According to Variety, Atlas Shrugged has started filming. But I don't think this is good news, for a few reasons:

1. It's based by a script from Brian Patrick O'Toole, who has never written anything I've heard of, and John Aglialoro, who has never written anything and has zero experience in the Entertainment Industry.

2. It's being directed by ( Read more... )

Quasi-related to my last post, but this is something I've been thinking about since watching Season 5 of Lost ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've posted, and I continue to be too busy doing work at work to post much. But I have time for some user-generated content, so I'll pose a question. (This was inspired by perich's post hereIf you could go back in time and give dating/romance advice to your 18ish-year-old self just as you were starting college, what would it be ( Read more... )

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We've been watching a lot of Netflix Instant Download on our Xbox, which is awesome when it works. But it only works about 75% of the time. The rest of the time, it will freeze up or declare the bandwidth is too low ( Read more... )

Thought of the day: I think the website People of Walmart should be renamed "I hate poor people." Although I suppose if it was more honestly named, douchebag hipsters might feel guilty about having contempt for those who would rather feed their children than buy $100 t-shirts from vintage boutiques ( Read more... )

The Academy has started to recognize how irrelevant they've become by continually nominating movies nobody cared about. Since they like money and wanted to trick more people into watching their wankfest, this year they pretended like they nominated more films to include some people had seen ( Read more... )

30,000,000 people were foolish enough to waste their Sunday evening watching a self-congratulatory wankfest where a bunch of people worship themselves for their belief that they're better than you. Ostensibly this was to determine the best movies of the year ( Read more... )

Arnold Kling give a more scientific explanation of something I've been arguing for the last ten years, which is that Macroeconomics is complete and utter B.S. Realizing this was one of the main reasons I left Econ grad school ( Read more... )

A crazed nutbag committed an act of suicide-terrorism against the IRS. He was a self-avowed communist who specifically talked about hating George W. Bush in his suicide note ( Read more... )