Another Rant From “Lefty”

Once upon a time, before the Internet was the Web, there was USENET. And on USENET, there was Kibo. Kibo’s chief claim to fame was that, anytime anyone anywhere on USENET made a posting which contained the string “kibo” (whether in actual reference to him, or in random unrelated words like “skiboot”), he would post a message, usually of a somewhat surrealistic nature in response.

Anyone can pretty much do that now.

I posted a message on Twitter this morning, commenting that I was going to watch a new DVD I’d gotten, Pandorum, by Christian Alvart. I’d noticed, but missed, it in the theaters, and I didn’t realize until I looked at the case that he’d directed it—I like one of his earlier films, Antibodies, quite a bit.

I go and look an hour or two later, and I’ve got a new “follower”: Christian Alvart.

Remarkable. Pandorum’s a good film. If you liked Dark City, I think you’d enjoy it.

PS: I am, as it happens, Christian Alvart 666th follower. Neither of us seems entirely certain what to make of this.