Bonus nachos, my children of the Reelvolution ( Read more... )

I love travelling, but I sometimes suspect that people may be right when they tell me that, much like my love of the hot sauce bar at Tiajuana Flats, it's a masochistic love ( Read more... )

Welcome, ladles and gentlespoons, chilled hens of all ages, to the newly-christened and totally-improved Reel of Fish. Tell me that's not a cool name. I'll call you a damned liar and glass you.

The brilliant title of my 51-part columnar opus came about as a result of a conversation with sagan_fox, who's always good for pinging ideas. vruba and pseudomammal took ( Read more... )

"For Godzilla was, even in its bowdlerized 'King of the Monsters' incarnation, an obvious -- gigantic, unsubtle, grimly purposeful -- metaphor for the atomic bomb." - New York Times drunken Irish film critic Terrence Rafferty, The Monster That Morphed Into a Metaphor“We all stand together to help each other and to help those who need our help in ( Read more... )

I'm a jack of all trades. In addition to gimmicky numbered posts that are basically just an excuse to write something puerile and impersonal and also to go to the movies and gorge myself on greasy corn and bubbly corn syrup every week, I also, as the title implies, do memes ("In, as you say, the mud ( Read more... )

With a new year dawning, I've realized that I have absolutely nothing of interest to say ( Read more... )

After an absurd amount of effort, I've managed to condense my huge oversized shelf full of densely packed DVDs into a single indexed, alphabetized box, glimmering with a futuristic aluminum glaze and the sweet lustre of obsessive compulsion.


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This schtick ganked in good faith from the_verb. Just start your MP3 player of preference in Shuffle mode and fill in the appropriate blanks. Bear in mind that cheating becomes obvious after a while, and if I was going to cheat, I'd have fit in Buck-O-Nine's "I'm The Man" somewhere.

OPENING CREDITS: Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss, "O Brother ( Read more... )

So, these days I'm working at Apple as a Mac Specialist. It's a dangerous and sexy trade. We get black shirts and a license to kill pre-conceptions about the OS. We work in tandems to make the world safe for the democracy of sleek little MP3 players. This is our world now ... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud ( ( Read more... )

So, in August, I saw some of my favorite people in the world on the lush green summer campus of the alma mater I revere in a city that I find unbearably beautiful, and spent the whole time commemorating the death of the first girl I loved ( Read more... )