I've been grabbing episodes of Freddy's Nightmares off of Chiller via my DVR and I finally got around to watching some of it yesterday afternoon. Frankly, there's nothing remarkable about this series other than it somehow managed to stay on the air for two years. If you stumble across it, probably the only episode worth watching is the first one; ( Read more... )

Just to add another yank to the Scrubs circle-jerk:

Today is Zach Braff's birthday.

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I took the Guitar Hero 2 plunge and bought the XBox 360 version. It'll all come full circle when I unlock the lone Rush song. More to the point, the achievements in the game are really, really great:

Also: Downloadable music in the near future. That's pretty hot.

An actual conversation I had with an IT help desk phone rep today:

Me: That's "X" as in "Xavier," right?
Silence
Just a touch more silence
Phone Rep: "X" as in "X-ray."

Apparently I was on the phone with Webster's great, great granddaughter.

It's only Tuesday and things are already really exciting. Did you ever occasionally wonder if God really is there, and if so, you were being used as the punchline to the joke he's currently telling in some cosmic bar?

They came, they saw, they were remarkably in character.

In short, TMNT was everything I hoped it'd be. It was a little bittersweet not seeing them go up against Shredder, but staying true to the gospel of Vanilla Ice, he's gone...for now. I was really hoping that they'd never catch the 13th monster, and it'd turn out to be Krang hiding in a shadow ( Read more... )

You honestly, truly wouldn't know it from the previews, commercials or hell, even the poster, but Meet the Robinsons is actually a pretty good way to kill about 90 minutes. In short, it's a movie that was about something, then became one of the first and certainly not the last to go under John Lasseter's knife. Reports vary, but it's widely ( Read more... )

No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine,
He's haunted by something he cannot define.
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse,
Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force.

General reminder to Chris, Ant, et al:
I'll be in NY for the impending anniversary of my birth from Wednesday through Saturday. Friday's the best day for me to head ( Read more... )

When this commercial first aired, I didn't have the convenience of a DVR or awesome online video sites to prove what my gut was telling me.


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