Today is 62nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. Today is also, by a quirk of the calendar, abbreviated as 06-06-06: six-six-six, the number of the beast according to the Book of Revelation. The number that is supposed to identify the Anti-christ that will arise in the end times.In my junior year of high school I was assigned locker #666. I opened it several times a day and there were no scenes of Dante's Inferno lurking in there that I ever saw...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Long live EVERWOOD (while 7th HEAVEN begs for merciful death)
Our TV was tuned in to the final episode of Everwood this evening. Which I never watched as an avid viewer but Lisa's always loved this show, so I watched it with her. One of the classier shows on television, from what I've come to know of it. It's been on the WB Network and was supposed to be carried over next season when that network and UPN combine into the CW... but then the "series finale" of 7th Heaven got big ratings so the suits decide...
King James Onlyism is a Gnostic heresy
I've been meaning to state that for a while.Some people may not know what I'm talking about. It's this: the belief among a lot of Christians that we are only supposed to use the Authorized Version of 1611 – more commonly known as the King James Version – of the Bible as our text. They further believe that it's a dire sin to use any version of the Bible other than King James.(For the record, I use the New International Version in my personal study,...
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Bush's illegals blind man's dog with pepper spray
Awright, THIS is the kind of story that gives me no compassion at all for the illegals entering this country over the Mexican border. Some of them crossed into a guy's land and permanently blinded his dog with pepper spray.These are the same ones that President Bush is telling us to have compassion toward, the ones he's pushing to grant amnesty for.This country is being invaded from the south. Hell, 10% of the entire Mexican population is in the...
Friday, June 02, 2006
It's the big "Bad Wolf": Penultimate Eccleston episode of DOCTOR WHO tonight on Sci-Fi
"You have GOT to be kidding."-- The Doctor, "Bad Wolf"Just a reminder for American fans of Doctor Who that the Sci-Fi Channel tonight will be running "Bad Wolf", the next-to-last episode of Christopher Eccleston's all-too-short run as the Doctor.The less said about this episode to the uninitiated, the better. Definitely one of the best of the Eccleston episodes. From the...
Thursday, June 01, 2006
"Chipping" immigrants? Don't go there...
To say that I'm against this runaway illegal immigration is to put it all too mildly. Nonetheless, I find this proposal to be something beyond the scary: the head of VeriChip wants to implant his company's RFID tracking microchips into all incoming immigrants and foreign workers.No doubt he sees a lucrative market here: putting VeriChips into all those people will make the company billions of dollars.Here's the real danger from where I sit: how...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
No "retirement" after 25 years: BLADE RUNNER getting new DVD and theatrical cut
Funny, 'cuz I was just thinking of Blade Runner the other day. It came while going through some things and I found my old copy of the Blade Runner computer game that Westwood Studios released in 1997. Very good game if you can track it down: it seriously pulls you into the world created by the movie. You even get to run the Voight-Kampf test on suspected replicants.Anyway,...
North Carolina finally gets a real lottery today
I never thought this day would come, not in a million years. But, here we are: Starting today you can buy tickets for the Powerball lottery here in North Carolina. We've actually had the lottery since March 30th, when the scratch-off tickets went on sale. But today marks the first time ever that a real numbers racket has been allowed to operated in this state. Who knows, maybe one of us will get lucky and become a multi-zillionaire off this ...
Friday, May 26, 2006
Star Wars Celebration the FOURTH coming next May
As a grizzled veteran of two Star Wars Celebrations, I'll vouch for how fun these things are. So I'm glad to hear that Star Wars Celebration IV has just been announced for May 24-28, 2007: encompassing the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie (before it was called A New Hope).Next year's event is going to be in Los Angeles, which may be a little too far for me to go (depends on some factors. We'll see... I've never been that far west before...
Fun and frustration from X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
"Doh you know oo I am?! Ah'm da Jugga-nawt, bitch!"-- Juggernaut, X-Men: The Last StandThis is the line that forevermore wiped out any personal sense of being wildly satisfied with X-Men: The Last Stand.Don't get me wrong though: I had a lot of fun watching this final chapter in the X-Men film series. I was also frustrated beyond belief at the all too numerous problems in this movie.It's NOT the train wreck that a lot of us had been expecting after...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The finales of IDOL and LOST
This was the first American Idol finale that I've been completely satisfied with.Now, as for Lost...On a scale of 1 to 10, that was like a 19.THAT, my friends, is an excellent season finale. It answered a whole lot of questions, left a tantalizing few unexplained and popped open a fresh can of new ones.So, what is "it"? And what I wanna know is, what the heck is the deal with the giant stone leg with the four toes?Well, anyway, good show tonight,...
LOST action figures from McFarlane Toys this fall
McFarlane Toys - AKA The House that Spawn Built - is releasing a line of action figures from the hit ABC series Lost! Coming this fall are scale replicas of Jack, Kate, Hurley, Locke, Charlie and Shannon. Here's some more info:Each 6-inch Lost figure will have a detailed base and photographic backdrop, capturing an episode-specific moment in the character's story. In addition,...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
We just voted 25 times for Taylor Hicks
And I think Mom made a contribution of thirty votes to the cause.SOUL PATROL...
The mental captivity of the two-party believers
This is a paraphrase of something that I found on a political discussion forum earlier today, one well-noted for its rabid Republicanism:"We can't afford to pay attention to a third party candidate or some other 'unknown'. That would hand the election over to the Democrats, which we absolutely cannot have. This is NOT A GAME! We have to PLAY TO WIN! First we get a super-majority of Republicans in the House and Senate and away from the Democrats,...
Monday, May 22, 2006
In the pipeline: THE CHARLES SCHULZ CODE, feature-length feature, and something... controversial
Am working on getting the KWerky Productions blog going full-bore which is where updates on our film projects will be posted. But in the meantime...Production on The Charles Schulz Code has been going on for about two weeks now. We've done some location scouting and have a few roles cast. This one won't be the 54-minute long behemoth that Forcery was: that length may have been a liability with our first movie. This one will be much more "digestible"...
Wedding and alligators
At the beginning of this month Lisa and I attended the wedding of my good friend and collaborator "Weird" Ed and his lovely bride Olivia down in Charleston, South Carolina. Which was the very first wedding I ever attended at 11:30 AM on a Monday morning, but anyway... While we were there we got to hook up with one of Lisa's friends from college and she showed us around town....
THE NORMAN ROCKWELL CODE is now online!
Last week I found this trailer for a soon-to-be released spoof of The Da Vinci Code. Well, I checked back last night and the complete film The Norman Rockwell Code is now online! Serious props to Alfred Thomas Catalfo and his crew for not only doing an on-the-spot job parodying The Da Vinci Code but also paying homage to the comic genius of Don Knot...
