Who'd  imagine, LJ is still going!  Back after another  long hiatus. New  life, new job, same ambitions.  Hope you all behaved  in  my absence.

I have a secret dream. It's  not a nice  one, or a rational one. But  it's there and I want  it to come true ( Read more... )

Pre-Watchmen 'Cinematic  Works of Alan Moore' post.

Watchmen opens  up tomorrow  here, and dork that I am, I'll be right there to watch it. I  have greatly  mixed expectations regarding this  one: on the  one  hand, the visuals  look just right and the  lack of  big stars  meant to lure  in drooling fly-brained  teenies is an encouraging  sign. On ( Read more... )

Holy  Mitra.

I am perpetually amazed, though not really surprised, at how the GOP manages to call the shots with lavish abandon even when beaten at the  polls. I don't  know the  mechanics  of how they do it, but  it's a  political fact.  US liberals should be  making  plans to flee for Canada when the Dems whin, not when they lose.

They tossed ( Read more... )

I should give  my anti-social socialist  2 cents about the  Obama  election, about  wingnut  heads  melting and  libertarians threatening to "go John Galt". But I simply can't.

Because  of this.

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I couldn't stop fucking  laughing from the moment this showed up. As a  media  person myself, I can imagine  how embarrassing  it  must  have been for the ( Read more... )

Nothing Left to Wait For

I am immensely  partial to the  Metal Gear series. Metal Gear Solid was  perhaps the first game I played that convinced  me that  video games could go beyond being cool and actually mature  into works of  inspiration and..well, love. It was also the game that redeemed  voice acting for  me, after some titles (Resident Evil ( Read more... )

Amusing that the  moderator  pick was  seemingly aimed at  making McCain look spry.

On the  other  hand, the  last debate actually  had at  least a  passing brush with actual issues,  namely  health care. Also, women's  "health", as  it goes now.  If the hypnotic  approcal dial-lines  on CNN mean anything, both candidates are  going to win.  They ( Read more... )

 And so ends another  hiatus ( Read more... )

It wasn’t so bad, really.

I went in with expectations lower than a snake’s bunghole, mind you, but I honestly had a good time. I don’t know what bug crawled up most critics asses to pan this with the same graveness as if they were reviewing the Directors Cut of ‘Downfall’.

There was much to like here and it made me hopeful for the TV series ( Read more... )

...shame  if anything  happened to it.

There's  been much ado about Obama's  Iraq  plan being  vindicated by Maliki's interview with Der Spiegel magazine. Aside from the epic lulz of watching  McCain and  the Washington Post trying the Jedi Mind Trick and stating that  just because  Maliki endorsed Barack's strategy by name it doesn't  mean that  ( Read more... )