Spectre Collie

Author: Chuck

  • 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…

  • Corporate Rollout Strategy

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    This is the part of the year where I write stuff not because it’s interesting, but just because it’s something else. I left work at 5:30 AM on Monday after being there all day Sunday, then got back in at about 2 this afternoon. Or yesterday afternoon. I’m not really sure. At some point during…

  • Thirty-Three

    Yesterday was my 33rd birthday. Took the day off (says something, when I consider not working on Sunday as “taking the day off”) and did a bunch of nothing. I invited a bunch of friends over to The Crow Bar for some good old-fashioned binge drinking. It was supposed to be a joint birthday for…

  • E3

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    This week is the Electronic Entertainment Expo down in Los Angeles, a trade show for the videogame industry. Every year it’s the same thing: we work like crazy for months leading up to the show date, trying desperately to get a game demo ready for the show. After that, there’s an explosive decompression as we…

  • Elevator Lady

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    Tonight was the Pixies show at UC Davis. The show ended a little over an hour ago, and I’m just now regaining my hearing. This was a really big deal. Big reunion tour after something like 10 years, tickets sold out in less than five minutes. My friend Matt bought tickets off ebay and we…