Bruce Vilanch is Turning Over in His Grave
The Oscars are over for another year. I’ll leave it to the critics, pundits, and armchair quarterbacks to debate what the whole Sean Penn/Jude Law thing was about. (And why didn’t Sean defend Tim Robbins too?) I’ll just say that the telecast this year sucked. If not for Chris Rock, it [...]
World of Ghosts
My friend Bradley Skaught, musician/songwriter extraordinaire, late of Belle Da Gama, has released some new stray songs on his website. The first two songs, World of Ghosts and Ballad of Matt Herges, make it sound like the spirit of the late, great Elliott Smith has taken up residence in Bradley’s body. I hope [...]
Some Things I Saw Today
In chronological order:
A plastic fork next to a prairie dog hole. Are prairie dogs the new raccoons? Or maybe they are learning to use our utensils. Or maybe someone is picnicking on prairie dogs.
A small but distressing article in the newspaper about the company I work for.
A really long piece of hair [...]
Whoa… Hell is Brown
I’ve been to Hell and back, and it was a wild trip. I saw Constantine this weekend. The filmmakers did a good job with what they had, though it would’ve been much better if they had kept the character British (and played by Sting) as originally intended. There were enough nods to [...]
Metapost: Upgrade Complete
I like this! As you can see, I’ve successfully upgraded to Wordpress 1.5. This new Kubrick template, which is the default for 1.5, looks better than the old classic one. And I was able to tweak the colors pretty easily (blue to green), so at least this will stand out a bit from [...]
Metapost: Site Upgrade
I plan on upgrading to WordPress 1.5 (from 1.2) sometime this weekend, so don’t be surprised if the site looks weird or is temporarily unaccessible…
Latre.