TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF – The Survey Name: Joe Dickerson Birthday: September 22nd Birthplace: Birmingham, AL Current Location: Dacula, GA Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: grey Height: 6’4” Right Handed or Left Handed: right Your Heritage: mutt The Shoes You…
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Battlestar Galactica theory
OK, I’m talkin’ spoilers here so if you’re a fan and have not watched the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, walk away from the monitor now… pause… Ah, good. For all of you who are still lurking about, I have…
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OK, I’m on myspace now…
I held off as long as I could but, like Michael Corleone, I thought I was out, but they PULLED me back IN! So, I have revisited and finally set up a semi-permanent myspace account. Click here for all the…
Movies, Neglected Cinema
Review – Meet the Robinsons
Yes, a review of a movie actually playing in theatres right now (and one that is NOT 20 years old). Imagine that. My oldest son asked me to go see Meet the Robinsons, and I was, at best, apathetic. The…
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OK, last April Fools post…
Ever frustrated by the ethereal nature of e-mail as a medium of communication? Well, Google have heard your plaintive yet silent cries and today released Google paper. A service long past due.
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DVDs and commentaries…
Mark Evanier has a great posting about DVD releases and creator commentaries. The basic gist of it is that, in the short-sighted Hollywood of today, a lot of DVD producers try and cut corners and save money in the initial…
Trek
April fools from Startrek.com
Tip of the hat to the web admins and staff behind Startrek.com, the official site of the series. They updated thier site for April 1st and all of the stories are… well, just go there.
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Happy birthday, Christopher Walken!
To celebrate, here’s Chris reading Three Little Pigs… [youtube]2vNk4K3YaIc&NR=1[/youtube] And Jay Mohr, impersonating Walken, reading Goodnight Moon… [youtube]Uos8_EFAi1s[/youtube] Please, scooch closer – don’t let him tell you again!
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For those so inclined: train videos
Been looking through my old mini-DV tapes to find and archive some older memories before the tapes degrade, and I slapped together a couple of videos from some years back. The first is video I shot when we visited/stayed at…
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Another retro movie review (Crichton returns!) – The Andromeda Strain
Ah, the dystopia that the people of the 70s feared… Looking back, it’s hard to tell what was the greater threat to mankind back then. Was it overpopulation, and the resulting Soylent Green-byproducts? Zombies who love mall sales? Killer bees?…
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Since everyone else will link to it in the next 24 hours, so will I…
Here’s Kermit the Frog, singing “Hurt”. [youtube]uLQRv0RjBBM[/youtube] Oh, and NOT SAFE FOR WORK! And to my new employers, I did NOT do this, so, please, consider this posting in the category “editorial fair use…”
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This… is… a three-way tie?
Jeopardy spent a couple of days last week promoing a “very special episode” that aired on Friday, claiming it made “history” – well, it definitely did that. The final score was $16,000 all – yup, all three players ended up…
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Richard Jeni
Wow, that was unexpected. If you have not heard, Richard Jeni died yesterday, from gun shot wounds that were, apparently, self-inflicted. Jeni is one of those comedians that was a “comedian’s comedian” – one who made other comics laugh as…
Geek, Movies
Retro movie review, part deux: Westworld
Ah, once again thanks to the Netflix movie download service, I am revisiting my youth…. Well, specifically, the guilty pleasures of my youth. The other night I rewatched Westworld, and it still stands up pretty well. In case you…
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One heck of a Disney shareholders meeting…
I don’t own any Disney stock, but, after reading this report of the Disney shareholder meeting this past week in New Orleans, I’m tempted to pick up some shares just so I can attend the next one. Less than 150 people showed up?…
Geek, Movies
Live-action G.I.Joe movie?
If anyone wants to see a live-action Joe movie then go see Transformers, because one of the producers is setting his eye on the RAH as his next project – that is, of course, if the robots-in-disguise flick is a…