admin | July 31, 2009
Slate.com on the de-fanging of the modern vampire I pretty much stopped reading vampire fiction when Anne Rice stopped being interesting. (As an author, at least. As a human being, she’s interesting.) But the trend that seems to have culminated in the whole Twilight phenomenon is about as far away from Bram Stoker as we [...]
admin | July 30, 2009
Empire counts down the Top Ten Movie Nerds I can’t disagree with any of their choices, but I think I would have found space for Anthony Michael Hall’s character from Sixteen Candles. And an honorable mention is surely due for Maury Chaykin and Eddie Deezen from WarGames. Any nerds you’d like to see on the [...]
admin | July 29, 2009
I’ve been noticing a trend in a lot of the movies I’ve watched over the past few years, and last night I was finally able to put a name to it. What disturbs me about this trend is that it seems to be specifically affecting female characters, and while crap writing for females is nothing [...]
admin | July 28, 2009
From SciFiPi – Jake Lloyd: Ten Years After TPM Evidently, we weren’t the only ones scarred by the experience. Bless his heart. What’s In My Head Today? (yes, it gets triggered just this easily) Yesterday’s quote was from Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Today’s quote – “Ten years ago, I didn’t believe in [...]
admin | July 27, 2009
I’m (very) slowly working my way through all the films nominated for Best Picture this past year. I still have Frost/Nixon and The Reader to get to, but I’ve seen the other three, including the winner, Slumdog Millionaire. It was cute and sweet (with occasional bouts of horrific violence and, one of Danny Boyle’s favorite [...]
admin | July 24, 2009
If Movie Characters Used Twitter …. Considering that some of the characters include Travis Bickle and Jules Winnfield, this may not be entirely SFW. It is highly amusing, though. What’s In My Head Today? (held over from last night) Today’s quote – “So, you’re a ravenous horde of flesh-eating zombies. What’s that like?”
admin | July 23, 2009
What’s In My Head Today? Rolling would also work. Yesterday’s quote was from Futurama. Today’s quote – “Build another one? Oh yeah, that’s real fucking original! And who’s gonna give me a loan, jackhole, you? You got an ATM in that torso Lite-Brite? Now get your 7-foot-2 asthmatic ass back here, or else I’ll tell [...]
admin | July 21, 2009
From EmpireOnline – 8 Blatantly Misleading Movie Posters I’d have to add the Hildebrandt original Star Wars poster to that list, in which Luke is heavily muscled and Leia is heavily, um, chested. What’s In My Head Today? (possibly not safe for coulrophobes) Yesterday’s quote was from Cover Girl. Today’s quote – “This title is [...]
admin | July 20, 2009
When the alarm went off this morning, I had a little debate with myself. I was sleepy enough to want to go back to it for at least another half hour, rather than the 9 minutes I and my snooze button typically allow myself. But no, I thought. I had slacked off on the exercise [...]
admin | July 19, 2009
They all are, for various reasons, but this post will focus on micehell, who not only bought me dinner last night, but also got me, as a belated birthday present, this awesome thing right here. Therefore, she is the awesomest thing ever in the whole world. But it occurs to me I’m being selfish. There’s [...]
