I think it’s always enlightening to peruse the wishlists of people you know. You learn a lot. Mine (though my wife has some items on it; all the psychology and decorating books are hers!) My art partner on Metro Med, Phil Meadows. Chris Arndt’s list. Alan Kistler doesn’t have one. Yet. I’ll post more as…
Chuck Dixon, master of weaponry
This weekend, I plowed through a huge pile of Green Arrow comics from Chuck Dixon’s run on the book. In one of the stories, a Japanese radical group prepares to use a suitcase nuke on an American military base in Japan. The leader recounts how these weapons were first created by the American military, and…
I got the basic minimum amount of flair
As a cube farm worker, I absolutely loved the movie “Office Space”. I bought the VHS tape and watched it again and again. That was back in 1999/2000…probably only a few months before my wife and I bought our first DVD player. I hated the idea of paying ANOTHER $15 for that DVD, so I…
FallCon 2005 recap
It took me three weeks due to vacation and illness…and prepping all the images, of which there are many…but here is my summary of FallCon 2005. Sorry it’s a bit late, but I think it’s worth it. FallCon is the annual October two-day convention held at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul, MN, by…
By the way, Today’s Halloween
Mark Steyn’s horror movie reviews come off as a bit whiney, though it would be hard not to whine when the subjects are “The Blair Witch Project,” “Interview With The Vampire,” “Wolf” and “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Especially “Blair Witch.” It’s fashionable to hate the movie now, but I hated it back before it was hip….
Let’s be careful out there
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) worm plays nasty new trick
I’m an authority now
John Britton points out that I was quoted in a legal journal.
Bruce Bachand misses golden opportunity
I saw that news item about George Takei and clicked over to Monitor Duty to begin my write-up, my mind culling Star Trek trivia for the appropriate headline. “Mr. Sulu, you have the Coming Out.” “Star Trek cast now even more diverse.” “Gold for command, red for security…what’s pink?” “When did Mr. Sulu find the…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a lawnmower…
See the flying lawnmower!
I’m a big gorilla, and I want a big serial!
King Kong might get renamed King Long. Peter Jackson has negoitated a 3 hour running time for the new King Kong. That means fewer showings a day for a movie that is now trying to make up for a $200 million budget. But I predict that this movie will be far more successfull than Spielberg’s…