FlasshePoint

Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

Beeps Or Electric Shocks?

I stayed up too late last night playing with my PS3 (especially Heavenly Sword, which is beautiful). Very tired today even though I’ve got tax-related stuff to do.
In the news today:
The U.S. is ready to go live with a “virtual fence” on the border with Mexico, in the hopes of curbing some illegal immigration. [...]

Soft Pretzels For Lunch

For those of you who haven’t seen Cloverfield and want to know what the monster looks like, check this out. Yeah, kinda underwhelming as a toy, but it does show more than in the movie. It’ scarier in the movie, although it also had a kind of softness and pathos to it there.
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It’s Thursday And There’s A Wall

Okay, I admit it. I’m starting to hit the wall here with this blogging-every day thing. After what… 94 days? Hey, I should at least be able to make 100. I don’t think it’s so much an idea problem, since I can always think of something if I try hard enough. [...]

Scenes From The Big Chair

What would you do if you had a man living in your kitchen, sitting up high in a big chair observing everything you were doing and forbidden to interact with you?
Well, that’s the plot of a movie that my girlfriend watched a few months ago called Kitchen Stories. After she watched it, she said that [...]

New York Is The New Tokyo

I saw a theater movie yesterday, which is pretty rare for me these days. It had a fairly standard plot. Tell me if you haven’t seen this one a thousand times:
1) Guy sleeps with his best gal pal and discovers he loves her as more than just a friend.
2) Guy gets a job [...]

It’s A Commodore 6!

One of my favorite shows of the 90s was Mystery Science Theater 3000 (aka MST3K), which went from a local TV show on a Minnesota station, to a mainstay of the Comedy Channel / Comedy Central, and finally ended up on the SciFi Channel for its final seasons. It featured a man (originally Joel [...]

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