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It'll Blap In Your Face
Watching Idris Elba in "Luther" and his character is warning somebody about messing with love, saying, "it'll blow up in your face."
But with his accent, it sounds like, "it'll blap in your face."
Come to think of it, I think I've had my face blapped in, once or twice. -
A trip to the Book Mines
Longtime correspondents may remember that back in 2001 when I was laid off from a relatively well-paying job, I was renting a whole house, and my possessions had expanded to fill just about every corner. After a year of not being able to find a new job in the area, I started packing. I got lots of boxes designed to hold LPs, CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs ( Read more... ) -
I wonder if the show "Hannibal" will have a musical episode ...
It's such a weird and self-consciously stylized show.
But it is helping pry loose the character of Hannibal Lechter from Anthony Hopkins' grasp on it. I always preferred Brian Cox' depiction, back in the movie Manhunter. Now, there was a movie with almost the opposite type of stylization. -
I guess the change jar is safe for the moment, after all.
Getting laid off so suddenly really wrong-footed me, at a point in the year where I had the least money to spare. So, the past couple weeks I've been stretching out the yummier stuff in my freezer, and mostly consuming oatmeal, ramen and rice while waiting to see if the State was willing to pay unemployment. I was about two days away from cashing ( Read more... ) -
TV ad cliche I've seen enough of
The trick where you start with one person standing there and another person steps out from behind that person, and then more people step out from behind them?
I've reached my quota of seeing that, thanks. Please take it somewhere else.
And take the CGI talking pigs with it. -
I have become ... a destroyer of world ...
To reclaim seventy meg of space on my web server, I've clobbered the remaining files for Ellowen, a world I came up for an Amber game which ran on Dreamlyrics under the tag AEA ( Read more... ) -
In the old "One guardian always tells the truth and the other always lies" story ...
Can you imagine the recruitment process for the lying guardian?
Can you imagine the job interview? -
I want a DVD player remote control designed by dyslexics.
Mostly, I want a button labelled "Subtleties." -
Just saw last year's "Amazing Spider-Man'
"Amazing" is quite a stretch ( Read more... )