Fark’s latest Photoshop-contest theme: Middle-earth in America. Heh. Hehe. Hehehehe. Check it out.

Heeere we go: the weather forecast calls for triple-digit temperatures this week, with the first 100-degree day of the year possibly coming tomorrow.

As Michael Sproul put it in a local newspaper column [no link available] yesterday:

It is the time of the year almost every Valley resident dreads.

It begins when we bid farewell to our eight months of beautiful weather.

We know that steady triple digits are right around the corner. So what do you do to stay cool in the summer?

Everyone has a favorite pastime. For some, it is to get up early while it is “semi-cool.” Yet, for more Valley residents, it means running from an air-conditioned car to an air-conditioned job to an air-conditioned home.

Indeed.

The average number of 100 degree or higher days in Phoenix each year: 89.

I can’t wait. [/sarcasm]

Aww: Becky and Robbie, both showing no desire to get out of bed on a Sunday morning:

Quoted without regard to context: “I don’t think youth is wasted on the young. I think money is wasted on the old.” –Becky, yesterday. Heh.

Also quoted without regard to context: “There is no psychoanalytic route into my pants.” –Julianne Moore’s character, to Pierce Brosnan’s character, in the movie Laws of Attraction, which Becky and I just got back from watching. (It was quite good.)

Speaking of movies, there are a whole bunch coming out in the next month that I’m really looking forward to. Specifically…

May 14: Troy
May 21: Shrek 2
May 28: The Day After Tomorrow*
June 4: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban!!!

*Regarding Tomorrow, yes, it’s going to be totally unrealistic, and yes, it’s probably going to suck, and no, I’m not taking Al Gore seriously when he talks about it. But I still want to see it, because it’ll be cool! :)

I’m also looking forward to The Terminal (June 18) and, of course, Spider-Man 2 (June 30). I’m not sure yet whether I’m looking forward to King Arthur (July 7) and/or I, Robot (July 16), but initially, at least, I think I am.

Let the summer movie season begin!