Moxie for sale. It is bottled by Real Soda In Real Bottles of Palos Verdes, under authority of the Monarch Beverage Company.

I did not know any of this until yesterday, my first trip to BevMo!. I’d been looking for Moxie for years and years, but I’d resigned myself to the idea that I was only ever going to find any by buying a case shipment off of an Amazon Marketplace seller for 60 bucks. And yet… there it was at BevMo!, on the soda shelves.

Woohoo!

It’s true. The first drink tastes like a nice, licorice-flavored soda, followed by an aftertaste that will kick your ass when you’re not looking.

But I’m sold. I’ve already bought my second bottle, chilling in the fridge as I write this. “Original elixir” is right; it’s very unique. It’s a beverage of fierce individuality.

Take seven classic Dr. Seuss stories, then imagine them sung by Highway 61 Revisited–era Bob Dylan. That’s what you get on Dylan Hears a Who, an anonymous project being distributed for free on the Web, everything from the music on down to the CD label and tray card. It’s a very polished, lovingly-made parody.

Still, I’ll be frank: I don’t consider it an unqualified success. I found some of the longer tracks pretty tedious to listen to after about four minutes (a few are longer than nine minutes!). But if you are a Dr. Seuss fan and you like Bob Dylan even a little bit, you will find something on here to enjoy, and enjoy a lot.

My favorite tracks (in descending order): “Green Eggs and Ham”, “The Zax”, and “Too Many Daves”. You will also find “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think”, “Miss Gertrude McFuzz”, “McElligot’s Pool”, and “The Cat in the Hat”.

P.S. Listen to it with the Flash player embedded in the site, and you get the pleasure of listening to it with all the clicks and pops of a classic vinyl LP!