So if you're like me, you've long seen MTV as a herald of the end of the world. Programming like The Hills (and yes, I enjoyed Laguna Beach, so I'm a hypocrite) and My Super Sweet 16 clearly signal the downfall of western civilization, even if Made and Punk'd can be kind of entertaining (if you haven't seen it, search for the Elijah Wood Punk'd on ( Read more... )

So I'm watching The Soup, and there's a clip of Anderson Cooper on Live with Regis and Kelly, talking about how utterly horrible Living Lohan (the reality show about Lindsay Lohan's horrible mother and unfortunate, pushed-into-show-biz sister) is. He's really ripping into the show, claiming that people would only watch it hoping that Lindsay Lohan ( Read more... )

Just as an FYI here, I will be a little bit angry with anyone who goes to see Watchmen: The Movie without having first read Watchmen. Not really angry, mind you, but you know how the book is (almost) always better than the movie based on it? With Watchmen, a lot of what made it so amazing was the way Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons used the actual ( Read more... )

I spent like $550 on my car today. It hadn't been serviced in about a year, so I was plannin to take it in anyway, but between the headlight I've been missing for a while and the ignition problems I've been having lately, the timing became a little more immediate then I had planned on. Wound up needing a few parts replaced, so the bill was about $ ( Read more... )

Today was the final day of a six day work week. It was also the only day out of the six that I worked fewer than nine hours in a day. Basically we had two three-day events that overlapped and rolled into each other. I was heavily involved in the first of those events, and less heavily involved (but still involved) in the second ( Read more... )

I saw The Incredible Hulk last night. It was okay, maybe a little disappointing, but certainly not terrible. I think it mainly suffered under the weight of Iron Man. Iron Man, if you didn't know, marked the beginning of a new era in Marvel film adaptations. Basically, Marvel bought back the rights to all of their characters from various film ( Read more... )

So it's been a frustrating couple of days. Stuff at work (usual insane coworker related stuff, nothing very interesting), trying to move (the people who run the apartment complex I'm moving into aren't especially competent), stuff at work (I keep running out of time to do stuff, and today I had to come in an hour earlier than I thought at the drop ( Read more... )

Woke up. Went to new apartment complex. Signed lease in spite of property manager's incompetence ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen Iron Man yet, you should. And you should stay through the end of the credits, if you're a Marvel Zombie and you want to see something that will make you wet your pants with joy. Also, best Stan Lee cameo in a while.

So I got mail from the Florida Department of Corrections the other day. Apparently the Korean War veteran who robbed me at knife-point in Tampa has been released on parole. They're legally obligated to inform me; also, a condition of his parole is that he is to have no contact with me, so I now have his P.O.'s contact info. Since generally people ( Read more... )