There's something very soothing about walking around the South Loop in the late afternoon on a gray, rainy day listening to Sweet Home Chicago.

Less than one week of school left. I still have to: write three (short) papers, watch several hours of new footage and incorporate it into the documentary I'm cutting, tighten up the short narrative piece I'm cutting, make minor adjustments to my two other doc projects from this semester, and then finally lay everything off to DVD. Oh yeah, and I ( Read more... )

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Men buying cards is somehow amusing. Generally when women come in looking for cards, they spend a solid 10-15 minutes browsing at our selection. Then they tend to buy three, four, five cards at a time. Men, on the other hand, come in, walk straight to the cards, select one in under 30 seconds, pay, and leave. They never want a bag, and they never ( Read more... )

Stupid lady loses $800. I'm pretty sure she has no clue how eBay works, and just heard you can make money by selling new things. And how did she get $16000? I hope she loses that on something stupid too.

Anyone have any good writer's block suggestions? That is, suggestions for how to get rid of it. I already have it, and I don't need any help getting more ( Read more... )

Holy crap, Ratatouille was amazing. I think it may be Pixar's best movie yet. It's amazing what a powerhouse of film talent they have. With perhaps an exception or two (Cars was only ok, and Bug's Life was good, but not great) their movies just keep getting better and better; the animation, the stories, the sound design, everything about those ( Read more... )

As if humanity didn't already have enough problems, now sharks are reproducing asexually. That or they're mating with sharks from other species. Either way we're basically screwed. There's two possible futures we now face, both terrifying and grim. Either sharks learn to walk on land or, and this would be far worse in my opinion, they skip land ( Read more... )

One of Julie's co-workers has a Netflix account, and he stays logged into it at work so he can add movies (or watch them, since you can do that on Netflix now) when there's nothing to do at work. Now, he's kind of annoying, and he's a Republican, so Julie decided to have some fun and mess with his queue. She wanted to add a bunch of movies that ( Read more... )