The Oscars are over for another year. I’ll leave it to the critics, pundits, and armchair quarterbacks to debate what the whole Sean Penn/Jude Law thing was about. (And why didn’t Sean defend Tim Robbins too?) I’ll just say that the telecast this year sucked. If not for Chris Rock, it [...]
Entries from February 2005
Bruce Vilanch is Turning Over in His Grave
February 28th, 2005 · 4 Comments
Tags: Movies · Television
World of Ghosts
February 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments
My friend Bradley Skaught, musician/songwriter extraordinaire, late of Belle Da Gama, has released some new stray songs on his website. The first two songs, World of Ghosts and Ballad of Matt Herges, make it sound like the spirit of the late, great Elliott Smith has taken up residence in Bradley’s body. I hope [...]
Tags: Music
Some Things I Saw Today
February 24th, 2005 · Comments Off
In chronological order:
A plastic fork next to a prairie dog hole. Are prairie dogs the new raccoons? Or maybe they are learning to use our utensils. Or maybe someone is picnicking on prairie dogs.
A small but distressing article in the newspaper about the company I work for.
A really long piece of hair [...]
Tags: Personal
Whoa… Hell is Brown
February 21st, 2005 · 10 Comments
I’ve been to Hell and back, and it was a wild trip. I saw Constantine this weekend. The filmmakers did a good job with what they had, though it would’ve been much better if they had kept the character British (and played by Sting) as originally intended. There were enough nods to [...]
Tags: Comic Books & Strips · Movies
Metapost: Upgrade Complete
February 19th, 2005 · 3 Comments
I like this! As you can see, I’ve successfully upgraded to Wordpress 1.5. This new Kubrick template, which is the default for 1.5, looks better than the old classic one. And I was able to tweak the colors pretty easily (blue to green), so at least this will stand out a bit from [...]
Tags: General
Metapost: Site Upgrade
February 18th, 2005 · Comments Off
I plan on upgrading to WordPress 1.5 (from 1.2) sometime this weekend, so don’t be surprised if the site looks weird or is temporarily unaccessible…
Latre.
Tags: General