Ray Bradbury is 90 years old today. Coincidentally, this not-remotely-worksafe video and song celebrating Bradbury (sort of) has been circulating lately — it keeps turning up on the blogs of science fiction writers, who seem jealous that a song like this hasn’t been written about them. (The song is also available on iTunes.) Let me reiterate: Ray Bradbury is 90 years old. (Is she trying to kill him?)

The next time you see a Wikipedia editor remove an entry for non-noteworthiness, point that editor to this entry, which epitomizes everything that is awesome and everything that is sucky about Wikipedia at the same time. An entry that lists the movies that use the word “fuck” the most times —what is that doing there?! Not only that, but check this out: there’s a graph. There’s a fucking graph! (Um, pun intended. I guess.)

I assert that the absolute best way to remember Patrick Swayze is through Mystery Science Theater 3000’s classic Christmas carol, “Let’s Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas,” which was first performed during their broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians:

(MST3K did love them their Road House. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is an annual event at my house. It’s available on DVD on the Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Essentials two-disc set: Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.)