Bullitt for the New Millennium
I’m not a car guy, at all. I hardly know anything about them, I can’t generally tell one make or model from the other, I’m not much more than just a functional driver. I drove a Jeep for a few years mostly because my brother liked them, and it was the cheapest convertible I could…
Fun and Failure
Anyone who knows me at all will say that my defining characteristic is my positive, upbeat attitude. It’s infectious, even. I don’t ask “can I?” I ask “I can!” So where a lesser man would look at my situation — it’s November 28th and I’ve only written just over 12,000 words of my 50,000 word…
SD-86ed
Word on the street is that “Alias” has been cancelled and will stop airing next May. Now, my show-cancelling and band-breaking-up powers may be legendary, but I’m not taking the blame for this one. I’m 99.9% sure I didn’t get Jennifer Garner pregnant. And I didn’t force Vaughn to leave the show, and I didn’t…
Turkeys
Did I mention before about how bad my NaNoWriMo thing is sucking? Because it bears repeating. In my head, it’s a rollicking adventure story that ingeniously reinvents pop culture conventions and cliches, cleverly making light of the shallowness of these conventions while staying true to what’s great about these popular adventures and what makes them…
Wycked Sceptre
I watched the first disc of “Arrested Development” last night while failing to adjust to Eastern Daylight Time. Good show, as everybody knows by now, and it already made some of the later episodes funnier because of backwards references. It’s a little easier to see how daunting the continuity of the show was/is for attracting…
Embedded Journalism
I’m reporting live from suburban Atlanta, where I’m rethinking my earlier claim that nothing is colder than San Francisco weather. It’s 18 degrees right now. They’re predicting a high of 28 degrees tomorrow. I mean sure, the “snow and freezing rain” effect on the Apple Dashboard weather gadget is pretty cool, but eighteen degrees. I’ve…
Schadenflavin
That’s the act of taking pleasure in someone else’s pratfalls and stepping on rakes and having buckets end up on their heads. Mac made it up. Use the word. Coin it. COIN IT! I’m going to Disneyland! The Taskmaster is going to be at my apartment at the ass crack of dawn tomorrow so I’d…
Fat Drum
I was in Japan Town for dinner tonight and was reminded of the International Taiko Festival this weekend at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. I’m not going this year because I’m headed to Disneyland for Jessica’s birthday, but everybody else should go. Seriously. The shows are really spectacular on every level, breaking out…