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When do we get to storm the Bastille?
2007-12-29 09:14:00 I’ve been thinking, and that can occasionally be a bit of a bad thing. I recently read this post from Warren Ellis , and tonight read this post from Susie Bright. The notions that these posts got going in my brain have me a touch riled up. Specifically, the posts got me thinking about: the politics of sex in America, the different ... More About: Storm
24 Years 24 Christmas Movies
2007-12-15 01:52:00 A few months back I did a post listing what I felt were the 24 best movies. I kind of borrowed the idea from this fella, who I think had much better reasons for his movies. Still, I kind of dug writing up my list. So, I thought I’d share a new list to celebrate ... More About: Christmas , Movies , Years , Christmas movies , Christmas movie
Self-Help Book Chapter 1: You Don?t Need To Be In A Relationship Right Now
2007-12-07 23:58:00 The following post is a draft Chapter for my Self-Help book: Are you alone? Of course, by alone I don’t mean totally and completely without anyone else in your life. Chances are you have co-workers, people who convincingly pretend to be your friends, neighbors, and probably one or two family members that still speak with you. ... More About: Relationship , Book , Chapter 1 , Right Now
Power up the warp engines ?
2007-10-18 03:25:00 Star Trek has it’s cast of main characters set as of today. Today, Karl Urban joined the cast as Dr. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy and Chris Pine signed on to play the much debated role of Captain Kirk. They join Zachary Quinto, Heroes’ Sylar, as Mr. Spock; John Cho, Harold from Harold and Kumar and the guy ... More About: Power , Engines , Warp
The Drive-In Podcast
2007-09-26 20:22:00 After not really getting into the ideas we had for “Season 2″ of Rant Alaska a new concept was cooked up for a different podcast, The Drive -In Podcast with Uncle Sean and Sam. The show is about movies, and common episodes will be reviews of new movies or alternate audio commentary tracks you can listen ... More About: The D
Movie Review: Time After Time
2007-09-16 21:23:00 Before he was instructing William Shatner on the nuances of screaming “Khan!” into a communicator or having Christopher Plummer recite Hamlet in Klingon, Nicholas Meyer directed Time After Time. Time After Time stars Malcolm McDowell and David Warner as H. G. Wells and Jack the Ripper respectively. The film starts in London of 1893. H. ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Movie Review: Fistful of Dollars
2007-09-14 06:53:00 Fistful of Dollars, the first of the “Man with No Name” trilogy and the film that popularized what came to be known as the “Spaghetti Western ” lives up to its legacy. From the opening scene with the Man with No Name riding into San Miguel to the bloody ending the film is incredible. San Miguel ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Clint Eastwood , Review
Sell your mother to see
2007-09-14 03:28:00 You know you’d want to see it. More About: Mother , Sell
Focus
2007-09-14 01:20:00 So I been a thinkin’ that this blog is pretty all over the place most of the time. And there is good reason for that. I can be pretty all over the place. That all over the placedness works for personal blogs, but this isn’t really much of a personal blog, I don’t often use ... More About: Focus , Associated Content
Movie Review: 3:10 to Yuma
2007-09-10 04:05:00 3:10 to Yuma is the first western I’ve gone to see in the theater in quite awhile. Actually, at the moment I’m having a really hard time remembering the last western I saw in a theater. It may have been 2003’s The Missing. Anyway, it has been awhile since I sat down in a theater ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Russell Crowe
I Love Television: Discovering Shows with Netflix and iTunes
2007-09-08 20:01:00 Now that we’re off of Satellite/Cable and using the new Apple TV and my Netflix subscription for much of our television related entertainment I have started enjoying some TV shows I never really watched before, some newer shows and some older shows. One of the first things I downloaded off of iTunes when we got the ... More About: Television , Love , Itunes , Levis
A sad commentary on our society
2007-09-07 19:28:00 From Avoiding Kids: How Men Cope With Being Cast as Predators: These days, if Rian Romoli accidentally bumps into a child, he quickly raises his hands above his shoulders. “I don’t want to give even the slightest indication that any inadvertent touching occurred,” says Mr. Romoli, an economist in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. Ted Wallis, a doctor ... More About: Society , Commentary
New iPod Erection
2007-09-05 23:47:00 So, I got up this morning and almost immediately tried to hunt down a way to find out what was going on at Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” event. I ended up on Gizmodo and shinyshiny.tv. I was pretty constantly hitting the refresh button while mopping up drool as the new iPods were announced and ... More About: Ipod , Erection , Rect
One of those WTF moments
2007-08-30 21:11:00 What the fuck? First it was Dodgeball was unacceptable, now: School Bans Tag After Parents Complain. What the fuck? Seriously? Tag? TAG? In 15 years you know what games kids will be playing at school? None, because teachers and parents want to avoid kids feeling bad because of the competitive nature of games. Instead kids will ... More About: Moments
Doom!
