Spectre Collie

Author: Chuck

  • The Island Gives, the Island Takes Away

    This week’s episode of “Lost” was called “Meet Kevin Johnson.” It ended on a soap opera-like cliffhanger, with Sayid making a dramatic announcement and the camera lingering on other characters giving meaningful looks at each other. And then another cliffhanger with gunplay. Which won’t be resolved until late April. But “Battlestar Galactica” starts back up…

  • So how was your morning?

    I’m going to write about this on the internet, since I didn’t get to complain about it to anybody today: Despite all my best intentions, I’m a habitually tardy person. (Tardy as in not punctual, in case it means something else to the kids these days. But I probably qualify as that, too). I try…

  • World of Goo

    I’m not going to even try to think up a clever title for this one, since the game in question is so purposefully wry that adding more here would be overkill. But it’s a good game, and it’s called World of Goo, and you can pre-order it to get a preview copy (for Windows) right…

  • Was she a great, big, pregnant person?

    This week’s episode of “Lost” was called “Ji Yeon,” and it was about Sun & Jin, which means it’s another chance to get your weep on. (Warning: Every post on here about “Lost” contains spoilers). It was pretty clear early on that they were doing a Jame Gumb-in-Silence of the Lambs style reveal, in which…

  • Literacy 2008: Book 5: Mere Christianity

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    Book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Synopsis Originally presented as a series of lectures on BBC Radio during World War II, this book is Lewis’s attempt to describe and defend the fundamental beliefs of Christianity, regardless of any particular church or denomination. It’s presented from the perspective of a former atheist who converted to Christianity,…

  • Arch Fiend

    A month or so before The Darjeeling Limited was released, they made the Hotel Chevalier short film available on iTunes. Watching that sucked away any desire I’d had to see the full movie. I just kept thinking: This! This is exactly what people hate about Wes Anderson movies! It’s so overcrowded with affectations and artificially…

  • Knowing Goodwin

    Thursday’s episode of “Lost” was called “The Other Woman,” and the double entendre in the title is the most interesting thing about this episode. (Assume spoilers in all these “Lost” posts.) Not that it was bad, just completely straightforward. The whole question of whether the freighter gang are bad guys was supposed to climax in…

  • The three words every geek loves to hear

    “Software Development Kit.” Today Apple announced its iPhone SDK. Considering how excited I am about the release, I don’t want to imagine what it’s like for people who are actually going to have time to use any of it. I’d been saying that the real potential of the iPhone (and iPod touch) — whether it’s…

  • Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me, I want to be Ghibli

    Any game company would envy the amount of buzz around Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the Nintendo DS. For months, it’s been getting breathless previews from writers who wanted it RIGHT NOW!!!, and since its release it’s gotten extremely positive reviews. It’s not hard to see why; it’s got stellar production values. You…

  • Yojimboring

    Even though I’ve gone on record as being unimpressed with the French New Wave, I still feel totally justified in my rental of Le Samourai. Movies with the word “Samurai” title have rarely let me down. And listen to the Netflix description (with most intriguing words highlighted by me): A little bit gangster film, a…

  • I hardly know her Stevens.

    This week’s episode of “Lost” (I was laid low with crushing head trauma Thursday, so I’m just getting around to watching it) was called “The Constant.” If I ever start bouncing back and forth through time, the one constant I’ll be able to latch onto is that I’ve always been ridiculously easy to manipulate, and…

  • Link’s Quiver Capacity

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    On his blog, Lore Sjöberg announced his new project: a weekly video podcast for his Alt Text column at Wired. The first episode rates Link’s weapons. According to his blog, more will be available on Wired’s YouTube page or via iTunes subscription. Seeing as how it’s a video with drawings, and more often than not…