January 2005
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Health Care For Kids
Since November, John Kerry has continued to maintain his website at johnkerry.com as a platform to continue ad...
[Jan 31, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
Highlander in 25 Words or Less
It's appalling how off-base my 15-year-old memories of this are compared to the fact of it. Not without merit,...
[Jan 30, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 1 comments]
Shakespeare in Love in 25 Words or Less
Essentially flawless in its conceit's execution, plus exceptional comic writing and performance, plus a thousa...
[Jan 30, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
First Anniversary Celebration
Decipher is celebrating the one-year anniversary of closing the doors on the RPG division and laying us all (e...
[Jan 28, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Page Sixty Meltdown
Sometime earlier this week I hit page 60 of the first draft of the Vehm script. For the non-scripty, this amou...
[Jan 28, Filed under Blog, 3 comments]
TextWrangler
TextWrangler (text editor)...
[Jan 27, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (animated flash music video)...
[Jan 26, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Derailment
The nine-fatality (so far) derailment of a pair of commuter trains in Glendale this morning happened just a fe...
[Jan 26, Filed under Blog, 11 comments]
Google Video
Google Video appears to be a new beta offering from Google that lets you search the closed captioning text of ...
[Jan 26, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
The Outside Smells Like Toilet Paper
I remember this happening last year, too: For a couple of weeks, the neighborhood smells like a toilet paper f...
[Jan 25, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
"Unencumbered"
Tom Toles on Social Security today on washingtonpost.com....
[Jan 25, Filed under Blog, 5 comments]
Despair, Inc.
Despair, Inc. (web store)...
[Jan 24, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Excuse Me, Do You See The Out-of-doors In Here Anywhere?
This morning while I was working on the Vehm script, I wrote the slug "INT. OUTDOOR CAFE" entirely legitimatel...
[Jan 21, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
The First Annual TMN Tournament of Books
The Morning News has announced that they will run a "tournament of books," a marvelous idea whose arrival can ...
[Jan 21, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
When I Run the DMV, Things Will Be Different
I bought my new car (new to me, anyway) back in September. One of the forms I filled out at the dealership was...
[Jan 20, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Big Red Button
Big Red Button (gadget)...
[Jan 18, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
The Return of the King (Extended Edition) in 25 Words or Less
With all due respect to Tolkien ó and much is due ó the films surpass the novels when considering the "good story, w...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 3 comments]
The Two Towers (Extended Edition) in 25 Words or Less
Of the three, most improved by the extended cut. The accomplishment of Gollum is without equal, and will be fo...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 2 comments]
The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) in 25 Words or Less
Nearly impossible to find fault, especially in the extended edition, though this (of the three) is the least i...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 3 comments]
Sideways in 25 Words or Less
Perfectly sized, well-performed, smartly written. Very strong in almost every way that mattered to me. Loved G...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 1 comments]
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in 25 Words or Less
Not precisely my cuppa, but a style and approach I appreciate and enjoy, and am glad is not utterly shouted do...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 1 comments]
Million Dollar Baby in 25 Words or Less
A fine film that's nevertheless not quite as good as you've read, isn't a best picture, doesn't include any be...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
The Negotiator in 25 Words or Less
A film almost transcendentally successful at being what it wanted to be ó great news for the Die Hard set. Grade:...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Office Space in 25 Words or Less
Not filmmaking genius, but it transcends that by being profoundly about something so topical, important, and h...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 1 comments]
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 in 25 Words or Less
A small improvement, though not of the magnitude critics gave it credit for, and definitely not enough to warr...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 in 25 Words or Less
A good director smokes waaay too much of his own stash and some good producers enable him. (Though it's not en...
[Jan 17, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 2 comments]
North Shore
I've never seen North Shore, but I'll be tuning in tonight. This evening's episode ó the season finale, I'm told ...
[Jan 13, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Vegas, Baby
In April, barring a revision in the forward progress of time, I will turn 30. To commemorate the event, I'm go...
[Jan 12, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
iProduct
iProduct (product announcement)...
[Jan 12, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
"Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle"
Scroll down to the bottom of the product page; it's footnote #2....
[Jan 11, Filed under Blog, 4 comments]
Do you desire to feel satisfactory future morning?
Buy a spammer a thesaurus and they'll crack you up every time. Line feeds preserved, as God intended:Our recen...
[Jan 10, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Blue in the Face
Decipher has announced that they plan to release The Lord of the Rings RPG supplements again, beginning in Apr...
[Jan 10, Filed under Blog, 4 comments]
You Will Know You Are In Los Angeles If You Are Wet
That's it, I'm building an ark.
Last weekend it rained like a mother in SoCal. Early this morning it started ...
[Jan 7, Filed under Blog, 5 comments]
TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki (reusable non-linear personal web notebook)...
[Jan 4, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
It's 2005
You heard it here first....
[Jan 1, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]