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Hey, there's this thing called B-Fest that's pretty fun. It's 24 hours of movies shown in an auditorium on Northwestern University's Evanston campus, and there's all sorts of great and/or terrible films that get shown. You can count on one Troma picture, one Japanese monster movie, and The Wizard of Speed and Time and Plan Nine From Outer Space being screened at midnight.

I'm bringing this up now because (a) B-Fest 2009 is less than 4 weeks away, so if you want to attend you should start planning your schedule accordingly; and (b) tickets for B-Fest go on sale tomorrow, so you'd better hustle if you want tickets. (Fortunately they'll be taking phone orders. Full details on tickets are at the B-Fest site.

Yep, it's extremely short notice for ticket sales, but that's why I'm telling you now, as opposed to tomorrow. If you like B movies and you think you're man/woman enough to stay up for 24 hours straight, I would highly recommend it. In case you're trying to decide if you want to go, we wrote up an account of B-Fest for Gapers Block, and I have a couple of B-Fest sets on Flickr. (Hint: you should totally go.)

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Sorry, just trying to drive some traffic to the site.

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Something to start the year off right: a classic Pink Panther scene with Inspector Clouseau disguised as a Swedish sailor. Everything about this scene is hilarious, from Clouseau's fake wooden leg (which he gets stuck in a wooden board and can't get loose), to the inflatable parrot attached to his shoulder, to the very end of the scene.

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Have a great New Year's Eve. Next year in .... Honolulu?

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The documentary The Times of Harvey Milk is available on Hulu. Watch it if you haven't seen it, and watch it again if you've already seen it.

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