To assist brother blogger Jaybird, I’m offering this (without an edit cycle) to entertain you, the gentle reader on an otherwise slow Thursday. In my welcome post I listed movies from 1971 to 2008 that I found of interest to… Continue Reading
Maribou is flying out of town for a week and a half tomorrow morning at “holy crap, you’re kidding” and I’ve spent most of tonight helping her get ready. As such, I don’t have an essay. Instead, here is Robot… Continue Reading
There is no indication that Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will be coming to Blu-Ray anytime soon, according to my (weak) Google-fu. As this movie would show up, like, three times in any given one of my “Awesome Movies” lists,… Continue Reading
In the comments to last Wednesday’s post, RTod mentioned Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah as another song that has a double boatload of folks covering it… but, he pointed out, they pretty much all sound the same. I agree with him. My… Continue Reading
If you read any given book on astrology or numerology or whateverology, you’ll note a little tiny pattern when it comes to discussions of personality types associated with whatever little random trait: broad/vague flattery. Any given Sun Sign is, of… Continue Reading
Or the complete lack of it, anyway. I considered calling this post !Irony but that irritated me as soon as it came to mind. In any case, this post contains spoilers and a review of Sucker Punch. Short version: it… Continue Reading
So… what are you reading and/or watching? I’m watching Sucker Punch. It’s… weird. I think I’m going to have to review it in order to process it.
So… what are you playing? I hope (I *HOPE*) that I’m only going into work for an hour or three which will allow me to come home and get into Aliens vs. Predator at some point today. The original for… Continue Reading
As the regular readers (we have regular readers?) may know, I’ve signed up to co-blog over here at Mindless Diversions. I really should have a nice, pithy, smart, tight post ready to go for my O.P., but I’ve already done… Continue Reading
Way back in the days of the 16-bit Revolution, I would walk down to the four-way and rent games for my Sega system. One of the ones I stumbled across was a cartridge called “King’s Bounty”. It had a instruction… Continue Reading