Author: Chuck
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Internet Movie Fun Special Friendship Society
I signed up for Netflix again, because I needed another monthly expense and a source of meaningless consumerist stress and deadlines. They were very happy to see me back, and they had my queue and my friends list waiting for me and everything. And that’s the thing. I’ve got one Netflix friend and that’s fine,…
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Onslaught of Boredom
I’ve been okay with the being unemployed so far; in fact, I’ve been taking advantage of it to catch up on my slacking off. Even to the point where I felt like there wasn’t enough time in a day to get all my slacking off done. But man, today has been stone cold weird dull.…
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Great Moments in Typography
In lieu of actual work on making the website more solid, I found this cool plug-in for WordPress that generates headline images on the fly. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it running, because it’s gimmicky, slows site access down, and makes everything a little bit more fragile (mostly because my headlines can be…
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Moron Alias
Okay, I’m 11 episodes in, and I’ve got the next two DVDs sitting there waiting for me so I can’t write too long. But I’ve had cases where friends have gotten into series on DVD long after I’d lost interest in them, and it was always neat hearing their take on the show. It was…
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I wonder if it remembers me
The neat thing about amazon.com’s comments sections, apart from the obvious entertainment value, is that people on the internet are so eager to jump on top of each other to show how hip they are that you can often learn something useful. Case in point: the soundtrack for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou does…
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Fun with Internet Search
An idea stolen from Rain, here are some of the recent search phrases that have shown up on my stats page: creepy looking guys creepy guys hairy guys a doctor and a working plasma lightsaber picture brian posehn collie homegrown covenant spectre [I actually know what this one means, which is scary] most photogenic [keep…
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38 Seconds
That’s how long I was able to watch G4/TechTV [warning: link is slow and annoying] tonight before having to turn the channel out of disgust. As a frame of reference and to give an idea how much tolerance I have for bad television, I turned it to VH-1 and “Gameshow Moments Gone Bananas,” hosted by…
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More on Blount, but still not stalking I swear
I just noticed from his website that Roy Blount Jr. now has a regular column in Atlanta magazine. I haven’t read it yet, but I know some readers of this blog (okay, one) also like his work, so I thought I’d pass it along.
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Betcha I can tell ya where ya got them shoes
In all the hoopla over four-year-old media, I forgot to write about Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans by Roy Blount Jr. It’s always amusing to read reviews on Amazon from people who just plain don’t get it, but I can’t fault “New Orleans traveller” too much, because apparently he or she was…
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SD-6
Hot on the heels of my groundbreaking review of Jurassic Park, a scoop about this hot new television programme called “The Alias!” All right, I avoided this show for as long as I could, partly because I had a feeling it would get me all sucked in, partly because I was working too much to…
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Don’t Panic
The website should look different now (actually, it should look better, but I don’t want to be too optimistic), so don’t be alarmed. I’ve been messing around with WordPress themes for a while now, hence my complaints about CSS and anal-retentive web designers, and this is the result. I just noticed that it looks like…