I met Bobby “Boris” Pickett in the mid-90′s, at a Famous Monsters of Movieland convention in Universal City, CA. We sat in the hotel bar for about an hour and talked about novelty music and old Universal monster movies. He thought the woman playing the piano in the bar was really cute. A couple of [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Since I’ve started this blog, I’ve been fascinated with some of the behind the scenes tools that it has, things that show me what articles people are clicking on most, what links they follow to get here, that sort of thing. The most interesting (to my mind, at least) is the list of search terms [...]
So, I saw Grindhouse last night. Liked it a lot, wonderful, weird little movie. Still not sure why they actually expected to make money on it, but that’s a topic for another time. The topic for today is lying. See, I spent some time reading various reviews online and one thing stuck out, and it’s [...]
My mind doesn’t work like most people’s. Over at The Smoking Gun, they’ve uncovered several ebay purchases by the Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui. It seems that he bought, well, 37 rubber duckies. All from an Illinois dealer who specializes in rubber duckies. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering why Cho purchased 37 [...]
My favorite writer of comics is making the jump to prose. His first novel, Crooked Little Vein, is due out this summer, and may be pre-ordered from Amazon by doing the clicky thing here. Warning: Not for the faint of heart. Ellis has been posting his research for this book on his site over the [...]
Something happened this week, in Virginia. Something terrible. I’ve spent several days trying to pull my thoughts together on the subject, because I felt that it had to be addressed. Otherwise it would just be sitting there, waiting, like that proverbial elephant. As always, the best place to start is with the facts. At about [...]
I seem to be getting a much larger than normal amount of traffic, and a quick look through the various management tools and stats that WordPress provides shows that the culprit is the post about Imus. It appears many people are actually googling the term “nappy headed hos”. Sigh. Sometimes I really wonder about people…….
If you had told me, back in January of 2000, that the kick ass action star of the next decade was going to be Keifer Sutherland, I would have laughed my ass off. And I would have eventually been proved wrong. I’ve been watching the first couple of seasons of 24 over the last week [...]
I don’t normally bother to post about scandals. They’re almost always based on idiocy (and Don Imus calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of nappy headed hos is certainly idiocy of the first order), but Wanda Sykes was on the Tonight Show last night. Apparently, the media keeps calling her and asking her [...]
Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at the age of 84. I’ve been trying to gather my feelings for a meaningful post all day, and I’ve distilled them down to a single word: Fuck.
