Holy #&@* what an episode!!This one had everything. And somebody does die, just as it was advertised... and they ain't coming back! No it's not some secondary character either. Somebody in the opening credits buys the farm in tonight's episode, and its permanent. The last shot we see is the casket going into the ground.Wish I had a DVR, 'cuz this one merits some watching aga...
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Rockingham County is going to Hollywood baby!
The place where I grew up is being represented by not one but two singers who got the nod from Simon, Randy and Paula to come to Hollywood for the next round of American Idol:To the best of my knowledge, Amy Ferrell is a student at my old high school too. I hope she and Halicia Thompson get to go f...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Study says: Democrats and Republicans are equally ignorant
Here's scientific proof of something that I've known for a few years now: Republicans and Democrats both are largely incapable of thinking for themselves. Here's the story from LiveScience:Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study FindsBy LiveScience Staffposted: 24 January 200610:03 am ETDemocrats and Republicans alike are adept at making decisions without letting the facts get in the way, a new study shows.And they get quite...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
I hope and pray...
...that this lady they keep showing as they go to commercial on American Idol tonight isn't from Reidsville.This is one of the most bizarre installments of Idol that I've ever seen.EDIT 9:53 PM EST:She wasn't from Reidsville (thank goodness), but Ronetta sure didn't do Charlotte any favors. That was genuinely painful to watch, but only because this was a symptom of one of the worst things about American character: our unhealthy obsession with the...
Steve Jobs now the most powerful man in the Mouse House
Disney is buying Pixar. Steve Jobs is now the majority shareholder of the Walt Disney Company.In the negative column, this really does seem to be the death-knell for traditional animation at Disney, which had eliminated that division already. I was really hoping that they might "go back to their roots". But on the plus side of things, I trust someone like Steve Jobs to put Disney back on track after the two decades of micro-management hell that...
Fanboys back on track
I first heard about Fanboys before Christmas in '98 (in fact, here's the original story at Ain't It Cool News). Ever since then I've wanted to see this movie. It's about four friends who undertake a quest in the fall of 1998 to break into Skywalker Ranch so that they can watch whatever print of The Phantom Menace exists, because one of them is terminally ill and won't live to see the movie premiere the following May. The last I heard anything...
One more example how public schools are messed up
This comes in from "Weird" Ed, and I agree with what he said about it: "Ok, what the HELL is wrong with our schools in the US when this can take place??" From SI.com...Shirt taleBroncos fan says he was humiliated by teacherBEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) -- A 17-year-old high school student said he was humiliated when a teacher made him sit on the floor during a midterm exam in his ethnicity class -- for wearing a Denver Broncos jersey.The teacher, John...
The WB + UPN = CW
Got announced earlier today that CBS and Warner Bros. are merging The WB and UPN networks into a fifth network called CW. No word yet on how this is going to effect shows we like such as Smallville and, ummmm... what else is the...
A king's ransom to he who boots Windows XP on an iMac
Okay, so it's not quite a "king's ransom" (and it doesn't necessarily have to be a "he" either), but currently there's $3338 in the pot for whoever is first to get Windows XP to boot up on one of the new iMacs: the Macs that are using Intel chips as their CPU. The winner must be able to demonstrate that their iMac can boot up the user's choice of either Mac OS X or Windows XP. So far all that's been produced to show for this endeavour are several...
Will this town rock or schlock on tonight's American Idol?
Lots of people here in Greensboro and the surrounding area will be tuned into American Idol this evening on Fox: tonight's two-hour broadcast is devoted to the auditions that took place at the Greensboro Coliseum a few months ago. On the Fox 8 Morning News earlier today they were able to show some footage of what went down this past October and we got a peek at some of the folks who made it through to Hollywood. There's one girl from Eden that...
Monday, January 23, 2006
Superman is Methodist, and Rogue is a good little Baptist girl
Here's something I came across while randomly skimming the web: Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters (there's also this nifty visual grouping of them by creed). This is an exhaustive look at just about every major character in comic books and what their faith is. I've known for years that Nightcrawler is a devout Catholic (he almost became a priest). But did you know that Superman is a Methodist, that Batman may be a lapsed Episcopalian,...
Another perspective on cryonics
In the wee hours of this morning I made a post about a Wall Street Journal article regarding cryonics - the freezing of dead individuals in the hope that they may be someday "revived" - and how some people choosing to have this procedure done upon their deaths are arranging for their present finances to be awaiting them upon their anticipated return. I also shared some of my thoughts on the subject, which for the most part stems from my belief that...
The morning after...
So they won't go to the Super Bowl this year... they're still the best young franchise in the league.Congratulations on a good run, Panthe...
Video: Mexican army invades American turf
Marc at the Bmovies blog is pointing everyone to video footage of soldiers from the Mexican army crossing over into Arizona, in what can only be described as the most flagrant violation of the U.S./Mexican border since Pancho Villa woke up feeling pokey one morning in 1916. Head over to Marc's blog for more (and also 'cuz Marc is a really cool guy ...
Freezing some assets: A mini-thanatopsis
Interesting article at the Wall Street Journal site about how some people are planning to be financially secure after coming back from the dead. Believers in cryonics (i.e. freezing the body or decapitated head of the dearly departed in the hopes that future technology can restore life) want to ensure that what they've gained in this life will still be waiting for them when they return...You can't take it with you. So Arizona resort operator David...
Sunday, January 22, 2006
The West Wing gets cancelled
NBC giving it the axe after seven seasons. I never watched a single episode, so I don't know anything about how this may or may not be a big deal. Anyone want to chime in and say what this show's been like?We did get in three more episodes from the Lost Season 1 DVD set today, finishing up with "Numbers", which is Hurley's episode... which was a HECK of a lot of fun to wat...
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Just one reason why I'm no longer a Republican
The Republican National Committee is endorsing President Bush's "guest worker" program.No party that turns a blind eye to the problem this country is having with illegal immigration is something that I wish to associate with.I never left the Democrats: they left me. Ten years later the Republicans abandoned me too. And neither one is giving me a reason why I should turn back to look... but the GOP is giving me a helluva lot more reason to keep...
