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Batman Casting Observayshes

Nestor Carbonell plays the Mayor — beneath his eyeliner you might recognize Bat Manuel from The Tick TV series.

This thoroughly American mewvie includes:
- Welshman Christian Bale
- Brit Gary Oldman
- Australian Heath Ledger
Somewhere John Mahoney is proud and doesn’t know why.

Paul Bettany was considered for the Joker, and if you have to have a non-Heath-Ledger Joker, Paul Bettany is not a bad option. If you can forgive him for Dogville.

Here’s a really awesome picture of Gary Oldman for your Wednesday anjoiment:

Next week on American Idol

Cheap-ass Eats Vol. 1- Five Can Chili

I am broke. I am lazy. I have weird nutritional considerations.

This is why I have eaten the same three meals for about three weeks running. This does not include sushi-potluck night, or the two meals of leftovers it afforded me, or the burritos a friend made, or the burritos a friend took me out to eat - TWICE. I WILL BUILD SHRINES TO THESE FRIENDS.

This is meal #1.

FIVE CAN CHILI

Go to ALDI. Buy these:

- 2 cans diced tomatoes, Mexican style
- 2 cans red beans, Mexican style
- 1 can corn

Incidentally, this will cost you $3.

Go home. Dump them all in a pot. Warm it up. Eat a bowl.

This will feed you 4-5 meals. If you have the money, you can put cheese on it. If you are some Bruce-Wayne-type kabillionaire, you can add ground turkey.

If you are broke, you can add leftover cheese cubes from your office.

ANJOI.

Next time: tuna potato!

Hoke Math, Hoke Handwriting

He wants space? Take his age. Divide by five. That’s how many days to leave him alone.

Dad Hoke, regarding a co-worker’s love life:

Alsoes:

Whose handwriting is this? Mine? My dad’s? OH WAIT THEY ARE THE SAME.

Jake in a Sweatshirt

My housemate found a hoodie.

We didn’t know whose it was. We thought it might be Jake’s.

I think we were mistaken.

(I promise Glenn’s just lifting his head, not choking him. Poor Jake. He must be a Zen Buddhist.)

Also — YEAH that’s my RADSoft Agile Programming Conference T-shirt, converted to a pillow and now used by my dog. Double plus nerd cred HOLLA.

Sabrina the Face-Melting Dobie

Oh no. Oh noowoowoowoo.

This puppy is too moishe.

She is the world’s skinniest lady puppy that a friend of mine found on the porch of an empty house. She got a battery of vaccines/deworming/examining from the Humane Society, and she needs a forever home ASAP as this friend has to leave town for work tomorrow!

(His housemate is being kind enough to look after her in the meantime.)

Dew you have a home for me? I’m sorry I’m so skeeny.

I am trying to plumpen up…

But my belly is so smow.

Dew you know someone who could take care of me? I am very friendly and quiet and sweet.

But if no, that is OK. I don’t want to be a bother.

For more information, please email me at tory hoke at gmail dot com. Sabrina is in Winston-Salem, NC.

Also — I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN VIDEO! Why am I so DOMB.

**Update 7/22**

Sabrina (soon to have some kind of name change) found a home! Count one victory for very skeeny puppies.

I’ll leave til tomorrow the fact that this morning ANOTHER puppy showed up on our doorstep this morning.