...as the crowd gives him confused looks. Give 'em Hell, Malone is one of a series of noirish crime flicks starring Thomas Jane (see also: Killshot, The Dark Country) and all made since his last major theatrical release (The Mist in 2007). Poor Tom.
( Come sail away... )

Idle experimentation from last night when I got the bug. If I continue it, I suspect the plumber will enjoy a similar fate to John Hammond in Jurassic Park (novel, not movie).The plumber worked his jaw as the withdrawal drove needles into the joint. His hands shook. All across the grassy landscape, he saw plants sprouting from old pipes, ( Read more... )

During the Blitz, a man known to my mother's side - he may have been an uncle or a friend or even my grandfather - was wandering the city (unknown) after a nighttime bombing raid. He passed a shop window, and this window, due to the pressures involved in high-intensity bombing, had popped out of the frame as a single pane of glass. The tumultuous ( Read more... )

The most number of nuclear detonations in a single site - worldwide - is 619 between 1949 and 1989 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Soviet Union ( Read more... )

Lonesome Guv
A Fistful of Sterling
For a Few Bob More
The Good, the Bad, and the Cockney
Pale Everyone
Peak District Drifter
The Man From Snowdon
Blokeback Mountain

Wow.

Thinking about it, superheroes - notably Bruce "Batman" Wayne and Oliver "Green Arrow" Queen - are socialists, funneling their massive fortunes into social service, against the tenets of the capitalist society that spawned them. Could this be why they hide their identities, because society resents them for showcasing the brutality of their ( Read more... )

Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, The Dogs of War, The People of Paper, Hemingway!, shirts, chocolate, booze, a router, and miscellany (I don't know; it just came up on Google Images).

The first line of each public post in each month for the past year.

January - There's a country song by (The?) Zac Brown Band called "Chicken Fried".
February - Lots going on.
March - Quick summary of the past month or so.
April - FUCK YES!
May - This is pretty sweet:
June - I'm thinking, if I get an MFA, of applying for writer positions with game ( Read more... )

For those of you keeping score, here are people confirmed in Sylvester Stallone's forthcoming The Expendables according to IMDb: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Danny Trejo.

For the ultimate in badass double-features, Robert Rodriguez's ( Read more... )