Category: Arts & Entertainment
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I Ache With Embarrasment!
An hour of “Arrested Development” and the eternal shame that comes from coming in too late to fandom over a television series. Any other show would’ve settled with just the jet pants instructional video and left that as high comedy. But they just keep going. My favorite gag is when they suspected some kind of…
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Are not all of us, in a sense, merely aspects of Jar-Jar?
Jackson West’s post on SFist mentions this article on Slate which calls the Star Wars series a masterwork of post-modern cinema, and one very angry blogger’s rebuttal. Okay, simmer down, Poindexters. Yes, the Slate article is a bunch of ridiculous garbage. But calling it the silliest thing they’ve ever published is just ridiculous over-the-top hyperbole.…
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A Dark and Stormy Night
I’m sitting in my darkened apartment, hiding from trick-or-treaters, thinking about my great novel-writing adventure which is due to start in just a couple of hours. And for you, the loyal readers of my website, I’m going to give an extra-special bonus and give away the ending: I’m not going to be able to finish…
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At Long Last Zombies
Another SFist post is up, which mentions zombies in passing. That’s because today is a special day: at last, my little obsession over the past few months is over, and I’m caught up with “Alias.” TNT finally ran the zombie episode. I’d been expecting a whole zombie storyline, but they didn’t show up until the…
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Too Much Sisterhood, Not Enough Ya-Ya
My favorite review of DOOM is from Statler and Waldorf. The Muppets have a new movie review show online at movies.com, and it’s about the best thing ever. The latest episode talks about DOOM, Elizabethtown, and has a hilarious bit with Animal and Dr. Teeth explaining Shopgirl. I hope they keep doing it; I wonder…
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Knee Deep in the Dull
Man, I’m disappointed. Even with the reviews, I was still holding out hope that they got it right with DOOM. But they did everything wrong. It ended up being neither good, nor so bad it’s good; it’s just there. Boring and completely uninspired. The reviews I’ve read still miss the point; they warn how it’s…
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He Knocked Me Up and Left Me With a Subscription to Hockey Trends Magazine
Other subscriptions Sydney had to cancel: The American Journal of Stubble, and Bland Quarterly. There’s some videogame website whose motto is “A moment enjoyed is never wasted,” and that’s been a useful rationalization for a while, but there’s no way I can justify my total lack of activity yesterday. I didn’t even manage to accomplish…
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Switch (jimmy smits)
Apparently I’m turning into a woman. The only question is whether I’m becoming a middle-aged housewife, or a disaffected angry young soulful woman tryin’ to make it in a man’s world. Evidence for the housewife: I’ve been listening to “Con te Partiro” by Andrea Bocelli non-stop for the past couple of days. Often — and…
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I remain indifferent to the boogie
Another SFist post is up today, about the robotics convention I went to last weekend. I have to say it was kind of a disappointment (the convention, and the column), probably because I’ve been jaded by all the money that gets poured into E3 shows. I’d expected to see more ASIMO and AIBO and less…
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Imaginary Prom Dates
I wrote another thing for SFist that’s up now; they’re getting lighter and lighter, I’ve noticed. This week I’m going to some big robot convention in San Jose, hopefully I’ll be able to get something more substantial from that instead of just letting Eve do the research while I add TV references. And it turns…
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Can you smell what The Rock is cutting up with a chainsaw?
What was almost as good as Serenity was seeing the trailer for the new DOOM movie which is going to be out at the end of the month. Hot damn, I can’t wait. As much as I love the Resident Evil movies (no, really), they still cling to this idea that they’re somehow real movies.…
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My Entertainment Dollar
At the beginning of the show, Doughty promised we’d all get big value from our entertainment dollar, and I got that this weekend. First was Serenity on Friday night at the Northgate. It was awesome. Sure, I’d been looking forward to it, but once I actually got there, I was going into it as critical…