What am I to make of the cable television landscape just before midnight when "The Fog", starring Hal Holbrook, is on simultaneously with "The Star Chamber", with Hal Holbrook? Further, what am I to do when "The Fog", directed by John Carpenter, is also on against "Escape From New York" by John Carpenter and featuring Adrienne Barbeau, who is also ( Read more... )

Season Three begins on Sunday night. And The Venture Brothers is one of the funniest shows on television. Ever. Don't believe me? Watch:

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And if you still aren't impressed, you are a soulless douche. Anyway, this is good news in the world of me.

Semi-annual teeth cleaning/checkup/x-rays today. Clean bill of health, thanks for asking ( Read more... )

I have been a king hell Indiana Jones dork since I was ten years old. Which is why it pains me to say that the fourth installment, some nineteen years in the making, fell just a bit short in the delivery. Which is not to say that it is not a good and fun time at the picture show, do not misunderstand me. It is simply to say that almost two ( Read more... )

What really makes me agree with her is the "American" shirt. And the fact that she looks like she is hissing at people. I dare anyone to Photoshop this with a new caption. Mine would replace "English" with "LOVE", and then I would correct the spelling of offical (double underline!).

Good day.


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I have had something almost exactly like the following conversation with friends on several occasions. If I wasn't going to go see "Tropic Thunder" before, I am now after reading this in an interview with Robert Downey, Jr in the May GQ ( Read more... )

I should know better by now. Each morning I roll out of bed and brew my coffee. When I have taken that first sip of deliciousness, when that caffeine pulls me out of my morning torpor, I get on the old internet and read the news. I am not speaking of CNN or FOX or any of the major networks who give us the same pabulum on a daily basis. I go ( Read more... )

I took ten days off from work for my birthday this year. I am not actually going anywhere. I am just not going to work. It has been quite nice and I have not done a damn thing, truthfully. I'm like a Rockefeller, only I have no bags of cash to spend frivolously. And I have to do my own laundry. And I replaced a busted toilet seat. Sadly, ( Read more... )

Anyone out there ever read any Chuck Palahniuk? If you haven't, well, fuck you then.

I had never heard of the man until the movie Fight Club came out. While the book was solid, it left me a bit iffy after the balls-to-the-wall visceral nature of the film. But ever the eager reader, I plowed on. Invisible Monsters, which he wrote prior to Fight ( Read more... )

Now that all the "crazies" have dropped out of the race for President of the United States of America the field is thinned to three candidates ( Read more... )