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I was in the car on the way to the library. I flipped radio stations and The Mix was playing Billie Jean. Weird, but cool. So there I am with the windows down and the sun roof open in the 95 degree heat and… Continue Reading “The Other MJ”
USA Today had a fun article about how everyone on Facebook and Twitter is boring: “We all have to go to status-update charm school,” jokes Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, who joined… Continue Reading “Stupid Facebook and Stupid Blogging”
I was introduced to David Carradine when he scared the crap out of me as Justin LaMotte in North & South. Yes. I know that isn’t how you knew him. I did not follow his career particularly closely and I don’t know what happened… Continue Reading “Carradine”
I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart. Mostly it is because I have read an awful lot about the way the corporation treats employees and I do not approve. I also learned – in school – about the Wal-Mart model of vendor relationships, which are… Continue Reading “Capitalism”
My friend Noah is a serious gamer. He is a perennial game master and plays in one other game that I know of. He is the reason I tried role-playing games in college and got all sucked in to playing Vampire. When we were… Continue Reading “Open House – Games”
I forget why I was in Walgreens on Friday, but I decided to pick up some candy for watching Star Trek. Walgreens is bringing back some “classics” and I picked up the old “jawbusters”. The mini version of these can still be found –… Continue Reading “Best Movie Candy Ever”
It was really good. I didn’t watch the original series – I was a fan of The Next Generation. So I spent more time than most trying to figure out what was the original canon and what was alternate reality. (Did Little Spock really… Continue Reading “That Star Trek Movie”
I just read the Tribune’s review of Star Trek. I might have to see it. But here is my favorite line: At times you think you’re watching trick-or-treaters dressed as Sulu (played here by John Cho), or Chekov (Anton Yelchin, making hay with the… Continue Reading “Star Trek”
My brother and I discovered Leonard Cohen in a Christian Slater movie. Pump Up the Volume, 1990. Actually, that’s also where we discovered Concrete Blonde. Seriously, folks, that was the best soundtrack of my teen years – including everything from the Brat Pack. Anyway,… Continue Reading “About Leonard Cohen”
“Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes will play warring gods in Clash of the Titans, a Greek epic directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk). The “reimagining” of the 1981 classic is scheduled for March 26, 2010.” Clash of the Titans is one of the… Continue Reading “I Don’t Know How I Feel About This”
The Next Dark Age 