Well, I ended up taking Greyhound to and from Atlanta. It wasn't as bad as I anticipated; only one major problem on the way back (arguing people; the bus driver pulled over, got up and bawled them out). Advice: if you ever take the bus, have an iPod or MP3 player with lots of books, to help you ignore the others, and a blindfold if you want to ( Read more... )

Okay, guys, here's the problem. The All-Powerful Nateboi has been using a non-powerful way to get an "echo" into his voice: pointing his computer speakers against the wall and letting the bounced sound leak into his mike. Mind you, he's working on a Linux-based computer that obviously can't do anything with commercial software, so there's no way to ( Read more... )

I ran across this article, involving a secret held by the late Elizabeth Taylor, which was revealed only after her death. For decades, James Dean was the great, spooky, lonely teenage hero. Over the last few decades, it was known that Dean was gay. A lot of his wilder behavior, probably including the insane driving that took his life, has been ( Read more... )

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I’m hoping to write an entry once a week about Christmas; what I believe about it and what I see. Writing like all the other egotistical jerks out there on blogs is an uncomfortable thing for me, but it’s the only way I think I can address the matter of Christmas. First up: Black Friday, and why it’s the last bit of “Christmas cheer” the ( Read more... )

I'd rather talk about Casadega. That's the village full of fortune tellers, psychics and mystics that's between Orlando and Daytona Beach. The town slogan there is "Casadega. We know you're here ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I have mentioned Chris Ceraolo. Some of you know that she was the long-time head of VIP Registration for Dragon*Con. Some knew her as a VIP Tour Guide at Universal Orlando, who apparently was close to becoming a supervisor of the department. And a few of you knew that for almost two years she was battling ovarian cancer.

She lost this ( Read more... )

I don't know if you visited it before, but Film Threat used to be fantastic. It was a place that reviewed mainstream and independent films. Once a print magazine run by, of all weird owners, Hustler's Larry Flynt, it was taken back by its writers and made into a web site. Its virtue was that it was the polar opposite of People Magazine; it wasn't ( Read more... )