The first SIFF film I've seen this year is a pirate movie. No, not that Pirate movie. This was Medieval Pirates of the Baltic, as two buddies do their best to piss off the grandees of the Hanseatic League ( Read more... )

Yesterday was very nearly an object lesson in frustration as I spent entirely too much time that evening stressing out over the new edition of Apocalypse Now I bought. My Somewhat Questionable Blu-Ray player wanted nothing to do with it. Just before midnight I discovered the problem was the most questionable Blu-Ray feature of all, BD-Live. Turn ( Read more... )

Two words - "Beautifully stupid ( Read more... )

(Yesterday at 7:00 PM this was going to be "My Last 48 Hours." What can I say, I'm lazy).

Friday night I invited scarlettina to a neighborhood restaurant, Marcello Ristorante. In the years I've lived here, I've never been despite being a mere three blocks away. Well, my loss, because it's a very good (if a little pricey) Italian place with a rustic dining ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, we killed a guy on dialysis in a rich compound in Pakistan. That last bit is going to be a HUGE international embarrassment. But otherwise... shrugI'm not particularly sorry he's dead. But I see no reason to celebrate it with the same tacky enthusiasm they do with a Superbowl win. As far as good taste goes, this is down there with people ( Read more... )

So the LA Times recently published a short piece about the growth of e-book sales, based on a report by the Association of American Publishers, stating that e-books were now the top-selling book format.

Now, I love my Kindle, but I am worried about books. As I've mentioned before, I don't think there's a direct correlation between digital music ( Read more... )

(No one can accuse me of starting small....)

So I was thinking about the nature of reality on the way in on the bus this morning, and our perception of it. A lot of this was spurred by the Bad Hobbits book I've started reading, Blindsight by Peter Watts, and I was also thinking of a conversation I had with my friend J. about the notion of God, the ( Read more... )

There's a lot people afraid of digital books, because people look at music and think "Oh my god, it's the end of books ( Read more... )

At a friend's request. They're too long to go in a facebook post ( Read more... )

Ok, no, I haven't posted in a while. This was because of two competing obsessions ( Read more... )