"It's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can ( Read more... )

So this weekend, I came to the conclusion that I wanted a DSi. Actually, I came to this conclusion a couple of weeks ago, but could never justify the $200 price tag - that is, until I decided that, it having just been my birthday, I probably could justify it after all. So on Friday, I went into EB Games, drooled over one for a good ten minutes, ( Read more... )

Anyone who's ever had a conversation with me about Hollywood blockbuster movies for longer than ten minutes, they know that eventually the topic will turn to my absolute and utter hatred of M. Night Shyamalan and everything he stands for. I can't believe how many Shyamalan apologists there are - I'm sorry, but Unbreakable only LOOKS like a decent ( Read more... )

Life, lately, is good. Busy, occasionally hampered by the knowledge of deadlines fast approaching or unanticipated setbacks, but overall, it's been a productive and positive month ( Read more... )

Last night I got my hands on the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" workprint floating around the intertubes. If you aren't familiar with the concept of a workprint, it's essentially a screening-quality but unfinished print that is run off and circulated amongst executives in-studio, so that they can get some sense of how the film is going, the best angle ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's the onset of spring or the product of stress, but I seem to be going through something of a creative renaissance lately. I've been working on a few projects lately, and this week, amongst other things, I completed the first draft of a short story that I'm calling "The Doom That Came To Riverdale". As you can imagine, it's the ( Read more... )

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This has not been a fantastic month for me so far ( Read more... )

By now, you may or may not have heard about how crazy Robert Smith of The Cure is. Last week, he unleashed the crazy on the band's official blog (in typical all-caps style), essentially criticising the Radiohead "In Rainbows" business model as being all kinds of wrong because it allowed people to put a price on art, and that Radiohead somehow ( Read more... )

You know that one drawer in your house that's filled with random junk? A stapler, a broken porcelain cat, a deck of cards missing the Eight of Diamonds, the Two of Spades and a spattering of Jacks? Yeah, my entire apartment is that drawer. My roommates - well, Natalie, not Tim so much - horde CRAP and cannot bear to part with it. "I used that ( Read more... )