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  • Edward Woodward, RIP.
    It was announced on Monday that actor Edward Woodward died at home at the age of 79. Woodward is probably best known for his role as police sergeant Neil Howie in the movi
  • Piercings, watermelons in hydraulic presses, and Shakespearean zombies. Oh, my.
    Lyssa and I packed up our stuff and set out around 1100 EST5EDT on Saturday morning in the general direction of Rockville to Laurelinde's place, where we picked up Cate an
  • Pirates, pants, pets, Python, and Push.
    After many months of near misses and scheduling conflicts, Kyrin finally got Lyssa and I to join him for a Friday evening at Piratz Tavern (8402 Georgia Avenue; Silver Spr
  • Silly pictures.
    (Courtesy of TerminateYourself.com) This is an interesting bit of social engineering... murder, bloodshed, and Dennis Franz's bare ass on prime time television are fine a
  • Leonard Cohen, movies, and a busy life.
    Last Monday night Lyssa and I took to the DC Beltway in the middle of rush hour, cast caution to the wind, and set course for the Meriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland to
  • L: Change the World
    Last year I wrote about the theatrical release of the Death Note films in the United States for limited engagements. Much to my surprise, Viz Pictures is bringing the thir
  • Watchmen.
    Last night after work I grabbed a couple of hours of sleep before Lyssa, Mika, Hasufin, Joe, Kash, and I threw our circadian rhythms for a permanant loop by driving to Tys
  • Birthday weekend in review.
    Lyssa and I started off our Valentine's Day by getting up far earlier than should be allowed by law on a Saturday morning to go to our local H&R Block office to finish get
  • It's just as big as it needs to be.
    After running around for much of Friday night running errands (like exchanging a hard drive for a faster model) and getting to bed later than expected, Lyssa and I slept i
  • Merry Christmas, everyone (a couple of days late, but still..)
    The powers that be saw fit to give everyone at work an opportunity to go home four hours early on 24 December 2008, the better to go home and get ready for Christmas Eve.
  • Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
    Now that it's Thanksgiving Day and there's nothing to do until the turkey has finished roasting in the oven, I've got a chance to write about everything that's happened in
  • Seven million industrial songs can't be wrong.
    Who hasn't sampled The Exorcist 3 at least once for their music?
  • The week, not just the weekend in review.
    A couple of weeks ago, one of the trailers that was shown before the movie Iron Man was for a theatrical showing of the live-action movie based upon a popular manga and an
  • Title restored - so how did I spent my weekend, anyway?
    Unfortunately, I spent much of last Friday asleep, recovering after a routine filling went south and turned into an emergency root canal. I don't know what does it about t
  • Explosive post queue flush in three.. two.. one....
    As one might expect, it's been a busy couple of days (a week, really), which has kept me from being able to post anything. I got back from Philly around 1700 EST5EDT last
  • State of the Time Lord: I never could stay put for very long...
    I'm writing this update from Lyssa's parents' house once again - the holiday is here once again (however you happen to celebrate it), and this year we've gone back to visi
  • Somebody tell the Browncoats - there might be hope for a second Firefly movie.
    A recent interview with Alan Tudyk by Moviehole.net let slip an interesting piece of information, namely, that there was a pretty good chance that a sequel to Serenity wou
  • The Wachowski brothers are at it again, and it's going to be a doozy.
    The Wachowski brothers, who made their names in Hollywood with the Matrix trilogy, are bringing the classic anime Speed Racer to the silver screen as a live action movie w
  • Memorium, et al.
    See you next time, Crusher. Last night Lyssa, Orthaevelve, and I decided to go out to dinner to celebrate things looking up at work these days after work. It was something
  • Google APIs, movie remakes, and explosions.
    It seems that Google has changed its mind about one of their more famous open projects, namely, allowing web developers to use the SOAP protocol to pull data from their ne
  • I need a life.
    Last night, I watched Nightwatch again with Jean and Lyssa, and this came to me:
  • Still playing catchup: Daywatch
    About two Fridays ago, Lyssa and I hopped the Metro to go toward downtown DC to a little indie movie theatre on E Street, the one theatre in the area that is showing the m
  • Yeah, yeah, I know...
    I still have to write about the rest of Thresholds, going to see Daywatch, and on Sunday night going to The True Colors Tour to see the Dresden Dolls and Cyndi Lauper perf
  • They're going to try it again...
    Once again, the movie industry in the US is attempting to adapt William Gibson's novel Neuromancer to the silver screen. This was attempted once before, and all I need to
  • Traipsing around New England with a camera - a visit to the Mystic Seaport.
    Jean, Lyssa, and I got up early on Saturday morning to hit the highways and travel farther northward, to the Mystic Seaport on the coast of Connecticut for a day-long jaun
  • Browncoats, for the win!
    Science fiction and fantasy magazine SFX recently held a poll to determine what the top 10 sci-fi movies of all time were. The results were posted yesterday, and check thi
  • Jayne vs. Spike?
    A couple of years ago, the comic book community was abuzz with news that the character of Superman, the Man of Steel would be killed off. The event came and went, and of c
  • _Pattern Recognition_ is being made into a movie.
    A heads-up from Lowmagnet brought a slim ray of sunshine to an otherwise unpleasant day: The novel Pattern Recognition by William Gibson is being made into a movie, as of
  • Hyperreal cinema.
    By now we've all seen what Photoshop is capable of - just look at Worth 1000 for examples of things that just can't exist, and yet do have a strange sort of life on the sc
  • Merry Christmas, everyone.
    James Brown, requisat en pace When I get home, I'll play some good, old fashioned LA Style in your memory, because it was That Song, the first track of Best of Rave volume
  • "Burn me at the stake, and I will return with a new handle." -Anonymous BBS user, circa 1994
    Wow.. the most outspoken anti-homosexuality priests and preachers are falling from grace^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hin droves. This time the reverend Lonnie Latham of Oklahoma was
  • 65 degrees in January??
    It is now officially the middle of January - so why is it 65 degrees Farenheit and why are there people walking around in shorts and t-shirts? No, seriously, what gives? I

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