Year: 2010
February 26: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but soldiers in gas masks have your town surrounded and will shoot on sight if you try to leave. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
screencap Friday– oops, Saturday: what the flick? #112
Friday Saturday fun! (I totally forgot to post this yesterday — sorry!) Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming … more…
John Barrowman serenades the Doctor, an Icelandic blockbuster, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ a disaster?, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
watch it: the 2/27/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Obviously, the Olympics with its international competition and accompanying bragging rights is a kind of ritualized war. Here’s an idea: Could we perhaps actually replace war with the Olympics alone? I mean, if two countries have a beef over, say, natural resources or territorial rights, does it really make any less sense to leave the … more…
question of the weekend: Fortune cookies: what the hell?
Last night I was the recipient of the downright weirdest fortune out of a faux Chinese cookie ever: “Maybe you can go to the moon in the next century.” Or it might have been “Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century.” I thought I’d saved it, but now I can’t find … more…
watch it: “After The Rapture Pet Care Introduction”
It’s the first cat (and dog and parrot and ferret) video of the End Times: Stupid God, won’t let our pets be raptured! But will you really trust a heathen atheist unsaved pagan — or even an unraptured Christian (they must have done something wrong) — to look after Mr. Snuggles after you’ve been transported … more…
The Crazies (review)
Surprisingly thoughtful — yet not quite thoughtful enough…
trailer break: ‘Remember Me’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really? Should we just write, right here, the scene at the end of the second act in which Emilie de Ravin discovers that Robert Pattinson was arrested by her father and she’s heartbroken because it means that he was only using her to get to her dad, … more…
question of the day: Who should get paid $38 million to be a judge on ‘American Idol’?
I don’t pretend to understand why audiences find the modern Gong Show freak show American Idol so enthralling, so I don’t even know where to begin thinking about this bit of news. According to a scoop at Deadline Hollywood, the rumor that Howard Stern would be replacing Simon Cowell as a judge on that show … more…
