trailer break: ‘Whiteout’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Such a gloriously cheesy trailer! Forget 30 days of night — it’s about to be six months of night in Antarctica… and a killer is on the loose! And Kate Beckinsale takes showers in sexy steamy bathrooms! rawr! I can almost hear the ominous voiceover ominously announcing: … more…

retro trailer: ‘The Long Ranger’

Take a look back at an old trailer… Clayton Moore’s Long Ranger… in color! I was writing something the other day (about the use of classical music by movies and TV; I’ll post it soon) and it occurred to me that the Long Ranger is a character we haven’t seen much of in pop culture … more…

getting ready to move to Movable Type 4

I’ve spent most of the day today working on reimplementing the site design in Movable Type 4, which is so dramatically different from MT 3 that there’s no point in migrating to the newer version if you don’t reimplement a site’s design to take advantage of all those cool new features. But it’s a major … more…