Spectre Collie

Author: Chuck

  • Candid Gamera

    I hope nobody else has used that title to talk about Cloverfield, because I’m inordinately proud of it. This movie is definitely one that benefits from knowing as little as possible about it going in, so if you’re interested in it, I recommend seeing it soon and avoiding trailers and reviews. I’ll just say that…

  • Virtual Orgasmic Grilling

    [Note: Links in this post are broken as of 2016, but they pointed to a pair of predictably overblown complaints about the moral depravity of Mass Effect, by a pundit named Kevin McCullough. Also, images for a lot of posts were lost during a site move, which is a shame because my Mass Effect character…

  • Stop scanning me, Steve!

    I’m not going to the MacWorld this year, which turns out to be okay because I woke up this morning and discovered I was already there! By which I mean: either I’ve become the prime example of the Mac demographic, or the company is aiming its (no doubt slim and flawlessly designed) mind-scanning ray gun…

  • Literacy 2008: Exhibition Round 1: Fox Bunny Funny

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    I’m not including comic books in my meager 26-book challenge for the year — not because they’re not art or they’re not as worthy, but simply because I already read 26 comic books a year. But I still like spouting off my opinions about things, so they’ll go into the exhibition rounds. Book Fox Bunny…

  • On Whining

    I’m still wandering around in a bewildered daze, due to leaving work today when it was still light outside. I wandered directionless around San Rafael for a little bit, probably looking like a recently-returned alien abductee. Eventually I made it back home and finally emptied the past two weeks’ worth of trash, washed the mountain…

  • There’s no sun up in the sky

    I usually make fun of the Bay Area for going into a panic whenever there’s a light drizzle outside, but today’s storm shut me up pretty quick. I left for work thinking nothing unusual was going on, and things just got progressively worse. Stoplights were out on Fulton street, but they had crossing guards keeping…

  • Raisins?!?

    Over the past week or so, I’ve seen a bunch of links to “How to Draw a Face” on the comedy site The Sneeze. (Which is a consistently hilarious site, by the way, and not just for “Steve, Don’t Eat It!”) That’s a neat story, yes, but nothing’s made me crack up like giving his…

  • Click in the middle of the Rocking Chair. You’ll thank me later.

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    At the end of last month, ABC launched a new viral marketing campaign for the upcoming season of “Lost.” It’s an ad for the series’ fictional airline, with a press release announcing that Oceanic would start flying again after the Flight 815 disaster, and a promo website called FlyOceanicAir.com. And oh no did you see…

  • Literacy 2008: Preliminaries: Lost Horizon

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    (I read this book over the Christmas break, so it doesn’t count towards the 26 books I’ve resolved to read in 2008. But I have a corollary resolution to post something on this blog every day this year, no matter how short or irrelevant, so I’m cheating and rolling back the date.) (I’m also cheating…

  • Old News, Everyone!

    My favorite thing on the internet of the moment is this old-school video for “Psyche Rock” by Pierre Henry, the inspiration for the theme song from “Futurama.” Transistors as bombs and spermatozoa: awesome.

  • Unliterate no more

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    Since I failed miserably at every single resolution I made last year, I’m going to take it simpler in 2008, and only choose one. Someone on a message board announced he’s challenging himself to read a book a week this year; I read too slowly and am too easily distracted for that, so I’m aiming…

  • Writer’s Block Continues

    Some people have accused me of being wishy-washy, or a push-over. I prefer to think of myself as being like a willow tree: kind of droopy, and my wood isn’t used very often.