Please President Obama
I post excerpts from Michael Moore’s open letter to President Obama and add my voice to those calling for the President to get us out of Afghanistan.
Zombie Watch! Part 8
Wherein I discuss my reactions to Otto, or Up With Dead People
Knowing when to shut up
Wherein I discuss the value of knowing when to shut up and to separate belief from facts.
400 Words/40 Days Challenge: Conclusion
So Friday, November 6 saw the conclusion of my 40 days challenge and my totals were, I think, respectable: 24903 words written in total with a daily average of 621. In the 116 days since I started my first 25 day challenge, I’ve written on 95 of those days with a total 47532 words written. …
Music You May Have Missed – Gogol Bordello
Take one part Punk, one part Gypsy music, and three parts lunatic lead singer, garnish with an insane amount of energy and a love of sex, drugs, and rock & roll and you will have something close to the Gogol Bordello experience. I’ve been sitting on this post for a number of days, hoping to …
Zombie Watch! Part 7
Zombieland is a fun romp of a movie and I enjoyed watching it. That said, my standard line to people when they’ve asked how it was is to say, “It was fun. No Shaun of the Dead but fun nonetheless.” Whereas I could watch Shaun of the Dead time and time again, Zombieland will probably …
Zombie Watch! Part 6
Ah Netflix Watch Instantly how I love thee! Last night I was in the mood to watch something but nothing very long or that required much attention. Netflix to the rescue with Zombiemania: a light and frothy look at the surge in popularity of zombies in the recent years. If you’ve invested any amount of time in the current zombiemania, you won’t learn a lot from this movie, but you will enjoy some of the interviews with George Romero and Max Brooks and others. The tone of the movie is silly and fun. I do wish they’d spent a bit more time on Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead, and the filmmakers could have gone a bit more in depth on the zombie walks and other fan activities, but for a fun treat, I would recommend checking it out.
I’m planning on seeing Zombieland tonight, so will have a review up this weekend.
Oh, and happy Halloween!
Zombie Watch! Part 5
In recent years, the popularity of zombies has led to an ever wider variety of stories that use the image and metaphor of a zombie in ways that are almost completely alien, even antithetical, to the traditional zombie movie structure that has been with us since Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Deadgirl was one …
Animated xkcd Equals Awesome!!
I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.
I loves me some xkcd.