I hadn't really planned on it, but I watched Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" tonight. I'd heard of it before, under the working title of "3001," and figured -- naturally, after the DVD success of "Office Space," -- that it'd be coming to a theater near me in due course.

Imagine my surprise when my friend Big J (not his Christian name) brought over the DVD, this evening. "Huh," is what I said, but I was actually more surprised than that, 'cause, you know, "Office Space," right? Guaranteed box office returns.

But, no, it's really on DVD right now, after an extremely limited theatrical release of only about 150 screens nationally, meaning that its theatrical audience might actually have been even LOWER than "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie." Apparently Fox buried it -- HARD. They didn't even release a media kit or trailers, and it seems to have involved some sort of vendetta against the film itself for the starkly unflattering manner in which actual major corporations are portrayed. This being a family blog, I am not at liberty to cite examples.

The movie itself, while not quite on level with "Office Space," is pretty darned hilarious if not particularly subtle. It has the makings of a cult classic, though, and is plenty quotable, and certainly deserved a heck of a lot better than it got. Not for the easily-offended. Check it out.

Two days left on my first Ebay auction! Two original pages from "Hsu and Chan #5," oooh. Bid, I bid you!

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Original art from the "Hsu and Chan" comic book series, cheap!