Spectre Collie

  • Ben Folds Five

    Tonight I saw the live RiffTrax show at the San Rafael theater. It was the awesomest, which is lucky for me, since I’m going to be seeing it again tomorrow night in the city. A year or so after I graduated college, the MST3K guys did a Comedy Central-sponsored tour where they’d show one of…

  • Schadenfreudr© (beta)

    When I was in the shower this morning afternoon today, I thought of a sure-fire idea for a new Web 2.0 service that is guaranteed to make billions. I’m giving it out for free on the internets so some enterprising young web developer can take it and make his fortune on paper until the next…

  • A Series of Really, Really Unfortunate Events

    You’ve got to be in the right frame of mind to watch Pan’s Labyrinth and enjoy it. I’m not sure what that frame of mind would be, exactly, but I wasn’t in it. I want to make it clear up front that it’s a very good movie. The story is very well told, imaginative but…

  • Can’t stop complainin’

    This year I plan to bitch about the iPhone one day every day until its release. This article on Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop journal links to confirmation that the iPhone will be closed to independent developers, because Steve Jobs wants it that way. That article makes plenty of good points, but the best was raised…

  • Nicholas Cage is in bad movies. Pass it on.

    I think it’s every blogger’s duty to make sure as many people see this as possible. The best scenes from Wicker Man. I haven’t seen the movie, but by the looks of it he was just asking for the bees. What a dick.

  • Fun Fact

    The guitar hook to the awful James Blunt song “You’re Beautiful” is the tune played at the end of “The Incredible Hulk” TV series. At least Bob Marley made something cool when he ripped off The Banana Splits.

  • Macworld

    Maybe it’s just because I’ve been reading too many Apple-related blogs, but I think they really over-sold the whole Macworld expo this year. No doubt it’s a bigger deal if you aren’t stuck with just the exhibits-only pass, and you can see some of the conferences. But I was pretty underwhelmed. After watching two sessions…

  • Apple Whore, Nothing More

    It’d be cool if I could claim that I was completely unmoved by the Apple iPhone announcement. But I think we all know that’d be a lie, so I’m not even going to bother. From the looks of it, they got everything right. It’s everything I was hoping to hear when they first started leaking…