Spectre Collie

Month: December 2006

  • Would you just stop and ask for directions, already?

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    TVSquad.com has a link to an interview with Damon Lindelof about the upcoming season conclusion of “Lost.” I agree with the TV Squad guy — dude could stand to shut up for a while and lessen the backlash. The part of the interview that annoyed me the most was at the end: But I feel…

  • Notes from the Battlefield

    I made out like a bandit this Christmas — even now, the sheriff is standing next to his overturned patrol car at the county line, shaking his fist at me and slapping his good-natured but incompetent deputy over the head with his hat while calling him a “melon-farmer.” (I celebrated Christmas on TBS). Everyone else,…

  • Ding dong ding dong

    This never really occurred to me before, but Christmas has gotten so far removed from being a celebration of the birth of Christ, that the majority of the most cherished and traditional celebrations of Christmas are about how Christmas has stopped being about a celebration of the birth of Christ. A Christmas Carol: ghost story…

  • Do you hear what I hear?

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    Spending time at my parents’ house means seeing hours and hours of CNN, and this week that means every-fifteen-minute updates on Virginia representative Virgil Goode’s discomfort over his fellow congressman’s religion. In particular, how tougher immigration policies are necessary to keep people like Keith Ellison from being born and raised in America and taking advantage…

  • The Treachery of NSImages

    Thanks to my recent bout of unemployment, I’ve finally been able to finish one of the projects I always said I’d do when I got free time. This one is to write a complete app for Mac OS X, from start to release. The app is called Incisor, and it’s a lightweight image editor. I’m…

  • Qu’est-ce que c’est, “irrelevant?”

    Apparently I’m zero for two on my quest to become movie literate. Tonight’s entry: Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard, which leaves a viewer in 2006 feeling as jaded and disillusioned as its main characters. Cinema studies professors and students like to write about Breathless almost as much as French people like to be smug. For me…

  • I feel great! You can too.

    One of my all-time top 5 favorite albums ever recorded is Telecommunication Breakdown by Emergency Broadcast Network. EBN’s schtick was remixing video sources to techno beats, basically popularizing the mash-up a decade before it got popular. Their video releases were pure capital-G Genius but could get tedious quickly. The best example of that is the…

  • > inventory

    I don’t know if y’all have heard, but the SciFi channel has been running a miniseries called “The Lost Room!” Non-stop promotions aside, this is actually a damn fine show. (It concludes tonight, which would make this blog post seem useless if not for the fact I’m 100% sure SciFi is going to be rerunning…

  • R.I.P. Peter Boyle

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    I guess it’s a little weird to be upset when celebrities pass away, but then few celebrities are as cool as Peter Boyle. He’s got a permanent place on my cool list just for his performance in Young Frankenstein, of course. But he was great in everything I saw him in — the “Clyde Bruckman’s…

  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role

    I was surprised that For Your Consideration had such a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes until I started following the links. Some of the reviews, like the one from The Onion’s AV Club are critical of the movie but still give it a recommendation. I guess that’s a sign that a pass/fail rating isn’t suitable…

  • Stop winding it up so much please thank you.

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    I was watching “Saturday Night Live” this week (eyes over here, Mrs. Beatty) and the first musical guest was Gwen Stefani doing “Wind it Up” with an over-enthusiastic drum line and a throng of badly-dressed dancers. It’s difficult for me to describe my reaction to seeing this, but in short: I became firmly convinced that…

  • Wii Todd Ed

    Gizmodo has a link to this video of a woman playing the boxing game of Wii Play. The blogger warns that the audio is not safe for work, because it sounds like the woman is in the throes of passion. Two questions: What the hell kind of bizarre psychosexual shadow realm are these gadget bloggers…