Spectre Collie

Author: Chuck

  • When the Child was a Child…

    On the drive into work this morning, I kept thinking about Wings of Desire for some reason. It’s really a beautiful movie overall — very European in that it has absolutely stunning sequences but kind of meanders and doesn’t hold together all that well, plus it has an American TV personality (Peter Falk) playing himself…

  • Hum along

    It’s after 4 AM and I’m still wide awake, so what better to do than get on the internet. I was just outside and noticed that San Francisco, or at least my neighborhood, has a weird hum to it after dark and everyone’s gone to sleep. Kind of a hollow, airy rumbling, much like the…

  • This must be how Puff-Daddy lives

    I had an inordinately cool weekend, which is especially remarkable when you consider that I didn’t even realize it was Labor Day weekend until Monday. I had to work for a while on Saturday, but left “early” to go to a dinner party with some people from the Straight Dope Message Board. I hadn’t met…

  • Happy Birthday, Skip!

    Today’s my brother’s birthday. I’m realizing that my gift(s) aren’t going to get there in time. I’m also realizing that I wouldn’t be out here if not for him. He was the one who got me into Star Wars when I was six years old; I was happy just watching Pete’s Dragon. He always liked…

  • Black Adaptation

    I’m going to make a concerted effort tonight to actually get new content on this damn website. If I’m successful, it’ll be up in the “Smackdown” section, because I gots lots more to say about Adaptation vs. Solaris. And in unrelated news: I’ve been renting “Black Adder II” from Netflix and catching up on a…

  • Adaptation

    I’d intended to keep all the movie-related stuff out of the blog and in the “Cinematic Smackdown” section, but apparently it’s going to take more time than I’ve got to get the rest of this website up. I was talking about Solaris last night and was reminded of Adaptation, which is one of my Favorite…

  • Solaris

    I finally started to make headway in my Netflix queue, and one of the movies I watched was Solaris, which a friend had recommended. (The Steven Soderbergh/George Clooney version, not the original). It was definitely well-made. I like Soderbergh’s movies on the whole, and I especially like that they’re a great balance between mainstream and…

  • Babies are Cool

    I was just looking through my friends Drella and Grandpa’s baby pictures and feeling envious. Ruby is the most photogenic baby ever, and I get to go and play with the dogs and the baby while avoiding all the diaper-changings and tantrums. Score one for the single guy. And she’s just crazy nuts. Already grabbing…

  • Musty TV

    My friend Rain has a blog now of her wildly popular mailing list. It’s called Musty TV, and it should be considered required reading.

  • I Am Roast Beef

    Best thing ever on teh intarweb: Achewood. It’s a comic strip by Chris Onstad, and it’s just about genius. He’s got a perfect sense of timing, and he knows how to go from dark humor to potty humor to just nonsensical stuff. You’ve got to check out the archives and follow it for a while…

  • Is That a Leg?

    I’m a big fan of the Straight Dope website and its message boards, and have been a member for a couple of years. This post, in a thread about “Funny things said during lovemaking” is probably the single funniest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.

  • I ate a big red candle

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    I just realized that my blog entries, although sporadic, have been consistent in their Eeyore-ness. I’ll counteract that by being upbeat tonight. I saw Anchorman over the weekend. It was no Dodgeball, that’s for sure. But it still had its moments, including remarkably well-done Planet of the Apes references. Steve Corell, as functionally retarded weatherman…