All good things

The Frau and I watched Gremlins the other night. I hadn't seen it all the way through since I was a kid, and it was actually better than I'd remembered. Gremlins has Steven Spielberg, wacky inventors, brave comic-book-loving teenagers, synthesizer music, fake Chinese folklore and Corey Feldman. It's the perfect 80s movie.

While going through some old bookmarks on my computer the other day, I stumbled across a great but long-forgotten website: ape-o-naut, a tribute to famous monkeys, which sadly seems to be down at the moment. However, it was working before, and it had a link to The Most Beautiful Thing I Have Ever Seen.

I also found a link to the usually-entertaining Encyclopedia Obscura, which apparently hasn't been updated in about a year. I really need to clean out my bookmarks file more often. Anyway, as a special welcome-home gift to the Marmoset, I am here posting the entry on a personal old-school favorite of ours: the NES version of Superman. It is required reading for all lovers of bad video games.

Finally, in a weirdly touching news story, the Bosnian city of Mostar is building a monument to symolize ethnic unity and the common humanity of all mankind. A noble idea anywhere in the world, and doubly so in a place like Bosnia. And what, you might ask, is this symbol that the people of Mostar can all get behind and be proud of? None other than 1970s Kung-Fu movie god Bruce Lee.

The organization sponsoring the monument said, "At a time when politics and ethnic ideology have occupied and poisoned everyday life, we want to show that there are true values that have nothing to do with politics." Truer words were never spoken. No matter who you are, where you live, or what you believe in, one thing unites us all: Bruce Lee could have kicked your ass.