According the the A.V. Club article I read in the latest issue of The Onion, that is apparently the four words warning all future viewers of X3 that there might be something to fear in the quality of the upcoming movie. But then I got to thinking: why? Brett Ratner, before helming the latest X-Men movie, did three movies: Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, ( Read more... )

Back from Italy, which was fun yet border just on the right side of "too long". I was ready to be home by the end, so naturally it was extended another day thanks to frlying standby on a full flight ( Read more... )

Tired today. Something I'm used to, I'm afraid, as it happens almost every weekend that I work the overnight shift. That is because of my perverse need to spend time with my wife. I reason that I'm still young so a couple of nights of 3-4 hours sleep is nothin'. I usually change my mind about that right around, well, now. I'm doing the head- ( Read more... )

That's right. First post in month's and it's to say I'm leaving. On a fifty minute plane trip. On the world's smallest airplane ( Read more... )

No, that is not the start of a bad joke. It's actually my best description of two Italian business men we saw of the train from Paris to the airport at the end of our vacation. The dude facing us was the spitting image of Dustin Hoffman. The guy facing away from us sounded like an Italian-speaking version of the bounty hunter who somehow managed ( Read more... )

I just finished a "new" novel by Robert Heinlein, which I'll get into in a second. First, I wanted to take a moment and talk about supposedly new material by authors/artists that are long dead. It happens in music (Tupac's career has never been better with all the "new" material coming out in that last few years) and it happens in books. But I ( Read more... )

I'm not sure that word games with old, bad sitcoms is right, but I'm sure it's better than quoting Mariah Carey songs, right Doomkitty ( Read more... )

I write fanfiction. This likely does not surprise a single person on my friends list as I know most of you from other online forums and such. However, aside from a few people, most of my offline friends don't know this. I'm not ashamed of it. Far from it. My frickin' web page has my name plastered on the top of it and is the first thing that ( Read more... )

I watched two episodes of "The Office" today that were languishing on my DVR. I've never seen the British version, which I hear is really really good, but from what I've heard from people that *have* seen both, the US version at least does it justice. I'm a big fan of Steve Carrell either way, so I would have been willing to give the show a ( Read more... )

Before coming into work tonight, I took a rather involuntary nap, one of those half-hour jobs that are oddly refreshing. It was a little weird because I kept mentally writing a story while I was doing it. I don't even remember dreams usually, so it seemed odd to me. I remember some of what I "wrote" and I certainly remember thinking about how ( Read more... )