Spectre Collie

Author: Chuck

  • Maudlin

    Maybe the watering-down of Jack Daniels’ wasn’t such a bad thing, because I’ve drunk just enough to be pleasantly maudlin, but not enough to feel sick. It’s just really hit me over the past couple of weeks that this has been a pretty rough year for me. I hadn’t really noticed before, because I was…

  • The Incredibles

    I saw The Incredibles on Sunday (before going to a birthday party for a new friend and meeting some pretty cool new people in the city). I’m kind of torn about the movie; I really, really wanted to love it, but I think I just liked it a lot. It’s a very well-done action movie,…

  • A General Malaise

    Huge dark clouds were looming over the bay for the longest time today, until they finally broke and pissed all over the residents of a city dealing with the beginnings of its post-traumatic stress disorder. And I spent the day just coming up with over-dramatic lines like that. The weather put a damper on my…

  • But… I never learned to READ!

    Seems I’ve been very distracted over the past few months, and over the course of that I’ve forgotten what I used to do in my free time. There are clues scattered all around my apartment; apparently, I used to watch movies on DVD’s or play these “games” on the television or computer device. Occasionally, it…

  • Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

    Today’s the first day of a week off, my first since May but what feels like 15 years. The past couple of weeks at work have been very slow, waiting for the other shoe to drop and then just sitting there without much to do. it just seemed like a better idea to go ahead…

  • The Peeve

    Went to see The Grudge with Drella today up in Marin. To quote Crow T Robot: “This movie’s really not very good!” It wasn’t awful, I guess, and there were some genuinely creepy things going on. Especially at the climax. And I did like that they kept it set in Tokyo, and explained adquately why…

  • Free at Last?

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    This is the first weekend I’ve had that I can remember where I wasn’t either at work or feeling like I was supposed to be at work. It seems that this entire year has been one long crunch mode. Over and over again I’ve turned down offers to go out and do stuff, because I…

  • Signs from the cab seat

    Last night, in celebration of the game’s finally going into CQC (something quality control, meaning that the game’s almost done), I went out to a bar with Alex and Bailey. As the night wore on and we drank more, the conversation turned to a religious “debate.” I can’t say that it was all that deep,…

  • No hay venda

    Another night, another long-winded movie review. I watched Mulholland Drive last night, even though it was way way too late. I kept thinking I should cut it off, but it was so compelling I had to keep watching. I’ve been hearing about the movie for years, but all I’d heard was that it was “long,…

  • What was that all about?

    Well, I’m blaming last night’s little panic attack episode on a combination of job stress, lack of sleep, and reading my friend’s very dark and cynical short stories right before I tried to go to bed. And, of course, the typical self-indulgent whining. But hey, this is a blog, after all. Job situation is almost…

  • Desperately Optimistic

    Well, if this is a journal, and the whole point is for me to become a better writer, then I guess I have to write down the bad stuff as well as the good. I’m always hearing from people that I’m grouchy, or surly, or cynical, or hard to read, when I think anyone who…

  • Go Team Venture!

    “I dunno. They just do that.” Cool things seen tonight: The Venture Brothers, which didn’t get me at first, but now I think it rocks all kinds of ways. Granted, anything with Patrick Warburton in it is guaranteed to be at least entertaining, because he’s just the coolest. At first, I’d dismissed this series as…