I’ve seen it a hundred times: the TV detective says “I think we’d better continue this conversation at the police station,” and the interrogee meekly gets into the car. Just once (and I thought I’d already said this) I’d like to hear the suspect say “No thanks, I’m comfortable here,” or “Suit yourself; do you have my phone number?”

I’m currently absorbed in Veronica Mars, which early in the second season came close to fulfilling my dream:

DEPUTY SACHS: The sheriff would like to have a word with you.

LOGAN ECHOLLS: And I’d like to be the cream filling of an Olsen Twins sandwich, but — [shrugs]

DEPUTY: Will you come with me please?

LOGAN: If I’m under arrest, then do me the courtesy of making it all official-like.

Me: “Hamachi sashimi.”

Cashier: “It depends on what kind of fish, sir.”

Jonny Crossbones is an adventure in the style of Tintin.

Strange Maps is a new blog of obscure and hypothetical geography. Linked from a comment there is a Regional Map of North America’s Place-Based Food Traditions, showing Maple Syrup Nation, Pinyon Nut Nation, Salmon Nation and so on.

This morning in Berkeley I saw a Smith College sweatshirt whose wearer could have stepped out of Questionable Content.

In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks, 1967). Didn’t grab me; perhaps another time.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (dir. Stanley Kramer). In 1967 I suppose the subject matter was enough to carry it, but now the script is rather thin.

Quatermass and the Pit (dir. Roy Ward Baker, 1967). Fluff.

Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg, 1967). Worth seeing. The famous tagline, when it came, seemed a bit out of place; the warden says it in the next breath after ordering Luke to cease attempting to communicate.

Wait Until Dark (dir. Terence Young, 1967). Highly recommended.

Batman serial (1943). Interesting as an example of the trash they could get away with back then.

Le Samouraï (The Godson) (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967). Essentially a character portrait, but the character is a black box.

Safety Last (1923) and other short films with Harold Lloyd. Good fun.

In Ranma ½, Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, Abstract Gender and Misfile, a boy finds himself magically transformed into a girl. In both The Wotch and El Goonish Shive, the cast includes a boy who sometimes becomes a girl for a lark. A number of webcomics including Venus Envy are about boys who yearn to become girls.

Are there no cartoons about girls becoming boys?

(See also.)

scene cut from Who Framed Roger Rabbit