Entries Categorized as 'Art'

No original content today. Maybe in August.

Date July 22, 2008

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.From Fimoculous.

The Dark Knight Kind of Reviewed

Date July 20, 2008

Disjointed Batman thoughts (with tons of spoilers) after the jump. To be clear, I talk about lots of stuff that happened in the movie, so if you haven’t seen it yet and want to be surprised, do not read the rest of this.

Nobody cares about my other posts, however.

Date July 15, 2008

After I take the bar, maybe I’ll have time for posts based on something other than my site visitor logs (or cut-and-pasting from someone else’s blog). Until then…I’ve been thinking about my most popular posts, in terms of hits (most coming from web search sites). The common thread is that Googlers really want to know [...]

I’m pretty upset they omitted Starship Troopers.

Date July 15, 2008

Hey, Common Sense Dancing did it again. EW has another list up, of “the New Classics”—movies of the last 25 years. The ones I’ve seen are in bold, the ones I’ve seen and loathed are in bold/italics (spoiler alert: the movies I hated are Hoop Dreams, Drugstore Cowboy, and Napoleon Dynamite). Enjoy this fascinatingself-indulgent look [...]

100 best reads of the past 25 years

Date July 8, 2008

What I’ve read in bold (the one I hated in bold italics). This is a pretty pathetic showing, but I’ve been busy lately. I hope to get to a number of these soon—or at least see the movie version!

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. [...]

A complaint about HD channels

Date June 25, 2008

Dear Television People:

When you air a standard definition (“SD”) program on your lovely high definition (“HD”) channel, please do me a big favor. Do not stretch it out to fit the screen. Just give it to me in SD, and let me decide what to do with it.

The biggest perpetrators of this horrific mistake (big [...]

Calling all Futurama nerds!

Date June 18, 2008

Billy West, voice of Fry, the Professor, Dr. Zoidberg, and probably the Hypnotoad, has a weird interview at the Onion’s A.V. Club (warning—some salty language there!). It includes audio clips. Whatever, Billy West rules.

I’ve been watching this over and over and over again.

Date June 16, 2008

And it gets more amusing every time.