2007-08-24 22:23:00 Ever play Doom ? I used to play it for hours on end. I don’t know that I actually finished it. I would just play through levels and blow stuff up, because I enjoy that sort of thing. That was a damn fun game. Simple straight forward blow shit up. Anyway this guy apparently has taken ... More About: Video Games
Writing for Money
2007-08-13 20:52:00 Writing for money isn’t something I do very often as most of the opportunities out there are either just out of my grasp or seem dubious … still I tried Associated Content last week out of curiosity. I wrote two articles, one was a review of the Warren Ellis novel Crooked Little Vein, apparently they ... More About: Writing , Money
Uncle Sean Saves Democracy
2007-08-11 00:29:00 You should go read Uncle Sean ’s participation in the YouTube Democratic Candidates debate, Uncle Sean is one step closer to saving this country from itself. Yes, you should read the whole thing, Uncle Sean is very insightful. More About: Politics , Democracy , Aves
links for 2007-08-06
2007-08-06 11:20:00 Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child - Yahoo! News (tags: research crazy) The Duggars : Discovery Health’s The Duggars I so desperately want to meet a woman who has spent over a quarter of her life pregnant. (tags: crazy research) The Girls Next Door - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: research) Hugh Hefner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: research) Battle of Baghdad (2003) - ... More About: Links
Apple TV
2007-08-02 05:58:00 So, at the beginning of July I was sitting in front of my computer purchasing some television program or another off of iTunes. I don’t remember which program exactly but one I wasn’t watching via my Satellite service for whatever reason. I thought to myself: “gee this buying TV shows on iTunes deal is pretty ... More About: Apple
Harry Who?
2007-07-20 08:56:00 Warren Ellis, who in the last year has quickly become one of my favorite writers, has his first novel, Crooked Little Vein, coming out on the 24th. I read the first chapter, and what’s not to love there? Burned-out detective gets hired by the Government to find the lost secret second constitution of the United ... More About: Harry
Transform into a Phoenix to Live Free of Die Hard (3 movie reviews)
2007-07-14 22:57:00 I’ve been meaning to write up a couple of these for a few weeks now, but my last couple of weeks have been busy and stressful. So, here are my reviews for Die Hard, Transformers, and Harry Potter. Live Free or Die Hard I really wanted to like this movie. I love the Die Hard franchise. The ... More About: Movie , Reviews , Movie Reviews , Phoenix
Teachers
2007-06-30 02:16:00 Dig this clip Rob posted. I tend to get into arguments a lot about teachers. Not for the reason you’re probably thinking. I tend to argue against the people who talk about how great teachers are and how they don’t get paid enough and they put in so much work etc. etc. etc. To be ... More About: Teachers , Teac
Why I?m not getting an iPhone
2007-06-29 19:15:00 Man … the iPhone looks fucking cool, doesn’t it? According to the internets (which hasn’t lied to me yet) the iPhone goes on sale today. I won’t be getting one. Not because I don’t want one. Oh no … I want one. Damn, do I want one. No, I’m not going to get it, because: It’s ... More About: Iphone
24 Years 24 Movies: The Greatest Films of All Time
2007-06-26 04:01:00 I like this idea from from D. H. Schleicher’s blog. It appears to be using your age as the number of movies you get for your list. I think that’s clever. So, I’m going to just rip it off (as we all know, blatantly ripping off other people’s good ideas is the sincerest form of ... More About: Movies , Films , Time , Years , Year
Sue the Bushes, RIAA
2007-06-21 21:36:00 Boing Boing: Lawyer to RIAA: Sue the First Twins for copyright violations! I have to say this is probably the best thing that could have happened when it comes to challenging the legitimacy of the RIAA’s litigious lawyers. The Bus h twins (daughters of the President) “violated copyright” by making dear old dad a mix CD. So, ... More About: Riaa
Ummmm ?
2007-06-18 18:46:00 So … I was reading through some posts on The Beat, and as I was reading this one I happened to glance over at this cover for The Flash: Now, I don’t follow The Flash. As great as I’m sure Bart Allen and Wally West are, Barry Allen is the only Flash I want to read. ...
I hate politics: Seriously, I fucking hate politics
2007-06-18 10:51:00 So, I picked up Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 again today. In case I haven’t told you, the way I read is if I don’t finish it in a week I will probably pick it up in six months or so, finish 50-100 pages, then put it down for another six months. ... More About: Politics , Bush , Republican , Hate , Fucking
Internets Therapy
2007-06-16 23:26:00 I stumbled upon Mix Tape Thera py : You bitch. I mix. Problem solved a month or more back when she had a delightful assessment of Paris Hilton’s dysfunction. She’s funny, and though I’m sure I have or will disagreed with her on something she also seems to have a good handle on dissemination of the advice. ... More About: Intern , Erap
Fantastic Four 2 Review
2007-06-15 20:24:00 Last night my friend Sam and I went to the midnight showing of Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer. Sam and I are both quite fond of the Fantastic Four. A dysfunctional group of super-powered being saving the planet every month isn’t really all that unique in comic books, but the Fantastic Four are ... More About: Review , Galactus , Fantastic Four 2
I just couldn?t stop myself ?
More articles from this author:2007-06-15 03:17:00 Hate & Incontinence on the Campaign Trail: Uncle Sean for President 2008 More About: Stop 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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