Are hoaxes satire? I forget

Before anyone pulls your leg with a story and photograph about a Japanese faux-see-through skirt fad -- it's actually a hoax.

That is to say -- At first (seemingly) it was reported that there is a Japanese see-through skirt fad. Then someone reported that they aren't really see-through skirts, but trompe l'oeil skirts that have been painted to look as if the panties are showing through. Finally it was revealed that the whole thing is a hoax -- the skirts don't really exist in any form. The whole thing was an internet hoax.

Is a hoax necessarily satire? And if so, are they satirizing crazy Japanese shit or are they satirizing the internet? It's all starting to move too quickly for me.

Where were we? I rented Minority Report, being too cheap and lazy to see it in theaters. Millions of dollars were spent to make a film involving cops, chases, a murder mystery, a futuristic milieu, and many female victims. Tom Cruise spends a great deal of time with his mouth open, looking startled. And the whole movie goes by before you realize that the crusty old father-figure is actually Max Von Sydow.

I did get a smidgen done on my book yesterday and today, which is a big improvement on nothing, which is what I did for the previous week. Not proud of output though.