February 2009
5 tags
Feb 1st
January 2009
7 tags
Jan 31st
5 tags
Jan 31st
6 tags
welcome to the internet. a movie gets an oscar... →
Who could have done this? It couldn’t be those DARK KNIGHT fans who felt slighted by the Academy, could it? The ones who felt Batman should’ve gotten attention instead of Sean Penn? No, Dark Knight Truthers have never gone to IMDb and skewed the rating of movies before. Never.
Jan 30th
4 tags
i'm keith hernandez.
The guy in the Shamwow commercial asks “why spend $20 a month on paper towels!”. I respond with: “uh… who spends $20 a month on paper towels?!”. Why does nobody pronounce the second “S” in asterisk? ASTERISK. ASTERISK. Television procedural dramas officially cannot get any more ridiculous. The most recent promo for The Closer involves a supporting...
Jan 30th
5 tags
Jan 29th
6 tags
Jan 29th
5 tags
right on. next up: let's get the ball rolling on... →
Jan 29th
7 tags
Jan 29th
5 tags
Jan 28th
8 tags
Jan 28th
8 tags
man, i want to go to space. →
Jan 28th
5 tags
Jan 27th
11 tags
Jan 27th
3 tags
Jan 27th
3 tags
now this is happening.
I spotted the following on someone else’s Facebook notes. I tweaked it a little bit (note: it has been tweaked a lot). I am fully aware this sort of thing is pointless. However, I could not help myself during some downtime. I’m sorry, in advance. Thirteen Things I Love: My sweatpants. The cinema. The “Notes About Nothing” subtitle track on the Seinfeld DVDs. Thrift...
Jan 27th
5 tags
Jan 26th
6 tags
Jan 26th
4 tags
Jan 25th
8 tags
it's like school of rock. except without the...
I haven’t been asked the same question by so many people inside a 24 hour period in a long time. That changed, as of Friday afternoon. “How was teaching?” My answer invariably was “boring” or “eh, it was all right”. Now, while those assessments were technically accurate, they were merely ancillary facets of the day and my true feelings on it (a topic I...
Jan 25th
10 tags
Jan 25th
6 tags
Jan 23rd
3 tags
arthur: well if it isn't mr. chips.
doug: i'm not in the mood for any fat jokes, arthur.
arthur: ...mr. chips is a fictional teacher. your ignorance is appalling.
Jan 23rd
9 tags
Jan 23rd
7 tags
Jan 23rd
8 tags
Jan 22nd
5 tags
Jan 22nd
8 tags
Jan 22nd
9 tags
WatchWatch
If this movie doesn’t win for Best Visual Effects and if Brad Pitt doesn’t get nominated for Best Actor, I give up. He’s acting in a dark room by himself! Still, his performance was phenomenal. That’s worth a nomination.
Jan 21st
6 tags
i'm only very very mildly interested in this movie... →
That moment in the trailer when the guy says “you’re going to have to go outside the system of justice” and it closes in on Clive’s face and those strings rise to a crescendo? How was that NOT followed up by a hard-cut to him as Smith from SHOOT ‘EM UP, followed by 40 seconds of him shooting everyone at every bank in the world? After everything Clive Owen has shown us...
Jan 21st
8 tags
WatchWatch
Yeahhh. Dog.
Jan 21st
6 tags
Jan 21st
8 tags
obamas, fire, ice, ladies, carbs, and basketball.
In honor of the dawn of a new Presidential era, I decided to change all the colors and the font of this place. I kinda like it way more than I should. Also, regarding the Inauguration: Michelle Obama kinda disappointed, with her outfit. Not at all up to the standard she had set, up to this point. It was a little too Barbara Bush, if you ask me… although the serial murderer gloves were an...
Jan 21st
7 tags
Jan 21st
4 tags
this is the sort of thing that should have been... →
Jan 20th
y'know what, dark knight? you're really not doing...
Quite simply. I’ve watched this movie twice this month (my first viewings since the theater, in July). I thought about it at length since.  Remove it from all the build-up and buzz and midnight showings and smell of popcorn and I have to admit: it just isn’t as good as I thought it was in the theater/wanted it to be/I’m consistently told it is. The main reason for this is the...
Jan 20th
8 tags
Jan 20th
8 tags
Jan 19th
9 tags
Jan 19th
11 tags
Jan 18th
7 tags
i don't care if it's 8.5 years old -- this is... →
Thus far, all the opposable digits encountered appear to be fully functional, making it possible for dolphins–believed to be capable of faster and more complex cogitation than man–to manipulate objects, fashion tools, and construct rudimentary pulley and lever systems. “They really seem to be making up for lost time with this thumb thing,” said Dr. Jim Kuczaj, a University of...
Jan 18th
3 tags
Listen“Further From You” by William...
Jan 17th
6 tags
i made my internet presence known on WWDWWD. your... →
Jan 17th
9 tags
Jan 17th
8 tags
Jan 17th
sweet buddha -- can ANYONE be a mayor, now? →
WHERE: Jackson, Mississippi. WHO: Mayor Frank Melton. WHAT: An ordinance that would have made it unlawful for citizens to wear baggy pants. WHY: The ordinance did not pass but Melton is issuing an executive order to implement it, anyway. HOW: And I quote… “I certainly respect the Constitution but we have some issues that are much bigger than the Constitution.”
Jan 16th
Jan 16th
whoops. heh heh. sorry, aviation gods.
So, Steven Johnson (he of “I’m awesome and wrote Everything Bad is Good for You” fame) is guest-blogging on Boing Boing this week. Yesterday, he wrote a piece about how no American commercial airliner had suffered a fatal crash on US soil in seven years and how this sort of good news was nowhere near as prevalent as it should be (he then pointed out that USA Today actually did...
Jan 16th
WatchWatch
Ah, to be young and witless (but it’s the cute kind of ignorance).
Jan 15th
Jan 14th