Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Hot tip for teens: when you have a psychic hunch that going to the DMV on the Friday before a bank holiday is a terrible idea and that it will be like a cliche’d joke done by a comedian who calls himself “The Laugh Man” about how long the wait is at the DMV, FOLLOW [...]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
New York Magazine’s Vulture Blog has been doing lots of coverage of J.J. Abram’s top secret Dogma film about a thing that hates the Statue of Liberty, and today they posted this image, taken from an alternate gaming fan forum (I write what I’m told, babies):
(Oh, and by the way, this is a movie [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The theme of last night’s Ritalin Readings (which was so awesome, and good job team) was “Christmas.” So naturally, I did a google search for “Christmas in Heaven.” Because I wanted to see what was up with that. Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, depending on your feelings towards Jesus, there were A MILLION HITS. Most of [...]
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Which of these people is a 17-year-old hacker who figured out how to unlock the iPhone from AT&T’s proprietary licensing software, and which is a whale rider?
(HINT: don’t trust the iPhones!)
ANSWER: here.
So back in April, I saw this trailer:
If an infallible God created an infallible scientist who then created an infallible super-computer that then generated the “Worst Movie Accessible to the Human Mind Without Mechanically Deconstructing the Process of Assumed Free Will” it would be this movie. Also, nice face, Dane Cook. Your face is like [...]
Monday, August 27, 2007
Nicely done, Superbad. Even though your best joke happened in the first five minutes, you had plenty of well-deserved laffs (and one very overwrought and confusing menstrual blood joke that I think you could have done without, like, seriously, it took five minutes just to set it up, you guys, professional criticism free of charge, [...]
Friday, August 24, 2007
After avoiding Facebook for many moons because at the age of 45, a lot of the appeal of being able to network with people from high school and college on the internet is replaced by the appeal of alcohol and napping, I finally succumbed just because I wanted Lindsayism to shut up. Here is my [...]
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Last Friday’s game was a near total success, with the exception of it being an utter failure. But big “propers” to Weather Report for securing us 7th-row-behind-the-dugout seats, and big “propers” to Ti-1000 for never once mentioning how tired he must have been since the game did not start until 7pm. Also, big “propers” to [...]
Monday, August 20, 2007
I was doing some research on The Pick-Up Artist, mostly just to see how my most famous student was doing (so proud of you, Mystery), and also I saw this:
(VH1.com)
“Hey, hold on, I’m just going to turn the lights down, and let me just boot up some music videos on YouTube to set the mood”? [...]
Friday, August 17, 2007
There is a long article in the New York Times today about Mario Batali’s summer home in northern Michigan. I have a lot I could say about it, not least of which is the fact that of course Batali feels more comfortable vacationing in a part of the world where a big fatso with a [...]
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