‘Musk v. Altman’ Closing Arguments
19 hours ago
30 March 2008
What would I do without Kimmel?
Only he understands how much I hate the enhanced episodes of "Lost".
24 March 2008
From Best Week Ever...
Coolest Dad Ever, perhaps. (Other than yours. Whoever yours is. Not that you don't know who your dad is, but I wouldn't want to say this dad is better than your dad. Shutting up now.)
22 March 2008
I'm giving MarsEdit a whirl...
It's a nice blogging tool - way more powerful than I need right now (but who knows what the future holds, right?)
It does make it sublimely easy to post embedded and linked items (there's some stuff that I figure is worth blogging and not just tumbling.
Anyone with any experience with it and LiveJournal have any tips?
It does make it sublimely easy to post embedded and linked items (there's some stuff that I figure is worth blogging and not just tumbling.
Anyone with any experience with it and LiveJournal have any tips?
21 March 2008
19 March 2008
Five “Web 2.0″ ways to break up with your boyfriend
Five “Web 2.0″ ways to break up with your boyfriend: "
- add unflattering Flickr tag, ‘Fat asshole with a unibrow’
- change Facebook status to ‘He’s literally dead to me’
- web widget counts up days since your last climax (currently: ‘193″)
- share Zoho spreadsheet to split up MySpace friends
- decline to participate in Series B round of affection
(Via 5ives.)
14 March 2008
Vantage Point Stunk.
I saw Vantage Point this morning with and it was not good.
It's a politically charged thriller about terrorism in the post 9/11 world featuring the most ridiculous terrorist attack ever unveiled on screen. Every season of "24" looks completely realistic now. The plot in Airplane 2 was more plausible. To refresh your memory, Airplane 2 featured Sonny Bono smuggling a bomb (that he purchased in the airport gift shop) onto the inaugural commercial Space Shuttle flight to our Moonabse. That's how many holes there are in Vantage Point, which is to say nothing about the least plausible resolution I could imagine.
The hook to the movie is that it's told through multiple perspectives so you get the whole story. Sadly, all this hook serves is to withhold information from the audience in order to create suspense. Sadly, the best suspense is created when the audience has information the protagonists lack. Being in the audience thinking "Don't go in the basement! The bomb is in the basement!" is suspenseful. Having a character say "I'm not going in that basement, and I'm not going to explain why" is stupid. The hook's real purpose is to allow the filmmakers to replay the events of the same 30 minute period over 7 times, so that they don't ever have to explain the impossible genesis and planning of their ludicrous plot.
The highlight (for me, at least) is about 30 minutes into the film, when Dennis Quaid is seen top less from the back, putting on his shirt. If you squint really hard, there's a split second where you can see his torso in the reflection of the window he's facing.
What a crappy movie.
It's a politically charged thriller about terrorism in the post 9/11 world featuring the most ridiculous terrorist attack ever unveiled on screen. Every season of "24" looks completely realistic now. The plot in Airplane 2 was more plausible. To refresh your memory, Airplane 2 featured Sonny Bono smuggling a bomb (that he purchased in the airport gift shop) onto the inaugural commercial Space Shuttle flight to our Moonabse. That's how many holes there are in Vantage Point, which is to say nothing about the least plausible resolution I could imagine.
The hook to the movie is that it's told through multiple perspectives so you get the whole story. Sadly, all this hook serves is to withhold information from the audience in order to create suspense. Sadly, the best suspense is created when the audience has information the protagonists lack. Being in the audience thinking "Don't go in the basement! The bomb is in the basement!" is suspenseful. Having a character say "I'm not going in that basement, and I'm not going to explain why" is stupid. The hook's real purpose is to allow the filmmakers to replay the events of the same 30 minute period over 7 times, so that they don't ever have to explain the impossible genesis and planning of their ludicrous plot.
The highlight (for me, at least) is about 30 minutes into the film, when Dennis Quaid is seen top less from the back, putting on his shirt. If you squint really hard, there's a split second where you can see his torso in the reflection of the window he's facing.
What a crappy movie.
12 March 2008
A quick question...
iTunes was playing "Boxing" by Ben Folds Five and "Venus as a Boy" by Bjork while Spitzer resigned. Was this ironic at all?
You know what's great about this whole scandal? Hookers.
You know what's great about this whole scandal? Hookers.
05 March 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
