Gakked from Loa - which sounds like an arty sci-fi flick from Eastern Europe, circa 1969.

Bold means I've seen it.

100. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
099. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984)
098. Primer (2004)
097. The Thing (1982)
096. A Boy and His Dog (1975)
095. Dark Star (1974)
094. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
093 ( Read more... )

That's a sentence I thought I'd never be able to say. The nature of Cleveland sports is to break hearts in new and unexpected ways: hope may be the thing with feathers, but Cleveland sports fans know that things with feathers usually get plucked, roasted, and eaten - usually by teams from New York. So when Cleveland lost what should have been the ( Read more... )

I saw about two-thirds of the episodes during the course of the season, then caught up with the ones I'd missed by watching the marathon on Sci-Fi this past Saturday. I thought the show was a good, solid piece of entertainment. It didn't sweep me away, but it kept me interested, and managed a few special moments: Sylar's mom in the swirling snow ( Read more... )

From the annals of great headlines, courtesy of my friend Mark.

Proving that it is indeed hard out here for a pimp, the article goes on to say:BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Concert-goers, and even Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, were caught off-guard when a fight broke out on opening night at usually sedate Symphony Hall ( Read more... )

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times ( Read more... )

[This is a column written by Al Martinez and published recently in the Los Angeles Times. I remember seeing the subject of his piece, standing tall and proud, when I first moved here back in the early 1980s. Stuff like this is why I love LA, to coin a phrase ( Read more... )

Yesterday, one of my analysts showed me an Annual Evaluation given to an employee in our department. It contained the following sentence ( Read more... )

This was in the New York Times a week or two back ( Read more... )

'Mockingbird' Author Meets With Students ( Read more... )

I'm not an interventionist. I'm not an isolationist. One frustrating aspect of political discussion in America is the tendency for the media and political figures to act as though those are the only two possibilities when it comes to foreign affairs ( Read more... )