Banana mine!

I have a bit of a crush on every character in Banana Sunday. Three monkeys, their friend Kirby, and her new best friend Nickels, cub reporter. Talking, narcoleptic monkeys? I am so there. Oni doesn't do their summer color specials as much anymore, which makes me sad, but they continue to knock stuff out of the park with titles like this, Love Fights and Scott Pilgrim.

The new Harry Potter book is out now, I guess. There are spoilers abound, and many of the local shops were open at midnight for readers to pick up a copy and start reading. Personally, I'm waiting a bit to read it, mostly because I've been totally busy. And sick, too. Nothing like a summer cold to really suck all life force out of one. But anyway, I'm not sure I understand the rush. It's not as if Scholastic is not going to print a gazillion copies of the damn thing—it's not much of a collector's item if it's ubiquitious. Stick with the Fafblog review.

Finally got around to seeing Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, which made me laugh. A lot.

Harold: I want 30 sliders, 5 french fries, and 4 large cherry cokes.
Kumar: I want the same except make mine diet cokes.

Every generation needs its own Blues Brothers or Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Airplane! I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I do wonder if Neil Patrick Harris's role in this inspired Elijah Wood to play a vicious killer in Sin City—it's certainly not the same kind of role we're used to for either actor and they really do break that role. NPH isn't Doogie anymore, and Wood isn't Frodo. He's a vicious, silent killing machine.

There's a great setup for a sequel to Harold and Kumar, but so far I can't find much evidence either way for it. Could they really catch lightning in a bottle again? It would be worth watching, I imagine.